And I think Ghost's is something like five or six. Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z

“I am no longer surprised at your knowing only six accomplished women. I rather wonder now at your knowing any.” Pride and Prejudice 1813-01-28T00:00:00Z

A new criteria to his job—“watch my six,” as fighter pilots would put it. This Side of Wild 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

He takes me down a dead-end corridor that’s only six feet long. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

But we live on a moving platform, the Earth, which every six months has progressed from one end of its orbit to the other, a distance of 300,000,000 kilometers. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the first place, the dial for the wild dog had only been set at six, whereas this was more than triple that. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

It was the fact that after six years here in the Land of the Golden Mountain, I had even less chance of seeing Mother. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

Colonel paused, then yelled, “Sold to this gentleman for six hundred dollars.” Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

The cat-o’-nine-tails was generally made of six strands of hard, waxed cord, sometimes metal-tipped, that were attached to a hickory handle about a foot and a half long. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

On the Permian team, six of the fifty-five players were black. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Calvin says, “I think we’ll hit the ceiling boards about five feet down. Maybe six. We have to keep the hole super perfect, Mason. We want the Sonotube to fit tight.” The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

“It is a question of time. Three months, six months probably.” A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

Nobody said a thing while the giant was working, but as he slid the first six fat, juicy, slightly burnt sausages from the poker, Dudley fidgeted a little. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

After six months of paperwork and a background check, government officials—especially if they received bribes—would sometimes issue certificates to traders that allowed them to cross back and forth into China legally. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

“Remember the old seal hunter in Nova Zembla who told us about it? It must be six feet under now.” The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

He spoke of his eight brothers and six sisters, how every one of them had eventually come to America, though a few had already passed away. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Especially since six months had already passed since Hahn’s discovery, and the American president, Franklin Roosevelt, still had no idea that such a thing as fission even existed. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was a waif, an orphan, a runt, and six times as powerful as my brother. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

ONE, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight-and-ONE, two, three, four... What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

As we had for the last six years, we took time on Christmas Day to visit with service members and their families at a nearby Marine Corps base. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Her family moved around a lot, and at ten she’d already lived in five states and attended six different elementary schools. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Eleven horses later—five white and six black—Pete goes inside the stock car once again. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

When I knew them, the youngest two, the ones that got killed—Nancy and the little boy what wore glasses—they were only babies, maybe five or six years old. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

Instead of a couch they have six chairs, all of them three-legged, with oval wooden backs and black triangular cushions. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

The exercise had begun at six o’clock in the morning after a gray-lit breakfast of sausages and beans. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

He had six chicks that looked like they had fluffy hats on, with a special red light and everything to keep them warm. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

Every six months each girl was given one month of vacation to get drunk and raise hell. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Dr. King walking not six blocks from here, leading a rally for affordable housing. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

What a child has heard in his first six years of life cannot be eradicated later. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

I’m supposed to be at Hilly’s at six to meet Stuart. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

The city council had voted unanimously to grant the Fugees six months’ use of the field in October—three months before. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

He was speaking at six months of age. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

Before the change of command ceremony, the weeks seemed composed of six Saturdays to the Meecham children. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Off to the side were two rows of six chairs each, the second row higher than the first. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

Frightful had arrived in the Galapagos Islands, six hundred miles out in the Pacific Ocean, where the birds and reptiles had lived for hundreds of thousands of years, perhaps millions, without predators. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

I know six words that will light it up. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

The water was murky, but he could see perhaps six feet and there was no obvious way to get into the plane. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mr. da Silva had spent a summer in Greece six years before. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Deborah was six years old at the time, and I had just turned ten. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

Brother Fowles had been in Kilanga six years, which really when you think about it is long enough for about any kind of backsliding you could name. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

The officers turned around and saw the toughs moving toward their group of six. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

He led them, a procession of six, to a table right next to a platform. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

Hanako had paid the neighbor her entire savings of twenty-seven dollars, earned through working at the restaurant when she was six and seven years old. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

When you’re six, you wonder why your mother would rather live on the street, in a hole in the wall, and sleep on park benches next to winos than live with you. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Both Negroes and whites have gained this certainty from the experiment—because I was a Negro for six weeks, I remained partly Negro or perhaps essentially Negro. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was wearing a heavy gold chain around his neck, with a gaudy jewel hanging from it, and his claws—a good six inches long—were each covered in gold leaf. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

She knew Mr. and Mrs. Allen; because they had all served together on the building committee when the old Lincoln School was torn down and the new one was built six years ago. Frindle 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

And I guess everything was pretty regular about me, too, until six years ago. Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z

A few days later he took him to Duluth and bought him a blue coat, six pair of white duck trousers and a yachting cap. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

I am asking myself this now as I stand on a narrow ledge six stories above the ground. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

After New Year’s, I will be six years old and am still only as tall as Pa’s hips. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

She told him what Nemesis had said: that in six days, Rome would be destroyed. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

“ISIS will be gone in six months and we’ll have no money to repair potholes and fix street lights.” Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

Close to six feet tall—okay, five ten and a half—with good, straight teeth thanks to some expensive dental work. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

Over the years Cady had been sent to live with no fewer than six families—loving, happy, wonderful families—but unlike with the other orphans, it had never quite worked out. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

Immediately the needle began to swing round and round, and Hannah counted six revolutions before it settled firmly on the marionette. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

She was only six months old when we went into foster care, and she wasn’t yet two when Shanon showed up that day. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

He’s done seventy miles in the past six days, killing five rattlers along the way. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

There are six boxes between Duke and the one where Tater squeals and squiggles. Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

He changed into the warmer clothes and carried the rice in his backpack to a Gilju merchant, who bought it for six thousand won, about six dollars. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

Pollard tipped back in the irons and Seabiscuit tugged on his hands, picking off six furlongs in 1:12X, marvelous time. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Their place was only six blocks from where I worked as a copywriter for a small ad agency, so two or three times a week I would drop by after work. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

There are six seats, three on either side of a pockmarked table. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

“Here’s the referee. He’s counting. One, two, three, four, five, six, seven ... Is the contender trying to get up again?” I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

For the next six months they were assigned to protect railway lines and other industrial targets near the border with Poland. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

We’d aligned ourselves with different foundations and food suppliers to install six thousand salad bars in school cafeterias and were recruiting local chefs to help schools serve meals that were not just healthy but tasty. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

It was about six hundred pages long, but I was already halfway through. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

With six full suffrage states and two million female voters, there already existed a readymade voting bloc with the potential to influence state and national elections. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

Many of the women standing on line had infants strapped to their backs; others clutched fearful, scantily dressed, barefooted six- and seven-year-old boys and girls. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

There is only one break in the wall; an opening about six feet in width, a little to the north of the village. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

Sisters and senior nurses had been drafted in to help, and five or six doctors were working on the most urgent cases. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

This is still just a game to him, Quentyn realized, no different than the time he led six of us up into the mountains to find the old lair of the Vulture King. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Mr. Wallace says he’ll turn my name in, but he’s already got six names ahead of me, and one of ’em is a grown man with a car. Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

Levels four, five, and six were the compulsory levels. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Holly and her knife would be of small use against six men in mail with swords and spears. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“After about six or seven miles, I turned onto a side road,” she said. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was already late, almost six in the evening, so he wondered how long he would have to stay there. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

And between them, unmistakable, larger-than-life, and with six arms to hold six weapons, was the Godslayer. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

In shifts, lots, batches, mixed in with other families, they migrated, in six months and four journeys, to Kentucky, where there were mines and mill-work. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was a small ledge and a drop of approximately six inches to the water. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z

In the Seniors, we were down to six per dorm, so it was just our little group, and we often had our most intimate conversations lying in the dark before we fell asleep. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Either you belong in grade six, classroom three, or you belong elsewhere.” P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

He was one of these very, very tall, round-shouldered guys--he was about six four--with lousy teeth. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

I told her, “I’ve come to your house each of the last six days. For some reason I needed to see you again.” Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

There were numbered circles running down the left side, one to six. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

Dimple found a comfort in her old seat, her arm pressed up against Rishi’s, everything like it had been for the last six weeks. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

"Good Lord, despite those large breasts, and what are you, five foot six inches? You really don't know what's going on, do you?" March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

But none of the times were recognized by the International Swimming Federation because the pool was six metres too long. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

I’m not sure how I made it through those six days. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Barack had met him six years earlier, as a senator, when Mandela had visited Washington. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Roy didn’t actually see the golf ball until it came down six feet in front of him. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

And Charlotte is known for having been in a TV commercial when she was six. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

Sky was six hundred feet below, with nothing between but empty air. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Hey, I’m seventeen years old, six feet four, a hundred and sixty-two pounds, and I can definitely rise. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

Two parts of three plus four parts of six. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten! Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

Then she noticed Genie with a jacket held up not six inches from his face. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

It was a large rectangular hole dug in the dirt, about six feet long by four feet wide and three feet deep. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

Some of these folks have come a long way, like Mr. Daryl, who’s been clean for six years and works in construction now. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

Suddenly he spotted six children on the far side of the square, by the tables of the cafe opposite. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

They set out together, Nat Turner and his six followers, and at every plantation where they stopped, other slaves joined them, until there were seventy of them altogether. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

I remembered Henry’s cool voice, scarcely six weeks earlier. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Then at six o’clock she heard Bill go to the kitchen and fix his breakfast. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

They were about six or seven feet long, one was larger still. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

The right wall of the studio is covered in paintings I've done over the last six months. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

He tells me he doesn’t trust doctors, that my grandfather did and look where it got him: six feet under at forty-five. The Crossover 2014-03-18T00:00:00Z

Daddy’s words hang on the walls, and there are six writing stations with brand-new computers. Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z

I met him once for thirty minutes, and he made six puns and said “oh, fudge” twice. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

In front of us, a path of floating stones led through the clouds up to Mount Olympus, hovering six thousand feet over Manhattan. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

He was a tough, cruel, primitive kind of man who never held a job for more than six months in his life. Twelve Angry Men 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was almost as if it had quivered, though there it was, quite still, poised with a strange energy on those six insect legs. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

I dashed to the other end of the long room and pushed up every black switch I came to, all six of them. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

So then you got to six X over six equals twelve. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

She smiled—and it wasn’t the kind of smile that said l love you—and she skipped up the six marble steps toward the marble entrance. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

“You’ll go to the whipping post, and a fine will be added to your debt—the sum of the two tickets I just lost. By my calculation, that’s about six months’ worth of your wages.” Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

I have no idea how six of us are going to fit into this car. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Each segment of rail took an hour to get free, and required all six of them to carry. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

She worked there six months and put on muscle. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

When they came up out of the Pipeworks, it was nearly six o’clock. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

“We lost six men to troll attacks last quarter. Six men. That was belowground, in familiar territory.” Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

“Some along the back wall and scattered in aisles three, four, and six,” Holly answered with a wave of her hand. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

At five o’clock the court recessed and a tray of food was placed before Bigger in a small room, with six policemen standing guard. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Almost six months,” Maya said, and for the first time, she looked almost relaxed, not like a lab rat in a cage, waiting to see what would happen next. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

Ruth and Sarah have been members of my staff for over six years now. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

We had traveled for more than six days when we came in contact with a very old man who could barely walk. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

Four hours and six bottles into the evening, August and Marlena dance to “Maybe It’s the Moon,” while I lounge in an upholstered chair with my right leg draped over its arm. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

They were fighting six feet from Dany’s box when the Spotted Cat hamstrung him. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Of course, there are dozens of irregular plurals, but most of them are second nature to us by the time we’re five or six. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

The nearly six thousand troops got orders to move out into the streets. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Seven opossums, four raccoons, five owls, and six skunks had waddled, scooted, dashed, and fluttered from their various homes, just to see me off. Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

“Sister Jordan brought quite a few of her children today,” Rev. Owens would marvel as Mommy stumbled in with six of us trailing her. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’d sucked the whole cigarette down to the butt, in five or six long drags, composing myself to answer. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

At first she tried to draw a picture on the front, wasting five or six precious sheets of paper in the attempt. The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z

It had a full chrome grille, whitewalls, mud flaps, a push-button radio, the new stove bolt six engine, and a black convertible top that worked like a dream. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

They ranged from five to six feet tall. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

Already his thoughts had left Milkman and had flown ahead to the house where six old men waited for him. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

He looked even better than he had six months ago—tanner and taller, leaner and more muscular. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

At first he didn’t recognize her—a small, soft shadow among six other shadows. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

It completes the set of six and creates a perfect half-moon curve. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

At least I convinced him to leave the other six slots open, else Duck might have six ducklings trailing after him, each more blindingly adequate than the last. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Faget put Allen’s insight to work in the design of the Mercury space capsule, six feet wide and nearly eleven feet long, weighing three thousand pounds. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

Our zoo had a clan of six, two dominant fe­males and four subordinate males. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

“You arrived six years ago. So you’ve been fishing for all that time.” Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

“That’s six days from now,” he said in a jubilant voice. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the transitional space of the bus, she turned over the questions that had loitered in her mind since sending off her application six months prior. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

Stanton had been away from the podium at women’s rights conventions for six years, but most people in the audience still knew her by name. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

From there, we moved on to a Home States Ball and after that to the Commander in Chief Ball, then onward to the Youth Ball, and six more beyond that. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

And he was only six when he first heard them. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

For many years before the revolution, Jorge had traveled five weeks out of six, selling electric brooms and portable fans for an American firm. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sign us up for six million paper chain links. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

“I will pay you four annas a dozen for brinjals, and six annas each for pumpkins, if they are large.” Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

We had never heard from Hershel in those six long years we had been separated. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

We’d spent six months in Peshawar waiting for the INS to issue our visas. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Andy got six kinds of meat, ten dinner rolls, and four pieces of apple pie. Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

All six of them are seniors and closely bonded as friends. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

Mornings we got up at six to run. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ridgeway was six and a half feet tall, with the square face and thick neck of a hammer. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

Though it is a strange concept physically, it is the predictive power of the equations that interests scientists, rather than their comprehensibility—and an extra six dimensions do not constitute an insurmountable problem, mathematically. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

Instead, she went outside and sat on the backyard steps and watched a hen near the lemon tree, guarding six chicks, nudging them toward crumbs on the ground. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

“No. Peach’s parents. They want me to visit in a few months, when she’s six months old. We had originally agreed to two visits a year back before the adoption.” Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

I had lived on a farm with some cousins for six months and I helped Uncle Holt with his vegetable garden every year, but that was the extent of my agricultural expertise. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

Within six months the streets became strangely absent of women because they were afraid to go out to do their shopping. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Then it dawned on him: the way he had felt back then, for a few days, was probably how Annabeth had felt for the six months he had been missing with amnesia. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

And in time, we had six children; moved from the shotgun to a duplex apartment to a house, and lived the dream—high school football on Friday nights. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m only going to use six needles on you today. Two will go at your ankles, two at your hips, and two in your upper ears.” A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

May Belle at six was already too wise. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z

“I been knowing this for maybe a month—maybe six weeks now.” Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

I knew of at least six, I said, counting Pedrito and Nelson among my two sisters and their husbands. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Of course, I’m Managing My Expectations, but I’m sure at least a couple of our six egg drop designs will survive the fall. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

We walked the last six miles together, but we didn’t talk much after that. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

I learned that the majority of the slaves worked in the cotton fields from six in the morning until nine or ten at night with only a fifteen-minute break for a meal and water. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Being in a group of six boys was not to our advantage. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

“I’m awake. You guys rest up. I’ll wake you at six. And don’t call me boss.” Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You can shoot it either by pulling the trigger or by pulling back the hammer. You could squeeze the trigger six times in a row and get off six shots.” The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

And if, say, one of the bodies had twice the mass, and the other had three times the mass, then the force would be six times as strong. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Miss Thomas said, “James, Bud was six years old, everyone on earth was real tall to him. I don’t see the point in all this.” Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

It was changing its shape in a complicated way, thinning at the base as a vertical column rose five or six feet. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

I spent six years not asking that question. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

“Try explaining to your math teacher that you feel guilty pairing a six with a two!” A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

Morris says that guards who have worked at the museum for a year have seen everything; those who have worked there for six months have seen half of everything. From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

The correctional staff at the prison processing center couldn't find any uniforms that would fit a boy Ian's size, so they cut six inches from the bottom of their smallest pants. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

“Miss Teen Dream is all I ever wanted from the time I was six years old. This is the big one. The one that matters. Don’t y all remember why we’re here?” Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

My mother left China in the winter of 1939, almost six months after the stoning, and arrived in New York Harbor in January, 1940. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Patria, my child,” he said, which made me smile for he couldn’t have been but five, six years older than my Nelson. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

As well as nine symphonies and much chamber music, he wrote over six hundred songs before his death in 1828. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

After about six weeks of this lovely life there came a long letter from Father in India, which had wonderful news in it. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z

So Fabian took six long pieces of dried grass, cut them to the same length with his sword, and then cut two of them shorter. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

She said everything she'd wanted to say in the last six months. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

We arrived around noon and found a handful of people taking cover under a large rectangular plastic sheet mounted on six poles spiked to the ground. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

He had been out of the veterans’ hospital for six months. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

The larger of the two—and he was quite large, well over six feet—was dark-haired, with a square jaw and coarse, pale skin. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Although it is agreed that there were seven of them, only six stars are clearly visible. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

When it was over, the result, besides a very sore body for me, was six flying fish in the locker and a much greater number in the lifeboat. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

Beneath his window six cherry trees stood sentinel around a marble pool, their slender branches bare and brown. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

At unexpected times, Horan would be ordered to grab his gear and load into a waiting helicopter with five or six other Marines. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

“Plus we got two other guards that can play. Both of them are around six feet.” Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

So he surrounded his capital city with a massive wall, about six kilometers long, whose remains stand to this day. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

October 15: Four women were arrested; two received suspended sentences, and two repeat offenders were sentenced to six months in the workhouse. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

After six songs, we head back to our table, our arms draped around each other. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

Abilene was better than six hundred miles north of the Texas hill country we lived in. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

He couldn’t have been much older than five or six. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

It had been six months since the Spirit Bear sank its teeth into his hip and arm and raked his chest into hamburger. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

There were six marks, one for each day of his travels so far. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

My room and board is paid up until the end of the year, but that is only six days away. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

Starting around 1150, the six Champagne fairs became the one place where Europeans could buy and sell products from the surrounding world—a first step in connecting them to the riches and tastes beyond. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

