Minutes later they were sitting inside the old blue van, eating corn tortillas and drinking coffee from the thermos. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

I glanced over at my brother still sitting on the floor. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

Arthur is still sitting at the radio listening to Amos ’n’ Andy, not even paying attention to Sonny and Henry, who are tearing apart Jimmie’s dolly. Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

I looked across the room to the table where Lil usually was sitting. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Two women nearby fanned her with their handkerchiefs and sat her down. hit her, was returned to her by Florah, who was sitting alongside. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

There’s a cute Mexican guy with hipster glasses sitting on a bench, nodding along to whatever song is playing on his headphones while he eats ice cream. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

Mr. Patterson was sitting on the porch, in a pair of pants with no wrinkles and a collared shirt. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

Roberta put her head on his shoulder and sitting there, in silence, she didn't think about herself. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

When the bell rings, some of Tyler’s friends walk by and see him sitting next to me. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

It was believed to be where she sat down, and to have been caused by sitting on some armour at a picnic by mistake. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

I think about a day before I’d ever seen this place, when Gram and I had been sitting by the river. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

I’m sitting on Chantal’s bed as Donna tries to put that hairy thing on me and make my face look plastic again. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

“Move out of my way,” Char says to a girl sitting at the table. The Skin I'm In 1998-10-16T00:00:00Z

I walked along the whole edge of the island until I found Daisy sitting on an uprooted barkless tree that had beached here as some flood receded. Turtles All the Way Down 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

I glared at him, sitting in the next room eating Oreos and watching Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, blissfully unaware that his sisters might get shipped back to the Islamic Republic. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

I had listened to him preach while sitting on the damp, dewy grass with my mom and little sister. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

“I’m Alex Morales,” he said to a woman sitting at a desk. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

“I don’t want to talk about it,” I say, sitting down. A High Five for Glenn Burke 2020-02-25T00:00:00Z

I have an adjustable bed with the top half elevated so I'm sitting more than lying down. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

And when he spent twelve hours a day sitting at a desk, far from his guitar and the inspiration of the people, he had few opportunities to feel happy. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

One time over the summer I saw him sitting on the park bench in Garvey Park. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

We were sitting at our table, a corner one for two, which allowed her a view of the entire place, from the customers’ entrance, through the bai; to the kitchen. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

I seem to remember various other guests coming in while we were talking, sitting down for a few moments and leaving again, but they did not distract us in any way at all. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

After my morning appointments, Rémy walks Ivy and me to the queen's sitting room for a private meeting. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

He was sitting at the table, watching her in silence. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

She had a big scoop of it sitting on the back of her hand. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

People bring in their own foldup chairs and lawn chairs, and so sometimes it looks more like the congregation is watching a parade or sitting at a barbecue instead of being at church. Because of Winn-Dixie 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

Griffins flew back and forth in the sky, cawing, while knights sitting on their backs brandished lances, spears, and bows. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

Some have people sitting at their desks, and they look up at me and smile as we pass. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

Imani teases me, we sip on our warm drinks, Kasim keeps finding reasons to come to our table, we giggle some more, and the couple sitting next to us finally moves to another table. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

I remembered Seattle as a town sitting on hills beside a matchless harborage—a little city of space and trees and gardens, its houses matched to such a background. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Barton is sitting next to a man I recognize from the photos on her desk as her husband. Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

You glance at a middle-aged woman in a red wool hat who’s sitting at the closest table, definitely within earshot. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

I kind of can’t stop thinking about you all sunburned and pretty sitting out there in the country. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

“We saw her sitting with him where you guys usually eat lunch.” Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z

“Is your last name Muhammad?” she asked, her eyes fixed on me, the only fourth grader in the classroom wearing a hijab, who happened to be sitting in the front row. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

I skim the Jackson Journal sitting on the table. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

The weather cool for the last of June, and sitting on the porch with Albert and Shug feel real pleasant. The Color Purple 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Relaxed, sitting in an armchair with his legs stretched out in front of him, he was alert, well rested, quick with a laugh or a clever reply. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Even sitting down he was still nearly as tall as me. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

IV “Look at that old gal,” Jones mused to his psyche as the bus bounced and threw him against the woman sitting beside him. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had been sitting relaxed between them, because he was tired and unhappy, yet now he drew himself up and met his captain in the eve. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

This one was of a young couple sitting on a cot with a baby in the woman’s arms. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

I got used to sitting next to him in the Truman theater and having him nudge me with his elbow in reaction to his own trickery and whisper, “I just love that!” Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

The King and Queen were sitting side by side as usual, to hear the traveller’s story. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

These days Reggie could also be just fine with sitting there, glazed over. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

We drifted into the sitting room and sat down. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

I see myself that first day, sitting cross- legged on a batik floor pillow, drinking green tea out of a fired raku cup, and looking up at Zora with my big, hopeful, curious, attentive eyes. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

“I know, I know,” I said, sitting down. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

There they all were, sitting outside near the doorstep. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

As she went down the list, I noticed that the seat next to me was the only one still empty, even though there were two kids sitting at one desk just a few seats away. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

When my legs begin to tingle from sitting still too long, I tap one of the twins and ask for directions to the bathroom. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

He was sitting in his usual spot, sketching, while a red-faced man droned on and on. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

Dad walks away from the ticket counter, his face scrunched into tight wrinkles, then, without warning, he smashes his fist into the wall right next to where I’m sitting. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

Doha saw his friend Minki sitting in the waiting room with his older brother. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

Pantalaimon darted to her breast and became a wildcat, sitting up in her arms and hissing softly as he looked around. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

Before today, I wouldn’t have paid much attention to a homeless man sitting on a bench in front of Prospect Park. Dragons in a Bag 2018-10-23T00:00:00Z

We opened another door and came into a sitting room. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

I ask as I raise my bed up to a sitting position. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

“We can’t catch neither cat sitting here on our bottoms all day.” Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Two hours later, Harry’s huge, heavy trunk had been loaded into the Dursleys’ car, Aunt Petunia had talked Dudley into sitting next to Harry, and they had set off. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

There were about twenty black guys sitting under fluorescent lights in an old warehouse. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

I was sitting directly across from Summer and Megan, both of whom I knew from lower school, too, even if we weren’t necessarily good friends. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

He was sitting at the table, reading the Weekly World News. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

But then we were sitting in a booth, sitting across from each other, and I suddenly had no idea what I was doing. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

And I look at her sitting there and she looks across the river and we wait as the dawn fully arrives, each of us knowing. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

Percy, who was sitting a few seats down from Harry, puffed out his chest again and stared around impressively. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

The other animals sitting round her took it up, and they sang it three times over—very tunefully, but slowly and mournfully, in a way they had never sung it before. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z

They were sitting on chairs or crouched on the ground with blankets and newspapers around them. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

Gene Ater had been yelling so hard he had already driven away a couple of fans sitting in front of him. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Mental,” Tab told Bridge, as if Celeste weren’t sitting right there. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

On her way to the stream, she saw Nana sitting on a chair, in the shade, beneath the domed roof of a weeping willow. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

The coroner turned to the men sitting in rows to his right and said, “You gendemen, the jurors, are any of you acquainted with the deceased or are any of you members of the family?” Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

Her food, sitting in a bowl by the kitchen door, was untouched. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

She became stiff from all the sitting but wouldn’t lie down for fear that her dress would wrinkle. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

Ba quickly rose and looked for Ma, who was sitting by Minli’s bed. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

When I open my eyes, my mom is sitting on my bed. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

Kids were sitting on the stone porch rail, their cigarette tips glowing in the darkness. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

I was sitting at a perfect piano, it turned out, with its surfaces carefully dusted, its internal wires precisely tuned, its eighty-eight keys laid out in a flawless ribbon of black and white. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Without bothering to put on clothes, we opened up Cudn Rachel’s picnic and ate, sitting on the mossy creek bank with our feet cooling in the water. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

Both girls took a minute to splash warm water on their hands and faces from the kettle, which had been sitting on the fading cookstove embers all night. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

He collapsed as hard as if Claudia had suddenly jumped off the down end of a teeter-totter while he was still sitting on the up end. From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

She went back into the kitchen where Portia was sitting at the table with her hands up to her face. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

We’re sitting under the trampoline after having busted one of the ropes by all three jumping on it at once. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

Her yogurt still wasn’t sitting right with her, even though Peach was gone. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

I was banished from the living room when they came, but listened all the same, sitting on the steps in the darkened foyer. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

Satchmo had looked to see if Ms. Adams was sitting in the window. Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z

Me and Veronica, my babysitter, were sitting on the bench outside the store with Jamie, my baby brother, who was sitting in his stroller facing us. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

He said that as hot as the day was, he figured he’d like it better sitting in the dog run. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was sitting right up close to the fire. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

There was another FedEx package sitting on my bunk when I got to my room. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

“Let’s review the facts first,” Bookman said, and he wasn’t talking to the governor, but rather to Kyril Montana, who was sitting back comfortably with his hands folded under his chin, politely listening. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

I wanted to be back in Phoenix, sitting under the orange trees behind our adobe house, riding my bike to the library, eating free bananas in a school where the teachers thought I was smart. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

There were about twenty other Americans in there, sitting on the floor with their backs to the wall, staring into the flames—thinking whatever there was to think, which was zero. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

The X on this diagram indicates where Claudette was sitting on the Highland Gardens bus when she was arrested The officer ordered her to get up. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

We hunkered down in the clearing, sitting cross-legged, knees to knees. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

And he points to a perfect replica of the Liberty Bell sitting heavily on the deck. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

A half a dozen from the chess team were sitting together. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

On the way back from the fish place, near Toño’s home I see a viejito, an old man, on the porch of a tiny house, sitting in a wooden chair. Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z

A large table dominates the room, and sitting at it are two faeries I’ve never met—both of them gazing at me unhappily. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

It's unusual for her to be all alone; generally there are several elders from the neighborhood sitting in that spot. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

A boy about my age waved good-bye to a couple sitting behind us. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

In the study, Ophie once again found the man sitting at the desk, still murmuring about accounts and shipping fees. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

Clay and his father continued their conversation as if Polly and the slave sitting next to her did not exist. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

His chest felt as if a huge and ugly animal were sitting on it. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

“Hey,” I said, now a bed remote expert, adjusting it so that I was sitting more upright. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

In the leading machine, the Head of the Air Force was sitting beside the pilot. The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

A dozen people are gathered around a long, scratched-up dining table, smoking cigarettes, drinking Chianti from juice glasses, sitting on a series of backless wooden stools. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

When Laura and Mary had said their prayers and were tucked snugly under the trundle bed’s covers, Pa was sitting in the firelight with the fiddle. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

A boy was sitting on top of the gray blankets, his legs stretched out in front of him, holding a book. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

They were all sitting in the living room when he entered the little hall, their attention focused upon Bill, who was talking. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

They are sitting in camping chairs and drinking malt liquor, a volunteer army facing off against the enlistees in the streets. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

They were sitting with Ron in a sunny corner of the courtyard after lunch. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

The Japanese had waited until we Americans had swarmed up the first slope and were like sitting ducks on the wide plain before the next terrace. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

He walked through our circle of sitting boys and gave us our first lesson. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was sitting at a desk covered in typed papers that looked important and boring. The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z

It gave us the creeps, sitting there in that hearse. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

After dinner, when the house was at its most chaotic and Miss Peregrine at her most distracted, Emma pretended to head for the sitting room and I for the study. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

There he was calmly sitting in a chair by the door! The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

It is a scene of peasants sitting around a table eating potatoes. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

He blurted this out like it had been sitting in the back of his throat for years. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

“I’m afraid you’ll get bored just sitting around with me all day. I want you to make friends your own age. I’m sure there are some nice girls your age somewhere around.” The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z

It was in his parents' sitting room, and we were listening to the family's new radio while I quizzed him for a geometry exam neither of us thought was important. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

They did not speak again, and, so far as it was possible for two people sitting on opposite sides of the same table, they did not look at one another. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

My mother is sitting on the stepstool, her face buried in her hands. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

He hadn't even had time to eat breakfast or brush his teeth, which made him self-conscious, knowing he was going to be sitting so close to her. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

The wagon was so low that children who spoke to her standing up were eye level with her, and adults, standing or sitting, had to look down at her. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

I was sitting in front of them with my feet up on the seat, my dress socks pulled halfway up my calves. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

When Capricorn was sitting down, the blaring music fell silent, and they brought Meggie forward. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

Judging from their sad shape, the beanbag creatures had been sitting out here a long time—since the snow melted last spring at least. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

Poring over her childhood memories, she remembered a dark-skinned boy, the library, the fireplace ablaze with enormous pine logs whose perfume filled the room, evening or night, and herself sitting on his knees. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

One day during my fifth month at Benin Home, I was sitting on a rock behind the classrooms when Esther came by. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

The second I saw my mom sitting in the waiting room, I knew it was bad. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

Instead, I found an old man sitting in the chair Danny had once occupied, staring nearsightedly at the pages of a scholarly journal. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

Beside a tussock of grass a little way outside the opposite copse, a rabbit was sitting and gazing at them. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Janie struggled to a sitting position and pried the dead Tea Cake’s teeth from her arm. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

Granted, it was sitting up on its back legs, a very unnatural-looking position for a cockroach, but still... Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

While it had been a long time since I’d seen her sitting on her mother’s lap sucking her breast, I assumed that becoming señorita had rid her of that habit. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

One day, last year—at a different high school—I was sitting in math class and this guy I barely knew wouldn’t stop staring at me. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

I was sitting under my tree when I saw that girl again. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

He would sit in the parlor, sometimes reading, sometimes sitting with his eyes closed, for as long as I would play. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

Harry caught a glimpse of Bill, Fleur, Luna, and Dean sitting at the table in the kitchen, cups of tea in front of them. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

It was funny because it wasn’t something that I would’a thought to ask for, but sitting there then in my room, it seemed like something I had been wanting. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

He imagined sitting in the car, the heat hitting his skin. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

Do they feel a girl sitting on the steps trying to make sense of the world? Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

Bill Koontz was sitting at the counter tapping up tostada crumbs with his middle finger and licking them off when Joe and his people walked in. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

When he turned around, Lizzie was sitting on the floor, her legs tucked up beneath her. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

It looked like a hundred people were sitting around it, watching things bum or waiting for the food cooking in three big pots set up in the fire. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

I pictured Mum, Dad, and Julia sitting at home watching The Paul Daniels Magic Show but their faces melted away, like reflections on the backs of spoons. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

Then I’m swept upward again and jostled along in the dark until I’m sitting on the edge of a bed. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

Hermione, incredibly, was sitting in a corner, attempting to read an enormous book entitled Home Life and Social Habits of British Muggles. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

This has been so nice, this sitting here on our stools, closer to normal than we’ve been in almost two months. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

The blind man was sitting with his instrument on his lap. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

Now on to my next task: sitting around with nothing to do for twelve hours. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Bear in mind we are not office workers, sitting around idling at the basal metabolic rate. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

At last, we spied an ancient female gnome sitting on the ground near the pond. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

Squinting, she saw a book sitting on a nearby table. Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

Kapugen had taught her how to hunt birds by sitting still and being patient. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I got inside, she and Sheriff Edwards were sitting in the front room with glasses of iced tea, Mama fanning herself with the newspaper. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

When I went upstairs, he was standing alone by the fireplace, staring at the spot where Coach Warner had been sitting. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

We crept slowly closer, finally coming around a tall tree, and there we saw Mama sitting in front of a headstone. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

Finally, one night when they were sitting huddled around the fire in the small house where she lived, she became impatient. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

With her brothers and sister near, with the two youngest asleep in the back seat, sitting as they were in a cocoon of darkness, she should feel safe. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

Behind the counter, Lindsey Lee Wells was sitting on what appeared to be a boy, who had an arm draped across her lap. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z

I was awakened when he bolted into a sitting position beside me and began to moan. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

He sees her with streaks of gray in her hair, her face still beautiful, her long body slightly widened and slack, sitting on a beach chair with a floppy hat on her head. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

I’m sitting next to Bradley and trying to concentrate on our assignment, which is hard enough. Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

But she could see by the way he was smiling dreamily into space that he was thinking now of a thousand colorful mochigashi, maybe sitting in piles around him on the floor. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

We ate in the shade of Babou’s fig trees, crowded around the card tables or sitting on the ledges of Babou’s herb planters. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

She was sitting on top of me, kneading into my chest with her claws like a cat, laughing when I winced in pain. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

Catt waited back at the hotel, sitting next to the window and listening to the noisy crowds at the statehouse. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

Big Rose was now sitting on the floor, legs crossed, smiling up at me. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

It was now sitting on his garden wall. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

The old man placed Edward carefully on a crate, positioning him so that he was sitting up and could look out at the sea. The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane 2006-03-30T00:00:00Z

In Seattle a news flash from Oakland interrupted regular radio programming, and people who had been sitting dejectedly by the radio stood up and slapped each other on the back and shook hands. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Cullivan was impressed—he whistled when the feast, arriving on trays, was placed upon the table—and before sitting down, he asked the host if he might offer a blessing. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

The hot weather and the fact that Lalo had always bootlegged beer to the Lagunas and Acomas brought him there one day when she was sitting in the shade of the porch outside the bar. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

And instead of sitting next to me, he lingers at the foot of my bed, his fingers fumbling over the hem of his shirt. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

I looked over at the picnic table and saw Frankie sitting with a few other boys. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

Rebecca is sitting next to me, chewing gum. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

My heart starts racing around inside my chest, even though I'm just sitting on a chair, not running, not walking, not doing anything except smiling. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

Then we walked back into the Atlas Clearing and headed for a tent where most of the carnival workers were sitting. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

Kyla is sitting one aisle over, but there are too many biographies in the way to tell if she’s freaking out, too. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

Doc sitting cross-legged on the table smiled and tapped his fingers gently on his knee. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

After a while, we’re tired out, and he’s sitting in the middle of the floor sucking on banana skins with banana smeared all over his face, like a messy gorilla. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

We’re sitting on her bed, the frame her daddy built a golden brown so we might as well be sitting on a throne together. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Although every night I leave a bowl heaped with rice on the counter for her, every morning I find it sitting untouched. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

In front of the chair in which he was sitting was a steel music stand, and on the stand was The Strange Case of Alger Hiss. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

“Fill out a form and the nurse will see you shortly,” the sitting one says. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

“Well,” said the goose, “that’s not my trouble. I have nothing at all on my mind, but I’ve too many things under my behind. Have you ever tried to sleep while sitting on eight eggs?” Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z

Todd might’ve been a lot bigger than me but he’d better be ready, this wasn’t going to be a bird’s nest sitting on the ground for him. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

