But I know Mother would never let me out that late, so I just turn the radio up and enjoy his singing from the airwaves. Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

The two of us start cracking up, and I can hear the laugh in my dad’s voice, too, but he just keeps right on singing. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z

The kids were asked what the bird was doing — the answer was singing — and then why it was doing that. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was no chattering or singing among them here, and they moved about over the huge black camera slowly and carefully in their scarlet space suits. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 1964-09-12T00:00:00Z

He had to stop singing each time a train arrived or left, which was often. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Sat in here singing lullabies every chance she got.” An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

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

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

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

The music and singing round them seemed to falter, and a silence fell. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

Meetings were opened and closed with prayer and the singing of freedom songs—often hymns and spirituals. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

She danced around on her caffeine jag, singing to the line of swivel chairs in the empty lounge. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

The act consisted of me, dressed in a nice shirt and tie and singing a medley of commercial jingles in the voice of Billie Holiday, who was one of my father's favorite singers. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

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

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

The dust got in their eyes and the wind made a high singing sound in the air. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

What singers of plainchant had in front of them in the centuries before about ad 800 was the text, in Latin, of what they were singing. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

They flipped them in the air and clapped several times before they caught them, and continued pounding and singing. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

The music, or singing, was still perceptible in the background. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Tom walks a little way ahead of me, pushing the buggy; he’s singing something to Evie, making her laugh. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

There were tons of my people singing on the radio who got their songs high on Your Hit Parade. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

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

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

In the top of one a mockingbird was singing. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was a singing contest to determine the worst singer, and the votes overwhelmingly went to the Boss. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

Although the road was full of mud, the fields were drying and the birds were singing. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sometimes Michael Jackson is singing that A-B-C is as easy as 1-2-3 or Sly and the Family Stone are thanking us for letting them be themselves. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

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

Sing before breakfast you’ll cry before night, Eleanor told herself, because she had been singing softly, “In delay there lies no plenty....” The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

“White people live that way. And they are singing because they’re happy.” Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

If he has a few pints taken he sits up eating his chips from the Limerick Leader and singing “The Road to Rasheen.” Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

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

“The flowers appear on the earth; the time of singing has come, and the voice of the turtledove is heard in our land” he read. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

Just the night bird singing up the moon. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Don’t try singing to me, I’m warning you.” Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

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

She was flipping flapjacks over a hot griddle and singing some sort of goofy song. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

A group of soldiers singing loud as they could swayed down the street, very muddy in drink. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

Papa was anxious to please Grandpa, but not anxious enough to desecrate the Sabbath by singing songs like “Bird in a Gilded Cage” or “Waltz Me Around Again, Willie.” Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

“There came a time when I couldn’t stand it any longer and I just absolutely had to go back to singing,” she recalled. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z

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

They had been singing together every night for years. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

As I fiddled with it, there was the singing rustle of nylon from without and two young women entered, blinking and bedraggled. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

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

I’ll let it go this one time.You know the singing could lead to a relapse in these patients. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

‘I am sleepy after so much music and singing. I’ll leave you to guess, if you want to.’ The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

Just the play over in town, where his youngest daughter was singing the lead. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Nobody is singing harmony; they are all singing the same pitch — the same frequency — for each note. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

He dared not spread his toes, lest the singing never stop. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

The curtain went up and the singing began, giving us a gray, gloomy version of Paris. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Begin tapping on a desk while singing the song. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

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

Momma’s voice was light and soft, welcoming almost, like her singing voice. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

The sad singing started again and they sang the same sad verse twice. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

As the cricket chirped, the whole scene came back to Mama: the still, warm night, the moon shining down on the velvety Bay of Naples, and Papa singing to her. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

Lead by gymnast Alfred Joachim, the American flag bearer, they emerged singing from the darkness of the tunnel and marched out into the vast interior of the stadium. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Soon it was evident to Bull that he couldn’t match the fire power of his family’s combined voices, so he quit singing and concentrated sullenly on his driving and his cigar. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

From somewhere she heard the sound of a bird singing. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

We burned up some of it singing sea chanteys and pirate songs with naughty words, being careful to switch to hymns when other riders came into view. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

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

Up near the dais, Abel was plucking at his lute and singing “Fair Maids of Summer.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Then the chief warden, Little Razor, went from cell to cell, announcing the new regulations, no more hymn singing, no more crucifixes. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

By the sound their voices had made while they were singing. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

“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

He just turns up his portable radio, and starts singing. The Skin I'm In 1998-10-16T00:00:00Z

There was nothing but the angels singing, and the warm wind. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

“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

Some children’s singing games have their roots in circle dances, while others reflect social traditions of courtship and marriage, friendship, overcoming childhood fears, or just expressing the fun and merriment of childhood. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

In the Iliad a vineyard is described with youths and maidens singing, as they gather the fruit, “a sweet Linus song.” Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

They all stand in place, still focused on Gabriel, who remains normal, still strumming, still singing. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

It was some guy singing Woody Guthrie songs. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

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

The bear was gone, the birds were singing, he saw nothing that could hurt him. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

He’s pouring water from the kettle through two filters poised over mugs and has begun singing to himself in Spanish. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

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

Each one of us code talkers grabbed a drum and we went dancing down the road, beating on those drums, yelling and singing in Navajo. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You have to stop singing or I can’t be responsible for my actions.” We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

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

And suddenly he realized what it was, for Tock was no longer ticking and the Humbug, although happily singing, was doing so in complete silence. The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z

“A mother is best. A mother knows what is inside you,” she said above the singing voices. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Lena quit singing and said something in an unintelligible language. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

Then the bells rang at noon to welcome her, singing from all comers of the city. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

For several days, the captives were held on the airfield, shivering by night, sweltering by day, singing Christmas carols to cheer themselves. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z

Who has that kind of money to dish out based on me singing one little song? Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

On the way home—with Dad still singing away in the back, extending the word “low” so long he sounded like a mooing cow—the man asked me about school. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

As the singing draws to a close, the cousins urge her to make a wish. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

“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

He could hear the Sisters singing as they pounded flour or boiled down herbs or sharpened their knives. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

“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

But sometime Biddy be singing ’bout somebody cornin’ ’round a mountain and she cleaning like a fool, but she happy. Girls Like Us 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Sitting on the floor with Prim, who was just a toddler, singing “The Hanging Tree.” Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

I throw on my headphones and watch the video of Mateo singing to me. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

One day after a particularly satisfying win, the Captain turned from me to Caroline and said, “I miss your singing now that Trudy’s gone. Those were some happy times.” Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

I baked a cake, which was lopsided but tasty, and Silly and I spent the whole day calling ourselves the Shirondas and singing and dancing wildly to the radio. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

The bus stop was eerily empty, and she imagined all the people who would have been crowded here, now in churches, singing and praying. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

The Doctorita making jokes and laughing at something and singing along with romantic songs on the radio and knitting her Baby Jesus dresses. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Kodály in particular spent a great deal of effort on developing beautiful singing voices for young children. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

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

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

Nicks singing voice has this supernatural effect on freshman girls. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

Why was she brought back to this place, with its ferns and snails and singing stream? Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

I imagined I was Lola B singing to a sold-out stadium. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

The orphans were marching and singing, their shoes all hitting the ground at once, and the oven door opened, and into the oven they went, heads held high, marching and singing. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

She was singing, but the rain was louder than her voice. Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z

When she finished singing, her father had tears in his eyes. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

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

And the singing lady, Benni, who since then has stayed the same in that she's changed every. Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z

They were shouting and singing at the tops of their lungs that their team would never die. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z

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

Mama stood scrubbing dishes in the sink, singing to herself. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

Esther and her mother left during the singing—they had come, then, only to hear him preach. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

They spun in slow orbits around the two women, singing their spirit songs and watching, always watching. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

The singing and shouting and giggling sent the birds and wildlife deeper into the shadows. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

Through the flames she could see the huntress singing, her face glowing in the red-gold light. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

The people Yossarian wanted to machine-gun were busy at the bar singing sentimental old favorites that nobody else ever tired of. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

By the time I reached my door, Brownie’s little voice was belting out the words, some right, some wrong, and Mr. Ray’s deep, raspy voice began singing right along with him. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

I said, “Fine. But I’m not singing with you.” One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I was just singing,” he said, like this was news to me. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

While the hardest part of the water monster lullaby was how long it was, the hardest part of the protection song was actually singing in Navajo without the aid of the bow guard. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

One merely has to witness the infectious singing at African rallies. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He thought about the music at Dr. Meescham’s house, the way the voices sounded, singing. Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures 2013-09-24T00:00:00Z

She put on the Beatles singing “Eleanor Rigby” and played it over and over and over again, low, so that I could just barely hear it through her door. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

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

In the sheriffs car, I said, “She isn’t actually gone at all. She’s singing in the trees.” Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

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

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

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

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

There would be singing and caroling in the Hall and Robin remembered his father’s letter and hoped that Christmas would bring his father and mother to the castle. The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z

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

When she leaves he whispers he’ll teach me a few songs because singing is good for passing the time when you’re by yourself in a typhoid room. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

The country’s ten thousand dead had gone unmoumed and uneulogized while the boys went on singing English songs and playing cricket, moved only by reports that reached them, three weeks late, from the British Isles. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

As we left the Temperant tent, the quartet was singing, in close harmony: . A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

Everybody went inside the boat and started dancing and singing. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

As they looked out of the window there came falling gently as if it was flowing down the rain out of the sky, the clear voice of Goldberry singing up above them. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

Milkman knew no songs, and had no singing voice that anybody would want to hear, but he couldn’t ignore the urgency in her voice. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

Pilate singing all day and talking off the wall. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

And Ella Mae was not so beautiful now as she was when she was singing and testifying, but looked like a sullen, ordinary girl. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

Even though it was just a bunch of singing and coloring in coloring books and listening to Mrs. Davidson, I had learned one thing. The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Guddat, why are you singing English songs?" says the leader, with an air of superiority. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

“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

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

The man was still singing his thanks as Olanna took a banana from the table and left the kitchen. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Noiselessly, he went up the steps and inserted his key in the lock; the door swung in silendy and he heard his mother singing behind the curtain. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

The ceremony continued for some time, with more perambulations and exchanges of secret passwords and hand signs, more invocations and singing, until C.P. found himself at last standing before the large central altar. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

As the singing started and I heard the words, I thought of Dismay, Dismay, Dismay!-—bright and beautiful, great and small, wise and wonderful...and lost to me. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

I thought about it, and figured that Little Tomato must be who the song was for—the person the singer was singing to. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

I was floating in a fog of colors and smells and warbling birds and voices singing, “I like you, and you, and you, and no one else but you, and you, and you.” When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

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

The sickle whistles as it slices through the air, singing in the moments before it separates her head from her body. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

“Every car in the Shack will be tuned to the Big APE,” she said, singing along with the music. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

The barbershop quartet on the airplane was singing “Wait Till the Sun Shines, Nelly,” when the plane smacked into the top of Sugarbush Mountain in Vermont. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

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 I finished singing I opened my eyes. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

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

I heard the angels singing— It’s all the children Moses led, I heard the angels singing. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

In this part of the resort now there were hundreds of soldiers, many of them in loud gangs drifting through the streets, singing and shouting. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

But her father had already begun singing the second traditional song of the trip. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

He turned the radio on and hummed to old songs from the seventies, snapping his fingers, and sometimes even singing some of the words. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

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 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

“Cool,” I said, and Mr. Black started singing a song in some weird language, which I guess was Philippinish. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

Unsurprisingly, church music was a rather more sombre affair, and the ordinary churchgoer prior to the Protestant Reformation is likely to have found singing in church a miserable, largely non- partidpatory activity. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

I’m sitting at a Formica table in the back of an impressively appointed RV sipping an equally impressive single malt—Laphroaig, if I’m not mistaken—and singing like a canary. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

Still, she heard Miss Josie’s rich voice singing a gospel tune. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

Baba had nearly got­ten himself shot by a singing, stoned Roussi officer—Baba had made me so mad that night, so scared, and, ultimately, so proud. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

He was standing right in front of me, doing this to me, making me feel everything he did, singing me his brutal, wanting song. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

The singing didn’t stop as they marched through the woods. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

But he knew that when she was neither singing nor talking, her face was animated by her constantly moving lips. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was Hagrid, making his way up to the castle, singing at the top of his voice, and weaving slightly as he walked. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

Their heads were high and they were singing the song I had learned. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

Waving flags and singing freedom songs, the triumphant marchers stand before the capitol building. Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then his wife comes along the beach singing a song and sees the 2 halves and recognizes them and picks them up. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

“Yesterday my father told me he doesn’t want me singing a show tune.” Shine! 2019-11-05T00:00:00Z

He looked sideways to see if Jaja and I were singing and nodded approvingly when he saw our sealed lips. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

Soon we are singing at the top of our lungs. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

It was all so pretty and smelled so good and the singing birds made such fine music that Mama wouldn’t go on. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

Now he had heard the boy singing his special song to his sister in the cave and he had remembered the words. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

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

Above me I could see the beaks of a thousand magpies drinking from the pond, drinking and singing happily and filling their snow-white bellies. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

It was getting lighter every moment, and the birds had started singing. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

They were saddened by the thought that these happy children of Goat would no longer be jumping up and down in the grass and singing their goat songs that they all so liked to hear. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

A tiny white speck of a car came singing down the wet road from town, far away, twisting with the black curves and growing larger by the moment. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