When the dust settled, all six Romans were squealing pink piglets. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Then, after he had served only six and a half years, he was pardoned by the governor of Texas; Middleton had a girlfriend, and Lewis’s family believed that she had bribed authorities. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Promising to report the next morning at six o’clock, I walked home and pondered on what could possibly have been in the woman’s mind to have made her ask me point-blank if I stole. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

No single construction crew stayed on the job longer than six weeks. Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

Earlier that day, he’d left his wife and five children, ranging in age from two to six, to work his second job as a security guard at the jeweler’s. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

“First thing we’ll need is some sticks about five feet long. Take your ax, go over in that canebrake, and get us six of them.” Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

She could hear the bukavac’s steps behind her, the scuttling rapid-fire of six feet punching the ground as it chased her. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

I had the bag half full when I saw him: a German foot soldier six feet away, eyeballing me through the sights of his gun. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

It's really ironical, because I'm six foot two and a half and I have gray hair. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

A chorus of ooh’s and ah’s greeted the arrival of six mice pushing a big trolley. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

The referee began counting, "One ... two ... three . . ." Becker shook his head, as if to clear it. ".. . four .. . five ... six . .." Then he climbed to his feet. ". . . seven . . . eight." The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

They couldn’t be caught by six or seven hostile immortals. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

“Maybe, but I doubt it. Thanks to the paper chain hitting six million, Chokecherry is all over the news these days—and so is this story.” Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

At the end of the car, large planks of wood approximately six feet deep had been installed as shelves. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

It contained six marbles: five of them white and one of them black. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

I think I had not heard him cry for six years. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

Carpenter and his wife had six children; when two of them passed from yellow fever, he sold them for anatomical study. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Dubicki was six years old and tiny and her parents had not seen her in days. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

I expected to hear that we were going to be out of school for a month or two, or maybe even six. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ruth and me were housed below the packet-boat’s deck with six sheep, a pen of hogs, three families from Scotland, and fifty casks of dried cod. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

In Milan there were six theatres in which opera was performed regularly; in Naples there were five plus one more occasional venue. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

And as they passed between the strong and silent rock walls Elinor told the tale of a battle that had raged in this very place over six hundred years ago. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

The dole is nineteen shillings and sixpence a week, the rent is six and six, and that leaves thirteen shillings to feed and clothe five people and keep us warm in the winter. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

It had lasted just six months, yet during that time its gatekeepers recorded 27.5 million visits, this when the country’s total population was 65 million. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Though Stewart continued to have her perform for his friends, she remained with him, hiring her time, for six years. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

“But, Nelson, he already has six or seven wives! Good Lord.” The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

For six years, from age nineteen until I turned twenty-five, I did not sleep uninterrupted through a single night. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was the youngest, not yet six in a class of seven-year-olds, but she flawlessly read cat, pan, bed in an accent that was like Olanna’s. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

There is a table, and it has six chairs. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

If I was lying on somebody’s grave, whoever it was would be six feet away. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

With just six days to go now until their preliminary race, Ulbrickson wasn’t at all happy with their progress. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Junior answered, “Yeah, we did. All of us graduated high school and all seven of us graduated from college too. Our school was just six blocks from here. 1 graduated fourth in my class.” Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Maurice DuPre is six feet high, six feet wide, and has more fingers and toes than he has points on his IQ. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s late August, so although it’s only six o’clock, the sun is already up, and the air is warming. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

They were ranked by sixes, though, and so were constrained in their firing, only a few able to present at once; and the causeway afforded no cover. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

While each instrument is limited in range to fewer than two octaves, all together, from bass bars to soprano glockenspiel, the ensemble covers six octaves, creating an entire orchestra! Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

Whippings, the keepers said, were administered five or six times a day. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I thought, My grandfather’s house is six hundred years old and made of stone. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

The rock, exhibiting a dearth of holds and coated with six inches of crumbly rime, did not look promising, but just left of the main prow was a shallow comer glazed with frozen meltwater. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

For several days the six of us walked on a tiny path that was about a foot wide, walled by thick bushes on either side. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

Her taking ’em six shots at him and missing was curtains for the two of us. The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z

“He’s not exactly recent if he’s six hundred and sixty-five, is he?” Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

Until they get where they really want to be, most correction officers will hit the road for home at the beginning of two days off, even if it means a six- or seven-hour drive. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

But before Victor could take a closer look, the six children disappeared, swallowed by a big group of Canadian tourists with bright red backpacks. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

About five or six Crowns are in the line. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

It snows an inch in South Carolina, everything shuts down and they get on the six o’clock news. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

She touched a kitchen door as she passed, and six miles away Mrs. Dudley shuddered in her sleep. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

That was how her mother worked: one project for four or six months, then on to the next. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

The day before, Ms. Laverne had found the six of us sitting in the corner of the lunchroom, laughing at a character Tiago was mimicking. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

“Right. Glazier’s got the six hardheads in tow.” The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Rémy walks Elisabeth and me down the six flights of stairs and through the Grand Entry Hall to the south wing. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

Suddenly there was no fork in the silver chest and she would find six on the altar and three in the washroom. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

From a year when I was six years old and there were records of Harry Lauder, and Maxfield Parrish paintings still hanging, and bead curtains, and “Beautiful Ohio,” and turn-of-the-century architecture. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

We were extremely proud of the fact that during the six months of the campaign, there was not a single act of violence on our side. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even over the din of the storm, they could hear him counting: six, seven, eight... The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

The houses began after that—large, handsome, widely spaced, each set on its own six or seven acres of land. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

The repaired alarm clock rang at six o’clock the next morning. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

“Seem a long ways off now, but January ain’t but... two...four... six... ten pages away. Gone be here before we know it.” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

But all six EVA suits are still here and in perfect condition. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

At twenty past six, Vera felt that to sit there longer was unbearable. And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z

It's barely after six and curfew isn't until eight. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

As Zach pulled into a parking space in front, I saw them— five or six white men standing by the ticket booth. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were six Joseph Ryans listed in Manhattan, but none on Riverside Drive. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

They had been at this reading for six years and were halfway through the Bible and up to Macbeth in Shakespeare’s Complete Works. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

“No, it was the name given to me by a teacher at the school I was sent to when I was six.” Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

“You’re a big boy now, almost six. You know I have to work.” The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

In a few strides, Specify was six lengths ahead of the field and running away with Wright. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

After filling the tub with no more than six inches of water, Mandy and I bathed the babies; then it progressed until the oldest was finished, with everyone sharing the same water. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

She held out her hand, as if she were patting six heads. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

Then I noticed that not six feet away from me a little boy was jumping up and down, screaming, “Foreign devil!” Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had to read the same paragraph over and over, like six times. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

Like the bedroom and bathroom, the study was squashed under the apex of the bungalow’s roof, and was little more than a corridor between the two, barely six feet long and five feet wide. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Mozart, for example, famously started writing music at six. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

They leave for India six days later, six weeks before they’d planned. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

You multiplied the tops of the equations and you got to minus X over six. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

One for sorrow, two for joy, three for a girl, four for a boy, five for silver, six for gold, seven for a secret never to be told. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

The spring equinox has just passed; they face six months of unrelenting night. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

They had six arrows each and would be able to fire and mark them all before they needed to frighten the rabbits back by walking about to collect. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Around ten a.m. he would make six pies for the day. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

For most of my childhood, I thought all dads worked six days a week, but I began to notice that most of my friends' fathers took Saturdays and Sundays off. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

There was a bell pull with a porcelain knob, attached to about six feet of wire when I stopped pulling and knocked. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

After six years I was leaving Kraków, the city of my childhood dreams, the city that had become a nightmare, and was heading into the unknown. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

All told, in fact, six of the boys in the Cal boat were now veterans of last year’s championship crew. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

There were six of them: three females on one side, three males on the other. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Piper is a good six inches shorter than I am, but walks faster. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Every time he started to get comfortable, he felt the glare of the six statues arranged at the other end of the room. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

“I remember in primary six, I took this girl to the send-off party and my mom dropped both of us off and gave the girl a handkerchief. She said, “A lady always needs a handkerchief! Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

In the end the whole notion of goodness and badness will be covered by only six words—in reality, only one word. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

It’s been almost six months since Quinton went missing, but it doesn’t feel that long. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

Then came a band of six royal guards, dull and bland as porridge. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

I also knew that the women’s national team members went to camp at the ranch every four to six weeks for skills training and assessments, known as verifications. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

I know he’s only six, but he doesn’t think black is cool. Tears of a Tiger 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He whirled back to Yossarian and, before he could speak, sneezed thunderously six times, staggering sideways on rubbery legs in the intervals and raising his elbows ineffectively to fend each seizure off. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

We easily trade six of the fish for good bread, the other two for salt. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

She looks at me seriously, and she says, “Djo, I have been living on your island for six days now. It is the only place I live.” Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Easton Michaels, who wrote six novels, was an inordinately private person as a general rule. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

At six he would let the gathered court know about the current status of things. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

When I was little, Mom used to point out patterns in the subway stations, the petal-like clusters of white tiles, six around one black. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z

“We have a hundred and six of them here,” explained Winslow, “as a special study sponsored by the federal government.” Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

The next morning, the six knights and the two children crouched in a circle at the edge of Lord Bertulf’s wood. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

It is the same one Maddie and I took off from six weeks ago. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

Demetrius and I tried it without ropes on a dare six months ago and nearly broke our necks. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

In truth, it wasn’t much: a bar, a recently constructed stage in the corner, ten small tables, and five or six booths against the far walls. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

His broad shoulders tapered to a narrow waist, and he walked with the swagger of someone who wore a six shooter on each hip. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

Finally, by six o’clock, the house redolent of enticing smells, Viola rang her bell at the back door and pounded the gong. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

And here he filled his thermos bottle with hot coffee, had them make up six ham sandwiches and bought two quarts of beer for breakfast. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

In a few weeks four more children joined the fray, for a total of eleven foster children between the ages of two and six. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

With the six pennies, the book, the rocks, and the thread, she walked back to town. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

It might have been the dry pulse of the decaying house itself, after a while it whirred and cleared its throat and struck six times. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had had only six months of college, and the college hadn’t been a regular college, either. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Except that there’s not much which matters a great deal. The last six months have made that plain. And lately it has seemed important to find a thing or two which do. That’s all.” The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

There was something he’d sworn he would never tell her, and for six months he had done his best to block it from his mind. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

The six of them were jammed into the carriage. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

At Maple Grove, six three-story buildings sit close enough to the freeway that Aunt Pooh says they used to go on the roof tops and throw rocks at the cars. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

There were six cots, all full, and more children lying on the floor. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

To Dad this meant that we had to arrive at six- thirty, too, even though Erik was riding with Arthur Bauer. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

I hear those six words in my ears all night. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

When it was securely fixed, he threw the free end out, and at once six witches darted toward it, caught hold, and began to pull, urging the cloud-pine branches toward the Polar Star. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

They have sent six of their sons into the United States Army. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

It was super early, like around six thirty in the morning, when we left the house and piled into Uncle Tony's SUV. Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z

The logging village was ’bout five or six times as big as the square in Buxton. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

Thirty- six years old and I can still hear my mama telling me, It ain’t nobody’s business. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

It must have been half past three o'clock when I had gone to bed and the bands had waked me at six. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

Sometimes the tears would just come over me, looking at the two of them, even six years back when I first got here and was too young to be thinking about love. Missing May 1992-03-01T00:00:00Z

If I walked north on 24th Avenue, turned left at the corner, and walked a mere six blocks, I’d be at Dynamite Bob’s house. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

The locals had glanced at the six travelers when they first entered, but made no effort to lower their voices to keep their gossip private. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

And so I found myself, six days later, standing at our local airport watching a tin commuter plane containing Katz touch down and taxi to a halt on the tarmac twenty yards from the terminal. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

The one that was up was kept about six feet above ground level. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

But just two days later, the good feelings evaporated when immigrant workers at the nearby Argo corn refinery walked out and six hundred black nonunion men marched in to take their places. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

With their black hoods and thick black cowls, the six might have been carved from shadow. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Three hours later, Akhi and I were exchanging high fives because I had gone undefeated in the pool round, winning all six bouts, directly advancing on to the second day of competition. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

They hunt only one day out of three, and gathering takes up just three to six hours daily. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Only two bathrooms, which is a relief cause I worked in houses where they was five or six. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

“Let’s see...one, two, three, four, five, six, seven. Seven baby geese. Now isn’t that lovely!” Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z

I couldn’t have been much more than six when Mrs. V figured out what I needed. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

She has not eaten for six days and has fallen off the train. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

Some six hundred feet above the Col, Boukreev recognized the futility of his effort and returned to the tents, but, he admits, he very nearly became lost himself. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

Dave was high-stepping the way in front and the six “fingers” were a weaving chorus line behind him. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

“Yeah, but listen, it’s still true. Those six guys, they heard wicked sound out there. They heard sound you just plain won’t believe. “ The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Like, six or something. But the other ones weren’t this...you know, bad. These notes are worse than the other ones I wrote. The other ones weren’t so...” Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

“Because you have six children and a useless husband to look after. I want to help.” Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was a relief when six o’clock arrived and they could slip out of their sleeping bags, dress in the semidarkness, then creep out into the garden, where they were to meet Hermione and Griphook. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

Only the six friends had seen the thing before it was burned. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

The Archives was six stories tall, but I hadn’t known it extended underground as well. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

A nurse offers to fold up the sari but, exasperated by the six slippery yards, ends up stuffing the material into Ashima’s slate blue suitcase. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

In these perfect forms, he believed he had recognized the invisible supporting structures for the spheres of the six planets. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

But I will not be in control six days from now. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

“Ever’ six weeks or so,” George continued, “them does would throw a litter so we’d have plenty rabbits to eat an’ to sell. Of Mice and Men 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

She has roach legs protruding through her clothes, sticking through the cage of her ribs, down her torso, six of them, three on each side. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

It gave Permian a fourth and six at the Carter 24 with ten seconds left. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was already well past six o’clock at this point and I was beginning to hyperventilate when it hit me: I had the number to an expert hair-doer-upper. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

“We haven’t got months—it’s after one now, and the wedding’s at six tonight. What parts can we hope to have in working order in seventeen hours?” The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

Here we were, over six thousand miles from the anger and the noise, and that didn’t save us. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Later, in a month or six months, and certainly not more than a year, he would walk along here again, alone, and keep right on going until he caught up with the people. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z

Escape had seemed unlikely with all six of Abel’s women; with only two, it seemed impossible. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Already six people had died on Washington’s slopes in 1996, with the year barely half over—quite a sobering statistic—and there was plenty of room on the board for more. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

The rest of us had won it at least once—even Hugo, who was six years younger than Harry and L He’d won it three times already. Confessions of a Murder Suspect 2012-09-24T00:00:00Z

By six hundred meters, they were a length and a half back. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

As they talked to people, they began to understand the hardships suffered by so many during the almost six years that the war had ravaged Europe. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

I have already intimated that my condition was much worse, during the first six months of my stay at Mr. Covey’s, than in the last six. Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass 1845-05-01T00:00:00Z

First, players tried to roll a six, a five, and a four in descending order. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

Even if the war ended in six months or a year, a much higher salary even for that brief time would bring Dorothy that much closer to assuring her children’s future. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

I’d been kneeling on grits since I was six, but still I never got used to that powdered-glass feeling beneath my skin. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Everyone listens to news broadcasts five or six times every day. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the six events held that day, the United States finished second to last in three and dead last in the other three. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Among my CEO sample, almost a third were six foot two or taller. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

“When a few days over six months old, his nurse pretended to cry ... I saw that his face instantly assumed a melancholy expression, with the corners of the mouth strongly depressed.” Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Neither man’s pronunciation was very good: they had six teeth between them. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Because Mom was working at E Motions six days a week now, I never missed a class. Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Here I've upped it to six or seven, mainly because I'm too lazy to do anything else. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

There are six basses, one for each of us. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

Its sole purpose is to get six humans from Mars orbit to the surface without killing any of them. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Yet there was a space round Henry, perhaps six yards in diameter, into which, he dare not throw. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

Immediately, arrows pierced the lion’s maw—two, four, six. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

Even from six feet away Poe became my best friend. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

“Five, six dollars each? And a little extra for soda? Popcorn. Raisinets. Maybe a hot dog.” P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

What kept confusing me about it was that the argument didn’t have two sides the way an argument should, but about six sides. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

We reached Detroit a little after six in the morning. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Just getting the components to the park had required six hundred railcars. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

She was sentenced to six years in prison, but was released on bail pending her appeal. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The conversations aren’t deep or anything and only last five or six fries, but still, they leave me a little breathless and focusing a little too keenly on that dimple. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

“Every day? At six forty-five? But—but—it’s summer break! We gotta do chores every day?” As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

My stomach is full of six bites of this meal. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

I was now six and Adria was four, and we were both wearing dresses. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

In her laboratory, six saltwater aquaria gurgle reassuringly; on the back wall stand three cabinets with four hundred drawers in each, salvaged years ago from the office of Dr. Geffard. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

One time Papá told us how he had joined the Cristero Revolt in 1926, when he was sixteen, and had been wounded in the knee and thrown in jail for six months. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

Each morning there was a delicate period, between six and six-thirty, when there was a chance, however remote, that they could steal another ten or fifteen minutes of sleep. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

While our driver started up the engine, I did the gentlemanly thing and scraped the six inches of fresh snow off the windows. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

Everyone knows the telegram boys stop coming when the Angelus rings at six and darkness brings desperation to the women and children. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

“I like you, kid. It’d be a shame to have to put you six feet under.” The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

To judge by the archaeological record, this development took place in an astonishingly compressed period; what took the Sumeri- ans six thousand years apparently occurred in Mesoamerica in fewer than a thousand. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Once when I was about six I did a cannonball off the dock. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

After such gatherings, my peers and I—all the children between the ages of six and twelve—would brainstorm several possible answers that would avoid the death of one of our parents. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

He had traveled its paths for years, six years now, since that first time, when he was still very young and had left the home that had been cruel to him. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

Over the last three and a half weeks she’d been in nineteen different hotel suites, each with no fewer than three rooms, and one with six. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

“Where have you been for the last six hours?” Confessions of a Murder Suspect 2012-09-24T00:00:00Z