Far ahead, and a little below, the long rope extended from the suspension ring of the balloon, pulled by six or seven witches sitting on their cloud-pine branches. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

Leaving him at home one afternoon, she taped his cardiologist’s business card to the couch where he was sitting. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

Ebony, who’s been sitting over there, goes through the arduous process of getting up with her cane and walks toward me. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

Francis was sitting on the edge of an examining table, fully clad, bent almost double and looking miserable. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

The bottom was rubbly and she came out of what should have been a refreshing bath all sore from sitting on that wet roughness. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

An eleven-year-old girl sitting on this fire escape could imagine that she was living in a tree. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

So Charles Monet is sitting on a bench in Casualty, and he does not look very much different from anyone else in the room, except for his bruised, expressionless face and his red eyes. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I looked up in the middle of a Led Zeppelin drum solo, and my dad was sitting on the beat-up old couch about 8 feet in front of my bass drum. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Cal and two of the senior girls are sitting outside the dressing room with their backs to the wall and their legs stretched out in front of them. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

Who isn’t in the equipment room but on the stairwell landing, with two other guys, just sitting there. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

One evening I was sitting by my uncle, wiping his forehead, when he fell off the bed. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

When I came out he was sitting inside one of the bays, examining its laptop computer. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Glad to be doing anything other than sitting around in that room, Frankie grabbed a board, yanked it out of the wreckage, and threw it behind him. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

He thought of it a lot that night sitting beside his desk. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

I saw no one aside from a little boy, sitting all on his own in the dusty street. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

Toad and Misty are sitting on the floor, staring out. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

When the train give a jerk and stopped in London, the man who was sitting ’crost the way from us got off. The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z

When he got to the tent, he found Mr. Pendanski and the other boys sitting in a circle on the ground. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

Before I could answer, she got out a big black frying pan and poured some bacon grease in it out of a coffee can that was sitting on top the stove. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

On these benches you see men sleeping, stretched out, or couples sitting, young couples, who steal glances at each other shyly and whose hands flutter in the air, happening to touch. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

He is sitting on the porch of a farmhouse on Liberty Union Road in Scott, Ohio. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

When he died they found him sitting on an old lounge chair still inside the truck. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

He’d been sitting behind me sharpening his bayonet and listening as I explained what a sennimbari meant to a Japanese soldier. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Harry went down to breakfast the next morning to find the three Dursleys already sitting around the kitchen table. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

He had the feeling of sitting in utter loneliness. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

It all depends on how pregnant the woman is and whether or not she is with her boyfriend or husband and whether or not he is sitting down. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

Come harvest I’d be sitting up in the house like some dried up old man while everyone worked themselves to a happy ache by getting the job done. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z

He is an average-looking man sitting behind a wide gray desk. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then her gaze fell upon a pretty little squirrel sitting nearest to her at the end of the table. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 1964-09-12T00:00:00Z

"This morning, gentlemen, whilst I was sitting on the terrace, I was an observer of your activities. There could be little doubt of your purpose. You were searching the island for an unknown murderer?" And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z

Around a dozen kids were sitting in the art studio when he entered. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

Mom and Dad were sitting on stools at the breakfast nook, looking at a yellow legal pad, when I walked in. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mother and Father were sitting in the parlor with the door open. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

We take turns sitting on plastic milk crates and aiming flashlight beams up at the building. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

Two knocks on the door spurred me into sitting up. Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z

Henry was sitting in a chair by my bed, reading by the table lamp. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

They were sitting at the base of a tree. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

And now here I am, sitting in the church, staring at the white spot on my left foot while the minister talks about God and heaven and angels. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

And my whole body was still vibrating from sitting on the mower all day. Lawn Boy 2007-06-12T00:00:00Z

He was sitting under the branch that Pong had told him to sit under, waiting. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

On the evening in question, I was sitting at their high table with them in their great hall. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

Mr. Malloy looks at me and points to a box sitting in the corner. Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

But you'd really be a sitting duck at one of those. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

He did them sitting down, bumping from step to step on his well-padded bottom. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

My lips twitch the whole time with the memory of sitting in the bed of Bo’s truck. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

Mom, who is sitting between me and Lily, puts an arm around each of us, but she looks at me. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

Physically, he was still sitting with Koffi, but in his mind, he was small again, one tiny body set against a massive jungle. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

The idea came to me when I was sitting in my office and I heard a couple of kids chatting. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

Aru’s mother had collected some art depicting Rama’s adventures, and now Aru recalled an image of a sage sitting on an anthill. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

“How can I prove anything sitting in this stinking place?” Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

When Jinny stood up, she noticed more blood, a stain on her tunic, where it must have been bunched up while she was sitting. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

“If there is, he don’t care about it,” his father said, as if Travis weren’t sitting right there. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

At least now I know where I’m sitting after I get my food. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

Officer Mac was sitting at a desk filling out a form. Doing Time Online 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ron and Hermione watched Harry nervously all through dinner, not daring to talk about what they’d overheard, because Percy was sitting close by them. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

My little brother, Kia, was sitting on the couch, eating graham crackers and watching cartoons, and I desperately tried to act normal around him. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

Miss Celia’s sitting on the floor, to the right of the door. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

The hedgehog was now sitting quite a ways from the others, staring at the crowds with a face like thunder. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

I was sitting on the stoop of our home trying to think what to do. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

She looked at Pa sitting on the bench by the hearth, the fire-light gleaming on his brown hair and beard and glistening on the honey-brown fiddle. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

He gets to his feet and walks slowly over to the kitchen, where Anna is now sitting at the table, feeding Evie. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

When he notices us sitting in the carts, he gives us a look that instantly shows his disapproval. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

When she didn’t offer anything else, sitting there with her mouth pinched, Arturo said, “And? What is it?” The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

“He was sitting way in the back. Behind me, even—off to the side.” It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

The SS man with the list took one last look around the empty apartment, at the seven of us sitting or standing on the bare floor. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

It was now nearly one o’clock, and he and Van Helsing are sitting with her. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

Bernabe was sad, sitting there on the porch tapping his heels lightly against the baseboards. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

It is certainly safer to keep a child in the rear seat than sitting on a lap in the front seat, where in the event of an accident he essentially becomes a projectile. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

He’s sitting near a set of benches and tables in front of the restaurant. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

I could not go on sitting there, playing with my hair-brush, letting her see how much I feared and mistrusted her. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

Soon we are sitting up once more with the rigid tenseness of blank anticipation. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’m sitting in a dorm hallway against a wall. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

“I came to see if Mr. Taphouse was better,” he said, sitting on the stool again. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

She could see David sitting up in a small space, a flashlight glowing in his hand. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

When I got to my room, I found Takumi sitting on the couch, reading my biography of Tolstoy “Uh, hi,” I said. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

I recognize Ofglen, my shopping partner, sitting two away from me. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was sitting on the lowermost branch, peering down, a knowing expression on his pointy face. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

Sister Fenella’s squirrel dæmon, sitting on the back of a nearby chair, uttered a meek “Tut-tut.” The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

Mr. Donatelli was sitting on his legs shouting, shift your weight, shift your weight. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

Each chair had its own little velvet stool sitting before it. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

"A couple are sitting up against the rock. Most of them on the ground. Fallen, Uke." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Several of Capricorn’s men ran the butts of their shotguns along the silvery gray bars before sitting down on the benches that had been made ready for them. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

I’m glad that the two of us are sitting a good distance apart. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

A big 35 percent practically sitting on my chest. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

Duke himself was sitting in a very cushy, very regal dog bed—his right front leg wrapped in a plaster cast. Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

“It’s important to let the kids know you mean all this metaphorically, honey,” he says, sitting straight up so that his head busts through the ceiling. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

Everyone was sitting forward now, tense and silent, and Ash felt the breeze on her skin bring a rush of blood to the surface. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

She looked around the room and saw the four children, Ethan, Noah, Nadia, and Julian sitting at a table on the far side of the room. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

A week later, Lancelot and Uncle Dap were sitting in a peculiar boat in the middle of the English Channel. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

I felt awkward sitting by myself when everyone else was with friends. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

I’m sitting next to him in an instant. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

“There are a bunch of them sitting on the side of the road watching us right now.” Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

There were little knots of people sitting in conversation groups, the kind I find it impossible to join. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

I pointed to the cat, sitting in a patch of sunlight, carefully licking his paws and rubbing his face. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

The J-3 was sitting at the beginning of the runway and was polished, painted, and poised to fly. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Miss Barkley was sitting on a bench in the garden. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

Bigger wondered what Jack and Gus and G.H. would say if they saw him sitting between two white people in a car like this. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

Lydia is sitting in front of his desk on a crate. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

He was sitting in the shade of the house, painting a picture of storm clouds and a small boat beneath. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

July 25: I was sitting at the cabin table eating some dried prunes when Hamilton looked over at me from the kitchen. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

Evelyn is sitting on her bed, running her hands over something on her bedside table. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

Abruptly he was sitting up with O’Brien’s arm round his shoulders. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

All four of them were sitting together in a clump of blankets on the floor. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

And her own parents were sitting to the left and right of Meggie, and her mother was writing and writing, on leaves from the trees, on the fabric of her dress, in the sand. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

I had gone into Mom and Dad’s bedroom looking for Mom to put me to bed, but saw Dad sitting on the edge of the bed, taking off his socks. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

In poll after poll, she held a commanding lead among the country's potential Democratic primary voters, with Barack lagging ten or twenty points behind, and Edwards sitting a few points behind Barack. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

And so I run harder, trying to stop thinking, turn off my mind, get the endorphins flowing, the heart pounding, and work off what I couldn’t while sitting on the bench. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Anyway, I was sitting on the washbowl next to where Stradlater was shaving, sort of turning the water on and off. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

He’s sitting opposite, a newcomer, an interloper—a retired barrister with a square jaw, pitted nose, and great floppy ears. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

She led Dumbledore into a small room that seemed part sitting room, part office. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

There were about forty men and women, all in white coats and identity tags, sitting and talking animatedly over their lunches. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

But even so, I decided something sitting there: me, Mong and Rondell might be temporary, but while we were here we were more than just what some file could say. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

When we got into the gym, Coach Nunley was sitting at his little desk Heading Sports Illustrated. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

He was sitting away from us, something he usually did with Saidu. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

He was already asleep: he had fallen asleep sitting up, his bowl on his lap. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

Their butts will be sitting there laughing and talking until the restaurant closes. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

When I get back, Tom is sitting at the dining room table looking at something on the computer. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had been so busy sitting there moping and feeling lonely that I’d nearly forgotten my commitment—well, plan, at least—to try reinventing myself this year, to not be such an outcast. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Now, sitting at supper, he felt his heart pounding again as he thought of how dangerous that had been. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z

When we were eating dinner, sitting on her bed side by side, she said to me, “This is fun.” Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

He ate slowly, listlessly, stealing occasional glances at the old man sitting in the corner. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

To the north and south, strips of land stretched out like arms enclosing the bay, and sitting in the mouth of the harbor, about a mile out, was an island with a stone fort. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

This guy sitting at the table looks nothing like I do. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

Just like after the destruction of his grandma’s sitting room. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z

He found his friends sitting in a porch on the side of the house looking east. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

I was sitting out under the dog run at the time. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

I grabbed a glass of OJ and snarfed down three Oreos without even sitting down. Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Just me, sitting on the edge of my bunk, slowly grilling myself under that yellow light. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

He was going to be sitting behind his desk—or standing. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

And no use just sitting there twiddling his thumbs till they needed him to hand up powder. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

The little boy sitting across from her looked doubly terrified. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

A woman in a large white hat, sitting a few rows behind us, waved in our direction. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

As they were running toward the bam, Arya spied the crying girl sitting in the middle of the chaos, surrounded by smoke and slaughter. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

A couple of old men were sitting in chairs in front of a store. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

"Bran," he said softly when he saw him sitting tall on Hodor's back. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

He had moved his desk and was sitting outside the circle, far away from Amari. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

“I’m sitting at my desk, looking through my window, and talking to you.” Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

Mr. Justice Wargrave was sitting in his high-backed chair at the end of the room. And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z

She was sitting under an umbrella, and she wore a black swimsuit that did not hide any of her midriff bulges or the purple veins on her legs. The Landry News 1999-12-01T00:00:00Z

She was touched, sitting across from him in a cafe and feeling between them the warm affinities of something shared. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

The beam of the flashlight was directed away from Stanley's eyes and onto Zero, who was sitting on his knees. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

She looked unaccustomed to sitting down—like a constantly busy woman who resented having to stop, but whose body forced her to rest. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

When I came into the living room, the two of them were sitting on the couch having coffee. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

I found Jessica sitting alone on the steps of the gazebo. Because of Mr. Terupt 2010-10-11T00:00:00Z

Stella and Abby are sitting in a hospital room, artwork lining the walls like in her room now. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

Jay’s sitting on the side of my bed. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

She pulls me over to the couch so all four of us are sitting together. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

The girl sitting next to it is not Cassie. Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z

She was sitting on the sofa, dressed and silent. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

O'BRIEN Mr. Sawicki, do you know the defendant sitting at this table? Monster 1999-01-01T00:00:00Z

All day we have been sitting in the shed. Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

I look from Jason’s finger on Secret, to Mrs. Morehouse sitting forward in her chair. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

Helena has been sitting on the floor beside the stove, legs crossed, feet tucked under her knees. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

Momma asks, sitting next to me on the bed. The Skin I'm In 1998-10-16T00:00:00Z

We were all sitting at the long table on the Clairmont lawn. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

Dussel had an eye infection and was sitting next to the stove dabbing his eye with camomile tea. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

Dad and my sister, Sarah, are sitting at the circular table, knives and forks in hand, posing for me. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

“Don’t you blow that thing!” he warned, in what surely sounded like a joke to the woman sitting next to him; she smiled. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe I could see Jay from where I was sitting. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

Doha was sitting on the wooden porch of his house with his sister, eating corn, when his friend Gunwoo ran into their courtyard in tears. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

We’re sitting on the vinyl sofa in the common area of the trailer while Dad washes the mugs that were in the sink. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

The lid was still off, from where the teapot had been sitting. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

I wake up the next morning to see Ma sitting on the steps. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Matthew is sitting with his nose three inches from his computer screen, his eyes narrow. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

I remember sitting at my desk in school, last period of the last class of the last day, and waiting for the minute hand to tick along until the bell rang. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

I gave him a half smile and combed my hair with my fingers, smoothing it back and down, sitting on the edge of my full bed. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

He left me sitting there, went to the truck, and came back with a hamburger, milk, a small wedge of apple pie. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

“No more sitting around, letting others tell us what we can or can’t do. No more waiting.” Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

A thin, sour-looking woman with tired blond hair was sitting at the desk in the front room, eating a sandwich. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

When she got on the bus, Park was sitting tall in the seat, so she could see him. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

I’m sitting on the terrace, waiting for the rain. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Because he startled me pretty badly and because I figured he was probably about 43% deaf if he had been sitting there a while, I jumped up and whipped off the headphones. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

She’d be the princess, and that amounted to sitting in a cage he built out of stone or ice or something, and watching him and Ivan battle with magic. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

“But God, she loved you. She did. I can’t tell you what it would mean to her to see the three of you sitting next to each other like this.” Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

My mind became unnaturally calm, as if part of me had lifted right up out of my body and was sitting on a tree limb watching the spectacle from a safe distance. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s like dancing sitting down did you ever dance sitting down? The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

So we run outside, and sitting there at the curb is a surprise. Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

And, almost before realizing it, he was sitting in the middle of his own room again. The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z

I saw Tommy was with them— he was standing with a shoulder against a post—and was listening to a donor who was sitting crouched on the entrance steps. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Will took out the knife, but Lyra, sitting on the grass beside him, was already turning the hands of the alethiometer. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

Except for sitting around the house, checking on his land, and doing business at the courthouse, the only thing Grampa did that wasn’t just regular living was his work on the White Citizens’ Council. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

He had passed one collection plate down the pew behind her, and while waiting for its mate to return via the row she was sitting on, he winked openly and solemnly at her. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

The woman with the snuff says to Mam, Missus, I don’t want to be forward but I think you should be sitting down for we heard about your loss. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

I felt foolish, sitting in the warmth with the Elders and the kids. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

It was getting late and I didn’t want no trouble from Ma, so I left Mr. Leroy sitting on one of the steps with his face pressed down on that box. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

Perched on the steps, an old-fashioned radio played conjunto music, and on the shaded porch, sitting in a rocking chair, a skinny old man gazed at the horizon. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

She looked across the narrow bedroom and saw Mama sitting next to Neeley’s bed and looking down into his face. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

And sometimes I heard him sitting on the floor outside the door quietly for a long time. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

He took a quick look around the sitting area, then went into the bedroom, where Armpit’s clothes were strewn across the floor. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

My favorite picture of me and my best friend, Bev, is still sitting on my desk. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

Harriet saw a little old woman, rocking her body back and forth, sitting on her heels, in front of the fire, sucking on a clay pipe as she grieved about her boys. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

I take my piece of candy and walk over to my best friends, Suesetta and Phyllis, who are sitting in the sixth row, right side. Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

He leads us downstairs and through the big room where Grandpa is sitting reading by the fire and Grandma is dozing in her chair. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

Later, I’m looking at Mom, sitting in Sam’s lap, watching Ford while he plays. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

By the time I came back into the room, Newcharlie was sitting up in bed, touching his lip and frowning. Miracle's Boys 2000-04-23T00:00:00Z

“The beautiful princess entered, and she saw a witch sitting at a table counting pieces of gold. “‘Three thousand six hundred and twenty-two,’ said the witch. The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane 2006-03-30T00:00:00Z

She stood to peer over the heads of those sitting in front of her. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

“This must be a most inconvenient sitting room for the evening, in summer; the windows are full west.” Pride and Prejudice 1813-01-28T00:00:00Z

I went back to the seat I'd been sitting in at the beginning of class and stuffed my bag. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

Ranofer admired his handiwork a moment, then changed the kneeling man to a sitting woman, obliterated the stroke and replaced it with a bread loaf. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

I’m sitting in the leather armchair that we bought from Heal’s just after we got married—it was the first piece of furniture we got as a married couple: soft tan buttery leather, expensive, luxurious. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

I stared at the closed Chinese take-out boxes sitting in the center of the table. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

“But obviously not, since I’m sitting here holding your hand right now without having married you first.” Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

The man sitting across from me at an oilcloth-covered kitchen table was eighty-three. This Side of Wild 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

A couple of girls are sitting on the piano bench, and I guess one of them knocked her elbow into the keys. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

