Suddenly, there in the midst of all that confusion, he saw the most beautiful sword he had ever seen. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

When we drive back to American Street, all the lights look brighter, maybe there are more stars in the sky, and this city is more beautiful than it has ever been. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

It was a beautiful little thing sitting up happily in its carriage. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

“My daughter, you are my brave daughter, my beautiful daughter,” he said to me over and over, as if saying it could awaken me. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Patrice is model beautiful and always wears her thick black hair slicked back and pulled tight into a low ponytail. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

And there was, at that moment, nothing that was more beautiful to her than America. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

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

The phone went straight to voice mail: his message from another lifetime, the voice of a busy, confident man with a beautiful wife at home. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was around four years old when she was born, and I remember this tiny, squirmy baby girl with a big, beautiful Afro of soft curls appearing in our home. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

“Do you remember what we were speaking of earlier, of how bloody, terrible things are sometimes the most beautiful?” he said. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

It told of Personal Legend, and of the many men who had wandered in search of distant lands or beautiful women, confronting the people of their times with their preconceived notions. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Because even though our orchid was dead, there was still that vast, beautiful field of blue all the way in New Mexico, full of miracles and hope. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

“Not you guys, who live in a broken-down building on the edge of a dead city, slowly turning into freaks when you could be beautiful. Yeah, I’m crazy all right... for trying to help you!” Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

They covered themselves with their hands and turned their backs and so on, and made themselves utterly beautiful. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

If he could be with her, so extraordinarily beautiful and yet so ordinary, predictable and domestic and dedicated, then perhaps his life would start to seem believably his. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

I submit that Zooey’s face was close to being a wholly beautiful face. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z

“It’s beautiful, is it not?” the Sea King said. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

"A bit, yes. She's pressured, anxious. She wants to be the most beautiful," I say. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

The beautiful drive and the memories of San Antonio had lightened her mood. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

I remember what Chicho taught me about perspective and all of a sudden the winter seems beautiful to me, a time of hibernation and waiting, just like I’ve been hibernating and waiting. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

But sometimes sailors from the Indies or storekeepers would give her one—because she was so beautiful and would hug and kiss anyone who gave her a lime. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then she forces our hands to bend backward creating a beautiful curve when the hand is unwrapped. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Indeed, the guard looked dazed and overwhelmed, and Pinmei suddenly realized how even a hero who would not be stopped by the fear of turning into ice could be slowed by a beautiful woman. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

The man in front was easily the most beautiful, his skin olive-toned beneath the typical pallor, his hair a glossy black. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

It’d be a beautiful day, with that clear blue sky and those fluffy white clouds, if it weren’t for the fact that Sandy is missing and no one knows what happened to him. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z

The cricket had just finished his most beautiful concert. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

My viejito tells of walking in the beautiful mountains of Oregon. Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z

I had no idea how to talk to a girl that beautiful. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

It lives in a dirty environment, but amid the muddy pond lies a beautiful flower emerging from the water. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

Next came a beautiful young Yugoslav who identified herself as an optimist, saying that she loved everything that life had to offer. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

Around me everyone moves in a flurry, clearing off their desks to leave only their beautiful, filled-out, remembered packets. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

Brian sighed, tired of it all, wishing he were outside on this beautiful October day, gunning around in the old Chevy his father had bought him when school started. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The girl was shy and did not look at him, but he could tell that she was beyond doubt the most beautiful girl in that part of the country. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

Never have I seen a greater, or more beautiful, or a calmer or more noble thing than you, brother. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

The world seemed more beautiful, less brutal—and so did the future—because Lazlo was in it. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Maria’s stepfather, Jacob Marrel, was well known for his beautiful tulip catalogs. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

I don't have to be white to be beautiful, just like I don't have to be Asian to be beautiful. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

She closed her eyes and pictured the three most beautiful places in Japan. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

They are as awesome and beautiful as the open water, but the valley people do not seem to notice. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Oh, what a sweet house!—How very beautiful!—There are the yellow curtains that Miss Nash admires so much.” Emma 1815-12-23T00:00:00Z

The backs of the horses shine in the moonlight, their movements are beautiful, they toss their heads, and their eyes gleam. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were the only birds which made a practice of slipping off height to land—except occasionally the oldest, gayest and most beautiful of all the conscious aeronauts, the raven. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

“What are you even saying? You just made my brain die a little. You know, people, just being beautiful isn’t enough.” Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

What a sad and beautiful line that is. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

The world seemed to get stranger and stranger by the hour, but the waning afternoon stayed stubbornly beautiful. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

They were beautiful, but to me their beauty seemed aggressive, menacing. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

I saw the beautiful leather leashes and brass- studded collars. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Tyler aimed the camera and focused his lens, waiting for our beautiful, natural smiles. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

If Birdie had been an elderly woman with beautiful penmanship. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Johnny’s hard, delicate hands, so curiously strong and mature for his age, reached quickly to touch the beautiful thing. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even though I knew the view was incredibly beautiful, my brain started misbehaving, and the whole time I was imagining a plane coming at the building, just below us. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

In the luminance, the deep red of the rubies embedded in the carved ivory glittered like blood, a beautiful violence. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

“The most beautiful part of the sale, Goubert, is that it’s a project completely by students. The students sell the chocolates. The school merely ad-ministers the project. It’s your sale, your project.” The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Cursing her incompetence, she stole one of Trotter’s magazines and cut from it a picture of a tall, beautiful black woman in an Afro. The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z

“Easy,” my father’s wife said, flashing what seemed a more and more beautiful smile. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

She stood in front of the mirror a long time, and finally decided she either looked like a sap or else she looked very beautiful. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

And the chicks were beautiful—even more beautiful than the eggs when we boiled them in onion peels and herbs to color them. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z

It was a beautiful antler, proud and pointed, but the other one was only a stump. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

I can’t help but hope Isabella doesn’t wear something that makes her even more beautiful. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

"It looks beautiful, but you won't need to wear it," he answers. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“I am a rat, but I will have something beautiful. I will have a crown of my own. ” The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z

A tall man sings mournfully as he chases a beautiful woman down a mountain. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Together isn’t quite the word for an evil and beautiful team, ruining people and enjoying it. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

It makes the stories patchworks, not beautiful rugs. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

It was smooth and grassclad inside, and there were no trees except three very tall and beautiful silver-birches that stood at the bottom of the bowl. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

“I think you would look beautiful with a giant pink Afro,” he says. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

Dust everywhere . . . and out of that emerged this beautiful boy with the bluest eyes I’d ever seen, holding his hand out to help me to my feet. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

“Yuk,” she said smiling and began to run for the old Perkins place, that beautiful, graceful run of hers that neither mud nor water could defeat. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z

He explained in beautiful language that the African people knew that a nonviolent struggle would entail suffering but had chosen it because they prized freedom above all else. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Color fills her cheeks, and I think it again: that Johanna Reyes might still be beautiful. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

Nathan glanced over his shoulder at me and smiled his big beautiful smile. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

The Maid was beautiful, the Crone wizened and wise. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

He also threw himself into house renovations, to make the old and ugly house more livable, and even beautiful. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

“What happened, dear one? Who is hurting my beautiful granddaughter? ” Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

The old man pointed out strengths and weaknesses whenever heroes met in classical battles, but warfare makes a scramble of the beautiful, slow old fights. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

You black and beautiful—don't let 'em tell you different! Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

And against the opposite wall there was a beautiful glass trophy case. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

"Camellia will tell me if it's beautiful. I do not need all of your opinions today." The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

The lack of food has made her lose so much of her beautiful hair and it is now little more than wispy patches on her head. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

You are the most beautiful person here on this dry, sad path. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

The vines were beautiful, deep green against the glowing sun-kissed stone, like the illuminated marginalia in a manuscript. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

“It’s really kind of a beautiful story—like Abraham Lincoln or Socrates—or Aslan.” Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z

My one friend is a screwup—a genius blessed with the most beautiful girl in the world, and he doesn’t even know it. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

"Teach me, talk to me. Teach me the beautiful ideology of Brotherhood." Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

We race around squealing, scattering like beautiful marbles cast in all directions. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

"It's beautiful," says Dr. Williams, glancing at his watch. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“It doesn’t have to make sense. They just have to be words more beautiful than have ever yet been written.” The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

I never knew how sick she was until that day I tried to show her one of the pictures in the book, a beautiful color picture of the water babies swimming in the sea. The House on Mango Street 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even the rustling leaves and swinging chimes voiced their joy for such a beautiful summer day. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

And when you can feel that, and be happy to feel that, you’ve found It Shug a beautiful something, let me tell you. The Color Purple 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were times when it stunned them both how beautiful Lillian could be. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Tom had beautiful tackle and made his own flies. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

He tossed Chronicler the purse and stuffed the beautiful royal-blue shirt into his saddlebag. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Out of the sky, from a pinpoint of a thing, would dive my beautiful falcon. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’d like to pause under the beautiful red oaks where my sisters and I played in our childhood. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

“All the flowers that grew at Down were beautiful,” she said, “and different from all other flowers.” Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

I watch his hands, his beautiful, capable fingers. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

Music beautiful as this was hard to work on. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

They can give me a full body polish, dress me up, and make me beautiful again. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

Around them spread a beautiful New England day. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

The gray paint peels off the wall in odd and beautiful patterns, each cracked polygon of paint a snowflake of decay. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

I noticed too that even without the rings Miss Thomas still had to be the most beautiful woman in the world. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

It was one of the most beautiful buildings in Ravenskill, with onion domes and high spires that looked like they reached the clouds sometimes. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

“You know, Dedd, the tourist brochures are right. We have a beautiful paradise right here. There’s no need to travel far to have a good time.” In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Hazel had feathers, she had wings, she had beautiful borrowed feet. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

Her blue eyes were beautiful, and the way her hair swept over her shoulders ... The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

He was actually driving this beautiful sports car. Ralph S. Mouse 1992-08-01T00:00:00Z

“Looks like a beautiful night,” Archie said now, smugly, that know-it-all attitude Carter hated. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

She is beautiful and everything she does is adorable, including the way she drools. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The moves came quickly, just like in the club—a simple and beautiful strut, ancient but casual, like walking down the street. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

All afternoon corny people sing about Colorado, about everything being beautiful about how we've only just begun. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

She was way too annoying, and beautiful, and—well, it didn’t matter. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

The one I thought was beautiful the first time I laid eyes on it—on the first day Doc let us inside his cabin to start our lessons. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

Maybe this family, this beautiful bird family, is the kind that sticks together? A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

In one room, a beautiful woman sprawled naked on the floor while four little men crawled over her. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

“Oh! Miss Woodhouse, what a pity that I must not write this beautiful charade into my book! I am sure I have not got one half so good.” Emma 1815-12-23T00:00:00Z

As soon as we get inside, I see it—a beautiful, shiny, wooden upright piano. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

“No games and no lines. Just say, Look, I like you and I think you re beautiful.” Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

I just kept looking at her beautiful face and thinking, Man! Fourth Grade Rats 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

And the beautiful part is that they do. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

She had long, dark hair, and Simply said, she was beautiful. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

It was probably the most beautiful city I’d ever seen: kind of like a smaller, cleaner Manhattan, if Manhattan had been surrounded by green hills and fog. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

There were beautiful pinks and blues and reds and browns and purples. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You are almost sixteen, Kambili. You are beautiful. You will find more love than you will need in a lifetime,” he said. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

And if you're going to live, you might as well do painful, brave, and beautiful things. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

He was holding hands with a beautiful woman who looked a lot like Annabeth. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

“Lenny’s put in a beautiful line of statues and religious accessories.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

When the music finally stopped, the audience reacted with stunned silence; the dance had been so beautiful and expressive. Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

I thank and rethank the beautiful stone angel inside who granted my wish. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

We may pause briefly before a famous masterpiece that we have been told we are supposed to admire, then ignore the gallery full of equally beautiful and important works around it. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had a face that was intelligent and not even a little bit beautiful. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

The Acllahuasi was a blur of beautiful faces and fine scents and giggling voices. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

“Lolly, your city, Harmonee, is beautiful. You are a real artist.” The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

The moon is a stone and the sky is full of deadly hardware, but oh God, how beautiful anyway. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was dressed in the most beautiful furs and her face was very kind, her eyes deep, thrilling, wild. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

She kept her chin tucked coyly downward, sending her hair into a beautiful cascade of shimmering black, but her eyes peeked up at him. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

Her images were beautiful, lifelike, and precise—even scientific in their detail. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

It was sad and beautiful and encapsulated what little I knew about their relationship. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

I told her, “Your uniform is incredibly beautiful.” Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

She had put on a hat and she was still beautiful. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z

It was so beautiful, with the birds flying over it and the flowers blooming on its hills, that I wanted to write to someone who lives there, a girl like me. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even now, years later, whenever I go to the market with my mother, my eyes linger on their beautiful clothes and jewelry. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Yes. It was yellow. When it touched the horizon, it turned the sky beautiful colors.” The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

He sang like a river of fire flowed in him, like music was the only beautiful thing he owned. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

I tell her that he thinks I’m funny and smart and beautiful in that order, and that the order matters. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

The edges of the drawings were yellowed and brittle, but they were all beautiful, and they were all by Georges Melies. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

I wrote Winnie two letters about a particularly beautiful tomato plant, how I coaxed it from a tender seedling to a robust plant that produced deep red fruit. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

My sisters bounce around in their beautiful dresses and speak to other courtiers and newsies. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

And she had seen the beautiful boys who surrounded the merchant prince, flitting through his palace halls in wisps of silk. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Western Biological deals in strange and beautiful wares. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

It seemed sheltered and protected, more beautiful than I had ever seen it. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

Yes, sweaty as she was, she was beautiful. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Just like the ghost shrimp in the tank, she’s both beautiful...and horrifying, her veins glowing red and blue under pale skin. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

He admires the colorful houses, the thatched roofs, and finds both the village and the countryside “gravely beautiful.” Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

I had been right in giving a girl’s name to Lurai, for she laid speckled eggs and, with some help from her mate, hatched two ugly fledglings which soon became beautiful. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

It may be said that this is actually beautiful. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

The town itself had a weather-beaten look to it, with closed stores, rusted-out cars, and worn apartment complexes lining the road, but it was still beautiful. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

The lips on the statue had a beautiful, bossy half smile, the sight of which caused me to move both my hands up to my throat. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The judge was rich, he raised horses, he owned much land, and his wife was said to be very beautiful. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

Years afterward when he was an old man, Digory said he had never in all his life known a woman so beautiful. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z

The most recent pictures were all of her before, when she was healthy, uploaded postmortem by friends: a beautiful girl, wide-hipped and curvy, with long, straight deadblack hair falling over her face. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

He had met a beautiful woman there and had fallen in love. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

My earmuffs are beautiful, I remind myself as I sit, letting the soft fluff brush my shoulder. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z

“It’s nice to meet you all — you have a very beautiful home,” I added conventionally. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

The Hudson River isn’t nearly as beautiful—only gray, no sparkling white waves. Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z

She was beautiful when she was mad, but he didn’t want her mad at him. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

In fact, we changed gears so quickly from serious to superficial that I actually walked out the door wondering if I’d imagined the part where he told me I was beautiful. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

Why had I never noticed before how beautiful his hands were? Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Unlucky from the day she was born, she now had a beautiful and well-loved partner. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

The little rifle has a beautiful telescope sight with a wide field. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ucho said, and he poked a finger into Sumac’s beautiful red belly. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

“Oh, Caroline. Caroline’s different. Everything’s always been for Caroline. Caroline the delicate, the gifted, the beautiful. Of course, we must all sacrifice our lives to give her greatness to the world!” Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Though not you, of course. Cruel, I mean. That is, you are beautiful, but not cruel.” Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

I was the guest at the home of the late black American author Richard Wright’s daughter, beautiful, slender, soft-voiced Julia, whose young French husband publishes a Ghanaian paper. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

The sharp anger in the woman’s eyes startled her; it was as if a beautiful mask had slid off to reveal the hungry beast within. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Isaac snapped out of his tired shock and began stuffing some precious books and the more beautiful of his sweaters into a duffel bag. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

If it was a boy, then it would be as brave as its father; if it was a girl, then it would be more beautiful than any other children. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

It was a rich man’s mansion, with beautiful furniture and fine rugs and carpeting on the floor. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

It was a beautiful animal, and had Celaena not known better, she would have thought it purebred. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

It wasn’t just her dress and the beautiful way her face looked when she passed by the hatrack mirror and saw the red paint on her cheeks and the rhinestone tiara in her hair. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

“One day your grandchildren will walk into galleries in France,” Catherine said, “and there they’ll admire your beautiful body.” Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

“Music to me means so much, such beautiful things,” she recalled, “it seemed impossible that you could find people who would curb you, stop you, from doing a thing which is beautiful.” The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z

“No. I think the court has custody. For the moment, at any rate. The mother is a remarkably beautiful woman, but not one in whom, shall we say, the flame of motherhood burns very brightly.” The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

Trembling and pale, she would hunch over the keys, and this was the signal for a servant to bring her a brown liquid in a beautiful, cut-glass bottle. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The picture showed a beautiful woman with braided hair decorated with beads. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

The seas were calm and the sunrises beautiful. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

I wish Father would appear in my class speaking beautiful English as he does French and Chinese and hold out his hand for mine. Inside Out and Back Again 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

The beautiful shield, a gift from my brother, was badly damaged. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

The other women, who had been looking at the pastries hungrily, glared, disappointed, at the beautiful Freya. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

It was the most beautiful outhouse in the world! Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

They were dressed all in white and were beautiful beyond compare. The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z

“I’ve been told I was a beautiful baby with a perfect, round face,” I said. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

On the windowsills, Tyson had set out water-filled vases with sea anemones and strange glowing plants from the bottom of the ocean, more beautiful than any flower bouquets the Demeter kids could whip up. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

There were about four hundred of them in the grey vicinity—very beautiful creatures, the wild White- fronted Geese, whom, once he has seen them close, no man ever forgets. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

“A beautiful day,” he says, his accented words crisp as crunching leaves, “isn’t it?” How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

“It’s okay,” Ophie said, because that was what one was supposed to say when a beautiful woman smiled at them. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

Her balcony overlooked a fountain in one of the gardens, and whichever it was, it was beautiful—never mind the guards she spotted posted beneath. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

And her mom...her mom was beautiful and brilliant and elegant. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

You left out your first- ever date, with a boy named Daniel who told you that you were beautiful and tie-dyed a T-shirt for you in the art bam. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

“I’ve scarcely seen anything of it yet,” I answered, “it's beautiful, of course.” Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

For Chandra’s sake I smiled and told her how beautiful she looked, as indeed she did. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

I will never forget how beautiful the earth appears from a great distance, floating silently and serenely like a blue and white marble against the pure black of space. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