I couldn’t hear them, but I could see they were singing. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

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

But all through the singing that we did that night, no mosquito showed its face. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

He could hear her voice singing in his head. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

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

A syrupy sweet voice starts belting out a ballad, singing to her love, to her “someone.” Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

He heard her singing, “On Blueberry Hill...,” and he smiled. I Survived Hurricane Katrina, 2005 2011-04-01T00:00:00Z

He heard shouting and laughing on the shore, a band playing music, and a woman's voice singing, “Take my hand, oh, my darling, take my hand and dance with me...” A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

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

Tonight, the visit of some of the women to our fire, and some singing. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

She must continue singing until she reached the difficult trill at the end of the aria, in order to show off the range and power of her voice. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z

“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

Of course not; they were waiting for Grover to finish singing. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

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

The choir ceased its singing and looked hurt. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

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

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

You can bet she didn’t want me singing it in front of my music class. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

“Okay, this is really embarrassing, but you asked for it. Every time I hear the song, it sounds like you’re singing, ‘Armpit. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

And holding the connections between them in her mind...It had once been like running, or singing, or telling a story: something natural. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

Because this evening wasn’t all roses and clapping and happy singing. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

I rode horses and shot birds with slingshots and found boys to joust with, and some nights I danced the evening away to the beautiful singing and clapping of Thembu maidens. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mr. Barchwic on the second floor, singing along with the radio. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

I follow her out and there’s Biddy singing the “Itsy-Bitsy Spider” song to her duck. Girls Like Us 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

I tell him that’s my mother’s song and he’s to stop singing it but he just puffs on his cigarette and walks away and I wonder why people have to sing other people’s songs. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

Sounded like a bunch of crickets were singing to high heaven. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

Around us, everyone was drinking and rowdily mock singing the school fight song and making out, but all we did was sit there, holding hands. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

As if his absence quickened something within her Daisy leaned forward again, her voice glowing and singing. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

If I knew what she was singing, I might cry. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“See, she was singing her favorite hymn, ‘Were you there when they crucified my Lord?’ The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Right before chao comes, Minerva leads us in singing the national anthem. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I waited until he was done singing, until after he had mumbled some words and smudged himself. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

Mom’s lips moved, singing along with the words, like we were singing together. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

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

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

He’s having a great time, spinning me around and singing along at the top of his lungs. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Luke Bryan’s singing about rain, and whiskey, and his girl gettin’ frisky. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

As they walked through Caras Galadhon the green ways were empty; but in the trees above them many voices were murmuring and singing. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

“It’s a desi Pride and Prejudice! You love that book. But it’s better because there is singing and dancing!” Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

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

Men were tied up all over the squadron signing, pledging and singing, and the missions took hours longer to get under way. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

“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

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

Especially a boy who has been singing soprano for Miss Violet of the Very Spiky Heels. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

It struck him as a curious fact that he had never heard a member of the Party singing alone and spontaneously. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

I sat at the top of Half-Blood Hill and watched the dryads come and go, singing to the dying pine tree. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

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

Made me see how my entire life, long before the winter of 1975, dating back to when that singing Hazara woman was still nursing me, had been a cycle of lies, betrayals, and secrets. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

When I open my eyes, the music and singing are gone. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

But I didn’t, so now all I’m thinking about is what I promised myself I’d tell her as soon as we finished singing “All Night Long.” A High Five for Glenn Burke 2020-02-25T00:00:00Z

He constructed elaborate fountains, with grottos containing mechanical singing birds. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

The man was a white blur, singing in a cracked, shaky tenor. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

Though Grandma Caye was now in heaven with God, singing that hymn always made us feel closer to her, as if she was right there, still holding us in her heart. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Then the bell rang again, much louder than before, and he heard a choir singing, as if the door to a chapel or an oratory had opened. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

That stopped the singing entirely except for one high, shrill note that had not been written in the music. Mr. Popper's Penguins 1938-09-01T00:00:00Z

Leaning against a wall of the colmado, he strums the stock with eyes shut, singing songs to himself under his breath. Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

An excellent student, Phi Beta Kappa, he speaks seven languages and has a beautiful singing voice, but he has wanted all his life to be a soldier. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The choir begins “Let It Snow,” and I concentrate on Jax’s big O mouth with smiling edges instead of the many voices singing. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z

“Her name be Jo. She always be singing in the Fen. I didn’t never hear her cry like that none.” Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Milkman could hear them singing and wandered off toward them and the huge cedar that reared up over their heads. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

To him coming over for dinner at your future house every Sunday, where his off-key singing would make you laugh so hard you’d cry. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

The birds singing all about them were those to which they had been accustomed in former days. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

And then the song turns into a call and response, with Tiny singing his surprise that I knew he was gay and me singing that it was obvious. Will Grayson, Will Grayson 2010-04-06T00:00:00Z

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

He praised our singing, saying that it was the only singing that matched the choirs in his native Wales. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

And when the guards tell them that it’s time for lights-out, they all yell it back in their own language, so my papi hears all the languages and it’s like they’re singing him to sleep. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

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

And so it was that Alyce learned about singing and making songs. The Midwife's Apprentice 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Two of the evangelists, a man and a woman, held hands and seesawed from side to side like babies being rocked to sleep, singing and humming excerpts from some cryptic hymns. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Deen had told her he sometimes sang to Sam at night, but it felt odd to just start singing at the new girl. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

A sheep was slaughtered and there was dancing and singing — it was the first celebration that I had ever had in my own honor, and I greatly enjoyed it. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Using a clear, clean, straight head voice rather than chest voice will help to avoid this, and will strengthen a child’s vocal musculature for a lifetime of excellent singing. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

Sometimes she soothed him with classical music, sometimes she played popular songs, singing along in her husky melodic voice. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The longer I stared up at the leaves, the more it seemed that it was the tree itself that was singing. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

Another guy was standing on the corner, singing at the top of his lungs. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

Link started singing “Ho, Ho, Elflings, Santa’s on His Way,” which was the completely wrong song. Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

I wanted to see my father alone, without the small congregation as witnesses, so I asked for another bowl of stew and drank it slowly while they walked to him singing a mournful hymn. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

She’d never forget the stories about Oakwald Forest, legends of dark, terrible glens and deep, still pools, and caves full of light and heavenly singing. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Merry, Pippin, and Sam sat at their ease laughing and talking and singing, while the Shirriffs stumped along trying to look stern and important. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

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

Her mouth was constantly moving like she was singing to herself, but she didn’t make any sound. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

His singing, quiet at first, grew louder with each word until it filled the house and poured into the tobacco fields. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

They walked to the church, past the great houses that rested in the shadow of the Lawn, singing fragments of Christmas carols in the atonal Meecham voices, and laughing at every joke anyone made. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“He’s never faced anything as long as I’ve known him. He thinks anything peculiar or unpleasant will just go away if he turns on the radio and some little schnook starts singing.” Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z

They praised her for her precise way of speaking and her clever gestures when she danced and her lovely singing voice. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

They roused early and were allowed on the deck for air, dancing, and singing. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

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

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

Still singing, my sister reaches across the small space between our beds. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

My father must have had the same feeling because all at once he slapped the table, tipped his chair back, and began singing “Pack Up Your Troubles in Your Old Kitbag and Smile, Smile, Smile.” Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

While the critics praised Marian’s voice, they found fault with her singing technique and suggested that she still had a lot to learn. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z

There were fewer insects buzzing, fewer birds singing, fewer rodents rustling. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

Then, right before our eyes, real people were talking and singing and dancing in our own living room. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

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

“He was singing to please himself. Not even that. He was just singing.” 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

Their shouts and bustling caused great confusion where before there had been only a few men and some girls playing with pieces of velvet and a woman singing. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

If we stray, will there be fewer birds singing? Paradise on Fire 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

“I’m proud of you for singing in Spanish too,” she said. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

“No. Well, the trees were singing funny camp songs to me and I think I saw a big rabbit surfing through the air. But that was all.” Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

All night long, it seemed, his mother had sat on his bed in the dark, singing nursery rhymes, telling him stories, and as long as her dear voice was there, he knew he was safe. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

As they passed through the waiting room, the statue of Hygeia was sitting on a bench, pouring acid on her face and singing ‘Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star’, while her golden snake gnawed at her foot. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

I felt like I was watching my sisters singing, really singing, and not clowning. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

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

I don’t know if I mentioned this, but Nick has the most raspy-perfect singing voice in the world. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

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

One witness reported seeing a group of well- dressed people from a German saloon singing one tune after another while, a few tombstones away, a small congregation of Methodists held a prayer meeting. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z

“There was no singing, no shouting—just the sound of scuffling feet,” Lewis remembered. Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I hear a w-w-waming sound Every time you c-c-come around ...” She was dancing around Armpit and Ginny as she sang, and kept looking at Armpit as if he was the one she was singing about. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

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

They heard her singing her song as she approached. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

I have no idea how much time passes—because they’re silly and singing as we feel the bump of car and road. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

We heard Oskar singing from around the comer, his voice was getting louder, the old man said, “He’s a good boy,” and walked away. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

I hear her singing in the shower one night—a love song. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

I really want to listen to some music right now, especially after singing in Dad’s room. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Whenever someone was taken for a “visit” to La 40 or got desperate and began shouting or crying, we’d all start singing “O Lord, My Sturdy Palm When Cyclone Winds Are Blowing.” In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

But even as she said it, she found herself singing, the words stumbling out as if her mouth remembered what her mind did not, as if her mouth belonged to Chaya, her head to Hannah. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Royal joined the singing to change the subject and to remind her that there were things a body could feel good about. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

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

Mrs. Sidman tried some ghost stories after the singing, but there’s something about principals that makes it impossible for them to tell ghost stories. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

He limbered his wings and said, “It’s not really singing, you know—” “Singing, playing—who cares, as long as it doesn’t sound like Harry,” said Tucker Mouse. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

Almost Frodo fancied that he could hear a voice singing, mingled with the sound of the water. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

After my troupe was murdered, there were times when I would dream of my parents, alive and singing. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

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

More than anything, he was just glad to hear her singing again. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

Maybe by the end of the day, we’d all be singing folk songs and playing Frisbee. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

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 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

So all rowed on, until the Seirenes dropped under the sea rim, and their singing dwindled away. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some concert venues objected so much to this signature song being included in Holiday’s set that white staff would deliberately create noise with the cash tills or bottle crates while she was singing it. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Morrie had always been taken with simple pleasures, singing, laughing, dancing. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

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

“What a sweet singing voice she had,” he used to say to us. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

He accomplished this through the establishment of shape note singing schools, which carried out his musical vision. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

Cold air blew in, whistling a mournful tune like the dead singing. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

There was a fake boat onstage and the chorus was jumping on and off of it, singing, “Huzzah!” The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

Kayla starts singing as she pulls out the blue tarp for all of us to sit on. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

I imagined her singing lullabies to an audience of fawns and bluebirds. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

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

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

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

He sometimes heard Enzo singing softly to him in Italian, his breath hot on George’s cheek. I Survived the Sinking of the Titanic, 1912 2010-06-01T00:00:00Z

Back in our kitchen, we start singing, but before we even get through “birthday,” Theresa puts her hand up like a policeman and yells, “Wait! We forgot Annie.” Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some of the other students were out on the grass in front of Alain Locke Hall, in pink and green, chanting, singing, stomping, clapping, stepping. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

We sang as we walked, all of us, singing a hundred different songs, and the Nazis let us sing. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

After a few verses of Brent singing, the chorus started, and Momma’s voice filled up every inch of the truck. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

“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

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

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

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

Welcome to the last day of school, where there’s music and movies and games, singing and laughing and smiles all around, cakes and cookies and fun for everyone. Because of Mr. Terupt 2010-10-11T00:00:00Z

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 song, sir. He was singing a song about the deep purple falling over sleepy garden walls. ” 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 Greek term for more than one voice line singing together is polyphonic: many voices. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

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

But I could tell the singing was making the driver of our chartered bus really agitated. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

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

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

Then, out of Ts’ai Yen’s tent, which was apart from the others, the barbarians heard a woman’s voice singing, as if to her babies, a song so high and clear, it matched the flutes. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

The cage seemed out of place, but I didn’t think about it too much, because just then I saw the lady who’d been singing ... and whoa. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

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

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

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

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

Shan looked delighted, like a little girl showing off her singing to her parents’ eminent friends. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

They moved back up the side street and onto the main road again, where a group of men on the opposite side was singing and weaving across the pavement. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

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

He rode up the long road between picket fires, and he could hear them singing in the rain, chasing each other in the dark of the trees. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

A memory of Ma singing me to sleep in Phnom Penh flashes before me. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

And after the singing and outward marching, you seize my hand and sing out quavering, "Boy, some day you'll make the Founder proud." Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s a relief when one of the ten or so men on the stage orders us to stand and start singing, because the folding chair is torturing my overworked back. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

And the cowbells peeled in his antlers, singing fool, fool, fool while the red woman looked down on him in pity, the candle flames dancing in her red red eyes. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

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

Of course the British children loved singing about their gracious king. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

It sounded like some of the old boleros that Lázaro used to put on his phonograph in his house on Myrtle Ave, but the little fellow on stage was definitely not singing in Spanish. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

He told the story through characters directly expressing themselves and their feelings to the audience, always and only singing, something that had never been tried before. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Dinah’s hair wrapped around my fingers and her hums turned into a lullaby I remembered Gran singing to us. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