And have people at parties sitting on the arms of chairs, drinking wine out of plastic cups. Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was a good supper, flapjacks, bacon, bread, and applesauce, but they ate sitting about in the parlor instead of around a table. Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

Later in the afternoon we were sitting at the kitchen table, talking. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

“Me too,” I said as I lowered myself into a sitting position. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Clarisse was sitting shoulder to shoulder with a big Hispanic kid who was telling her a joke. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

He jumped onto them and pulled Tally up, sitting her on the edge of the roof as if she weighed nothing. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

Peaches was still sitting with J.T.’s mama, kind of rocking her in her arms. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

She walked out of her tent and saw hundreds of the barbarians sitting upon the sand, the sand gold under the moon. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Yes. But people are so nosy and you never do really know who might be sitting behind you, do you? It wasn’t even a good movie.” The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

There’s a guy sitting on the curb near the entrance. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

Doc was sitting on the ground pulling off his rubber boots. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Bill was sitting at the table pouring another glass of Fundador. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

There was an outdoor sitting area by the entrance to the emergency room. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

He was sitting in his little house behind the gas station, about halfway toward his usual goal of inebriation. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

It was my fault that I’d barged in on Momma and her fine lady friends who were visiting from Frankfort, even though I’d been told to stay out of the sitting room. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

My grandmother was sitting in front of the house waiting for me. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

His head was thrown back a little, and because of the angle at which he was sitting, his spectacles caught the light and presented to Winston two blank discs instead of eyes. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

My father's best Arab friend of his whole childhood was killed next to him on a bench when they were both just sitting there. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

Those itchy, sore hemorrhoids that make sitting uncomfortable? Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

In the green half-light, at the mouth of one of these holes, two rabbits were sitting together side by side. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

He stayed sitting behind his desk in a chair a lot higher than mine when I was finally called in. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

Rule Number Two: don’t you ever let that White Lady find you sitting on her toilet. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

It takes a few lines but soon I'm sitting with the March sisters in their drawing room on a wintry afternoon. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“Listen,” said the man, sitting up with a struggle. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

I scooted to the middle of the backseat and looked up at the Colonel sitting shotgun, smiling, his face turned to the wind blowing in through his window. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

That feeling she used to have when she was sitting next to Park on the bus—that feeling that she was on base, that she was safe for the moment—she could summon it now. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

I wasn’t a good Scrabble player, but it was better than sitting around the living room staring at one another. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

"It's okay," Park said, glad she was sitting right next to him. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

Only a few people were still sitting—Anna and Terri, and Danielle and her mother—when Mom and I rallied ourselves to leave. Because of Mr. Terupt 2010-10-11T00:00:00Z

People were sitting in groups on oversized floor pillows and on cane chairs turned backward, smoking grass and drinking tallneck beers. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was just sitting there across from me, all calm like he didn’t even care. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

There was a jumble of the usual squareness, with one great block sitting out in the lagoon. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

There are a couple of avatars sitting there, watching. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

He sat in the chair that I had been sitting in the night that Vivian came for supper. Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

My brother sitting on the front steps of the house. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

They were sitting in the corner of the library splitting their take of the year sevens’ pocket money. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

Brooke was sitting on the kitchen counter with a bowl of grapes. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

I was stiff with long sitting, and bewildered with the noise and motion of the coach: gathering my faculties, I looked about me. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

Me sitting on the go-kart, my feet on the bars, Hirohito behind me pushing, and Vonetta and Fern at the rear, parading up Magnolia Street. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Anyway, Calypso and I were sitting at dinner, and she looked beautiful in the candlelight. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

I drove up anyway and when I opened the door to the house he was sitting alone in the kitchen, the kettle on the stove madly whistling away. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Trotter came over and leaned across Gilly, who was sitting on the piano bench. The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z

He was smoking now in silence, for Frodo was sitting still, deep in thought. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

While the boy ran around, she found her husband sitting in his favorite spot behind the sugar mill. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

Before I had a chance to move, Mama came out and lit into me for sitting there doing nothing. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

Jean Louise got up from the yard chair she was sitting in, walked to the corner of the lot, and vomited up her Sunday dinner. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

In the end, being long self-trained in taking despair sitting down, I managed very easily to keep my seat. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

Playing cards in Park's kitchen, even if his mom was in there, was better than just sitting in the living room, thinking about all the things they'd be doing if they were alone. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

He was sitting up like a human, his great paws folded in his lap, his dark eyes looking into hers down the length of his muzzle. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

The guys didn’t seem to notice them, sitting in the dark about ten feet away. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

Frankie grabbed a glass of beer and rushed it through the door and gave it to a girl sitting in a big chair. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

He would have thought that by sitting still they would have hardly needed to eat. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

The kitchen and sitting area were at the front of the house, separated by cupboards and a tall, precarious bookshelf that was Papa’s most prized possession. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

My moms was sitting there with a black guy, but it wasn’t my father. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

I stand but have been sitting so long lumped up there, my legs give. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

I am sitting in one the chairs, going over their conversation, which was very nice and normal and nondisturbing. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Talking to the camera while sitting on a boat, her hair blowing around, her face with freckles like mine. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

He was sitting in the dark by the window. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

“Why are there nine girls sitting on the side of the road? Provide your answer in the form of a question.” Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

He stood up, sputtering, and saw the ghost of a very glum- looking girl sitting cross-legged on top of one of the taps. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

Without sitting up, Eloise reached for a stack of ashtrays on the far side of the cigarette table. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

She made a beeline for an empty cube, sitting down next to an engineer, resting her belongings on the desk and offering the man her winning smile. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

By then I’d spotted Callum sitting by himself on a bench, his hoodie zipped up to his chin, staring at his phone. Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

"And who's finished up the better off? Me, of course. I'm sitting pretty in a nice house with a successful businessman and you're left slaving away teaching a lot of nasty little children the ABC." Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z

Loggerheads have lousy eyesight, so we were pretty sure she didn’t notice us sitting there, but she didn’t swim any closer. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

I found him sitting on the edge of the cliff, looking across the valley. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

We came upon an old woman sitting in her garden in a washtub like Diogenes. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

It was like all the other places, sitting on top of a little store. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

This time while he was there, it was like sitting on a beach enjoying the sun while the tide rose cold around his ankles. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

Really, kids all looked the same sitting in the boat. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

One morning they were sitting on a green bank at the edge of the lake. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

The former portrayed God as an old blue-eyed white man with a long white beard, sitting between white, fluffy clouds, flanked by two bearded white men. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Rowsby Woof was sitting on the gravel path, wide awake and shivering in the cold. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Not even an eagle poised against the sun would have marked the hobbits sitting there, under the weight of doom, silent, not moving, shrouded in their thin grey cloaks. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

Old Rit was sitting in front of the fireplace, her head on her hand. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

“What?” said a bored voice from inside a hard plastic carrier sitting on the floor between Jenny’s and Abby’s seats. Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

We, sitting in our rows, eyes down, we make her salivate morally. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

It wasn’t so bad, me and my father sitting in a hospital room. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

I am sitting in a downtown cafe, after, thinking. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

General Philip Russell had been sitting back, watching the argument, saying nothing. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

When boys came over, Kaprice and her stepsister would be sitting at a table with brush, rod, and cloth, expertly taking the guns apart, spinning the barrels, polishing the grips. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

I wished we were sitting on my bed together, working on our homework, listening to some terrible pop song Emily loved, giggling about something stupid. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Many of the children who had lost the right to sit on the benches resigned themselves to sitting on the cold cement floor. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was disorienting, sitting in a dark hotel room, thousands of miles from home, my body broken, calling the name of a boy I’d only met a few days ago. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

“Sure they’re sitting off the coast,” Milton now, “what do you expect? The Junta comes in and throws Makarios out. So the Turks are getting anxious. It’s a volatile situation.” Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Sitting on his lap had been like sitting on a pair of tree trunks. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

To think that her sister was sitting across from her, that her sister had come to visit her, that her sister had brought clothes for her child. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

But Miss Sadie was sitting out back on her metal patio chair, smoking her corncob pipe, like she hadn’t budged since the day before. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

I am sitting at a small desk in the second grade, the only elementary classroom that had extra space. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

In addition, I would studiously avoid sitting near the middle class in lunch counters and on public transportation, maintaining the intrinsic honesty and grandeur of my being. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Thinking about my moms sitting there listening to it ’cause she probably just didn’t want to talk to nobody. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

Mom and Dad struggled up into sitting positions. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Anyway, we were sitting there, and all of a sudden she said to me, "Excuse me, but isn't that a Pencey Prep sticker?" The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

The preacher continued explaining that it would be a short service because “it ain’t no point sitting around pouting,” and “sister Brown wouldn’t want no whole lotta tears.” The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Another time, as I was sitting on the Peak, I heard a strange mewing sound. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

Mother Lois was sitting, shy and quiet, in a shadowed corner of the room. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Grandpop was still sitting exactly where they had left him, in his Seat, his hands resting in his lap, listening to the radio. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

He was sitting in his surgery, still in his riding boots and spurs. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

My pediatrician did the same thing with his fingers when he was sitting behind his desk getting ready to tell my mother something about my allergies or what booster shots I needed. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

As she started telling us the cafeteria rules, 1 looked around to see where Jack Will was sitting, but I didn’t see him on my side of the room. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

Startled, I turned to see Henry sitting at the other end of the porch. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Ghost turned around and walked toward Lu, who was sitting on a bench, unlacing his track shoes. Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z

Maybe I felt so sorry for you sitting over with the little kids all alone with those stitches in your head. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

I am at present sitting in its spacious tearoom, oak-panelled, with enough tables to accommodate, I would guess, two dozen people without a feeling of crowding. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

The old men all nodded a lot, sitting up straight with their elbows close to their sides, hands on their laps, and feet flat on the ground a little bit pigeon-toed. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Instead of trying to, though, I find myself sitting down again. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

She’s still sitting on the top shelf of my closet with a few other precious memories. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

There are a couple of guys in overalls, including one dude sitting against the hay bales pretending to play an acoustic guitar. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

They were sitting in the basement with some girl named Heather, and when she left to go to the bathroom, Brad and Patrick were left alone. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

I often visited him there during his lunch hour, and made a point of sitting in a Whites Only chair in the Whites Only waiting room. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had just climbed up to a sitting position on my bunk and was explaining to Basil the difference between a single whip and a six-tail when the third-floor steward came looking for me. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

And she said, “I know. I can see you sitting at your computer in your bedroom sometimes when I look across the street.” The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

“Oh, nothing is wrong,” she says, sitting on the edge of my bed. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

I slide in, all the way across so I'm sitting next to him. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Thinking of venison, his mind had gone about cataloguing the sitting room and his mind nudged him, saying, “Hey, there’s something wrong here—something strange.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

I feel like there’s a tank truck sitting on my chest; can’t hardly breathe. Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

One of his knees is bent next to my head and the other is curled beneath me so I’m sitting on his ankle. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

When I came opposite her house that morning her white roadster was beside the curb, and she was sitting in it with a lieutenant I had never seen before. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

And the destruction of his grandma’s sitting room. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z

Mom was sitting at a booth, studying the menu, when I arrived. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

The thought crashes over him like an unexpected wave, but quickly he reminds himself that he is the one sitting beside her. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

It was a castle made entirely out of food, except that on the highest tower of all a carrion crow was sitting, with an arrow in its beak. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was sitting at the table, flipping through one of the half dozen books the camp owned. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

Vega was sitting on the ground too, his back propped against the shop. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

Faramir was sitting there in his chair, and the lamp had been rekindled in its niche above his head. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

When we are the last ones sitting there, just the two of us at the edge of the pool, the teacher with the whistle comes over to us. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

At first I thought them Canadians also done something to the wild gooses and ducks sitting in the water so’s they don’t tear ’way once you come near ’em the way them down-home birds do. The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z

Lettie and her group were sitting in the center of the room, and most of the other kids were sitting closer to her. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

“Lord, some them hailstones was big as teacups and weighed a pound,” Cudn Hope said, sitting down again. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

I took my seat and turned to the girl sitting next to me. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

We hadn’t been sitting very long when there was some talking and moving out in the hallway. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

So it’s not until we’re back sitting around the table in the kitchen of Morning Glory Cottage—me, Fina, Mom, Dad, and Lily—that I get to explain where we’ve been. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

I like the idea of sitting in the same bleachers as Blue. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

She's sitting there, right where she was yesterday, her long fingers hovering above the keys of her laptop, head tilted to one side, listening. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

To my great relief, she is finally sitting down. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

He spent nine months in the service, most of it sitting in the hole, growing angrier and angrier. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

By the light of the street lamp, she saw her grandmother sitting at the window with Sissy’s sleeping baby in her lap and amber rosary beads dangling from her trembling fingers. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

They rush to the bench in the corner, halting when they see a paper-wrapped object sitting there. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Her skin had coarsened, tanned from all the time they were spending in the yard sitting beneath the brazen sun. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

And by the time I come careening around the curve of the lane and see the house, sitting by itself near the top of the hill, the sun is fully up. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

They were sitting side by side on the stairs. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

I never really expected to see such a thing in my life, but that’s what he’s doing: He’s sitting there and crying and pretending he’s not, as he keeps holding up the newspaper. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

But Vega found an old cardboard box, sitting upside down, about twenty feet away. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

Every time I visited her, when finally they led her—a case, a number—back inside from where we had been sitting together, I felt worse. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

I remember ’cause I was sitting right next to him when he said it. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

She was sitting with two other girls and they were looking at some magazines. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

I’ve forgotten there’s a man sitting at the window, watching the street and the yard through the crack in the curtains. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

‘How is you going to be sitting on the Queen’s windowsill, may I beg?’ the BFG said. The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were sitting in the dugout talking and when I came in they stopped. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

Emma spent many nights sitting with him. holding him, comforting him, tending to him, as he suffered from sleeplessness, heart palpitations, and his almost constant digestive upset. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Actually, that’s my middle name,” Gogol says by way of explanation, sitting with them in the common room to their suite. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

They pulled away from each other when they heard the sound of the front door unlocking, but Moss still stayed close sitting up. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

By sitting in the alcove, and keeping well back, Winston was able to remain outside the range of the telescreen, so far as sight went. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

As far as I can tell, the second stage of initiation involves sitting in a dark hallway with the other initiates, wondering what’s going to happen behind a closed door. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

I shall have to go into the sitting room with Hooper and play draughts. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

Even sitting, Luke’s head came past his waist. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

Yes, across two yards she saw a little girl sitting on a fire escape with a book in her lap and a bag of candy at hand. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Once inside, they looked about nervously, and it was a few minutes before they saw the bird sitting in his corner. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

I tried not to drool in my sleep, since Annabeth was sitting right next to me. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

I watched Connor and his mom sitting at a table together with my mom, talking and laughing. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Reluctantly he came to where she was sitting at the table, though she could see from his face that he was still listening to the noise of the construction below. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Not sitting on its roof like a normal upside-down car would be, but flipped tires-to-the-sky, in midair, high enough to roll a basketball beneath it. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

The stage lights reflected on faces in the auditorium all the way to the back row, where I could see Papa and Mama and Mary Toy sitting with Uncle Camp, him holding the baby. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

She was sitting on a boulder in it, with her tail in the burn, and looking up at the drawbridge with her head on one side. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Hatsue, sitting on her ankles, twisted the salt water out of her hair so that it dripped along her arm. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

I think she stays in my room the whole night, ’cause every time I wake up, she’s sitting on my bed. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

They should be at home, fashioning bracelets out of old aluminum cans or just sitting at the kitchen table playing Lotería with Mamá. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

I am sitting on the morning school bus. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

When the guards finally locate me, I’m sitting on the floor of the wardrobe, tangled in silk, screaming my head off. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

Just, here, just put X’s where they’re sitting,” and he ripped a sheet of paper out of his notebook and drew a square for each desk. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

But Grandma was sitting alone in the main room, showing no sign of worry. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

For Burnham, with his failed attempts at getting into Harvard and Yale and his lack of formal architectural training, sitting down to dinner with these men was like being a stranger at someone else’s Thanksgiving. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

I was sitting in his car, I realized, and it had only just occurred to me to look around, to get a sense of where we were, who he was. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

I left Charlie sitting on his bed while I ran to the kitchen for water and aspirin to mitigate his inevitable hangover. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

Lev's already sitting at our table when I walk in for supper. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Two floors above, Alan Blunt was still sitting in front of the screen. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

“The Allegiant raided their first weapons storehouse a few days ago,” the young woman sitting at the control room desk nearest to us says over her shoulder. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

I said, sitting next to him on the bed. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

Shan asked, slightly drunk, slightly dramatic, and now sitting yoga-style on the floor. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

I know we would have kissed if we hadn’t been sitting right there in a classroom. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

I saw a huge, very old Negro sitting on die raft near me. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

We had a few drinks, then I saw these two white women sitting all alone. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

I didn’t go back to the hospital the next day, but on that same day, I fainted from a migraine while I was sitting on the verandah. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

She finds herself wondering, early in the morning and late at night and sometimes just while sitting with little Ahmad sleeping on her lap: Did all that really happen? Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

Through the hole I can see Hector sitting in the middle of the bed, waving my mom’s phone/flashlight around like a strobe light. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

What he wants, he tells the flustered desk clerk, is a simple bedroom with a sitting room. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

My mother took me—it was in Ogdentown—and stayed for the whole dance, sitting on the side with some other mothers. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

“And I need to thank you,” I said, sitting up. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

When I got back, Gus was home from work, sitting in a lawn chair dunking turnip greens in a bucket of water. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

Then I looked through the open door into the living room and saw Miss Williams sitting there. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sam and Alice were sitting around a small fire, cracking hickory nuts and putting the meats in clay tureens for the winter. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

The little girls from apartment 2C are sitting on the front steps when we arrive. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

I wish I were sitting next to him. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

He looked crazy just sitting there smiling, eyes all calm, shaved head. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

She was sitting in the sunken living room next to Jawad Sahib as I handed her a cup of chai. Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

Then it was just a matter of sitting and waiting. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

Lately she’d go to the store for bread and come back with a can of tuna and just put her hands over her face, sitting at the table. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

At the end of the table, sitting like a great dropsical gray slug, was William Willoughby, the political symbol of everything her father and men like him despised. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

They look like giant see-through dinner plates sitting on his nose. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

He’d never had coffee before, and he was sure that for the rest of his life the smell of coffee would remind him of sitting here in the ruins of the lost market. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

Dominating the scene was Hagrid, wearing a helmet and goggles and sitting astride an enormous motorbike with a black sidecar attached. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

Maria Isabel finds him sitting on a rock at a street corner, weeping, rejected again. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