They wore cummerbunds and white shirts with ruffles on the chest—beautiful men like the one Sandi would someday marry. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

The beautiful snow is melting, turning everything into pig heaven, what with all the mud puddles. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

Flora could see the squirrel’s name—ULYSSES—flying out of the car and into the night, a single, beautiful word that was immediately swallowed up by the wind and the darkness. Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures 2013-09-24T00:00:00Z

It was a real smile this time, and it made her beautiful in the shadowy garden light. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Handsome, well- dressed white men got in and out of fancy cars with beautiful blond women. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

His face startled me — his expression was torn, almost pained, and so fiercely beautiful that the ache to touch him flared as strong as before. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

“Look at how beautiful she is!” he said, stopping people to show them her photo. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

Among the perfectly beautiful immortals he only was ugly. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

But they could see that the handwriting was angular and beautiful, in itself almost a work of art. From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

When Kumalo saw the beautiful girl at her father’s house he knew that he would have to marry her. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

Ambitious men caught glimpses of nobler ambitions than their own, and even worldlings confessed that his beliefs were beautiful and true, although ‘they wouldn’t pay’. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

She tried to think of every pleasant and beautiful and wonderful thing she knew. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

And the lump, why, the lump threw an arm across its beautiful, ugly, pinched-up face and all my fear over Fang dying, about him being dead, turned to disgust instead of relief. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

Lucy and I sat awhile, and it was all so beautiful before us that we took hands as we sat; and she told me all over again about Arthur and their coming marriage. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

The real Henry is beautiful, distant, boring, and closed. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

And not just beautiful, but hot, too, with her breasts straining against her tight tank top, her curved legs swinging back and forth beneath the swing, flip-flops dangling from her electric-blue-painted toes. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

His mother was still beautiful, though her face was a bit wrinkled and cracked with powder, and her auburn hair had a few silver streaks. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

“She knows more than fabric. She’s the most creative person I’ve ever met. Jubilee can make something beautiful out of an empty bottle and an old toothbrush,” Nan said. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

“That the women make cuts and bums on their faces and bodies to make pictures on them. Then they put colored dyes in the cuts and bums. They think it makes them look beautiful.” Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

“The girl,” he added, “is lying facedown on a large and beautiful bearskin rug.” Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

When I was in sixth grade, my mom bought me all these books about puberty and adolescence, so I would appreciate what a “beautiful” and “natural” and “miraculous” transformation I was going through. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

“Particularly when they’re beautiful. Beauty’s attractive, and we don’t want people to be attracted by old things. We want them to like the new ones.” Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

I slash a highway across the center of the page and make it meet with another in a beautiful spaghetti interchange. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

Looking up, I saw her and all I could think was, beautiful. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

I alter bodies, change hair colors and skin tones, give a man a songbird voice, erase agelines, and try to reassure frantic courtiers about how beautiful they are. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

For a moment the beautiful woman nodded and smiled, then disappeared into the grove, followed by her servants. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z

Louie, laying it on thick, replied that he wanted a souvenir of the happy time he had had in beautiful Germany. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z

He holds himself with innately impeccable posture, as if he emerged fully formed and upright out of some beautiful Buckingham Palace posy garden one day. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Folks was up to all hours at those clubs, and there was lots of beautiful women too. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even with the buffalo boy blocking most of her view, Minli could see his friend was beautiful, even more beautiful than he had described her. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

“You are beautiful,” she blurted as she watched him don his riding boots and lace them up. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“I am dreading the days to come soon now when many beautiful birds will be dying in our back yard,” wrote a Milwaukee woman. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

The lagoon was glittering and beautiful, with hundreds of sparkling lights and glowing plants. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

Don Walter is speaking in his low, calm voice, and I’m try- ing to listen, but all these beautiful things are bombarding my senses. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Gisa embroiders at the table, making something beautiful and exquisite and entirely beyond my comprehension. Red Queen 2015-02-10T00:00:00Z

“Don’t forget your curtsy,” said the beautiful woman. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

I spun around to see a tall boy with beautiful greased-back brown hair. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

She loved how beautiful he looked when he flew. Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures 2013-09-24T00:00:00Z

But they also made useful and beautiful goods—copper kettles, glittering colored glass, and steel knives and hatchets—unlike anything else in New England. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

It had been a long time since I had seen anything beautiful. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

They were beautiful creatures, with multicolored fish tails, and the heads and forelegs of white stallions. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

It was beautiful of course; I knew that, and those chairs and tables probably without price, but for all that I had no wish to linger there. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

Even though Cecilia had the rumpled look of someone who had just got out of bed, she was more beautiful than Briony remembered her. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

It is beautiful to look at, it takes a finish well, and it can be polished to a high degree of luster, essential for providing the smooth, friction-free racing bottom a good shell requires. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Then I went to the hardware store and bought the materials I needed, busted out the old tiles, and replaced them with beautiful new ones. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

Her mom wiped her hands on the back of her jeans and tucked her hair behind her ears, and Eleanor was struck, for the ten-thousandth time, by how beautiful she was. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

Lucy was looking sweetly pretty in her white lawn frock; she has got a beautiful colour since she has been here. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

“It just seems a shame that these beautiful tapestries can’t be seen by everyone. They belong in a museum, or...” The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

They’re beautiful: a filigreed pattern, like those Persian designs on mosques, supporting sapphire stones. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

Laura was so happy, when she ran through the sand to Pa, with all those beautiful pebbles in her pocket. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was beautiful, but also kind of sad, because it reminded me of how upset Sophie had been lately. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

It wasn’t that the dress was ugly—in fact, the beautiful wax-print pattern was easily the nicest thing she’d ever worn—but her legs felt trapped beneath the rippling fabric. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

They were both beautiful, with dark hair and easy laughter. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

In the moonlight, the forbidding buildings of Blackcliff are almost beautiful, the sable granite softened to blue. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

The same dark hair, the same hazel eyes, and the same beautiful face I knew so well—with one small difference. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

John Kwang was Korean, slightly younger than my father would have been, though he spoke a beautiful, almost formal English. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Don't you quantify us? Break us into parts? Tabulate what features are more beautiful than others?" The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

She dropped her beautiful face so that the waves of her hair covered half of it. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

I hadn’t noticed before, but she was beautiful. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Even with her hair so plain and her eyelids swollen from crying, Miss Love looked beautiful to me, for she had come alive! Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

“It means beautiful, but with strength,” he slurred. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

"I know she's beautiful. But I don't want to look like anyone else. I want to look like no one in the entire kingdom." The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

She was dressed in mourning, as a sign of respect for the dead king, but she had taken special-care to make herself beautiful. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Emma had always felt that the flowers at Maer were more beautiful than anywhere else, and Charles wanted her to feel the same way about the blossoms at Down. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Inside is the first beautiful thing I’ve seen in the District 13 compound: a replication of a meadow, filled with real trees and flowering plants, and alive with hummingbirds. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

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

She had pictured it differently,dose to shore, crowned with a beautiful white house. And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z

I got into some perfectly beautiful trouble, got out of it again. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

I think it must have been because of Mrs. Baker and her “Shakespeare is expressing something about what it means to be a human being” and the “tragic and beautiful and lovely” routine. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

So I stared at my bird, the beautiful details of the new feathers, the fernlike lashes along the lids, the saucy bristles at the base of the beak. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

She steps into the light, beautiful and dark as ebony. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Carefully, my parents chose my name: Ji-li, meaning lucky and beautiful. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

For all that they were so beautiful, and took their ease, she knew them, and she pitied them, who would have no covering in the great day of His wrath. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

It was the most beautiful room in the house. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

Mainly Dimple tried not to be jealous that not only was Celia smart and glamorous and rich and beautiful, but she also spoke passable Spanish, excellent French, and fluent English. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

There are walks, with seats beside them, through the churchyard; and people go and sit there all day long looking at the beautiful view and enjoying the breeze. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

“For a while, May Castellan had many talents. She attracted the attention of Hermes himself. They had a beautiful baby boy. For a brief time, she was happy. And then she went too far.” The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

To a ten-year-old country boy it was the most beautiful place in the whole wide world, and I took advantage of it all. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Amari had had no idea what to imagine, but the land she saw was surprisingly beautiful, with lush green trees growing quite close to a long, sandy beach. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

I made these cards extra special, the pictures detailed and beautiful. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

My grandmother was beautiful and full of life. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

You see, in American pop culture, beautiful dark women are invisible. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Light flickered around her, and her eyes were so distractingly beautiful I hardly noticed the stallion-sized sea horse she was riding. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

He saw that she was beautiful, in a very different way than the women of Zosma were beautiful. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

“Pretty! say beautiful rather. Can you imagine any thing nearer perfect beauty than Emma altogether—face and figure?” Emma 1815-12-23T00:00:00Z

Quit? naturally, as we moved down the beautiful coast my method of travel was changed. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

How beautiful we all were, bathed by the soft and silver light. Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Somehow, I felt as though I were standing there naked in front of that beautiful girl. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

"They're such beautiful shirts," she sobbed, her voice muffled in the thick folds. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

The light elves are as beautiful as the sun or the stars. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

The home is impeccably clean, with soaring ceilings and beautiful, modern furniture. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

"She was more beautiful than that," the king said after a silence. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

They were beautiful, like fine stone walls, with grass and moss growing over them. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

Heaps of skeins of beautiful threads colored like the rainbow lay beside each, and threads of gold and silver too. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

He has a light, nasal tenor—so beautiful. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

Then Frisch wanted to know whether she could see the beautiful colors of the flowers. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

“God, this town is beautiful at this time of the year,” Ben said. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the south, San Francisco gleamed all white and beautiful, but in the north, over Mount Tamalpais, huge storm clouds swirled. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

The monks, Babi said, painted beautiful frescoes along the walls and roofs of their caves. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

“It is beautiful,” I say and I mean it. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

The Mallister bowmen sent a storm at fire arrows hissing across the river, strangely beautiful from afar. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Most of the sky was clear, but even the one cloudy part was beautiful. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Watching through his Omnioculars, Harry saw that they didn’t look remotely beautiful now. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

I had just seen a group of boys from a dozen war-torn countries come together as a team and play beautiful soccer. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

Everywhere, everywhere, are beautiful objects collected by Tipper and Granddad. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

"This is a beautiful movie theater. Why was it closed?" The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

I’d love to have a Court dress like the ones I have seen in Oriana’s wardrobe, opulent patterns intricately stitched on skirts of gold and silver, each as beautiful as the dawn. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

I can still see sleep lines on her beautiful brown face. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

“Like it? It is more sweet to me than I can tell. Say ‘thou’, also, and I shall say your language is almost as beautiful as mine.” Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her face was so beautiful it made me catch my breath, but her expression was stern and dangerous. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

“This is a pretty pleasure-ground, sir. This spot and these beautiful works upon it ought to be kept together by the Nation, after my son’s time, for the people’s enjoyment.” Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z

His recollection of Harriet, and the words which clothed it, the “beautiful little friend,” suggested to her the idea of Harriet’s succeeding her in his affections. Emma 1815-12-23T00:00:00Z

By the impossibly beautiful light of the sunrise, he looked like an old man. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

Some of the beautiful slate shingles of these roofs were missing, and decaying soffits hung down from them, too. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

This girl, so breathtakingly beautiful in her golden dress the night of the interviews, is unrecognizable. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

The sky had never looked so blue, so beautiful. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

She looked even more beautiful in the flame’s glow. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

I had a husband I deeply loved and two beautiful, healthy girls. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

The world was beautiful when looked at in this way— without any seeking, so simple, so childlike. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z

His voice echoes in my head, calling me beautiful. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

Helene thought about the trip South with heavy misgiving but decided that she had the best protection: her manner and her bearing, to which she would add a beautiful dress. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

It was so big and, beautiful, it made me gasp. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

“The horse is indeed strong,” said Balder, most beautiful of all the Aesir. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

It is a place of the most wondrous and gratifying possibility, and beautiful, too. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

Counterpoint, to Bach, was the ultimate set of laws in music; obeying these laws was for him something beautiful, uplifting and reassuring. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

It was far better to sit in the night alone with the beautiful horse standing guard above him. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Doña Ana said Miss Jiménez had the most beautiful legs she’d ever seen, and the next day, while Miss Jiménez wrote the multiplication table on the blackboard, I stared at them. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

I watched from the raft as the beautiful deep began to swallow the massive boat of steel. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

Whenever he came for a visit, he wore a beautiful suit, dress shirt, and necktie. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

There was something frigidly beautiful about him, something untouched and untouchable. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

It’s a beautiful, postcard-from-Maine morning, as Jack calls days like this. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

God, even in this state, he is beautiful. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Fanning had broken the spell of the wild and beautiful dancers. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

It’s a little bit eerie and disorienting but also kind of beautiful, in an odd way. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Last night, for example, Margot was reading a book with beautiful illustrations; she got up and put the book aside for later. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

They were beautiful murals, done in bright colors, and the great men in them looked alive. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

Would I be able to do my best onstage—ignore all the buzzing in my head, all the noisy distractions, and just hear the beautiful blue sky of my trumpet? Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

His voice was that beautiful, high and clear and so filled with life it made you want to laugh and cry at the same time. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

“No, you are beautiful on the outside,” I say. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

The soft and beautiful West Indian accent and way of speaking weren’t always dear. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Never have tampon strings seemed so beautiful as they rolled up and down with the wind, landing on the ground and then twirling and floating up again, falling and rising and falling and rising. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z

If anything, the face I saw in the photo seemed even more beautiful to me than that of her avatar, because I knew this one was real. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

‘I doubt that she is as beautiful as you imagine,’ he said, and he raised his sword again. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

“Everybody in my family thought life was beautiful. We grinned at each other morning, noon, and night. We had real-life Pepsodent smiles. Nobody ever got angry at anybody else. Life was a bed of roses!” The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“As I was saying, this is a beautiful town, full of beautiful, hardworking people.” The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

I walked through a beautiful garden around to the back. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

Silver nudged her hand, Miyax opened the flap wider, and the beautiful wolf came in. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Faerie might be beautiful, but its beauty is like a golden stag’s carcass, crawling with maggots beneath his hide, ready to burst. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

On the first day that she spent at Kumalo's house, people came from all the nearby hills to look at the beautiful girl. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

There’s something beautiful and eerie about a darkened, unmoving Ferris wheel. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

The words were mysterious and beautiful, so I let him stay. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Of course! Why else would I be in this fine place with two beautiful njuzu girls to wait on me?” A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

The women straightened their spines and elongated their necks, their beautiful faces like flowers opening in the heat of the fire. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

I enjoyed walking on the beautiful street, and I loved poking around inside the building, with its fascinating secrets. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Although they came from a simple unsophisticated small-town family, both of them, quite independently of one another, developed a powerful interest in beautiful things. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

She whispered, “This is beautiful. This is an A-plus for sure.” Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The moon saw how beautiful they were and how much in love, and gave them a baby for their very own. Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z

He’s managed to get the most beautiful woman in the place again. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

This was the most beautiful piece of jewelry I had ever touched. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were at Mass. “Oh, Jenny, the beautiful chapel with all its lights and everything! You would say: The flowers and the candles.’ The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Surely God wouldn’t have given him a beautiful wife and children if he didn’t mean to provide for them. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

For me, it was so that I could find love and freedom in this new home called America with my beautiful girls. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

One of the robed figures, the furthest-off one of all, the woman whom Digory thought so beautiful, was rising from its chair. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z

“They’re beautiful,” he said, still too entranced by them to do much else. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

Maybe it was her new, more powerful magic talking, but Seven had never remembered a more beautiful spring in Ravenskill. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

"She says that they made music so beautiful that it made you cry like a little baby just to hear it." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

And then she thought of Aron’s beautiful face so like her own and a strange pain— a little collapsing pain—arose in her chest. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

"I enjoy the look of miniskirts, I won't deny it. But the long wrap-things from India that you wear are beautiful. What are they called?" You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Daily, however, at the hour she invited him, he visited the beautiful Kamala, in handsome clothes, in fine shoes and soon he also brought her presents. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z

They arrange items on beautiful brocade cloths under the careful watch of a trio of well-dressed ladies. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

“And beautiful and full of monsters,” he agreed, and he knew then what he would tell her. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

"Oh, of course not, beautiful, she only told two of us girls. She couldn't afford to let her husband hear of it. He . . . well, it's too long a story." Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Butterflies too are few and so are flowers and most things that are beautiful. The House on Mango Street 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

The basket of green leaves suddenly seemed to be giving off a beautiful, sweet perfume. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

“What happened to your...to your beautiful butterfly?” she said. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

The leash trembles in his grip as he walks the beautiful animal around the table. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

I find myself standing on one of what seems like a million floating islands, staring down into the most beautiful valley I’ve ever seen. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

At that moment, Courtney Speed appeared at the bottom of the steps, her long black hair piled loose on her head, strands hanging in wisps around her face, which was thin, beautiful, and entirely ageless. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

“Well . . . yes. He was beautiful. But we felt so guilty—” “Guilty about what? What are you talking about?” The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

The guns and the wagons float past the dim background of the moonlit landscape, the riders in their steel helmets resemble knights of a forgotten time; it is strangely beautiful and arresting. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

She is tall and dark-skinned, beautiful and broad shouldered. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

Later, at night, waiting for sleep to come, Cheetah doesn’t have to lick any tears off my face because I’m so busy picturing how beautiful I’ll look in mestizo clothes. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

You can see the most beautiful things from the observation deck of the Empire State Building. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

They weren’t made out of gold, like most of the Golden Crescent’s beautiful creations. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

The women jumping one after another from the cliff, their beautiful silk dresses billowing in the air—pink, red, green, blue . . . indeed, like flowers falling.” A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

I'd imagine I was James Bond meeting beautiful older women at the roulette tables and walking arm in arm up to their rooms where something dangerously exotic might happen. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

It was suggested the children study Morse code in the dining room, but the afternoon was so beautiful, and the shady courtyard so inviting, they begged to pack lunches and study outside. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

Each flake was different, Sister Zoe had said, like a person, irreplaceable and beautiful. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

The bolts meet in a beautiful explosion in the middle of the room. Harry Potter and the Cursed Child 2016-07-31T00:00:00Z

When he opened his eyes, he was on the bottom of the pool, and there was beautiful music everywhere. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

He remembered the book because he thought it had looked beautiful, magical, like something cast from another world entirely. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

He is mute in the brasseries where they eat their lunches, mute in the shops where he gazes at beautiful belts, ties, paper, pens; mute on the rainy afternoon they spend together at the d’Orsay. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Wow, this is beautiful,” said Summer, looking around as she dropped her sleeping bag in the hallway. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

“It’s so beautiful it makes you ache just to look at it,” said Mary. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Yes, you are she. You are beautiful like your mother.” Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