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

He moved down the steps carefully, remembering the Navajo who had been sitting there, singing. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

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

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

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

I heard the owl singing outside, and I heard its whirling wings. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

We sat on the dusty floor, singing and chanting, reliving the final moments of the trial. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Once we arrived in San Francisco, Fern stopped singing “I saw something,” and we stopped asking her to tell us what she had seen. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

I touch his chest, lean into him, feel his sigh singing in my bones. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

Finally he put one on, an Irish church choir singing “O Come All Ye Faithful.” Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

Sometimes I wonder what he’s dreaming about when he’s singing behind those closed doors. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

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

How about singing “My Girl” as we drove around Pacific Palisades. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

For all that the scientists down here on Planet Earth knew, she could have been singing “Ninety-Nine Bottles of Beer on the Wall” to herself over and over and over. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

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 thought about what Señora Oralia had said about singing along to Beatles songs even though she couldn’t speak English. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

“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

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

From somewhere deep inside the house, there came the sound of singing and also the sound of snoring. Raymie Nightingale 2016-04-12T00:00:00Z

Slowly and in a singing voice he began to recite it; the words came back to him out of the past and his childhood. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even the teens of Shaker Heights—whose main exposure to Shakers was singing “Simple Gifts” in music class—could feel that drive for perfection still in the air. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

The two men who’d been singing with her continued smiling with their big, glossy fake teeth. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

But for now, Gramps has his beagle, and I have a chicken and a singing tree, and that’s the way it is. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

Three years of discipline made Lancelot, not a merry heart and a capacity for. singing tirra-lirra. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

I walked out of the classroom and felt like dancing and singing. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

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

The TV was certainly doing the best it could, with a blond starlet singing “Hurrah for Hollywood...La-La-La-De-Dum” as two hundred chorus boys lifted her up into the air. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

She’s already on her way to Theresa, who is struggling with the howling infant while Jimmy hops on one foot, singing “Farmer in the Dell.” Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

She wasn’t singing anymore by then, she w as making speeches. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

After church we would be brought home, again holding hands and singing our way through the streets of Harlem. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

Not till the man was fed did the sweet harper end his singing—whereupon the company made the walls ring again with talk. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

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

It didn’t seem right that they thought singing and dancing would change Cecile into someone who cried for her long-lost daughters or fried pork chops and made banana pudding. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was playing it and all were singing. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

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

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

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

Moldering skeletons of those they had lured to their death lay banked high up around them where they sat singing on the shore. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

These were my boosters, my believers, my own personal gospel choir, singing, Yes, kid, you got this! all the way through. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

In the intended reading, the pleasure is caused by the singing; in the unintended one, it’s caused by the not-passing-this-way-again. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

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

“Have you ever heard such singing, my love?” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

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

And now up this mountain, in white robes, singing, the elect came. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

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

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

He swayed, his head in his hands, and from his throat there came a singing moan. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

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

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

I got into the cab and gave the driver the address of Simmons, one of the men I knew who was studying singing. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

Then Minerva began singing the national anthem, and everyone joined in, men and women. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

We spent the morning making papier-mâché bowls and singing a song about Moses in the bulrushes. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

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

I watched Fern, glued to the bus window and singing to herself. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Silence, please!” the blonde casting assistant screams, bellowing over the buzz of mothers putting makeup on their girls; of boys singing scales; of every other child nervously retucking-in his or her shirt. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

That done, the meeting opened with prayers and hymn singing. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

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

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

“Like singing or writing. Do you paint or anything like that? My Micah is a beautiful painter and Ezra is learning piano.” Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

Cheerful and outgoing, he was a natural performer who enchanted audiences with his singing and transfixed them with his ballroom dancing. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

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

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

To Shin, singing seemed unnatural and insanely risky. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

Inside the cave, the girl had settled herself to sleep on her sleeping mat when she heard her brother singing outside. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

The only noise was from the windshield wipers; they hummed back and forth, and back and forth, singing a sweet, out-of-tune song. Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures 2013-09-24T00:00:00Z

He sat up and began to retreat, crawling on hands and knees to the far end of the cave to get away from us, and so we kept singing. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

Then he turned, tossed up his hat, leaped on Lumpkin’s back, and rode up over the bank and away singing into the dusk. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

“I’m going to take the patron with me, friends,” he said slowly during a pause in the singing. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

He broke off and turned to the window again, singing softly. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

“Children singing and dancing on TV late at night.” P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

“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

“All of those decades—over a century!—of history. When you stood on the courtyard in the rain, you felt like the gods were singing in the heavens.” When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

In time, I became fearless about standing up and singing a song on stage. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Was it wrong to go around singing other people’s music without their permission? If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

Candice stood as well, bobbing and singing along to the music. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

“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

For Nash, a school counselor and the only college graduate in the singing group, this was a snow day. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

“I know! I know you weren’t really singing that. I already told you that.” Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

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

Here I had the diverse citizens of an entire city singing my praises, congratulating me on my achievements, and that made me really think about the power of my story. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

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

Every movement sends agony singing across my back. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

There was Pathil Ammai, who at the age of sixty-five began to take her clothes off and run naked along the river, singing to the fish. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

From far away they could hear the voice of a radio announcer singing the praises of Dr. Ross’s pills, tiny but effective against constipation, insomnia, and bad breath. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

People shifted quietly on their cushions or pushed their plates away so they wouldn’t clank during the singing. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

“The singing man on the corner said so. It’s like his poetry and songs are what he sees. He said something about an attack and putting up dukes. That’s like hitting and fighting, right?” American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

The sparrow remained behind, singing his mournful song of lost love. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

Some monks are singing a section of plainchant, together, in unison. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

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

The tune finds its way into my head and stays there, like it’s a part of me, so that, days later, I’m still singing it. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

After a half hour of mandatory singing, they marched off to their assigned farms. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

The lady with the spiritual bent blew a pitchpipe and the choir members began singing lustily, “Oh, Jesus, walk by my side, / Then I always, always be satisfied.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was singing the night I realized I loved him. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

Sounds of singing came through the open windows of the orphanage. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

I see everything from step routines to praise dancing to rapping and singing. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

Jasmine and Darrell and Camille walk with me down Eighth Street, past the buildings with their paint faded by the sun, brick chipping away, birds singing their tunes. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z

“I was singing to myself. Am I to blame if he listens?” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Instead they sing notes that are exactly double the frequency that the men are singing. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

Below me a couple of cowpokes stumble out of the saloon singing some song, the words too slurred to make much sense. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

He listened and his wife was singing under her breath. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z

The singing went on for a while, one song after another. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

I heard a laugh and then the first soldier’s voice, slurry and off-key, singing the old wedding song. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

They call him a street bum and lock him up with three drunks who are singing. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

“Franny and me, we started thinking about all these songs we knew from when we was girls. We got Otis to play them and we started singing them, teaching the words to these children.” Because of Winn-Dixie 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

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

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

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 spoke her name into it, and all of a sudden I heard your mother singing a lullaby to you as you gradually stopped crying. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

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

Then Vonetta and Fern started dancing and singing: “You do the hokey pokey and you turn yourself around. That’s what it’s all about.” One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

There’s a picture of Baba sitting next to my bed and singing to me and I am smiling. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

There was muted singing all around her; yet she waited. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

She’s the only one in our grade who takes professional singing lessons. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

She should be resting in her favorite chair, singing softly as she mended Papa’s shirts. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

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

I read that in a profile on her, in a news magazine, long after I’d first watched her singing while my mother slept in on Sunday mornings. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were standing in a circle, holding hands, singing one of their cheerful songs. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

It’s one of her friendly days; she puts her arm through my arm, her other arm through Grace’s, and we march along the street, singing We don’t stop for anybody. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

“I’ve been hearing music ever since I arrived. Drums. Clapping. Even some singing, but it’s real faint and...” Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

But the mindless tenderness that he had felt under the hazel tree, while the thrush was singing, had not quite come back. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

He was a free-lance singing waiter which meant that he didn’t work very often. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

She had drunk a quantity of champagne and during the course of her song she had decided ineptly that everything was very very sad--she was not only singing, she was weeping too. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

Soon every member of the squadron was singing, turning toward each other with lifted glasses, their voices rising powerfully on the last four lines: The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

A group of people armed with machetes walked past, singing. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

“You are singing along,” she said after a while. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

Not a lark was up, not a thrush singing. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

They would have started singing “The sun will come out tomorrow” at me. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

He watched them, singing with them—because otherwise they would force him to sing—and trying not to hear the words that he forced outward from his throat. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

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

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

Her thoughts were broken into by a wave of singing that rolled over the room. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

I am like someone watching from the sidelines, waving a cowardly handkerchief, as the troops go boyishly off to war, singing brave songs. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

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

Wanted to hear her coming up those stairs singing that "Me and Bobby McGee" song the way she always did. Miracle's Boys 2000-04-23T00:00:00Z

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

Because, suddenly, Martin is kneeling in the booth, head flung back, clutching his chest, and singing. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

That the traffic lights change fast and my sister must hold tight to my hand as we cross to where a small man singing Piragua! Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

She could hear more clearly than ever the immense singing hiss and swish of vast intangible forces. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

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

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

They were both singing and wiping a last few tears from their faces. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

“You singing in Spanish,” she said, swishing her long skirt left and right. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

Even though Poppy said Bedouin music usually happened after sundown, two young men began slapping quick rhythms and singing for them—the same words and notes repeated over and over. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

It wouldn’t surprise me to learn he’d been singing when he died. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

Sometimes I caught her singing that song, “Crazy,” and I’d smile. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

My children's choir singing for the queen of the Netherlands. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

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

“Is that why in music we’ve been singing ‘My Country ’Tis of Thee’?” Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z

“We will begin with the child singing,” said Miss Lulu. Louisiana's Way Home 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

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

So the young Shaper observes, singing to the few who remain, fingertips troubling a dead man’s harp. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

I slept through my alarm, woke to Gramps singing to me from the living room. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

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

The mermaids were dancing and singing in Latin like the priests do at the cathedral during Mass. You were there with me too, at the bottom of the sea. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

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

The morning was bright and clear about them, and birds were singing, when the travellers came to the stream. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

Even the most intimate songs of Schubert, Schumann and Mendelssohn soften raw emotion with a poetic image - rejection being portrayed as an iced-up lake, or happiness as a bird singing. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Not even sweet singing voices to stir the air. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

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 there was no sound of crying, none of singing. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Yet the memory of the harsh sound of his murmured speech in the room below prevented Kira from asking him about the singing child. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

So the Incan woman retired to a galleon arm-in-arm with her Spaniard, singing that the chains of slavery were sweet when bound with the chains of love, while her people were engulfed in magma. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

These children were singing a story about his own people! Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

“He is singing me the songs his mother sang.” The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

There were paths leading here and there among the lamp-hung oleander trees, but not a sound of life could be heard: no night birds singing, no insects, nothing but Will’s own footsteps. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

They were singing the Sanctus, and had just come to the Amen when the verger appeared. The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z

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

She turns the car radio up crazy loud to an oldies station, and we groove to that, singing all out all the way to the mall. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

Then the singing broke off abruptly, and the child cried again. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

At first, I didn’t even realize what she was singing, she was singing so quietly. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

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

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

“Not like I just spent two days by your bedside singing you back to life or anything.” An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

In college chapels I would listen to folk singing and see plain altars draped with bright applique banners: JOY! Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

The rally was held in Freedom Square, in the center of the campus, lecturers and students shouting and singing, an endless sheet of heads and placards held high. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Presently he became aware that Frodo was singing softly to himself, singing the old walking-song, but the words were not quite the same. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

Dilsey moved about the kitchen, singing the two lines of the hymn which she remembered. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

He slid into the singing of the green part now, melodic and soothing, a relief after the frigid destruction that had made his voice harsh and forbidding. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

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

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

His sardonic mind glowed and his speech took on its old singing rhythm. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

From the Fowey, we hear distantly a choir of seamen singing a Jubilate in harmony. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

The xylophone is louder, and Michael is now singing. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

"I was inviting someone to steal from me, singing about my money." Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

He didn’t just hear birds singing, not just a background sound of birds, but each bird. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z

An old man singing to himself as he struggled against the river seemed like someone I might be able to trust. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

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

Then I led the room in the chorus with everyone singing along, some with their own words, some in their own keys. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

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

All the time singing about trains and Arkansas. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

One Marine a few men down to my left was singing softly to himself the first lines of a song that had just come out the year before. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

The clangor of machinery and hammer greeted Nya each time she returned from the pond—unfamiliar noises that mingled with the voices of men shouting and women singing. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

All of a sudden, a row of animatronic geese tucked into a corner of the room started honking and singing. Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

Walking down the hallway, I hear people singing “Happy Birthday,” but I hum Jason’s song under their singing. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

Knowing Kapu did not understand, she reached out and softly stroked him, singing: “Lie still. Lie still.” Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

From where they squatted by the hearth in their attic they could hear the carefree laughing, singing, and sometimes drunken quarreling of the officers billeted at the Afric Queen. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Everyone begins taking turns going up, two at a time, each behind alternate sides of the screen, singing a song in Japanese and clapping while everyone in the audience sings along with them. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

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

“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

“Did you see any hraka? Pick up any scent? Or was it just a message from little green mice singing under a toadstool?” Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

The guardian serpent was very terrible, but Medea approached it fearlessly and singing a sweet magical song she charmed it to sleep. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