We went through six eggs before we even started the drop test. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

The training course was meant to be six months, but after eight weeks I received a telegram from the ANC urgently requesting that I return home. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

If the Astrea managed to beat out of Salem Harbor, every man on board was going to need four arms and six pairs of hands to handle sail. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

“That just means you can walk up six flights of stairs without risking a heart attack. Where’d you pick that up?” The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

Salva had been in Rochester for more than six years now. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

It had been six months since the funeral, and the loss of Aunt Queen still cut him like a sharp, jagged knife. Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had visited Uncle Edisto many times in the six months since he had died. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

“He’s cute, yeah. Shorter than I usually go for though. Like five seven, maybe five six without the boots. Photoshop-blue eyes, like an alien.” What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

We snuck past the cafe, where the old men hadn’t arrived yet, to a stationery store where my mom bought six big pink erasers and two pencils. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

“I had a really hard time focusing—like a really hard time. The only reason I didn’t have to go was my mom got me six tutors. I’m not even kidding.” What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

A year ago—six months ago—it would have meant no sleep tonight. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

After half a minute, the creek bed dropped six inches and he fell again, only now he went completely under and got a glimpse of small silvery translucent fish as his head went down. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I didn't realize you were here then. I thought you came to the village more recently. I would have guessed, oh, five or six years ago. But we lose track of time, don’t we?” Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Each morning at five thirty, six days a week, Mrs. Nielsen makes breakfast for her husband, usually fried eggs and toast, and he leaves for the store to open for the farmers at six. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

Will sprinted off - which was possibly the stupidest diversion Nico could imagine - and six of the guards chased after him. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

I walk into homeroom six minutes after the bell, because I couldn’t force myself to come straight here. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

But it took nearly six hundred seventy-five thousand wells to produce that amount in North America. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

It had been six years now since the day she had been carried in from the sea, and five since the morning that Elen’s birth returned the memory of her son to her. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

We are maniacal about it now, since six years ago, when we tried to change the tradition and had venison stew instead. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

This is all quite fascinating, but over the next six pages the paragraphs jump around between descriptions of the Cossacks’ way of war and still more exegesis of Clausewitz. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

She was pregnant again and later that year, gave birth to Makaziwe, named after the daughter we had lost six years before. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We went into a village about six months ago; I guess we surprised some VC. They left their meal, their cards, and this bottle behind. You want a drink?” Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You touched the pink. According to the rules, that’s six points to me.” Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

Then Jazz, who at the time was only six, picked up where Doris left off and started interrogating him, asking him all kinds of crazy stuff. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

The first was built largely around a core of last year’s freshmen: Don Hume, the big powerful stroke; Gordy Adam at number seven; William Seaman at number six; and Johnny White at number four. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

When he finished, it was over six feet deep. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

The teachers freak out and start being mean to the kids, like six hundred of us got together to hold the paintbrush. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

Because for one thing, six words was good. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z

For breakfast he was given only half a bowl of beans and three tortillas instead of six. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now he emerged into a sort of wide circular chamber, formed by the meeting of six different tunnels, all coming together in a star shape. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

And we all know how successful Strunk and White were in forbidding to personalize, to contact, and six people. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

Usually we just spread ourselves around the chairs and benches—there’d be five of us, six if Jenny B. came along—and had a good gossip. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

I knew what story Ade was referring to, since it was in the Standard about six weeks ago, right around the time Nwankiti Ogechi first disappeared without a trace. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

Always on the day when Doug ate six eggs for breakfast, he ran around and around a big track and people clapped and gave him a shiny medal. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had them six months of the year. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

So the rest of it had to be six. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

“You say that Mr. Fitzgibbon said six or seven rats. Did he ever say which number it really was?” Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

He wasn’t quite six feet tall, but somehow his presence made the ceilings seem low. Turtles All the Way Down 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

“There must have been, what, six or seven left in that herd.” The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

In the entire compact bathroom, there were only six things: the sink, the toilet, the towel, the shower, its curtain, and me. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

For six months after the car accident, Mother had improved steadily and we’d thought she would fully recover. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

It was three o’clock in the morning; six on the East Coast. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

As they crossed Grand Boulevard, they heard a shout, “One, two, three, four, five, six,” then a raucous cheer. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

After six hundred years of their own strife and a few centuries of Portuguese villainy, the warring tribes of Angola had finally agreed to a peace plan. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

We would stay with the Hulls for six days before the President Taft sailed. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

All six of us boys stopped at the corner to watch these ladies glide by. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

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

That means Snow has had Peeta in his clutches for five, maybe six weeks. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

In a year, it crosses nearly ten trillion kilometers, about six trillion miles, of intervening space. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Our six hundred faces gazed up at the little man in rapt attention. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

The signal is weak enough that, though the earphone is six inches away, he can’t hear any trace of the song. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

He had lit it every morning since his mother died six years before. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

Tariq outgrew his leg again and was issued a new leg by the Red Cross, though he had to wait six months for it. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

Wes says, moving his shoulders back six inches and scrunching up his face. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

To think the guy whose downfall basically took our respective childhoods with it was begging for change fifteen minutes from my house six years later? Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z

The answer is that in the six degrees of separation, not all degrees are equal. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

We were broken up for, like, six months back when I was a freshman, and he was seeing other girls and whatnot. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

In the five years that he had dedicated to this work, he had produced an average of only six paragraphs monthly. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Over the six months of the fair an average of twelve thousand people would attend each of Cody’s 318 performances, for a total attendance of nearly four million. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Chess clubs everywhere saw memberships swell; during the match, the Marshall Chess Club’s roster doubled to six hundred, and the United States Chess Federation added tens of thousands to the fold. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

The larger boy didn’t hear her—he was buried in chemistry, mixing sparkling water and food coloring and fizzy candy in six different sports bottles, and his back was to the door. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

"Iris 2 only risks one life. Rich Purnell risks all six of them. I know Rich Purnell is more likely to work, but I don't think it's six times more likely." The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Blackwood has six sons, but only the one daughter. He dotes on her. A snot-nosed little creature, couldn’t be more than seven.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

I was five years old, nearly six, when Nelson Mandela was released from prison. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

The roof, which sloped back, he said, was about six feet off the ground. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

The hearing, which at one point was transferred to Lansing, where Judge Thiele heard Smith and Hickock testify, took six days to complete; ultimately, every point was covered. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

But he was used to working on humans, since he had six kids. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

She lined them up next to one another and pinched the tops together, then started braiding the six strands together. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

There were six especially bad ones, blazing up into the dark sky. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Only six weeks later would his whereabouts become known, and then only by the bare bones: he was at MIT, working on an unidentified “war project.” Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

“It’s time you knew the whole story. When I brought you home with me six years ago, after the fire, your mama was tried on child abandonment charges and was sent to jail.” Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The four, five, and six seats are often called “the engine room” of the crew, and the rowers who occupy these seats are typically the biggest and strongest in the boat. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

But when Dr. Z had asked me to visit Branwell, he didn’t know that about six weeks before that 911 call something had changed between us. Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The house is a hemlock tree six feet in diameter, and must be as old as the mountain itself. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

The six men were lined up with their backs to the wall, four standing and two sitting. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

The first time I met Elsbeth: She was seven, I was six. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

“I’m thinking we each do six cups a day. I did the math and the amount that we have should actually be enough for about a week at that rate.” Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

I knew I would not be able to see my wife again for at least six months. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He glanced down and saw a very properly dressed lady flanked by six other very properly dressed ladies and one properly dressed man in a bow tie. Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z

It took them about six weeks to realize I was a live-in party crasher. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

My sisters and I left home wearing six pairs of underdrawers, two half-slips and camisoles; several dresses one on top of the other, with pedal pushers underneath; and outside of everything an all-weather coat. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then Mrs. Popper had to scrub and polish and straighten the whole place, for she was much too good a housekeeper to leave everything at sixes and sevens while the Poppers were away. Mr. Popper's Penguins 1938-09-01T00:00:00Z

The six men rocked on their heels and looked at one another and all hmmed at the same time. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

“We live over in the town, six miles away.” The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

We always left home between six and seven in the morning so we could be among the front wave of people rushing the trucks as they came in, usually around ten. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

On the following day at six in the afternoon, Fernanda recognized the voice of the man who came to call on her. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

There was enough for the six mats and enough each for a penny for rice and beyond that he had three pence left. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

"Ser Jaremy," the Old Bear asked gruffly, "Ben Stark had six men with him when he rode from the Wall. Where are the others?" A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

And my shirt has gone six weeks without being washed and is terribly muddy. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

Five of the six are headed to college. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

Every few minutes I went up the six steps to the library doors and tried them and they were, of course, still locked, so I’d go sit down. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

They marched six blocks to Broad Street, turned left, and began to cross the Edmund Pettus Bridge, which arches high above the Alabama River. Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dark was still five or six hours away—not that it mattered. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z

“You told me to wake you up at six. It’s six thirty. That’s, like, thirty-six thousand miles past six.” 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

How could I have told him that I had been a drunkard at the age of six? Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

The youngest one, maybe he is five or six years old, is sniveling. The Unfinished Angel 2009-09-22T00:00:00Z

And when we found out that she had been born with six fingers on each hand and that there was a little bump where each extra one had been removed, we smiled. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Hasidic Jewish merchants in their black yarmulkes would stare in shock as Mommy walked in, trailed by five or six of us. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was only a little after six in the morning. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

Time to eat, I tell him, in case he has forgotten what six thirty means. Mockingbird 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

There are about six or seven of them. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

A poster in the room where Roberta interviewed me warns job applicants not to “waste your time or ours” if you’ve taken drugs within the last six weeks. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Among the facts: According to phone records, Reggie texted Briana Bishop five times on his drive and received six text messages from her. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

He replied that it would give him much pleasure, and that he would expect me at the office at six o’clock. Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z

“But those grenadiers; all over six feet. They wouldn’t attack.” A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

In spite of the pea-soup fog, they caught the Biscuit spinning six furlongs in 1:14, a solid workout. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

The goddess’s face was only six inches from hers. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Even six was considered excessive, but then, everybody said, of course Dodo was a Catholic. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

Our ship sailed from Liverpool at the beginning of August and took six days to reach St John’s. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

I sometimes went around for six months at a time pretending I was an orphan. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

The convention consisted of six sessions, including several discussions of the role of women in society. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

The next day, at five minutes to six, Chester was about to begin the last public piece he would ever play in New York City. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

Once the painful transformation was complete he was more than six feet tall and, from what he could tell from his well-muscled arms, powerfully built. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

There were six cots in the room, all occupied. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

As we walked across the quad, Ms. Sandnes pointed out the six coed cottages, each housing twelve children, which were spaced around a circular drive. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

He was probably six feet three inches tall. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z

As a D Group prisoner, I was entided to have only one visitor, and to write and receive only one letter, every six months. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were six of them below me on the slope, each sitting alone like a great chief, watching his herd of cows and babies. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was a quarter to six by the clock inside the bar. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

At six that evening, all other conclave business ceased and the day revolved into its final stage. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

At more than three hundred pounds and well over six feet tall, he was easily twice my size, probably the largest person in B-block. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then again, in 1928, physicist and Nobel Prize winner Max Born told a group of visitors to Gottingen University, “Physics, as we know it, will be over in six months.” A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

“One thing, muchacha. Do not expect to enjoy an afternoon siesta here as you do in Mexico. We work all day until six o'clock.” Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

But the boy was at least six years old and heavy, and together they were making no progress at all. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

At five o’clock the two ladies retired to dress, and at half-past six Elizabeth was summoned to dinner. Pride and Prejudice 1813-01-28T00:00:00Z

Once you are six, he implies, you are cast in bronze. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Every day, six hundred of us show up for school, and there aren’t enough employees in the district and cops in town to spy on each and every one of us. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

When he arrived it was nearly six o’clock, and the sun was setting full and warm, and the red light streamed in through the window and gave more colour to the pale cheeks. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

After Stanley taught Zero the final six letters of the alphabet, he taught him to write his name. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

Another six feet, and blisters sprouted on each hand, even with the gloves. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

They charged about the hall six times, six times making a full and wonderful circuit of the room, jumping, bounding, singing. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

Anyway, both Mom and I managed to do what Dad asked—to be ready at six o’clock to go to the Senior Awards Night. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

A little after six thirty that evening, a copyboy walked in with a stack of papers. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

“My face says I’m all that,” Malcolm says, rubbing them six chin hairs he calls a beard. The Skin I'm In 1998-10-16T00:00:00Z

Me, in the park, six years old, a butterfly resting just below the neckline of my school blouse—when I still went to school. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

With rare exceptions, the protesters picketed six days a week—every day but Sunday—through rain and snow and summer heat. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

At six in the morning, we were all on the bus heading down from Pine Mountain to play our first rugby match of the year. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

“Unfortunately, you won’t get to meet with the mayor and the chief of police until afterwards. They’ve both been in meetings since six this morning. Lots of policy decisions being made.” Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Bianca crossed her arms in front of her chest and raised her chin the way she used to do when she was six and was about to cry. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

“I did what you do to some woman every six months—called the whole thing off.” Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

In a span I was nearly as good with six strings as I had been with seven. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

You were my best friend when I was six! Harry Potter and the Cursed Child 2016-07-31T00:00:00Z

By the time the controversy ended, six physicists had departed the lab, including all four of its theorists. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

She set it for six and stood it on the piano. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Manny Givens managed about six fighters, all of them fighting in minor fights, only a few of them still hoping for the big time. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We were six when we left Dome, Your Grace.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

"We have six million unemployed and three million more so poor that they can't put food on the table. Haven't we Germans suffered enough already? Do you want your mothers and fathers to suffer more?" The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

Next to the reading room, near the center of the house, there were six rooms where the saboteurs slept. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

I was a little girl, not even six years old, when the happy days with my family in Juba disappeared forever. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

He spent only six months around a college, not all of it actually enrolled—at Reed College in Oregon. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

Because I spent the first six years of my life with Tribesmen who taught me mercy and compassion instead of brutality and hatred? An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

I created a story about a group of six scientists who decide to explore part of the solar system. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

My father put his hand on my head when they left, the way he used to when I was six years old. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

She reminds me of a little girl, six or seven maybe. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

Even the children were promising to bring home fo’ bits and six bits. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

I already knew how to do a basic six-step, which was exactly what it sounded like: it was a series of six steps performed on the ground. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

And so, each morning she would get up at six, and walk all the way from Thirteenth Avenue to First Avenue —a distance of about two miles to and fro. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

In return for a favor to some white mobster, my new boss and his wife had just been given a six- months numbers banking privilege for the Bronx railroad area called Motthaven Yards. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had received the sign six years ago. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

At that point I had been in that hateful house for only six weeks. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

Jasmin plays with her six dolls, giving them baths in an outdoor concrete trough the family uses to hold water. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

Anna was kept in solitary confinement for six months before she completed ninth grade. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

After a few weeks, the seedlings would be transplanted into the field, in carefully spaced rows six inches apart, and then painstakingly nurtured. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

Meanwhile, Jessie gathered four lemons and six pieces of wire that were connected on each side to small alligator clips. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

His mind wanders back six months to a fetid basement. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

At dawn three lords of Stormhold rode down the craggy mountain road in a coach pulled by six black horses. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

The kid must have been about six or seven and looked like Dennis the Menace. The Million Dollar Shot 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

“More likely it was made for a very rich man to enjoy. It’s almost six hundred years old.” Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

The ball game had ended shortly before six o’clock. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

The cab spun in the road, doing five, then six full circles, as if some giant hand had reached down and spun it like a bottle. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

I had been hoping my shooting skills might get me a six or a seven, even if I'm not particularly powerful. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

“Give it to him, bud, and let’s get out of here. The ladies are waiting for us. You got six dollars?” The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

Grass continued for about six feet beyond the hedge before stopping abruptly at the perimeter of the forest. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

Moreover, the reputation of her six mean children and the fact that she was a precinct captain compounded her power and gave her the leverage to deal with even the lowest crook without fear. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

And nobody, but nobody, gets on our six without a warning, because he is, and knows he is, after all, the Corkinator.... This Side of Wild 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

The Oxford Times was a weekly, so it could have been any day in the past five or six. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

“I wanted to get into the law since I was six years old,” Flom says. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

“They came up on the six o’clock bus.” Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

“Doña Veronica came to my daughter Stephanie’s house when my granddaughter was six months old.” The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

Sometimes she felt as though her heart had turned to stone,- six brave men had died to bring her this far, and she could not even find it in her to weep for them. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

A burly security guard—maybe six four, 250 pounds, his hair in long, ropy dreadlocks—came up behind her. Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z

“From 10 to 12 and 2 to 4 six days in the week, I shall confine myself to my old medical works and other college studies including stenography, French and German.” The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

But I would have seen him and he cannot get another car for an hour because after six oclock. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

“No, I’m not sure. You told me to watch for any rise in my temperature and I’m telling you I’m up six tenths of a degree.” Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

“Does Zeus really have lightning bolts that do six hundred damage? Does he get extra movement points for—” “Nico, shut up!” The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

So it was in Llandaff two years later, when I was six years old, that I went to my first school. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

Annette, a twenty-year-old server who is six months pregnant and abandoned by her boyfriend, lives with her mother, a postal clerk. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now he has Jo and the baby, but as Jo herself knows and had written to Vincent only six months earlier while in labor—“there’s no one in the world whom he loves as much.” Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

He would later give an interview to a local paper, estimating that during the six or so months he campaigned for Congress, he spent less than four full days at home with me and Malia. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

After a flurry of last-minute preparations and speeches, marshals quickly arranged the marchers in a column, six abreast, and the march finally got under way at 12:47 p.m. Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

I didn’t really believe that six tiny stick figures had magical powers that could take away my worries. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

When Ira was nearing six, my mother was afflicted with consumption, and was soon so feeble that she could not rise from her bed. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

On the eighth day at sea, Lefty Stephanides, grandly, on one knee, in full view of six hundred and sixty-three steerage passengers, proposed to Desdemona Aristos while she sat on a docking cleat. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Only a small fraction of their library was carted away, about six boxes of materials in all. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

He ducked his head and set to work cutting six thick, even slices of bread while Vola slapped a chunk of butter into an iron skillet and snapped on a flame beneath it. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

Qendrim was not quite six years old when his family arrived in Georgia. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

“Listen, that mower is worth six, maybe seven hundred bucks once we replace the motor. We can do that, no problem.” The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