“She’s a heart surgeon in New York, married to a handsome man in publishing. She’s got a beautiful child and the life she always dreamed of.” We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

Mollie could not cure her, but she could feed her, and she could brush her long, beautiful, silvery hair from her face—a face that was lined and expressive, that maintained its aura. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

About thirty yards away, lounging in the shade of the cedar trees, were four big, beautiful cats. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

“First of all, I found him, so no way is anyone going to eat him. Look at him. He’s beautiful.” Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

He thought she would be beautiful in any color, but found he missed the true exquisite hue of her. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Devon’s hair is brown and people say his eyes are big and beautiful and brown but really there’s a lot of black and white in his eyes. Mockingbird 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Pick the most beautiful actress you can think of. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

The canoe when I had finished was not so beautiful as it had been before, but I could now lift one end of it and drag it through the waves. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

The nut-brown woman had probably been beautiful when she was young, Big Time thought. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Despite how beautiful everything was—the curving wheat that was more yellow than the week before, the sky that was cloudless today—she felt a stab of loneliness. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

So all three of the most beautiful places in Japan had to do with water. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Mother smells of lavender and warmth; she’s so beautiful even if her cheeks are too hollow, her mouth too dark with worries. Inside Out and Back Again 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

First let’s get it clear that the house is practically falling down, but for some reason that doesn’t seem to make any difference to how beautiful it is. How I Live Now 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s because you’re so beautiful,” he says back, without missing a beat. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

I figured Grandma was going to thank our God for the beautiful weather and the gift of spring. Because of Mr. Terupt 2010-10-11T00:00:00Z

When the city appeared before her, its walls and towers shimmering white behind a veil of heat, it looked so beautiful that Dany was certain it must be a mirage. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

“It was a beautiful pill, honey. Feel proud.” The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

For a beautiful, poetic language, it sounded harsh as Klingon when they fought, especially when Mamou joined in and turned it into a three-way argument. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

“What—?” Koffi scrambled away from the bowl in horror, not caring as more blood dripped down her arm to stain the beautiful rug. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

“It’s not often you get someone who is clever and beautiful and fond of sport.” Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

Mother even went so far as to set me up with a third cousin, who is thirty-five and beautiful and clearly homosexual. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

I sit beside him and I think about sex because that’s what happens when your beautiful boyfriend is in bed with you. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

Indeed, I have seen in encyclopedias and the National Geographic Magazine breath-taking photographs of sights from various comers of the globe; magnificent canyons and waterfalls, raggedly beautiful mountains. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

Tile corridors with arches that looked onto a large courtyard with beautiful gardens connected the buildings in the oldest part of campus. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

If an art is true, if an art is free of falsenesses, it is, a priori, beautiful.” Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

I think Dad is mostly happy that it’s completed and beautiful. Mockingbird 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

I don't know what positivity has to do with Uncle Max, or what a beautiful yearbook has to do with anything. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Up on the hillside, at the foot of a beautiful red oak tree, I dug his grave. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Erin’s so charismatic and beautiful that my dad and pop never pay any attention to me when my girlfriend’s around. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was a beautiful night, full moon, the meadow like silver and the housefronts throwing square black shadows sharp as cutouts on the grass. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

The woman was beautiful in a timeless, regal way—like a statue you might admire but could never love. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

“Jo would find us out, and spoil it all. She is very proud of him, just as he is, and said yesterday that she thought poverty was a beautiful thing.” Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

The effect is beautiful and eerie, and the place seems to glow. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

And of course, they might just enjoy spending a little time on a farm, chatting on the porch with the Salatins, and taking a beautiful drive in the country to get here. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

He couldn’t make himself watch Mr. Andrews’s beautiful ship disappear. I Survived the Sinking of the Titanic, 1912 2010-06-01T00:00:00Z

She looks even more beautiful than she looks every day. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

He said it came from his grandmother, who had lots of beautiful things of that kind. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

It is so beautiful: black, never ending, and brightened by billions of stars. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Oh aye? My boys’d turn you into mincemeat if I gave 'em the nod. Still call 'em beautiful animals then, would you?” Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

Maria's beautiful, accessible art and text electrified her fellow naturalists. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

There is this one photograph of Sam that is just beautiful. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

He likes to draw the girls, too, and makes them extra beautiful with very long eyelashes. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

He cradled the instrument in one arm and, almost before his fingers touched the strings, a gentle melody, as beautiful as the curve of the harp itself, lifted like a voice singing without words. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z

“Oh what a beautiful morning, Oh what a beautiful day. ” Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

She looked beautiful and about twenty-three years old. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

She heard only the music, only the beautiful music. Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

I found beautiful pieces of coral and elaborate shells, which I sometimes brought back to my cell. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

They broke and parted and it was there, huge and beautiful and so close I could reach out and touch it. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

The view from the hotel was beautiful, but here too the water was thick and toxic. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Don’t you want to see the top? It is very beautiful.” Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

The gleaming hook on its end is almost beautiful, like a sliver of moon. The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z

When I look at the Abnegation lifestyle as an outsider, I think it’s beautiful. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

It is beautiful, ancient, mysterious and - in its incredible test of human memory - miraculous. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

It was snowing, and I remember saying it was the first snow of the year, and how we’d had such a beautiful long autumn right till then. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

And yet it’s good that we have to surmount them, since it makes the end that much more beautiful. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

“It is a beautiful part of my theory that domesticated races ... are made by precisely the same means as species.” Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Chandra was very beautiful, with golden-brown skin and sad, pleading eyes. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Jubi, you look beautiful,” she said and touched one of my dark curls. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

Here, in this clean and beautiful place, among people I had always known, I wasn’t sure where I fit. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

“The idea of San Francisco being a cultural mosaic—literally a collage of different cuisines—is very clever. Technically it’s beautiful, and it’s executed perfectly.” Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

Why had the beautiful fairy mutated into a revolting little devil? Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

They prepared a great feast for his new wife and when she arrived they all cried with joy when they saw how beautiful she was. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

It rose up in the distance, more beautiful than Mark would’ve ever guessed one of the beat-up old things could look. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

“It will not be so beautiful,” the old man said. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

“But then why would it have been kept in this beautiful box?” The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

She was a beast again, no longer the beautiful young woman she’d spoken to a day prior, but her dark eyes were uncannily expressive. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

He left the doorway to come meet us halfway up the sidewalk, and Mamá, looking beautiful in her blue Sunday dress with the ruffled neckline, seemed surprised to see him there. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

Brett saw how something that was beautiful done close to the bull was ridiculous if it were done a little way off. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

And he would think that the reason the photograph was beautiful was because of how he took it. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

Would it really be like the movies I’d seen, with beautiful people everywhere, or would it be a place full of hate and race riots like the Cuban newspapers described? The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

Good English is clear English: it’s efficient, precise, sensible, economical, sometimes even beautiful. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

The moon and the stars were beautiful, the brook, the shore, the forest and rock, the goat and the golden beetle, the flower and butterfly were beautiful. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z

The favorite shows the world what is beautiful. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

Her mother wouldn’t stand for her beautiful Galadriel to be in a dump like this for one single minute, once she knew. The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z

I was playing at Anker’s later that night when I caught the eye of a beautiful girl sitting at one of the crowded tables in back. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

I thought I had never seen any one so beautiful. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

I wanted to crawl in between those black lines of print the way you crawl through a fence, and go to sleep under that beautiful big green fig tree. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

“Does he have ugly hands? Sometimes beautiful people have ugly hands.” The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

But she is also beautiful and strong and funny. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

She was so beautiful when we lived in Phnom Penh. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Inside was a beautiful horse—not the winged kind, but a majestic and powerful stallion with a honey- colored coat and a black mane. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

When Bloom read his beautiful girls, Pauline and Maria, their bedtime stories, he nearly burst into tears. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

He lets me go, and as I look up into his beautiful brown face, I want to tell him everything. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z

Funny how you notice how beautiful things are just when you’re about to leave them, she thought. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

I breathe through gritted teeth, staring at Molly’s blood-covered face, the color deep and rich and beautiful, in a way. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

They were extraordinarily beautiful, and there was a strange brightness about them, a sort of luminous quality that made them glow and sparkle in the most wonderful way. James and the Giant Peach 1961-11-01T00:00:00Z

But for the moment, life cannot be more beautiful. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

"While on the subject of beauty tokens, there's very beautiful craftsmanship this season. I chose the artisan myself from the House of Smiths." The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

Staring at myself in the mirror, I laugh and pull at the curls, thinking they are beautiful. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

After he had been calling on her for almost a year, he finally mustered his courage and had a beautiful picture taken of himself. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

I started to feel pressure to look like what America considered beautiful. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

“Smiles aren’t beautiful because of teeth. Smiles are beautiful because of a person’s spirit.” I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

“Why, it’s beautiful, Rucker! I never noticed before! Goodness, it would make a lovely design for dress goods. But...what’s the point?” Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

And black has become a beautiful color—not because it is loved but because it is feared. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z

She wore a little outfit just like the maids I’d seen on TV She was very beautiful. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

It is really a small river, and quite beautiful, or used to be. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

The officer’s account is a beautiful example of how a high-stress moment—in the right hands—can be utterly transformed: It was dusk. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

Southern California is warm and grand and beautiful. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

That’s what I heard here, now, beside the water with this beautiful girl pulled into the bony shell of my arms. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

It finished the beautiful pattern and settled itself at the center with blue-furred legs outspread. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was, I think, the most beautiful black woman I had ever seen. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then she stitched them back together, inside out, and the results were eerily beautiful. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

There had been something beautiful and scary about it. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

Our sleeping-bags, coats, and hoods were lined with that same fur, an unsurpassed insulator and very beautiful to see. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

I was in disbelief that I’d just explained my dreary life to this bizarre, beautiful boy who may or may not despise me. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

“Welcome to our secret room. Got some nice automatic weapons. Grenades. Some beautiful killing machines, really. Here’s my personal favorite.” Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

Vincent has friends who send him “a beautiful delivery of flowers every week,” which serve as a model for him to paint. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

No. You, sir—you used my beautiful son. Harry Potter and the Cursed Child 2016-07-31T00:00:00Z

There was a thick red rug on the floor, and he had bought a beautiful cloth of Chinese blue to hang on the side of the wall where the cracks were worst. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

This song is so beautiful that it makes Harp and Gully weep over how beautiful it is. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

He told me that I’ve never been more beautiful, and I almost believed him. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her face was different, too—sharper, more beautiful. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

I smiled while everybody laughed, and she looked so beautiful in the bonfire glow. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

It had certainly been that way with Cecilia, the beautiful butterfly who had turned out to be a poisonous wasp. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

He had been a contem-porary of Metternich and was an old man with white hair and mustache and beautiful manners. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

The choir was led by a friend of Mother’s who had a beautiful voice. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

He guided me through his beautiful house and I remember trying to stay away from the walls so I wouldn’t get blood on them. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

The word “beautiful” came to his mind, but he shook it away and hurried up toward the house. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z

From her memory, Dr. Geffard whispers: That something so small could be so beautiful. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

She was dressed in golden cloth, and she was as beautiful as her mother-in-law was alarming; she carried two of the tiniest giant thimbles, which she had filled with beer. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

That beautiful black hair was gone, shaved to the skin, and so were the fire in her eyes and the flush of her cheeks. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

In the solitude of the field house on that beautiful August morning, it was hard to believe that anyone else did matter. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I had a dad, in Iran, we had a house and it was so beautiful. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

The garbage shifted again, and suddenly, miraculously, the beautiful, buttery light of late afternoon shone on Edward’s face. The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane 2006-03-30T00:00:00Z

“Baby, do you know how beautiful you are?” Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Her once beautiful leg had no stocking and the foot was in a slipper. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

That does not count as math, because one does not have to understand how it works or what it means in order to think that it looks sort of beautiful. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z

There she was, waiting for them in the shed, Nefertiti, the beautiful queen of ancient Egypt, like a magical omen, or, as April put it, “a beautiful messenger from out of the ancient past.” The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

I could not escape, so I looked to the sky, to Inti, the beautiful sun, trying to lose myself in his glowing golden warmth. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

“You killed him! He was beautiful, and you killed him!” Beowulf: A New Telling 1968-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You look so beautiful,” she said to her only granddaughter. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

But I was delighted to behold what a beautiful woman my youngest daughter had become and how closely she resembled her equally beautiful mother. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ivy grinned and all those bats softened into delicate, beautiful butterflies. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

“Okay, everyone. We’ve got a busy day ahead. Time to disperse. Let’s get to work. It’s a beautiful morning.” Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

How beautiful the sky looks with its orange and purple swirls. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

People had raised their eyebrows when Ali, a man who had mem­orized the Koran, married Sanaubar, a woman nineteen years younger, a beautiful but notoriously unscrupulous woman who lived up to her dishonorable reputation. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Helen the beautiful came down from her fragrant chamber attended by her women, one carrying her chair, another a soft carpet for her feet, and a third her silver workbasket filled with violet wool. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the gardens, a tea pavilion shimmers: a thick white-fur canopy draped over a beautiful low table, set with flowers, pastel teacups, and flickering candles. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

She has beautiful lips, I notice distractedly, the top one fuller than the bottom. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

It bounds around seeking prey with huge claws and three rows of teeth, but it makes the sounds of a beautiful silver flute. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then I drew the princess running, her beautiful golden hair tumbling down the mountainside... Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

A Scholar, even, and those who saw her said she was very beautiful. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m glad he did. It would dirty a beautiful moment for Angel.” Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

He spent wonderful hours with the clever, beautiful courtesan and became her pupil, her lover, her friend. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z

When a seizure comes on, to be honest, everything looks especially beautiful. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

My parents gave me a lute, a beautiful thing of smooth dark wood. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

She had been “Little Miss Magnolia” of Aurora County when she was six years old, and she was the most beautiful homecoming queen Snapfinger High School had ever seen—folks still said so. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

“You see I've been leading a sort of a funny life. And I never even talk English. And then you are so very beautiful.” A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

Even after five days of rough treatment, she’s still beautiful, which is how I know this is going to work. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

I thought the most beautiful thing in the world must be shadow, the million moving shapes and cul-de-sacs of shadow. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

My mother had told me he was beautiful. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

“Hello, beautiful people. It’s your girl, Gervean Campbell, and welcome to another edition of Black, Vegan, and Proud.” Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

"Your teacher's death isn't beautiful. And your parents' death certainly isn't," Chrétien continues. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

When she saw what the fruit in her lap had done to her beautiful ivory silk dress, she shrieked again. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

“Yes,” her mother replied, “but he thinks the things he buys are beautiful and we don’t want to hurt his feelings.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Suddenly all those feelings I had about going to a new and beautiful place seemed wrong. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

From Earth, Venus is a beacon in the night sky, beautiful and bright. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

Perhaps she was excited, thinking of her youngest child returning home healed and beautiful, ready to resume her training to become a shaman, right and true. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

The inside of the car was now one writhing cloud of smoke in which two lights glinted, copper-colored, like the beautiful eyes of a toad. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

You’re so beautiful when you run barefoot, I think, but I don’t bring myself to say it. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

“How could you see well enough to work? How could you grow your food? It’s a beautiful light, but not bright enough to live by.” The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

I don’t know whether to be more thankful or terrified—but terror dissolves as I realize how beautiful she is. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

“I want to destroy all the beautiful things.” First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“This is geode—ugly on outside, beautiful on inside. If you break it open, you will see that inside it look like diamonds.” A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

A ship full of food and luxury, her neck and fingers and wrists draped in gold and jewels, and a face more beautiful than anything he had ever seen. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

The beautiful girl spoke of the invaders with pride. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

She stitches flowers made of fire, each one a beautiful flame of thread against oily black silk. Red Queen 2015-02-10T00:00:00Z

They were beautiful and frightening, stunningly frightening at the same time. The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

I don’t know if I could shake that song off so easy if I had to look into her beautiful white face and remember what almost happened to us. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

His skin was beautiful, silky and russet-colored; his eyes were dark, set deep above the high planes of his cheekbones. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

As it did, I saw images in the mist all around us: black marble walls rising, the ruins becoming whole, a terrible and beautiful palace rising around us, made of fear and shadow. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

The music didn’t sound so beautiful to me now—more like the sound track for a funeral. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

So beautiful that even when I wake up again, I just lie there with my eyes shut tight, trying to remember every color. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z

But we made no songs about it, being content to chant their beautiful names when we thought of the Entwives. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

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

Slowly she walked straight to the large gatepost, reared up on it with her front feet, and bawled the most beautiful tree bark I ever heard in my life. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Amari looked at the sun as it disappeared into the sea; it burned coppery bright and beautiful. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

Two tuxedos, complete with shoes, and a beautiful rose silk dress with beading on its neck and hemline. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

The doll’s lace-trimmed blue silk dress, pink hair bow, black patent leather slippers and white silk socks duplicated exactly the clothes of the beautiful Mary. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her face must have been beautiful before today. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

Everyone gawks over how beautiful the cake is. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Pulled itself up my fishing line, finger over finger, fist over fist, until suddenly the beautiful face of a woman appeared. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

I imagine the cottage feels haunted at night, but surrounded by trees in the spring sunlight, it is beautiful. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

She can memorize long pieces of music, and she has one of those plain faces that turns beautiful unexpectedly, and she is so capable, she never loses her car in parking lots like Annabelle does. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

And we did the same to the beautiful hymns. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now we’re standing on a hovering isle, surrounded by a hundred other floating isles, overlooking a beautiful lagoon. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Those girls, who could have been her daughters, were beautiful. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe if I go away and come back once a month, Mamita will tell me how beautiful and plump and fair-skinned I am, too. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Stockholm was beautiful, despite the constant snow and frigid temperatures. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Surinam, also known as Dutch Guyana, was both beautiful and disturbing to Maria. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

I wanted everyone I met to know that there was a beautiful little girl whose life was stolen and that she is my little sister—she would always be my little sister. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

Erin was and is beautiful enough to make even Bellmont tolerable, so I close my eyes and imagine her face. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Rules and regulation and order were necessary, the residents assured each other, in order to keep their community both unified and beautiful. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

And when he told her he could suck the red veins out and make her beautiful again, she believed him. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

I do want to tell you this, though: Pam is beautiful. The Misfits 2001-10-01T00:00:00Z

Once there was a princess who was very beautiful. The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane 2006-03-30T00:00:00Z

No one could ever have been prouder of their beautiful American girls than Tipper and Harris were, back then. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

I had seen beautiful girls on book jackets, and even noticed some from a distance when Rain and I had gone into town for supplies. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

It floated down, right into my outstretched arms, like some beautiful white bird coming in for a landing. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

It was beautiful, he said, like a perfectly choreographed dance. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

This woman had ruined the act of the beautiful dancers. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

Because all her feelings for him—hot and beautiful in her heart—turned to gobbledygook in her mouth. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