They could feel the joy and pride singing from their hearts. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

I thought of the three angels, singing their songs in a hot kitchen on a cold city morning. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

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

If there really was someone out there singing like that, well ... that was just weird. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

There is a noise then like a chant, and she tells him something Babi had taught her years before about singing sand. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

My bare left foot patted to beat the band while she was singing “Yes, Sir, That’s My Baby.” Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

When the singing finally ceased, a cheery hill covered by a fragrant array of brilliant blossoms and mature fruit trees had replaced the Forgotten Chapel. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

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

In the woods, I climbed an oak, singing my mothers song: Oh, don’t fall in love with a sailor boy, a sailor boy, a sailor boy—I climbed higher and higher. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

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

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

“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

Plus, she kept singing some stupid baby song at the top of her lungs. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

They also have lovely singing voices, Emmett’s very high and George’s very low. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Like the voices of the women in houses nearby singing “Go down, go down, way down in Egypt land...” Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

But then it started to snow, a gentle October snow, and the birds stopped singing. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even just knowing how to read music changes a teacher’s confidence level when it comes to singing, so it’s important to have a few of the basics under your belt. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

The pair of bangles was still singing on Mother’s wrist. Rickshaw Girl 2007-02-01T00:00:00Z

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 Metro Gnome does make speaking easy, as easy as singing, but I can hardly carry one around with me, can I? Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

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

They look relaxed and at home, girls and boys dancing side by side, singing along with the music. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

I braced myself, for what I wasn’t sure, then he said, “I wanted to tell you that your singing is about the best I ever heard.” Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Fumulani was singing one of his most beloved songs, “Sister,” about his estranged wife. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z

Then I heard my mother singing something about trains and Arkansas. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

The chirp of the flying lizards here, singing to their friends high above us in the trees, sounds like the coyotes singing back home. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

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

Penny stopped singing and stood there blinking at me. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

Almost everyone in the room started singing along and eventually my dad put his drink down and cut in on Benny and my mom, sliding his arm around her waist. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

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

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

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

I mean, Dolly Parton—THE Dolly Parton—is singing to some mysterious Jolene who she thinks is more beautiful and more worthy than her, begging her not to take her man. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

The entire forest echoed in song from the people of the Baltics singing of their homeland. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

The singing filled the synagogue, and Reb Saunders sat back in his leather seat and sang too, and then Danny was singing. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

Parents picked their children’s hair, girls played singing and clapping games, and some of the young soldiers played soccer with the boys. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

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

Of a few days before, when Liam had been in the driver’s seat, singing along to Derek and the Dominos’ “Layla” at the top of his lungs, so off-key that it had even Chubs laughing. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

But they’d camped there at the spring; and the bee myrtle had been blooming white that day, and seemed like in every bush there was a mockingbird, singing his fool head off. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

One or another of the worshippers would stand and begin the singing: A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then tune followed tune, and I felt myself begin to relax as I continued to join the singing. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

Nearby, a group around the piano were singing folk songs with more volume than melody. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

“With nothing but my good singing voice and your manly bravado?” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

"This is your father when he won a singing competition at his school." Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

And every fifth grader singing, tooting, blaring, and blasting sounds to the ceiling. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z

They were laughing, singing, lying, squatting, or standing on the grass, holding food in their hands. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

“The marchers pushed down the street joyfully, singing ‘We Shall Overcome’ at the top of their lungs,” Roy Reed of the New York Times reported. Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

He loved singing and you and Lidia and Penny and me and everyone.” They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

‘There was an orc with a whip, and then it turns into Sam! Then I wasn’t dreaming after all when I heard that singing down below, and I tried to answer? Was it you?’ The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

I don’t know exactly where I got the singing part from, but Chas, Joey, and Kevin weren't about to stand in the way of my willingness to compound my idiocy. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

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

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

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

This is a singing commercial from the radio. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

I don’t get the joke or want Thaya Jaan to comment on my shirt, my singing, or anything else about me. Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

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

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

But, when I asked, he told me he was singing to himself; it was too low for me to hear. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

Pulpo was still singing, but his words were lost beneath the clashing layers of music. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

“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

If you listened closely, you could hear the Coasters singing “Poison Ivy” in the background. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

“We don’t want that pretty singing voice of yours messed up with all this smoke!” Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

“You might try singing. No one knows why, but sheep fancy music. They do.” Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!: Voices from a Medieval Village 2007-07-24T00:00:00Z

“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

“For you to write in, to see if you can get out whatever’s worrying you inside, so you’ll get better once and for all and join our singing and help us sew,” she said. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

Grace and I sit on the wooden benches in the church basement, watching the illuminated slides on the wall, singing the words to the songs, while the piano plods onward in the darkness. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

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

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

There was the music again, the faint singing. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

By the end of the first verse she was nodding, by the end of the second she was humming, and by the end of the third she was singing along. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

“Especially this one. She’ll have you off to bring her a leaf of the singing tree from the other side of the world.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

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

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

Not the sound of her voice, not her words, but the feeling of her singing, the vibrations of her throat against my face. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

To be more specific: She was lost in a dream of long ago, a dream filled with laughter and Black Forest cake and sun-dappled meadows that rang with the singing of adorable birds— “Miss? Miss?” The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

I don’t see how putting on a suit and singing in a foreign language makes you that, but whatever. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

She began singing folksongs and telling a story. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

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 began softly, as though singing to herself of emotions of utmost privacy, a sound not addressed to the gathering, but which they overheard almost against her will. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Outside, Brooke is still singing, as though this were the concert she’d come to Portland to give. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

It is the same for me, but instead of singing, I write. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

Another time, though, I saw Auguste stop singing as though suddenly possessed and then begin to mime savagely beating someone on the floor, as though with a hammer or hatchet. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The singing of the girls over their test-tubes, the preoccupied whistling of the Microscopists, suddenly ceased. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

Esther stopped singing all at once and looked down at her bare legs. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Our church was made of mud—mud walls, mud benches—but we loved going there and singing and dancing and praying. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

The service started and there was some singing and some sharing and some praying, and then the preacher started preaching. Because of Winn-Dixie 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

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

From the kitchen he could hear Louis singing. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

The women are coming home from the cinemas, laughing, and the men, singing, from the pubs. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

Cari crossed her arms, but at least she was singing along with everyone else. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

His voice vibrated, like he was singing, like he was some kind of bootleg Dr. King. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

They looked up at the grey and yellow leaves, moving softly against the light, and singing. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

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

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

I try to look normal, like the words coming out of Phyllis’s mouth are just the lyrics to the song the congregation is singing. Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

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

Everybody at Fullbrook seemed like a genius to me, already worldly, already honing their special skill, building robots, singing arias, starting their own tech company. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

On the second chorus the entire ensemble joined in the song, smiling and singing lustily about ultimate success while they swung, dangled, flipped, and soared. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

I am nodding my head and tapping my feet to the rhythm and singing along. Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

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

In a round, all of the voices are singing the same melody but at slightly different times, and in a partner song each part is singing a different melody. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

Next, his mind told him that he was at home in bed and his mother was singing and shaking the mattress, wanting him to get up. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

She lay in her bed for a long time, listening to the singing of the birds. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

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

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

The next time he woke up, Lily was singing softly to herself in the kitchen. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

Women came from the nearby villages, and we danced to their singing and clapping. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I stood beneath that tree for the longest time, hoping to catch sight of the bird who was singing such a song. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

Cecilia, singing harmoniously as she went, filled all three tubs in the upstairs bathrooms with bubbles. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

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

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

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

She could remember Daddy singing, but it was a long time ago—before he went away, when she went to bed at night. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

Then, I noticed that while they were on TV singing or dancing or serving the white folks, none of them were in the family shows. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

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

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

And then the chorus comes, and he starts singing along. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

When the I ion had first begun singing, king ago when it w as still quite dark, he had realized that the noise w is a song. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z

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

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

The Sisters were assembled for their morning meditation—an hour of silence, followed by singing, followed by a quick sparring session. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

And there are wastes of stump and bramble where once there were singing groves. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

The congregation gathered around the coffin, and the yellow church swelled like a throat with the sound of sad singing. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The thick walls shut out the clamor of the castle, and he could hear birds singing, the murmur of crickets, leaves rustling in a gentle wind. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Isa put a hand over Laney’s mouth to muffle her singing. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

“I do not know any singing, Will Russet.” The Midwife's Apprentice 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

The lower to middle elementary-aged child is ready for more complex listening, singing, and music making. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

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

As he left the hall, Abel was singing “The Maids That Bloom in Spring.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Dad started singing one of his favorite songs. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

The singing is still not good, but she’s got one hand over her heart and she’s belting a lyric about not knowing her fate with real emotion in her voice. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

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

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 plays the piano and has an excellent singing voice. Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was in the living room, playing patty- cake and reciting the alphabet and singing all the songs he’d belt out when he came home from the pub late at night, waking the neighbors. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

He starts singing and he’s just got a terrible voice, like an albino Jamaican frog, but we chime in as best we can with our voices and whatever instruments we ended up with. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

I listened to the CD again and again, until I was singing along with all the songs, until, finally, I fell asleep. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

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

The Shaper was singing the glorious deeds of the dead men, praising war. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

Different birds kept on singing, though not very near to him, and he did not see any of them, except, now and again, a darting brown shape in the branches. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

Now we are jumping around and singing like rock stars onstage. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

She was usually either singing or crying, but now her face twisted up with fury. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

We’ll have Latin dances, singing of all types, Cambodian dances, a fashion show, and even skits. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

I sing “Jolene,” and maybe it’s my imagination, but I hear a few voices out in the audience singing it back to me. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

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

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

They had enchanting voices and their singing lured sailors to their death. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

The composer was Claudio Monteverdi and the new style of singing gave birth to opera. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Try not to sing too loudly while the class is repeating each phrase; strive for singing independence among students. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

But first Shmuel, then Yitzchak, then several of the other men in their truck joined in, singing at the top of their voices. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

As soon as Papi came home from his shift at the hospital, he showered, singing a favorite Island song that made the girls giggle as they slipped on their party dresses. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

The voice was light, perhaps only a child’s voice, singing sweetly and thinly, on the barest breath, and Eleanor smiled and remembered, hearing the little song more clearly than Mrs. Montague’s voice continuing about planchette. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

Close to the curb ahead I saw a man pushing a cart piled high with rolls of blue paper and heard him singing in a clear ringing voice. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Somebody was singing something about ‘Hold on my heart’ or something like that. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

I hear him still singing that boom-boom song under his breath. The Skin I'm In 1998-10-16T00:00:00Z

Lately they seemed to be singing more loudly and cheerfully than ever. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

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

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

That evening, dancing and singing to myself in the kitchen, I make twice as many sambo jelly sandwiches. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

The evening I go, the grillos are singing their creaking song. Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z

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

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

The singing is soft and close and tearful. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

"I wasn't singing, really, just chanting my family's names." Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

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

Everyone was jamming together, singing songs: Dad’s songs, Adam’s songs, old Clash songs, old Wipers songs. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

As he hit the final chorus, everybody surged to their feet, clapping, whistling, and singing along with him. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

Wiress smiles and goes back to singing and dunking her coil. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

There was a beautiful, eerie singing, like voices from the bottom of a well. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

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

Dany could hear the singing of the red priests as they lit their night fires and the shouts of ragged children playing games beyond the walls of the estate. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

So I carried him like a human baby, his body heavy in my arms, singing the same lullabies I’d sung to him back when we’d first started knowing each other. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

At first Piper was self-conscious, singing in front of all her friends and a snake guy. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

In some older recordings, the singing would be re-recorded by a Western chorus, which took away from the experience of hearing the song. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

“I did,” said Despereaux, “but I was listening to the music, sir. I was there to hear the song that the king was singing. ” 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 morn was clear as glass, and I was happy as a singing bird. Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!: Voices from a Medieval Village 2007-07-24T00:00:00Z

My second glance told me the truth It was Denna, singing along with half the folk in Anker’s to “Drover’s Daughters.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

As she made her way past the temples, she could hear the acolytes of the Cult of Starry Wisdom atop their scrying tower, singing to the evening stars. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

I find myself singing along, singing to her, and she loves it. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

Tom soon disappeared in front of them, and the noise of his singing got fainter and further away. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

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

Certain that Pond had stopped singing, Nathan reached out to grab a falling flake. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

Francis was inside, too, starting dinner; he was singing, and his high, clear voice, slightly out of key, floated out the kitchen window. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

At the end of the song, he rubbed his beard and said that he was impressed with my dancing and found the singing “interesting.” A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

The touching thing was that the two were singing. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

Tirelessly the woman marched to and fro, corking and uncorking herself, singing and falling silent, and pegging out more diapers, and more and yet more. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

Then from down the hall I could hear Mary singing, her voice clear and untroubled, though she sang a troubled song. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

As he entered the kitchen, seeing his daughters bow and curtsy and wave imaginary fans, he thought, At least they’re not singing. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

It was driven by outlandish folk, singing strange songs: dwarves with long beards and deep hoods. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

Her intro was playing, the moment arrived, and, as she started singing, the fear dissipated and the nausea vanished. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

What he desperately needed was a method of notation that you could read and turn into singing at sight, and he set about developing this miraculous time-saving device. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

“The little singing girl,” the woman said, her voice a hoarse whisper. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sometimes it's slower music, the Five Stairsteps telling us things are going to get easier, or the Hollies singing, He ain't heavy, he's my brother So on we go . Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

