His anger pulsed its way through my skin and squeezed my heart. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

The Fallohides were fairer of skin and also of hair, and they were taller and slimmer than the others; they were lovers of trees and of woodlands. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

So the day had passed very long and lonely and his blood was full and coursing under his skin. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

When he fell skinning the cat on the monkey bars, it was Mia he ran crying for, and Mia who dabbed the gash on his temple with iodine and stuck a bandage across it. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

The sails themselves were not canvas at all, but solar sheets, designed to feed electricity into the system and add to the power available already from roof skin solar cells. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

Brekker’s touch burned like brimstone—a single brush of his bare skin caused your flesh to wither and die. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

I rubbed the soap on a rag and scrubbed my skin until it burned. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were no longer the brown of desert-tanned skin, and neither were they the gray of grime and sickly babies. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Tornait ran over her skins, flitted to her head and shoulders, and sang when she sang. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

I didn’t want to think about anything, so I thought about how the wind was needling through my clothes to my skin. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

“You have to let it dry and get a bit of a skin before you can paint it,” he said. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

The water feels cool and soft on my skin, slowly peeling away the layers of grime that has collected. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Leo tried to speak, but he was about to crawl out of his skin with panic. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

It would be getting so hot that my skin would start to get blisters. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

You can barely find it, because the folds of skin hide the opening. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

The noise of the crowd entered his body from the air, through his skin, into his bloodstream where it burned and cooled at the same time. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

It sends fear right over my skin and leaves me shivering, even in this heat. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z

I could smell her next to me, the sweat and the algae from the moat, her shampoo like lilacs, and the smell of her skin like crushed almonds. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

His skin was darker than in the picture in the mobile home’s living room. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

His skin had become swollen and puffy, burning with a fiery itch. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

But Portia’s skin was very light when compared to her Father’s. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

He steals glances instead, watching the way the light falls over her skin. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

His skin was so sallow and dry, he looked like an old rattlesnake. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

Then Clove begins to transform, her face elongating into a snout, dark fur sprouting from her skin, her fingernails growing into long claws, but her eyes remain unchanged. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Have you been crying? You know how that ages your skin, dear.” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Under the skin of dreaming, they both knew that dawn was near, and that their embrace could not survive it. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

It seems the crevices run deeper into her body each time I see her, that her wooden skin ages before my eyes. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

But that he had done things far worse, and the effects were everywhere in the cloudless sky, on the dry brown hills, shrinking skin and hide taut over sharp bone. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

The music crawls through my bones, seeps real deep into my skin. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

Jack had knocked Hazel off first and she’d skinned her knee on the concrete, bright red like a berry. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

I killed and skinned as many meerkats as would fit in the locker and on the floor of the lifeboat. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

She was the night wolf, no scraps of skin could frighten her. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

They resemble each other: both are red haired, fair skinned, though Gachet is much older. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

I think the stories were probably true, given the color of Cade’s hair, his blue eyes, and the paleness of his skin. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

Bits of skin still peeled from his toes because of the two days he had spent in wet shoes and socks. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

Let us be dissatisfied until men and women, however black they may be, will be judged on the basis of the content of their character, not on the basis of the color of their skin. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

At night I would run my left hand over the rough, scabby surface of the skin that wasn’t covered by the bandage. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

In three-way mirrors at department stores, I’d see my profile dramatically defined by a long nose, but it was really only the color of my skin that caught my attention. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

He also knew that many people living on the wrong side of the “great epi divide” had brown or black skin and were female. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

Amari could still smell the sweetness of the pineapple her mother had cut from its rough skin and sliced for the breakfast meal that morning. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

Since I’m always outside in the Texas sun, my skin is real dark. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

I think of my Liars burning, in their last few minutes, breathing smoke, their skin alight. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

We boil potatoes with their skins, so we won’t waste a thing, and eat them with butter and salt. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

Leaping out of the skin, he ran off into the bush, to be pursued by the angry shouts of the baboons. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

He wore his hair in a buzz cut, and you could see shiny lumps and crinkles in the skin of his scalp. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

My mom had lost so much skin you could see her teeth even when her mouth was closed. Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

In modern times, a small difference in skin colour, dialect or religion has been enough to prompt one group of Sapiens to set about exterminating another group. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

And when he’d skin a knee or bump his head, if I was around he would not stop crying until I bestowed a magic kiss on the injury, after which he’d miraculously recover. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

She tore a fiber from the skin, threaded her needle, and began to stitch the mitten. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

She winced as his claws dug deeper, stabbing through her dress and poking holes in her skin. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

I picked up the syringe, grasped a fold of Fig’s flesh high on the neck, and pinched firmly, tenting the skin. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