The beautiful woman who cleaned the ladies’ toilet was Ghanaian, about his age, with the shiniest dark skin he had ever seen. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Seven sons had been born to her, brave and beautiful young men, and seven daughters, the fairest of the fair. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

The scenes and events were beautiful color spots in her memory. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

The driver and I started on our way through dark, murmuring—and, at this hour, strangely beautiful—Chicago, along the lake. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z

The beautiful, wild, timid thing breathed softly, caressingly at Rab, but at the same time the queer, crystalline eyes watched Johnny as though sure that this was a boy who ate horses. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

I think he is very beautiful, with his brown skin and brilliant white teeth and his dark appalled eyes. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

She showed us her wedding album, one picture at a time, and said, “Wasn’t I slim and beautiful?” Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m in charge of making the dinner reservation for all of these beautiful people on prom night. So now I’m taking requests.” Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

He’d filled my head with their voices, which to me were more beautiful than anything except Buck’s Peak. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

She was too beautiful tonight to be their mother and to impose the old rules. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

She beautiful in she mouth, in she eyes, in she hands. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

“What a beautiful girl you are. So much like your momma. You guys must have some great genes in the family.” I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

When it reached the end of the track it went sailing through the air like a beautiful silver bird. The Lemonade War 2007-04-23T00:00:00Z

"Seeing you up close, you really are quite beautiful. The papers were right, for once." The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

And it was so beautiful, with the shops, the tall buildings, the lights—electricity everywhere—and all the cars honking and streaming through the streets. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Their parents certainly loved both their daughters, but Shaina was regarded as too beautiful to do physical labor, while my mother was not. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

Confident, high-ranking, beautiful, and universally respected within NASA. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was only a little older than me, and he had soft black hair and beautiful olive-colored skin and dark, dark eyes. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

She was beautiful, with a light in her eye, like she wanted to take on the world. Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the spring, when they were found, a beautiful red fern had grown up between their two bodies. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

For every beautiful tent he creates, she builds one in return. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

“There is Mrs. Smith’s house,” Granny remarked as she led me up a long driveway of a beautiful villa-type house surrounded by a well-manicured lawn with several beds of colourful, sweet-smelling flowers and rosebushes. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

For standing among the brilliant flowers and fluttering butterflies was a beautiful woman dressed in blue. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

This was as close as I came to my beautiful Mama every day, and I cherished the moment despite her sadness. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

“Why should it always be young, beautiful women? It’s good to see the aging female body treated with compassion, for a change.” Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

The morning of the twenty-fourth Julie and Pearl ran all the way to school, for this was the most beautiful day of the year, the day of the sunrise. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was beautiful, as innocent as dawn on winter hills. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sigyn still waits beside Loki's head as she did then, staring at his beautiful, twisted face. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

And yet if it wasn’t enough for her that she was beautiful to him, if she couldn’t believe him... Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

I want to be the one who makes them all beautiful. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

They mark special occasions, write horrible poetry, sketch things that are beautiful or grotesque, or just rant. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

I imagine her creating one beautiful person after another. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

Santita had beautiful dark eyes, full cheeks, and the bearing of a wise woman, even at sixteen. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

At the bottom of the message, I added a short postscript: PS—I think you look even more beautiful in real life. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

“I see it. It’s beautiful. Where does your grandmother live?” Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

Still she is beautiful because she is good and pure. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even his gestures looked beautiful to Roza, like an exotic dance. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

She should smile like that all the time, Park thought; it made her face cross over from weird to beautiful. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

My beautiful mother walked toward me through the grass with my baby brother. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

And today, as I stand over the remains of these beautiful, darling girls, I paraphrase the words of Shakespeare: Good night, sweet princesses. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

The White River is beautiful in the abstract—blue herons and geese and deer and all that stuff—but the actual water itself smells like human sewage. Turtles All the Way Down 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

The entire second floor was a library, a beautiful library, with mazelike stacks that reminded me of the third floor of the library in which Danny and I had spent so much time together. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

When I grew older, I used kira-kira to describe everything I liked: the beautiful blue sky, puppies, kittens, butterflies, colored Kleenex. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

There’s a beautiful lady in a glittering dress onstage, belting out a romantic song. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“My mom, she was really beautiful. My dad used to say she could make trees bloom just by looking at them.” I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

I'd cook all my own food, and later on, if I wanted to get married or something, I'd meet this beautiful girl that was also a deaf-mute and we'd get married. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

“Well. Thank you very much for the beautiful kimono. It’s a gift for my grandmother. And thank you for being honorable.” A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Young and beautiful and luminous and alive, keeping the darkness at bay if only for that brief moment. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

In that moment, the future—uncontainable by any Theorem mathematical or otherwise—stretched out before Colin: infinite and unknowable and beautiful. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z

“I have your painting on the mantle. It was beautiful. You look... quite well. Did you have the fever?” Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

She opened the case and inside was a beautiful gold fountain pen. Frindle 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

What was man doing to our perfect and beautiful world? Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

I remembered that I had said to Arturo many months ago, as we came through in the opposite direction, that it was all so beautiful. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

It occurred to Ishmael for the first time in his life that such destruction could be beautiful. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

Koffi's toes curled in the grass, and from the cage’s shadows a beautiful creature emerged. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

Whenever you’re feeling lonely or sad, try going to the loft on a beautiful day and looking outside. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

For hadn’t Leslie, even in Terabithia, tried to push back the walls of his mind and make him see beyond to the shining world— huge and terrible and beautiful and very fragile? Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z

She acted just as refined as whitefolks in the movies and books and she was more beautiful, for none of them could have come near that warm color without looking gray by comparison. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

But then the very next day I’d watch you workin’ at yore table and...I couldn’t hardly stand it, you was so beautiful. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

The clouds were down over the lake but it would be beautiful with the sunlight. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

How I had these beautiful mountains and that little porch under the stars. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

Emerging from behind the garbage can, he found her beautiful, his French blood flared up, and he proceeded to gallantries unmistakable even to the slack eyes of mademoiselle’s mistress. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was such a surprise to see him, his shaved-bald head and the beautiful gentleness of his face. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

“Why not? It’s Monday morning here in beautiful Memphis, Tennessee. Isn’t it Monday morning in Florida, too?” Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

More beautiful than the sight of a spring field after three years of living in that pestilent cesspit of a city. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

The dress was brand new, the most important and beautiful thing I owned. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

My parents gave me a beautiful silver locket engraved with my initials. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

She was smart and beautiful, with eyes that could captivate a room, and sweet potato pies that were the best in the county. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Dvorak’s “Humoresque” was one of the most beautiful pieces ever written! The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

And an elegant, beautiful young businesswoman, who people regard with respect. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Finn was framed in the open window, his face beautiful as always—divine—but a little sad, too. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

The flowers look beautiful and savage in the daylight, like vicious creatures suspended in time, motionless. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

“It’s beautiful,” I said softly, my voice rough with emotion. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Of Doroteo’s businesses, of their plans to build a house up north in those beautiful mountains. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

But I do remember the mountains and mountains of snow that fell while I was there, the same white, only beautiful, less sterile. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

“Remember, Amir agha. There’s no monster, just a beautiful day.” The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

But before that most pleasant and sometimes exhausting human trait took hold, I had three days of namelessness in a beautiful motor hotel in the middle of Amarillo. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

“So do you like the place? It’s beautiful, ¿no?” Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

But I could see from the looks on their faces that losing most of their beautiful hair made those girls feel the same way I felt. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

The llano was beautiful in the early morning, beautiful before the summer sun of August burned it dry. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

“That is the most beautiful portrait anyone has ever made of me.” Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

“It’s not. It’s not at all. How could you say that? It’s art. It’s beautiful and it matters.” I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

He said as follows: “Brother Fire, God made you beautiful and strong and useful; I pray you be courteous to me.” Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

By the time the bus reached school, Fern had named her pet, selecting the most beautiful name she could think of. Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z

Her ladyship Kalypso clung to him in her sea-hollowed caves— a nymph, immortal and most beautiful, who craved him for her own. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s a beautiful song, made more so by the fact that I’d only heard my father perform the whole thing a handful of times before. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

It was the most beautiful of all the beautiful horses, and I had had my eye on it from the start. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

It is a most noble ruin, of immense size, and full of beautiful and romantic bits; there is a legend that a white lady is seen in one of the windows. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

“It’s so beautiful,” I say, because I’ve never seen anything like it before. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had never talked so much at dinner, but I was going on about Becca's house, how beautiful it all was, and how Becca's room was nothing like I expected. Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z

In the pool beautiful people bobbed toward him, at the buffet guests cleared the way so he could always be at the front of the line. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

Somehow the bruises and swelling made Park even more beautiful. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

“That is the perfect ending,” he says and, sitting down, looks out across the beautiful valley and mountains. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

What foolish thing was he doing, walking like this under an open sky, with a beautiful man child for any evil spirit passing by chance through the air to see! The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

Frodo took the phial, and for a moment as it shone between them, he saw her again standing like a queen, great and beautiful, but no longer terrible. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

As they became still and perfectly quiet, the boy hummed a note in a beautiful tenor voice. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

You have to imagine a room that’s just a cement cube—nothing beautiful in it. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

That first day, the words were merely sounds in the air, broken like shards of glass, beautiful from a certain angle and jagged from another. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

Instead of a frightened gawky girl and a young and doomed bridegroom, there were a handsome young man and a happy and beautiful bride. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

Near our cottage, where the small creek winds under the old wooden bridge, is the most beautiful bed of roses. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

The thought came into his mind that it was a beautiful day. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z

She thought it was so beautiful that she went out and bought the book. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

At least it was beautiful, with curves and marshy islands and yachts moored along the edges. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

Jonathan saw that it was older than his father’s gun, but to him it was nothing less than beautiful. The Fighting Ground 1984-04-01T00:00:00Z

“Do you really think a woman would make cuts and bums in her face to look beautiful?” Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

We drove through beautiful green vineyards and manicured farms, and I relished the scenery around me. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“If she loves beautiful waterfalls so much,” he says, “why this unattractive place?” On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

With its waterfall curtains and carpets of forest, the canyon was like a long and beautiful room, and Weep a toy city—a gilded model—at its center. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Others list beautiful courtiers who have landed in the beauty-scopes this week. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

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

It was beautiful, but it was nothing compared to earth, and I didn’t want to come back ever. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

When we think of the past it’s the beautiful things we pick out. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

Thunder rumbled through the night, rattling Ivy Aberdeen’s bedroom windows and making a beautiful racket. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

But she’d been wrong before about the appearance of things, trusting Mrs. Coulter because of her beautiful smile and her sweet-scented glamour. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

But it was, beyond comparison, the most beautiful noise he had ever heard. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z

And they were, he couldn’t deny it, beautiful They were so beautiful. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

She wrote: Jamilah's words made me remember that there is nothing more beautiful than what God gave me. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

In the light of his bronze sword, her face was beautiful. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

I never knew green could be so beautiful—but then I’ve never had a farm of my own before. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

Charles had done a beautiful job on my Greek, and I was looking it over before class the next day when Julian came in. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

He had dark hair, beautiful brown eyes, ruddy cheeks and a nicely pointed nose. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

“It’s so beautiful, sweetie. Maybe it’ll help you start a new notebook.” Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

The day after she left I asked Jack Kalantzakos what he knew about the places my wife would be, whether they were beautiful, striking, possibly dangerous. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

The picture side showed a scarlet macaw posed on a mossy branch in a beautiful rain forest. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

“Now, what do I do with you, beautiful bird?” he asked. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

She was tall and her perfectly long face complemented her beautiful cheekbones and big brown eyes. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

But he did think she was beautiful, a fact that suddenly embarrassed him. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Murdo must have put them there, Lina thought, not just because she was going to have them for dinner, but also because they were beautiful. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

It was a beautiful thing to say, but I didn’t know what it meant. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Wesley made beautiful clothes for her daughter— dresses just the right length and color and that perfectly fit Cynthia’s tiny waist. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

“They each have an equal role in government; they each feel equally responsible. And it makes them care; it makes them kind. I think that’s beautiful.” Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

It was a beautiful animal, white and perfectly groomed. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

He told her he had never been so attracted to a woman before, had never seen a body so beautiful, her perfect breasts, her perfect butt. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

They decorated the apartment with pink and white tissue streamers and laid out beautiful trays of delicate sandwiches, entres, cake, and coffee, and Rev. Brown stopped over to join us. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Huge, enormous, beautiful to look at, from the salmon-pink feather on the tip of her hat down to the little rosebuds of her toes. The House on Mango Street 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

Images of the moon and the rocket and the explorers shimmered across the old man’s face and onto the sea of his beautiful drawings, tacked to the wall behind him. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

It was a beautiful day, and I felt happy to be out on the street again. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

Look: I lay there, eyes fixed open on the net above me, wondering what it was, marveling at the beautiful honeycomb pattern of narrow lines. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

“Thank you for accompanying us on our trek this evening. It’s nice to know that such a beautiful rose can use her thorns effectively.” Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

Even now I love long black eyes that caress like silk, Ever and ever sad and laughing eyes, Whose lids make such sweet shadow when they close It seems another beautiful look of hers. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even though she says no to me, my mom spends a lot of Saturday morning in her bedroom mirror, picking her own hair into a huge black and beautiful dome. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

We will refuse to celebrate what is beautiful about our distinct cultures and histories, even as we blend and evolve. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Hope is a beautiful thing to see on his face. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

They never dream about a lost beautiful island. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

"You too can be truly beautiful," a sign proclaimed. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

At last, however, as he wandered on, he met a strange and beautiful person. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

It must be horrible to see an ugly face when you’re surrounded by such beautiful people all the time. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

“That’s a beautiful way to spend your winter vacation, Charlotte,” he said. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

She was naked, covered with soot, her clothes turned to ash, her beautiful hair all crisped away . . . yet she was unhurt. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

As I got off the elevator, 320 feet above the Florida sand, I could look out and see the beautiful beach and the calm blue Atlantic. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

I am taken with how beautiful she is and feel shame that I have withheld a treasured word for so long. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

These stars the beautiful Kalypso bade him hold on his left hand as he crossed the main. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was so beautiful in the firelight, glowing like an ember, and he thought he said it out loud, beautiful, beautiful, but he couldn’t be sure. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

The skin was metallic silver-gold and so beautiful that even the velveteen parkas of the children from Mekoryuk paled by comparison. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then Mother Earth would not be quite so beautiful. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were beautiful, and I longed to stretch out next to them and display myself in the light. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

“My beautiful Fleece. Prize of my collection. Take it, cruel human. Take it and go in peace.” The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

Since I can’t read the language, the signs seem like art pieces with beautiful, mysterious forms. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

But I plan to use my lips for kissin’ beautiful women, not the soles of some bald-headed white man’s feet. Tears of a Tiger 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had never seen such a beautiful cake. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

The giant peach swayed gently from side to side as it floated along, and the hundreds of silky white strings going upward from its stem were beautiful in the moonlight. James and the Giant Peach 1961-11-01T00:00:00Z

She dressed Aurelia in her most beautiful dress, the finest imported silk in bright, eye-catching colors banded with gold thread, and draped a contrasting palla around her shoulders. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

They leave behind the beautiful mountains, the lakes, the clear air and blue skies and the sheep and the goats. The Unfinished Angel 2009-09-22T00:00:00Z

And immediately, on that assumption, the whole case fell into beautiful shining order. Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

June has never looked more beautiful than she does now, unadorned and honest, vulnerable yet invincible. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

Do you remember this beautiful Place, said I & he replied I recall it sir. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

“Every day I wake up is beautiful,” Gran said, and chuckled. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

Less beautiful perhaps when the two arrows caught him, one in the neck, the other in the chest. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

The whole face was transfigured, the eyes round and bright and she was sitting there speechless, quite beautiful in a blaze of silence. Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z

I saw it with old Sally Hayes the year before, and she kept saying how beautiful it was, the costumes and all. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

At fourteen, Keav was beautiful and stylish, and bought only the latest fashions. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You have a beautiful voice,” I said when I could speak. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

A beautiful girl had a very handsome makgabe, which is the apron worn by very young girls. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

Love is disposition, behavior, attitude, thoughts, likes, dislikes—these things make a beautiful woman, a beautiful wife. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Walking along in the line, I noticed the beautiful red coats, the caps, and the soft leather boots worn by the other hunters. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s supposed to look like this! It’s beautiful.” The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

With a cry of triumph, he threw the cloth wrapping to the side and exposed a beautiful kimono, red and orange with white birds and white flowers. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

The goat, it seemed to Rick, was beautiful. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

This stands out as a beautiful, beautiful thing for all generations. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

It was a beautiful place, with its enormous willow trees and wild, colorful flowers, but it could also be creepy and isolated. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

And there, on the other side of the glass, standing under a canopy of those beautiful lights, is Will. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

She thought of her mom back home in her art studio in Providence, scarred and shorn and still beautiful, full of fierce belief in the rightness of her daughter. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

A beautiful woman leaning across a kitchen table. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

It was a beautiful summer day, the sun wasn’t too hot, and the walk didn’t feel long either, as we chatted about all kinds of things, mocked and chased each other. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

“Snowflakes. They fall down from the sky, and they’re very beautiful.” The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

He makes the acquisition of knowledge feel like a secret, beautiful thing, and an ancient thing. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

The year that Buttercup was born, the most beautiful woman in the world was a French scullery maid named Annette. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

“We thought he was like the most beautiful man we’d ever seen in our lives.” Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

She couldn’t look at her aunt any more, that familiar, unfamiliar, plain, beautiful face. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even though it’s dark and nothing is blooming, I know the garden I’m standing in is extraordinarily beautiful. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

“It’s way more impressive to be beautiful without makeup.” Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

I think of the things her real friends said about her: wonderful, funny, beautiful, warmhearted. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

I remembered Margie and her mother and imagined them in New York, wearing beautiful clothes and eating bright yellow eggs. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

Connecticut would have been beautiful any time of day. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I opened the garage door this time, there was my beautiful turquoise-blue car! Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Ginny gave Harry a radiant smile: He had forgotten, or had never fully appreciated, how beautiful she was, but he had never been less pleased to see her. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

If, of course, she is as beautiful as they say in the tales.’ Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

Fingers of it shot up the hill, leaping from one beautiful flower to another, leaving them scorched and black. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

He found his new wife beautiful, the only oddity about her being that she always wore a delicate flower on her forehead. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

Pa told me the Olympic Market was once a beautiful building. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was a beautiful day, with the midafternoon sun shining down on them, and he thought of what the problem could be, what was wrong. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z

The Goddess of Love and Beauty knew very well where the most beautiful woman on earth was to be found. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Yes, you have beautiful hands. You have the hands of a gifted pianist. We should put you in piano lessons. Li!” she called to Virgil’s mother. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