He stared out the window, but he knew she had come and was sitting across the aisle from them. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z

I loved sitting out on the porch with your uncle Damani waiting for Frank Ski to play “Fresh Is the Word.” Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

I’m sitting here nice and cozy in the front office, peering out through a chink in the heavy curtains. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

I remember a time when I could only have been five or six, sitting at a low table beside Amanda C., our hands clammy with modelling clay. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

I came with my basket half-laden and saw my husband sitting on the floor staring out before him, a dazed expression on his face and his lips trembling loosely. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were just getting their clutches ready for the spring sitting, and they protested that to take the eggs away now was murder. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z

Later the three of us were sitting in Scooter’s bed. Crash 1996-03-19T00:00:00Z

She felt the warmth of the stone she was sitting on creep through the fabric of her dress. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

The Negro was sitting with his back toward me, humming something in calypso. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

We drove past them in Black Betty—Liam and I, sitting up front together, listening to a Led Zeppelin song that might not have even been real. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

She ended up back in her room, doing her prayers or sitting on the bed, missing her mother, feeling nauseated and homesick. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

The Peridexions, sitting on trees which made them immune to dragons, sat unnoticed. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

For the rest of the day he stayed off by himself, sitting alone under a tree, just staring down at the field tent. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had spent three days sitting inside the bole of an artificial oak tree, three nights crawling on his belly through the heather, hiding microphones in gorse bushes, burying wires in the soft grey sand. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

She looked away often, as if she felt uncomfortable sitting with him, and Ugwu wondered if he had imagined the easy bond they had shared. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

“I thought you didn’t know who was sitting on the side of the road right now.” Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

They were sitting in silence before glasses of the gin flavored with cloves which was the specialty of the cafe. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

Maman and Auntie had kept me home from mass and were sitting on either side of me like jailers. Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Not bad for a day’s work sitting down, I thought to myself. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

A little after noon, men dressed in white streamed out of the building and began sitting on the lawn, opening lunch boxes. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

There he was ahead of her, sitting down and harvesting. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

Old Mrs. Borkowski was sitting in a lawn chair in the middle of the road. Raymie Nightingale 2016-04-12T00:00:00Z

Was it possible he forgot about my ankle, even though I was sitting there with my leg propped up on a chair and a crutch by my side? Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

“You’re sitting watching TV and suddenly you discover a wasp crawling on your wrist.” Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

I remembered nights I had spent sitting with my grandmother by the fire. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

She was already sitting back down and digging into the food. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

It hits me as soon as I walk in—that smell of paint and canvas so strong that, for a second, I’m sure I’ll look up to see Gram sitting at her easel. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

Imagine ten or twelve orange chairs arranged in a circle, with the happy women from the flyer sitting at opposite ends. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

Before the photo albums are packed away, I take my fa- vorite picture of Jaimito, sitting in his wooden airplane, a giant smile on his face. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

I see Mr. Fortson, the GSA advisor, sitting with his partner. Will Grayson, Will Grayson 2010-04-06T00:00:00Z

I was sitting at one of the tables wearing my customary white lab coat and my baroque pearl necklace when the children were brought in. From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

On Sunday morning Mr. and Mrs. Arable and Fern were sitting at breakfast in the kitchen. Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z

“Did you see the woman sitting on the stairs?” The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

To my surprise, Mamá was sitting on the front steps waiting for me. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

I was sitting in the porch of the house at the trading station of Vanovara at breakfast time and looking towards the north. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Rita is there, sitting at the table, peeling and slicing carrots. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

Toby wasn’t sure how long they’d been sitting in front of the small white house when he woke up and scrambled out of the car to throw up. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

All this he would have thought of, sitting by himself in the house day after day, and of something else as well. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

After Johnson left, Colonel Meecham walked to his window and peeked through the venetian blinds at the jet planes, their wings folded, sitting just outside the hangar. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I think there might be a bowling ball sitting in my stomach.” The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

They were sitting side by side with their bodies stiff and rigid. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

He opens his eyes to find himself sitting on the table in an empty room. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

Every few minutes I find myself turning to look at the seat next to me, foolishly wishing that Mama were sitting there. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

It was then that I noticed them: the white blushing roses sitting in a clear crystal vase among an array of their colorful counterparts. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

“Yep—sitting in front of a sewing machine all day. Best job in the world. That was after he got back from the war. Vietnam.” Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

Mr. Kowalski dropped me off at my house, and I wasn’t sure, sitting in the back seat, how to say goodbye to Meryl Lee. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

I do not control the little devil sitting on my left shoulder. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

Samuel said pleasantly, “Why are you sitting in the dark?” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

I want to know if we’ll be sitting near each other on the plane. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

Cabot could see the white stick sitting on the edge of the counter, a bold blue check in its center. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

This was what I liked most about my friends: just sitting around and telling stories. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

The cover showed a painting of a white boy, maybe around twelve or thirteen years old, sitting at a desk doing homework. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

And sitting on top of it was a cigarette butt. Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z

The next room was a bedroom; beyond that was a washroom and a sitting area of some kind. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

I tried to sit down at one table, but the kid in the next chair said, “Oh, sorry, but somebody else is sitting here.” Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

There were people sitting on couches, people standing up, people staring out the windows or waiting for the elevator. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

There was the sound of someone descending the stairs and then the rattle of him sitting in one of the chairs. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

I was sitting at a table preparing for the Talmud session, when I saw him pass me and nod his head in the direction of the door. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

When we got to Mom’s hospital room, we found her sitting up in a wheelchair watching TV. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

Inside, Ford’s sitting on the floor watching cartoons and chewing the head off my Princess Leia figure. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

That some of them fell in love while they were sitting near maps or tapestries. Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

By now I'm sitting up on the bed and he's making me put on my clothes and the weird thing is, none of this is a surprise. Freak The Mighty 1993-10-01T00:00:00Z

Mam is sitting on a chair at the head of the bed. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

Arthur sitting on a stool somewhere fancy, and at first I think it’s a restaurant, but then I see photos of him on the wall. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

I glance over at Mustafa sitting on the sofa, finishing up his chemistry homework. Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

A security guard was sitting behind the desk in the lobby, reading a big black book with a flower on the cover. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

I begin sitting for many hours each day with Therese, for my own burden grows too big to carry with ease. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

I write this sitting up upon the flock-bed I have been lying on with the sick. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

He imagines his father, in his twenties as Gogol is now, sitting on a train as Gogol had just been, reading a story, and then suddenly nearly killed. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

She just said, “That’s what I have got to find out”, sitting forward on the seat, trembling now and peering up the tree-arched drive toward where the rotting shell of the house would be. Absalom, Absalom! 1936-01-01T00:00:00Z

We drag the bag up O’Connell Avenue and we see people in their houses sitting around tables with all kinds of decorations and bright lights. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

She glanced back at Taisin, who was sitting on the sledge with a dazed look on her face. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Ignatius had actually spent the morning sitting at Eads Plaza watching the harbor traffic and jotting some notes about the history of shipping and Marco Polo in a Big Chief tablet. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

I ask, sitting straight up in my chair. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

Radar and I followed him, talking as we went past the band room, where freshmen and sophomores were sitting and chatting amid a slew of instrument cases. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

I am the only one sitting down with my color sticks. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

I spent hours sitting cross-legged on deck with the ship's log on my lap recording the day's events as if I were drifting around in Baudelaire's Artificial Paradise. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

Herman E. Calloway was sitting on the little chair in front of the little mirror on the dressing table. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

Red was sitting on a counter drinking a beer. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

She seemed to hate just sitting still and was always on the move. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

The women are sitting, lounging, strolling, leaning against one another. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were sitting in a clearing surrounded by trees. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

I wasn’t too gassed about working at a bank, just because it seemed like it would be boring as hell, sitting behind that thick glass counting other people’s money all day. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Blanca arrived at the river and found her childhood friend sitting at the spot where they had met so many times. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“His carer’s actually been to see it. He says it’s not far from the road, so anyone can get to it without much bother. This boat, it’s just sitting there, stranded in the marshes.” Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Pops was laid off again and sitting around the house a lot. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

“You’ve been sitting in front of me for two months. I stare at you every day.” A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

They’re gathered in the sitting room on the other side of the stairway now, cheering on this Commander’s Wife, the Wife of Warren. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

Albert was still sitting in the dining room when Joseph came downstairs in the morning. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

‘Apples for walking, and a pipe for sitting,’ he said. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

Sitting at a college house party in San Diego, drinking jungle juice, a girl as fine as Flaca sitting right next to me. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

A happy home meant having everyone under one roof, sitting around the table, eating a peach cobbler or pecan pie. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

The performance was uncompromisingly British, and I quietly concluded that the white-mustached figure of Bragg now spent most of its days sitting in London clubs like the Athenaeum. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

Next to Dad, sitting with a little space between them, was my older brother, Byron. The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

They ate on the couch or on the floor or sitting on the back steps holding paper plates. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

My mother must remember the incident on the fire escape landing, where she found me, shivering and exhausted, sitting next to that container of regurgitated ice cream. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was always somebody in there at the mirror studying whatever facial hair was finally coming in, or sitting on a sink checking their cell phone, skipping class. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

She’d been working upstairs with a blanket over her knees and a little naphtha stove at her feet, so she hadn’t lit the sitting room fire all day and it felt chilly in there. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

They're putting handcuffs on my wrists and my ankles and they're sitting on me and going, "We'll have to medicate him," and this one cop says, "With what, an elephant gun?" Freak The Mighty 1993-10-01T00:00:00Z

Longstreet most of all, sitting round and immobile on the black horse, gazing eastward. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

He looked at them sitting on the wooden benches that went all the way around the long kiva. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

There was Danny Saunders, sitting on my bed in the hospital dressed in his Hasidic-style clothes and talking about wanting to kill me because I had pitched him some curve balls. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

“Then you’re going to start fixing up that truck of yours sitting in my front yard.” Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

Max is either asleep sitting upright or almost unconscious. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

The guy was sitting there with a Seeing Eye dog and a white cane. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

At the top of the hall was another long table where the teachers were sitting. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

It stings to see him sitting like that and know I can’t really sit with him the way I want to. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z

I started thinking about the world loaded with disguised Marys sitting around all over the place and hidden red hearts tucked about that people could rub and touch, only we didn’t recognize them. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The next morning, Thomas found himself sitting in a chair, worried and anxious, sweating, facing eleven other boys. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

The war would be over and he’d still be sitting there fussing about his shoestrings. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Later in the basketball season, Russ and I are sitting on my roof again, trying to look at stars, which is all we do anymore. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was no assigned seating, and today Claire, balancing her tray of prepared food, had made her way to an empty chair at this table where the director was already sitting with several technicians. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

When my sister woke up, she saw a man sitting on the rug. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

Another round cage, sitting on a table rather than hanging from above, contains an elaborate clock. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

They ate lunch together, sitting on the stage with their legs dangling in the orchestra pit. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

Dad is home when I walk in, sitting on the couch with his laptop. Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

It was near dusk and we were sitting at my foxhole along a wide muddy river north of Quang Ngai City. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

He kicked the backs of his sneakers against the tall stack of ancient encyclopedias he was sitting on. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

It was easy, sitting in my office in Washington, to think of Tariq Johnson as a statistic. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

"We ought to plan something," yawned Miss Baker, sitting down at the table as if she were getting into bed. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

“I’d rather have a guy notice me for my brains,” Jenna said, finally stalking across the room and sitting down next to me. Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z

She darted around obstacles—broken furniture left for the trash heaps or for scavengers, stoves and refrigerators that were past repair, peddlers sitting on the pavement with their wares spread out around them. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

One that was sitting in a man’s hand. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

During the whole class, he never relaxed his stiff position on the edge of his chair, sitting as far from me as possible. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

Em was sitting on the floor again, her back against the sink wall, her eyes on her knees, which were pulled up tight to her body. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

When I returned to the wedding party, the dance was over, and everyone was sitting around looking exhausted. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

The landscape I wanted to memorize has ribboned away behind me, and I now find myself sitting in a parking lot that I don’t remember driving to. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

One day on break, I walked over to Maggie, who was sitting by herself in the cafeteria. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

She is sitting in the waiting room of this hospital, and as I try to imagine her there, I am almost certain she is crying. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He’s sitting on the floor with Spot, eating more chicken. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

Matt saw the grand piano, stacks of music, and Maria’s black hat sitting on a table. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Scott is sitting on the landing, his arms around his knees, his head down. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

We spend our days this way, sitting around, talking, laughing, and loving each other again. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the candlelight, Isabelle hadn’t yet seen the mechanical man sitting nearby. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

Barbara pulled herself into a sitting position by holding on to one of the bars of her cot. Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z

They were still sitting obediently near where your mother had left them, looking like little fairy queens waiting for their sedan to arrive. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Which means that you stand a greater chance of dying while dealing crack in a Chicago housing project than you do while sitting on death row in Texas. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

I again felt rather like an individual of but average gastronomical powers sitting down to feast alone at a table spread with provisions for a hundred. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

“Mercy on me, Beth loves Laurie!” she said, sitting down in her own room, pale with the shock of the discovery which she believed she had just made. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

Women were sitting with babies on their laps, standing with babies on their hips, and their chatter mixed with crying. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

I don’t even really know how I came to be sitting in the driver’s seat, why I end up there and not Lacey. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

Knowing I was Blanca’s husband, one brother ushered me to the row where she was sitting. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

The main difficulty with sitting at a table by yourself is that there’s nothing to distract you from hearing other people’s conversations. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

His parents and brothers were sitting in the high-back chairs at the counter. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

He felt like he couldn't breathe, like a stone wall was sitting on his chest with the bricks running through his veins. Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Once, sitting in her pillowed chair, she considered having a secret door built so that she would have an avenue of escape. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Upstairs at Charles and Camilla’s, everyone was sitting around the kitchen table with their sleeves rolled up, deep in Greek. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

They sat together in the back and continued sitting there when they arrived at school and everyone got out of the bus. From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

A little boy sitting on the cobblestones covered his ears. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The people quickly went about their busy talkative business and, as the smoke and dust cleared, only Milo, Tock, and the Humbug noticed the Soundkeeper sitting disconsolately on a pile of rubble. The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z

Papa lifted him to a sitting position and told the judge to start slapping his face. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

She entered the house and immediately spotted Edward sitting on the living-room couch. The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane 2006-03-30T00:00:00Z

“Well, her father didn’t want anything around that reminded him of his daughter, so he returned it. It’s been sitting in my closet, shut away...until you came along.” The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

The man sitting on the other side of the desk in the interview room was in his thirties and wore civilian clothes—black suit, tie, black loafers. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

It was an old woman, sitting before an assortment of small glittering trinkets. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

She passed Matthew sitting on a footstool flipping through a book with black-and-white photographs of musicians. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

He was sitting on one of the thrones, the one decked out in black velvet, the one with the elaborate carvings of people screaming—in fear or in pain, Roza did not know. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Brewer was standing in front of a group of women sitting in folding chairs placed in neat rows. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was sitting on our front porch when Pork Chop rode up on his bike. Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z

Nana wasn’t on the couch, and it looked abandoned without her sitting on it, reading while she watched the twenty-four-hour Bunker live feed. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

That was the first time she’d heard that word, barter; not sitting with the old woman in the market this morning, but yesterday evening from her own master. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

The dollhouse had two teeny wooden rockers with a little doll sitting in each: one with light brown hair like mine, and the other with pitch-black hair like Mom’s. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

Toby dropped his bag, barely sitting down before she grabbed him by the collar and pulled him back up. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

The head lunatic himself was sitting alone at a desk. Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z

Why, precisely, was I sitting in this classroom? Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

For some time, we remained like this, he sitting motionless and I Observant now, regarding the burlap weave on the bottom of the sofa, measuring my breath for silence. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

Through the kitchen doorway I could see Thalia sitting at the table while Ms. Castellan bandaged her wounded leg. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

Then, with a last, quick look to where Blackavar was sitting, he went out himself. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Herbie was outside in the yard, sitting on a rock, playing his guitar. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Every time I went in, I saw Papa sitting on the floor, surrounded by men, talking, laughing, eating, and smoking. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

And before he could breathe again, another whale rose, then another and still another until four of them surrounded the cockpit, moving with the boat in tandem, looking down on David sitting beneath them. The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Well, it's your bedtime. And you too, David. You've been sitting here snoring, so don't tell me you've got work to do. Up now, both of you." Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

I keep sitting down with him because he is fun. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

They were practically sitting on top of the water, as if invisible lounge chairs buoyed them up. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

To hear Noodle tell it, it's the same stoop he was sitting on when Tariq was shot. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

I could just picture Fluffy sitting up to the dining room table with a little bib tied around his neck. Doing Time Online 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Edgar was sitting in the backseat, staring straight ahead. Raymie Nightingale 2016-04-12T00:00:00Z

All sitting around a blanket my parents had spread out over the grass, eating whatever it was my dad was grilling. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

Then she shifts on the stairs so that we’re sitting face to face. Dragons in a Bag 2018-10-23T00:00:00Z

Saying kaddish and sitting shiva, that absolves them of any responsibility for you. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’m sitting next to this skinny woman who got on in Richmond. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

One day I walked back from her place to find my dad sitting on the couch, watching television. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

My mother and father were sitting only a foot apart during this speech, but each heard something different. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Three hours after my flight landed in Peshawar, I was sitting on shredded upholstery in the backseat of a smoke-filled taxicab. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

In fact, he was sitting in the copilot’s seat, and they were cruising over the forest, looking down at the wildly tossing treetops, a wild sea of leaf and branch. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

You never know when you might come home and find Mam sitting by the fire chatting with a woman and a child, strangers. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

Her wiry young body, nourished by Barbados fruits and sunshine, had an elastic vitality, and she was back on her feet while Judith was still barely sitting up to sip her gruel. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

I can tell it’s the worst kind of swill, the kind that looks like it was brewed in 1997 and has been sitting on a burner ever since. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Stiff from sitting in such an unusual position, I fell back against the side of the bed and kept up my struggle until just before ten-thirty, when I climbed back into bed. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

I don’t know how we made it back to the cabin, only that when we arrived, Chubs was sitting on the porch, silent tears streaming down his face. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

For a moment I thought of creeping out again, and going upstairs to my room and sitting there. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

Ryan, sitting on the floor to watch television, waited for his mother to tell him to go to bed because he had to go to school the next day. Ralph S. Mouse 1992-08-01T00:00:00Z

So I decided to get off the shelf and go and get my bag and see if the policeman was still sitting in his seat. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

No use sitting in a gloomy house until it got dark. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