The feathers were so well attached that when I started pulling them out, skin came off—I was not plucking the bird; I was tearing it apart. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

Some of the monkeys that were dying in Room H had become essentially a heap of mush and bones in a skin bag, mixed with huge amounts of amplified virus. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

They had nut-brown skin, dappled like a deer’s with paler spots, and large ears that could hear things that no man could hear. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Ms. Burns looked at them, her face both cloudy and sunny, her skin absent of her normal brown. Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z

Some demons stole the skins of men and wore them like clothes, but even they were not the worst. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Even in her expert hands, it takes a long time to clean the wounds, arrange what shredded skin can be saved, apply a salve and a light bandage. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

I got skin the color of night, and I’m proud of it.. The Misfits 2001-10-01T00:00:00Z

I’d never noticed what kind of skin I had so I figured this would be a good test. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mayor Barry Trent stepped up to the podium, and he gripped both sides of it, hard enough that Moss could see the whites of his knuckles on his already pale skin. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

He lifted his shirt to wipe the sweat off his face, giving me, along with every other girl present, a glimpse of skin. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

“Doesn’t matter who you are, what side you’re on. It’s still sad, no matter what kind of uniform you wear or the color of your skin. It’s still sad.” In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z

He’d offered her a slug of whiskey, then simply hacked away at the skin, leaving a puckered spill of wounds down her forearm. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

He studied as that skin thickened, and deformed, and resolved, shaping itself as inevitably as a fetus growing eyes, growing ears. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

He looks worse now—as if all the color has been stripped from his skin. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

She loved the way Claire’s hand felt in hers, how her skin could sometimes feel like the softest, most electric thing that Maya had ever touched. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

But Ms. G. kept drilling into my head that it didn’t matter where I came from or the color of my skin. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

The man was gazing at him with an amused smile that made him conscious of every square inch of skin on his black body. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

He had the copper skin and dark almond eyes of a Dothraki, but his face was hairless and he wore the spiked bronze cap of the Unsullied. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

She was funny, sassy, and head-turningly pretty, with creamy brown skin, long straight hair, and a perky, pierced nose. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Their bodies are somewhat idealized: less hairy than they really were, the muscle groups in higher definition, the skin luminous. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

But Claudette’s hair wouldn’t stay straight or flat no matter how long she pressed it, and her skin was very dark. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

Wordlessly, her skin buzzing where the medallion radiated heat, she pulled the chain over her head and held it out to him. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

She has reddish-blond hair tied back in a low, messy tail, and a smattering of freckles across her pale skin. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

She wanted out of her cold socks, out of the damp wool sweater that was prickly against her skin. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

I could still see the edge of her striped dress poking out from under the pile of her skin. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

He opened it, raised his hand above it, fingers stretched taut, and again a mysterious icy stone appeared, just below the old man’s skin. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

Skim milk, crusts, middlings, bits of doughnuts, wheat cakes with drops of maple syrup sticking to them, potato skins, leftover custard pudding with raisins, and bits of Shredded Wheat. Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z

“It feels pleasant on my skin,” I lied. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

People said that she tanned hides so soft that they felt to the skin like the slippery velvet that the traders sold. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

A younger man stood beside him in a mangy cape made from a lion’s skin, his face framed by the big cat’s mouth. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Sticking out like evil litde pins on a rounded cushion of raw skin were several quills, deeply imbedded. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Stooping and harvesting tomatoes, she tries to settle her nerves by escaping into the safety of memories, when her skin was smooth as milky tea, her hair black as a crow's wing. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

We rushed to the hospital and they took care of it, but my skin had a weird reaction to the bite, and that’s how it healed up—with that scar.” As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

She looked so young in those pictures—her skin taut, her face thin. Turtles All the Way Down 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

In any case, there they hang, their backs and mouths stiff, their breasts constricted, their faces pinched, their caps starched, their skin grayish white, guarding the room with their narrowed eyes. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

They would put the used bandage off to the side, wadded and covered with smears of blood and yellow stuff and little pieces of burned skin. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

They have a soda fountain countertop, with stools along it topped in acid lime-green, and vinyl-padded booths in a shade of shiny purple that looks like the skin of an early shark-finned convertible. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Then she turned to stare at me with her sharp green eyes and twisted the parasol she always carried to protect her daisy-petal skin. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

I held it closer to my face, trying to see the hidden facets in his skin. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

You gotta chat about something or be bored out of your skin, so we pretty much talked about everything. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

It is not easy giving a horse a drink out of a skin bottle, but Bree and Hwin were clever with their lips. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z