I hope with guidance, these kids can become as beautiful as the lotus flower. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

The women were especially elegant in their beautiful patterned cotton skirts, dresses, shirts, and lappei—a big cotton cloth that women wrap around their waist—and extravagant head wraps. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

If you fall bravely in war the Valkyries, beautiful battle-maidens who collect the souls of the noble dead, will take you and bring you to the hall known as Valhalla. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

“Of how much you loved your gram, of course. Of how much you’ll always love her. And there is nothing in this world more beautiful than love, Emma Talbot.” How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

Ugwu had imagined the bald woman: beautiful with a nose that stood up, not the sitting-down flattened noses that he was used to. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

I’m glad somebody finds me beautiful, even if he is just eight years old! Bronx Masquerade 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I know you thought the red in our pendants was ugly, but...I wanted to show you that in another light, it could be quite beautiful.” Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

“Do you remember, Enrique? That time we took the ferry back from Taboga at night and it was all lit up? It was so beautiful. Mayor, I wish you could have seen it.” The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

The paintings displayed beautiful women cheerfully going about their tasks, but a few old photographs pictured gaunt crones with backs bowed by years of heavy labor. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

Within the copse he came across a scene so beautiful it made his heart ache. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then, at least, I could have learned to make something beautiful, if not of gold, then of stone. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

She’s wearing eye makeup, like she does for work sometimes, and she looks obnoxiously beautiful. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

She claims it, this beautiful country with its beautiful mountains and splendid beaches—all the copy we read in the tourist brochures. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

"So did countless other researchers, scientists, and engineers. Everyone poured their souls into construction while I waged a constant political battle to maintain funding. "In the end, we built a beautiful probe. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was nostalgic and melancholy, a beautiful sadness for the, things she had missed and the things she would never know. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

All I can think about now is the sea of faces swimming in front of me, waiting and waiting in what used to be a beautiful theater. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

Bay Minette, where the hearing took place, is about thirty minutes from the beautiful beaches on the Gulf of Mexico. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Siddhartha saw how beautiful she was and his heart rejoiced. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z

The earthworm is useful, but not beautiful; the tiger is beautiful, but not useful. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

How did I wind up in this position with the most popular—and beautiful and funny and kind and compassionate and socially conscious and, and, and, and, and—girl at my new school? Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z

The sinking sun made it glisten like the skin of a beautiful snake. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

Hanako could not believe their luck to find this woman in a starving country selling these beautiful cakes. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

“They were beautiful, those plays! Have you never read them?” The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

She smiled, a smile as beautiful as the yellow day, and came down the steps, leaving her broom against a post. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

“It sounds like water pouring over a rock. You have no idea how beautiful it is!” A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

The weather is gorgeous, indescribably beautiful; I’ll be going up to the attic in a moment. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

Indeed Gertrude was so grand and beautiful that I was afraid to look at her, even when she touched my curls and asked my name. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

Her speaking voice, deep in pitch, slightly husky, was more beautiful than ever. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mary Anne frowned and said, “Yeah, Oedipus. She always looks beautiful. What else is new?” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

She made a whole new and beautiful world, even as she worried that her own world was coming undone. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

She had the most beautiful and open smile, and she was laughing a lot. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

A few years later Shaina, the beautiful sister, also sought a new life in America. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

When she woke up, the barn was bright with sunlight, the cat was gone, and a beautiful dark-haired boy was standing there, gaping at her. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

“I have walked long and far to see if you are as beautiful in the flesh as you are in my dreams. And you are. Even more.” The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

They fuss over her like it's a competition to tell her how beautiful she is. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

“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

“Talk about wild things! Your grand-mother was the wildest, most untamed, most ornery and beautiful creature ever to grace this earth.” Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

The mistress — my mother explained mistress, she did not believe in mystification, I had a pop-up book of sexual organs by the time I was four — the mistress had once been very beautiful. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

The narrative: two fresh-faced young men who love two beautiful young women and definitely not ever each other. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Once upon a time there was a wealthy merchant who had three beautiful daughters. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

In the OASIS, you got used to seeing freakishly beautiful faces on everyone. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

“If there was only one tree like that in the world, you would think it was beautiful,” said Katie. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

“My PE teacher is Black. She’s my track coach too. Coach West is really nice and totally beautiful.” A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

"Star could have one year in that beautiful new high school," he says. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

His face was sharp and delicate, almost beautiful, with striking blue eyes. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Margo was so beautiful that even her fake smiles were convincing. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

“My beautiful baby,” she murmured over and over. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

She could see on his face the thought of the beautiful school where he would go in Pittsburgh. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

My beautiful new blue bike is really and truly gone. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

I killed my first game, a beautiful tawny beast with curved horns and a black diagonal stripe across his flank: a young male impala. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

“No, there aren’t. Most of them are married or teenage boys. And if they’re single and old enough they want a young sister who’s beautiful and a virgin. It’s the worst thing.” Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

It’s feminine and beautiful, but there’s also some hurt feelings among the married women who aren’t invited to partake in the tradition because, well, their unions suck and no one wants the bad juju. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

All the beautiful skirts went swirling by, and the boots went stamping, and the fiddle kept on singing gaily. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

“When you feel afraid,” his mother had told him, all those years ago, “sing your fears away. Dragons make the most beautiful music in the world. Everyone says so.” The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

Here Uncle Turu fluttered his eyes and delicately rubbed his cheek with his fingers, and the people laughed to see such a strong-faced man pretending to be beautiful. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

They were so beautiful, and some-times just being close to them made her feel stronger, braver, as if somehow she were drawing strength from the stone dragons locked inside. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

I had never seen a car before and that Model T was beautiful. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s a deep bass, all alone with a smooth, beautiful violin above it and something that sounds like chimes. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

There was just a touch of colour in it, a pale sea-green, soft and shimmering and very beautiful. The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Like that day in July, almost nine years back, when the beautiful men were cold. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Where it is to be found it is something extra, a beautiful ornament. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Hesiod says that only when men have finally become completely wicked will Nemesis and Aidos, their beautiful faces veiled in white raiment, leave the wide-wayed earth and depart to the company of the immortals. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was a mahogany spinet, and it was shiny and beautiful. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

The snowfall, which he witnessed out of the corners of his eyes—furious, wind-whipped flakes against the windows—struck him as infinitely beautiful. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

If anything beautiful had ever existed here, it was long gone. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

Still they were beautiful as first one couple then another came forward in solo dances. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

I jumped off the porch, landed right on the grass, the beautiful, pubic-short grass. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

When he had got the man to bed, and stopped his bleeding, and discovered that the wound was not a mortal one, a beautiful lady appeared in the opening of the tent. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

On the television “fifty of America’s most beautiful girls” paraded in ruffled tulle dresses before a tinsel waterfall. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

Some claimed to have seen with their own eyes this most powerful and beautiful of cats in the jungles of Africa. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I finish with the wish that nothing bad ever happen to this beautiful space. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

No doubt your sword is indeed a beautiful thing. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

But when she stopped to talk to a passing woman, she turned her head ever so slightly, just enough for him to catch a view of her beautiful brown face. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

“I forgot!” she exclaimed, shaking her beautiful curled head, as if shocked at herself. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

And I was so close then, I could reach up and push her hair back from her beautiful, destroyed face. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

“I’m a grandmother now. My daughter in Los Angeles has two beautiful little daughters. And when I dance now, I dance for them.” Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

One evening, camped at the edge of a deep wood, Tristran heard something he had never heard before: a beautiful melody, plangent and strange. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

Ida B. Wells wasn’t so bad before that—used to be beautiful. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“That,” said Milo, “is the most beautiful part of it.” Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

She was twelve years old but already so beautiful and womanly that her father, the Emperor, had issued a protective edict that no man might be alone in her presence without his express permission. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

He bends down and kisses between his fingers and whispers “beautiful” against my stomach. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

The boy who called me beautiful walks over with Leo and some other friends. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

"It's really beautiful. And the poem you wrote the baby made me cry." How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

“I could make you beautiful. I could make your face so lovely that every man would be your slave. I could do that! I have that power!” The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

She was beautiful, delicate and feminine like Henrietta, who dressed her in homemade outfits with bows and spent hours braiding her long brown curls. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

That beautiful young woman who was joking around less than a day and a half earlier was just nowhere. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Bright queen,” he said, “you have grown more beautiful in my absence. How is this thing possible?” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The other two, a boy and a girl, were exceptionally beautiful and brilliant, seeming to have inherited the finest qualities, in looks and character, of their parents. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

He told me, “Well, you and your daddy sure have one beautiful machine.” Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

He owned just the one suit, and one beautiful blue tie, and he liked them as much as she liked her purple coat. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Vietnamese girl was working there, picking beautiful lima beans. Seedfolks 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

She said it wasn’t good for your skin, and, besides, women were beautiful enough the way they were. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z

"At the beginning of the world, the God of the Sky fell in love with the Goddess of Beauty, which was easy to do. To call her beautiful would be too small a word." The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

Tally tried to imagine her growing old, wrinkled, gradually ruined, all without ever having been truly beautiful. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

All I hope is that my sister feels beautiful, and her new guy makes her feel beautiful. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

Once, I went into a store with my mom and saw a beautiful Easter hat I really wanted. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

Every single sacrifice felt worth it in that beautiful moment. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

This morning he was spinning the tale of Susanna, beautiful and pious wife of the rich man Joakim. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Walden Lake Elementary was the most beautiful school I had ever seen; it even had a fountain in the courtyard. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

“God, that is beautiful,” I said mostly to myself. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

Before she lets go, she locks eyes with me and says, "Have a beautiful holiday." We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Of course, she was the most beautiful homeless woman who ever lived. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

He couldn’t smile, couldn’t lie, couldn’t be part of that beautiful family in those beautiful houses. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

If I had such power, I would use it right now to soar up to beautiful Inti and never come back. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

All those words came to him, but others crowded in, too: beautiful, charmed one. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

When it arrived, she unpacked it and plugged it in, and then she clapped her hands and said, “Oh, she's so beautiful. Isn't she beautiful? I love her with all my heart.” Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures 2013-09-24T00:00:00Z

The hasty moments together, the locked doors and base contrivances, the guilty manoeuvres which the husband’s presence forced on his lovers—these had the effect of soiling what had no excuse unless it was beautiful. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

And a beautiful girl, dead in a mangle, staring at him with wide black eyes. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

I wanted to wear my cormorant skirt and my otter cape, which were much more beautiful than the thing he was making. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

No adult, or child for that matter, had ever described him as beautiful. Ralph S. Mouse 1992-08-01T00:00:00Z

That's part of his problem: he gets too tripped up by how beautiful she is. Dear Martin 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Her favorites were The Diddakoi, the story of an orphan girl who faces persecution, and The Secret Garden, where a girl and a boy, who is sick, escape to a beautiful garden. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

Our milpita, beautiful to me, lies not far from a lonely stretch of railroad tracks. Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z

I saw a beautiful mahogany desk with a typewriter, the chandelier above swinging in the wind. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

The one where you realize it’s your fault that something beautiful is dead. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

He had a beautiful wife, an adult woman with curves. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

“We’ll join other flocks at a beautiful lake in the middle of a great, sprawling field,” said another goose. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

Her gray color is beautiful, unlike the Gris. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

During those years when middle-class black Americans began to assert with pride, ‘Black is beautiful,’ I was able to regard my complexion without shame. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Queen Hygd was beautiful and wise, with a creamy brow and poppies in her cheeks. Beowulf: A New Telling 1968-01-01T00:00:00Z

“And that was one of the most beautiful games of soccer I’ve ever seen.” Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

Grandma, meanwhile, had finished a beautiful dance fan made of a partridge tail. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

One of the beautiful children, Uhmma says, needs to be changed. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

The moment I enter the courtroom it is understood that I am the most audacious and beautiful woman in the world. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

He’s the one who’s beautiful, a kind of breathless, inhuman beauty. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Cady was bending down to pick a particularly beautiful wild- flower when she saw the plume of dirt curling down Argyle Road. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

I look up at a scrawny tree, the branches covered in frost, and am stunned by how beautiful it is. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

She lived on the bank of a lake, in a beautiful neighborhood with fancy houses and perfect green lawns. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

She had gone once with her parents to hear Grace Bumbry sing Aida and had been fascinated with the tragic story of the beautiful princess who had been a captive in ancient Egypt. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

They’re beautiful and stark against the sky, and I imagine how stunning the moonrise will be if we can see it this evening, a silver crescent hanging above the summit. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

She was a lush, beautiful woman with golden-brown skin and huge eyes. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

But they sounded much grander when Queen Jadis said them; perhaps because Uncle Andrew was not seven feet tall and dazzlingly beautiful. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z

Soon it was like a little second home, lit up and beautiful in the deepening twilight. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

"They say it's a blight—the trees are diseased. They have to chop them all down. Those beautiful trees." City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

It was beautiful and terrible at the same time. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

We were best friends, almost like sisters, but she was the pretty one with her beautiful complexion and long gold-red hair. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

In my mind I conjure up a memory of her face, soft and beautiful and concerned, her eyes bright blue and her mouth rosy and smiling. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

She had fallen sick so suddenly that some of the villagers wondered if the fairies had come and taken her, for she was still young and beautiful. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

He blew one long, low, rumbly sound and I knew right then, with that one deep, sad moan, what the most beautiful sound in the world was. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

The fragrance of sun-dazzling flowers was deep, and soft, and beautiful. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

And there was Joff as well, her son, her firstborn, her beautiful bright boy with his golden curls and his sweet smile, he had such lovely lips, he... A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

And these were monsters, rearing to the sky, massed like a battalion, too beautiful I thought, too powerful, they were not plants at all. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

Dozens of beautiful women were sitting around it, each sewing a copy. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

A dulcet chorus of voices suddenly rose from the inside of the tent, beautiful and harmonic. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

They were young, beautiful nymphs in shimmering blue gowns, their glossy black curls pinned up with silver and gold brooches. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

“I bought a chance from a little kid just the other day. They beautiful rosaries. A lady I know won the outboard motor the sisters was raffling last year.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Lee remembered: beautiful woman on a golden horse, riding with Pender on the banks of the Rappahannock. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Thank you very much for the best present, the lovely beautiful high quality shirt I have ever received. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

Picturing Grandmother as good or beautiful was more difficult. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

Jem wrapped his arms around the pulpit, leaned over, and said in confidential tones, “My, it looks good to see you all this morning. This is a beautiful morning.” Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

Poetry was not simply the transcription of notions—beautiful writing rarely is. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

At the public baths, they would look for the beautiful girls and tell their sons to go calling at their houses. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

They echoed around the beautiful hall with the glittering chandelier. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Later, after dinner, she gives me a beautiful set of watercolor pencils that had been on my wish list for months. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

She was smiling, thinking how like Jude’s was his craving to do the white man’s work, when two deweys came in with their beautiful teeth and said, “We sick.” Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

So Sam planted saplings in all the places where specially beautiful or beloved trees had been destroyed, and he put a grain of the precious dust in the soil at the root of each. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

It seemed to him that he would never hear again a running water so beautiful, for ever blending its innumerable notes in an endless changeful music. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

They will find other pieces in the grass, some beautiful, some less so. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

I imagine my face a beautiful shade of putrid green when I’m finished, but I’m proud of my triumph. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

It may have inconvenienced some charging bellowing officials but for us it made of Washington the most beautiful city in the world, a quiet place. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

They knew that Pa would trade his furs to the storekeeper for beautiful things from town, and all day they were expecting the presents he would bring them. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

She held his beautiful face and kissed him like it was the end of the world. park She wouldn't be on the bus with him. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

“Isn't it fortuitous,” Lady Isobel gloated one night at supper, “that the prince has returned just in time to meet my most beautiful daughter?” Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Megan is not a mystery to be solved, she is not a figure who wanders into the tracking shot at the beginning of a film, beautiful, ethereal, insubstantial. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Elias is here, before me, warm and beautiful and broken. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

It was a beautiful day, the blue jays were making noise, the trees were getting back their leaves. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

Ocean and I were suddenly alone in the parking lot, and though the moon was a mere crescent in the sky, it was beautiful and bright. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

He no longer missed his brother or the beautiful, savage world he had been bred in. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

What have they crowded out that was more beautiful or more important? The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

“The sailboats are so beautiful. It looks like the river is full of white butterflies, Bull. They’re having a race.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

I want the sad, scary questions in my head to shut up so I can listen only to Amma's beautiful voice. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

These centers for rest, food, and replenishment are kept beautiful with lawns and flowers. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

Have you ever watched a beautiful woman play volleyball? The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

The lack of living things made the landscape both beautiful and menacing. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

But his mother, who had an excellent sense of dramatic timing, beat him to it; she executed a beautiful, flawless swoon, landing right at Despereaux’s feet. The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z

Their faces were still those of beautiful humans, but their bodies had turned into long, black snakes! A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

How could someone so beautiful be looking at me the way he is, with half of a smile and affection in his gaze? Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

And there I am, blushing and confused, made beautiful by Cinna's hands, desirable by Peeta's confession, tragic by circumstance, and by all accounts, unforgettable. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

Henrietta had wanted to hold Deborah, to dress her in beautiful clothes and braid her hair, to teach her how to paint her nails, curl her hair, and handle men. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

The woman’s house was beautiful too, with wide, resplendent windows reflecting the daylight on every side, making it glitter and shine majestically. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

It’s like knowing all the words to a song but still finding them beautiful and surprising. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

Some part of her considered being scared, but the smoke was kind of beautiful, and besides, her mother had made it, so how could it hurt her? Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

I met him at a time when I used to take out a most beautiful collie called Budleigh for a lady who owned a sweetshop. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

And what I see in Dane’s perfectly beautiful face disturbs me. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

The agent did a few more dives, a backward twisting one-and-a-half, a half-gainer, and a beautiful soaring swan dive, all of them executed in what appeared to be an effortless manner. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

I guess I shouldn’t have been so surprised when Isabella turned out to be hiding a whole bunch of beautiful under her unibrow and braces. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

“Who can blame me when my grandchildren are so smart and beautiful? Who do you think you take after, Junie? Your mom or dad?” Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

Some had beautiful patterns of red and yellow lines crisscrossing the fabric. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

Yet even with the emotional pain it caused him, Charles thought Emma’s letter was beautiful. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

She saw her chalk-white and cold, her beautiful purple eyes shut, lying in her coffin. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

She smiled her beautiful even-toothed smile and shook her shining black hair back off her shoulders. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z

The snaggle-peaked mountains, the braided green rivers, the sky so blue it seemed like a painting—Roy had never imagined anywhere so beautiful. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

He collected a small following of happy boys, one small ragged girl with a beautiful, delicate face. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

J. D. Bernal, the crystallographer, would later call them the “most beautiful X ray photographs of any substance ever taken.” The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