One day, as she and her friends were sitting on the grass, they were invited to join a student coalition from the university, a coalition protesting apartheid in South Africa. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

The meeting was in the public conference room, and when I got there after school, the school board members were all sitting at the head table, studying the folders with the architectural bids. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

Immie was sitting on the edge of the front of the boat. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

It doesn’t mind if you leave it tied to a chair for three days sitting in its own effluvium with an iron rail strapped upright against its spine so it can’t lean back. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

I just had these pictures of him walking along with us on patrol or sitting in the mess area, looking down into his coffee cup. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Only Aunt Zo seemed to sympathize: “I don’t know. If I was walking down die street and there was a mink coat just sitting there, I might take it.” Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

The beginnings of this insight came when Ekman and Friesen were first sitting across from each other, working on expressions of anger and distress. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

“Are you going to be okay sitting tight for a few hours until we leave?” Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

An hour later I was sitting in a Jim Crow coach, speeding northward, making the first lap of my journey to a land where I could live with a little less fear. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Let me tell you what I was just thinking, Mama. I was just sitting here praying that we would go to war.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Here he was sitting with them and they did not know that he had murdered a white girl and cut her head off and burnt her body. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

At times, I’d slip into a kind of trance, sitting with my eyes closed, oblivious to the passage of time, listening to the sounds of the world outside my room. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

I know I have talent, and I have always wanted to play basketball in college, but who is going to notice me sitting in the stands? The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

I point to the sitting area outside Mrs. Parker’s office. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Besides, the other package was sitting next to her on the couch, waiting impatiently with its red bow. Frindle 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Did she remember sitting at the dining-room table, where I sat? Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

Montag walked slowly toward the fire and the five old men sitting there dressed in dark blue denim pants and jackets and dark blue suits. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z

As Noodles made suggestion after suggestion, I looked out at Needles, sitting on the stoop, weaving the black yarn in and out with the needles just like my mother taught him. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

Sometimes when he did that, I wondered if he wasn’t just sitting around his office, checking his watch, until Mom went to bed. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

It’s pretty cozy sitting next to Abby and smelling her magical French toast scent, while we watch the freshmen take turns racing in the chairs. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

We exchanged banter, sitting at the same table. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

The man from Sears had installed a brand-new one but left the old one sitting right in the middle of the kitchen floor. The Lemonade War 2007-04-23T00:00:00Z

Nearly all of them were already sitting at the table when Lucia finally brought in the steaming bowls. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

She thought back to the old woman sitting quietly with her blanket of trinkets, almost wistful. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

Alan Blunt and a dark, rather masculine woman sucking a peppermint were already sitting down. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

Stick and Leroy were sitting in low-backed armchairs facing a bookcase that filled one entire wall. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

Abruptly, she strode to the sitting room door and threw it open to find Emma crouched on the other side, her face red and streaked with tears. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

There’s a cave marked on it, just about where I am sitting. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Papá and Mamá were sitting at the kitchen table talking. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

He was barefoot and hatless, sitting in the sunshine by the water. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

My chest felt like my giant saguaro was sitting on it. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

"I saw them sitting there as we dashed through on our way up here." The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z

I fell asleep at some point, and, when I woke up, daylight had dimmed a bit, the shadows had stretched, and Sohrab was still sitting next to me. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

She was sitting on the bank of a river. Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures 2013-09-24T00:00:00Z

Unlike Mala, I was used to it all by then: used to cornflakes and milk, used to Helen’s visits, used to sitting on the bench with Mrs. Croft. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

Look at Judith, sitting there with her hands folded in her lap. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

I’m sitting almost exactly in the middle of the theater. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

She was sitting beside her aunt in the middle pew on the right side of the auditorium; her father and Dr. Finch sat side by side on the left, third row from the front. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

A pilot once wrote that the first time he got into a B-24 cockpit, “it was like sitting on the front porch and flying the house.” Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z

“God, no,” Grace said, sitting up a little bit more. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

Ranofer found himself sitting up on his mat in the courtyard, staring blindly into the dark. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

I watched it in the sitting room with a lady whose grandson works for NASA. Doing Time Online 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Now, Wife,” Ba said, sitting quietly, “it was Minli’s money. It was hers to do with as she wished. Money must be used sometime. What use is money in a bowl?” Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

I kept sitting there getting drunk and waiting for old Tina and Janine to come out and do their stuff, but they weren't there. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

But now it’s officially a sitting room, because that’s what is done in it, by some. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

Hermione was sitting at a table, fast asleep, her head resting on an open Arithmancy book. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

Even though I was sitting, I felt my knees go a little weak. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

We stayed sitting around the big pile of glowing charcoal, talking—me and Rondell mostly. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

She wadded up her paper and threw it across the room, where it bounced off the reindeer antlers that were now sitting next to the raven box. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

When I walked into the living room, I discovered the four boys sitting on the couch and eating, what looked like, everything in our pantry. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

There was also an enormous, claw-footed desk, and, sitting on a shelf behind it, a shabby, tattered wizard’s hat —- the Sorting Hat. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

When the Americans arrived, Heisenberg was sitting on the porch, waiting. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Tyrion Lannister was sitting on the ledge above the door to the Great Hall, looking for all the world like a gargoyle. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

He clambered through the portrait hole into the common room and hurried straight for the corner where Ron and Hermione were sitting, to tell them what had happened. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

People huddle in little clusters, or by themselves, just sitting in the cold. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

Then we’re inside my room and I’m sitting on the edge of the rumpled bed as she slowly pushes the door closed. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z

The Fugees played better soccer in the second half, even with one of their most talented players sitting on the bench. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

I rose and I turned toward our familiar spot, then saw a strange woman sitting at the end of the hall in a folding chair, her eyes on a book, her legs crossed. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

We climb out, drowsy after sitting for so long. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

I glanced back at Dad, sitting on the couch watching soap operas with Laleh. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

At lunch, in class, and even in our free period, when we’re supposed to be sitting together, I see the three of them with bent heads, giggling and whispering. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z

“I didn’t want to work for the Navy,” Elizebeth later said, “but I found they were just sitting on my doorstep all the time.” The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Once finished, Songololo moved a few feet away, sitting on her haunches and staring at us. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

Inside Bag End, Bilbo and Gandalf were sitting at the open window of a small room looking out west on to the garden. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

She dashed back over to the sink and wet a towel with cool water, wrung it out, and then wrapped her arm in it before sitting back down. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

I knew some of this even then, sitting in Rankin Chapel, even if I could not yet express it. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

He was so busy beating himself up in his head that he didn’t even notice Grandpop on the porch—sitting on the: porch, all by himself, until he’d reached the porch himself. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

And then I caught hold of myself and found my way back to where Alice was sitting. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

I saw it sitting there right below the stereo. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

“Yeah, sure,” she replied, sitting up straighter and forcing herself to smile. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

And Mama was sitting in the middle of the floor, holding him up close and crying like she’d never stop. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

When it came to feeling close to Granny, being in the garden was a sight better than sitting by her coffin. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

And I led her over to where we’d been sitting on that log. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

She fell asleep while Louisiana read aloud from a book that didn’t exist, and she dreamed that Mrs. Borkowski was sitting in her lawn chair in the middle of the road. Raymie Nightingale 2016-04-12T00:00:00Z

Annoyed at die arrangement, I gave the boy sitting on my right a poke in the ribs with my elbow, then faced around and watched the Chief cross over Fifth. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

We dined the traditional way, sitting on cushions around the room, tablecloth spread on the floor, eat­ing with our hands in groups of four or five from common platters. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

"Why, no, sir! It wasn't addressed to me, so naturally I wouldn't think of opening it . . ." "Of course not, I know you wouldn't," he said, fluttering his hand and sitting erect. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

I slide up so I am sitting at the head of the narrow bed with my feet tucked under me. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

A month or two later, a crow landed on the shoulder of an old woman who was sitting making rope in the shade of her house. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

“This is the longest Wednesday in the history of man,” I say to Frank S., who is sitting in his favorite spot on the bench by the back patio door. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

Meggie was speaking to Dustfinger, but as she spoke she looked at her mother, who was still sitting on the stone coffin. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

I was in the library—sitting in his chair—he was quite near. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

Seanie turned around from where he was sitting up near the front of the bus, and he looked at me and mouthed “homo,” then smiled. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

“We could get it checked in Hogsmeade,” said Ron, sitting back down. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

She pointed under the couch where I was sitting. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

Candice entered the house to find her father sitting on the couch. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

“On level three,” said Marty, who I discovered was still sitting in front of me. Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I go down for breakfast on Monday, Lily is sitting on one side of the table. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

And Lydia is sitting at a coffee shop with the guy. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

“Like we’re an old New York couple just sitting around doing nothing.” What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

I’m sitting in the armchair by the open window, watching the slow turn from indigo to periwinkle dawn to light gray morning. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

He’d captured her in so much vibrant detail, even sitting here in the near-dark with just a flashlight app, that she knew: He’d been watching her even when she hadn’t noticed. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

The daughter of the secretary of state has been sitting at the foot of her father’s bed. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

FBI agent Dean McWhorter was sitting by the phone in the New York office when it rang. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

He could see Phineas grinning in triumph, sitting up straighter, blinking his eyes in anticipation. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

Then I look down, noticing a cafeteria milk shake sitting on the floor, a note resting underneath it. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

I was sitting across from her at the dining-room table, flipping through the pages of a comic book. Miracle's Boys 2000-04-23T00:00:00Z

Mama went over there one morning and found Loma sitting at the kitchen table writing in a tablet. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

He feels like sitting down right there in the kitchen, but it is wrong and she will slap him. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

“She won’t. I’m sure of that. She’s at that falls right now, climbing up a cascade or sitting in an air pocket under an overshoot.” On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was sitting in his front seat with the door wide open, radio up to his mouth. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

The crowd in the kitchen were all sitting on various surfaces, and no one was speaking. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

Cooke was sitting on a rickety stool, munching an apple and reading the Chicago Daily Tribune. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Nathan—and a girl—sitting at one of the small, round tables. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

The ledge we were sitting on was narrower than I’d realized. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

This was called hot sitting and was common throughout Zimbabwe. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

It was littered with papers and pens and pencils; but Bilbo was sitting in a chair before a small bright fire. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

I stood on the rug and warmed my hands, which were rather cold with sitting at a distance from the drawing-room fire. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

It was an odd feeling to be suddenly sitting in a cafe having breakfast, watching perfectly ordinary people outside in the street, going to work, shopping, or just standing around chatting. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

I squeeze her hand—gently—because I know it’s what Gram would do if it were me sitting in that chair crying. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

Frodo could see him now, sitting with Pippin and Merry at the upper end of one of the side-tables close to the dais. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

One afternoon, we were sitting on the beach eating our stew when Lieutenant Terblanche, who was then head of prison, made a surprise visit. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Everybody laughs as Catherine rushes to find me a paper cup for the sodas that are sitting on ice in the waiting room for the contestants. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

In the September moonlight, several weeks later, King Pellinore was sitting on the cliff top with his fiancee, staring out to sea. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

The twins, sitting on either side of me, turned to look out the rear window at the muddy spray. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

She hurried me into the sitting room, where in a panic she gathered all the kids she could find and then stomped off to find a few who had ignored her shouts. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

But I am getting tired of sitting alone. Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

She stared at Henry sitting to the left of Mr. O’Hanlon, and she did not believe what she saw . . . . . . but they were sitting all over the courtroom. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

Sunday it's Watchtower study at the Kingdom Hall, two hours of sitting and sitting and sitting. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

Rani puts Jay in his cage, hands him to me, and then insists on sitting by the open door of the carriage. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

Or no, he was home on the farm, in his bed, with Phoebe sleeping across the room and Papa sitting by the fire downstairs. I Survived the Sinking of the Titanic, 1912 2010-06-01T00:00:00Z

Out in the living room, Richard was sitting on the floor and glaring at the movie machine. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I didn’t feel the pain at first, but sitting up, gathering my feet under me, it slashed from my ear down to my chin. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

He’s the one who told me the angel comes to the seventh step in the first place and you’d think he’d know why I’m sitting there. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

Henry was sitting at the table where we did our Greek. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

I remember sitting on a hard tire in the middle of cold, murky water. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

Everybody in the room seemed to be sitting down. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

I looked over at Needles, who was sitting behind Noodles. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

Monaco came over to where I was sitting on the bed. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

I found her in her bedroom upstairs, sitting in a rocking chair nursing Campbell Junior. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

We smile at each other, and it is crazy to me that this is the same person who was sitting in English with me all year. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

Behind him, the other firemen were sitting around the table with their dominoes. Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z

I looked around the arena and found my family sitting over by the uneven bars. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

That made Pa happy, but honestly, Pa was happy to have his Miss Marva Hendrix sitting next to him, flashing her perfect teeth. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

I turn to look, but there are too many men sitting under the shade of a mahogany tree. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

I grabbed the comb off my white vanity, noticing a fresh coloring book and pencils sitting on my chair. Monday's Not Coming 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

She imagined herself sitting by the river and watching hundreds of birds fly all around and above her. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

He would wave at Mrs. Hurd, who was sometimes rocking on the porch with her shawl around her shoulders, or sometimes sitting by a window watching for him. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

I let my tray smack hard against the lunch table before sitting down. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

He was sitting up to the table and making quick work of the fried eggs and corn bread Eliza set before him. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

So quickly that I missed his movement, he was half sitting, propped up on his right arm, his left palm still in my hands. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

The other patients are sitting by their beds with dinner trays and mine is there too but I don’t want it with the way my skull is raging. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

He walked over to where I was sitting on the floor and offered me his hand. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

It’s not as fun as flying, but it’s better than sitting in this terrible room with this terrible woman who thinks she knows me. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

“What’s wrong with you two, sitting there, watching the thing? I thought you were going to pet it. Wake up. Give me the hammer. Come on, so I can put it out of its misery.” Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

I looked at the bowls, filled to the top with golden dal and rice, the toasted chapati sitting in the corner. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Kevin, who is sitting to my right, adds a third drop of red ballpoint blood to the two already oozing off the end of the knife he’s drawn on his binder. The Misfits 2001-10-01T00:00:00Z

But as I started to head back out, I noticed the bag with the turtles I’d taken with me to Worlds sitting in the corner. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Another day, the day before the funeral, Bobby and I were sitting by the railroad tracks. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

They passed a few lone houses sitting off by themselves under gnarled trees. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

Dicey left the little ones with James, sitting on a curb off around to one side, and entered the market alone. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

Merry, who was sitting on Mama’s lap, started humming “Jingle Bells.” Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Instead of sitting me in the special little chair my parents had bought for me, she plopped me on my back in the middle of the floor on a large, soft quilt. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

Maybe she’s sitting on the porch of her tree house talking to herself just as I am. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

The scythe nodded, and glanced down at his ring, sitting so fat on his finger. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

As if we are already sitting on a bus, Nattie asleep with her head on my arm, drooling on my sleeve. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“I’m not sitting on a rock,” I said cautiously, wary of a trick from my teacher. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

He was sitting near the foot of my bed in human form, which was why I hadn’t noticed him yet. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

“Yeah, I get that. I guess—” I look up, and my gaze snags on a guy sitting one table over. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

Dolores was sitting, it seemed, in the same place as the night before. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was a man sitting at the desk at the far wall and he motioned for me to find a place to sit. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

He was sitting at a small table, bent over a book, his long earlocks dangling down the sides of his face and almost reaching to the top of the table. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

I’m sitting in the emergency room at University College Hospital. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

With her eyes almost closed she could see Theodora only as a mass of color sitting on the floor. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

When I emerge, the grandmothers are still sitting silently on the sofa with a Shanti-size space between them. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

But if I was in better shape, I'd be sitting up there. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

One night I’m sitting under Mrs. Purcell’s window listening to Macbeth. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

Dana and his cronies customarily occupied the back rows and seldom bothered the kids sitting up near the driver. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Tariq was sitting at the board too, in turns watching the match, then listening in on the political chat at the adjacent table. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

First we talked of other things, sitting in his living room. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

I went on sitting on the bed with my hands in my lap. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

The woman sitting on the counter didn’t remark on the change of hair color. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

I was sitting in a freshman classroom at Wellpinit High School when Mr. P strolled in with a box full of geometry textbooks. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

“How did she react? Never mind. I already know. She’s sitting here looking like one of those blowfish we saw at the aquarium—all puffed up and spiny.” Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

Buddy had finished dressing and was sitting on the edge of the bed. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

I remember sitting in my seventh-grade French class and not having any idea why I was there. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

The two of them have been sitting for hours in the wingbacks in the living room. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

He spied a small container of hand sanitizer sitting on the right side of the desk and grabbed it. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

The next morning I was sitting in Miss Love’s kitchen, eating hot apple pie and cheese and hoping she wouldn’t pick a fuss with me like she had with everybody else. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

Especially since they were sitting in front of five birdcages, which, Genie realized, if you looked past the entwining vines and leaves, were arranged in a semicircle. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

I’m sitting quietly at Table Six with Bob English Who Draws, who is drawing. Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

It felt like sitting in church when the bishop came round to remind us we were miserable sinners. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z

Big Rose spun around and eyed all of us like she was surprised to see us sitting here. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

After a while I peek out, and there is Jeremie, still sitting patiently. Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

I am hungrier than usual and devour three pieces of toast and drink two cups of tea without sitting down, wandering around the room. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

No clue who this “Rae” is, but I’m not okay with some girl distracting my best friend while I’m sitting right here. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z

The brief glow fell upon a huge sitting figure, still and solemn as the great stone kings of Argonath. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

The girl was sitting on the guys lap, and they were just...going for it. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

With some of their fortunes eroding, they find they are sitting on an extremely valuable asset, a realization that adds a touch of ambivalence to their protests against changes that are all too obvious. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

Some of them are standing, but most are sitting. A High Five for Glenn Burke 2020-02-25T00:00:00Z

Sam Gamgee was sitting in one corner near the fire, and opposite him was Ted Sandyman, the miller’s son; and there were various other rustic hobbits listening to their talk. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

In the hall just outside the sitting room’s closed door, children in rumpled nightclothes huddled around a kerosene lantern, trading rumors about what might have happened. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

From where I was sitting, I could just make out the slight fullness of her breasts, and I recognized the little pout of her lower lip. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z

“And again,” Old Sai said, sitting down, “I said, ‘You don’t know. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

We were sitting in one of our favorite girls’ getaway spots in Maplewood on a rare Sunday afternoon that I wasn’t traveling for a competition. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

I couldn’t shake the image of Nana sitting alone in her bedroom staring at that one lonely picture. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