But she wasn’t at the end of the row, she wasn’t one of the six that had just been killed. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

I was big, over six feet tall, too large to hide, too gross in movement and posture not to be noticed. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

He has the documentation to prove it for six generations. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

The grieving king died six days later, at the age of twenty-seven. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

I ain’t been able to see Miss Skeeter in person in six months, since we finished Miss Stein’s edits and turned in the final copy. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

After three firm knocks, the door swung open and there stood Leon Leep, all six feet nine inches of him. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The whip was heavy and at least six feet long, and I wouldn’t have used it on anything living. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

Now he had six reserve coils of line. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

‘It’s not much more than six o’clock. And I want to see my gaffer. D’you know what’s come of him, Mr. Cotton?’ The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

Once he returned with six policemen armed with rifles to whom he entrusted the maintenance of order, and no one remembered the original agreement not to have armed men in the town. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

He was short and unassuming, about five foot six and 150 pounds, and he lived at 1157 Wheeler, on the second floor of one of the street’s narrow apartment houses. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

She made me do six months of pantomime. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

I'd just turned six, and me and my dad were having one of our famous invisible cupcake parties. Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z

The British would now have to row and win in a repechage the next day if they were to be one of the final six boats in the medal race. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

I am broad-shouldered and well over six feet, while she is smaller than a Scholar woman, even, with a deceptively willowy form. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

I awoke at six on Thursday morning, intending to do some Greek, but my Liddell and Scott was nowhere to be found. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

This time there were six skips before the stone disappeared almost at the other side of the river. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Master Underwood, for six months—six months—we have been hearing these scandalous claims that you heard the wild god Pan speak.” The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

By the time we’ve steeped six tea bags in our custard, David, Justin, and Robin Hood tumble into the house in a blur of grease stains, sweat, and fur. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

A nearby mission objective, a sun that may have planets, is Barnard’s Star, about six light-years away. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

The neighborhood sensed this, and in my dream the people were jumping, shaking, and jamming as if the rent weren’t due for six months. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

I was away at boarding schools from the age of six, and when I wasn’t at school I was usually at cattle camp with my brothers and the other men. Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

“Boarding is at five thirty-five. Flight leaves at six o’clock. Gate B sixteen,” he says. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

Between them, the Two Kings had six hundred banners flying, five thousand mounted knights, and ten times as many freeriders and men-at-arms. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

It was said that each of the six gods had been born from the universe’s own teardrop, three drops each from two eyes to create six immortal beings. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

Soon she was dividing them into four tubes, then six. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

“I thought there were six of us,” said Shadow. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

"The Freys have held the crossing for six hundred years, and for six hundred years they have never failed to exact their toll." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

The thought of playing for another six weeks in the playoffs no longer filled him with questions. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

That is why Miss Charlotte Mortimer had sent the herbal poultice; at Swanburne her headmistress used to apply it to Penelope’s head every six weeks or so to maintain scalp health and repel lice. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

You can't imagine how much I wanted to contact you in the past six months. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

For the next six nights, under various meteorological conditions, my grandparents trysted in the lifeboat. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

“For six months and then have an operation?” A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

Attempt to take Storm Crow defeated, six crew dead, many wildlings. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

She moved in with a family of six in Tyrell and worked at anything to be with Joe whenever she could. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had died soon after New Year’s Day and now nearly six months later I was just finally seeing that Blu was gone for good. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

But the candlelight was gone, and the village of Wall was six months' hard travel from here. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

Mr. Stokely is a really big guy, maybe six feet five, and he didn’t fit into the lawn chair very well. The Million Dollar Shot 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

"I can't believe they only gave me six days off—that's only four days here, counting travel! I should probably stay up all night so I'm still on New York time." You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Since the brutal slaying of the oilman McBride, nearly six months had passed without the discovery of another suspicious death. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

“I can’t stop thinking about those six million paper clips at that school in Tennessee,” I say. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

Now it was the entrance to a hiding place that only six children knew anything about. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

She told him sternly: “You’re not always with us on the drive; you don’t know how hard it is to go six hours without entertainment.” A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

The assignment was only for one page, but I wrote six. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

Lord Manderly had brought musicians from White Harbor, but none were singers, so when Abel turned up at the gates with a lute and six women, he had been made welcome. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

I would save my rejection slips, and every six months or so I would put them into a neat pile to check my progress. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

“At a low, low interest rate of six percent a month. That would make your monthly payment, after a reasonable down—” Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

They fought, and Flo “took to whiskey,” and then, when Perry was six, she departed for San Francisco, taking the children with her. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

Believe it or not, she lived for six months like that, upside down on the ceiling with her legs stuck permanently in the paint. James and the Giant Peach 1961-11-01T00:00:00Z

Contributing to these differences among Polynesian societies were at least six sets of environmental variables among Polynesian islands: island climate, geological type, marine resources, area, terrain fragmentation, and isolation. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

It used to astonish us that everyone here has so many children: six or eight or nine. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

At six, when their working day was over, the two Groups assembled in the vestibule of the Hospital and were served by the Deputy Sub-Bursar with their soma ration. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

I count six cloth napkins at our table. Shine! 2019-11-05T00:00:00Z

He stood six foot three or four and was skinny as a pole. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

Rats were every-where—the records from one plantation in Jamaica report three thousand of them captured in just six months. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

With five Euclidean solids to play with, and one sphere inside the innermost solid as well as one outside the outermost solid, this defined six spheres—one for each of the orbits of the planets. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Laurencin immediately called the school bus dispatcher and reserved six big yellow ones to take the Epiphany Boosters to Albany. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

He showed them a map of Brooklyn and pointed out the six American forts. I Survived the American Revolution, 1776 2017-08-01T00:00:00Z

Next to her were Pierrot and Jackson, lankier by five or six inches, wedged between the outlines of their estranged parents. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

“I was not sure you would remember. I was six the last time you saw me.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

He had been here only six days, not even a full week. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

It’s six o’clock, and in one hour we must be on our way. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

For five or six strokes, the bows of the two boats contested for the lead, back and forth like the heads of racehorses coming down the stretch. 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 remember that the tide turns every six hours. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

“But,” he said, “you’ll learn more in six months at Sing Sing than in two or three years someplace else.” Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“That must make about six so far this year,” I said. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

She totally ballooned up to a size six and none of her pants fit, and she had, like, three-hundred-dollar Sandeces jeans!” Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

She did this four more times, until six kittens wriggled in the towels. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

He couldn’t possibly take down all six weapons before the attack began, even if he found the strength to shadow-travel that many times. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

One afternoon in early 1943, before the regular six o’clock crowd had gathered, a black soldier sat drinking by himself at one of my tables. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

A body that had carried her over the rooftops of Ketterdam, that had served her in battle, that had brought her up six stories in the dark of a soot-stained chimney. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

There Ernie Lawrence and Merle Tuve grew up together in tidy houses facing each other across the street, Merle the elder by a scant six weeks. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

Then it seemed to take forever to come to a rolling boil and twice forever to fill six wooden pails. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

In Rome her fire was cared for by six virgin priestesses, called Vestals. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

Hugo’s father had always brought home broken clocks for his son to play with, and by the time he was six, Hugo was able to fix just about anything. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

There were six thousand letters to date and only nine of them abusive. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Yeah. I think I read somewhere about six hundred thousand a year,” Grandpa Nyles told him. In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z

It was a grueling schedule and would last more than six weeks. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

“In five days, walk by the fence. In six days, I’ll be at the train station.” The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

For six months Tom Smith had been holding Seabiscuit in his closed fist. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then he plucks out a false bottom followed by six velvet bundles. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

In any event, she brought out a man and his wife, with three children, one of them six years old, one of them four years old, and a three-months’ old baby, and another man. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Furball was gone only two days. Matt was trapped for six months. It takes time to recover.” The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

They’re trying to remember six thousand years of history and all the versions of all the stories ever told. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

The mother and father hid the children in the middle of the forest for six years. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’m six four and I got the moves, the eye, and the heart. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

But today she was wearing barrettes, six of them. Raymie Nightingale 2016-04-12T00:00:00Z

It was hard to estimate how much had fallen, but he guessed at least six inches, maybe more. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

“Six minus six is zero. Spears are good for subtraction. Yep.” The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

If he’s not home when the Angelus rings at six o’clock Mam knows he had a day of work. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

Newt moved away from Thomas’s side and toward Alby—but five or six Grievers had already burst to life and attacked the boy in a blur of metal and skin. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

I couldn’t decide if I was happy about the six words or not. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z

“Give him another six months. He hasn’t earned it yet.” Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

There is a maxim in the advertising business that an advertisement has to be seen at least six times before anyone will remember it. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

During the first six months after my release, I spent more time abroad than at home. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Yes, it is easy to see that nearly six years of magical education have not been wasted on you, Potter. ‘Ghosts are transparent.’” Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

After all, how many noblemen were there with six fingers on their right hands? The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

And at twenty minutes after six in the morning, I wander past the railroad station on my way home from work. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

Candice’s parents had been divorced for about six months, and separated even longer. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Here the bank dropped almost sheer to the river, some six feet below. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Korean language has no fewer than six different levels of conversational address, depending on the relationship between the addressee and the addresser: formal deference, informal deference, blunt, familiar, intimate, and plain. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

“I can sense about six million dollars’ worth of gold aboard,” Hazel said. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Here was a girl sixteen years old; six years younger than he. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I clear breakfast at ten o’clock. I set on lunch at one. Dinner I set on at six. It’s ten o’clock.” The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

I reread An Imperial Affliction until Mom woke up and rolled over toward me around six. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

Looking around, I can see they’ve been busy here for a while, even though it’s only six thirty a.m. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

We expected to be parted for no more than six or eight weeks, while Anatole worked with the Lumumbists to reassemble their fallen leader’s plan for peace and prosperity. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

A small refrigerator is plugged into an adapter that has six different electrical devices all feeding into one outlet. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

I waited until six in the morning, then I found Mother in the kitchen. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Leaving their high camp at 27,230 feet as a party of six, the Ladakhis did not get away from their tents until 5:45 a.m. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

“The straps come in a choice of six colors,” he offered helpfully. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

The last six words came out in a wail that grew louder until the ‘you’. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

"They granted me a deferment until I graduate. But I must still serve six months in the Reich Labor Service." The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

At six foot two, he was easily the tallest man in the group. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

‘You don’t know? Well find him! Double sharp! I haven’t got six legs, nor six eyes neither! Tell Bob there’s five ponies that have to be stabled. He must find room somehow.’ The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

He confirmed that the work had been done over six months after Ronda Morrison was murdered. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

I smile as I grab one, two, four, six, twelve. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

They overestimated its size by a factor of six and gave it frightening claws, which in fact came from a Megalonyx, or giant ground sloth, found nearby. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

Glerk made a sling for Luna that hung from all four of his shoulders as he walked on all sixes. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

A container of IcyHot, a bag of little black specks, five or six heavy-duty bungee cords, a screwdriver, a socket wrench, and a small sledgehammer. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

When we got back to the barracks, we were fed the thickest, richest soup I had eaten in six years, and big pieces of fresh bread, hot from the oven! Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

On Sunday afternoon, March 7, some six hundred people set out from Brown Chapel, walking two abreast in a long, orderly procession that stretched for several blocks. Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Well,” said her father, “he’s a runt. Tell your Uncle Homer you’ve got a pig you’ll sell for six dollars, and see what he says.” Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z

“Good,” Ben sighed, “tell them I’ll be down in about six hours.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

It is hard to believe it’s been six weeks since the funeral, but whether it’s because the time has gone by slow or fast, I’m not sure. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

Thus it was that one morning, at about six a.m. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

He took out two pence and with these he bought six small green peaches. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

Michael is only six but when he brings old men home he manages to get the fire going and give them tea. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

“That of the ten transfer initiates we started with, only six are still alive.” Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

Nifflers live in lairs up to twenty feet below the surface and produce six to eight young in a litter. Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

She looked like a movie star or a genuine country music singer, not the Momma I’d last seen nearly six months ago. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

This is iterated a few more times, until 500 people have received six straight correct “predictions.” Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then, at six a.m., when the pool opens, I go swimming. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Grandma had explained to us that by age six or eight, we would be separated by very strict lines forbidding us to ever speak to each other again, except if absolutely necessary. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Still, I remained a few feet back, as the hallway wasn’t wide enough for all six of us. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

“Who drives six miles off campus to kill herself? Doesn’t make any sense. But ‘straight and fast.’ Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

I knew this even when I was six years old. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

We carried the wheelchair up the six steps between the two of us, and it wasn’t light. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

In just six months that game had established him as more than just a curiosity: He was now a new star in the international chess galaxy. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Mark’s suddenly struck by shame as he realizes the kid’s still out there—he’s six feet beyond Alec’s reach, the water slamming into his side, rising and rising, splashing up into his frightened face. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

The horses come pounding down the road, five or six abreast. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

One, with a toilet and a sink, served as kitchen and bathroom; the other, with a woodstove in a corner, served as living room and bedroom for all six of them. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Numbers five and six went in the net, then I missed seven and eight. The Million Dollar Shot 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

“But we have a date to go running with a wheelchair and potting soil tomorrow at six.” The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

Mohammed was an unknown when the race began at six in the morning, and after eight hours, when he was approaching shore, he had no idea that he was in the lead. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

Then a goose came forward and confessed to having secreted six ears of corn during the last year’s harvest and eaten them in the night. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z

I run full speed, faster than any laps I’ve ever done in gym, faster than when I got stung by a bee when I was six. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

He even nailed some pretty dense math problems like, “Find the least common multiple of six, eight, and sixteen.” The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z

She stands two inches shy of six feet—a half-foot shorter than me. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

I was almost six feet tall at the time, with a quick first step, a passion for defense, and an okay jump shot. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

We knew that for at least six of us, there could be no verdict but guilty. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Robin and Marian went on an expedition which took them six weeks, and sent a whole gown made out of the skins of pine martens. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Said Bradley, “As we entered the lobby, six men came in right after us. I recognized them as Black Muslims.” The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

The robots were on the lowest sublevel—all six of them surrounded by musty packing cases of uncertain content. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

He got only about six feet before being tackled by one of the guards. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Estraven had done a great deal for me in the last six or eight months, but I did not expect or desire such a show of personal favor as an invitation to his house. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

When he woke again, it was just after six o'clock. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

I glance around the women’s size six section for the heck of it. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

He was six feet, with light, mottled skin and sandy brown hair with a streak of even lighter hair near the front. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

There were six dog teams for the overland journey to be made once Endurance got under way again. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

“Her father owns the optometry school where Billy was going. He also owns six offices around our part of the state. He flies his own plane and has a summer place up on Lake George.” Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was home and I got a call from a doctor at the hospital about six in the morning. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Numbers five and six were male and did embarrassing things to legs, any legs—male or female—that happened to be onstage. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

Two years ago, only six months before the accident, my parents had come over for Christmas Eve dinner, bringing Maribel a dress from Diseño y Artesanía that my mother insisted they wanted to give her. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

Our school auditorium is massive, probably able to fit at least six hundred people. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

For the first six weeks in Naples I was constantly cold. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

That seemed so long ago, but it had only been six weeks. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

This meant that six days a week, long before dawn he was in his boat. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

The treadmill was about two meters square and six centimeters thick. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

That had been six years ago, so long now that Conor sometimes couldn’t remember what it was like having a dad in the house. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z

There were about a hundred of them in each crate, each about six inches long, crawling over one another, bumping blindly into the sides of the boxes. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

Which meant we of course ended up in a tickle fight like we were six years old. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

For more than six years now, Barack and I had lived with an awareness that we ourselves were a provocation. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

For six months, the 586th Regiment had been defending strategic positions in their dangerous solo Yak fighters and the 588th Regiment had been harassing German troops with bombs dropped from their flimsy Po-2s. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

They weren’t counted but there must have been six or seven hundred. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

I hadn’t seen a chair in six years, nor a table. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

He liked eights best, but he’d settle for fours, sixes, twelves, sixteens, any even number, really. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

The debate upon it grew so lively, indeed, that at least six more honourable members told six more, during the discussion, that they believed they knew where they were to be found. Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z

I line up six slices of bread and toast them, two at a time in the toaster. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z

The police let the four go but kept six others they had grabbed outside the church. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

“But we’re supposed to be six feet—” I start to say as she moves away from me, stretching our arms out but refusing to let go. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

Because I'm just one guy and the oxygenator was made for six. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We usually don’t fit them with a preparatory prosthesis for about six months.” The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

Though it was nearly six o’clock, she found Clary still in her workroom, at the far end of Greenhouse 1. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

We got six new brothers in the platoon and two were assigned to our squad. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’d be sitting in a meeting with a group of five or six of them, all of us in blue suits and serious ties. Tears of a Tiger 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were only six days to submit the winning shot. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

Other than his mother, who sat in her shack with six. younger sons working roots, he had never met an interesting woman in his life. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

Luke is six years older than I. He is in college now, but that has not put an end to his reputation. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

“But I was hoping to read them. Still, I suppose I could wait six months.” Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

They wrapped me in a blanket and put me on display among six other infants, four boys, two girls, all of them, unlike me, correctly tagged. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

I'm on my fifth or six lie when I remember. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

But others crawled on six legs, or rolled on wheels, or slid up and down the sides of buildings. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

Wait six months, the obstetrician recommended; let your body recover. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Then when Tommy was left standing alone, and the boys all began sniggering, I heard Ruth say: “It’s coming. Hold it. Seven seconds. Seven, six, five...” Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

We handed in our keys and throughout the remaining six weeks of the term we went very hungry. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Moving on to game six,” said Dr. Zinchenko, still stationed behind the circular librarian’s desk at the center of the room. Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z

But the rest were lost, six in all. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

My mother was six days away from her thirtieth birthday. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

There were between six and ten of us, the figure changing whenever Ruth allowed in a new member or expelled someone. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Since many of the guests had legislative power to make reforms, I suggested that they find a foster child who needed a permanent home and help make it happen in less than six months. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

Ravenel began to wake in earnest at six in the morning. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

They’re clearly meant to accommodate parties of six or eight instead of just two. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

Annabeth looked back at the elevator, which was now completely out of reach—a polished set of metal doors hanging in space, attached to nothing, six hundred stories above Manhattan. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