They lived in a beautiful brick house in Smithfield, an area of Birmingham better known as “Dynamite Hill” because of the routine Klan bombings there. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Then a tinkling sound: it was the sound of the most beautiful girl in the whole of the British Isles laughing with delight and amusement. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

Her hands were beautiful and quick with a bit of chalk or a stick of charcoal. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s like saying the Greeks died of mumps, or the proud Romans died on their beautiful hills of athlete’s foot! The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

This part of the music was beautiful and clear. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

“It is a thin one. Why is your hair so beautiful, Jenny? I should have to plait about six of them together, to be as thick as one of mine. Shall I pull?” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

The South African towns of Cape Town and Durban were very beautiful. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

“I’d like to have some bazookas of my own, like the ones in Commando. That would be beautiful,” I said, and we laughed. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

A day so beautiful it promised nothing bad would happen.” Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z

In the three short years since Gemini 10, I had forgotten how beautiful the view was, as clouds and sea glided silently by my window in the pure sunlight. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Camilla was limp in Henry’s arms, her head thrown back like a dead girl’s, and the curve of her throat beautiful and lifeless. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Her chest heaves, she’s covered in sweat, hurt darkens her eyes—and she is still so beautiful that my throat tightens, and I want so badly to kiss her. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

He was a beautiful little boy, sweet as sugar, and had the same temperament as his father. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

You’re arguing that the fragile, rare thing is beautiful simply because it is fragile and rare. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

Her skin was the beautiful color of dark honey and her laughter was sweet. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

She still had the same strong, unstoppable gaze, the same regal, beautiful face. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Then they went over a rise out of view, and she leaned down to stroke her baby’s hair, so beautiful beneath her hand, and went downstairs again. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

Her eyes clicked from the window’s picture of the beautiful day to Nicole. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

Behind them, palm trees swayed before a burning red sky, and beyond that churned a wild ocean full of beautiful dark-skinned mermaids and swirling dragons. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

Jesse wouldn’t argue that, but he saw her as a beautiful wild creature who had been caught for a moment in that dirty old cage of a schoolhouse, perhaps by mistake. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z

Even in her anger, she had wanted to show him just how beautiful she was and bind him to her. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

“The most beautiful girls in the world are right here in this village.” Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

The man stared at her and she stared back and thought how beautiful he would have been if he had been a woman, with that perfectly shiny near-black skin. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Welcome, once again, to the beautiful Sinclair family. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

So they took the body of Gwenforte, and they buried her out in a beautiful grove in the forest, a short walk from the village. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

Where, eighteen years ago, she had spent five eager, tireless, burning nights with her beautiful young husband before the gods stole him away. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

It was another beautiful day, and I wanted to go outside without lugging anything extra. Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

I thought of Lettie and her friends, with their beautiful new dresses and pressed hair and shoes without buckles. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

And the dark, slimy, smelly mineral substance seemed like the most beautiful thing in the world. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

I knew my beautiful Mama would kiss me every night. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

Just like he said—all so different, but complementing one another into the most beautiful rosary ever created. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

There’s a flyer on the counter that says once upon a time the steak was part of a steer that spent its days “living in beautiful places.” The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

This beautiful, talented, intelligent girl had really been worried about me and about my family and my brother. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

“Popcorn” is fine, but I call it by its Mexico name which is more beautiful: “palomitas.” Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z

I love putting luminaria up every year because it is very beautiful and a tradition and a good distraction from my birthday. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

She squinted and just made out clusters of well-dressed people congregating on its beautiful front lawns. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

The kitchen is beautiful, perfectly arranged, pale-colored and peaceful. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Whatever we call beautiful, we quiver before it. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

How beautiful, the queen tried to tell herself, but inside her was some foolish little girl who could not help but look about for Daario. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Beyond the security gate were neighborhoods of beautiful houses from every time period in history, Roman villas and medieval castles and Victorian mansions. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

They gazed at the beautiful creature for a long minute, and then Neel switched off the flashlight. Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z

“And then,” she said, “this man, who said his strange name was Nathaniel York, told me I was beautiful and— and kissed me.” The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were paintings and statues and mirrors and beautiful wooden things —nothing like where we lived. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

Annie often climbed into Charles’s lap or stood behind him and arranged his hair, making it “beautiful,” for half an hour at a time. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I mean, it’s way more beautiful than anything in the Overland.” Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Then they pulled on their beautiful white stockings, that they had knit of fine cotton thread in lacy, openwork patterns, and they buttoned up their best shoes. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

Being with her the other day was beautiful and sad, all at the same dang time. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

The surprise was a lovely little girl, exquisitely dressed, who came from the wings carrying a beautiful doll. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

He purchased a beautiful cut glass carafe and matching drinking glass and put them on the nightstand by the bed. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

Before taking their seats, a particularly elaborate and beautiful flower arrangement caught Lydia’s eye. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

The ground was covered with the most beautiful carpets he had ever walked upon, and from the top of the structure hung lamps of handwrought gold, each with a lighted candle. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Oh, forget it, Gilly, honey. The place looks beautiful. No one’s going to notice the chandelier,” said Trotter. The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z

She looks beautiful to him, tired, the concentrated light of the dying day on her face, infusing it with an amber-pink glow. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

The country of the Zande is savanna mixed with riverine forest, beautiful country, where acacia trees cluster along the banks of seasonal rivers. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Maybe to show you how colorful the world can be. And how beautiful." Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

‘What’s beautiful about it?’ said Pippin, peering over the edge of his blanket with one eye. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

We stood like that in the darkness for a while, me and this teenaged old woman, this rather beautiful girl who had loved my grandfather when he was the age I am now. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

She handed a beautiful slice of mango to Virgil. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

It was beautiful, a real present, the perfect present. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

Just as it’s hard to describe what makes a piece of music or a painting aesthetically pleasing, it's equally difficult to describe what makes a mathematical theorem or a physical theory beautiful. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

He was big and heavy and had beautiful fur. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

It made a horrible loud noise and spewed ugly black smoke over the beautiful lake. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

“He says, I'm so lucky to have my beautiful grandchildren here. I’m so proud of them both.’ Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

And in this way, the years passed: a lonely workshop; solid, beautiful things; customers who praised his work but winced at the sight of his face. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

I don’t care how beautiful you think horses are. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

“And a garden just as big and beautiful.” Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

She’s been so “nervenmässig” lately, and we don’t feel like hearing her moan and groan again about all the beautiful china and lovely chairs she had to leave behind. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

You look down and see a beautiful day-old baby in front of you. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

“It’s a beautiful sight, isn’t it, Jacob?” says August. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

It was beautiful, but it looked so heavy! Rickshaw Girl 2007-02-01T00:00:00Z

The grounds were graced with raised beds of mixed bouquets, and the full perimeter of the property was edged with azaleas, which fit the house like a gilded frame fits a beautiful painting. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

What is considered beautiful about a type of sound, instrument or voice? Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

“That’s a beautiful rose,” he says, but his eyes are still on my exposed legs, the dip in my silky tank top. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

“Sure thing! You picked a beautiful night. No clouds at all. Your eyes are in for a feast!” Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Parts of it are beautiful,” he tells her. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

In my next letter, I am going to give you something bigger and more beautiful. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

But he loved the girl dearly, and he felt half-proud and half in awe of the beautiful adult she would be, so soon. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

After the war was over, everyone would return to the beautiful apartment in Gdynia. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

She gave her the patchwork quilt, the only beautiful object she had ever owned. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

All I could see were beautiful yellow flowers. Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

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

That grass, Whitman writes in the first few pages, is “the beautiful uncut hair of graves.” Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

They turned all those beautiful golden sculptures into boring Spanish coins and shipped boatloads of them back to the king and queen of Spain, who loved the gold but wanted even more. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

It was a beautiful river just in the way it was. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Such a beautiful child. I do hope you know how much Joffrey and I love you." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

The name Eleanora Marvel seemed to make more sense for this beautiful woman. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

She would watch as lights-out fell across the river, bedtime for Uglyville, and know that she still had all night with Peris and her new friends, all the beautiful people she would meet. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

But Red Hook was beautiful in those days. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

The dial tone was the most beautiful sound I’d heard in ages. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

I asked my brother if Kelly was unconventionally beautiful. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

Women were taking their beautiful pewter from dresser shelves, stoically watching it melt in crucibles. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was agony in his beautiful voice again. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

The train rumbles over a bridge; the setting sun is feverishly beautiful, casting a striking pink glow on the facades of the clapboard houses that dot the water’s edge. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

"So! If we could hear our own songs, if we could see God's creation the way God does, we would know it's the most beautiful song there is." The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

The product of demographic calamity, the newly created wilderness was indeed beautiful. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

She does not read it the way she and Kat used to read books—devouring them with the speed of two people famished for words, ideas, and beautiful sentences that make you feel everything. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

But they had taken these beautiful rocks from deep within earth and they had laid them in a monstrous design, realizing destruction on a scale only they could have dreamed. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

St. Christopher Protect Us, it says, and it’s beautiful, really. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

It surprised me, how beautiful it kept on insisting on being. Louisiana's Way Home 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

“Did I tell you already that you look heart-stoppingly beautiful tonight?” From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

I got onto the train and she was everywhere, her face beaming from every newspaper: beautiful, blond, happy Megan, looking right into the camera, right at me. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I—don’t quite remember. But that’s not unusual. Praise is like beautiful music. It carries you away and makes you feel better.” The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

What lies before us is the most beautiful sight I have ever seen in my life. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

Rather it was like a beautiful woman who requires the support and help of many faceless ones just to keep going. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

“What a beautiful day it is, nay?” he said, thumb hooked in the breast pocket of his vest, the other hand extended toward Soraya. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

He felt a spasm of pain like a blast of sudden cold, saw the patient high-boned Indian face, that beautiful woman, indelible suffering. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“God! he’s beautiful. I hope they take good care of him. Corporal, you may think that he wants to bear arms against the foe, but I think he’s running away from love.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Through my lens, for a moment, this worn-down old bus is beautiful. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

But I couldn’t help noticing that her hair and skin were not as beautiful as they once had been, and she seemed thin. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

She had committed murder with an effing kitty-cat statue in a beautiful state park over a massive and scenic ravine. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

It was a lovely day, not too hot, and the country was beautiful from the start. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

Through the sweat running into his eyes he saw Aurelia, beautiful in her brave bright colors, standing now, her hands to her face, tears on her cheeks. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

Some were made up of meanness, brutality and heartbreak; others were bright and beautiful because of Miss Bernstone and Mr. Morton. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Muumuus are comfortable, but nothing makes you feel more beautiful than a sari." You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Some of the photos were gruesome, but there was a closeup of the intestines that seemed like a photo of a beautiful sculpture. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

In deep dusk I strolled through the streets of the beautiful town. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

He visited the beautiful Kamala regularly, learned the art of love in which, more than anything else, giving and taking become one. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z

To a large place, a comfortable place, an indoor place, and preferably a beautiful place. From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

To appease Sagarmatha, this year—as every year—the Sherpas had built more than a dozen beautiful, meticulously constructed stone chortens at Base Camp, one for each expedition. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

At dawn, I lie in bed for a while, watching the sun come up on a beautiful morning. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

With Ivy wearing the most beautiful dress shed ever seen, thanks to Robin. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

He was walking past the fallow field west of the Wood when he saw lights dancing in the copse by the river, accompanied by the most beautiful flute music he had ever heard. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

A beautiful cafe au lait teen stuck her head out of one of the windows. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

And Cardan is even more beautiful than the rest, with black hair as iridescent as a raven’s wing and cheekbones sharp enough to cut out a girl’s heart. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

They were so artlessly beautiful, even right out of bed. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

When we’re finished with the master bathroom, we move on to the guest bathroom, which seems like a walk in a beautiful garden in comparison. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

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

She went to Johnny, stretched out a hand, and touched the widow’s peak—all that he had ever got from the beautiful Vinny Lyte. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Why am I crazy? It looked so beautiful; I wanted to be part of it,” I said. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

“Yes, now smile. You’re such a beautiful girl when you smile.” The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

She is just plain beautiful— movie-star eyes; long, curly hair; and a tiny pixie nose. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

The woman was softly beautiful, translucent from having eaten potatoes for so long. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then, miraculously, the scales fell from the old woman’s eyes and she became young and beautiful. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were bracelets, rings, and necklaces of dazzling sterling silver that had beautiful decorations, and each held pieces of turquoise, yellow abalone, white shell pieces, and dark jet stone. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

Yes, this strange woman was indeed Aunt Rachel, and once, a long time ago, she must have been very beautiful. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

Suddenly she slumped down onto the bed amid all those beautiful clothes and her new luggage and started to cry uncontrollably. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

They went back centuries, and longer, and whole shelves of them—entire, beautiful shelves—were stories of Weep. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

The illnesses—so the underground family gossip went—were caused by the fact that Mamita had been a very beautiful young woman, and she had never fully recovered from losing her looks. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

We held each other and got halfway naked and forgot, for as long as we could, every horrid detail of the beautiful Sinclair family. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

She was so beautiful, and he had missed her so much. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

She’s not exactly beautiful, but there’s a definite story in her shrewd blue eyes and angular features, the heavy creases of frowns around her mouth. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

But how could he have known she’d turn into this beautiful thing with the hot body and the dazzling eyes? The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

Finally, with many thank-yous and bowings and scrapings and warmest wishes to their beautiful wives and distinguished husbands, he departed the room. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

There’s something refreshing about a beautiful girl’s use of “profanity” after living in the land of Southern Etiquette and debutantes for so long. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z

The surface glistened like abalone shell, but it didn’t seem beautiful to Annabeth. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

The goddess was ten times more beautiful than that. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

But there was another reason, and I thought I knew what it was as I sat with my beautiful sister. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

Isn’t that what people in soap operas get before they die young and still beautiful? A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

Their silver light is ethereal, impossibly beautiful as it spills over every rose and blooming gardenia in the temple’s sky garden. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

It was under the shade of a large tree with droopy branches covered in beautiful purple flowers that gave off the most amazing scent, like real perfume. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z

She was pale and very beautiful, and she looked at him as if she had never seen anything like him before. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

They were all happy because Pa had got such good prices for his furs that he could afford to get them such beautiful presents. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The papers will go crazy! Where is he? Where did he go? Nobody knows. He leaves behind only a beautiful memory. How touching! How lovely!” The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

But nothing had been beautiful since Peris turned pretty. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

It shot hundreds of feet in the air, as bright and beautiful as Fourth of July fireworks. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

The baby was pink and wrinkly but absolutely beautiful, with big blue eyes, soft wisps of blond hair, and the tiniest fingernails I had ever seen. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

These were things so strange and beautiful you can’t ever imagine them. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mr. Kleiman has a small set hidden in his home that he’s giving us to replace our beautiful cabinet radio. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

This was my first time taking out a beautiful girl, and I wanted it to be perfect. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

How could anyone concentrate on geometry or algebra after seeing the beautiful face of that cub? Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z

Even though it’s for a sad reason, it’s sort of beautiful. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

We are all our beautiful bodies and so must never be prostrate before barbarians, must never submit our original self, our one of one, to defiling and plunder. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

And just as good and bright and beautiful and free as anybody. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

It was a bright, sunny day, and Seattle looked like a beautiful place, with inlets and bridges, wooded islands dotting the bay, and snowcapped mountains rising in the distance. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

Life is so beautiful that death has fallen in love with it, a jealous, possessive love that grabs at what it can. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

In the early stories, he is oftenest a beautiful serious youth who gives good gifts to men. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was a beautiful Brooklyn summer evening, the hydrant spraying water all over everything, the sidewalk, the cars, the kids. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

After all, she is the only one left to manage the terrible, beautiful present. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He could tell it was beautiful, straight on target, even though he couldn’t watch its progress, because he was dumped violently to the ground by Carter who had somehow recovered after being demolished. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

And for a city that had been so poor before Hitler's rise to power, the sound of work, of hammers ringing along the docks, building ships and U-boats, is beautiful, too. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s still beautiful. And look how it covers the corpses.” The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

Like the lion on the poster and the glittering costumes that made everybody look beautiful. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then we drive through a place called Indian Village, where I finally get to see the beautiful American mansions. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

His face was lean, brown, and beautiful, and across that face, I saw the open, easy smile of Prince Carmen Jones. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

For more than 100 years, Mount St. Helens had been quiet, a beautiful mountain surrounded by forests. I Survived the Eruption of Mount St. Helens, 1980 2016-08-01T00:00:00Z

It sounded like such a beautiful thing when she said it. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

During these marches I got a sense of the landscape, which was very beautiful, with dense forests and spare highlands. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Don't worry, girls. We made this room beautiful, and nobody can take that away from us." You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

The hunter laughed at the suggestion which came from this beautiful woman and replied that it would be impossible for him to change his mind. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

To see so beautiful a bird playing in such a silly manner made me laugh. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

DUD: What sort of things do I say? devil: Anything that comes into your head that’s nice—how beautiful I am, how wise I am, how handsome... that sort of thing. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

Before war came to it, it must have been a beautiful place with its palm trees and sugar plantations. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

If I worried about my hair, he said, “You are beautiful with short hair, without any alterations to the way you were made.” How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

“I just have to tell you, you are so beautiful,” he said. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

I thought she looked very beautiful, but I didn’t know how to tell her. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z

Some part of Annabeth’s mind registered how beautiful the city was—the smells from the bakeries, the gurgling fountains, the flowers blooming in the gardens. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Somkit held up his hand and flicked his fingers in and out of the beautiful beams. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

The people had beautiful yards, and took care of the houses. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Matt, who spent much time by El Patron’s bed these days, said, “They’re very beautiful.” The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

On that hot, beautiful Sunday afternoon, a seventeen-year-old black teenager named Eugene Williams was swimming at the 29th Street Beach on the shores of Lake Michigan. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

He follows the beautiful young lady and the golden monkey down Denmark Street and along to Hangman’s Wharf, and down King George’s Steps to a little green door in the side of a tall warehouse. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

Seeing them from above is magical, but flying through them to see the landscape below is beautiful. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

“Because you’re beautiful. I enjoy looking at beautiful people, and I decided a while ago not to deny myself the simpler pleasures of existence.” The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

The others struggled as they were flung to their deaths, but Nhamo’s beautiful cousin approached the water like a queen. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was a beautiful night, in that time of year when the bugs go to sleep, so we stayed together by the fire instead of zipping into our tents. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

He was, she thought, like a cursed temple, still beautiful to look at—the shell of something sacred—but benighted within, and none but ghosts could ever cross the threshold. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

It was among the most beautiful sights Snuffy had ever seen. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

But the following sight, the one in which I returned home, beautiful and happy, made me smile. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