“What are you talking about? I’m just sitting here adding up my carbs and my protein grams.” Liar, Liar 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had plenty to think of, of course, but sitting alone, just thinking, is pretty slow. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z

“Maybe I am,” I muttered, angry that I was sitting beside a human being to whom I could not talk, angry with myself for coming to her, hating my wild and restless loneliness. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Brittle, breaking, destroyed, because The Taker is sitting right next to her. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

On the way back, I noticed something sitting on the old rocker near the door. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

And why was I thinking about these things in the middle of a rainstorm, sitting at the kitchen table with my mother and father? Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

I get up from the table, just as Simon’s sitting down. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

But just then, Lenny heads for the door right next to where I’m sitting on the washing machine. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

And wherever she went, she saw a boy and a girl together; walking arm-in-arm, sitting on a park bench with their arms around each other, standing closely and in silence in a vestibule. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Those sitting around the fire grew perfectly still, their expressions intent. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Second, there is now a dark-haired woman in a black coat sitting to his left. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Daddy and I sleep in one room, while the boys’ study is turned into a sitting room, where I can receive visitors. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

Then, sitting down to our task, I made it perfectly clear: “This is against my better principles.” In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

A skinny man sitting high up like a judge looked down at me and Ty'ree and asked if he could help us. Miracle's Boys 2000-04-23T00:00:00Z

“I need you two as well!” he called to Ron and Hermione, who had been skulking, half concealed, in the doorway of the sitting room. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

It had taken her all that time sitting there to think of the possibilities of a boatyard. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

They stopped then, because they had caught up with Will, who was sitting on a rock beside the path. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

I slump down onto the mint-green love seat sitting vacant across from Poe’s, immediately gasping in pain as my vision doubles. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

At the mall today I’m sitting with Mom, waiting for Dad and Anastasia. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

Suddenly someone was sitting down next to me. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

She was sitting in a pile of Chinese scrolls, reading seven or eight at once. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

Like he’s sitting there, trying to pour his thoughts directly into my brain, so he won’t have to say them out loud. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

You might not notice the water rising as one wave follows another, but if you wait half an hour, the dry patch you were sitting on is in danger of being overtaken by water. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

I imagine my mother and father sitting beside a fountain, under the spray of water, their feet skimming the concrete bottom. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

She had been sitting at a table and writing; something had interrupted her. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

Carefully, Ben placed his new All Stars in the locker, then entered the hushed conversation by sitting on the wooden bench and turning toward Pinkie Taylor. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m going to take attendance and do the seating chart,” she continued, sitting on the edge of her desk. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

My father and my uncle Jim from Pennsylvania were sitting on folding metal chairs and smoking cigarettes. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

The one with the proper lady sitting in her rocker. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

There’s something in brown paper, the kind you wrap fish in, sitting on the dining-room table. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Finn imagined Roza sitting on a bus or perched in the window seat of a plane, blue sky behind her. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

Obviously, he wasn't expecting me to be sitting right there in the foyer, waiting. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Our conductor/evangelist goes quiet, and it’s another minute of sitting in the dark before we move again. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

“I don’t know. I kind of like sitting by myself.” A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

The old man nodded and the boy took his trousers from the chair by the bed and, sitting on the bed, pulled them on. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Best part about sitting there is tearing into my sunflower seeds like they're theater popcorn. Ghost 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

It’s a few hours later and I am sitting now on the floor of a tiny lounge off the corridor that leads to the emergency ward. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

When Isa came downstairs, she saw Oliver, his hair rumpled on one side, sitting slouched on a stool by the kitchen island, staring at an open book. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

She looked around again for Maisie and found her sitting over where the older boys were playing basketball. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

Meanwhile, on the Black Tiger monitor, the end credits had begun to scroll over an image of the game’s barbarian hero sitting on a throne with a slender princess at his side. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

I take a few quick steps and hide behind the wall next to the stairwell, noticing a man and a woman sitting on opposite sides of the empty waiting room. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

I was sitting in the parlor writing in the new notebook Zach had left at my door, setting down everything that had happened to me since Mary Day. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“They opened fire,” mumbled David, who was sitting alongside me, shaking his head with disbelief. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

That might have been what made me sit down with him the first time, but it’s not why I keep sitting down with him. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

The chessboard was always waiting for him, his comer table was always reserved; even when the place was full he had it to himself, since nobody cared to be seen sitting too close to him. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

We were sitting in the lunchroom one day when he told me of a conversation he had had with Professor Appleman. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

He was sitting on a boulder, looking as though his joints might be bothering him. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

I stitched a picture of our little room, the two of us sitting cross-legged on our charpoys with large smiles on our faces. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

He mentioned this to the goose, who was sitting quietly in a corner of the sheepfold. Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z

The sitting was altogether very satisfactory; she was quite enough pleased with the first day’s sketch to wish to go on. Emma 1815-12-23T00:00:00Z

Even though I understand the physics of it, I find it strange that my body could be moving though I am sitting still. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

“I have reached my decision, Harry Potter,” said the goblin, who was sitting cross-legged in a low chair, drumming its arms with his spindly fingers. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

After a while, exhausted and drained, Harry found himself sitting on a bench beside Luna. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

In a chair on the terrace an old gentleman was sitting and the sight of him was vaguely familiar to Dr. Armstrong. And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z

Brave Orchid and her son drove back north, Brave Orchid sitting in the back seat the whole way. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now it was much darker and the moon was high, and then ahead there was an officer, a staff officer, sitting on a black horse. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The rig was perfectly assembled, but sitting in the middle of a warehouse yard, it looked as if someone had put it together to use as a toy. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

I tried not to think of Edward, sitting in my room, waiting, because then I had to start all over with the calming process. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

Crowds of people hang around, sitting, waiting, walking. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

I stop at my locker to get my books, and sitting on top of them is what looks like the Hoosier Hill rock. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

He pulled me along, sitting me on the bench beside him. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

My parents attended the premiere, sitting cross-legged on one of the padded mats spread like islands across the filthy concrete floor. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

She’s just sitting at her desk, catty-corner to mine, with her hands clasped in front of her, and her thick dark braid twisting over her shoulder. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Jinny pivoted to inspect the new boy, the lump in the sand, sitting exactly where Ess had sat a year before. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

Miss Peregrine called from inside the sitting room. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

She might be found sitting sound asleep, not a mile away from the plantation, motionless by the side of the road, in plain view. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

He can’t work anymore, and he’s just sitting at home, surrounded by his eight children, brooding about his approaching death. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

When she doesn't respond, I shift my sitting position, and she glances over her shoulder at me. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

Poppy talked fast and heartily so that before they knew it, they were sitting in a circle with the Bedouins. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

I’m sick of sitting at the typewriter typing nothing but newsletters and Miss Myrna. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Then my gaze slid over the people to the blaze of green beyond the diaphanous curtains, and I felt as if I were sitting in the window of an enormous department store. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

“Joey,” she said, “I want you to listen to Mrs. Howard and do everything she tells you to do. We’re going to give you a little extra help with sitting still and staying on task.” Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

When he turned in to the apartment, Luke was sitting on the steps waiting for him. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

“King,” he says, “why don’t you move one over? Instead of sitting all the way over there.” King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z

He ground his teeth in frustration, grabbed a root, and pulled himself back to a sitting position. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

There was another man there, sitting at the bar. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

And then they both heard from the sitting room, “Mum? Mum?” A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z

And I saw then that she was sitting on a chair before the dressing-table in her bedroom, and Maxim was brushing her hair. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

The other father, who had been sitting on a chair in the hallway, stood up and smiled. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

That afternoon, she was sitting at the kitchen table, reading the newspaper. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

He thought about himself in the rocking chair with his children, and he thought about his mother, sitting in that same chair. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

It was a mess hall, and two cooks sitting listening to the radio got coffee for us. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

I found him sitting out in the middle of the floor on his stool, a pose which is generally indicative of some mental energy on his part. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

Abby was at the other end, kneeling over Scooter, who was sitting on the grass with his legs flat out like the sides of a triangle. Crash 1996-03-19T00:00:00Z

Before we get back to the tree, Rani stops again to buy some dried fish and some other food from vendors sitting on the sidewalk, selling things in baskets. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

By the time the count guard came by I was sitting on my bunk, half shaved and trying to will my shaking foot into a shoe. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

A byzantine labyrinth of rules and regulations, he said, that he was supposed to enforce “sitting in a bar all night long, which I hated.” A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

We were all sitting in the shadow of death. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

I went to the kitchen and he was sitting there with his tea, smoking and reading the Korean-language newspaper. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

But when we reached the bottom of the staircase she was sitting there as usual, her hands folded together in her lap. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

So here I am, sitting off by myself in our private section of a jet on the way to Chicago, trying to get used to thinking aloud, and to the sound of my own voice. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

“So what makes you think sitting long enough through something you hate will get you to like it?” The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

“That easy, eh?” she says, slowly sitting up. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

She spent all day long sitting in the river splashing down the summer rain. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

As I lay there trying to stay sane, I saw my running shoes sitting neatly beside my bed. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

A man sitting behind a desk saw Alex come in and pressed a button. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

And Samira saved me a seat on the bus going home, so even though it was Monday, and the basketball boys weren’t even there, I wasn’t sitting alone. Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

And besides, as he and I were sitting there, I saw Freddie walking up the street, coming from the main campus. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Sen told Eliot she didn’t feel right leaving him alone in the apartment, but Eliot knew she wanted him sitting beside her because she was afraid. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

“I have decided to introduce the crystal ball a little earlier than I had planned,” said Professor Trelawney, sitting with her back to the fire and gazing around. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

They were still just sitting there, thank goodness. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

When she went downstairs to say good night to her father, he was sitting in his favorite chair staring at the television, but the television wasn’t on. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

The horrified Klansman who found himself sitting next to a black person jumped to his feet, freeing up another chair—which Ann’s people immediately filled. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

He looked like a skeleton, sitting there next to me. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

“Yessuh. Looked to me like a man was sitting in the backseat along with her.” Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

But by the time my family gets home, were sitting on the love seat in the living room with a pile of textbooks between us. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

Shawn had crossed the room and was now sitting next to me on the sofa. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

He'd sat on the exact same bench I was sitting on, remembering him. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

Obiora was sitting on the verandah, too, but outside the shade, so he squinted behind his thick glasses to keep the sun out of his eyes. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

It was worse than being outside, than sitting in the car. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

Harry suddenly wished the pod had flown a little farther, so that he need not have been sitting here with the pair of them. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

He saw the king as he had been in the flower of his youth, tall and handsome, his great antlered helm on his head, his warhammer in hand, sitting his horse like a homed god. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

She is sitting up very straight, on the sofa, turned toward me. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

This left a sizable stack of newspapers sitting on his desk beside his snowy owl, Hedwig: one for each of the days Harry had spent at Privet Drive this summer. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

With an effort, he sat up a little straighter and looked around at Harry, who was sitting next to him. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

Luke was sitting on the steps of the apartment, Annie right behind him with her arms draped over his shoulders. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

He shifts his weight and arranges his legs so he's sitting cross-legged. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

I step closer to the staircase and am startled to see Claire in the shadows, sitting on the landing, slumped against the banister. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

“Oh, just my mother and father and uncle sitting around, talking. It's like being a pedestrian, only rarer. My uncle was arrested another time-did I tell you?-for being a pedestrian. Oh, we're most peculiar.” Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z

I busted over to her place and she was sitting at the kitchen table. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

They were gray and silver and unsmiling and proud, like the men sitting in them. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

My last view of her was sitting in the shotgun seat of the Prius, her arms crossed, watching as Blackjack circled higher and higher, carrying Beckendorf and me into the sky. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

When I walk into rehearsal that afternoon, Abby is sitting in the front row of the auditorium with her eyes closed and her lips moving. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

My father was sitting at the table, his face ashen, his cheeks hollow, his eyes red, looking as he had when he had visited me in the hospital. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

The three of them are sitting around the table, my parents in their pajamas and Uncle Carlos in some sweats and a hoodie. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

Matt saw people sitting in the shadows and speaking to one another in quiet voices. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

He struggles into sitting, lets me feed him small mouthfuls but only a few are enough. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

“Mowing grass is useful! And sitting in the closet never hurt anybody! But Peach cries and carries on and makes everybody miserable!” Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Funnily enough, the next time I’m on the route, I imagine my brother sitting at the dining table, staring at my rough-sketched map. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ron was sitting up in bed, the hangings torn from one side, a look of utmost terror on his face. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

The next day, back inside the wall, I was sitting on a curb in the street. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

Grub and Derek sitting on the veranda of the house in Dar es Salaam. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

She agreed to an early dinner with Dimitri that night, sitting at the bar of the restaurant, for the prosecco had gone quickly to their heads. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

When her mother turned her face, it was set as though she'd been sitting at the window composing what to say and how she'd look when she said it. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

“Well, guess what, Sherie? Someone was watching. And I’m done sitting back and being quiet for you, you thieving little witch.” From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Wikki offers a soda to Asher, too, then pops its belly shut and rolls off to where a boy is sitting on the couches. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

We ran from car to car until we reached the first-class cabin, where we found Bronwyn’s trunk sitting just where she’d left it. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

“No, idiot—I just told you it was sitting there.” The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

We were all sitting in the middle of the path. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

She remembered sitting beneath a tree and feeling Ekon’s eyes on her. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

To receive phone calls, she wore her most serious pair of trousers, her most muted shade of lipstick, and she spoke sitting upright at her desk, legs crossed, her voice measured and sure. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

But after lunch I felt as if I was sitting on a giant spring and it was all I could do to keep it from launching me head first up into the ceiling. Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mom was sitting on a stool at the kitchen counter. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Yes. Hey, explain this to me,” she said, sitting down on the bed and motioning for him to sit next to her. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z

Two cars were sitting with engines running, lights on, hoods pointing toward the door. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

They all had porches, it seemed, and a lot of people were sitting out on them, even though it was hotter than hell in summertime. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z

I lay there on my stomach for a second, before finally rolling over and sitting up. Ghost 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

I see her there, so pale she might as well be translucent, sitting in a wheelchair. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

As she rounded the pond she squinted at the sun again, for it had not climbed up the sky but was still sitting on the horizon. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

He remembered Freddie sitting in Sonny’s Shop just before Christmas, saying, “None of my people would take me in.” Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

The kid sitting at the table in the corner of the rec room pores wide-eyed over a map of Europe. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

It was then that they discovered that Boromir, who at first had been sitting silent on the outside of the circle, was no longer there. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

So she gathered a few donations from my siblings and came to the dinner, sitting at the end of the dais. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

I grabbed his hand and let him sort of lean his head on my shoulder without sitting up from his pillow. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

The couple sitting beside us on the couch, the girl was drunk and laughing and bumping into me every so often. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

After a while brother Tom found him, sitting in the rain, and sat with him and shared the darkness and the rain. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

When Sunny and I got to where the rest of the team was, everyone was sitting down with their legs out in front of them, holding the tips of their feet and pulling. Ghost 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

She was too young for me to talk to, but I felt better just sitting with her. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z

At Tours we got off and bought another bottle of wine, and when we got back in the compartment the gentleman from Montana and his wife and his son, Hubert, were sitting comfortably. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

And the only time I did settle down to write was when I was sitting on the Beaver writing in the ship's log. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

He didn't even notice me and Noodles sitting on my stoop next door. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

He read the whole thing in ten sittings in his booth at Day’s and began pondering the whale’s nature at an early juncture. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

I notice no one is sitting next to her. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

I take her hand and lead her in the back door and to the kitchen table, where Mom is sitting reading the weekend section of the paper. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

The kid sitting at the other end of our seat wet his pants, but he wasn’t about to tell that to the red-haired PSF standing beside him. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

Her principal worries seemed to be whether her parents had slept well, how they were feeling, whether they were sitting in drafts. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

Before entering the sitting room, Ashima had paused in the corridor. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Allen and some curly-headed girl were sitting on the curb sharing a book. Lawn Boy Returns 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was sitting at her computer desk, sipping coffee and tapping keys. Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

Except that her voice was an octave higher, it might have been Dad, sitting there in his own chair. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Thank you,” I say, sitting on the edge of the nearest chair. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

But here she is sitting on a toilet with tears pouring down her face like that outer shell of a person has been kicked aside and all that’s left are her quivering, crumpled-up insides. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

The head and shoulders of a large dog were visible sitting beside him. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

She’s sitting at the edge of her bed buttoning her shirt. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

The police officers were sitting on the sofa in the living room, a fortysomething man in plain clothes and a younger one in uniform with acne on his neck. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

He thought he could see the windows and that made him think again of the pilot sitting inside and he forced his thoughts from it—but he could see no hatchet. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was sitting, reading, looking at the map, and there wasn’t time for it. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z

Most of our group presses their faces against the glass to gaze into the huge space full of men and women sitting at long tables topped with computers. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

Georgie glanced at Nero sitting nearby, licking his paws and scrubbing his face. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

Eventually I realize that I’m sitting there with a fork in the air, and food drooling out of the side of my mouth. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

When they reached the mess hall, they found the others—Percy, Annabeth, and Frank—sitting dejectedly around the dining table. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

He was sitting at the table, taking apart an old alarm clock with Brian. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

I remember where he was sitting when he said it. Mockingbird 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

In her fascination with the dead man Ophie had completely forgotten about her mother sitting next to her on the trolley. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

When Connor finally brings Hector over to where I’m sitting, the old ladies are still playing peekaboo with him over Connor’s shoulder. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

“You want to sit together at lunch? I’ve been sitting with some people, but I don’t talk to them and they don’t talk to me. And you sit alone, so...” Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

“How come there’s always at least three big fat officers of the so- called peace sitting at the counter of your dad’s place?” Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

The girl in charge of the Garden had left them sitting in the dark dirt like ducks in a row. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

His mother, wrapped in a blanket and sitting in a rocker, was asleep, too, and Turner didn’t wake her. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

He was stripped to the waist, sitting up in bed leafing through a magazine. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

The inspector, who was sitting at the other end of the cot, broke in as if he could read her thoughts. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

Grover was sitting at his loom, desperately unraveling his wedding train, when the boulder door rolled aside and the Cyclops bellowed, “Aha!” The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

She was already sitting down when I got there. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Clangt went the armour, like a motor omnibus in collision with a smithy, and the jousters were sitting side by side on the green sward, while their horses cantered off in opposite directions. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Later that night I opened my eyes and saw her sitting on the floor next to my cot. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

The only thing that was real was me and Peewee, sitting in this spider’s grave, waiting for death. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

She wondered if Louisiana and Beverly were sitting in their rooms filling out their applications. Raymie Nightingale 2016-04-12T00:00:00Z