An enclosed wagon groaned along behind him, drawn by six heavy draft horses and defended by cross-bowmen, front and rear. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

In my mind he only lived six years, only did the things I saw him do. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was at least six and a half feet tall, deeply tanned and muscular. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

The machine this time moved thirty-eight yards in six plays to score, the touchdown coming on a nine-yard pass from Winchell to Hill. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

I wanted to be like six years old or something. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

Up on the speaker’s platform, we ministers and other officials of the Nation, entering from backstage, found ourselves chairs in the five or six rows behind the big chair reserved for Mr. Muhammad. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Instead of a tracking number there were six symbols: Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

“The tickets you sold. Where did you get them? You mentioned standing in line for six hours.” Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

The most influential rhetorical handbook between the ages of Cicero and Shakespeare, however, Ad Herennium, gives us six parts, which is the scheme I propose to adopt. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

In a fresh and frenzied campaign in January 1945, six million Soviet soldiers surged along the Eastern Front against a scraggling and demoralized German force of about two million. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

And it’s only after they make the announcement that they notice the White River is, like, six inches deep, and you can’t float a kayak down it, let alone a steamship. Turtles All the Way Down 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

In the ebb of their fortunes, this sum was their total capital; yet they laid it unhesitatingly against Matthewson’s six hundred. The Call of the Wild 1903-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We’d be doing something, not just buying something. It’s an even better way to experience how huge six million is.” Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

If I don’t stop drinking, I may not have more than six months to live, ’cause my liver is down to about thirty percent. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was a flintlock musket, almost six feet long, butt and stock of polished wood. The Fighting Ground 1984-04-01T00:00:00Z

On that foggy Friday morning, six of them were available for rent. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

Kermit and six of the men positioned themselves on a small island of rocks in a little waterfall right above the canoes. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

It took six other students to finally pull him away. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

The 2010 Pennsylvania Thespian Festival takes place clear on the other side of the state, six hours away. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

I reach up and touch the small pewter claddagh Celtic cross I have worn since I was six, tracking the grooved outline of the heart with my finger. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

The next morning, at six A.M., they slogged through mud to the transit camp mess hall and ate canned figs and white bread from pie tins and drank coffee out of tin cups. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

Within six months, Anorak’s Quest became a national bestseller. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

Billington was not among the company of saints, to put it mildly; within six months of arrival he became the first European in America to be tried for sassing the police. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Madison produced six reasons why Jefferson’s gesture of support might create unacceptable political risks. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

“They didn’t have wings. They weren’t beings of fire. Like the seraphim, though, there were six of them, three male, three female. No army, no servants. They needed none,” said Eril-Fane. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

A team of six other American men with varying backgrounds—from natural history to arctic exploration—would accompany him. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

“Is there anyone who would have been here six or seven years ago who might know?” The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

Fannie was sentenced to six months in jail, and the union did not have enough money to post her bail. Fannie Never Flinched 2016-11-21T00:00:00Z

The wires in your jaws will come out in about six weeks,” Armand said. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

But in its second year Del Mar needed a boost; daily attendance averaged just six thousand. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

As interesting as his list of sixes was, my mother hurried on her way; she had come to market to buy herself a slave. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dr. Malone took six wires, each ending in a flat pad, and attached them to various places on Lyra’s head. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was nearly six feet tall, pale as a frog’s underbelly, and had bright red hair. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

I tossed in my sheets and stared at the ceiling, dismayed at the thought of six laborious, interminable nights of yelda until I saw her again. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

All six members of the family were left hanging from trees, even two toddlers. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

After six months of packing parachutes, Oshiro was tired of the long, repetitive days. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

I reached for it, and the moment my hand touched the spine, the bookshelf parted in the middle and opened inward to reveal the theater, which had six stadium-style rows of black leather seats. Turtles All the Way Down 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

“Come back around six,” I said, shooing her out of the kitchen. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

The pain started six weeks after my accident. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

“It will take six days to send someone to get the medicine and return. He will die from the pain by then.” A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

Knowing that the gaze was only going to intensify as we moved into the last six or so months of the campaign, we agreed, finally, that I needed real help. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

I was six years old when she told me just a little bit about leaving Afghanistan to come to the US. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

She has been telling me since I was six years old that I need to sit up straight, talk more, make friends, do something with my hair. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

He wondered whether six months was a long walk, and what they would eat on the way. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

“Yes ma’am, it’s big,” I say, thinking if she saw my house with a cot in the hall and one toilet for six behinds, she’d probably run. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

For a moment, the room is silent, and then fists pound against my window, not just two or four or six, but dozens of fists with dozens of fingers, slamming into the glass. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

Inside was a hard brown block that had a design of six squares. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

There was a quiet sort of desperation in his voice as he addressed his six fellow team members in the chilly locker rooms on the edge of the darkening Quidditch field. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

She is wearing three dresses: blue over pink over white, and green socks and green shoes and six or nineteen ribbons in her hair. The Unfinished Angel 2009-09-22T00:00:00Z

Except for Don Hume, who seemed to again be fighting some kind of cold, they had put on five or six pounds each. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

He was big — over six feet — and charming, a talented skater, who wowed young girls with his exploits on the rink. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The six demigods gathered on the quarterdeck and gazed at the distant column of dust still rising from the site of the implosion. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

His tiny forehead has been decorated with considerable struggle with sandalwood paste to form six miniature beige moons floating above his brows. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

The baker thought the trip would take five or six days by coach. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

“About six weeks, I guess. I didn’t tell you because I kept hoping she’d go away. Things were fine without her.” A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

It was the day after my brother had been gone for six weeks that my father brought Vilonia Kline into our house and sat her down in the living room. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

He’d spent six months building a ship that he knew would cross the Atlantic. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Some fifty students wait in the classroom to compete for just six parts—three female, three male. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

Under each one of the holes was a fancy writ number going from one to six. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

“Regulation weed size is only six inches high,” he informed her. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

The UDF soon blossomed into a powerful organization that united over six hundred anti-apartheid organizations — trade unions, community groups, church groups, student associations. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

We did, and found six tickets to the Children’s Museum of Indianapolis. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

“Our house is small, and I have six brothers and a sister, all younger than I. Things got a little crowded, as the mole explained when he crawled out of the anthill.” The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

For a moment I was surprised to see one opened only six weeks ago, but then I remembered. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

The three cosmonauts were journeying to a Soviet space station, the Salyut 7, where they would rendezvous with two other cosmonauts who had been at the station for six months. Women in Space 2014-02-01T00:00:00Z

“This is only Camp One, six thousand meters. The air here is still very thick.” Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

There were six more seasoned soldiers—all of them thrown out of the army for questionable behavior, which must have been truly questionable, given that Adarlan’s army was notorious for ruthlessness. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

The explanation is partly that medieval European printers were able to combine six technological advances, most of which were unavailable to the maker of the Phaistos disk. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Bobby, dog tag entwined, managed to compile an even score, with two wins, two losses, and six draws, fretting afterward that “I didn’t do too well.” Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

“There’s only three of us but six of them. We can’t possibly save ’em all.” Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

It wasn’t yet six o’clock but my eyes were fully open, my mind too far from dreaminess to be pulled back into sleep. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

The best bounty hunters could rake in six figures a year. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

He had been known to make that climb five or six times a day on the queen’s business, as the aches in his knees and the small of his back could attest. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

—Look, I went to college—night school for six years—while I worked at various jobs during the day to make ends meet. Tears of a Tiger 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The route meandered through outcroppings of broken shale blanketed with six inches of fresh snow. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

At a place where six alleys came together, Dany passed an empty marble plinth. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Where will we get a house for six shillings a week? Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

“You’d scare witnesses away with the limo. Report to me six times a day. Good luck.” The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

Before any of us had come to Chicago, a family of six had lived in our garret room. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

The bell called the people to six o’clock mass. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

The advance guard of six kings was driven in by Arthur’s charges. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Probably paid with a twenty. Got six, seven bucks in change. Somebody expects to live under this roof, he ought to carry his own weight. Am I right, Eddie?” The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

It was around six thirty when they returned to the mobile home. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

Two OJTs were among six officers standing nearby who, Martinez had complained to the union steward, did nothing to help him out. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

We had anywhere up to six weeks before Linus again was in full-time pursuit of DNA. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

The wars lasted hundreds of years, but in the end the six southron kingdoms all fell before them. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Lord, in six months my ears have heard what they hadn’t known about in twenty-four years. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even with nearly six decades between the two Byrds, Clayton and Cool Papa had what Cool Papa called “harmony.” Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z

“You might be out six, eight weeks,” he said quietly, almost in a whisper. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

The goods have been donated by members and local shops, and the auction is expected to generate more than six thousand dollars this year, five hundred more dollars than last year. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

We have received—already, in the first six days of September—five inches of rain! Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

“That cat was our lucky piece for six years. Not one of the men would have weighed anchor without her.” The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

“No. There were six originally. The others are all in other universities. Except one, anyway, which is lost.” The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

He was a hulking fourteen, six and a half feet tall, burly and resolute. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

He gave me his famous Death Stare, then leaned over Joey and whispered, “No cars, no cows, but I counted yo’ momma six times already.” The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

We went downstairs to an enormous dinner at six o’clock. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

If from some stock-market adviser you received in the mail for six weeks in a row correct predictions on a certain stock index and were asked to pay for the seventh such prediction, would you? Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

It happened six years ago, but I still remember everything from that day. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

By the time Pomp had detected this piece of deception, five or six cows were missing, and his master so wroth that Pomp scarce knew what to do. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

Immediately, there cascaded from the fluting organ confetti of skittering triplets as the vicar turned to lead the couple down the aisle and the six family members fell in behind. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

On June 12, six days before the race, Ulbrickson put both boats head-to- head on the river again, and the sophomores fell apart as soon as they saw the older boys. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

“Says here you were sentenced to six years for aggravated assault and battery. You’ve served three years. You were due to be released on Friday.” American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

There are only six of us this year. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

Chamberlain looked: six dark forms squatting in the rocks. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Bluford Jackson was six feet under, and the camping trip he planned was deader than him. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

In those waters was that most perilous strait guarded by Scylla and Charybdis, which the Argonauts had succeeded in passing only because Thetis helped them and where Ulysses had lost six of his men. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

We’d light six or seven candles so that there was plenty of light to see each other. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Harry couldn’t see how eight people, six large trunks, two owls, and a rat were going to fit into one small Ford Anglia. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

“The captain has the charts and knows the routes. We’re six point three meters. Never bumped a bridge yet, or knocked a crew member into the drink.” Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

At first, the man and woman were just annoyed and pressed past Fred to ask other people if they’d “seen a boy, six years old, in a Lion King T-shirt?” Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

The horse screams as blood shoots six feet from the gaping hole in its neck. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

And farmers wished they hadn’t contracted their beans for a lousy two cents a pound above the going price six months ago. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

By six that evening, my mother was in the kitchen with Nikki, holding Shani as she cooked potato pancakes for our dinner. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

The game starts at seven, but there’s a parade at six. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

“Good. I appreciate it very much. You understand, doctor, I couldn’t stay in bed six months.” A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

Every six or seven days, the same two pallid casualty assistance officers enter the refectory, and four hundred faces go ashen from the effort of not turning to watch. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Five or six more men left the porch and surrounded the fractious beast, goosing him in the sides and making him show his temper. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

“I want all of you to meet some expatriates. They are looking for land and I can arrange for them to buy from your father at five or six times the price.” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

I put aside six weeks for the first leg. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

“Mr. D, I think I know what Molly’s getting at. Since there are six people on the D.C. team instead of four, which of the alternates will you choose?” Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

Ma's about to see Baba for the first time in six months. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“No more than six visitors at a time!” said Madam Pomfrey, hurrying out of her office. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

“Mark my words: This war won’t last more than six months.” Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

He watched them mount their horses and drive six old milk cows out of the corral and start over the hill toward Salinas. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I got six pins in my knee. Is this thing gonna aggravate me?” Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

There are only six of us going: me, Captain Smith, Namontack, and three soldiers. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

I stopped off at the bodega and grabbed a six of Becks. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

The maitre d’ was a small, elegant man who looked up toward a massive, red-faced man who stood six feet four inches tall and weighed over two hundred and twenty pounds. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

By the time we reached the starting line again, the seven of us were out front—actually the six of them were out front, and I was running behind them. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

Then letter followed letter for the first six months of his absence, while I heard nothing from Father, and saw nothing of him either. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

It was a little after six in the morning when the coaches started trickling into the Permian High School held house. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

The last six months had been dangerous for Milkman, and Guitar had come to his aid over and over again. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

As the train came to Sacramento a snow slide closed the Sierras for two days and the six cars stood on a siding, dripping their ice away. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Bosses did not pull children out of school, and there were schools within walking distance for everyone; the school year was six whole months long, and teachers got monthly pay of thirty dollars. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

“I know. You scaled six stories of hell for us.” Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

In the dining room sat a table with six chairs and a heavy china cabinet with glass doors. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

With the reduced load of only supporting one human instead of six, a 14 percent energy production loss is irrelevant. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Three of the six drawings were by Vesalius himself; the other three were by John Stephen of Kalkar, a highly respected pupil of Titian, which gives you some idea of their quality. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

He scored an 80 on the six-week exam, and with the transfer grades that he received from Bates he managed to pass algebra II for the six weeks with a 72. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Our mother's wearing white—as she has for the last six months—no makeup, no jewelry, eating no meat or fish. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

He went over basic strategy, how to read the keys for the six sweep and the ten tackle trap and the waggle at eight, what to do depending on how Nimitz lined up on offense. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Because of her tender age, her captors did not immediately force their urges upon her, but eventually some of the more seasoned mates dragged her from the hold six weeks into the passage. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

What did he understand about six kids talking? Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

He would have recognized the place if he had left at once and come back six months later. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

I'm six today, walking into Papa's rehearsal with my new red dress and hair ribbon. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

And, hey, they helped me catch six nice trout earlier today. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

“I guess the six hundreds is the Dewey decimal category where you find books about desserts,” said Akimi. Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

He’s posted—I check—six videos in the past hour and a half! Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

Then, when the position was prepared, the six kings of the advance guard were to retire through it, leaving Lot in the front line while they reformed. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

I know that if I start drinking now, I will feel better for an hour or two and worse for six or seven. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ramps and chutes clatter to the ground, and six- and eight-horse hitches materialize from nowhere, spread out on the dirt. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

It is about six inches long and very slimy, with a greenish-grey skin on top and an orange-coloured belly underneath. Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z

Beside the main gateway there are six more bodies hanging, by the necks, their hands tied in front of them, their heads in white bags tipped sideways onto their shoulders. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I never thought of that. You know, there’s a goddess with six arms in Maialen myth. Think of her.” Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Small in stature, she appeared childlike beside Bobby, who, at six feet, two inches, was more than a foot taller. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

The rest of that night, and for six days and nights that followed, Nat found out what men meant by the Roaring Forties of the North Atlantic. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Zack has dressed up like Spock each year since he was six. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

Though many mothers expect the separations to be short, typically they last six to eight years, says Analuisa Espinoza, a Los Angeles Unified School District social worker who specializes in immigrants. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

In the flickering glow, Taylor’s mother looked just like she had when Taylor was six, but this mom wasn’t crying at a sink full of dirty dishes. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

Both topped six feet, and Idiptu was bloated like a blimp, waddling on his stumpy bowed legs. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

It smells amazing, and it’s only six dollars. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

“I will put an enchantment on him so that he does not wake for six hours. When we have got him safely into my castle, he can choose which of us he will have, himself.’ The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

The 46th Guards dropped bombs over the Blue Line for six months, right up to the point when the Red Army forced the Germans out of the Taman Peninsula in September 1943. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

When Tom was six, his mother died, apparently from complications after childbirth. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

My tuition was a full six talents, which put me in an interesting situation The long road to Imre was mostly deserted. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

I said six words that may have summoned it. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

When part one left off, Professor Aronnax had traveled only six thousand leagues. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

For six months the stream of stars slants across the sky from, so to speak, northeast to southwest; the other six months it slants from southeast to northwest. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Electricity was rationed from six PM to six AM, though sometimes it did not come on at all. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

He came back by six for supper, which Ma Charles was only too glad to have Big Ma heap on his plate. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

She was diagnosed with polio when she was six, which made her right leg skinnier than her left. Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z

In terms of evidence gained from animal experiments we shall see that five or possibly six of the pesticides must definitely be rated as carcinogens. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

He wished he could just slide six thousand dollars into his mom’s wallet. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

Havens’s mother home- schooled the family’s six children for at least a few years each. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

Thus they would say, “It was two years before we sold the pearl,” or, “It was six weeks after we sold the pearl.” The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

From now until race day, Bolles told his boys, they would row six days a week, rain or shine. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

“You have lain here, near insensible, for six days.” Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

The twins crawled out from behind their rock with a length of rope, Miig watching their six with his revolver behind them. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

“Forty seconds on a six and a half hour flight. Not so bad,” Lenina conceded. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

I guarantee you that he has about six of my presents picked out, and is desperate for some kind of hint about what else he should be getting me. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

Moments later the carriage arrived, an enormous black, shiny coach drawn by six plumed chargers, as was used on those occasions, and driven by two coachmen in livery. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

It just feels weird that I’ve gone six whole weeks without Gram. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

It was dawn before the pain ended and, in six voices, his older brothers welcomed Septimus to their ranks. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

This was when we were about six years old. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

It’s around six o’clock when the limo that the news program sent arrives. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

You can play straight, so that your number has to come up exact, or you can split your bet six ways to cover the mixes. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

I nurse that trash in Harlem Hospital six nights a week. 10TH JUROR: Oh, now wait a second . . . 5TH JUROR: I used to play in a backyard that was filled with garbage. Twelve Angry Men 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

She stopped seeming quite so fierce when her first sneeze was followed by six more. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

He was making lunch for them—his father always, from the time he was six, let him do the cooking—when a heavy knocking came on the hut door. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

I was going to turn six in a few months, and Mom said I was mature enough to hold her the entire way home. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

‘You seem fine, my dear. Broken arm when you were six. Fell off a horse?’ Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

My mind couldn’t hold on to it, to the death of six million people. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

Then imagine getting six cans of soda and stacking them in two towers close to each other. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

I remember seeing him for the first time in front of the Carvel on Amesfort Avenue when I was about five or six. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

He was a white man of my height—about six feet tall—with a muscular build. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