“This flower survived in the face of chemicals and toxins, and it turned all that death into something beautiful. That miracle field, Natalie, that’s the happiest place in the world.” The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

He thought of the beautiful candles in windows. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even in its sad state of disrepair, it was beautiful. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

Or figuring out ways for people to live in outer space, so they wouldn’t be too crowded on Earth and chop down beautiful woods just for houses. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z

The flowers were so beautiful, so delicate and unthreatening, but they choked everything around them. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

I feel like a speck of dust on a beautiful painting. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

“You two young people have crafted beautiful thingamajigs. Just lovely things. We’ll work out the payment details when I see you.” The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

“It is a beautiful view,” he said, nodding toward the river. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

“It’s a beautiful face,” he said, “I’m glad to meet you. You are well, I hope?” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Ipuda, my beautiful girl,” my grandmother said, and that was when I remembered the promise I’d made to myself at Dari’s house. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

The first storytellers in Greece told story after story about them, how they had been created and why they were so beautiful. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Lots of people miss her. She was beautiful. I mean, she is beautiful.” Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

All the beautiful houses were at once close and also a millennium away. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

The princesses, the fathers, the king, and the children, they crumbled like eggshells, powdery and beautiful—for they were always beautiful. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

Even now I couldn’t help but notice how beautiful she was. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

I remember eavesdropping as a little girl while the Beauty Minister and Du Barry spoke in her office about beauty trends and body parts, and how much the masses should pay to be beautiful. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

“Ahhh,” you murmured, cradling it in your hands as if it were the most beautiful thing ever. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

“Oh, beautiful cows,” she whispered, running her hands over their warm hides. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

To go into a vast building full of beautiful clothes, where people let you try them on, where you looked at yourself in minors...And the clothes were so pretty…. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

We went out and scanned the heavens, clear and beautiful, deadly beautiful, not one cloud to mar its serenity. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

“That was beautiful. As if Paradise was there in front of me,” a teenager gushed to Roberto. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

The sun was warm and the view of the Pacific was beautiful. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

As Gau told me this story, I had no difficulty at all seeing him back in Ashland, somehow convincing the seller to part with his beautiful home for a ridiculous price. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The all-American Sinclairs would perpetuate ourselves, tall and white and beautiful and rich, if only he let Mummy and me stay in Windemere. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

Wondrously beautiful he lies on the mountainside, motionless and remote as if in death, but warm and living, and night after night the Moon visits him and covers him with her kisses. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

My five chanterelles were tremendous, beautiful things I couldn’t wait to taste. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

The old gatehouse is now a beautiful rambling cottage. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

The sleek shells that resulted from the process were not only more beautiful than the Spanish cedar shells but also demonstrably faster. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Don’t seem right that it’s a beautiful summer day, with the sun shining to beat the band. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

“They have a beautiful new hotel in Rio San Juan,” Manolo went on. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

There it can only be hygienic; here it is beautiful. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

Later will come wall frames, plumbing and electrical, windows, walls, and a door, and at the end, I’ll lay down a beautiful wooden floor. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

None of the teachers were interested in teaching anything, and after a while it felt oddly like a snow day, an in-school snow day on the warmest, clearest, most beautiful day of the year. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z

Since then, the battle-scarred temples with their beautiful statues, stone sculptures, and multilayered towers remain one of the seven man-made wonders of the world. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

For weeks after it was over, people who I’d never talked to before at school stopped me in the halls to say how beautiful my voice is. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

Harriet went to live in his cabin, taking with her her one beautiful possession, the patchwork quilt. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

He turned away from the window and his gaze fell upon another peculiar object standing upon the cluttered, curved sideboard: a stone bust of a beautiful but austere-looking witch wearing a most bizarre-looking headdress. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

This one had a delicate and beautiful face—an incredible sight in this camp. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had not thought it could be as beautiful as this. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

There’s the classically beautiful brother and sister from District 1 who were victors in consecutive years when I was little. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

In school they had learned to speak simple Japanese and paint pictures of the three beautiful places. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

His courser was as slim as her rider, a beautiful grey mare, built for speed. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

We had a good life, a beautiful life. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

They’d been beautiful and eerie, and even now Pearl could see them exactly: her mother’s bright eye like a pearl peeking out between the legs of the starfish. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“Well,” he said, “you did a beautiful job in the Olympics.” A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

“She lived, and found powerful friends. She is living now. She is a lady and very beautiful. And I love her!” Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z

Believe it or not, it’s actually beautiful to some people. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

He told her, “It’s a beautiful house, all right. Nothing like those places I made you live in. Huh?” Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Kalinda pushes it open, and I see that her mattress is on the floor, but she has the most beautiful dressing table, and her nightstand looks like it’s made from gold. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Windows, wide open to the spectacularly beautiful fall day, would slam shut in homes along Lambertsville Road and as far away as the high school. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z

Keisha sits in her chair as I stare at her head full of thin braids, thinking it must take three days to do all that—so beautiful. Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

O beautiful for spacious skies, For amber waves of grain, For purple mountain majesties Above the fruited plain. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

In California, people like us could even attend the beautiful schools that white people also attended without threats and ugliness. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

But how beautiful... how perfect, had been the other one! Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

“So I told my mom I wasn’t feeling well, and when she went to work—well, it was so beautiful out, you know what I mean? And then I saw your bike there.” Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z

A big beautiful rock that you needed to wear shades to look at. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

She longed to see a most beautiful statue of the goddess of Argos, made by the great sculptor Polyclitus the Elder, who was said to be as great as his younger contemporary, Phidias. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

His expression was calm and courteous, and his dæmon was a very large and beautiful cat. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

Have you ever seen a really beautiful production of, say, The Cherry Orchard? Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z

Soon we’d go to college and the beautiful Sinclair houses would seem far away and unimportant. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

When her hands hunted out these beautiful new sounds it was the best feeling she had ever known. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

I wanted to kick down the door, ask a thousand questions, make them pay for bringing all this into our beautiful home with our books and the fireplace we’d built out of dry river rocks. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

I think it’s too beautiful to eat on. Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z

Some say that the Pythagoreans tossed Hippasus overboard, drowning him, a just punishment for ruining a beautiful theory with harsh facts. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

Since Anna was an excellent artist, and specialized, like a lot of women of the time, in painting flowers and plants, she hung her own beautiful botanical watercolors on the walls. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

The temple was a beautiful space, built entirely from glass. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Of course, not all art is beautiful to our eyes, but it is art nonetheless. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

Had any people, anywhere, ever been as sprawling and beautiful as us? Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

He was a very big Mako shark built to swim as fast as the fastest fish in the sea and everything about him was beautiful except his jaws. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was a swanskin, and you thought it might make you beautiful. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

As he stared at her, he realized once more how truly beautiful she was. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

“Perfectly beautiful,” replied Stuart, wiping the sarsaparilla off his lips with the corner of his sleeve. Stuart Little 1945-10-17T00:00:00Z

And they told how afterward Ned had carried Ser Arthur's sword back to the beautiful young sister who awaited him in a castle called Starfall on the shores of the Summer Sea. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Instead of making her clients beautiful, she distorts them. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

I was Alexandra, I was South Africa, I was part of what Alan Paton described as “a tragically beautiful land.” Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

“A beautiful forest spirit who will suck the life out of you!” Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

It seemed to Lyddie that the room was full of young women, all well-dressed, all delicate, all beautiful. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

In the Aurora’s light she saw a great bird, a beautiful gray goose whose head was crowned with a flash of pure white. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

The door was opened, Gold recalled, by “an exceedingly beautiful woman.” Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

As she walked back to the kitchen I told her, “Gail is a beautiful name.” Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

Getting such people interested in a numerical or scientific fact for its own sake or because it’s intriguing or beautiful is almost impossible. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was a beautiful olive-green, with rather scratchy plate-armour all over him, and dark bands down his sides. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Our home was in a beautiful valley far back in the rugged Ozarks. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the front room, Dayah and Bushra fold up the embroidered rugs and beautiful wall hangings, the floor cushions and curtains. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

Not like a model beautiful, but her hair is shiny, her skin is bright, and from inside her you can feel she wants to help. Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z

Soon both of them would be his, the greater light and the lesser, and Freya the lady, who was more beautiful than either the sun or the moon. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

Upstairs you can hear the thud of the vacuum cleaner on Mrs. van D.’s beautiful and only rug. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

And Asian was bigger an more beautiful and more brightly golden and more terrible than he had thought. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z

On the left side of the case on yellowing paper was a tiny pencil sketch of a beautiful angel, his wings outstretched. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

Marie was jumping with joy and kept on saying what a beautiful day it was. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z

Amy is with truth considered ‘the flower of the family’, for at sixteen she has the air and bearing of a full-grown woman, not beautiful, but possessed of that indescribable charm called grace. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

In exchange for their sparing his life, the demon king Mayasura agreed to build the Pandava brothers the most beautiful palace the world had ever seen. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Annabeth’s shroud was so beautiful—gray silk with embroidered owls—I told her it seemed a shame not to bury her in it. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

“Nasya Boulos. Everyone loved her. She tortured me for four years. No matter what I did, she made certain I knew I would never be as beautiful or as popular as she was.” We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

“It’s just beautiful, thank you. It’s just what I need.” Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The crowd believes I was born knowing how to make them beautiful. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

All was moonlit, all silver, too beautiful to describe. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was hard to believe that someone so beautiful could be real. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

Her beautiful portrait stared across the room at the picture of El Jefe on the opposite wall. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Your beautiful photo still stands about two feet above my left shoulder as I write this note. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It was beautiful! It was as though you had a real violin in your hands!” James and the Giant Peach 1961-11-01T00:00:00Z

The Rose: “She is beautiful and dazzling, Rosa, my lovely wife.” Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

To the untrained eye, it simply creates a beautiful mosaic of colored chromosomes. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

Chicago is more beautiful than I ever thought. Ghost Boys 2018-04-17T00:00:00Z

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

The Minotaur was a monster, half bull, half human, the offspring of Minos’ wife Pasiphaë and a wonderfully beautiful bull. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

The beautiful shining-leaved tree seemed to nod its waving head as if in happy consent. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

I might study butterflies, how they grow from a gray-white cocoon into something colorful and beautiful. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

He had always been about surface, her beautiful, sunny, shallow boy, and on the surface she couldn’t see what would draw him to Pearl. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

When it blazed and man and woman were warming their backs, Roland asked her again, but this time in Upick, her own beautiful tongue. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

The secrets of the universe buried themselves in unusual and beautiful objects such as these, and only a select few could pull those secrets out. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

She gave a little snuffle and I thought for sure she was fixing to cry, but she just said, “I hope he knowed how beautiful his girls look when they free.” Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

The boxes and ornaments that were on his worktable, beautiful in their own way, were much simpler than this small piece. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Each time I closed my eyes I saw him winking at me, his beautiful face coming toward mine. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

Ladies with the most beautiful dresses sit there, too. Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

“I don’t usually sleep this late, but this place sure is a beautiful spot for resting.” Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

She is a tall, languid young lady with a pallid, oval face and beautiful pale-blue-gray eyes; her hands are extraordinary—long-fingered, flexible, nervously elegant. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was beautiful, of course; I couldn’t deny that. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

The hand-painted portrait was small, but she could tell the woman had been very beautiful, with long dark hair, dark eyes, and a playful smile that probably drove guys crazy. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

In the Party Field a beautiful young sapling leaped up: it had silver bark and long leaves and burst into golden flowers in April. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

‘Maybe not . . . you know, Calypso beautiful, but still. Piper kept the snake king’s gaze. ‘What are your real intentions?’ Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

It was one of the most beautiful things I’d ever seen, and we all sat dreamily for a while, just listening to the rushing water. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

She had been a cute freckle-faced girl with beautiful red hair. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

But in among all this terrible poverty there were just a few great big beautiful houses that were lived in by rich men who had as many as thirty servants to look after them. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

“My name is Ixtali,” the beautiful young woman said as she rowed us out toward the middle of the quiet lake. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

With military discipline, the students marched down the block to the Kress building, an Art Deco structure which was, coincidentally, one of the most beautiful commercial buildings in Durham. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

It had been planted that the delicate beautiful heroine wasn’t strong enough to turn the great wheel. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

The seventh labor was to go to Crete and fetch from there the beautiful savage bull that Poseidon had given Minos. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I said deep water. I said I don’t like deep water. Look at this beautiful day, huh?” A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

Violent images collided with beautiful ones in her mind. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

The woman was breathtakingly beautiful and strangely familiar. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

It is difficult to remember why I came here and why I care about unburdening myself from this beautiful weight. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

Disappointed, I returned to find that I had missed another visit, this one from the judges to leave a certificate of my prize and a beautiful gold and silver medal. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

We occupied the land, the forests, the rivers; we extracted the mineral wealth beneath the soil and all the riches of this beautiful country. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

But her partner had not noticed her discomfort, and he said, “You are a beautiful dancer.” Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

To many in Baltimore, Johns Hopkins was the beautiful campus you could walk past but not through. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

“Shhh, yes. There’s a rumor going around that the beautiful girl arriving today might be the queen they’ve been waiting for.” Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z

And there were those fat puffins, looking like chumps, bumbling around like they had no idea how to get on in the world, looking dumb and stupid, and so beautiful that I wanted to...nothing. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

There were waterfalls and a swim-up bar, and more beautiful people happily bobbing. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

The year Buttercup turned ten, the most beautiful woman lived in Bengal, the daughter of a successful tea merchant. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

How beautiful these proud little sailing ships were! The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

"You really should have a moon manicure. I'll have my nail attendant do one for you. When I am regent queen, I will mandate it. Even for Belles. Everything about a person should be beautiful." The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

Fa Mu Lan was green and beautiful, and her robes whirled out as she drew her sword. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sarai opened her eyes again, feeling dreamy and obscure, like a sentence half translated into a beautiful new language. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Even at our poorest we always had beautiful furniture and matching dishes. Inside Out and Back Again 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

The strawberry is completely transformed into an intricate, beautiful rosette, which he puts on the side of the pie. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

I heard a Dutch voice, and an English one, and behind me came the most beautiful French voice I had ever heard, though I didn’t understand a word of his song. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

Today, we’d be driving that beautiful beast into a new world. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

As I crossed a narrow ravine crowded with low trees and bushes I got very close to a beautiful red-gold bushbuck—a forest antelope about the size of a long-legged goat. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

She had once been, so Mami said, the most beautiful woman in the country. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

She tried to sear that beautiful sight on her memory as a shield to the ugliness that she now knew was about to happen. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

“There’s a successful architect who designs skyscrapers by using his feet to type, just like Aven does on her computer, and a woman who paints beautiful artwork that sells for quite a bit of money.” Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

She looked just like a movie star, Dad always said, but hell, he’d met lots of beautiful women before, and none of them had ever made him weak in the knees. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

It was a beautiful spear, carved with intricate runes. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

She was beautiful as a nymph or a naiad. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

I could lose myself forever in that singular little face, in the pessimism of her beautiful mouth. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

“Oh most beautiful of women,” Xaro said, as they began to climb, “there are footsteps behind us. We are followed.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Right at that moment, I feel like the most beautiful girl in the world. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

“Ugly kwa? What are you talking about? The house is beautiful!” Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

“Look back, look back,” had cried a beautiful woman with long blonde curls, “and see if we are pursued!”—and she had come, as John remembered, to a terrible end. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

I think, when the wind shuffles them, they are shambling and beautiful as old people. Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z

“You were so young and beautiful—like springtime all year long. I just knew you would erase all the sorrows from my past.” Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

And sure enough, a big, comfortable-looking woman appeared, leading a fat old horse, and at her side was a young man almost as beautiful as Jesse. Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

The sun glinted off the abandoned grocery carts and made them magical, beautiful. Raymie Nightingale 2016-04-12T00:00:00Z

My tea is warm, the Liars are beautiful, Cuddledown is beautiful. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

As I stumbled up the hill, I was struck by how very beautiful the farm looked in the hazy early light. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

“Looks prettier than it sounds. And your hair is so dark and heavy . . . it’ll be beautiful. Even with the cat ears.” Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

She spoke without sadness, and seeing her smile and hearing her beautiful Southern voice made me glad I’d come to the bridge that night. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

This didn’t get any answer, either, so he said, “The fields and orchards around Dwelholm are beautiful at this time of year.” The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

A grandmother of a petty knight, an ugly woman with a crooked nose, seemed stately and beautiful in the torches’ strange light. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

Susie-thing, a monster with a beautiful singsong voice, looked up at me. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

She had never heard more beautiful words in all her life. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

The T-38 is a beautiful airplane; sleek and slim, it looks as if it is going 400 miles an hour when it is parked on the ramp. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s lovely. The flowers—you’ve done a beautiful job. I had rue flowers in my backyard at home,” she said, sighing. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

Located at the end of a winding road overlooking a verdant valley, Healdtown was far more beautiful and impressive than Clarkebury. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

And its tone shall be the truest and most beautiful. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z

And it’s weird: she looks just the same—beautiful—but somehow different. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“Not at all. But it’s so beautiful. Is it yours?” Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

Examining her eyes very carefully, she decided that she, too, was beautiful. From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

It will only crack and burn, and it’s so beautiful, Set Jorah will call me a fool if I ruin it, and yet, and yet ... A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Joy and relief and hope all there at once, and she was instantly lovely again, herself, beautiful. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

The making of something beautiful and whole and real was all he cared about. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

There were tears in her beautiful green eyes. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

As for the sea, it looked rough, but to a landlubber the sea is always impressive and forbidding, beautiful and dangerous. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

And even though I felt it was a beautiful thing, I also felt it was a weight. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

When he turned his head to the left, he saw a woman next to him making a grocery list on the back of a folder, and was startled to find that she was beautiful. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

That big stupid thing had never looked so beautiful. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

“But do not fear. I will make a beautiful tapestry depicting your death.” The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Villages that made beautiful sculptures out of clay and hardened them with fire. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

“There is no one more beautiful than you, Akeelma,” he said. The Skin I'm In 1998-10-16T00:00:00Z

Once upon a time there was a king who had three beautiful daughters. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

Balder’s face shone like the sun: he was so beautiful that he illuminated any place he entered. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

I lift it up, and underneath is a bolt of beautiful fog-gray cloth that ripples like smoke. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

In an alien northern climate he was a long way from home, but he was beautiful in morning sunlight, and so were the four dolphins that supported the wavy-edged shell on which he sat. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

He even sends her and her husband a passage from Lamours “Autumnal Aspirations” about a beautiful woman never forgotten. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

“Come get some breakfast, and let’s go for our run. It’s beautiful out there.” Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

They went into the golden room, and it was just the same, except more beautiful because the sun was pouring through the south windows. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z

Finally, I settle my gaze on that beautiful forehead, an expanse of uninterrupted clarity. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

The first ones would see Doc’s face when they gave him the beautiful quilt. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