I close my eyes and start singing a song by my namesake—a saint called Kabir. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

He could not believe what was happening, even though he had been singing the same old song for years about how the country was crawling with Marxists. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

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

In singing, there are two types of basic part-singing appropriate for children: polyphony and harmony. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

Gramps likes this, and so do I. I still climb the sugar maple tree, and I have heard the singing tree sing. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

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

The singing commences again, and I realize that the Easter matins have begun. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

How could I tell her that the Communist party wanted her to march in the streets, chanting, singing? Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

She sits at the kitchen table talking to herself, What am 1 going to do? till it’s late and Dad rolls up the stairs singing Roddy McCorley. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

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

Until well into the night they could be heard chattering and singing and tap-dancing, so that the house resembled a boarding school where there was no discipline. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

Music education in the U.S. began after the Pilgrims and Puritans arrived, when ministers realized that their congregation needed help singing and reading music. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

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

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

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

Silently, she made up her mind that if the clicker sounded, she would stop singing. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z

Daisy and Jordan lay upon an enormous couch, like silver idols, weighing down their own white dresses against the singing breeze of the fans. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

I see myself in the back of the truck, singing with the girl, though I’ve never sung before, laughing when I am off-key, climbing trees to pick the apples, always peaceful and always safe. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

On one occasion, the leader of Alfons’s unit became angry at the boys’ unenthusiastic singing. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

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

At the north end of Harken Square stood a circle of Believers, clapping their hands and singing one of their songs. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

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

Boy in a small boat singing his head off, can’t even recall the whole stupid song. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

I would sit goggle-eyed at my father jumping and shouting as he preached, with the congregation jumping and shouting behind him, their souls and bodies devoted to singing and praying. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

I felt like I was singing a hit single. Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

In late August, I was washing clothes in the tin pan in the living room when I heard someone coming up the stairs singing. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

It functioned on an old-fashioned principle: you held it against the bones near your ear and it vibrated singing or talking to you. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The person I hoped was playing and singing is not here today. Another person is playing who, I am sorry to say...” he whispered into her ear, “is very terrible.” Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

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

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

All the while he’d burst into singing just as spontaneously as a bird. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

Doctor Copeland held his head in his hands and from his throat there came the strange sound like a kind of singing moan. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

Momma’s voice called up the few memories I had of her—singing me to sleep, planting together with Nan in her old garden, the two of us driving in the car. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

She had announced her arrival in the quarter by singing the forbidden spiritual—“Go down, Moses, ’way down to Egypt Land”—singing it softly outside the door of a slave cabin, late at night. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dean Thomas hopped three times around the room, singing the national anthem. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

She couldn’t really see anything, but she heard him singing softly to keep her baby brother calm. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

He heard her quiet sweet cool voice singing. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

As they hesitated outside in the gloom, someone began singing a merry song inside, and many cheerful voices joined loudly in the chorus. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

To ask forgiveness, repeatedly, was what congregations were mosdy expected to do, all the while listening to choirs and priests singing at great length about the same sentiment. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

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

At the end of it she was still singing. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

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

She worked with energy and dispatch, but on occasion a numbness took hold of her and she caught herself singing that odd and memorable song and looking out beyond the crystal pillars at the sky. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

As we descended from the van, we could hear the great crowd singing and chanting. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

We climbed in silence, and I watched as the feast carried on below us, with the dancers dancing and the singers singing. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

I could go back to the British School, be sensible, and start singing about the king again. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

"He was too kind," she demurred, trying to remain modest and calm, though her heart was singing. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

When I left, I walked about the ghetto singing my song in the snowflakes. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

Once we arrived in San Francisco, Fern stopped singing “I saw something,” and we stopped asking her to tell us what she had seen. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then his father was upon him; at his touch there was singing, and fire. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

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 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 singing got louder still, and then to his horror a line of nuns, hands pressed together and eyes lowered, came around a corner and straight towards him. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

Larry was sitting happily on a mound, staring at the sky, singing “Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star.” The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Yes. Did you hear about coffins...and females singing...and the lines forming to get into Hell? Did you?” I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

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

He misses the sound of rain on the zinc roof above his dormer; the feral energy of the orphans; the scratchy singing of Frau Elena as she rocks a baby in the parlor. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

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 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

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

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

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

‘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

Maybe they are playing the harmonica and banjo, laughing and singing loud. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

Tho this woman ain’t got no Noise at all so she might be singing a song in there for all I know. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

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

The song changes, and once Freddie Mercury hits the first refrain, I feel like he’s singing right to me: Jealousy look at me now... Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z

She had her back to me, singing a little something, maybe it was Lesley Gore, maybe not, but definitely somebody from her high school days. The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z

If there’s a stream gurgling under a bridge on the road, birds singing and cows mooing and lambs baaing, that’s better than any band in a film. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

When the columns passed in front of her house, Alba ran out and joined them, singing at the top of her voice. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

One minute he was up on the balcony, singing in his tender, tone-deaf voice. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

The radio is on, and we are singing along as loud as we can. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

I’ll teach you as much as I know, the juggling, singing, and dance. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

We needed to show God that even here, locked in hell, we were capable of singing His praises. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

One afternoon as Mrs. Merritt drove me back to Lake Mag, I started singing. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

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 pressed my lips together, biting my lower lip, so my mouth would not join in the singing on its own, so my mouth would not betray me. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

“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

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

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

As the country became more troubled, my father stopped listening to music, and singing. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

The oath of allegiance to the flag and the singing of “The Star-Spangled Banner” clinched it. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

“And here he was singing me ‘Your Song,’ which he said you sung too. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

It was the measured singing of a large group of people, and it came in through the window. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

The cornhusking was forgotten, the fun of it, the singing, the capering that had gone on while they husked the corn. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

We exit through the gift shop, where I catch Mateo singing along with the song on the radio. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

I also become renowned in school for imitating famous singers, using an imaginary microphone, flinging my hair around and dancing and singing and pursing my lips. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Well, anyway, that summer morning when I was gathering material for a bed, I was singing and chopping and playing a game with a raccoon I had come to know. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

But it was such a long time before the singing part came. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

For a while I watched the lights from the sky play around the trees and listened to the crickets singing. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

He remembers my father, how he spent his wages and his dole while singing patriotic songs and making speeches from the dock like a condemned rebel. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

Minerva started singing our anthem and the others joined in. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

Then, breviary in hand, one of the female teachers led us in singing hymns and reciting psalms. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sunny banged on a pot with a wooden spoon, singing a rather repetitive song she had written herself. The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z

Of all the people in this hospital you should know the rules against singing. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

In the distance, he heard the faint sound of singing. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

“Even the birds have stopped singing,” Constance said quietly. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

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

The melodies are good, but the arrangements are not really meant for the piano, but for singing. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

I sit miserably beside Rani for a while, and then I start singing a song softly, to comfort myself. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

A massive crowd of our supporters was blocking traffic in Twist Street; we could hear them cheering and singing, and they could hear us answering from inside the van. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

People was singing and dancing, having a good time. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Years later, when war veterans who’d been under her command gathered together, they’d inevitably end up singing a favorite of Marina’s—“The Dugout”: A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

But a distinct tradition of singing competitions grew up separately, and attracted participants from all over the Greek-dominated eastern Mediterranean. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

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

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

He took a breath, tightened his lips, and spit on me, then resumed singing. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

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

His mouth is a perfect O, like that of a tiny chorister singing God's praises. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

Pretty Boy was singing away in my room right now, so I was pretty sure he had lived through whatever misfortune had befallen him. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

In that singing, relaxed kind of voice she had that made everything sound painless, like it didn’t matter, like there were no big deals anywhere in the universe. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Hannah’s new friends danced by the wagon’s side, hands joined, singing: Who asked you to get married? The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

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

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

I arrived early to prepare for singing Alleluia with the other girls, and there he was waiting for me by the choir stairs. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The last thing I heard when I left was the chorus of my friends singing to give me courage, just as they did with all the women when they arrived or left the camp. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Isn’t there a song they’re singing now about boots? I heard it on the radio the other day.” Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

Down out of the mountains they brought him, singing a hound- dog song on his heels. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Near the window, hidden by the dark, he felt the irritability of the day drain from him and relished the effortless beauty of the women singing in the candlelight. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

I hear the mermaids singing, each to each. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

On Tuesday the marchers, drenched by torrential downpours, trudged along in their plastic ponchos, singing in the rain. Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

We both went flat and with the flash and bump of the burst and the smell heard the singing off of the fragments and the rattle of falling brick. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

I listened to the song over and over as I tried to imagine it louder and faster and with me singing it. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

The cicadas were going crazy, filling the air with their strange brand of singing. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

Rather than a system, Schulwerk combines instruments, singing, movement, and speech to develop children’s innate musical abilities. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

We’re listening to “The Jack Benny Show” on the radio, which is punctuated by singing commercials for Lucky Strike cigarettes. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

The front seat was so filled with fabric and country music and Wynn’s singing that I wondered if he’d noticed I hadn’t said a word during our rides for the past few days. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

“Ah, the singing tyke! Yes, I knowed her. Not her name though. But her singing, we all knowed that! Like a bird, it was.” Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

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

The young lady, however, seemed slightly bored with her own singing ability, or perhaps just with the time and place; twice, between verses, I saw her yawn. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

After several speeches and more singing, the crowd splintered into dozens of small groups, which entered segregated businesses and sat down in protest. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

I raced up the hill in the sunshine, my heart singing. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

As the kindergarten class led the singing of carols, Shirley captured the scene for her memories. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z

And then, as I was gathering wood for the fire, I heard my father singing in the distance. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

I could never forget the time he smiled at me in church when I was singing with the hymnbook upside down. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

His instincts told him to stop singing and to look for whatever it was that had made that loud sound. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

Vonetta only joined in because singing was involved and she had to make her voice louder than Fern’s. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

Flora had a hard time imagining what love would be doing standing in a bowl of soup and singing, but these were the kind of idiotic words her parents spoke. Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures 2013-09-24T00:00:00Z

Deen’s waves, his sunshine bubble, and Jinny couldn’t hear him singing anymore, but that was okay because the arms were there, all around her. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

Things are going backwards with you, he said to himself and laughed, and as he said it, his glance lighted on the river, and he saw the river also flowing continually backwards, singing merrily. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z

His mother had stopped singing and was listening. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Tea would brew, and who­ever had a passing singing voice would sing until the sun rose, the mosquitoes stopped buzzing, and clapping hands grew sore. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

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

Sometime later, we were singing “Blueberry Hill” as Roy Lee guided us uncertainly down the dirt road from Snakeroot. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

All he could do was again to sit wretched and helpless on the shore, but this time not trying in fury to kill people, only singing mournful love songs to soften the sea nymph’s heart. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

A new canary is singing in the antique cage hanging by the window, and from the center of the room the glass eyes of Barrabas stare up at me. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was a warm golden evening and a blackbird was singing somewhere near by. Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z

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

A woman’s voice, as clear as Piper’s singing. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

It is fitting that the first great opera, composed by Monteverdi in 1607, features a hero faced with a life-or-death singing challenge in the Underworld, Orfeo. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Strumming away, bobbing her head and shoulders, singing, “I’m looking over a four-leaf clover that I overlooked before.” Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

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

Somewhere around midday I was hiking along, singing a lullaby and rubbing Otto’s foot, when he unexpectedly tumbled from my back. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

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

The mesa coyotes were singing, calling to each other or challenging the moon. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Teenie cradled her son, whispering to him, singing to him, telling him stories. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

All at once back into his mind, from which it had disappeared with the first coming of the fog, came the memory of the house down under the Hill, and of Tom singing. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

“Because her singing is kind of a clue that tells you she needs space,” Ms. Dale says. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

I could hear him singing and whistling clear to the barn. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

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

Swords rode on their hips, singing their soft steel song as they rattled in their scabbards. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

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

Often they heard nearby Elvish voices singing, and knew that they were making songs of lamentation for his fall, for they caught his name among the sweet sad words that they could not understand. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

When singing harmony, one voice usually has the melody and is dominant, while the harmony parts take a “back seat” so to speak. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

After we eat and drink we have to go to the lavatory down the hall but we can’t get in because Mrs. Leibowitz is inside, humming and singing. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

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

In those days any Orthodox Jew who said he was a rabbi could preach and go around singing like a cantor and such. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

Carved figures paraded around its edge, screaming or singing, holding weapons or ancient instruments, calling for the storm in the center—roiling clouds and lightning. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

I imagined her singing with her big sister, Bertha, in the backseat of their daddy’s car. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

When Liyana woke on her birthday, her mother was singing in the hallway. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

There were more of the walking stick-holding, straw hat-wearing white men singing out for you to come see what they had hid up in their tents. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

They could hear birds singing in the trees. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

At last Gebu reappeared, however, singing at the top of his voice. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

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

I was six years old, playing in the road, when a group of herd boys approached, singing and dancing. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z

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

Tiara heard singing, and for a moment she thought she was in her room back home listening to Boyz Will B Boyz and waiting for her mom to wake her for her daily weigh-in. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

Within minutes I invented another game, which involved singing and dancing as well as storytelling. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

But peace was there, energy, singing, and now his own remembrances. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You know, you might be on your way to becoming SuperMexican Jr. with that singing.” The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

I even made a video of myself singing a cover one time. Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