"So," Bruce offered, "we can have a high chance of killing one person, or a low chance of killing six people. Jeez. How do we even make this decision?" The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

With six people now aboard the fishing boat, they arrived at the white-flag house. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

She held the capsule under the light and saw the white crystals inside—six grains of morphine, a good, sure margin. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

In those six weeks I regarded her arrival as I would the arrival of a coming month, or season — something inevitable, but meaningless at the time. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

“You figure he hasn’t run for maybe six hours. And all these lights been drawing off the battery. Better choke it up good, Art.” Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

I devein six hundred thousand million shrimp, and Dee chops broccoli and cauliflower into twelve million trillion perfect little trees. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

I’d pick up a new nickname every six months or so. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

When the Eagle opened at six, I went over with ip8 Francis to talk about what must be done in the next few days. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

"Look. There are only six days left of summer, and I'm not going to waste them playing a dumb game." The Lemonade War 2007-04-23T00:00:00Z

He explained that he needed to take moving pictures of five or six operations, all of the same type, so that he could sort out the good motions from the wasted motions. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

Uncle Henry was a head taller than Papa, but he was five or six years younger. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The water was six or seven inches deep, with a gravel bottom. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z

Well, about six weeks ago, she heard the name Gatsby for the first time in years. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

The bride and groom would walk along at the center of the procession, with six girls in front and six in back, and rows of boys on each side. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

I arrived at six o’clock in the evening. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had not only read medicine for six months under a doctor over in Athens, he’d gone two whole years to medical school up North. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

That, added to the six dollars weekly from Mr. Platernis and four apiece from the other three stores, made a total income of thirty dollars a week. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Got us—sorry, I got me six bottles of Pa’s beer to help get through the day. Good thing you don’t drink, Hiram boy, ’cause these six will be barely enough for me.” Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

He spent the next six months under house arrest in South Africa before slipping out of the country and going first to Lusaka to see Oliver, and then to London. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He probably died on August 18, 112 days after he’d walked into the wild, 19 days before six Alaskans would happen across the bus and discover his body inside. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

To put the seriousness of this in perspective, that year six so-called witches were burned in the town where she was now living, Leonberg. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

It was almost six o’clock, and he had a ways to go still. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

She is six years old and doesn’t have to be told that this is not the time for questions. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

Once, when I was about six or seven, I was really mad at my father because I wanted him to play with me and he just seemed so far away. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

It was after six o’clock when I reached the base of the mountain on the other side and found a decent campsite beside a grassy, little-used logging road at a place called Baker Stream. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

The capitulation of France is only weeks past, and already he has seen things he did not dream he would see in six lifetimes. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

I had learned that it was an accepted tradition in the South to have white and black children privately play together until about age six, but never in front of their white friends. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

“I’m six,” she said, “but I’ll be seven tomorrow. I’m having a birthday party. Do you want to come?” Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

On the other, Dad had lost his job nearly six months earlier, when the restaurant he’d been managing went out of business. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

The only result was that the horse broke into a kind of pretense of a trot for five or six paces and then subsided into a walk again. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z

When Lyra had been living there for six weeks or so, Mrs. Coulter decided to hold a cocktail party. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

She studies me a moment, then says, “We lost to Mount Vernon by six points. They swept the four hundred and won the four-by-four-hundred. It lost us the meet.” The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

“I hope they have a girl, six or seven,” said May Belle. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z

Less than six months later, he and two others were charged with the robbery of a bank in Hobbs, New Mexico. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Would I tell her that the Soviets had forced us into cattle cars and held us prisoner for six weeks with barely any food or water? Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

‘I has told you five or six times,’ he said, ‘and the third will be the last. I is never showing myself to human beans.’ The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

We had laughed before today—Walter's sense of humor hadn't failed him despite his six years on death row. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

“My feet,” I say, peeling off my shoes, counting five, no, six different blisters. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

He was six feet four and had the sinewy limbs and the eerie composure of a gunslinger. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

I didn’t say another word for six days. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Yes, I was wondering if it would be possible for you to write a sestina about Margo Roth Spiegelman’s breasts? Your six words are: pink, round, firmness, succulent, supple, and pillowy.” Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

Anyway, for the next six years we shifted around the country. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

His blue-feathered bronze helmet was falling in his eyes, and his breastplate was about six sizes too big. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

“The treat they have for you is a dozen baby giants only six months old.” Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

Figure 1.56: In six eight time, a dotted quarter usually gets one beat. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

Even though Celia was wearing six inch heels, she managed to fold herself down and put her face in the hollow of Dimple's neck. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

In front of the laundromat six girls with the same fat face pretend we are invisible. The House on Mango Street 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

Had we descended from a fish with four or six phalanges, we would have four or six fingers on each hand and would think them perfectly natural. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

We drove on for five, six minutes without saying a word. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

I discovered that, most of the time, the chimps wandered about in small groups of six or less, not in a big troop like the baboons. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

A few minutes later, his first scene with Bobby, when the shirts come off, causes the same reaction it had back at Truman, only louder—with perhaps six hundred high school girls shrieking. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

On the invitations he had sent out he wrote personal notes to the six Marines who were stationed as far away from Ravenel as El Toro and as near as Cherry Point. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

But of course no one came, and pretty soon only two of six machines were still working. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

All was quiet, but as they paused at the top of the bank, a tussling pack of six or seven sparrows flew down to the line and began to peck about between the sleepers. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

In 1935, that number drops by almost six hundred thousand, and then, within a decade and a half, the number is back over three million again. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

Two of them are dead, so now I have six—three boys and three girls. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The fourth time he fired a pop bottle six feet from the raven exploded straight up like a Yellowstone geyser. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even though the science fair was over six months away, my declaration “I’ll be number one next year!” at the last awards ceremony must have really gotten to her. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

A man who worked as a tailor at Marx & Haas tried to use the elevator instead of walking up six flights of stairs to the workroom floor. Fannie Never Flinched 2016-11-21T00:00:00Z

I had seen her coming home, surrounded by an escort of six or seven shouting Red Guards. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

In number six, over the crowd noise, Shorty Hunt could hear someone on a radio, yelling frantically. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

“It took me six years to get down here,” Jessie said, ashamed. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

I stop brushing and multiply twenty-four times six in my head using the process Samantha taught me. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

That means that even if we make it through each stage of initiation, six initiates will not be members. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

My parents fly back from Mumbai for Didu's swearing-in ceremony, and all six of us accompany her to the New York Public Library. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Soon the vanquished seventh grade chose sides; they would cheer for grade six. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

“I set dinner on the dining-room sideboard at six sharp,” Mrs. Dudley said. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

“No note is made in the history at that time, or at the six weeks’ return visit that there is any abnormality of the cervix.” The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

In the picture, I’m six or seven, sun-flushed, my arm extended as far away from my body as possible, dangling a caught fish from a piece of twine. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

Only had the dog for six days, and that evening I find out that Judd Travers wants to hunt on our land. Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

“No matter what happens,” she said, touching his cheek, “I’m grateful for the past six years here.” The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

He looks like he's only six or 7 years old. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

It was ten years since I had been six. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

Her hair in dookie braids, maybe five or six of them sprouting every which way like antennae. Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z

When I walked into Camp Four, six Sherpas were struggling to erect Hall’s tents in a 50-knot tempest. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

The six of us, including the people we had entered the town together with, gathered at the edge of the swamp as planned and started crossing the clearing three at a time. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

What was more, her poems had appeared in at least twenty small literary magazines, two “slicks,” six college journals, and the Sunday supplements of countless newspapers. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

Moch yelled again, “One length to make up—six hundred meters!” The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Standing over six feet tall, Nation called herself “a bulldog running along at the feet of Jesus, barking at what he doesn’t like.” 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

They were giving Brown too much cushion, laying off him six or seven yards. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

My memories of the hippos and the flying squads come from when I was five or six, when apartheid was finally coming apart. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

He had been in the classroom six hours and had only finished two rows of desks and chairs. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

That evening the election was held, as the principal ordered, but only the same twenty-five voted, returning the same six SRC members. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Walk right up to her when it isn’t one o’clock or six o’clock and just ask her for some coffee?” The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

Originally, the police had arrested my mother for writing a bad check; but Dusty admitted he had stolen the checks, and she was released six days later. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

But she had a strange feeling...as if more than six sets of eyes were watching her. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

His wife, Galway Jane, followed him, and four of their six children had to be put into orphanages. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

Of the roughly six hundred African American boys who started Oakland high schools as freshmen each year, only about three hundred ended up graduating. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Trout in the mountain streams seldom were more than six inches long; in the lake they thrived so prodigiously that many grew to five pounds. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

In all, there were six men of varying age. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Queen had climbed the six steps of the wooden ladder which led to her bath, and now she was sitting on the plank inside it, with her head showing over the top. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Filled to the rafters with beds, sofas, stoves, refrigerators, chests of drawers, desks, tables, and chairs, the hall was locked and boarded up at six P.M. on Sunday evening. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

Washington and the six men set out in “excessive Rains & vast Quantity of Snow.” George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even if they slap you six times on each hand with the ash plant or the blackthorn with the knobs you must not cry. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

They had a dozen children, six boys and six girls, in seventeen years. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

This family that you could tell just came out of some church were walking right in front of me--a father, a mother, and a little kid about six years old. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

The kite hadn’t flown—he’d been six years old, and really it wasn’t anything more than a picture of a dragon taped to some Popsicle sticks. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

Let us say that the Muslims were to achieve the possession of the six or seven states that they claim are owed to Negroes by the United States as “back payment” for slave labor. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z

“I have a sure-fire plan for cheating the federal government out of six thousand dollars. We can make three thousand dollars apiece without any risk to either of us. Are you interested?” Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

The world closed its doors, and six million Jews were slaughtered. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

Still it was not late; he often sent for me at seven and eight o’clock, and it was yet but six. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

"Who cares how much pickled cod they ate six hundred years ago?" A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

One one thousand, two one thousand, three one thousand, four one thousand, five one thousand, six one thousand... The Lemonade War 2007-04-23T00:00:00Z

I think there were five of them, maybe six. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

When I was six, Ma and Dad took me to a local park. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

When Eliot’s mother arrived at quarter to six, Mr. Sen told her the details of the accident and offered a check reimbursing November’s payment. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

We lie on the tin roof and watch as five or six men turn the corner. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

Below Big Brother comes the Inner Party, its numbers limited to six millions, or something less than two per cent of the population of Oceania. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

“Cartier ... he only sold six because he’s been out of school. Appendicitis. He’s been in the hospital . . .” Brother Leon waved his hand, a gesture that said, “I understand, it doesn’t matter.” The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had witnessed six men leave for execution while he was on the row. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

We only came dose to dying six or seven times, which-1 thought was pretty good. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

There was enough food on the plate to feed me for six days. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

I missed them so much, and my hysterical lost feeling was even stronger than six years ago when I’d had to say good-bye to my mom and my home. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

Dad stayed in the hospital for six weeks. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Rosaleen and I moved behind her in our clumsy knot, so close we must have seemed to the night creatures like one big organism with six legs. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’m six feet tall, almost as tall as he, and he figures the height is wasted on me since I don’t share his dreams of me going to the WNBA. Bronx Masquerade 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Instead of a tracking number there were six symbols: Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

Impressed by her intensity, the counter man shoved six loaves and the least battered of the rejected pies at her and took her two dimes. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was confined to his bed, unable even to raise his head, for six straight days, during the absolute peak of the fever. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

There are only six of us left now, and we eye each other suspiciously. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

Three months later, a six foot, two-hundred-fifty-pound army colonel named Leslie Groves was walking down the hallway of a congressional office building on Capitol Hill, in Washington, D.C. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mary Miller, who had now been his Guardian ad Litem for six years, agreed to fill that role. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

I served hundreds of tennis balls and hit more against the wall till about six, then went to the bar. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

It did not occur to him that all the world might not desire such delicacies as two pounds of pork and six ounces of beef and a small pond fish. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

Over it, she fastens a clear plastic bag with six evenly spaced hairpins, and waits. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

The next morning, as another thousand children between the ages of six and eighteen gathered at a church to march, Connor unleashed a furious preemptive strike. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

What is a fine of a thousand dollars, and gaoling for six months, to the liberty of a man? Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

The beam of light moves through the yard to the giant ceiba, thick as six lesser trees. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Make sure to get your dad up at six o’clock. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Each of them was now approaching six feet in length. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

Matt was six years old again, lying in a pool of blood with Rosa plucking fragments of glass from his foot. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Prospector had a big flat surface about four feet high and six feet wide, and it rose up in the air at an angle. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Now that he thought about it, wasn’t it unfair that he had to give six presents for Christmas while Jimmy L—who did not have any brothers or sisters—only had to worry about two? The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

But they are also almost all tall: in my sample, I found that on average, male CEOs were just a shade under six feet tall. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

The six House lavatories, none with doors, were situated in an unheated outhouse and on a cold day in winter you could get frostbite out there if you stayed too long. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I had been home from the hospital for six weeks, I developed what at first seemed like a slight infection. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

Every Friday, from now until the end of the school year, the six of you will leave my classroom at two p.m. and come into Room 501. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

Without thinking about it, he’d memorized the six words, welded them to his mind. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

I saw my first screechers when I was six. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

Now it was early in December when I had just turned six. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Red, blue, green, and gold drinks fan out like a quetzal’s rainbow of feathers across the six clear trays on Crick’s cart. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

“The tornado watch is in effect until six p.m.,” A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

He told the navy secretary that the Osage, whose warriors typically stood well over six feet tall, were the “finest men we have ever seen.” Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Just rolling out down the sidewalk, all six foot four inches of me, turning heads and looking fly. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Seaborg tells me that within six months from the time plutonium is formed, he can have it available for use in the bomb.” Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

With LiNK’s help, he obtained a ten-year multiple-entry visa that allowed him to stay in the United States for up to six months at a time. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

The story took up six of the seven columns of the front page. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

He has a faint goatee trying hard to express itself, but it’s six months short of becoming a reality. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

Back to the time I had played to make the sound of Wind Turning a Leaf on a lute with six strings. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

All but one of the world’s six most populous nations are melting pots that achieved political unification recently, and that still support hundreds of languages and ethnic groups. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Which is always an interesting experience since he’s six foot seven and 240 pounds of mahogany steel but has this high-pitched hyena giggle. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z

“Ah most always work from six t’ midnight, but I was coverin’ the graveyard shift. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

In truth, she was the eldest of the five of them, and the one who had saved them fifteen years back when she really was six years old, and the rest of them only babies. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

To radio listeners, it feels more like six minutes. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

He told how his great-grandfather, Jonathan Lyte, Mayor of Causeway, Kent, England, had had six identical cups made—one for each of his sons. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

He looks like he’s grown another six inches since I last saw him up close like this. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

When they reached the White House, the women divided into two groups of six and headed toward the east and west entrances. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

And off they went, those six words burning holes in his mind. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

For the first time I feel the weight of every single inch, every millimeter, of the six feet between us. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

Around six or seven I heard Barometer, the nuthatch. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

But Sojourner has six independent wheels that rotate reasonably fast. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

There hasn’t been such peace and quiet in this house for at least six months. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

He also reminded Ishmael that the wick he had purchased would have to be cut after six uses. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

He sneezed again, five or six times in a row. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Water dropped from the roof and the cave was cold without a fire, but here I stayed for six suns, until my leg was well, crawling out only once to fetch water from the spring. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

The offices opened at ten, but I arrived at six in the morning. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

“No. They’d cool off eventually. Maybe six months, maybe more—maybe less. It depends partly on size.” Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

She was six feet tall, with huge, slanted green eyes and thick red lips and a vacant, Slavic expression. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

‘Becoming south or southeast five or six,' I said out loud. ‘Sorry?’ said Salim. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The kid’s about as gifted as a caterpillar. He brings home a B and it sets off six days of skywriting and fireworks.” Ungifted 2012-08-21T00:00:00Z

The six children followed every motion of her quill with breathless eagerness. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

At six foot three inches, Washington towered over Dinwiddie—and just about everyone else. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

It hunched over, standing on six legs but using the front two to feel the ground in front of it. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

When I told her this, she nodded, said she’d only been once, about six months after they started going out. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

It’s a huge place, the White House, with 132 rooms, 35 bathrooms, and 28 fireplaces spread out over six floors, all of it stuffed with more history than any single tour could begin to cover. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

This was Daniel Ellsberg’s daily routine now—thirty laps, starting at six o’clock. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

There were six men to occupy four bunks. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

One morning August sent Zach and me six miles out in the county to bring in the last of the supers to be harvested. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

He wants me to talk about everything that happened to me before I was six, nothing after. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

All six of them now wore their flight space suits, in case they had to scramble for an emergency takeoff in the MAV. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

“This photograph was taken six months ago, in Cuba,” Mrs. Jones was saying. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

Mission completed, Morgan returned, in a Redcoat uniform, accompanied by six British soldiers—all true deserters, won over to the American army by Morgan. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

And six weeks ago, Montez had announced that he was leaving. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

When I finally reached the Kmart Plaza I discovered that I was on the wrong side of the road and had to dash through six lanes of hostile traffic. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

All six dog-men dropped their weapons, grabbed their ears and fell down in agony. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Once there was a princess who stayed for six weeks, but Malcolm only saw her twice. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

The solution was six letters long, and Pigpen was six letters. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

Within the next quarter-hour, twenty of the men had ushered in six hundred seat-holders. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

At six—a year early, by a special relaxation of the rules—he had joined the Spies; at nine he had been a troop leader. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

And six months after that—three years ago—when my mother had both her legs chopped off, which, I'm telling you, would've left the whole stupid cabinet empty. Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z

She filled six baskets with crocks of butter and big wedges of stinky cheese wrapped in cloth. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

“And it turns out I was right. Twelve plus six plus eight is ... twenty-six?” Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

There were six beds total, two against each wall, steamer trunks at their feet. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

At one o’clock in the morning, Manning left the apartment with six stacks of paper, tied together with string. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

In exactly two months, Seabiscuit would turn six, relatively old for a racehorse and an age at which most stallions were already at stud. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

That first year, he got in the habit of arriving at school by six a.m., a routine he would maintain for the next forty years. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

What arrived in New York was six carloads of horrible slop with a sizable charge just to get rid of it. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

It stopped beside a towering marble headstone, only six feet from them. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