More golden than the king’s dragon bracelet, sweeter than a peach from the Queen Mother’s garden, and more beautiful than a Goddess of Heaven! Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

I think she’s used to being the beautiful one and doesn’t appreciate the attention I’m receiving. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

I wanted to wear my dress and look pretty, and I wanted him to think I was beautiful. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

She is not beautiful, and I am afraid of turning into that. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

"All that time I wasted making war when I could have been growing beautiful things." City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

My father acted quickly, as he knew a woman as beautiful as my mom with such a naked love of the faith wouldn’t be on the market for long. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

“How beautiful that is!” said Laurie softly, for he was quick to see and feel beauty of any kind. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

As an African-American I have experienced beautiful things, but the majority of the things I’ve experienced are not beautiful. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now she flew in a beautiful blur of span- dex and sequins, a girlish ninja star arcing through the air. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

Perhaps the most beautiful type of dragon, it has iridescent, pearly scales and glittering, multi-coloured, pupil-less eyes, hence its name. Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Learning basic finger spelling to enhance musical activities with pitch and using sign language to enhance a song performance is very helpful. Sign language is a beautiful way to communicate; all students will benefit.” Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

He had cast hundreds of small things since he had gone to work for Mr. Lapham, but nothing so intricate and beautiful as the woman with folded wings whose body formed the handle. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Outside the town, by a beautiful unfenced grove, the wanderer met a small train of men and women servants loaded with baskets. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her beautiful hair had dried into a skein of cobwebs. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Placated, P. D. and 1 confided my project to the Dean and his beautiful wife. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

The three beautiful daughters became more beautiful still in the eyes of their beholders. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

I went back to school in the fall: a dry, gorgeous September, you wouldn’t believe how beautiful the trees were that year: clear skies, littered groves, people whispering whenever I walked by. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

He stood at the entrance, drinking in the beautiful debris of Room Nineteen—his masterpiece. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

When it was finished, it looked up and everything fell into place, and it showed itself for what it was: a smooth, beautiful, aerodynamic air­ship. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

On hearing this, the leopard mother wept bitterly, but the hunter just watched as the beautiful woman sobbed on his floor. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

“A trick of the light. She is the most beautiful of all the gods,” said the maiden who was Loki smoothly. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

The Imperial Garden was just as beautiful in the day as it was by night. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

He found her beautiful, if a bit strange and sour. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

The skin of the peach was very beautiful—a rich buttery yellow with patches of brilliant pink and red. James and the Giant Peach 1961-11-01T00:00:00Z

I stared at it for a while, in love with the idea that something so ugly could be hiding something so beautiful in its center. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

I finally got my big, beautiful sunflower-yellow A. I’m so proud of myself that I forget to he ashamed. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

But after that day the weather, and the way people remembered it, became something more; something potentially more deceptive, and yet something much more meaningful, more fragile and rare, and even more beautiful. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z

“I just thought I could show you something beautiful.” We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

For my sister Deborah, Mom wrote that she was so beautiful, she would get at least one hundred cows when she wed. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

The fact that one of these ladies was my mom made me feel particularly sad because my mom is beautiful. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

Maya hit one in herself, a beautiful, looping shot into the upper right corner of the goal. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It was as magnificent and beautiful a sight as I have ever seen,” Worsley said later. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

Thorn pointed ahead, and there, through the now open path, was a lagoon, shining with beautiful crystal-clear waters and what looked like hundreds of blue lightning bugs. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

Her coffee-colored hands looked old, but well-manicured and elegant, so I imagined she was a grandmother who had once been a beautiful lady. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

He could still see the colored stitches, but it was a simple—exquisitely beautiful, but simple—landscape again. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

“If perfection were possible, which type would reign? Moral perfection? Mental perfection? Would the smarter man win, or the stronger? The dark-skinned or light-skinned? Would the winner be the most beautiful?” Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

Her fingers were so fragile and so beautiful. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

“Indeed, nothing awful is without its beautiful side.” Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

He says that she was killed by Achilles, who mourned for her as she lay dead, so young and so beautiful. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

She looked up at me, smiling that beautiful smile. Fourth Grade Rats 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s beautiful,” she says and that’s all she says and she just looks and wipes off more spray. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

I follow him into the building, through what seems to be a food court, and into a beautiful room with a high ceiling and great columns. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

The cross-stitch itself was tedious, but the prospects were beautiful; Mother had the foresight to give me a botanical motif, knowing how I love green and growing things. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

My aunt was indeed beautiful; my mother wasn't, and that fact informed the way everyone treated them, including their own parents. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

I look at him respectfully: “That looks like a beautiful kid in there,” I say There are no shivers in my voice. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

My beautiful, perfectly finished, perfectly rhinestoned red dress for the pageant tomorrow. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

“It is true she is very pretty, but a man like myself can acquire any number of beautiful women.” The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z

Once, when they were in a meeting, he sent a note fluttering down to her: “My dearest—I sit here studying your features. You are perfectly beautiful!!” The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

There is some beautiful wild country around our Tchimpounga Sanctuary, and the government has agreed that it can become a preserved area. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

Isannah stared at him, her beautiful, soft, brown eyes so blank she looked almost blind. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

He didn’t want anything new in his life, no matter how beautiful. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

I remembered then that in Phnom Penh, when she was the most beautiful girl on our block, Ma said that she could have her pick of anyone to marry. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Zaheera, as beautiful as she was, was extremely shy, so there weren’t as many guys after her. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

He could see a spiderweb of faint thin lines across her back where someone had whipped her. .. she is beautiful, so... so beautiful.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“Everywhere. And trees. Such beautiful trees. All is green but the mountains with their faces of stone.” Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z

It was not easy to part with her beautiful things. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

"You look beautiful," says Prim in a hushed voice. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

It would include a beautiful mosque, school, library, and hospital, and a museum documenting the black man’s glorious history. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

She wore all black, with extra limbs running down her sides, and she recited the most beautiful words for the entire auditorium to hear. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z

She watched her go, then turned her attentions back to the radio and the strange, beautiful mystery of wires. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

The only reminder of what had happened was the empty space where the beautiful black horse had been. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

It’s a beautiful dream, like the end of an American movie, where the protagonist and his girl drive off into the rest of the world. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

“These are beautiful, Ives,” Gigi said, and Ivy felt herself smile. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

"It's because you're so beautiful, Tara. I thought that color would look great on you. You look so much like your mother, it's scary." You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“It seemed as if there was a fire burning inside them. Those weren’t the eyes of a beautiful woman!” Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

In the yard in front of the house were two beautiful big oak trees. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

The eyes, circled by this sad and beautiful darkness, were so sorrowful, lonely, gentle and nobly tragic, that they killed all other emotion except love. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her long, silver hair flowed around her beautiful face, and she smiled as Celaena set down her miserably pathetic knife. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Things really start to crumble once the ball is rolling at the outreach, which takes place in a beautiful park. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z

I had no idea the mountains could be so big or so cold or so beautiful. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

It might have looked beautiful, had she not known what corruption and filth dwelt within it. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

It was a beautiful color, and smoothed and molded so prettily with their knives. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were strikingly beautiful children, with huge smiles and wide, dark eyes. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

I feel loved like baby Rosa when I sink into her lap and she uses those sugar words that mean “beautiful girl” in Yiddish. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

The boys looked as elegant as Salvador and Lucky, and the girls wore beautiful long dresses of peach, turquoise, yellow, pink, violet, blue, green, and white. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

He had clear skin with a beautiful pink color in his cheeks. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was nothing more beautiful in the world than the sight of a teacher getting upset. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

In that picture, I’m sure Courtney was wearing a beautiful smile. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

His mom is also wearing a shalwar kameez with beautiful floral embroidery accented with gold jewelry. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

“What a beautiful mouse!” said Miss K, who was young and enthusiastic and eager to give her pupils learning experiences. Ralph S. Mouse 1992-08-01T00:00:00Z

It’s beautiful and surreal, and absolutely nothing like Georgia. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

In the dusk, the city seemed a tranquil place, even beautiful. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

A harp with a beautiful, sweeping curve was slung from his shoulder, but otherwise he looked nothing at all like the bards Taran had learned about from The Book of Three. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z

To be the grande dame of the beautiful, terrible past. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sometimes, my dad calls her beautiful, but she cannot hear him. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

Saturday evening at dinner he apologized in beautiful Dutch. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

She had helped Annabeth get cleaned up and given her a beautiful new dress and a complete makeover. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

I listened to the same heartbroken song the entire bus ride home, because it was still a summer when sadness was beautiful. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

She pulled off one of her gloves—they were these beautiful, fuzzy, pale yellow gloves—and she yanked a ring from her finger. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

Loki is the son of Laufey, who was also known as Nal, or needle, because she was slim and beautiful and sharp. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

Dora’s girls were making him a patchwork quilt, a beautiful thing of silk. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Master Nkrumah, the author of the journal, had written it with beautiful penmanship, notably making the first and last letters of the word slightly larger. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

Staring at the beautiful people who smiled and drank on the decks. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

“There’s more to life than being young and beautiful...or happy, for that matter.” The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

For attached was a long slender neck that supported a beautiful white head with a black mask and a bright orange beak. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

For it was beautiful, even though it was a screecher. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

Whenever we quit running or fighting long enough to look around, France turns out to be a beautiful place. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

“I was in shock. I mean, one minute I’m seeing Katniss looking so beautiful in all these wedding gowns, and the next...” Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

Out in the hallway, Ophie turned to thank the beautiful lady who’d helped her, but she was nowhere to be seen. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

She's vibrant and beautiful and commands the attention of the painting. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

The giraffe is timid and beautiful and quite possibly the strangest creature I’ve ever seen. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

The way the man told it, our rocket was a beautiful and glorious sight, and I guess he was right as far as it went. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

But there’s also magic 'in the ways people find to overcome their curses, and maybe even find a way to make something beautiful out of them. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

It would only be beautiful if it worked. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Dewey one was a deeply black boy with a beautiful head and the golden eyes of chronic jaundice. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

It was all so beautiful I could hardly believe it was real. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Tiny sparks danced before her eyes; they were as beautiful as fireflies in a purple twilight. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

It looked even more beautiful than her dreams. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

It was the most beautiful thing an adult who wasn’t my mom or dad had ever said to me. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

The floor is an immaculate white, almost beautiful, and—most important—empty. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

"No, I want you as beautiful as possible while you work on me. Perhaps it'll inspire you." The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

Even on the most beautiful days in the whole year—the days when summer is changing into fall—the crickets spread the rumor of sadness and change. Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z

Death is a beautiful woman, with wings and one breast almost bare; or is that Victory? The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

‘It certainly came,’ said Frodo, ‘and that’s the chief thing. But now we’ve got to think of our next move. Night will be on us soon. How beautiful the stars are, and the Moon!’ The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

The edges of the puddle shimmered beneath the sun, creating a beautiful frame around my face. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

She was beautiful, ablaze with the light from a dozen kerosene lamps. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was a beautiful skirt and I finished it on the day after the second moon. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

I hesitate a little bit, but my legs have already agreed, because I walk in to see how beautiful his room is. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

The Faith and Beauty group was intended to make young women strong, beautiful, proud, and self-reliant. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

On my ride from the Boston airport, I had counted the billboards that featured young and beautiful people. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

As beautiful as the design was, I worried over its weight. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

Down long ages the beautiful old Abbey had stood for happiness, peace and refuge to all. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

Her face was beautiful but unearthly - her eyes too bright, her features too delicate, her smile too cold, as if she’d been studying human smiles and hadn’t quite mastered the art. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Once upon a time there were three beautiful children, two boys and a girl. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

She talked about Arlington, about the huge suburban school she used to go to with its gorgeous music room but not a single teacher in it as beautiful or as nice as Miss Edmunds. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z

“Sorry to startle you. What were you listening to? It’s beautiful.” The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

He kept on working at it and daily under his skillful fingers it grew more beautiful. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

But only in the way the stupid, bloody slaughter of a bull in a bullfight can be called beautiful. This Side of Wild 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

And from above, a beautiful maiden leaned out upon the night wind and let down her golden hair. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was sacrificed from atop a mighty mountain, the highest place a human could reach, in the hopes that her pure and beautiful spirit would speak to Inti on behalf of the people. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

All things in heaven and earth were mysteriously linked with the divine powers, but beautiful things most of all. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

But just two months after I stayed with her in Montauk, my beautiful Grans died. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

“Be good to yourself, Finley. I wish you a beautiful life.” Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

My running had caused the beautiful cake to crack like a bombed sidewalk. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

But a bright and beautiful blur, no matter how distant, was better than a reality that was dull and gray. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

Karen is an extraordinarily beautiful blond child, the same age as my daughter and much like her. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

A dingy gray that was still somehow beautiful, like clouds before rain. Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z

With her family in some beautiful place beyond the moon. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

She was in the same white dress as last time, with the same beautiful hair and eyes like spring pools. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

Now I lay back and pulled up my favorite wool blanket, a beautiful red one with weavings of the sun and birds. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

Their faces were as a rule good-natured rather than beautiful, broad, bright-eyed, red-cheeked, with mouths apt to laughter, and to eating and drinking. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

I am mesmerized by their perfect tiny beaks, their creamy clawed feet, and their layered gray feathers that fold together like a beautiful silk fan. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

Dadi was never an objective judge of whether I looked beautiful or perfectly hideous. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

We were flying low over the long sands at Holy Island, and it was beautiful, but the plane kept trying to climb and I was fighting and fighting to keep it down. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

The creek was incredibly beautiful and wild; a hidden sanctuary, only twenty minutes away from his own backyard. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

"I overused my arcana to please her. Now they are forever unbalanced. The proteins are unable to regenerate and keep me beautiful. Our arcana help us maintain ourselves, too. They keep us alive." The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

“This is the most beautiful place in the world,” he said with a sigh. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

We jumped in the car, trailing the last hours of sunlight to the beautiful shores near Fort Morgan, Alabama. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

This sensation of being someone else, of changing into someone else, of being beautiful and young and crossing this famous bridge to something big—it was why Jule had come to New York. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

“But don’t you think the snow is beautiful? Isn’t it beautiful coming down?” Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

The streets in San Jose smelled like Maryam flowers, and as we walked the mile to the market, she pointed out other plants and foliage that she thought were beautiful. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

“My mom makes these beautiful paintings,” I say to her. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

Just then, the moonlight brightened, and a silver chariot appeared from the sky, drawn by the most beautiful deer I had ever seen. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

“I just think this is what I wanted to do, so let’s go. Friday night, it’s gonna be great, it’s gonna be beautiful.” Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

She looked at the moment just about beautiful to him. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

I looked up to see him smiling a crooked smile so beautiful that I could only stare at him like an idiot. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

She was beautiful, standing on the shelf with flowers and leaves and birds and moons carved all around her, and the large star at the very top. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the window of Jacobs’ Jewelry Store was the most beautiful thing in the world. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her hair fell away from her beautiful, hooded face and, for a moment, our eyes met. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

It is often said that nature has no disdain, and therefore the natural death lacks the concept of anger, of revenge, of meanness, and that it is even sometimes—shudder—beautiful. This Side of Wild 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

“All the Chinese guys, you know, outside they look like they live some lousy place, but inside, beautiful.” Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

Blood oozed from an angry gash on her cheek and trickled down her beautiful face. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

He studied orchids because they were so beautiful and people used them as an argument for God’s hand in nature. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sometimes I feel like a funny-looking rock in the middle of the most beautiful clear ocean when I read the kinds of things you write to me. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

However, on the upside, my mom bought me a beautiful light-blue dress to wear for the performance. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

The next leg saw her flying in a “beautiful United Mainliner.” The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

She was breathing hard, and deep circles of red burned high on her bright cheeks; in all my life I had never seen anyone so maddeningly beautiful as she was at that moment. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

“Those are the most beautiful feet! They must be Balder’s feet—nothing on Balder could be ugly.” Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

She was as beautiful as he had dreamed, and her touch was as fine, her kiss as sweet, as he had hoped. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

There was a bakery store to one side of it which sold beautiful charlotte russes with red candied cherries on their whipped cream tops for those who were rich enough to buy. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

What indeed is more beautiful than heaven, which of course contains all things of beauty? The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

“Papa Joseph would have found a way to save that beautiful fish and make money.” Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

It was going to be a beautiful day. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z

Alex knew he shouldn’t have been, but he was startled at how beautiful the kitchen was. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

“He directs plays and found a girlfriend at his work. A beautiful actress from one of his productions. My mom decided we needed to get away from California and my father...so here we are.” Because of Mr. Terupt 2010-10-11T00:00:00Z

It was a beautiful prayer, and afterward I thought her mother’s eyes looked differently upon me. Because of Mr. Terupt 2010-10-11T00:00:00Z

For so many complicated reasons there would never be another morning as simply beautiful as September 11, 2001. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z

As she came closer to the place where the people lived, she slowly changed herself into a beautiful woman. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

But I was so torn about it, Mal, ’cause first of all he was so gentle and so sweet to me....He said it twice, that I was beautiful. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

Proud of bearing so beautiful a gift the aged creature carried it to Procne, who was still wearing deep mourning for her sister and whose spirit was as mournful as her garments. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

Woolf glanced at War Admiral’s beautiful head, sweeping through the air like a sickle. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

I don’t have much in the way of money or worldly possessions, I’m not beautiful, intelligent or clever, but I’m happy, and I intend to stay that way! The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

Pollard greeted her with a beautiful wedding, undoubtedly financed and planned by Marcela. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

What struck Matt was how beautiful the houses were. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Out they came, and met the Karhiders with a beautiful curtsey. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

On the path that led to the bridge lived huge, fat Flo and his beautiful wife. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Wasn’t it beautiful?” she said as the lights came up. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

It is not the full tea ceremony that she has performed on several occasions over the years, but as Tsukiko slowly prepares two bowls of green matcha, it is beautiful and calming nonetheless. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

The moon smiled on him and guided him, and his golden body burned with such beautiful brilliance that he became a new sun in the heavens. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was only a farmer’s daughter, but she was beautiful, and also smart, as the daughters of farmers need to be, for farms are complicated businesses. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z

“Isn’t this beautiful? I’m sure not many people have ripe tomatoes yet.” Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

Harsh for him, still more beautiful than any human voice. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

We even smelled them baking, their beautiful and lovely cake-y aroma waiting down the halls. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

Calvin’s mom says, “Oh, the animal is beautiful. Powerful!” The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

“The most beautiful white….But it’s gone now. It was never mine anyway...though it didn’t belong to the king either...” When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

Her hair waves at me and her mouth is beautiful, though her teeth are ugly. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

And then, tracing each word with his paw, he read the story of a beautiful princess and the brave knight who serves and honors her. The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z

I can hardly bear to listen in the kitchen, since beautiful music stirs me to the very depths of my soul. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z