I wince as she gently touches the inflamed red skin, and she mumbles an apology at my reaction. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

“Hello, Finnick,” I say, just as casually, although I’m feeling uncomfortable at his closeness, especially since he’s got so much bare skin exposed. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

She dragged her finger down, splitting the skin on Hazel’s face. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

"Your Majesties! Queen Susan! King Edmund!" said a voice: and when Shasta turned to look at the speaker he nearly jumped out of his skin with surprise. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z

She took a jagged breath, one that erased the feeling of their blood on her skin. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

“You look so lovely, my dear. Don’t let the sun spoil that skin of yours.” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

The Spackle pulls himself slowly upright from where he’s skinning the fish. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

Fingers burning, I stripped the hot skin off potatoes in silence, swallowing hurt and resentment with the same outward resignation that Gladys manifested. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

In the bright light, his skin’s a pale, sickly green. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

Her skin crawled at the thought of Håkon drowning, and she shook her head harder. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

A scalding pain spread through my shoulder as his dagger cut into my skin. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

The way she says it makes my skin crawl. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

His skin was surprisingly hot, and she wondered if she’d kissed him properly as she pulled away and found his eyes bright and wide. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

His skin was pale and his blond hair looked almost gray, as if he’d aged ten years in just a few months. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

As she walks away, I still feel her Ups on my skin. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

But that doesn't prevent me from feeling the sharp stab of pain as the needle inserts the metal tracking device deep under the skin on the inside of my forearm. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

I imagine myself naked in the moonlight, my skin turned as silvery as the leaves above us. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

It burned off my clothes and would have burned off my skin, dark though it was, had I not protected it beneath blankets and propped-up turtle shells. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

You could see Father’s skin crawl when he heard the name of his archenemy, the chief. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

The veins in her neck and forehead protrude so much they’re fighting to break through her skin. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

I felt his body and it was burning hot, the skin dry and stretched. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

Boys pride themselves on their drab clothing, their drooping socks, their smeared and inky skin: dirt, for them, is almost as good as wounds. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

When her ice house was completed and her skins were spread over the floor, she sat down and took out the totem of Amaroq. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Cold air slipped through the window sash and cut across my skin like razor blades. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

Then Macklin skinned and butchered the dogs for meat and brought them back to camp. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

She took his arm and rubbed her finger on his skin. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

She waited until the man felt the knife point before she jabbed it skillfully, about a quarter of an inch through his shirt into the skin. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her skin—uncomfortably hot before—was now clammy, and the bottoms of her feet were tingling the way they did when she sat cross-legged too long. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

The flayed man was the sigil of House Bolton, Theon knew; ages past, certain of their lords had gone so far as to cloak themselves in the skins of dead enemies. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Tucked into her bodice, the makeshift knife poked her skin. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Now the precise outlines of her skull show through the skin of her face, presaging death. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

I can see other blue veins just under the skin of her forearms and wrists. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

Alex watches Henry’s face in quarter profile, the slight pain that moves under his skin, but he shakes it off quickly and takes Alex’s hand back up. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Peeta genuinely seems to enjoy this station, swirling a combination of mud and clay and berry juices around on his pale skin, weaving disguises from vines and leaves. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

Flowered china bowls skinned with half-eaten soup sat on a dusty tablecloth, the spoons still in them. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

With her fair skin and dulcet West Virginia accent, Katherine might have occupied a fluid racial middle ground, easing her acceptance at the center. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

When I draw it, I’m going to make my skin see-through and what you’ll see is that all the animals in the zoo of me have broken out of their cages. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

His skin didn’t feel like iron, but it would explain how he’d held out so long against the gorgons. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

It matters that she feels the sun on her skin. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

The raft shot out of the tram, through a small cloud of mist that felt cool on my skin, and into a hole cut into the smooth exterior of Isihlangu. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

I could see a mattress on the floor and brown skin, but I couldn't make out what part of her body it was. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

The student who is not a girl and the professor who is not a man are considered strange; the first has an unfortunate skin condition, the second a nervous stammer. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

She wears Amity yellow instead of red, and it glows against her skin. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

She shoves a gag in my mouth, and then the knife is burning, searing, carving a path through my skin. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

On the third day, Jamie drops me off and goes back home while I paint a woman with milky-white skin and even whiter hair. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

She dug a niche in the side of a heave with her man’s knife, folded her ground skin into an envelope, and pushed it into the cave. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

They showed this one snake slipping out of its old skin and then leaving that old skin on the ground behind him. Miracle's Boys 2000-04-23T00:00:00Z