In the six weeks since the shooting, Garfield had lost nearly 80 pounds and changed from a robust and slightly overweight man weighing 210 pounds to a skeletal figure. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

You only have six minutes, my mother says, and no, you can't get up and walk across the stage to make your point. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

At Gibbs Elementary School, the Monday morning before Christmas, all the students in grades one through six were excited with talk of the Christmas play. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

The program had six subjects and eleven workbooks in each subject. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

“This might sound weird, but do you have any idea what happened to my brother? It’s been six months since we’ve heard from him.” Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

For nearly six hours up in the clouds, we couldn’t stop talking about meeting our mother, going to the People’s Center, and getting to know Sister Mukumbu, Sister Pat, and even Crazy Kelvin. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

Ten new families bought lots and moved to town in six weeks. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

When my sisters and I ate at their house, there we would be—six girls eating. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

It took six guys to break them up. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

On the sixth day there was a mighty storm, and they caught six fine lightning bolts in their copper box. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

Now listen to the same phrase played by an electric guitar, an acoustic guitar with twelve steel strings34 and an acoustic guitar with six nylon strings. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

“It’s not so bad. There’s always a bunch of my friends there. I’ve written that sentence six hundred times now.” Frindle 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

The tide, steadily on the rise, had turned about three and a half hours before, at six- thirty; by midmorning sunlight lay like a glaze over the water, warming his back pleasantly. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

Lorren was taller than I would have guessed, over six and a half feet. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

These numbers were all six digits in length, and they also began with the numeral “6,” so everyone began calling them the Sixers. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

“And six million in gold and jewels,” Percy muttered. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

My father left every morning at six to head to work at the factory, and returned by seven PM. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

In extremis they blindfolded me and held a loaded gun to the back of my head for nearly six hours—it was sinister and exhausting and I did go a bit wobbly eventually. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

We don’t have a thing to worry about till six. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

The one-armed smith had left few personal effects: the cup, six pennies and a copper star, a niello brooch with a broken clasp, a musty brocade doublet that bore the stag of Storm’s End. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“I will offer five hundred pesos, and perhaps I can sell it to my client for six hundred.” The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

Bill, who was six and always in trouble anyway, was the only one with nerve enough to laugh. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

I've lifted more things today than I have in the last six months. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

“It probably takes six or seven hours to get here by griffin,” the elf said. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

A generation later, as wheat plants multiplied and spread, the harvest camp might have lasted for five weeks, then six, and finally it became a permanent village. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

We turned sharply out to the side of the road to give room to pass to a long string of six mules, following one after the other, hauling a high-hooded wagon loaded with freight. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

“This is Nick at the store. Bernie and Harlan just went over in Bernie’s pickup! 1 heard six, seven shots at least! You better get Mr. D !” Emerson Lapp ran outside. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

For almost six years he had been persona non grata. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were six prisoners in the cell, men and women. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

In Chicago there developed a confusion of orders—no one’s fault—just one of those things that happens, and Adam’s six cars of lettuce stood in the yard for five more days. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

When Kaisa finished the story, the food lay untouched between them, but the apple had been sliced neatly into six wedges, the skin coiled like a ribbon around them. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Sixty of your hostages were sent off to Eastwatch and the Shadow Tower after they’d been fed. Edd Tollett took six wagons of women back to Long Barrow. The rest remain with us.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Her mom told her the knock-knock joke— when Alaska was six. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

They were six days following Bar's galleon and brought her to battle on the seventh. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z

OK, that’s another mandatory deduction — why don’t we call this a six, overall? Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Just the two of them lived there, although the tent was big enough for six. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

He was only fourteen, but he cleared six feet and was as good as an adult to me. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

He decided to continue working for Ito six days a week, except Sundays, and to be a sharecropper. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

There are a number of different varieties of quarks: there are six “flavors,” which we call up, down, strange, charmed, bottom, and top. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Impossible. Were there even six million Jews in the world?" What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

The six men filed slowly back to their chairs. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

She had said, "You must think of those six steps not as preparation for the beginning but as the beginning itself." The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

He’s about six inches shorter than me, trim, younger than my parents. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

“My dad was shot by the Oakland police six years ago. They said it was a mistake.” Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

To be allowed one letter in six months and then not to receive it is a great blow. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

She’s too old for you, his mother said, when actually Tubs himself was six months older. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

At six, the massive presses would roar into action, rolling out 200,000 copies of the Times every hour. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

I have been wearing it for six years, Djo, and the clean strong cloth of my uniform still pleases me. Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Fortunately there were six of us children, and it was easy to get lost in the crowd. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

But it was a frightful ordeal and six of the crew lost their lives there. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

The audience size on October 30 was, therefore, probably much smaller than the six million estimated by the Princeton study. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

There a stringy-haired man sat cross-legged on the ground playing a flute made out of a drainpipe, and five or six Believers circled him, clapping and singing. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

“Supper starts at six p.m., but you see how things is, if you plan on getting fed you better be in line by four. Now get out of here before I get rough with you.” Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

That’s where, six times a month, several hundred chickens are killed, scalded, plucked, and gutted. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

Then began a sixty-second countdown, with maybe a hundred voices jumping in by the end: “... nine, eight, seven, six, five, four, three, two, one.” Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sitting in chairs alongside the six psych-unit cells most days, twenty-four hours a day, were the officers assigned to two kinds of special watch: suicide watch and drug watch. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ninety cuts and you come to a carbon atom, with six protons and six neutrons in its nucleus and six electrons in the exterior cloud. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Alyssa had been dead six thousand years now, and still no drop of the torrent had ever reached the valley floor far below. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

He was an only son, and he was born six months after his father was mustered into a Connecticut regiment in 1862. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

He had not been drinking much at all for about six months. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

“No one you know. There are only six people altogether.” A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

And after Jimmy loses six straight hands he comes right out and accuses Mong of cheating. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

“You must not have heard, Brother Spencer. Their pa took ill over in New York and they moved back there about six months ago.” Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

Walking to the station’s holding cell, looking around at the other six guys in there, I was thinking, This is no big deal. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

The clerk—a fat man with lifeless eyes—came to unlock the place at six. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

At the time not a soul in sleeping Holcomb heard them—four shotgun blasts that, all told, ended six human lives. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sometimes she kept her word for as long as six days. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Of the six cast members of Good Boys and True, Courtney is the most enigmatic and easily the most perplexing. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

New York had gained fifteen votes, Chicago only six. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Their church clothes were soiled by the time the last mass rolled around at six. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

She stood six foot one, had played basketball and volleyball in college, and, as a sworn police officer, carried a Glock semiautomatic pistol. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

He could spend six hours in the hiding place and another nine in his own bed. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

He was six now, long past the age of pushing things up his nose. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

After twenty-two winters pounding the streets of Boston, he’d moved to Florida with the hope of five or six warm and uneventful years before retirement. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

At first Rat just sank inside himself, not saying a word, but then later on, after five or six days, it flipped the other way. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now it was confirmed: the red light from its eye cast a creepy glow on six capital letters smeared across the torso, as if they had been written with blood: WICKED. The Maze Runner 2009-10-21T00:00:00Z

"Cut them out and give them to your next outrider. Tell him you hope that four eyes might see better than two . . . and if not, the man after him will have six." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

At that point, LaTonya was two, Alfred was six, and Cheetah had never paid child support. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

My stomach was tied up like knots on a rope waiting for Dad to get home, to see what he’d say about the six words when I told him. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z

She had set six o’clock as her limit. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

When he was six, he almost went home with another family at the mall because their kids had cooler toys. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

The six kids would never all be together again. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

It was six of us at the table and Rosy had eat and drunk a lot all evening. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

That gives him twelve, and brings Hazelwood within six. Tears of a Tiger 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

She can’t bear to see the numbers moving forward, five to six, six to seven, seven to eight. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

I shouldn’t be surprised that the Dauntless expect us to hit the ground running, but I anticipated more than six hours of rest before the running began. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

Shorty had dropped out of first-year high school in Lansing, lived awhile with an uncle and aunt in Detroit, and had spent the last six years living with his cousin in Roxbury. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

The phone rings four, five, six times before Pilar answers sleepily. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

In both, Indians took the first steps toward modern maize in southern Mexico, probably in the highlands, more than six thousand years ago. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Its six clawed legs were scrabbling on the smooth. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

But I have sworn every day for the past six days that I would follow Mama’s Rule Number One. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Just six demigods on the ground and one more in a burning ship above the Acropolis. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

When we’ve all calmed down and caught our breath, the six of us settle overnight in this barren place. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

And six months after that, when she had that whole foot cut off. Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z

Power Plant No. 1 was only six miles up the canyon from my house. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

Now I was stuck with Bradley every afternoon for as long as this project lasted: six whole weeks. Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

There was always somebody at home, with six people in the five-room apartment. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

Fact: Most suicides occur between the hours of noon and six p.m. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Somehow, having a big table and six chairs in the room, instead of filling the space, makes it more empty. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Bo had gone in on a burglary charge, five, maybe six years before. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

No, the risk was too great; the whole Group might be put back six or seven months in its conditioning. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I can’t believe that was only six months ago. Wow. Seems like so much longer.” Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

Five or six old men were already sitting around in there, talking crops and fussing about the gov’ment in Washington while they cut one another’s hair. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

I put the last six shells from the box in it. The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z

“My mom told me that joke when I was six. It’s still funny.” Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

Their children, both girls, were six and two and a half years old, respectively—Pauline and Maria. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

After almost six months without schooling, my enthusiasm for learning had been dampened. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

He looked me up and down and said, “How’d you get so pretty so fast, cuz? Thought it would take at least another five or six years.” Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

Although Regina had spent six years studying to be a physician, she left before completing her degree, took the baby to Paris, and settled there, working as a teacher of English. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Fannie spoke as many as six times a day, and people listened. Fannie Never Flinched 2016-11-21T00:00:00Z

“Here’s the referee. He’s counting. One, two, three, four, five, six, seven ... Is the contender trying to get up again?” I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

There may have been five, maybe six of them. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

But I don’t see any backup coming from my fellow servers, each of whom has slipped into her own personal funk; Gail, my role model, stares sorrowfully at a point six inches from her nose. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

There’s a gash about six inches long running from his shoulder blade to below his ribs. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

Moss nodded his head and the six of them sat down in the yellowed, dying grass of the courtyard. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Up front, peaked into the bow, was a double bunk filled with bags of sails— six of them. The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was consistent with everything that had happened over the last six years, but it was still maddening. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Hurtling through the bushes on the high hillside of the trail a small, black-tipped wheaten body leaped the last six feet down with careless grace and landed softly at their feet. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

The young king came out, well armed, leading a bear and six retainers. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

He stops with literally six inches between us and looks down at me. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z

At six feet tall, he’s smiling down at me. Watch Us Rise 2019-02-12T00:00:00Z

On the morning of Monday, April 24, all hands were roused at six o’clock to help lash up and stow the Caird. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

And I can’t really even write that much ’cause we gotta be back up and on the truck in like six hours. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

There were now six children in the family, two by my father’s first wife and four by his second. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

“He’s too short to be a painter,” she said about one worker, Hector, who was over six feet tall. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

I felt six hands on my back and the bumpy ground beneath me. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

However, when they found six black-mustached seals, sitting barking in the middle of the room, with twelve penguins parading gaily around them in a square, they felt better. Mr. Popper's Penguins 1938-09-01T00:00:00Z

In one camp, six Russian prisoners of war managed to escape, but they were caught later on. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

I didn’t know how I was going to avoid it for the next six months. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

If you can contact it, I can draw hex numbers on the wheels and you can send me six bytes at a time. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

“And the remaining six are here in Northern California?” Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

Picking up the hobbits he set them on the great stone slab, six feet above the ground, and there they sat dangling their legs, and drinking in sips. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

A stick stuck up from one corner of the basket, and, on it, like a sluggish flag stood six pretzels. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Two rabbits sat on either side of a boy of about five or six. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

One two three four five six seven days: the firehouse. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was a shrimp of a boy, about six years old, and one side of his face was blotted out by a mulberry-colored birthmark. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

My mind flashed to that winter day six years ago. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Sitting in the number three seat, Joe Rantz was parallel with roughly the six or seven seat in the California boat; in the seven seat, Roger Morris was parallel with nothing but open water. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

"Here's the situation. A 5010B is a youth sentence. It means you can do anywhere from sixty days to six years, depending on your behavior and what the parole board thinks." Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

Two days later, Friday the thirteenth, six hundred men gathered at the park to protest McArthur’s use of what they alleged were “imported” workers. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Teddy was just six months old at that point, but it was already clear that he had more personality, more verve, than I ever would. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then, remembering something I read in the six stapled pages Awkworth & Ames gives its new employees, I add, “A customer waiting for assistance is a friend waiting to be made.” The Misfits 2001-10-01T00:00:00Z

“I wish I had six fingers now. I could hold on better.” Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

The thing was already ten feet away by the time he realized it wasn’t a rat at all—it was more like a lizard, with at least six legs scuttling the long silver torso along. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

The tallest being Rachel, at five feet six inches and the full benefit of Miss America posture; the shortest being myself, two inches lesser than my twin on account of crookedness. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

If you wanted them to think about using you, you went to their office around six in the morning, signed in, and sat down to wait. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

The other six, two brothers and four sisters, lived with their parents in a spacious house at 426 Twenty-Ninth Street, in Oakland. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

And then, “I mean, I moved here when I was, like, six, but yeah, basically forever.” A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

I try to fight them off, but there are too many At least six. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

I didn’t know that until my first progress report arrived six weeks later. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Instead of following strangers around, we went to the movies and plunged our hands together into the six- dollar Super Tuh of popcorn. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

It became a habit for six whole months, the three of us sitting together during our free period, talking about anime and manga. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z

Something she very probably hadn’t done in five or six years—when, for example, halfway home on the Lexington Avenue bus, she discovered she had left her scarf back at the movies. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z

Once the Angelus rings at six in the evening the day is over. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

Most people can divide tones into only about six different categories before they begin to make mistakes and start lumping different tones in the same category. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Hello was supposed to come over that evening, but he called around six. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

But with the schedule of twelve-hour workdays six days a week, she was assured she wouldn’t do anything more than eat and sleep during her time off. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

He kept writing until his wrist began to ache, and at six he finally called it quits. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“One—two—three—four—five—six,” he counted and spanked, slowly. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

Others said something about the person who was six feet under. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

“After ice, I was one of nine, and after waddle I was six of nine.” The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Tom pulled out six cans of Coke and shut the heavy wooden door. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe the Preacher had won enough by now to really buy six more slaves out of America! Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

A group from the Dance Theatre of Harlem was spending six weeks at her school, working with talented young people. Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

So at six o’clock that afternoon, Harry and Ron left Gryffindor Tower, passed the security trolls at a run, and headed down to the entrance hall. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

As for a name, they have decided to let Ashima’s grandmother, who is past eighty now, who has named each of her other six great-grandchildren in the world, do the honors. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

The Scarlet Letter he read in six sittings. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

We was bunched up so tight and moving so jerky and clumsy we must’ve looked like a hunnert-year-old man with six legs. The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z

A few yards away, six ofYezzan’s slave soldiers were squatting in the dust, throwing the bones and passing a wineskin j from hand to hand. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The three of us sat at the table, and it seemed as though about six people were missing. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

Yet six thousands at the least shall ride behind me. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

The Second Sons kept their company armor in six big wayns drawn up near the center of their camp. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

There was a lot of brass commanding teams of policemen; sending them by fours and at times by sixes, all combing the neighborhood for something or maybe as a show of force. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

We spent our time, significantly, between the three- block section on Auburn Street where Negro financing and industry controls some eighty million dollars, and the section of the six Negro colleges. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

The year before, an inmate had broken a bone in his face and he’d needed six stitches. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I wasn’t even sure I was done growing at six three, and given the way this girl’s body was banged out double-D, she was likely done at five feet even. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

Most jockeys took a more straightforward approach: the radical diet, consisting of six hundred calories a day. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now six full days my gallant crew could feast upon the prime beef they had marked for slaughter from Helios’ herd; and Zeus, the son of Kronos, added one fine morning. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

This effectively meant that even though it took nearly six hours to get Mulch to the surface, he was injected into the field only moments after Root had the notion to send for him. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

I was only six years old and I was worried. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

The favorite hour was the golding time between five and six in the evening. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

But it’s been six months now since Lucy’s funeral, and she’s still watching her shows in the kitchen on her portable television. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

We greeted everyone, and Mom placed the bowl of bean and corn salad she’d made on the counter, which was already covered with enough food to feed more than six people. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

Once I sat down at my typewriter and tried to write about what had happened, made about six attempts before I gave up and threw them all away. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

It felt like dozens, but was probably only five or six. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

In just the past decade, the time devoted to advertisements in a typical hour of network television has grown from six minutes to nine minutes, and it continues to climb every year. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had to spend six hours in the station house, talking to police, while his assailant was released after two hours and charged, in the end, with only a misdemeanor. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mind you, I never did know him well because in all those months and years I was at the school, I doubt whether he addressed more than six sentences to me altogether. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

The biggest rectangle he had put together so far was six pieces. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

He couldn’t spend ten or twelve hours a day studying chess and another six to eight hours on Bible studies; and the constant surfacing of impure thoughts and other minor sins was plaguing him. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

On the early-morning leg to Boise, she experienced “rough flying,” where she was “tossed up in the air at least six inches.” The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

From the different voices he heard, he guessed that there were six or seven men in the truck, although he couldn’t be sure. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

By that time six White Harbor men and two Freys lay dead upon the floor. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

He’d worked out a theory about what fighting was for, and now he no longer fought with his six closest neighbors. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

But today I stood in the corner for the first time in six weeks, staring at our used-to-be plants—brown and crisp and dead all over. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

“I’d rather have any job, six jobs, than beg from people. Look at you,” he said to me. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

As Gerald ran down the six flights of steps, his fear expanded like a balloon in his chest. Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

I rocked lightly from left to right in the chair and pretended that the fake bird chirping her clock made when it struck six hadn’t scared me. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

“The students with the six highest scores from all our preliminary rounds will make the final TV team. Sound fair?” Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

“The real thing will be six feet long. I’m still working on it.” A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

Programs scheduled to culminate in two years became outmoded in six months, and crowds of men gathered for them in one place were dispersed to twenty others. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