Otto was being a total brat, though, sitting on my face and pulling at my ears, then ignoring me when I tugged his ears back. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

The girl is on her butt, too, sitting on the ground away from me, holding on to one of her upper arms with her hand, blood coming from twixt her fingers. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

I take a thumbtack and hang the picture next to the drawing before sitting down on my bed and grabbing my pocket notebook and pencil off my bedside table. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

Charlie giggles and settles into Mama, and for a quick second, I wish it was me sitting there, close to Mama, laughing. Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z

“Anyway, Cleveland’s sitting in jail. They aren’t going to hold the trial until their three star witnesses are ready to testify.” Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

The great ear in which Sophie was sitting began to swivel round. The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Papa, who was sitting next to her on the mattress, lifted its corner and pulled out from underneath the white embroidered handkerchief. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

It was weird sitting in Conner’s room with the guys insulting each other instead of me. Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z

And then the chair was facing Frank, and he saw what was sitting in it. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

He was sitting by himself, his rifle cradled in his arms, crying softly. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Inside the bin, sitting on top of the trash, was a broken mop handle. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

On either side of me, folks are packing cars to leave, hammering wood over windows, or else standing, sitting on the porch, playing music, drinking liquor like it’s Mardi Gras. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

Then a little girl sitting on her father’s shoulders pointed at something above us and screamed. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

Lying on the floor, I looked up to see Esther sitting behind her desk, smiling. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

That afternoon Miss Celia’s in her bathroom sitting on the toilet lid. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

All around the cafeteria, people are sitting with their friends. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

Fortunately for you, I do not think you would complement my sitting room decor. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Lily was just sitting there on her bed with the phone on her lap. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

They are sitting in the cool darkness under the anacahuita tree in the front yard, in the rockers, telling stories, drinking guanabana juice. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He looked at Hyzenthlay, heavy with young, who was sitting in the mouth of the nearest hole and listening to the talk. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

She suddenly remembered going to the United Nations with her fifth-grade class and sitting in the big council room. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

And that was when I remembered Jim Hawkins, climbing up the side of the Hispaniola to steal her, tearing down the Jolly Roger flag, sitting in the crosstrees and holding Israel Hands back. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

Someone was sitting in front, on the passenger side. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were sitting on the steps like that—Mama hunched, Papa tending the blackening rings—one morning a few days before we left camp. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

They talked every second they were sitting next to each other. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

Part of it was sitting on her face and she seemed to be staring at him through the quivering mass of jelly. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

He crept closer and then closer still, until, reader, he was sitting right at the foot of the king. The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z

He ate one of his sandwiches in the second-floor corridor, sitting on a bench with his camera beside him and the can of kerosene on the floor. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

There we were sitting together in front of the village television set. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

Jamie was sitting on the edge of his bed, fiddling with something on his wrist. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

The cricket had been sitting next to the edge of the shelf. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

By the time Luke got home I was sitting at the kitchen table. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

It made me sick to think of the three of them sitting in the office together—just as Ms. Taggart and I had. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

Andre flaunted this unwritten law whenever I was with him, but on this occasion our presence in a parking lot teeming with white faces made me insist on sitting in the back. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Fabian, sitting with his back against the oak’s trunk, put two fingers in his mouth and whistled, long and low. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

“Whatever robo-basket this book ends up in is probably sitting right on top of the entrance to the tunnel.” Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

We were sitting at the dinner table, waiting for my dad to come home with my brother from the airport. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

“You make it sound as though we were just sitting around having a splendid time while you moan and take on.” The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z

“We’ve known each other for a long time,” Annemarie said, sitting down on her bed, which had some kind of Asian bedspread and about fifty pillows on it. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

And then the officers walked over to me, where I was still sitting on the ground, and asked me if I was okay. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

I just drew a picture of the dog and William, sitting together in a summer meadow. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

What they found on Toby’s chair was the little blanketed bundle that was now sitting on Mr. Monroe’s lap. Bunnicula 1979-03-01T00:00:00Z

The next thing I know, there’s a shuffling of motion and Jude’s sitting on me. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

She was sitting so close to my bed that I asked her to move away for fear that the vermin that were eating her might invade it. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were still sitting over their port and cracking nuts. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was sitting in a wicker chair, holding a small cocktail glass of tomato juice. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

It was the time for sitting on porches beside the road. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

“Would you mind not laughing,” I said, “because people think I’m sitting with a lunatic.” The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

A day made in hell, sitting in one or another office of National Police Headquarters. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

We're still sitting underneath the pier, but it's probably a couple hours before dawn, and the skyline has already gone dark. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

I only find her note, sitting next to me, decorated with a flower, as I gather up my things from the room. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

She thought about sitting in the dining pavilion, watching the sunset over Long Island Sound. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Lizzie’s granddaddy was not sitting on the doorstep smoking his pipe, and Turner felt the loneliness of the place. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

“I’ve just been sitting in my apartment. Giving myself the creeps.” The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

He was still sitting there on the wall, legs drawn up, when the other two came back. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

She pined away sitting on the ground out-of-doors where she could watch him, turning her face and following him with her eyes as he journeyed over the sky. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was sitting in the horror section on purpose. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

And thus another hour was spent being measured and pinned, and sitting through a presentation of different fabrics and colors. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

The three of them were sitting around the campfire. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

She drank her coffee, sitting in the strong sun that fell through the window. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

He’s now sitting on the leather chair with one leg over his knee as if he's the grown-up chaperoning this whole thing. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

I reached my hands down to my foot and felt the bandage before I stood up and limped outside, where some soldiers and the sergeant were sitting. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

Then one morning when I went in early to cook breakfast, Lizabeth was sitting at the kitchen table holding a envelope. Girls Like Us 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Her mother sitting in the half- light glow of the television well after Taylor should have been in bed. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

Travis’s father, sitting in a corner, beating the sides of his head with his fists and weeping, two police officers standing next to him, looking uncomfortable. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

I just walk to where Taryn is sitting, a small, satisfied smile on my face. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

“He will be the end of us all, ” he shouted, “sitting at the foot of a human king. Unbelievable! Unthinkable!” The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z

He had finally let go of the Magpie, who was now standing with her bony hands gripping the back of the chair where Meggie had been sitting. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

He was sitting on the edge of the bed, leaning over the trumpet. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

As I went through the standard motions—the rising and sitting, the donning of the prayer shawl, the prayers that came to my lips as naturally as breathing—anxiety stirred in my gut. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

He had not only a bedroom but a sitting room beside it, and the toilet was in a closet right in the bedroom. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

I saw him immediately, across the road not far from Burden Creek, sitting on a large round stone. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

He sees Henry, sitting naked on the pier. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

At a small table, sitting very upright, was one of the ugliest old ladies he had ever seen. Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

A stout, middle-aged man with enormous owl-eyed spectacles was sitting somewhat drunk on the edge of a great table, staring with unsteady concentration at the shelves of books. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

Ophie figured it was based on their mood: most happy ghosts glimmered yellow, while sad ghosts like the one sitting next to Miss Alice were outlined in shimmering blue. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

He felt as though he were sitting in an examination with a question he ought to have been able to answer in front of him, his brain slow and unresponsive. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

He'd been sitting across the street checking out who was going in and how long they stayed. Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z

I’m sitting on my windowsill because I’m still in my shrimp-flavored catering pants. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

She pictures her mother saying all this gently into the next-door neighbors’ phone, standing in the neighbors’ sitting room. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

I say, sitting on the edge of the bed. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Then 1 saw the nurse sitting by the bed and Catherine’s head on a pillow, and she was all flat under the sheet. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

She was sitting up and looking out the window at the marine layer, frowning slightly. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

The Doofus was sitting up front next to the driver. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

First, I realized he was sitting in the wheelchair. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

The little doctor is sitting behind his big desk with an anemic-looking roasted bird on a dish in front of him. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

He was sitting with his hands over his ears, staring down at his desk. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

And I’m a jerk for sitting here, enjoying it. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

Then Rondell shrugged and his eyelids started falling down his eyes even though he was still sitting up. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

“He was sitting on a letter,” she went on. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

She’s sitting at the wooden table, measuring out a grayish powder. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

There was a kid sitting there by himself, a freshman. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

He hit the water in a sitting position, and got wet clear up to the third button of his jacket. Stuart Little 1945-10-17T00:00:00Z

We’re sitting opposite each other in the beer garden at the back of the pub; it feels safer here than on the street side. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Kim was sitting at the next table over with two other preppy girls. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

The next day, I’m sitting in front of the television set watching the twelve o’clock news. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

I'm sitting behind Ma, so I see her profile as she surveys the scene. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

He was still sitting in his seat—probably too scared to move, too frightened to think what Mr. Terupt might do or say to him. Because of Mr. Terupt 2010-10-11T00:00:00Z

Now he was waddling around in the little house like a sitting duck. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Inside the restaurant, Shadow could imagine Wednesday already sitting all his guests down around a big table, working the room. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

“Music teachers naturally use gestures to indicate musical meaning in demonstrating dynamics, tempo, entrances/exits, standing up/sitting down, etc.,” Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

Cole asked aloud, as if his dad were sitting beside him on the rocks. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

He found her sitting cross-legged on the bottom, holding her nose. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

Shady took my hand and walked no more than twenty feet from where we’d been sitting. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

She probably sees a kindly babushka doll when she looks at me, sitting in my hijab. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

She gets up and stands behind the members sitting in the doorway. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

“Nick, I think we’d better talk a little more about this,” said his mom, sitting back down on the couch. Frindle 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

She’d thought about it on the way to Elinor’s house when Mo was sitting beside her in the van, and in the huge bed there, and finally on the drive here. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

The copy place is busy: there are college kids sitting at computer terminals, two men with a stroller at the counter, and people waiting for the copiers. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

I returned to my bedroom to see Lily sitting cross-legged on her bed and talking on the phone to Nathan. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

I would be sitting in the lunchroom and someone would ask, “What did you wear in Africa?” How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

This time, I’m going to be sitting in the front row of the Tokyo Dome. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Moms was washing some collard greens in the sink and Pops was sitting at the kitchen table reading the newspaper. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

We passed by Dad sitting in his alcove in front of the IBM. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then it cuts to five game analysts sitting around in the top tier of the Tokyo Dome, in a heated debate over which team would win and why. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Back in my room I sit on my bed, sitting on my hands until they stop shaking. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

He actually liked sitting for hours in conference rooms talking about international TB control. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

Plus, the side wall gave a better view of Dante’s mother and girlfriend, sitting in the first pew, holding each other face-to-face, their tears mixing. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Richard and the Doc leaned forward tensely but they were watching the line of men sitting on the log. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

In truth, he couldn’t shake visions of Toby sitting in Annie’s apartment. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

There’s picking blackberries in the meadows Gram and baking oatmeal raisin cookies Gram and sitting by the fire reading Gram and throwing balls in the river for Boomer Gram. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

That night we were all sitting at the drafting table watching Lori put the final touches on Shakespeare’s hair when Dad came home drunk. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

She was sitting on the edge of a sandy bank beside a big moonflower plant. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

He was sitting on the couch surrounded by books and papers. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

As we got settled to the tune of “Nearer, My God, to Thee,” I found myself sitting next to Declaration. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Liam blew out a long sigh, finally sitting back against his seat as the minivan reached the intersection of the highway and the road. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

Three men sitting around the stove grinned at him. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Once I got back in the house, Jazz was sitting right where I'd left her, sunken deep into the couch. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

“I need to call my...cousin,” Toby said, wishing it was Mr. Townsend and not the suspicious office aide sitting at the desk. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

And in the middle are two girls sitting next to each other who stare at me. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

Half an hour after, Jo went to ‘Mother’s closet’ for something, and there found little Beth sitting on the medicine chest, looking very grave, with red eyes and a camphor bottle in her hand. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

Except, I could imagine him sitting between Mom and Nana, kicking me under the table as my brother unleashed his most embarrassing stories about me. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

His eyes latch on to the glove box, where the “radio” is sitting like a bourbon-filled brick. Clean Getaway 2020-01-07T00:00:00Z

In his mind, he recalled his mom’s smile, and his father sitting next to her, his hand on her shoulder, looking down at him as well. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

The bathroom was off the porch, and the latch to its door was broken, so that sometimes the wind would pull the door open, exposing the person sitting on the toilet. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

A man sitting two rows up turned around and shushed them. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

The heavyset woman sitting next to me bounced a toddler on her knee and did nothing to hide her skepticism. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

After Kalinda, I find it difficult to come back to sitting in complete silence. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Inside, a young woman sitting at a desk looked up from her papers and smiled at her. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

It is the third grader who, worried about not making it to the fourth grade, copies test answers from the kid sitting next to him. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

And there were more people sitting around than I first thought too, mostly it was men and big boys, but there were a couple of women every now and then and a kid or two. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

She pulled herself to a sitting position and waited for the wooziness to subside. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

I followed him down the long hallway, through the sitting room, and dining room, and into the kitchen. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

From her lap, she mini-pointed to a kid sitting alone near the window, reading a paperback. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

He was happy right where he was, just sitting, enjoying the music. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

I asked, sitting on the edge of the chair. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

Moira, sitting on the edge of my bed, legs crossed, ankle on knee, in her purple overalls, one dangly earring, the gold fingernail she wore to be eccentric, a cigarette between her stubby yellow-ended fingers. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

She is sitting on the floor in her room, her back against the bed. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

He was sitting under a bare light bulb at a wobbly card table. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

To the left and right, various formal-looking sitting rooms full of straight-backed chairs and all manner of couches. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

His mother and Patrolman Mancuso were sitting at the table around an almost full fifth of Early Times. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

I am sitting at the kitchen table, which is really a folding card table someone gave us a year ago. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

My eyes open wide as I learn of this evil machine, wondering if it is sitting in the woods waiting for us. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Petey was sitting cross-legged on a blanket, poking at the fire with a stick. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

He was sitting on the edge of a chair, near his bedroom window, running the bow over his violin’s strings. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

Chip must not have moved fast enough, because a second later, his father had grabbed his arm and forced him back to sitting. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Black people often saw me playing tennis with Helmut, or travelling in a car with him while sitting in the front seat, and their suspicions about my being an Uncle Tom mounted. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

But many held fast, sitting all together in no mind to agree with him. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Suddenly, he’s sitting up, eyes wide in alarm, short of breath. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

A ball could be sitting right there out in the open, just waiting for me. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was twelve, sitting on my rock alone, as was my way, when he first arrived. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

The day they met, Rossolimo was sitting on a sofa, eating a bagel with lox and cream cheese, and he spoke to Bobby with his mouth full. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

On occasion, while sitting, I’d remind myself that fitness was important to a healthy physique. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

“I might as well get it over with,” I had said, sitting in the tiny kitchen. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Hazel and Jack spent the rest of the day sitting in the second floor of their house talking about supervillains and the secrets in their villain-y hearts. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

Blacks caught sitting in white sections of buses or trolleys, no matter how crowded, were subject to fines. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

“Is it contagious? Does his sitting in this hogan mean that all of us are at risk of the same poisoning?” Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

It was only when I looked up that I finally saw her, sitting on the road just beside Betty, her back slumped forward, her head bowed, but alive—alive and safe. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

Zander posted the one from the sophomore picnic, all of them sitting around the table, happy. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

Favell was sitting at the wheel, hatless, a cigarette in his mouth. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

On vacation at Caloundra every year I was confined to the shallows, sitting on the sand while the water splashed over my lap. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

It seemed strange to be sitting in the dining-room and not look out onto the lawns. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

And, reader, truthfully, they might be sitting there still, if a mouse had not arrived. The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z

Luke followed him inside, sitting on the toilet as Coach brought out a small first-aid kit. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

Is he out there, sitting in his car, waiting? Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

Finally, after she’d been sitting for a long time, something did come, but it was a sausage instead of an egg. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

He’s all black as usual and he’s sitting next to Bill Galvin, all white as usual, snuffling and taking great slugs out of his black pint. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

I looked at Dad, sitting back on the couch next to Mom. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The only problem was that I would be in full view of the soldiers sitting on the couch. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

I would suppose he had been sitting here next to me for some minutes without my noticing him, so absorbed had I become with my recollections of meeting Miss Kenton two days ago. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

This morning I imagined I was in the front attic with Petel, sitting on the floor by the windows, and after talking for a while, we both began to cry. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

She's sitting straight up again, her knees together as she leans in to tell me her secret. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

“No it won’t,” Deborah said, climbing on all fours across the pile of papers, and sitting cross-legged in the center of the bed. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

“So guess who I’m sitting across from? At Wishbones?” she asks. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

And then suddenly she sees it herself, sitting in plain view, on a shelf she’d scanned a minute ago. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

He had a strong jawline, fine, regular features, gray eyes verging into blue, and he drew covert glances from many of the young women sitting on the grass. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

She looked like a praying mantis, bent over, sitting at her table, rubbing her hands together. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

A crown of roses circled his head, angelic and pure, and there was a banner curled below his neck, sitting across his chest. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

She was sitting on the steps, gazing off into the distance. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

She was clutching Lyra tight, trying to peer through the murk, and Malcolm was shakily sitting down. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

The Clock Watchers sitting on stools, at tables, and in booths were sullen, hunched over bowls of ice cream. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

Just you and your girl, I hear Bernie say from yesterday, and I realize that Bernie really deserves more than sitting up in the projection room tonight. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

Ira was sitting with her face in her arms. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

For the first time in over an hour, Dolores’s thoughts drifted to the ancient toe bone, worth millions of dollars, that she’d left sitting on the armrest of her car. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

A long way along the table, Hermione was sitting alone, playing with her stew. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

A lot of schools were home for vacation already, and there were about a million girls sitting and standing around waiting for their dates to show up. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

Clarence Pastor, sitting on the porch, ignored Kathy and me as we walked by. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

He was still sitting, so she looked down to meet his eyes. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

I remembered sitting behind Baba the day they opened the orphan­age. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

I trotted back up the path and found Spizz sitting awkwardly on the picnic table bench. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

In the living room Mr. Pirzada, my father, and mother were sitting side by side on the sofa. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

For a while they ate thoughtfully, sitting in the dark, heedless of the cries and sounds of battle nearby. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

On the day I left, Mama was up early, sitting at the place at the kitchen table where she always sat, the ashtray in front of her already half filled with partially smoked butts. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

“Let’s get him in a sitting position, I think, don’t you? I always find it’s easier swallowing sitting up than lying down.” The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

While sitting there at the table waiting for his breakfast, he felt that he was arriving at something which had long eluded him. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

She’s sitting on the couch, knitting a blanket, so I get inside my closet and close the door. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