She saw her mother curled beside her in a hut, singing folk songs under her breath, and she saw the way Mama’s eyes had rolled back in her head. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

They played tag, ring- around-the-rosy, and hopscotch, and danced around the field singing until Grandpa Tommy yelled for everyone to go to bed. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

And maybe he’s experiencing it too, what with the singing and all. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

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

Now Aunt Evy was singing softly to them, making up a parody on the song. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Reverend Matyolo was a stout man in his mid-fifties, with a deep and potent voice that lent itself to both preaching and singing. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I could almost hear my mother singing to me and feel the tickle of my father’s beard against my cheek. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

My mom picked up some extra waitressing shifts, and my dad kept singing for tips. Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

I had walked past her church before and heard music spilling from the falling-down clapboard building; the spirited singing and proclamations of joy emerging from it beat the other churches all hollow, to my mind. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

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

He stopped singing and stared down at his feet again. Miracle's Boys 2000-04-23T00:00:00Z

And I would see Shirley tapping her feet, or singing a sailor song, or pursing her lips into a very round O while saying, “Oh my goodness.” The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

We even posted a video of us singing along to Jake Miller’s “Overnight.” Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Her singing wasn’t special, but her rap was funny and tight, and the others whooped and applauded. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

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

She wore skirts when everyone else wore jeans and had a singing voice so clear and powerful that she’d end up touring years later as a backup singer for Roberta Flack. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

The sound of Nina singing “Here Comes the Sun” wakes us up in the morning. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

I jumped to the podium and started singing a well-known protest song, and as soon as I pronounced the first few words the crowd joined in. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He pocketed it to use on Fluffy — he didn’t feel much like singing. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

Then Tea Cake went to the piano without so much as asking and began playing blues and singing, and throwing grins over his shoulder. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

They could hear the splashing water and the singing of caged birds and the sweep of the long brooms on the flagstones. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’d hear the other kids at school singing “End of the Road,” and I’d have no clue what was going on. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

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

She missed her first singing cue, then slurred her words in a whiskey vibrato. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

In the air of the room were flies tumbling and singing, marrying and giving in marriage. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

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

I can’t shake the uneasy feeling that has settled on me like dust for days—have I been doing something wrong, or un-Islamic, by spending so much of my time singing and playing piano? Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

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

Her promising singing career was all that interested her. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

And my mom started singing that ‘you get what you get’ song when I complained. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

I no doubt did, but I know he was singing for himself too. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Cigarette and cocktail glasses held like batons flew in the air directing the symphony of chatter, shrieking, singing, and laughing. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Milkman’s feet were singing, the tender skin of the ball louder than the heels. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were singing “Hail, Hail, the Gang’s All Here” from the Pirates of Penzance. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

When he heard Mama singing, he slowed his tempo so she could keep up without straining. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The day is beautiful, and so are you,” he was singing. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

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

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

She began singing in her strong, clear alto. Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

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

The tower bells were singing, summoning the city to bear witness to her shame. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Martin singing at Waffle House is entirely, incomprehensibly hilarious. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

The lyrics say: Ah ah ah ah, sing and don’t cry, because hearts become happy by singing. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

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

They were singing facing the east, where the sun was still behind the horizon. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

The blue tit that had been swinging on a bramble, singing “Heigh ho, go-and-get-another-bit-of-moss,” stopped his acrobatics and flew into the wood. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

A whole lot of talk about grace and faith and mercy and salvation, which, to me, all just equaled shouting, clapping, and singing in a building built to be a sweatbox. Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z

The warders were our audience, and they enjoyed our singing as much as we did. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

He was running on the green turf and singing. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

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

“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

There was something about Rab’s singing, low, a little husky and not too accurate, that always moved Johnny. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

“Far away, just singing. Besides, wolves don’t bother you. You can go back to sleep.” The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z

A strange singing, a low chanting song emanated from the house all day long. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

The party ended with a toast and everyone singing “God Save the King.” Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

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

That night there was the sound of uproarious singing, which was followed by what sounded like a violent quarrel and ended at about eleven o’clock with a tremendous crash of glass. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z

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

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

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

She spent many an afternoon staring blankly through the window while singing songs of sorrow to herself, as though she were going mad or something. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Having students hum the melody rather than singing words helps them hear the melody separately from the lyrics. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

Miss Effie Belle could hear them singing when she got home from playing for the Methodists, and what she heard wasn’t “Holy Spirit, Truth Divine.” Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

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

One of the best memories Toby had was hearing his dad—drunk, Toby now knew—softly singing to his mother over the phone. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

That night there was a great display of fireworks, and then the town’s band played while nearly a thousand voices joined in singing “The Battle Hymn of the Republic.” Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

From below came the familiar sound of singing and the scrape of boots on the flagstones. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

Coach Hedge was entertaining a few locals with tap dancing and martial arts, occasionally singing into his megaphone, though nobody seemed to understand what he was saying. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

There's quite a commotion going on down in the streets, music and singing and car horns, none of which I could hear through the thick glass window panels in my room. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

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

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

I hear voices singing “Take Me Out to the Ball Game.” Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z

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

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

To spend more time with Lucas, Blevins has already cut back on his singing. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

Marian Anderson loved to sing, and site loved to listen wltile others were singing. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z

Annie was singing in the kitchen, the boys helping her mix the batter. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

By four thirty that morning, they were stumbling through central Berlin, singing “Bow Down to Washington,” their arms draped over one another’s shoulders. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

No one knows for sure if medieval plainchant singing had a pulse or beat of any kind, because there was no way of writing it down. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

And the whole time Dallas kept right on singing with the song on the radio. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

They were all on fire, and behind their leaves, the birds were singing their last songs. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

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

The sound was King Phillip playing his guitar and singing to his daughter, the Princess Pea, every night before she fell asleep. The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z

“I was never very happy about singing in halls where segregation was practiced,” she said later. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z

He turned up the music, then started singing along. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

The boys’ voices carried the melody up and down, simply but with the richness that is in no other singing. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

He was still singing the song and laughing. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

After the singing we were each given a cabbage cake and a spoonful of fat. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

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

I have left church early, walked out, after hearing the congregation spontaneously applaud its own singing. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

I turn and turn the dial, half expecting to hear Mom singing in her deep-throated way, singing the sad words of her Beny More song. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sometime I think I need to stuff that girl’s cleaning rags in my ears so’s I cain’t hear her singing. Girls Like Us 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

A couple of people are singing and dancing along with the Joseph soundtrack. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

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

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

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

He was ready to go home and was singing. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

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

As I was heading out, I heard Nene singing, “Mama, I just killed a man.” Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

“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

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 decided to call out to him once I heard singing. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

Not coughing smoke but smoke from a woman’s smooth-voiced singing, with piano, bass, and drums. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Our choir began singing at churches around the Northeast. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

As she went toward their hiding place, she signaled her approach by singing: “Go down, Moses—” Her voice was no longer beautiful. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had been walking for just over an hour when she heard the music in the distance: pipes and lutes and high, clear voices singing. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

On the drive out, Dante and his dad sang along with the Beatles—not that either of them had good singing voices. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

When their singing stopped, Pastor Ambrose’s morning prayers sounded even louder. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

A small sound reached his ears and he realized it was himself, crooning softly, as if he were singing himself a lullaby. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

And I didn’t hear the night bird singing anymore. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Hmm...I mean, you do have a beautiful speaking voice, so it makes sense that you’d have a beautiful singing voice.” From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

What Perotin did was ask a very simple question: what would happen if you had more than two voice lines singing at the same time? The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

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

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

He looks up at Gabriel, still strumming, still singing, and he sees resting on his shoulder a two-foot-tall Lazarus woodpecker. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

The quarter was as filled with the sound of singing and of laughter as the Big House. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

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

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

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

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

For the next twenty or thirty minutes, I could hear Timothy dropping rocks against each other, singing softly to himself in calypso. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

“She came down this big, long staircase, singing. When she finished, the place went wild. She stopped the show. So she just went right back up the staircase and sang the song over again.” Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

I found that singing came naturally to me, and Elnora praised my voice. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

“But singing is a good sound, isn’t it?” Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z

It stayed there for the rest of her life, an undertone that made her singing voice memorable. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

The sound of singing came very faintly from the oratory. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

“Naw. He got up and started singing ‘Nearer My God to Thee.’ The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were so delighted with the song that they sang it right through five times in succession, and might- have continued singing it all night if they had not been interrupted. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z

She’d stayed up late last night baking them, and he had heard her singing something in a language he didn’t recognize. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

Starry's inside our room; I can hear her singing "Got to Be There" as she pretends to study. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Karaoke is itself the Japanese word for embarrassing oneself by singing in front of a room filled with strangers who are only there to laugh at you. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

For generations, while his people were preparing to go to university, my people were crowded into thatched huts singing, “Two times two is four. Three times two is six. La la la la la.” Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

If my mother was in a singing mood, it wasn’t so bad. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

Down in the yard the woman had stopped singing, but the faint shouts of children floated in from the street. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

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

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

We began singing in churches around the region. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

A new sound, part cry-ing, part singing, comes out of my body, giving voice to my despair. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

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

Only the sounds of the marsh answered, croaking frogs and singing cicadas. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

By then she had retired from the concert stage, following a farewell tour that began with a sold-out concert in Washington’s Constitution Hall, where she had once been barred from singing. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z

Some of the kids who was just giving out high fives are singing a different tune now. The Skin I'm In 1998-10-16T00:00:00Z

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

The girl is singing a cappella and is totally off tempo. Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

The man was no longer singing but was whistling a vaguely familiar song. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Finally, once the giggles had passed and it got quiet again, Ximena started singing really softly in the dark. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

“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 singing was clearer now, loud and resonant. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

After singing and praying in front of City Hall, the demonstrators broke up into small groups and entered several segregated downtown businesses. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

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

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

Aunt Florentine blew me a kiss, then she drifted out of the room, singing to herself: “For I come from Mississippi with a Moon Pie on my knee!” Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

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

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

The lady heard the man singing sweetly and playing the guitar. Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z

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

At last, only the Weasley twins were left singing along to a very slow funeral march. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

The tree frogs start singing, and I open my eyes. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Tweets and chirps and loud singing all happening at once. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

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

“They are hungry. They are singing for food.” Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

“Let’s switch the topic, okay? This isn’t a good party topic. I liked it more when you were singing to me.” Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

Suddenly, were surrounded by people, cheering and singing along to a song I’ve never heard before, about a girl being poison. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

The only style of singing where the tune is still consistently buried within the texture is in the Barbershop close-harmony tradition, where it is generally placed in the second-highest line. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

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

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

Her head is tilted up and her beak is open like she’s singing. Mockingbird 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

And it was nice to be with our neighbors and friends, drinking lemonade and talking and singing along with my parents. Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

He holds up a picture of kids sitting in trees, singing to welcome the Prophet to Medina. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

Even with the birds singing above her as she climbed up to the cliffs. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

But they were all singing now and laughing, and Winn-Dixie was snoring, so no one heard me. Because of Winn-Dixie 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

For a moment, I stood there, looking out at the marsh and listening to all of her sounds: insects buzzing, crickets singing, bubbles popping on the surface. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

“The Jackson Five is the best singing group in the world.” P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

I pulled off my skirt and blouse and yanked on a flannel nightgown, singing at the top of my lungs to keep warm. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

I looked around to see dozens of birds flitting and singing, careless of the dead one in my hand. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

We vibe along to the rest of the song, singing together—one of us significantly better and more carefree than the other. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

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

She set the alarm clock for five, only to wake to the sound of Farmer’s voice, singing up to her from the courtyard below. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

In his mind he could hear his father's gruff voice softly singing to him. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

Friday is payday and Mam is out of the bed early, cleaning the house and singing. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

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

“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

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

“The singing is so loud I thought they were right outside,” Aunty Ifeoma said. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

"I can't understand exactly what they're saying, but I can tell that mob isn't singing the praises of Tamils. Lock up your shop, mister!" Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

She ran up and down the hallway, singing at the top of her lungs, her feet pattering on the tiles as she danced. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

They were unfailing in their attendance at the secret meetings in the barn, and led the singing of Beasts of England, with which the meetings always ended. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z

Esther kept on singing, but tears ran down her cheeks. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

But what wakes me up twenty years later is Dave Jensen singing “Lemon Tree” as we threw down the parts. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

The birds were singing as if life depended on making noise, and I didn’t care at all that the Pierce would drown out their songs. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

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

Up ahead Jet Stone Boy stared up at the sky, singing to the stars. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

What had it sounded like, she wondered now, the singing sands? A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

Why was singing any more embarrassing than talking was? Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

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

At the end of her singing tale, I was crying, shaking with despair. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Napoleon ended his speech with his usual cry of “Long live Animal Farm!” and after the singing of Beasts of England the animals were dismissed. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z

As they rocked back and forth, Gary tipped his head to the sky, and began singing in a hauntingly beautiful baritone. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

From across the narrow street there was the sound of a woman singing. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

Why, I saw her on TV last night singing in a gorgeous sparkly dress. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

I grab the red-and-black-checkered hot bag with their order and open the door to the smoky, dingy dive and Tammy Wynette singing “Stand by Your Man.” Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

He told me of the language and its singing, as had my mother when she lay close to death, her one final gift to me. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

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

We stood in a great circle singing at the top of our voices. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

He had been observed singing “White Christmas” and dragging a plastic disposable cup top around his cell with a string, calling it his “car.” Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The singing man on the corner named Bad Leg provides the lyrics. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Community singing is another sure-fire way to lift the spirits. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

