| 单词 | skeleton |
| 例句 | “Bob Owens. Brownish hair, a bit too long. Didn’t talk much. He was the one who named all the bones of the skeleton in the quiz. Remember?” The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z Sierra watched in awe as the skeleton’s painted skull turned ever so slightly as if to regard her and Robbie. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z Well, there couldn’t be any more skeletons than in Miss Sadie’s shed. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z We kept moving and passed a skeleton crumpled in the tunnel. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z On Halloween night, all over Sacramento, children dressed up as ghosts or Frankensteins or dime-store skeletons with phosphorescent bones. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Grover’s lunch hit the skeleton and knocked his skull clean off his shoulders. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z “When I summoned the skeleton. I thought... I thought that you thought... I was repulsive... or something.” The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z And then he shook Billy hard, rattled his skeleton, slammed him against a bank. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z Similarly, he believed, ancient Indian skeletons should also differ from those of their descendants. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z In the distance construction lights illuminated the skeletons of cranes. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z Someone advanced from the sea of faces, someone tall and gaunt dressed in deep black, whose prominent cheek-bones and great hollow eyes gave her a skull’s face, parchment-white, set on a skeleton’s frame. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z I showed him my sack of skeleton weed, spiderwort, and toadflax. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z She wished she had a raft, but she feared she was more like the skeleton dog. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z The shock felt by White and other citizens when they learned the Tribune was a gutted skeleton was captured perfectly by Charles Mackintosh. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z The Museum still has portions of his brain, most of his skeleton, and his spleen. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z She’s exhausted, a skeleton in a white dressing gown with absurdly fancy ribbons and starched lace. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z The fire had been successfully doused on the left side of the house, but what remained was charred and smoking—the rafters glowing like skeletons in the night sky. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z The few skeletons belonging to mature males bore the worst marks of violence. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Just as the skeletons opened fire, the pearl fragments at my feet exploded with a burst of green light and a gust of fresh sea wind. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z It came to life and buzzed my entire skeleton. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z Uncle Eric let us have a human skeleton leftover from his medical school days. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z He looked like a skeleton, sitting there next to me. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z I’m already dead, she told herself, as calm as the skeleton dog. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z Out here stars were perforations revealing the bleached skeleton of the universe through a collection of tiny holes. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z Great lumps of blue rock were scattered around, and dead trees stood everywhere like skeletons. The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Hrdlicka had seen the Neanderthal skeletons, which did not resemble those of modern humans. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z They were like skeleton hands trying to claw him free, pull him to his death. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z “Perhaps you would like to see the skeletons?” tries the assistant director. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z She followed a blue pant leg up to find a well-dressed skeleton waltzing with his skeleton bride. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z When José Arcadio Buendía and the four men of his expedition managed to take the armor apart, they found inside a calcified skeleton with a copper locket containing a woman’s hair around its neck. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z Hanging upside down, hands and knees clutching the knots along the rope, Tally pulled herself up into the dark framework of the bridge, then stole through its iron skeleton and across to New Pretty Town. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z I could make out the spine and ribs—wearing a breastplate of eroded greenish bronze—but the rest of the skeleton was too deep within the coral now. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z The other snake belched fire directly in the skeleton’s face. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z “You tell me. Maybe we just keep on going. We’d get there, eventually. At least the dust of our skeletons would—but isn’t our death the whole point of The Brain’s original breakdown?” I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z She took the skeleton’s dress off—apologizing in quiet whispers the entire time—and laid it out flat on the floor. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z When George began to watch the Washington oarsmen on the water, he quickly spotted inefficiencies and deficiencies in the mechanics of their stroke that no amount of fiddling with a skeleton could fix. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z So many skeletons were jumbled together, Matt couldn’t begin to count them. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z “How did you get away from the skeletons in the generator room, anyway? You said they cornered you.” The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z They rose straight into the air, the boards using the metal skeleton of the building to climb. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z Every side doorway was guarded by a skeleton in military gear. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z The deciduous trees stood up in skeleton, like maps of the veins or of the nervous system. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z He was a body still, and not a skeleton, because the witch had laid a spell to preserve him from corruption. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z Richard disappeared into the vines and night screech of the jungle, a pale skeleton of a man fading into the blackness. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z Robbie had covered a huge chunk of the wall in white paint, and his skeleton now wore an elaborate dress and was grinning wildly. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z A skeleton wedding, complete with priest and flower girls, marched across a lawn. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Some people have stone cats on their roofs; on his roof Archie Brubaker had a skeleton of Monroe, his deceased Siamese. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z Meanwhile, Nico’s Roman skeletons surged forward and grappled with something invisible. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z Dora insisted that a skeleton crew remain on duty to take care of the regulars. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z Evidence from fossilised skeletons indicates that ancient foragers were less likely to suffer from starvation or malnutrition, and were generally taller and healthier than their peasant descendants. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z When she looked, the rest of her life savings and her skeleton keys were gone. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z But he’d half-fallen in love with them, having watched every foundation poured, every wooden skeleton of walls and roofs raised to the sky. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z And at the perimeter of this boneyard lies one much larger skeleton: that of the moose he shot, and subsequently agonized over. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z The doors were open, and inside she found stuffed animals and fossil skeletons and cases of minerals, just like the Royal Geological Museum she’d visited with Mrs. Coulter in her London. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Soon the “Roosevelt Museum” displayed tadpoles, bugs, bird nests, and more animal skeletons. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z In one skeleton’s pelvic area mountain bluebirds had built a nest, and in it the female bird, surrounded by peeping young, stared beadily at the startled boy. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Moldering skeletons of those they had lured to their death lay banked high up around them where they sat singing on the shore. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z He looks like a walking skeleton, sun bleached and pale, and I involuntarily shrink back from him when he reaches a hand out to guide me toward the back of the building. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z The only people around were the mute living skeletons—my fellow prisoners. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z He exerted his will, ordering the skeletons to dissolve. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z “Probably not But you never know. There could be a whole trainload of Rusty skeletons in there.” Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z It fell over the skeleton’s forehead and down into its eyes. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z The dark, narrow strips of ground between the stacks were clogged with the skeletons of abandoned cars and trucks, their gas tanks emptied and their exit routes blocked off long ago. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z She tried to keep herself from picturing pakuks, the skeletons of little children, flying through the woods, or the icy breath of giant windigos striding over the ground, cracking trees off with every foot crunch. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z Spotlights swept across the room and reflected off the dais, throwing disco glitter over the skeletons on the floor. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z Everyone has come and gone, piles of shells pulled in and out of waves, and I'm still here, a skeleton of a sea creature, dropped in this tide pool, living, watching, still living. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z Tristran walked over to it and looked down; it was the skeleton of a bird, clean and white and dry. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z Some kid in a leftover Halloween mask was flying a skeleton kite intentionally low, buzzing us. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z He took a deep breath and watched Thor inhale another whole salmon and pull a salmon skeleton out from under his veil. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z Stretched out before her, acres of dead grapevines hung in rows on wooden lattices, like gnarled miniature skeletons. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z Nor is the absence of fractures and cuts on an ancient skeleton conclusive proof that the person to whom the skeleton belonged did not die a violent death. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z By focusing on skeletons, he was able to avoid discussing Clovis, the focus of the conference, because Howard had found no skeletons there. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z The population of Europe and western Asia between 130,000 and 40,000 years ago is represented by especially many skeletons, known as Neanderthals and sometimes classified as a separate species, Homo neanderthalensis. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The skeleton of a large junk, its ribs lying bare, its backbone running straight and true down the bottom. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Half the skeletons, including those of children and babies, bore clear signs of damage by human weapons such as clubs and knives. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z She didn’t look like a cow; she looked more like the skeleton of one. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z We passed the black, twisted skeletons of streetcars. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z He was old, but he had a good body and a metal skeleton. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z He tells them he’d asked an established painter if he could borrow a skeleton from his studio and take it home. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z To keep herself distracted, she watched Small Bob the kitten pacing across Bob’s shoulders and purring, occasionally turning into a glowing kitty skeleton and then back to a calico fuzz-ball. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z The gulls had mangled the fish, but big pink chunks of fresh meat still clung to the skeleton. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z I landed at the feet of a skeleton warrior, who hissed. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z The skeletons of the green trees curved under the elegant weight of the snow, bowing and twisting like ribbons in the wind. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z Around him, bones began to quiver as if they were trying to form a new skeleton. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z Holmes thanked him, paid him, and promptly sold the skeleton to Hahneman Medical College—the Chicago school, not the Philadelphia school of the same name—for many times the amount he had paid Chappell. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z I imagined the tumor metastasizing into my own bones, boring holes into my skeleton, a slithering eel of insidious intent. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z Two servants present dainty skeleton keys nestled onto a velvet board. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z He kicked a skeleton in its bony crotch, which seemed to hurt Hedge more than the redcoat. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z He was very cooperative, and soon the police recovered three fully articulated skeletons from their owners. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Agassi has been reduced to a skeleton, so that as he moves to hit the ball, the movement of every joint in his body is clearly visible and measurable. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z I walk my bike around the skeletons of dead trees and desiccated vines onto the dirt path into the woods. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z He fielded phone calls, sat for daily briefings, and was consulting with a skeleton staff of advisers, aides, and speechwriters who were all staying at a hotel close by. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z Finally, after what feels like a very long day, we have the skeleton of a floor. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z He’s a skeleton with rags and if they were making a film about the famine he’d surely be put in the middle of it. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z We drank our coffee out of paper cups, and through the square ferry windows he pointed out the dry docks and the skeletons of new submarines. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z I traced the backbone with my finger and decided to start with the shark’s skeleton. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z It was as if he had no skeleton at all. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z A gigantic skeleton was embedded in the coral. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z The ground at his feet split open and skeletons crawled forth—dead Romans with missing hands and caved-in skulls, cracked ribs, and jaws unhinged. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z I sprinted for the exit, but heard a ripping sound and realized the skeleton warrior had taken a chunk out of my sleeve. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z The war itself, the years of losing, had turned the house into a clean, swept, airy skeleton. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z Trucks carry off skeletons and meteorites and octopi in jars and herbarium sheets and Egyptian gold and South African ivory and Permian fossils. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z I whirled and found myself facing four skeleton warriors. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z Sierra made a face at him, but he’d closed his eyes, his forehead only a few inches from the painted skeleton foot. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z I thought maybe two hundred years later, scientists would find two boy skeletons stuck in the top of that tree. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z The island was already disappearing into the rain, the skeletons of trees smoking against the sky. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z They cut apart birds to trace the structure of the avian skeleton, and, masked in leather hoods, they dissected a skunk. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z Then a skeleton came out from among the trees. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z They were nothing like Halloween skeletons, or the kind you might see in cheesy movies. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z Her lip trembled as she pulled the gold ring off the skeleton’s finger. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z In similar fashion, the skeleton finds it doesn’t have to support any weight. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z A brass band of skeletons played jazz music, while a giant black spider descended from the North Portico. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z You expect to see human skeletons dangling here and there. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z The skeleton of our primate ancestors developed for millions of years to support a creature that walked on all fours and had a relatively small head. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z The skeleton saluted with its stump of a hand. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z Shame at having stolen a skeleton, like a kid on a Halloween trick-or-treat prank rather than a grown man making a hit. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z I thought of Gramps's soaking pants legs, of his skeleton body, of the blood on the handkerchiefs. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z The large glass window was decorated with colorful skulls, marigolds, and dancing skeletons. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z “You were supposed to dress up,” a skeleton guy chastised me before offering me a beer. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z The skeletons had split up to look for us. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z Richard Owen, the paleontologist who hovered over England’s natural historians like a patrician falcon, descended from the Royal College of Surgeons, to verify and catalog Darwin’s fossil skeletons. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z How the news channels would all do a story about the mysterious skeleton found at the bottom of a cave. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z By about half a million years ago, human fossils had diverged from older Homo erectus skeletons in their enlarged, rounder, and less angular skulls. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z She couldn’t leave the skeleton in the dress down there. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z The skeleton drew a baton and I sliced off his arms at the elbows. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z I remembered that the letter mentioned the silver dollar, fishing lure, and skeleton key. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z Insects had devoured most of the leaves and vegetables, leaving behind skeletons of stems and branches. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z He pointed to the skeleton’s bottles, which were coated with white dust. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z The second elevator was opening, and I heard an unmistakable sound— the clattering of skeleton teeth. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z “If Percy is telling the truth about the skeleton warriors,” she said, “we have no time to argue. They are the worst, the most horrible . . . We must leave now.” The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z “Point is, all the skeletons have been women. Every single one of them.” The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z There was even a yellowed human skeleton in one corner of the room: Mo did not know if it was real or not, but right now it was creeping her out. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z The discovery of numerous skeletons of mammoths with Clovis spear-points between their ribs suggests that this agreement of dates is not a coincidence. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z He saw Ku Klux Klan hoods, skeletons, harlequins in garish colors, painted faces. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z Archaeologists who come across these 110 skeletons may too easily conclude that most fell victim to some natural disaster. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z A similar survey of 400 skeletons from the same period in Israel discovered a single crack in a single skull that could be attributed to human violence. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z I never understood how the Senor managed to convey a sense of dignity, majesty even, considering his stick-rickety, see-through skeleton and the ridiculous, leathery crumple of hide about his foot, his fallen britches. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z In the lineup room, the skeleton crew barely filled a single file. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z He opened one of the cupboard’s creaking doors: It had already been used as a hiding place for something in a cage that had long since died; its skeleton had five legs. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z My skeleton was a male’s, with its higher center of gravity. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z Against all logic, on the second try the bird lifted off without mishap and with a certain elegance, accompanied by the creaking of its skeleton and the roar of its motor. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z It was mosdy a skeleton of wooden poles, with canvas stretched only over the wings. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z I wished I had Annabeth’s invisibility hat but as it turned out I didn't need it Every time we came to a skeleton guard, Nico just pointed at it, and its glowing eyes dimmed. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z In a blur of motion, the skeleton pulled something from his shirt and flung it across the clearing, impaling the basilisk in the dirt. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z Music seemed to steady me like a second skeleton; I leaned on it when my own bones were too shaken to stand. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z Their skeletons were visible through their wings in the moonlight. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z He watched in horror as a human skeleton crawled out of the ground. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z There wasn’t a single living tree on the island, just cedar skeletons and patches of green-gray shrubs. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z Sturdy brick structures had been transformed into blackened skeletons whose insides continued to burn brightly. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z He sucks in air, and his cheeks hollow like a skeleton. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z Some 40,000 years ago, into Europe came the Cro-Magnons, with their modern skeletons, superior weapons, and other advanced cultural traits. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z “They told me, ‘Hey Lady, have you ever seen a cat skeleton in a tree?”’ A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z The next moment he was a skeleton in a dark robe. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z The skeletons had Cupid pinned now, but the invisible god laughed so cruelly that Jason wanted to summon another bolt of lightning. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z In Europe, archaeologists have discovered scores of skeletons ten thousand years old or more. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z It’s odd to think I have a skeleton of bones hiding under my skin, holding me up. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z The word articulation generally refers to how the pieces of something are joined together; for example, how bones are connected to make a skeleton or syllables are connected to make a word. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z But her voice was so shaky and Southern that I wondered if we’d be driving around in the summer with a skeleton dangling from the outside mirror by its lips. The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z It looked like a child’s drawing of a skeleton rising up out of the ground. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z Around us the trees rose like giant skeletons. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z We walked down what passes for a hill in Indianapolis to this clearing where kids were climbing all over this huge oversize skeleton sculpture. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z The skeleton warrior was waiting, Frank realized— waiting for orders. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z I’ll admit I used to think it would be kind of cool to learn how to shoot a gun, but I changed my mind as soon as the skeleton warriors pointed theirs at me. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z “An old woman and a skeleton,” he said, looking at them as if they were rice maggots. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z At first, she thought of taking the skeleton’s dress and making a bag out of it, but one tug on the fabric was enough to tear it. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z You will need to sacrifice me, the skeleton dog had said in the story. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z “I will not be another skeleton on your floor,” she called to the statue, hoping she sounded brave. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z A hundred dead things in jars are all looking at me, not to mention the skeleton. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z “Maybe you have to hit the skeleton in a certain spot,” I said. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z My Liberty Head silver dollar, fishing lure, and skeleton key. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z Any minute, the skeleton dudes were going to invade the museum, and I didn’t think they would settle for an audio tour. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z Hrdlicka’s complaint about the lack of skeletal evidence was unfair for another reason: paleo-Indian skeletons are extremely rare. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Last time she wore a black cloak, which wasn’t as scary, because what else would a skeleton wear? I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z She had begun to glimpse the skeleton of an exquisite structure. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z Later, when Moody saw the finished photos, he thought at first that Pearl looked like a delicate fossil, something caught for millennia in the skeleton belly of a prehistoric beast. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z Smokestacks fume and locomotives trundle back and forth on elevated conduits and leafless trees stand atop slag heaps like skeleton hands shoved up from the underworld. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z “I kind of expected to see a giant Triceratops skeleton carved halfway out of the ground,” I comment. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z Piled high everywhere was junk, metal skeletons of forgotten species. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z He is another skeleton, but even in their dark hollows, his eyes are bright, hazel like my father's. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z A grown man reduced to trembling at the thought of entering an empty building—even that empty building—because there might be skeletons there? Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z I draw a skeleton putting itself back together again. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z The image of Paulie seeing part of his own skeleton made my stomach bottom out. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z In the swampy streets there were the remains of furniture, animal skeletons covered with red lilies, the last memories of the hordes of newcomers who had fled Macondo as wildly as they had arrived. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z A little farther down the mosaic path sprawled a more complete skeleton in the remains of an embroidered red doublet, like a man from the Renaissance. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z The trees on the hill were huge and bare, like skeletons. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z The floor was littered with skeletons in Roman armor and Imperial gold weapons encrusted with frost. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z They waded through thick drying grass to get to it and Olanna looked around, half fearing she would see Mama’s skeleton lying somewhere. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z The momentum presses me back against the skeleton chair, and the view out the window turns into a smear of color. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z Lords and knights moved aside as he stepped through, tall and fleshless, a skeleton in iron mail, the King's Justice. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z They called me spider legs, skeleton girl, pipe cleaner, two-by-four, bony butt, stick woman, bean pole, and giraffe, and they said I could stay dry in the rain by standing under a telephone wire. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z The skeleton warrior’s right foot and hand were slowly dissolving from poison. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z In their genes and skeletons as well as in external appearance, the Japanese are very similar to other East Asians, including North Chinese, East Siberians, and especially Koreans. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Lanning considered, “If you had all your equipment—the brain, the skeleton, the ovum, the proper hormones and radiations—say, two months.” I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z Bianca tried, but the remaining three skeletons were wary of her now. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z His bones were so thirsty that whenever he walked on top of underground water, no matter how far down, his own skeleton told him where it was. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z There were only a few monsters lurking in this dungeon—a gargoyle, a skeleton, a zombie, some asps, a mummy, and the evil demi-lich Acererak himself. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z The grounds, in places, bore signs of the geometric Victorian trimness which had been their original form: drained fish-pools; the long white colonnades of skeleton pergolas; rock-bordered parterres where flowers no longer grew. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z In 2007, an archaeologist exhumed two partially burned skeletons from a bonfire site near the house where Alexei had been murdered. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z Even with all those clothes on he looked like a skeleton. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z And Ob an old arthritic skeleton of a man. Missing May 1992-03-01T00:00:00Z They left the skeleton of his blackened house behind as a gravestone. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z The few preserved African skeletal fragments contemporary with the Neanderthals are more similar to our modern skeletons than to Neanderthal skeletons. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Grinning skeletons in Greek armor crowded around me, draping me with silk robes, wreathing my head with laurels that smoked with Chimera poison, burning into my scalp. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z It would be Bodega and the likes of Sapo who would have the skeletons in the closet, all so Nazario could help create new hope for the neighborhood. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z As Lyra looked at her, she had a shock: the blankets stirred, and a very thin arm emerged, in a black sleeve, and then another face, a man’s, so ancient it was almost a skeleton. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z On the ground at the base of the pole were bleached fragments of mullet skeletons that had been picked clean and discarded by the birds. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Lately, we had danced there, skeleton and snake pressed against the walls. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z Yet here Matt saw, on grave after grave, statues of skeletons playing guitars or dancing or driving around in little plastic hovercars. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Someone had slipped a dessert-plate between the ribs of the skeleton. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z “And that being the case, it should be no surprise that it does not understand the secret language. The skeleton key does not fit.” Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z Although those Africans of 100,000 years ago had more modern skeletons than did their Neanderthal contemporaries, they made essentially the same crude stone tools as Neanderthals, still lacking standardized shapes. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Hazel didn’t think it was so impressive compared to the powers of a guy who could reanimate skeletons and bring people back from the dead, but it felt good to surprise him for a change. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z He remembered getting in trouble one time because he had turned a cross-section kidney and some skeleton legs into a kidney monster and scared the nurse. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z “The skeletons of words shine out and make you jump.” The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z It’s the bones that let you know which skeleton was a man’s when it was a man and which a woman’s. The House on Mango Street 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z In addition, within recent years, molecular geneticists have begun to extract DNA from ancient human skeletons and to compare the genes of Japan’s ancient and modern populations. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Or they were chips from imaginary skeletons; lost virgin souls; pieces of pretty, insensitive ice; their loveliness an untouchable joke. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z For a small sum, we had been allowed to watch from afar as hundreds of workers crawled ant-like over the lumber skeletons. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z “I don’t suppose you could conjure up some skeleton horses.” The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z Three skeleton warriors were running toward the other end of the balcony. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z The lights dim and the glass falls away, leaving just the metal skeletons of buildings. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z You should assume from the outset that if you find a skeleton six feet deep in the earth that the hones are a lot newer than the dirt around them. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Once the skeleton was picked clean, it would begin, often, to float, like seaweed in a quiet tide, shifting this way and that, sometimes surfacing, more often just journeying through the Snow Sand for eternity. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z Before these buildings were buildings, they were just the skeletons of them. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z His powerful five foot, seven inch boxer’s body had dwindled to a virtual skeleton. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z By then the leaves were beginning to fall more every day, and some of the trees had begun to show their skeletons, twiggy and brown. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z If by chance a baby was left behind in a crib, or a leopard in a cage, it would be a skeleton without marrow, clean as a whistle. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z In the middle of the group was a seated figure, a skeleton. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z The skeleton I’d cut in half was already fully re-formed, coming after me. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z If Eril-Fane had come, expecting to find skeletons, and found them instead? Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z When Buckland speculated on the antiquity of an Ichthyosaurus skeleton he could do no better than suggest that it had lived somewhere between "ten thousand, or more than ten thousand times ten thousand" years earlier. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z She showed some slides of his prints, including the really famous one of a skeleton woman wearing a big hat. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z Hrdlicka’s zeal for completeness made him accumulate as many Indian skeletons as possible. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Bare willows clicked on the windowpanes like skeleton fingers. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z “That was just about the scariest thing I’ve ever seen. That horse skeleton lying there. It was freaky.” The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z Members of the skeleton night crew pass us in the hall and wave wanly; most have that gray night-shift look. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z From somewhere inside Bob’s uniform, the skeleton kitten mewled in agreement. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z The trees had thrown out low branches, making an impediment to progress; the gnarled roots looked like skeleton claws. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z “That ain’t all. A little-girl skeleton was in the crypt, too, in a coffin with a glass top. Her bones were just so white and pretty—” Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z The skeletons tried to aim their guns, but it was hopeless. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z The walls behind the counter were covered with wooden animal masks and bright tin suns, moons, and skeletons. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z He lost a lot of weight, became a skeleton in an oversized bag of faded fur. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z It had big life-size dinosaur skeletons and an aquarium with Arkansas fish and alligators in it. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z The skeleton kitten Small Bob disappeared inside his coveralls. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z She had not mentioned the second skeleton because it wasn’t there when she got to the cave. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z My living skeleton packed up in a cattle wagon with two hundred desperate others, carted off God knows where, to die of thirst before we get there? Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z Most were sheep bones, but there were horses too, and cattle, and now and again a human skull, or a headless skeleton with weeds poking up through its rib cage. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z As Lund had in Brazil, British scientists discovered some strange-looking human skeletons jumbled up with the skeletons of extinct Pleistocene mammals. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z The barrel of the ribs was as narrow as that of a skeleton; the legs had shrunk so that the knees were thicker than the thighs. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z I have always hated the emptiness that winter brings, the blank landscape and the stark difference between sky and ground, the way it transforms trees into skeletons and the city into a wasteland. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z After a few more weeks, the skeleton collapsed into a pile of bones. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z A nearly complete skeleton was excavated of an extinct bird—the Jupiter bird, it would later be called. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z Westley screamed then himself, in horror and surprise, and the Snow Sand gouged at his throat, for what he had grabbed was a skeleton wrist, bone only, no flesh left at all. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z “This is a fake skeleton—the kind they have in science class.” Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z Hedge scrambled away, but the first two skeletons grabbed his arms and lifted him off the ground. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z Her with her wet eyes and skeleton hands. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z She’d been thinking it through as the spirits swarmed in: Their mural on the outside of the Tower—the dragon and the elegant, guitar-playing skeleton—reached all the way to the fifth floor. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z Sometimes he almost convinces himself that he can see through the smoldering skeletons of the seafront mansions at the northwestern corner of the city to the rooftop of his house. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z A very white skeleton but wearing a lady’s flowered dress and red shoes. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z In a flash, the kitten became a ghostly skeleton, as if it had stepped behind an X-ray machine. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z Two ruby eyes from a carved stone skeleton popped out and rolled across the floor. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z Science is loud because Mr. Levy is fiddling with a plastic skeleton and not paying attention to us. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z Jason’s whole skeleton tingled, the way he felt when he got hit by a thousand volts. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z The skeleton’s fingers were clawing at the brick wall, like he had died trying to get out. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z Another fence post, another coffin lid, another skeleton to apologize to, another fire to build. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z Paintings that had been hidden behind layers of skeleton dust glowed with color. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z There’s only a skeleton crew working, even during the day, when the hourly barrage of calls comes in. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z Now his body was a thin skeleton held together by dry skin, and on his face was written the pain of the curse. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z “Even from a chiropractic standpoint, Nixon is a questionable character. He has the skeleton of a chimpanzee.” Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z With the sun resting above the peaks, the wooden skeleton of the great ship stood out sharply against the mound which nearly enveloped it. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z Now they were down to what Dad called a “skeleton crew” that made either brown or gray slacks for office workers. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z My desire to clean up skeletons in Joshua’s closet left Francis almost cold. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z But every time my eyes closed, I saw the phantom brakeman with hamburger meat for a face, swinging a ghostly lantern through tree branches like skeletons. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z It was really, he thought, very thin aluminum skin over a kind of skeleton and if it gave that easily he might be able to force his way through ... Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z Her dad dropped the dressed skeleton back into the trunk. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z Like all grates in the Quarter, it leads down into the Serra’s catacombs: home to skeletons, ghosts, rats, thieves...and possibly the Scholars’ Resistance. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z He looked pretty much like I’d seen him in my dream—an aviator’s jacket, black jeans, and a T-shirt with dancing skeletons on it, like one of those Day of the Dead pictures. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z And in 1,000 years even his skeleton will be gone. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z “Burrito fight!” he yelled, and flung his Guacamole Grande at the nearest skeleton. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z It’s a metal skeleton, without seats, without passengers. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z She never looked at dogs the same way, wondering if one of them might be a skeleton dog. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z The hands that lay upon the blanket could have belonged to a skeleton. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z Pencil cactuses grew in the corners like skeleton hands. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z He was like a human skeleton, down to less than a hundred pounds, but he was still a relatively young man, and his hair was black and curly and oiled with Vitalis. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z There was a graveyard feeling: everywhere the gray skeletons of trees. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z He remembered the thousands of skeletons in the Chapel of Bones. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z Deep freeze, armchair, film tapes, circuits, beds, and all like skeletons thrown in a cluttered mound deep under. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z Animal life wears a hard, dry skin or an outer skeleton to defy the desic-cation. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z She stepped under the skeleton’s left arm and kept walking. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z The shrieking shack was an old skeleton of a house tucked away in a field near the railroad tracks. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z “It’s going to be a skeleton or something.” Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z “Now,” he said, “friend John, where are the skeleton keys? If so that we can open the door, we need not break house by the window, as before at Miss Lucy’s.” Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z The van doors opened and more skeleton warriors piled out. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z I gave him his box of mementos and watched as he fingered each one: the Wiggle King fishing lure, the silver dollar, the cork, little Eva’s nesting doll, and the skeleton key. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z Skeletons dogs sniffed lampposts, and skeleton horses galloped with Death riding on their backs. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Chicago police telegraphed District Attorney Graham that their search of the Holmes building had uncovered the skeleton of a child. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z “What did you bring me? Look at these skeletons! How do you expect these walking dead to work?” Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z And now that he wasn’t allowed in rooms with uncovered windows, he’d be a skeleton in the dark. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z The skeletons moved forward, forming a crescent around us. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z Not even a metatarsal of any family skeleton interested Bull Meecham if the family was not his own. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Footage of concerned neighbors looking at the blackened skeleton of a home transitioned abruptly to a grainy image of a dorsal fin sticking out of the water. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z The skeletons are completely modern, he would say. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z It looked like the drawing of the skeleton with muscles on it from my science book, only covered in red paint. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z In the place where the skeletons had stood, a twenty- foot-long scar wove across the marble floor of the pavilion. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z Rather, it provides the logical skeleton for many situations we face in everyday life. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z A skeleton monkey was perched in her bony arms. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z Finally, as the light faded, they fastened the mats of bark onto the willow frame, a half skeleton of pliable saplings. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z Returning, he picked more meat from the skeleton. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z And I have never crossed it without sharing something with those early families foot-dragging through this terrestrial hell, leaving the white skeletons of horses and cattle which still mark the way. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z Geyer met with the lead police inspector and learned that a physician who had just examined the child’s skeleton had ruled it to be that of a little girl. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z He was tall and stout of build, and he had a hole so broad upon his chest that the bone of his skeleton was shown. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z “Well, we were trying for Paris, but turns out there aren’t any Diplodocus skeletons buried under the Eiffel Tower.” Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z I can’t think of myself, my body, sometimes, without seeing the skeleton: how I must appear to an electron. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z “You look like a skeleton! What’s the matter? Hasn’t there been anything to eat in your house lately?” Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 1964-09-12T00:00:00Z But it felt silly complaining about that after nearly being swallowed by an oversize science-class skeleton. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z It contained two skeletons, buried head to head. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z In one grave they found the skeleton of a fifty-year-old man, covered with strings of mammoth ivory beads, containing about 3,000 beads in total. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z She looked like a skeleton draped with papery skin and scared me so much that I was relieved to hear she had died. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z In Portugal, a survey was made of 400 skeletons from the period immediately predating the Agricultural Revolution. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z An angel had put a curse on her: “Dance in your red shoes till your skin shrivels up and you are a skeleton!” Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z I was surprised that their dislocated skeletons looked just the way I’d imagined them. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z We made it to the edge of the town before the first two skeleton warriors appeared. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z Or better yet, what skeletons was it hiding? Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z For days afterward, the skeleton of the McCulloms’ burned-out town house continued to hiss and cave in on itself, dying far more slowly than its young occupants had. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z The skeleton of one woman revealed twelve injuries. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z He looks terrible—as thin as a skeleton, and half the hair is gone from his left side. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z Knees knocking like a skeleton on Halloween, embarrassment bleaching my black cheeks red, eyes stapled to the page in front of me. Bronx Masquerade 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Two more skeletons appeared on the road behind us. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z Quite a few single poles and blackened tree trunks stuck up from the ground, and here and there a skeleton of a building rose forlornly. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z Weightlessness might be good for the body in terms of comfort, but it was thought to be harmful to the heart, muscles, and skeleton. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Exhausted and free beats resting in the bowels of a skeleton ship, you get me? Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z “Doctors. Scholars. Professors. They come to him looking for skeletons and jarred organs. Why? I don’t know. You’ll have to ask him.” The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z Her breasts were the eyes of the skeleton face, which drew my eyes to them even faster. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z The collapsed school looked like a shattered skeleton rising up out of the earth. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z He offered Chappell thirty-six dollars to cleanse the bones and skull and return to him a fully articulated skeleton. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z He’d felt betrayed, but still...when the skeleton warriors attacked, he couldn’t let them harm Percy. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z They looked like the hands on the skeleton in the Rainier Scientific catalogue that Ron offered to buy for me, except they had skin, blotchy skin, and I didn’t want gifts from Ron. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z Dr. Felinia Tower had the skeleton of a person hanging against her living room wall, its bones all held in place with black strings. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z Beyond that, a few bare elms, arching high and graceful, though in that bare landscape looking like the skeletons of trees. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z And they still had flesh on their bodies; not a single one was a walking skeleton. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z “Let’s go set some skeletons free from some closets.” Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z The Ares chariot was bloodred, and pulled by two grisly horse skeletons. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z Flames erupted from the fissure, and the earth swallowed the skeletons in one loud CRUNCH! The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z “REEEEEEEEET!” it squealed, and raked the three skeletons aside with its tusks. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z Before they were skeletons, they were crossbeams and girders. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z As the Washington boat swept under the black skeleton of the railroad bridge at the three-mile mark, it was still nearly three lengths back with a mile to go. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z In the shadows beneath an awning, Sefia dimly made out the figures of five old people, as thin as skeletons, sitting in rocking chairs. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z Animals with loose skeletons rattle them, or, like rattlesnakes, get sounds from externally placed structures. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Now, my brothers asked our father for reed stalks for the kite’s skeleton. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z It feels like a chair skeleton with barely any flesh to support it. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z “Yes, that’s the word. This hotelier brings him these parts. Now, this fence used to be a doctor, and he knows how to identify a skeleton’s sex based on, I don’t know, measurements.” The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z The ground was covered ankle-deep in brown leaf skeletons as long as her hand, soft and fragrant to walk on. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z But the Rusties had built solidly, in love with their wasteful skeletons of metal. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z She couldn’t guess how many skeletons were represented, but she was willing to bet they were all demigods from the past, children of Athena on the same quest. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z Mary longed to examine a skeleton and see how the structure worked. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z I thought of Hamlet's anatomy book that showed a skeleton laid bare beneath the skin, a grim reminder of waiting Death. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z Arrowheads and spear points were found embedded in or lying near the bones of twenty-four skeletons, 40 per cent of the find. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Every step I took toward Grand Rapids I could hear the sounds of mouse bones and bug skeletons being busted up by the teeth of bigger things. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z Scattered among the houses and fields were skeletons bleached by the sun. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z But hidden under that skeleton is a force that sends a single shoot of green out into the world. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z “The first thing that fell out was the skeleton of a woman,” said the boy. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z Miss Emily used to give a lot of the sex lectures herself, and I remember once, she brought in a life-size skeleton from the biology class to demonstrate how it was done. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z He saw that the floor of the dungeon was littered with tufts of fur, knots of red thread, and the skeletons of mice. The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z His skull is no longer with the rest of the skeleton in the Museum's collection, and its location is a mystery. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z She tried to look confident, though the scowling purple ghosts and the demigod skeletons at her feet made her want to turtle in her T-shirt and scream. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z “A robot. Copper skeleton and all, like the witch. See?” The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z They hold up his key ring and count seven different skeleton keys. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z But there were the butcher priests, too, performing divination of animal entrails, and the Doomsayers on their stilts, crying End Times from behind their skeleton masks. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z On the skeleton’s finger was a ring, dirty and tarnished but unmistakably gold. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z In the case of the Pygmies, the answer is “not yet,” merely because archaeologists have yet to discover ancient human skeletons from the Central African forests. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z “The skeletons are still out there,” she reminded us. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z It was quiet all around her, but the skeleton birds watched her from their perches, the trees pulled close like they were feeding off her fear. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z Wherever you went, you saw the same wooden frames going up—like the skeletons of houses waiting for their wooden flesh to be attached. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z They had all begun to look alike—walking skeletons in gruesome masks like Captain Cat and the last sailor of the Seven Bells. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z Then she tied the skeleton’s dress over the bones, gently, just tight enough to hold them in place. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z An image of my skeleton being discovered come spring spurred me into action. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z Under his tokar he was a skeleton, all bones and fevered flesh.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Our development was still raw, mostly unfinished skeleton houses and freezing pits of mud. Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z It was the skeleton of a Union soldier, though the uniform it wore was so ragged and filthy it was difficult to identify. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z By the time of the Kofun period, all Japanese skeletons except those of the Ainu formed a homogeneous group, resembling modern Japanese and Koreans. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Her hand was thin and bony, like a skeleton’s. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z In the chaos, Thalia and I tackled the other two skeletons on the stairs and sent them flying into the condiment table. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z The most straightforward way to discover whether the Lagoa Santa people were related to modern Indians, Pena decided, would be to compare DNA from their skeletons with DNA from living Indians. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Just past the Abnegation sector of the city is the stretch of building skeletons and broken sidewalks that I now walk through. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z “The turbid river was encumbered with masses of charred wood, with black hulks of vessels, and skeletons of fallen bridges. . . .” The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z I’d already found the skeleton weed, spiderwort, and toadflax right where she’d said, but the prickly poppy was nowhere to be found. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z His hair fell out, his face went gaunt as a skeleton. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Stripped of its white fabric and yellow cushion, it's more like a skeleton of itself. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z But most of the people were dressed like skeletons. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Soon the trees would be left naked, their branches like skeletons revealed against the sky. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z At this Boori Ma shook the free end of her sari and made her skeleton keys rattle. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z A head injury that left him motionless until he finally evaporated into a skeleton. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z Nestled under clean white covers were two men, seemingly asleep—and between them, two skeletons. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z “They never learn,” said the green-uniformed pilot, pointing down at the skeletons on the ground below them. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z “Why do you have a dressed skeleton in your trunk?” Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z He is relaxed and happy, even though the stress of the war had caused him to lose so much weight that he looks like “a skeleton with clothes,” in the words of one friend. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z She feared she would wander in the dark Wood forever, until she was only a skeleton powered by sheer will. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z The gaunt outlines of huge catapults and monstrous wooden cranes stood sentry up there, like the skeletons of great birds, and among them walked men in black as small as ants. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z “Charlie Bucket? He must be that skinny little shrimp standing beside the old fellow who looks like a skeleton. Right close to us. Just there! See him?” Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 1964-09-12T00:00:00Z Then, partly hidden in the shadows, I saw a man who was anything but a skeleton. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z Some dust—at least she hoped it was dust and not pulverized skeletons or something equally gross—fell onto her shoulder from the crumbling ceilings. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z The skeleton’s dress should be able to hold the bones enough to keep them from sliding out of Anya’s sturdier apron on the outside. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z Others attacked this conclusion, and the skeletons became one of the casus belli of the evolution wars. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z I pressed onward, leaping from platform to platform, attacking in midair, dodging the relentless onslaught of blobs, skeletons, snakes, mummies, minotaurs, and yes, ninjas. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z Then the skeleton decapitated the other two monster carcasses and kicked all the ashes to disperse them. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z “I don’t know.They might have a skeleton crew, but I think there’s at least one guy in there waiting on us.” The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z Malcolm thought about it, and then lifted them all gently away and tucked them down beneath the frail velvet the skeleton was lying on. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z I kept staring at the fissure in the marble floor where two years ago Nico had banished a bunch of bloodthirsty skeletons to the Underworld. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z “Oo-oooo-oooh,” he moaned, and shook the skeleton in front of my face. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z It picked skeletons clean and fired them to a gleaming white. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z Three men, or rather the mossy, spider-webbed skeletons of three men, hung from a ceiling beam. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Both angels slashed outward, and the skeletons went flying across the road. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z The whole skeleton erupted into flames, leaving a little pile of ashes and a police badge. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z All I could think of was the fissure in the dining room pavilion, where those skeletons had been consumed last summer. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z Once my eyes adjusted, the first thing I noticed were the skeletons. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z For a brief moment, I saw our avatars’ skeletons suspended inside the transparent outlines of our motionless bodies. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z Then right behind me I heard a sharp Chhh! like the voice of a skeleton. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z Hazel looked at Frank as if he’d turned into a zombie skeleton himself. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z A third survey of 400 skeletons from various pre-agricultural sites in the Danube Valley found evidence of violence on eighteen skeletons. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Alaric pursed his lips and looked around before opening a drawer behind him with a skeleton key. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z We watched in complete astonishment as she put the skeleton through various contortions, thrusting her pointer around without the slightest self-consciousness. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z “What doesn’t make sense is that the skeleton we think is his doesn’t have any of those things,” said Xenocrates. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z Here she could envision a man’s skeleton, his musculature; she could describe the workings of his lymph nodes. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z “Your brother. Remember that Halloween when we were around seven or eight and those big-city kids came down to the corn maze dressed like skeletons?” Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z Remains of houses and sewn clothing testify to a greatly improved ability to survive in cold climates, and remains of jewelry and carefully buried skeletons indicate revolutionary aesthetic and spiritual developments. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Jomon skeletons show a high incidence of what pathologists term auditory exostosis, meaning abnormal bone growth in the ears as often observed in divers today. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Bob slung Percy over his shoulder like a bag of sports equipment while the skeleton kitten Small Bob curled up on Percy’s back and purred. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z There were dozens of them, rag-and-bone skeletons who had perished of hunger, or thirst, or the cold, or suffocation, or overwork. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z This may have been the cupboard skeleton we noticed, ten years ago, at the back of the small boy’s head as he turned the kettle-hat to and fro, in the Armoury of Benwick Castle. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z Against the full-moon sky, skeletons of burnt trees marked the fire’s path. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z Not the Noah story, but the Cherokee version that her father used to tell her, with the dancing ghosts and the skeleton dog. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z He’d read a story in one of the old books in the attic about a bunch of kids finding a deserted pirate ship, and then a skeleton in one of the rooms. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z And clearly in this world evolution had favored enormous trees and large creatures with a diamond-framed skeleton. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z We went to the mall and I made sure we used the same dressing room so she could see my skeleton shine in the fluorescent blue light. Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z “When I’m dead, bury me in one of your lousy camposantos and I’ll learn it from all the skeletons of your people.” The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Jam snapped, her words heavy with contempt laid over a skeleton of fear. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z The skeleton warrior stood at attention in front of Frank. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z “It's the secret language they all understand. Do you see? It's the skeleton key that unlocks every door.” Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z A skeleton lay on the floor against the wall, like the person who it belonged to had died scrunched up there. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z Five marble bridges lay ahead of them, their jutting posts like bones of a skeleton. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z “The Heir of Slytherin,” said Professor McGonagall, who was very white, “left another message. Right underneath the first one. ‘Her skeleton will lie in the Chamber forever. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z I think it should be called a lie because a pig is not like a day and people do not have skeletons in their cupboards. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z I followed Dr. Thorn inside, through a huge chamber full of mastodons and dinosaur skeletons. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z He’d planted saber-toothed tiger teeth by mistake, and raised a batch of skeleton kittens from the soil. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z On weekends, little Immie played Lego, baked cookies, and went to the American Museum of Natural History, where she loved the reptile skeletons best. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z She pushed the skeleton out of the way, and it clattered to the floor. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z Regarding Europe as the world’s intellectual capital, the intrigued Lund sent most of the skeletons to a museum in his native Copenhagen. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Many fishermen were around the skiff looking at what was lashed beside it and one was in the water, his trousers rolled up, measuring the skeleton with a length of line. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z She has a quote by Audre Lorde on the back of her door that reads: Poetry is not only dream and vision; it is the skeleton architecture of our lives. Watch Us Rise 2019-02-12T00:00:00Z The army of skeletons rushed forward, swords out, guns clicking to full automatic. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z She remembered that the Rusties didn’t use hoverstruts; every building was squat, crude, and massive, and needed a steel skeleton to keep it from falling down. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z Sierra’s dragon mixed with several of the skeletons and mermaids from Club Kalfour. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z She wasn’t about to go grave-robbing a poor skeleton who had been left in a dungeon. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z It was like looking at the skeleton of a giant beast. I Survived the Sinking of the Titanic, 1912 2010-06-01T00:00:00Z As he said that, skeletons erupted from the ground. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z I thought I was doing pretty well, until the other two skeletons shot me in the back. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z Yesterday had been worse: an entire meadow withering, skeletons rising from the earth. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z He could see skeletons of fish and seashells embedded in the dirt around them. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z As the group trekked to the start of the River of Doubt, they passed by grave sites and the sun-bleached skeletons of oxen and mules from Rondon’s previous trips along the road. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z Shawn designed and welded the main frame—the massive beams that formed the skeleton of the building. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z I won’t describe what the accumulation of human and animal skeletons, mixed in with innumerable fish and turtle remains, looked like. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z Robbie must’ve been there earlier to put some work in: An entire city had sprung up from the music swirling out of the skeleton woman’s guitar. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z The deputy examined the puny little chess book as if he was expecting to find a false compartment and a skeleton key. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z A warm wind blew through the canyon, rustling the trees, but I kept my eyes on the skeletons. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z She’d reached the desktop, with the background picture of all three kids at Halloween last year: Finn as a clown, Emma as a ninja, and Chess as a skeleton. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z The second skeleton clattered his teeth at me and tried to fire, but I knocked his gun into the snow. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z There were many empty buildings with black windows, like blind eyes, buildings like skeletons standing with snow on their bones in the winter winds. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z The floor was entirely covered in straw, owl droppings, and the regurgitated skeletons of mice and voles. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z She stepped forward to the contestant’s podium, which had a skeleton in a school uniform hunched over it. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z It was a long time before they dared trust the silence, such a very long time that once or twice Farid turned his head because he imagined that the skeleton had moved. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z In the next quarter century amateur bone hunters discovered dozens of what they believed to be ancient skeletons in what they believed to be ancient sediments. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z The print and TV people already seem to know this because they’ve assigned skeleton crews to wait around at the house. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z On the bottoms lie the incredible refuse of the sea, shells broken and chipped and bits of skeleton, claws, the whole sea bottom a fantastic cemetery on which the living scamper and scramble. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z More likely the two older boys discovered that their five-year-old victim did not mind the excursion; that far from struggling and shrieking, he merely gazed at the skeleton with cool appreciation. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z In the United States, he’d put himself through two years of chiropractic school, and now ran a small office in Birmingham with a human skeleton he was still paying for in installments. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z They were typically skeletons of colossal, extinct versions of animals that were still in existence at the very same locations where the fossils had been discovered. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z Only a professional, using a specialized "skeleton key," could have turned that lock, Gordievsky thought. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z Only two skeletons showed clear marks of violence. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Among the skeletons, two survivors stared up at the curving hull of the Current with sunken eyes. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z The god struggled, flinging the dead aside, breaking off ribs and skulls, but the skeletons kept coming, pinning the god’s arms. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z I heard the clattering, hissing sounds of skeletons as they came closer. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z When he registered that they were together in a giant’s bed with a skeleton cat, he looked more confused than ever. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z And lots of things I’ve collected: shells, rocks, a tiny glass elephant, a blackened old skeleton key my grandmother found in a chest but which unlocks nothing. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z The skeleton inside didn’t worry him, he found, partly because he was expecting it, and anyway he’d seen worse than that. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z Then he realized it was one of the skeleton’s own ribs. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z One morning she had me traipsing out at the crack of dawn for prickly poppy, toadflax, spiderwort, and skeleton weed. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z I wanted to know about the skeleton key, the last remaining memento from the Lucky Bill cigar box. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z The deputy examined the puny little chess book as if he was expecting to find a false compartment and a skeleton key. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z As stunned as I was by the angels, I was more concerned with the skeletons. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z Werfel’s voice echoed around the rocks and stones and cliffs, over the skeletons of the fallen dead. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z Measurements have now been made of many series of skeletons. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Studies of ancient skeletons indicate that the transition to agriculture brought about a plethora of ailments, such as slipped discs, arthritis and hernias. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z He strides down Aleppo Way, passing the scorched skeletons of trees along the street. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z She was a very fat and lively puppy when she was struck down, but five days of fever reduced her to a little skin-covered skeleton. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z When elephants encounter the skeleton of an elephant out in the open, they methodically take up each of the bones and distribute them, in a ponderous ceremony, over neighboring acres. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z I glue the bones to a block of wood, arranging the skeleton like a museum exhibit. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z I knew the skeleton warriors were still chasing me. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z Researchers conducted a battery of scientific tests, including radiocarbon dating to determine the skeleton's age. Experts find remains of England's King Richard III 2013-02-04T14:07:03Z Around Halloween, a couple of full-size skeletons were stationed at the bar. A Welcome Return to Fancy (but Not Fussy) Dining, at Francie 2021-11-16T05:00:00Z The act of eating was accompanied by reminders of mortality, and symbols of skeletons were sometimes used to decorate feasting cups, and dining rooms themselves. Stuffed Dormouse and Fish Gut Sauce: The Flavors of Pompeii 2019-08-07T04:00:00Z Head hung down combatively, the first model sported a fierce, minimalist black body suit with white lines — both like a skeleton and a cutting pattern. Dior reimagines feminist fashion in history in Paris show 2022-03-01T05:00:00Z "If you had broken into my heart," one Spokane man says, "you could have looked inside and seen the thin white skeletons of one thousand salmon." Blasphemy: New and Selected Stories by Sherman Alexie – review 2013-01-10T12:00:01Z The work that made the greatest impression was the “Cart of Death”, an elaborate float pulled by black buffaloes, with skeletons popping out of their tombs whenever the grim procession stopped to chant a dirge. Monsters and merry mayhem 2015-01-29T05:00:00Z As he delivered the lines, those skeletons did in fact propel jumps -- as well as bounces, finger-points and vocal chanting. Made in America L.A.: Day 1 sizzles, Top Dawg claims throne 2014-08-31T04:00:00Z So was the fleet of hooks for the skeleton door key, which eliminated the parlor game of Which Pocket? Affirmative: The Charlotte Hotel’s a delight Williams’s account of the trial of a rogue fossil hunter who tried to sell a T-rex skeleton unfurls into a story of science going up against commercialism, ambition and politics. New in Paperback: Rebecca Traister’s ‘Good and Mad’ and Tina Turner’s ‘My Love Story’ 2019-09-24T04:00:00Z Written in the late 1980s, in terse staccato prose, that list is the skeleton key to the rest of her work. A New Story Collection and a Memoir by Lucia Berlin, Patron Saint of Soulful Cool 2018-12-04T05:00:00Z Mr. Noisette said the themes were “a skeleton” that allowed him to weave together images from ballet, contemporary dance and fashion shows and to juxtapose different epochs and innovations. Couture Creations for Dancing Bodies 2020-01-01T05:00:00Z The Mexican artist Orozco is known for many kinds of work: drawings on skulls and whale skeletons, moulded clay hearts, his photographic series and games with objects. 2013 visual art preview: Manet's portraits and Lowry reappraised 2012-12-30T19:45:02Z |
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