I noticed that the old men did not lose any time in coming up and sitting near her when we sat down. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

Most people were sitting in the same groups with the same people they’d known all through high school. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

Only her eyes moved, taking in the destruction of the sitting room in disbelief, almost refusing to see what was really there. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z

When she looked back she saw Portia sitting at the table with her long, thin hands up on her face, very still. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

Six of the young cupbearers were playing some child’s game as he entered, sitting in a circle on the floor as they took turns spinning a dagger. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

When I get back to my seat, a girl is sitting next to my chair. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

There was this green room, a very small green room, and his mother was sitting in the green room and her breasts were uncovered and somebody was sucking them and the somebody was himself. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was sitting on his bed, staring straight ahead. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

He had been sitting on a silk napkin that must have belonged to one of his customers. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

We are sitting on hard chairs on the back porch, warmer now than it was earlier in the day from the sun and the heat of the stove. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

Molly came skipping down Main Street, spotted Frightful sitting erect and dignified on the courthouse cupola, and broke into a run. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

Mark and Linda came up later that night, one of them sitting on either side of his bed, like bookends that kept him from falling over. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

On that first visit, we were escorted to the Queen’s private apartment and shown into a sitting room where she and Prince Philip stood waiting to receive us. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Mouse tried to take Osh’s place by saying very little and sitting quietly among his painting things. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

And now I’m just sitting here, among all the empty chairs. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

I asked, eyeing the box of cereal and container of milk sitting on the tray. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

The two of them were sitting in the cockpit, the light of late morning spilling in through the windows. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

Even though recovery was going to take some time, it was better than sitting in that hospital. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

She was sitting there, with her slamsuit off now and in a bundle. Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

But there’s only one chair and Crystal is sitting in it. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

There is a rare snapshot of the two of us sitting on the front stoop the summer we were a year and a half old. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I open the door to the bathroom, I find my prep team sitting in a row on the edge of the tub, hunched and defeated. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

I couldn’t remember sitting for five hours straight in years. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I think I am dying,” he said, sitting so close to the fire, he almost smothered it. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sure ’nough, there, sitting astride his horse not ten yards from us, was Cap’n Buck, his eyes crinkling up in a horrible smile! The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z

He was living on a slightly tumbledown horse farm in northern Missouri, sitting on the back porch in jeans and a cutoff T- shirt. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

Then everybody climbed into rickshaws, the younger children sitting next to their amahs. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

He sits in the classroom and offers those sitting beside him no calming reassurance about their own lives. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

I'm right behind her, looking to see if Eric's still sitting at the nurses' desk. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

The little girl sitting on the floor with Ruth May said something in their language. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Really, she looks like an alternate-universe version of the mom sitting next to me now. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

We stand before a table where three men are sitting asking questions. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

Nothing is supposed to get in the way of the four of us all sitting down at the same time. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

"What's happened to you, Helmuth? You had better watch your step or you could find yourself sitting in jail—or worse." The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

Elinor was sitting up in bed, staring at the flowers on her nightdress, and not saying a word. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

"It's as true as I'm sitting here," she said. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z

I left him sitting with a quiet smile on his face. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was sitting in bed, writing, writing, writing. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

The six men were lined up with their backs to the wall, four standing and two sitting. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

He glanced quickly about before he saw Kate sitting so quietly behind the desk. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

“My guess is that sitting through the trial won’t be one of your summer highlights.” Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

The earth of the dugout was warm and dry and I let my shoulders back against the wall, sitting on the small of my back, and relaxed. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

We saw two girls sitting at a booth together. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

“Dream,” he said, sitting up quickly and attempting to meet Hermione’s glower with a look of innocence. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

She turns it on and brings it over to where Vivian is sitting. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

“What are you doing in this musty old room, anyway?” he asked in his croak of a voice, walking over to where Klaus was sitting. The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z

When the Ghost and the Roach come in, a few tense minutes later, they find me sitting beside him, too tired to even think of moving his body. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

And now I’m sitting on the other side of the world, failing him as I eat food that comes from the country I’m suddenly confused about. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

Rafe was sitting next to her now, his thigh pressing against hers. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

But then, the next thing I knew, I was sitting in the dirt on the side of the road crying so hard I couldn’t hardly breathe. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

Many of those sitting around Yaxley looked impressed; his neighbor, Dolohov, a man with a long, twisted face, clapped him on the back. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

They were all staring at me; they might as well have been sitting on my chest for how paralyzing it was. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

“Bless me, Father, for I have sinned,” I said, sitting on the very edge of the chair. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

And then, sitting hunched up in the cargo area, Alex had recognized the two bundles lying on the floor next to him. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

It was nice, just sitting there watching TV together. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

Pretty soon, Biddy was giggling a little, down inside her ole coat, and then she was sitting up and laughing right out loud with the other folks. Girls Like Us 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Reverend Buckminster had said nothing about not talking with her, or throwing a baseball with her, or sitting by the green-blue sea with her. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

We went in and found that every hiker for twenty miles was already there, several of them sitting around a wood stove eating chili or ice cream and looking rosy cheeked and warm and clean. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

I told the students that as long as they were reading and/or sitting quietly at their desks, I wouldn’t force them to actually do the work they had been assigned. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

She pulled herself upward from the place where she had been sitting in the grass so cheerfully a moment before. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Ma and me had been sitting in the waiting room at the Twenty-Eighth Precinct cop station in Harlem. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

I’m sitting there studying the video camera, and I’m wondering what Sheila would think if she could hear herself on that tape, if she could watch those words coming out her own mouth. Bronx Masquerade 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I first went there he was sitting by the window staring down in the alleyway, not saying anything. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

We were sitting there on the couch together, and he pushed himself up to go but then fell back down onto the couch and sneaked a kiss onto my cheek. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

I can picture our moms, sitting at a cafe table with their Learn About the United States books, sipping tea. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

Picturing her sitting there at the kitchen table with both hands around her mug of tea, listening to the answering machine message. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

Mom and Dad were sitting on small wooden stools. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

This boy in the sixth form was sitting his A levels. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

“I understand this sort of thing is done nowadays,” she said, sitting down on the sofa beside him, trying to sound offhand, but he sensed her discomfort in the uncommon briskness of her words. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

I could not ac-custom myself to sitting in their living room as an “equal.” Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Harry looked down at the man now sitting in the chair and saw that it was Karkaroff. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

When I came to, I was sitting down. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

How could he explain sitting there in the rain? We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

I was sitting in one of those baby carriers on the floor—strapped in and safe as I checked out my world of green shag carpet and matching sofa. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

She was sitting on the teacher’s desk, alone except for a small ring of twittering yellow birds circling her head, which she had clearly just conjured out of midair. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

I wipe my tears with my sleeve but remain sitting. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

They were sitting, five of them, around a table in the room that served as their common room, living and dining room, bar, recreation room, and more or less everything else. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

I ate the entire bar in one sitting. Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z

She was sitting between her parents on the overstuffed sea-foam-green sofa, a large girl herself, wearing a white crinoline dress with a ruffled hem and puffed sleeves. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Now alone in the house, I look for Grandma and find her sitting on the sofa, a blank expression on her face. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

Her stuffed animals were still there, sitting against her pillow, and Hazel lay down next to them and put her hand on the bear, then grabbed it and pulled it into her chest. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

“The Shu sent them. They were just sitting in First Harbor, cannons out, red flags flying, stuffed to the sails with gold.” Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

The old codger was sitting on a box with his Bible on his knees. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

The desk behind the counter was covered with yellow and pink slips of paper, invoices and bills with a half cup of cold coffee sitting on top of them. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

We're still sitting there twenty minutes later when her mom comes in. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The place I’m sitting in is the part of the H that mirrors the part next to the smoking lounge; Noelle said she didn’t smoke, so I think she wants to meet here. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

“We could be sitting here, somebody from New York, London, Boston, San Francisco, all live. And maybe the implementation is in Singapore, so the Singapore person could also be live here... That’s globalization,” said Nilekani. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z

Ethan is already below sitting on a rock by the creek. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

When I come back to Brick's bedroom window, the little guy, Tyrell, is sitting on the ledge, gazing out, the same way I like to. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

And then I see my mother sitting by the open window, her dark silhouette against the night sky. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We’ve wasted almost the entire day,” said the Englishman, sitting down with the boy near one of the wells. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Just sitting there on a rock watching the circus pull away. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

Together we walked a few dozen feet to a small cafe where everyone was sitting around a few small bistro tables. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

I didn’t want to embarrass anyone by saying that all the grown folks were sitting all over the house sobbing their eyes out, so I said, “They’re around.” Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

Each of the little Newtons took a turn sitting on his lap to get through the sermon. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

But I stayed, because I saw Alaska sitting alone, her back to a rain-streaked window. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

He was sitting as far away from me as the desk allowed, but his chair was angled toward me. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

Then he pushed himself into a sitting position again, rubbing his knuckles into his eyes like a small child. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

But this summer Audrey and I started sitting on this couch, and I now realized that it didn’t fit three comfortably. Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z

“Not bad,” said Ron, pulling over a cardboard box and sitting on it. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

No one I knew was sitting by me, and I squeezed the arms of my chair to keep myself from getting up to cheer. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

The squad had just got some new barrels for the sixties and two new M-79 S. They were sitting around a tin can full of carbon tet cleaning the cosmolene off the weapons. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Outside the office were Nasser, Todd, and Ronnie, sitting on folding chairs in the hallway. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

The scholars sitting nearest heard and looked up. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

He was sitting up in bed, as though ready to spring out of it, totally and energetically awake. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

She walked straight past the cafe where Prosper was sitting with the others, and had no idea who was watching her through the window. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

That means we can make a list of seats, showing a seat's number along with the real number that is sitting in it. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

I’m sitting cross-legged on the floor of my little nondescript, white-walled prison room. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

I couldn’t believe that I was sitting at the head table with all the big shots. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

But he was in with them somehow because, when Eleanor was sitting next to him, they all left her alone. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

I looked at the squirrel, it didn’t look fat or dumb to me, it was a regular old squirrel sitting on a branch chewing on something. The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Harry was sitting up, putting his glasses back on, and picking up his wand. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

I saw the rabbi was still sitting on the bench, reading. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

The book is sitting there on the table. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

And Juana, sitting by the fire hole, watched him with questioning eyes, and when he had buried his pearl she asked, “Who do you fear?” The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

Andrea looked out at the ocean as if she expected to see her school sitting out there on the water. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

On the far corner is the all-night Korean deli; two workers, a Korean and a Hispanic, are sitting on crates and smoking cigarettes outside. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was still sitting on the floor in a bathroom stall in a public high school, I was still crazy, and my hair still looked like I’d dunked my head in a tank of ketchup. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

A termite mound rose not far from where she was sitting. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was just sitting there, looking down, twisting his varsity ring around and around on his finger. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

When Tyler heard this, was he sitting here at Monet’s, trying to look calm while sweating up a storm? Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

“God is complicated. But you should know, he doesn’t want you sitting alone. He loves you.” Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

It was how she distracted his father from seeing how his mom....There was someone sitting on the steps of the mobile home. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

“No,” he said, “I’m afraid I can’t. This lady is sitting in it.” American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

Others are alone, leaning against walls or sitting in corners, their eyes hollow or staring at something that is far away. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

I left them there in that room sitting next to each other like two birds on a branch. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

To one side of it there was a shallow alcove in which Winston was now sitting and which, when the flats were built, had probably been intended to hold bookshelves. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

I look up and see him, sitting back on his knees but still panting a bit from the climb and the heat and the effort of bringing Peeta back from the dead. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

Delia chimed in, sitting up on her elbow to make eye contact with us. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

If the motorcycle was huge, it was nothing to the man sitting astride it. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

“I’m okay. The electricity went off and me and Tiger were just sitting here in the dark, trying not to be scared.” Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

I learned to ride by sitting atop weaned calves — after being thrown to the ground several times, one got the hang of it. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Robert Cohn and Bill were sitting at one of the tables. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

He grew up under the clouds, won glory of men till all his enemies sitting around him heard across the whaleroads his demands and gave him tribute. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

They took turns sitting there for weeks, until the grass under their chair turned brown, until even they got overwhelmed by all the people, the endless stream of lost, brokenhearted, patriotic, curious people. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z

When I returned to the cave, Georgie was sitting at the entrance, braiding vines and leaves into his hair. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

Billy was sitting in the driver’s seat, making engine noises in his throat and pretending to work a phantom stick shift. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

And when they switched me on again I was sitting on the carpet with my back against the wall and there was blood on my right hand and the side of my head was hurting. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

And someone sitting to one side of him had said as he passed: “We shall meet in the place where there is no darkness.” 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

It was before I got long-legged, so with her sitting down and me standing, my head was just about level with hers. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

Look, and I could see her sitting drunk on the phone with Jake talking about nothing and What are you doing? and she says, Nothing, just doodling, just doodling. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

He would not suffer this helpless waiting, this sitting trapped on a little island muttering useless spells of lock and ward. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

Anger propelled him to his feet; his legs were stiff from sitting for so long. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

Kaltain passed through her bedroom into the foyer, and then into the sitting room. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

“Mrs. Cadaver was sitting next to my mother,” I said. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

I look across the dining room, and three of the younger people—the big girl, the girl with dark hair and blue streak, and the blond girl with cuts—are all sitting together. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

I’m sitting on the curb, imagining what this street would look like if people picked up the trash and gutted some of the buildings. The Skin I'm In 1998-10-16T00:00:00Z

“He must be so handsome,” Clara said, sitting on the edge of Ana’s bed while Ash finished braiding Ana’s hair. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s resting at L, for lobby, just sitting there, so I step away and peek into the laundry room. Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

A silence opened up in the car that felt like they were sitting on opposite sides of a canyon. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z

She took down Through the Looking Glass and found Humpty Dumpty sitting on a wall. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

I pulled myself up into a sitting position so I didn’t look so pathetic. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

“My fabulous Zoey!” he says, sitting down where my mom had been. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

While I was sitting in the teaching room waiting for her I was wondering about how Miss Kinnian was a nice lady like my mother use to be. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

Mai turned to leave and that's when she noticed the top book on the tall stack of reading material sitting on Willow's night table. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

Much of the crowd was sitting or lying on the sidewalk. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Then I stalked outside, letting the screen door slam behind me and trying not to think about Bertha sitting there on the couch looking like she’d been stabbed in the heart. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

I saw a man, the most magnificent Jackboot I had ever seen, sitting in the backseat of the first car. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

And if there's anyone who'd simply take it in their stride, who'd just clean up the mess and get on with things, it's the two guys sitting downstairs at the kitchen table drinking their beer. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

She is sitting there with her arms crossed. The Skin I'm In 1998-10-16T00:00:00Z

I looked in the door of the big room and saw the major sitting at his desk, the window open and the sunlight coming into the room. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

A few windows might break—the front sitting room, with its bay window, was at risk. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

I glanced at Farid sitting in the car and mouthed, I'll be back, not so sure at all that I would be. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

She was now wide awake, sitting up, and staring right at him. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

Victor returned to the back of the bus, leaving me sitting in a kind of daze. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some of the most arresting images focused on people—portraits of children at play, women cooking, and old men sitting in contemplation. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

He was lying on his bed and I was sitting on his chair. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

I go to the director, who is sitting behind his desk wearing the inevitable wire-rimmed glasses. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

I couldn’t see out the window because I was sitting on the floor, but I saw lots of people looking out. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

The man who was to enter the store and check it out is sitting at the other table. Monster 1999-01-01T00:00:00Z

And then I saw something on the gate—my bear, just sitting there as if he was waiting for me. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

I was sitting on one of the bone-colored benches; the other girls clustered, gossiping excitedly, on either side of me. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

Me and the gang were sitting in front of the New Dealer office with a wagon full of babies. Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z

As I approached, I saw nothing unusual: just two guys sitting in the lightwash of a huge television pretending to kill people. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

Next I found myself sitting on the mower, my feet on the pedals. Lawn Boy 2007-06-12T00:00:00Z

Both of us, sitting at the table, going over our English project. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

We were sitting there, going through the air. Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now she spent her days sitting by her upstairs window, watching people in the street with her sharp eyes. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Horace, who’d been sitting on a chunk of wall, sprang to his feet. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

Moreover, Weaver counseled, there would be no point in building a smaller cyclotron now, if everything might be won simply by sitting out a prudent delay. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

He was sitting with Claire on a bench in a secluded area behind the library. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

The creatures, some sitting on chairs, others reclining on a sofa, were all watching him intently. James and the Giant Peach 1961-11-01T00:00:00Z

I am writing in the morning, having eaten my breakfast; I am sitting at the entrance to the cave with my binoculars, watching the house and the tent for a sign of life. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

Sal was sitting up in bed with one arm in a cast. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

And then there was the time that a maid, new to the Tulane household and eager to impress her employers with her diligence, came upon Edward sitting on his chair in the dining room. The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane 2006-03-30T00:00:00Z

Prosper and Riccio were sitting in front of his desk, wearing their most innocent faces. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

When Dill got to the library, he saw Lydia and Travis sitting at the table farthest from the ever-vigilant eye of the librarian, Ms. White, who was quick to shush. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

I could only steal glances at Mr. Pirzada, sitting beside me in his olive green jacket, calmly creating a well in his rice to make room for a second helping of lentils. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

About two or three hours after we fell asleep I woke up to find Piper sitting up next to me wide awake with a look of naked terror on her face. How I Live Now 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had never combed my hair sitting down before. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some bread in the toaster, some cereal in a bowl, some juice in a glass, and he was ready to go, sitting down at the little table in the kitchen to eat. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z

“Just been sitting in this hot old courtroom for too long.” Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

The new girl was sitting there, staring right at them. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

I went up to Manuelito who was sitting on the ground and leaning against one of the garbage cans. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

They were sitting around the table in the kitchen, so the cup didn’t fall very far, and it didn’t break, just spilled tea. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

“He won’t get it, though,” said Charles, sitting down again, his eyes still on the lawn. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

“Maybe they just couldn’t see themselves from where they were sitting.” When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

Some older girls were sitting off to the side watching the happenings listlessly. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

Everyone else is still sitting at the table, eyeing me like I might open fire. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

His food, which was sitting on the plate in front of him, very innocent and oblivious, gets destroyed over the next twenty seconds as he eats half of it. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

Through an imposing blue door, Joseph entered the lady’s sitting room. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

And I’ve had the hellish experience of sitting next to you at the theatre. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z

I edged into the darkness and saw Emily Sue and Tootsie Rose sitting on a bench and went over and talked to them. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

Not to mention how dusty the Cadillac would get, sitting out there on North Main. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z