Some teenage Taliban fighters went past, playing victory songs on their mobile phones and singing along in loud, excited voices. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Outside, above the singing, we could hear the music of the procession going by. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

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

And so Dad starts singing that song “Eternal Flame” by the Bangles. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

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

Somewhere out in the darkness, a phoenix was singing in a way Harry had never heard before: a stricken lament of terrible beauty. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

And still he was going down, farther and farther from the joy, the singing, and the light above him. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

On the fifth hole, Ronan is leaping around singing some song about being the champion. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

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

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

It was not singing at all, Matty realized, but the rhythmic and mournful sound they called keening, the sound of loss. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

I went back to class, but I could not remember the song we were singing. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I guess I’m more into music with, like, singing and guitars and stuff.” Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

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

She still sleeps a lot, but spends time awake praying and singing her songs softly. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

“I’m just glad he stopped singing ‘Ben’s Body Is a Wonderland.’” What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

To their “Why not?” pouting faces I said, “This presentation is for the people. For Bobby Hutton and Huey Newton. It’s not for singing about your broken heart to your long-lost mother.” One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Eight Luftwaffe men, none of whom will survive the hour, singing a love song to their queen. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

I remembered them singing as I lay in tall grass that smelled like carrots. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

There were rockets like a flight of scintillating birds singing with sweet voices. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

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

The blind statues and the singing fountains filled with dry leaves, bird droppings, and moss. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now they were singing their welcome to their guests in the winter night. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

Daddy’s voice got nicer with every verse, and at the end of every one the sugarhouse was as full of singing as it was of steam. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

I didn’t want Vonetta or Fern to stop singing, so I closed my eyes. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

A group of Germans were singing a round. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

All the beautiful skirts went swirling by, and the boots went stamping, and the fiddle kept on singing gaily. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

They could not see, of course, the leopard mother playing with her cubs in the forest, nor hear them singing their leopard songs in the darkness. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

Kyle went into the Children’s Room, where kids were reading books with their moms and dads or watching a puppet show or listening to a storyteller or singing along with Mother Goose and her goslings. Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z

I shake the memory of last night from my mind—the singing man, the punching man, the saving blue-cap man, and Donna. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Grover was singing: “Some enchanted evening, you may see a stranger ...” She sat forward. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

Baron von Trapp’s seven peppermint children had had their peppermint baths, and were standing in a peppermint line with their hair slicked down, singing in obedient peppermint voices to the woman the Baron nearly married. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

Someone’s parents have been singing entirely the wrong sort of songs. 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

One day, they began singing what sounded like a work song. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

As the swelling throng marched singing into Montgomery, the Voting Rights Act was beginning its own contested journey through the political thickets of Congress. Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

It wasn’t about listening to her, it was about singing along with her, about being in the moment with her. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

In the background, cartoons are playing, and I’m in my high chair, laughing and singing along with the characters. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

I stood in our new yard, not brown now but lit gray-blue from the full moon, and I listened to the nighttime chorus of singing toads and bugs. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

And there was a choir of perfect boys in perfect white robes with perfect combed hair singing their perfect notes like everything was perfect. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

“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

“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

Caroline had begun to imitate Betty Jean’s singing of “O Holy Night.” Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

That night as I lay in the middle slot of my three tiered bunk, I heard voices in the distance singing. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

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

He no longer served pepper soup or drinks, but he could listen to the regular rise and fall of their voices, the laughter, the singing, Master’s shouting. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

We’d stayed still, just listening to the shake of a dry seed rattle, alert to danger, until the singing began. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

Birds began singing in brake and copse: birds were faithful to their mates; birds were emblems of love. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

But I didn’t, so now all I’m thinking about is what I promised myself I’d tell her as soon as we finished singing “Can’t Stop the Feeling!” A High Five for Glenn Burke 2020-02-25T00:00:00Z

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

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

Sometimes when you keep singing the same song again and again and again, it gets really boring. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

When I was younger, we spent many a walking hour singing, making up rhymes, playing kick the can. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

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

"I suppose that I have not felt like singing until now." Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

He was able to see across the bush and he saw Dog, looking up and singing. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

An old building, with old people, singing old songs. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

My heart felt like the Grinch’s, expanding three sizes with Elle’s voice evoking all the Whos in Who-ville singing on Christmas Day. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

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

I could not understand the words, but only the mood, sorrowful, vague and ethereal, of the singing. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Quite soon, everyone was singing and dancing again. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

I listened to it so much that I started singing it to myself without even realizing it. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

He told her he heard some people singing in the jail. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It was jam-packed, and the people up front were singing along to all the lyrics. It tripped me out.” Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

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

Outside her open window a cricket was singing. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

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

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

Most spent their long hours and days of imprisonment singing and clapping their hands. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

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

The little girls singing, the older boys laughing, the babies crying, and the two of us moving through it all. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

In Dorchester County there were parties on the big plantations, the clink of glasses, the sound of singing, carriages arriving at the Big House. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was floating in a great lake of light, and the voice was singing to him. Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures 2013-09-24T00:00:00Z

If your hand is in the air when you start singing, or the song’s entrance falls on the weaker beats, that’s an upbeat. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

Accompanied by a CBS television crew that filmed the tour, she visited twelve countries, singing in concert halls, meeting heads of state, and making informal visits to schools, churches, and local organizations. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z

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

She knelt singing at the river and filled her cup. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

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

We all rode back home together, Father singing loudly as he drove. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z

I heard he was singing again, but tonight I didn’t feel up to asking him where or when. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

The water wall had long stopped singing, and the sky had darkened to an endless black by the time the kids were finished bouncing ideas back and forth. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

I did my best to camouflage my anxiety by singing along to the stupid songs on the radio. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

Harriet was in a stupor most of the time, deaf to the laughter, the dancing and the singing, deaf to the clack of the bones, the beat of the juba. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

You have the whole house woke with the singing. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

Herbert said: “He said we might as well be singing ‘Stick your snout under the spout where the Gospel comes out’ as most of the hymns we sing. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

She begins to work around the room, moving from pair to pair, listening to the singing. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z

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

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 could visit her mother on the beach, laughing and singing and dancing. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

The man was pacing to and fro about that empty land and singing his new song. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z

It was the uniform of the Junior Patrol, a club for boys who did good deeds and marched around in formation, singing songs. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

Harry scrambled around, trying to pick it all up before the dwarf started singing, causing something of a holdup in the corridor. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

For whom, for what, was that bird singing? 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

I turned back to my work, made a check mark on my paper, and at full voice, began singing a tango that my mama switched off every time it came on the radio. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

I managed to go the whole practice without singing. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

On the radio, Sly and the Family Stone are singing "Family Affair," the song turned up because it's my mother's favorite, the one she plays again and again. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

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

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 gang members were no competition for us; they soon became quiet while we continued singing. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

But one of the warders was fluent in Xhosa and understood the content of our songs, and we were soon ordered to stop singing. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

It's The King and I, the original one with the bald guy and all the singing and dancing. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The singing continued for a minute at least. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

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

The singing Mills Brothers, the dancing Nicholas Brothers, and Fats Waller had all crossed over, establishing their popularity in both white and black venues. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

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

When you need support, some guy singing in a foreign language is a lousy substitute. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

The trip to the cemetery, the family praying, a strange woman singing “Precious Lord,” were unfamiliar rituals. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

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

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

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

His whine opened my ears, and I heard the angels still singing. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

The singing, thundering, magical words made her seem doubly dangerous, doubly alluring. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

Yet, when he was deprived of it, and could hear the other children reciting and singing in the schoolhouse, he felt woefully lost. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

Maybeth was singing softly, one of Momma’s songs, about making her love a baby with no crying. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

The birds were singing again, and there were soft plopping and rustling sounds, as raindrops rolled off and dropped down through the trees. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

“Grandma,” he repeated, but she was in the middle of singing to Jesus. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

Chills ran up his skin—it brought back the memory of Misty singing as she began to succumb to the illness. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

Anderson had been singing in Washington ever since her high school days, appearing first at black churches and small black-operated theaters, and later before larger, racially mixed audiences in the auditoriums of black high schools. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z

The cardinal was looking up at the sky, and its bright orange beak was open as if it was singing. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

“There, you see, Mary Poppins! They’re quite good again. I can always comfort them. Quite good, quite good,” said Mrs. Banks, as though she were singing a lullaby. Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z

I watched more singing on television and added being a singing star to my daydream collection. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

My mom thanked the Creator all the same, and all these women came and started singing. Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z

From the other side of the campsite they could still hear much singing and the odd echoing bang. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

A dozen different sorts of meat and fish were served: camel, crocodile, singing squid, lacquered ducks and spiny grubs, with goat and ham and horse for those whose tastes were less exotic. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The same seat Mateo was in when he was singing earlier. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

He was making out like he was walking a very straight line, the way kids do, and the whole time he kept singing and humming. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

Suddenly one of the warriors behind Crazy Horse began singing a Strong Heart song. In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z

“Are you trying to trick me into singing for you?” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Then a tall black man turned his back to Daniels and started singing. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

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

The singing of this song threw the animals into the wildest excitement. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z

The singing faltered, and some of the bearers looked around in doubt and fear. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

The result was that the original hymn style became the purview of the shape note singing schools, mostly in the South, where they flourished for many years. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

In the waiting, she fell asleep herself, startling awake only when she heard the floorboards singing a song she hadn’t heard before. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

I hear trumpets and drums and a man's voice singing. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

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

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

Beckany, the ringlet-haired casting assistant whose voice has steadily shredded into a total rasp today, is standing by the door, letting the last child out from her singing audition. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

A woman in the crowd began singing a song of celebration. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

“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

And to prove her point, she raised her arms above her head, closed her eyes and started swaying from side to side and singing real low, like I wasn’t even there. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

This singing she heard that had nothing to do with her ears. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

Styx popped in his earbuds and rode patiently, bopping and singing from on high. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

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

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

When Cap wasn’t in the lotus position in front of his locker, he was usually in the music room, strumming a guitar and singing to himself. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

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

They sang at their work and in the evenings sat together making music, singing and playing instruments. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

All the time the Voice went on singing. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z

The bees poured out, a singing angry stream, orange, brown, black, yellow. Beowulf: A New Telling 1968-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had never seen a happier mother than the one who, as we trotted home, kept on singing songs of praise about the white “sister.” Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Nina was still singing, something about a sailor who’d abandoned his sweetheart. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Outside, Porfirio is watering the ginger plants, singing a Mexican song. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

Within a few minutes, we were all singing the song “Stimela,” a rousing anthem about a train making its way down from Southern Rhodesia. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

It came with singing in the AME choir and taking Sunday school attendance. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

Ellen tapped her foot as I hummed along, and before Dolly had even hit the chorus, we were spinning in circles and singing at the top of our lungs. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

All of his words were long, like he was halfway singing, so we knew he was drunk. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

It was late in the day when she began singing the song as she moved among the whispering pillars of rain. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

Everybody had his arms on everybody else's shoulders, and they were all singing. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

Provide an opportunity for students to hear the song first, preferably by you singing it. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

My voice sounds real small against the empty all around, but it feels good singing. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

I said a quick prayer of thanks to the singing woman for her help. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

We were in class singing and one of the other boys, who must not have been feeling at all well, vomited on me. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

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

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

The soldiers burst into the barracks, and I keep singing. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

‘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

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

“No, but I heard her singing. Remember how she used to sing ‘The Bonnie Banks of Loch Lomond’? The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I admire the women in my profession who manage to sustain singing careers and raise families. Perhaps I should have been more daring.” The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z

Tortoise listened and heard what Dog was singing: ‘Nne, Nne, Mother, Mother.” Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

They were laughing, clapping, and singing, “Freedom! Oh freedom!” While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

There seemed to be a million crickets singing around us. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

“Lister—he’s the Pipeworks director—was in the bathroom practicing his singing. He won’t miss the key today. And tomorrow, everyone will be off work.” The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

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

The old Ent now took the hobbits back, and set them on his shoulders again, and so they rode proudly at the head of the singing company with beating hearts and heads held high. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

He’s been playing those songs on the drive here, singing the words out loud as if he wrote them himself for me. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Their singing caused him to believe in the presence of the Lord; indeed, it was no longer a question of belief, because they made that presence real. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

The thrush should have been singing, but Hazel could hear no thrush. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Daddy stops singing when he notices me standing there. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

The sight of Mr. Smith and his wide blue wings transfixed them for a few seconds, as did the woman’s singing and the roses strewn about. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

The mere thought of singing in front of a crowd makes my stomach twist into knots. Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

“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

And later she also dropped the bags of wheat flour and rice and kept walking like this for many miles, singing songs to her little girls, until she was delirious with pain and fever. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

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

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

Their church was far from the others, but they could be heard on Sunday, a half mile away, singing and dancing until they sometimes fell down in a dead faint. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Each time the plane curved around I knew in my heart it would be my last chance and the bridge was singing, “Na-na-na-na-na. You can’t see me.” One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I heard you singing in the shower. What was it?” Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

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

For example, if we hear the Qur’an performed, it may sound like singing and music. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

Like drums, like the men singing for the corn, like magic, the words repeated and repeated themselves in his head. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

The singing only stopped when he paused to spit out the window, and he didn’t care a bit how red I turned. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

The winter was the best thing, because then there were the geese on the islands—long smoke lines of them singing like bounds in the cold streak of morning. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