It was a delicate process because I didn't want to flay the skin off my fingers. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You look gorgeous. Poor Mike’s going to have no idea what to do with all that skin. I can picture him fumbling around, trying to figure out where to put his hands.” Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

The palms of his hand were hot and throbbing, and the skin had come off one of his knuckles. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

I was intimately familiar with what it felt like to have a barrel of a gun dig into my skin. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

He took off the soft black hat and held it in his hand and the gray hair glistened wetly, and the band of white skin at the forehead shone in the light. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The familiar passion that always accompanies the touch of his skin against hers washes over Celia and she can no longer resist it, no longer wants to. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

The Queen’s eyes were almost entirely black now; only a thin rim of gold encircled her pupils, and a chill was spreading over her skin like frost. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Nose, chin, cheekbones, forehead, neck all had surrendered their identity to the pleats and crochetwork of skin committed to constant change. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

My armor, my skin, my mask, my hair. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

The feeling of Luke’s knuckles against his skin. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

He wore an animal skin over his tunic as a sign of his profession. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

Both sides of his head were sheared almost down to the skin. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

I visited the famous Casbah, the ghetto which had resulted when the ruling white French wouldn’t let the dark- skinned natives into certain areas of Casablanca. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I never suspected myself of such an imagination. Black hair, blue eyes, and white skin! What a strange man, and yet—quite handsome.” The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

Big dark eyes popped out of a head that was a layer of skin away from being a skull. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

She caught his hand with hers and held it to her cheek, skin to skin. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

I want to go back to the house and up to the bathroom and scrub and scrub, with the harsh soap and the pumice, to get every trace of this smell off my skin. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’m very aware of our proximity to each other, as if I could feel the ghost of his presence against my skin. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Up close like this, I can see that her skin is smooth and clear except for two freckles on her right cheek, and her eyes are a gray-green that makes me think of fall. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

He was in his late twenties, blond, with fair, almost waxen, skin. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

His touch was feather-light, stroking my skin with a kind of reverence, but the instant his lips found mine again, a single thought was enough to rocket me out of the honey-sweet haze. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

It was as though she had got into the texture of his skin. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

And the odd thing was the brown part of his skin was as wrinkled and creased and folded-up as a hunnert-year-old saddle, while the white part was smooth as a baby’s behind. The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z

I took a deeper breath, reached out, and pinched the spotted old skin on her lifeless forearm. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

A playful fall, or a nick in his skin—even a bumpy horse ride—could precipitate disaster. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

At first, we tried grabbing the hands, but the skin’s fingers flopped like they were holding our hands and I squeaked like a scared mouse. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

The sinking sun made it glisten like the skin of a beautiful snake. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

They can barely touch my patchwork of skin for fear of hurting me, so I rinse and dry off myself. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

“Your neck,” I say, the pool light brightening her skin. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

Even more amazing: We change the upper layers of our skin every two weeks. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

Spikes popped in and out of the skin; its remaining arms swung around in mass confusion, at times impaling its own body. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

The priest came in—a graying, aging man with an old skin and a young sharp eye. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

My nose had been cut almost clean off my face as I went through the rear windscreen and now it was hanging on only by a single small thread of skin. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

Its eyes and teeth were a dull yellow, its skin pale and blotched with dark spots, its hair a long, matted nest. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

I stood in front of one of the store mirrors pondering my skin color. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

"A hundred golden dragons to the man who brings me its skin!" A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

The nerve endings exploded into shivers on his skin. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z

Sunlight clattering from her skin caused men and women to shield their eyes. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

To do this job well you had to be fearless, know how to talk to people, have thick skin and a high tolerance for stress. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

We’ve already got the whole world hating us because of our skin. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z

“Someone else was in the raven,” he told Lord Brynden, once he had returned to his own skin. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

My blue chair is pulled up close to the table, allowing me to at least rest my handcuffed arm along it; it feels cool against my aching skin. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

The black skin glistened with water, the white markings so defined they looked painted by an artist. The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Being mistreated because of the color of your skin, your size, or having to prove that it really happened. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Mama would laugh and rub cocoa butter on our skin to keep it from drying out. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

She’s got black, black hair and a tight white little face, as if her skin’s a size too small. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ugwu examined the faces around him, all of them thinner, all with a deep exhaustion etched on their skin, even the children. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

She can feel the sun against her skin and the bark of the tree beneath her fingers. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

And while the madwoman was accustomed to a bit of discomfort, the movement of the paper wings was having an effect on her skin. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

It cut like a razor into his fingers, tore into the skin so deeply he had to let go. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

Grandma said they were all the colors of God's rainbow, a tapestry that made me feel that skin color should not be the measure of one's value. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