‘Get another six of you in here and it might be a fair fight. I demand to see your lieutenant, Thalia Grace.’ Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

After six weeks, and the third day without food, the train stopped. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

He's five or six centimeters shorter than my cousin, and he can't take his eyes off her. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

It’s probably a good thing, because there are six gowns and each one requires its own headpiece, shoes, jewelry, hair, makeup, setting, and lighting. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

Tomorrow I turn in my Miss Myrna column that I wrote six weeks ago. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

About six cages down from me, on the same shelf, I saw them put a collar on Jenner; but once he was back in his cage, I could see him no longer. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

His wife Abeer was six months pregnant with their first child. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

Miss Esther arrived with donuts and a new digital camera at six thirty in the morning. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

I now had six fists ready to pummel some iron monsters. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

“I was six, and then Bruce married my mom when I was nine.” I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Her brother, older by six years, had already gone on to his own training in the Department of Law and Justice. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

It was a very complex job the Count was doing, but the six fingers on his right hand never for a moment seemed in doubt as to just what to do. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

Three helium nuclei make a carbon nucleus; four, oxygen; five, neon; six, magnesium; seven, silicon; eight, sulfur; and so on. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Tom’s sergeant was shot six times by an assailant, while a bystander was struck twice. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

It says a great deal about how enamored I was with the Archives that I failed to notice one of the most attractive women in the University standing less than six inches away. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

But six hundred dollars is a lot of money. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

The six boys struggled and flopped around, digging elbows and knees into Anya. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

Since staying at home meant hunger and chores, I began attaching myself to gangs of five-, six- and seven-year-old neighbourhood boys who daily roamed the filthy streets of Alexandra in search of food and adventure. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

“In fact, that move’s all I got, really, and believe me, I rehearsed that like six thousand times.” Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

Within six months he has the keys to the Ratliffs’ house, a set of which Maxine presents to him on a silver Tiffany chain. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Bombur was now so fat that he could not move himself from his couch to his chair at table, and it took six young dwarves to lift him. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

On the plastic-covered dining table she set out the contents of the shopping bag: six cans of enamel, paint thinner, and brushes. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were five or six customers all gathered in a group around the bar - one guessed from their appearance they were agricultural people of one sort or another - but otherwise the room was empty. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

In railroad offices in Mexico City, in a large control room, computers plot train routes with blue and green lines, and at least once every six months the screens flicker, then black out. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

Bobby defeated him in six straight games, the first shutout of a grandmaster in chess history. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Abuelita reached into her pocket, pulled out a worn leather coin purse and deposited six coins into the slot of the metal box in front of the iron candleholder. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

He was fifty-five years old and had six official kingships and dozens of petty states under his control. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

There were six thousand Redcoats stationed there, and they’d taken over the city. I Survived the American Revolution, 1776 2017-08-01T00:00:00Z

By six weeks, I have eyes and ears. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

I have only written down six names when Jenna’s father knocks on the door and asks her to come downstairs. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

Never once, in six years, had Dumbledore told Harry that they had both lived and lost loved ones in Godric’s Hollow. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

At six she had discovered the magic books in the enchanted trunks of her legendary Great-Uncle Marcos and had fully entered the world-without-return of the imagination. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

"For six days I’ve been suffering from the semi-annual poison ivy case—my sufferings are far from over," he tells his friend Bill Jacobs. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was sorry for the two little bonobos and, I guess, obscurely apologizing on my mom’s behalf, for her choosing to stay six years ago and breaking us all up. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

He was twenty-five and had already been working on the tea estates for six years. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The six and twentieth day of April, about four o’clock in the morning, we descried the land of Virginia. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

For more than six months, newspapers across the country featured front-page articles describing the testimony from witnesses, recounting every shocking and scintillating detail. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

Before Prohibition was even one month old, more than fifty-seven thousand druggists had applied for permits to prescribe liquor, and within six months, fifteen thousand doctors had done the same. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

She didn't say anything—thank God, she didn't thank him—and she left six inches of space on the seat between them. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

By the time I reach House No. 8, I have stepped over only six cracks in the sidewalk. Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z

By rights, the child should have turned four years old on January 1 in the year 0 AD, five in 1 AD, and six in 2 AD. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

Twice a day, at eleven and six, the old man takes the dog out for a walk. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z

As far as they knew—and I’m sure they knew, because Jeanine knows how to spread news—I died less than six hours ago. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

The “lobby” was unfurnished, except for a cactus plant six feet tall and a makeshift reception desk; it was also uninhabited. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

I would say probably within the last six to eight months I've seen a real increase in the brutality of the crimes, and also younger kids doing the real brutal stuff. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’m so excited to find one of her books for only six dollars. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

He relayed all of this to me one night at home about six weeks after our wedding, before delicately dropping a final bit of information: His mother had found him the perfect cabin. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

“Here we are. Youth. Ages six to twelve.” The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

The station shakes with the rumbling of a green train, six cars long, approaching. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z

So Fatima lay there for maybe six seconds, which were five seconds too many because a bus had pulled up and had stopped at the stop sign. Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z

The room is small, maybe six feet long by six feet wide. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

“Now I have one for smiling, one for laughing, one for crying, one for frowning, one for thinking, one for pouting, and six more besides. Is everyone with one face called a Milo?” The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z

Westley was always prepared for contingencies, and if he could rescue her at six, he could just as happily rescue her at half past five. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

The six laws we singled out were not overturned; but we never had any illusion that they would be. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

She must have been five or six years old, with matted dark hair and filthy clothes. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

About six percent of the country’s gross domestic product is spent on education, more than double the percentage of comparable spending in the United States, Japan, or Britain. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

"That registers six points for the Epiphany Team," the commissioner said. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

Just a few feet before the parked police car is the subway entrance, marked with two tall green lamps and a black placard with the numbers four and six in green circles. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

The commission sentenced Alfons to restriction to his town limits for a period of two years, six months’ expulsion from college, and one month of hard labor. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

The Americans had built ten big forts on Manhattan Island, and six more across the river in Brooklyn. I Survived the American Revolution, 1776 2017-08-01T00:00:00Z

David left me six apology messages today, extremely annoying, probably as annoying as the six I left Jay tonight. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

“I’m going to be six years old in September. I got to stop suck' ing on my knuckle once I’m six,” said Sweetie Pie. Because of Winn-Dixie 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

The keyboard is more than four feet long, while the rest of it stretches at least six feet. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

The king’s Asian empire, alas, proved even more ephemeral than Alexander’s: within six months all his appointed governors were deposed, and Seleucus II was crowned in Babylon. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z

In his memoir about six years in two of the camps, Kim Yong, a former lieutenant colonel in the North Korean army, says the appeal of suicide was “overwhelming.” Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

“Hundred and twenty-three pound, fifteen, six. Jeweller’s account, I think.” Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z

So over the next five or six days, I told him whatever he wanted to know, and he’d lie there, all hooked up, a gentle smile breaking through. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

He told me, “That will bother you. We will take it off in six weeks.” The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

There are six self-contained learning communities in our wing of the building—children with various conditions, from preschoolers to kids who ought to be in high school by now. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

By nine A.M. , an estimated six thousand persons thronged the nearby blocks, behind police barriers, and faces were in every window of the apartment buildings across the street; some stood shivering on fire escapes. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

For all his complaining, he nurtured that chain from the very first links all the way to six million. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

“If everybody buys six tickets—” “Not everyone’s going to buy six tickets,” X-Ray interrupted. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

His two children were six and seven years old at the time of his sentencing. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

I spent six months in hospital in Alexandria, and when I came out, I flew again. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

The plan was to gather for drinks at six. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

However, if it’s known somehow that the person chosen is over six feet four inches tall, then the conditional probability that he or she also weighs more than 250 pounds is considerably higher. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

It had two big brown buttons sewed on for eyes and six little white buttons sewed on for teeth. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

Then the next watch is the dog watch; it’s divided into two watches; four to six and six to eight. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

And now it's almost three already and I've wasted these hours and it's becoming difficult to breathe because six thirty is no longer far in the future. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Mom has to guess the names of six categories before it goes off. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

Instead of being born after nine months, I was born after six. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

The nose of the California boat had indeed passed under the bridge first, but by then the first six feet of the Washington boat was already well over the line. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

I could see now why this band got to have six exclamation points behind their name! Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

I set my alarm for the ungodly hour of six in the morning, and spent the next few hours trying in vain to fall asleep. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

I followed the man until he went in the back of a butcher shop six blocks from the park. The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z

To the great delight of the crowd surrounding the boys in the grandstands, Germany came in first in all six heats. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

For example, a conviction for selling a kilogram of heroin yields a mandatory ten-year sentence in U.S. federal court, compared with six months in prison in England. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

“I started out from Yale at six o’clock this morning and didn’t stop to eat all the way.” My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the Qur’an, Gabriel is described as having six hundred wings, and is assumed to have accompanied Muhammad when he ascended to the heavens. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

For over a month, whenever he clicked on the television, Charles was forced to look at the five cheaters who, six months earlier, had robbed him of his rightful prize. Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z

On the unseasonably warm day, about six hundred persons went to the Valley View Cemetery on the north edge of this city. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

The first one is: divide four hundred and eighty by six. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z

It has been six months since I visited Ro Leap when Ma showed me her bruises. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The six hundred carriages in Carter Harrison’s cortege stretched for miles. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

But all through those six weeks, Arkle continued to feed his frog with slugs through the hole in the lid of his tuck-box. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ten years ago, California had 10,000 incarcerated juveniles in eleven state facilities and six camps. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Last August when I was visiting my grandmother Draper in Florida, notice came that my homeroom teacher for grade six would be Mrs. Olinski. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

They said it had been that way for the past six years while he was gone. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

It's just the six of us and two gravediggers, who stand a few meters away under a cluster of trees, their hands resting on their shovels. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

“It’s six weeks. And there’s no need to make the air quotes around the word ‘her.’ When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

Three days later the Connecticut 5th was ordered to Brooklyn along with six thousand other soldiers. I Survived the American Revolution, 1776 2017-08-01T00:00:00Z

She had six friends, and none of them linked her to Chrissie. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

Two hundred and eighty days—six days a week most of the time—without ever really knowing what the future would hold. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

It was huge, nearly four feet by six. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

Bobby’s score was ten wins, two losses, and six draws, and he took home the silver medal. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

They all thought it was a shame the Beiderman reacted so strongly to stringed instruments, especially given Isa’s extraordinary progress over the last six years. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

Cash chuckles under his breath when he meets them at the elevators, a tray of six coffees balanced on one hand. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

After she and the curly-haired boy left, only Ms. Laverne and the six of us remained. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

The volcano erupted, killing six of the scientists, along with three tourists who had followed them, and seriously injuring several others, including Williams himself. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

The gift wrap was familiar—shiny purple paper that her mother had been using for six months. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

Turning more pages, they came to a full-size sewing machine sitting atop a wooden cabinet with six drawers. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

“I’ve been using the same blade for six weeks,” he added untruthfully. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

She remembered years ago how she had treated herself to a game at the stadium, and that she had ticket number six in the center section over home plate, row B, next to seat seven. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z

Some six helmeted soldiers, armed with broadswords and bearing lanterns, were coming down the street. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

I feel a surge of pride—until I remember what the number six million really represents. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

They were six lawyers in frock coats and top hats who endured the violent November sun with stiff stoicism. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

“You don’t have to shout,” the six year old retorted grumpily, “I’m awake.” The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The payout is six hundred to one, so when you bet a dollar and hit, you’ll come away with six hundred dollars. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

The man pointed his walking stick at the board with the jungle and the six knotholes. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

“Grandma showed up on my birthday six weeks ago with Grandpa’s old riding mower. I’ve taken on, oh, a few yard jobs since then.” Lawn Boy Returns 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Great-grandmother took him home from hospital, raised him in projects in Oakland, California, until she died of melanoma when Rondell was six. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

Not only were the six of them stuffed into one room, but there was all the stuff they’d gotten since the storm. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

The bed is only big enough to seat six comfortably, and eight of us are crammed in here—we’re tight on the bench, but our bodies give off much-needed warmth. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

Dramatic music—five or six different tracks—blared simultaneously from the speakers. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

I said, laughing, as I imagined myself flanked by six burly men in dark suits and sunglasses at my next speaking event. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

Maybe she thinks that I will do like Chantal and disappear for six days. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

I’ve watched all six episodes of Star Wars for his sake, so I could talk to him about the aliens and bounty hunters and all that. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

I really wasn’t sure—Sam had claimed it was six years, but she could have been wrong. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

He was a small boy of six who lived just around the corner from her, and for days he had been going on about this great talking parrot his father had given him. Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z

The wedding took place on June 14,1958.1 applied for a relaxation of my banning orders and was given six days’ leave of absence from Johannesburg. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The father looked to be about five six, maybe 150 pounds, and this white dude could have been Ivan Drago from Rocky IV without the accent. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z

Except for Bud Gleason, all six men present were afraid of Kyril Montana, or at least unnaturally nervous in his presence. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Chunks of asphalt as big as garage doors tumbled down, along with six or seven Italian cars. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Instead of sleep I counted the stars and kept six on the individual breathing of each remaining member sleeping in their tents around me. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

His school had about six hundred kids in it, so five times that. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

During the course of that debate, which lasted between four and six hours, things were said that had never before been uttered in any public forum at the national level. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

More recently, the extreme fundamentalist right has noted that each word in the name Ronald Wilson Reagan has six letters. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

If God made each minute last six months I'd be middle-aged by breakfast and dead by the time I got on the school bus. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

But first you have to get home: six blocks. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

It’s hard to know what to say to someone right after your ma’s took six shots at him from point-blank range. The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z

“The fact is, my cat, Sir Fig Newton, a member of my family for almost six years, is sick. He has diabetes. And just like for people, there’s no cure.” Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

Lyra sat up groggily to see Mary talking to five or six of the mulefa, who were surrounding her, clearly excited; but whether they were angry or joyful, she couldn’t tell. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

By the time Harriet Ross was six years old, she had unconsciously absorbed many kinds of knowledge, almost with the air she breathed. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

I jumped up, folded my blanket inside my suitcase, hid it and started running the six or seven blocks down to the mission. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

Those who have done the collecting are standing at intervals in the aisles of the plane, six of them, three with small machine guns, three with visible grenades. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

There was already six inches of snow on the ground and it was blowing steadily down on us. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The desks were in five perfect lines of six. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

He thought six months, a year, six years from now, the girls would be as dear to him as they were at that moment. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

The party were expected to arrive on Thursday afternoon, in time for dinner at six. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

She kept giving us more examples, like we were too stupid or little to understand—like the six of us left hadn’t sat there and watched Grace’s lights go out. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

He’s six feet tall already, with sort of longish brown hair and blue eyes. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

I’ve only known her for six months, but she gets me, you know? P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Granger and the six other teachers were standing at the ends of the rows and the kids were dressed neatly, hair all combed. Frindle 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

It says that somewhere in the six stapled pages. The Misfits 2001-10-01T00:00:00Z

Turn a recipe for six into a recipe for two. Sunny 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

There wasn’t a much-traveled Harlem street corner that five or six good Muslim brothers and I missed. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was six weeks before she was really well. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Colin won all six rounds, leaving him ready for the finals. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z

At the end of every winter Momma and Dad would go downtown to Montgomery Ward’s when gloves were going on sale and buy six pairs for us kids. The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

But over the summer the virus underwent some strange transformation and over the next six months ended up killing between 20 and 40 million people worldwide. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Shorty paid six dollars a week for a room in his cousin’s shabby apartment. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

They tried the helipad first, then the mess hall and supply hootches, then they walked the entire six hundred meters of perimeter. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

He said that like it was the most unbelievable thing in the world, like you’d need to put six exclamation points after it. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

Bobby rejected six tables as inadequate, before asking for one from the 1950 Chess Olympics in Dubrovnik. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

The path they stood on was about six feet wide and ran parallel to the river for farther than Doon could see in both directions. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

We had walked six miles and were now at Kabati, Grandmother’s village. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

Four, five, six—until his hand was bleeding and the red metal locker was bent nearly in half. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

A few years earlier, even six months earlier, it might have worked out that way. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

But when I turn around, Mom is staring at me with her eyebrows knitted together in the expression she has when she watches the six o’clock news. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

That made the score six to seven, with Perry Valley ahead. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

But for the most part, the six hundred plus are pretty cowed. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

He said that six of his ten knuckles had been fractured and that the doctors weren’t sure when the casts could come off. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

He stood at least six feet tall and had round powerful shoulders and thick forearms. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

I was only a boarder, a man who paid her a bit of money and passed in and out of her home for six weeks. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

“I was there. I threw six benches myself.” A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

One minute we’re all going nuts with pure joy at hitting six million, and then we all get quiet as we remember what that number represents. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

McCandless spent the next six weeks on the move across the Southwest, traveling as far east as Houston and as far west as the Pacific coast. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

With six children to feed we could no longer afford to eat all the vegetables we grew. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was half past six, and the hands were going quietly on. The Metamorphosis 1915-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were no angles; walls, floors, and ceiling faded gently into each other and in the cold, metallic glittering of the hidden lights, one was surrounded by six chilly reflections of one’s bewildered self. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

She rummaged through the kitchen cutlery while he broke six eggs into a bowl and whisked them with a fork. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

On March 30, twenty-five-year-old John Hinckley stepped from a group of reporters on the sidewalk outside a Washington hotel and shot six times at President Ronald Reagan. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

After six and a half hours on the plane and keeping up with Cecile, I figured they could use the recreation. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had sat and watched all alone for about six hours, and had let the others rest. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

At six o’clock on Monday morning, the fire had been burning over nine hours, and seemed capable of continuing its march north unless more help could be found. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z

A few days later, I met Maxie on the corner of her street at six thirty in the morning. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

I clocked six full minutes, but it might have been longer. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

It is six in the morning; Vanessa Martinez has gotten up early. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

“You wanted warriors, didn’t you? Well, there they are. Every one worth six o’ your black crows.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

From the time he was six until he was about twelve, Bobby spent almost every summer at camp somewhere in the tri-state area around New York City. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

“So we have to unlock, unchain, and incapacitate six prisoners, take their places, and somehow get the wagon sealed tight again without the guards or the other prisoners being the wiser?” Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

They made a great team, winning six in a row before they came up against Benji and Henry. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z