“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

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

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

"We could hear them singing," the old warrior said. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

I worked on my singing in the shower until Mom said she didn’t know what she was going to do if she heard “that song” one more time. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

“We showed him that clip of you singing ‘The Hanging Tree.’ Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

He laughs a dry, grainy laugh—not like his singing voice. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Birds were singing that they usually didn’t hear until later in the spring. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

“It stops singing first. That’s when you should get out. But if the air’s too bad, it dies, yes. And so do you.” Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

Because right now he’s singing Pink Floyd’s “Wish You Were Here,” and I’m thinking about Blue. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

You could hear his accent, even when he was singing. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

I sing the lyrics I do remember, stumbling over some words and repeating others out of place, but it’s a song Dad loved and I hope he hears me singing it since he can’t. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

The guy on the record started singing “Under the Boardwalk” and 1 had to turn around and look because it sounded like he was right in the backseat with Dad. The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Jane, do you hear that nightingale singing in the wood? Listen!” Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

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

On the threshing-floor, in the center of the crying, singing saints, John lay astonished beneath the power of the Lord. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

The voices were singing a psalm and coming closer, and then she saw a procession of angels carrying a litter. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

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

She smiled and, to break the tension, started singing “Dayenu” in her strong, musical voice. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Somewhere in the garden a nightingale was singing, and a little breeze touched her hair and stirred the leaves overhead. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

He even gets Michael up and he’s only three but there he is singing and promising to die for Ireland at the first opportunity.That’s what Dad calls it, the first opportunity. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

Tonight the singing had come first, squeaking out of the iron bed, a man singing in Spanish, the melody of a familiar love song, two words again and again, “Y volvere. ” Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

In a moment another warrior began singing, then another, and yet another. In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z

Meryl Lee and Mai Thi spent most of the time under their desks softly singing the music from Camelot—which Mrs. Baker didn’t seem to mind, even though there was supposed to be absolute quiet. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

They were singing some melody that Pilate was leading. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

One bird singing is bearable but not with the other sounds happening all at once. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z

There was too much singing, and she didn’t see how even the Elect could survive for very long the celestial laziness which was promised. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

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

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

The chilled wind blew around the corners of the houses nestled in the dark valley, brooding, singing of the old blood which was mine. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Singing, singing, the little birds told her something more. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

The record player on the first floor volumed up Lonnie Johnson singing, “Tomorrow night, will you remember what you said tonight?” I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

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

He was a pleasant fellow, and during a lull in the singing, he offered his unsolicited opinion on our future. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Pa had Johnny Mathis singing Christmas carols on our deluxe stereo. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

“It’s just that singing helps me think. I have now made up my mind.” Raymie Nightingale 2016-04-12T00:00:00Z

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

“It got a whole lot better once you stopped singing,” she said, and skipped out the yard and was gone. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

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

On Sunday nights you could see red, blue, and green stained-glass light in the churches and hear the voices singing the numbered hymns. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Charming fellow, lovely singing voice. Met him when we were entertaining the baron last Midwinter.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

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

The singing fish were netted for rich men’s dinners. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

She started singing along and swishing her hips while my dad eyed her skeptically. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

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

He heard the fire singing in the furnace. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

We gave it to them again, and everyone came in singing on the chorus. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

These songs are intended for adult voices, and are often out of the comfortable singing range of children. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

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

When we didn’t speak, Aileen hummed so softly and warmly, I thought of the cicadas and the crickets singing at dusk in the dust and hayseed of Uncle Earl’s farm. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

At this time of evening, at this season, in the old days, the whippoorwills would fly in and we would hear them singing in the pine trees, sometimes so loudly they kept us awake. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

Yet, in the holds of those ships there is never any singing. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’m getting hoarse from singing and laughing so hard. Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

A tall boy in a shrunk-up ivory sweater strolled by, hands in his pockets, singing. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

We continued singing our freedom songs and clapping our hands. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

The singing filled his ears; it was complete, self- contained, and it mocked his fear and loneliness, his deep yearning for a sense of wholeness. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

And then he asks me if I’d like to perform on a new singing program he’s launching in a few weeks. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

They heard from the secret gardens the singing of caged birds and heard the splash of cooling water on hot flagstones. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

In it a crowd of black men and women stood between long rows of wooden benches, singing, clapping hands, and rolling their heads. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

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

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

A singing competition, a reality show, One-Fifteen, a celebrity dance—wait. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

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

Hand clapping led to singing, and singing to dancing. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

The tallest woman said to us, “I loved your singing! What language was it?” Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

Miss Fulton reads in a way that sounds like she’s singing a song. Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z

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

He punctuated this last thought with such a deep sigh that a house sparrow singing nearby stopped and rushed home to be with his family. The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z

The birds were singing and the wild flowers along the roadside were bright and gay. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The sand slid whining under; the blue hills drifted by, drifted by, leaving their home behind, the raining pillars, the caged flowers, the singing books, the whispering floor creeks. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

Everyone in the back of the bus was singing the Nebraska fight song. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

He had the overwhelming urge to sing, except that he was not a singing man. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

One of the soldiers, he realizes, is singing. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Then Dvorah sang the same melody Mama sang, the same melody Anya had been singing since she had become a bat mitzvah. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

He was just singing for the hell of it, you could tell. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

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

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

Plus, those nails...She looked like she raced during the day and was in a singing group at night. Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z

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

There were three different times when Pond stopped singing. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

The Marine who’d been singing started up again as soon as we fired our last burst. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sly is singing the words over and over as though he is trying to convince me that this whole world is just a bunch of families like ours going about their own family affairs. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

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

From every direction, Lyddie could hear the shrill voices of girls calling to one another, even singing. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

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

Outside her oldest sister was singing the same tune. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

Suesetta starts singing the song, pointing to the dresses spread across her bed. Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

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

I laughed but kept on singing, even louder than before, my voice breaking horribly as I went into the chorus. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Whenever I got ready to make a break, people would stop in loud groups outside the door—talking, laughing, singing along to the music. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

But he didn’t like the singing, so he twirled the dial through the stations, searching for a more entertaining program. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

They were traveling now, singing the lead song, driving deep into an American night toward a base where the great silver planes rested, waiting for their pilots. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s not over until the fat lady is singing, right?” Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

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

This evening she wore a bird’s nest for a crown, and an elegant green bird was perched in it, singing. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

They were so busy singing and laughing and dancing that they didn’t see the cargo ship as it sliced past the island. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

Even with amplification he was barely audible against the shouting and singing outside, and at one point a group of policemen rushed out. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“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

Bryan was singing about how, everywhere he went, the kids wanted to rock. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

A horse was clomping slow up the road and whoever was riding it was singing. The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z

The moon had traveled across the entire skyline when Pond finally stopped singing. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

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

One night it was brown-shirted storm troopers singing and parading past in hobnailed boots. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

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

Even last night, as I was starting to fall asleep, I could hear the trickling of music in the streets, the laughter and singing. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z

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

Behind them, everyone was singing, “Oh meet me, in the tulips, when the tulips do blooom—” This is what they always sing at weddings when the married couple leaves. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

“Instead of singing,” he continued, “some of us are asking, 'When, O Father, are we going to live in peace?’ Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

“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

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

I am moving my lips, but I’m not singing. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

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

He’s pushing in our door and singing, And if when all a vigil keep, The West’s asleep, the West’s asleep! Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

But as they walked away, he was pretty sure that the girl had been singing. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

He didn’t have a great voice, but that didn’t stop him from singing along. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

“You should have heard yourself, fawning on him, talking to him, singing with him, oh gods, all night; you should have heard yourself!” The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

For all the time I've held on to the hope of a singing career, nothing in me wants to utter a note. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Over the clatter of knife and plate and the low mutter of table talk, he heard Patchface singing, . . dance, my lord, dance my lord,” to the accompaniment of jangling cowbells. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

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

For the rest of the song he’s back up on his feet, gripping the microphone with both hands and singing with abandon. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

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

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

And they saw the Penguin come dancing by, waving his short wings and singing lustily. Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z

She sang quietly to herself as she cooked, in a voice like a thousand old women all singing at the tops of their voices at once. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

Dr. Zinchenko started singing: “Lemon Pledge, very pretty. Put the shine down, lemon good...” Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

“Maybe they are taking us back to the front,” Alhaji said, and for some reason we all started singing the national anthem, marching to the vehicles. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

He and Jordie stayed late into the night singing songs while Margit played the piano, their big silver dog thumping its tail in hapless rhythm. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Through the window screens, from eight floors up and a couple blocks away, under the jam that's playing, you can still hear the sounds of singing. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

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

She heard her grandmother, singing an old song as she stirred something fragrant in the kettle. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

Florah was singing lullabies to Merriam; Maria was playing placidly with her frayed rag doll; and George huddled near the brazier, sleeping. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was a funny kind of anger, for he felt like crying, too.The house was so lonely without Celia singing, banging pots, or talking about people he had never seen and never would see. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

Soon he was singing the male parts while I did the female. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

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

And I didn’t wake until I heard the lighthouse siren singing in the distance and saw the flash of a rocket shot off from Lookout Station, and knew a ship was going down. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

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

Music, especially singing, was deeply important to them all. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

She thought of him now, while the singing and weeping went on around her—and she thought how he would have loved his grandson, who was like him in so many ways. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

On The Best of Donahue the studio audience watched a clip from a film in which a black busker was singing “Somewhere Over the Rainbow” in a subway station. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Already the village chanters had fitted it to an old tune, and were singing the Song of the Sparrowhawk. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

I’m carrying the cake as we reenter the room and everyone starts singing “Happy Birthday.” What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

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

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

By the time I finished, the sun was up and the birds were singing. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

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

He spent his days muttering dyspeptically to himself and singing naughty sea chanteys, with the occasional random earsplitting screech thrown in just to make you jump. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

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

It spoke to Lefty of jazz-age frivolity, gin cocktails, cigarette girls; it made him slick his hair back with panache . . . while, out in the yard, Desdemona heard the singing and reacted differently. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Lake Trenton was a twenty-minute drive filled with Wynn’s singing and Nan and I exchanging eye rolls until we were both giggling. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

The song swells, pushes through woods and sky, and they’re singing now as if by some lunatic theory they had won. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

A horse- drawn fruit wagon went by, its driver singing: “Fresh from the vine, sweet as sugar, red as wine.” The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

His ears shrank from the bedlam of singing, cackling, and giggling that was going on behind the closed black patent leather shutters. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

Later, as we sat around the bonfire singing folk songs and roasting marshmallows, I thought: This is what regular kids do. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

And then we started singing our protest song, chewing away at her peace and quiet: “Here we come. Walking down the street. . . .” like Davy Jones, Micky Dolenz, and the other singing Monkees. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

I found a children’s show with two fluffy sheep puppets singing in Urdu. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

The Meeting always ended with the singing of Beasts of England, and the afternoon was given up to recreation. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z

Hitherto, music had been something anyone and everyone might participate in, a communal activity, like the singing of a tribe in the bush. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

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

“They wouldn’t use the Cruciatus Curse on the champions. I thought it sounded a bit like Percy singing . . . maybe you’ve got to attack him while he’s in the shower, Harry.” Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

Viola was singing “The Willow Bends Her Boughs for Me” as she stoked the kitchen stove. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

Now they were singing to nearly the last. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Yes, yes, I recognize that. That must have been the singing I heard in my dream.” The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sometimes it sang, sometimes it did not, but from then on I always called it the singing tree. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

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

Then to all of this he added singing. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

Give him a chunk of metal and he could create a razor-sharp sword or a robotic warrior or a singing birdbath for your grandmothers garden. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

That night, Baltimore glittered and rang with exuberant prerace parties, the next day’s racegoers singing out “Maryland, My Maryland” as they passed outside the track. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

Ralph continued to blow till his ears were singing with the effort, but then the first breeze of dawn took the job off his hands and blinded him with ashes. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

It was faint but definitely there.The sound of a woman singing some type of chant, not as far off as he thought at first. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

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

The singing from the church vibrated through him, suffusing him with a mood of sensitive sorrow. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

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

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

The girl came out of the brush singing. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

While Wynn put away the dishes, singing again, Nan leaned over with effort and whispered, “He doesn’t have to be here, you know. And he really is a help.” Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

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

They stopped singing and giggled, giving each other little shoves and nudges. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The little girl didn’t look so well; the singing really seemed to have freaked her out. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

She was singing about being king of the road. Raymie Nightingale 2016-04-12T00:00:00Z

Or we would form a long line and weave back and forth in front of the door, singing: Jew, Jew, Two for five That’s what keeps Jew alive. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

They even surprised navigator Tatyana Sumarokova on the morning of her birthday after her night’s bombing missions, presenting her with a bottle of champagne and singing her a song they’d made up themselves! A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

The world didn’t stop turning; birds didn’t suddenly start singing. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

The singing woman wore a knitted navy cap pulled far down over her forehead. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

“And I like birds singing in Boston Common with my family.” Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z

After a little more singing, a lady came out on the stage and announced a special surprise. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

I found myself singing aloud this song that filled my head like the buzz of a trapped fly. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

It had been said that her singing “seemed to come from the emotional center of each of us,” and even after her death, her voice could not be stilled. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z

I’m singing at the top of my lungs. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

After a night of drinking porter in the pubs of Limerick he staggers down the lane singing his favorite song, Who threw the overalls in Mrs. Murphy’s chowder? Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z