His bones were clearly outlined and the wrap of his arms was flat, in a way that would be impossible if he had some flesh underneath the skin. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

It was probably best that the bloom was separated by my T-shirt and not against my skin. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

Only a few shades separated their skin color. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

She let her mother relax her hair and oil up her skin with cocoa butter. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

He carried it over to the skin and poured the water out in a huge wave, washing the rest of the salt away. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

Harpo so black he think she bright, but she ain’t that bright Clear medium brown skin, gleam on it like on good furniture. The Color Purple 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

They gather these pieces in peach baskets that they pass from hand to hand, not minding their torn gloves, torn skin. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

DuShawn: Girl, you are a funny kind of color-blind, You see the color of my skin but you don’t see anything else about me. The Misfits 2001-10-01T00:00:00Z

Her hair, unburned, was wild once more, still crackling with the fire’s kinesis, and Sarai knew that if she touched it, it would feel like a bed of coals, and so would her bare skin. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

"I always wore gloves. You got to understand—gardening ages your skin faster than a month of sunbathing. Not that that matters now," he said wryly, studying his wrinkled hands. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

If not for the tightness of Booth’s boot, which forms an immediate splint, the bone would be poking through the skin. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

Rubbing at the raw skin on his wrists, Cole followed. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

Rubbing their backsides and scowling, Jack and Sarah looked around to find themselves surrounded by stubby creatures with gray skin and pointed ears. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

Horace Danver got up to speak, and I saw a flash of skin as he sauntered down the aisle in his blue flannel shirt. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z

I suddenly felt very small, as if my skin was tightening and I was actually shrinking. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

I didn’t think my skin could get any redder than it was, but I was pretty sure I had started glowing like a protostar about to undergo its first burst of fusion. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

The grocer, tall, skinny Mr. Waylan, with his Adam’s apple sticking out above his collar, his fish- belly blue-white skin and oversized fingernails, was the white man I saw most often. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The police arrest you—or worse—just because of the color of your skin, I do not call that liberty and—” “Miss Carle—” “Ms. Wyman, I will not utter empty words, falsehoods, and lies.” The Misfits 2001-10-01T00:00:00Z

At St. Jude School, the nuns had taught Mary Louise and her siblings to respect all people regardless of their skin color, and she did. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

The skin of his arms was pale and dull, as if it would crumble if Anya touched it. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

No cow would dare to wander into these fields and eat the plants, as the thorns at the edge would tear into her skin. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

I remembered his eyes, the way he’d looked at me, and my skin felt suddenly hot and electric. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

Marshall, normally quiet, had told me that the guards respected him because he hadn’t testified against the cop to save his own skin. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was funny because his skin tasted of salt when my lips finally reached his cheek. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

It is an African insect that burrows under the skin of the feet. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Diegos skin pressed against mine as he kissed my lips and my neck, lingering only long enough in one spot to make me want more. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

When the cold wind touched her skin, she shivered violently. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“Well, actually, a lot. I’m Piper. This is Jason. We—” “Where’s your lion skin?” The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

She was afraid of the Dothraki, whose ways seemed alien and monstrous, as if they were beasts in human skins and not true men at all. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

The girls have breasts and a drowsy, powdery, hot-day smell; the skin of their faces is slippery-looking, slick with oily juice. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe my eyes were deceiving me, but I swear the skin of his upper torso was covered with patches of green moss. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

Because I had pants and a coat and even gloves with only two fingers worn to skin, all clothes we found were passed on to the others. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

Ammu flew through her dream on heavy, shuddering wings, and stopped to rest, just under the skin of it. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

I sit, in the dark, touching the necklace, feeling the love inside it heating my skin, warming my heart. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

My skin is darker than even the paintings of African queens hanging in tourist shops, same paintings my mom would buy so she could hang on her bedroom walls. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Her skin becomes yellowish, aged, and hangs loose from her bones. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He realized that something had left him, like the old skin that a snake sheds. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z

The entrance was covered with curtains of scaly reptile skin, and flanking the entrance, two torches made from colossal femur bones burned bright yellow. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

I peel back the layers and finally get to Lev's skin. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

He could skin a bear, repair a watch, build a house, bake a cake, darn a sock, or catch a trout with a bent pin and a piece of string. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had the Mexican going on for sure: brown skin and thick brown hair that was lighter than Mom’s but darker than Dad’s and that I usually wore in two braids. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

All the other men were skin and bones. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

The third one felt like carnivorous dinosaur skin and I would be eaten alive. Mockingbird 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

I drew detailed pictures of food—steaming chicken with crispy, glazed skin, bowls of plums, apple cakes with crumbling crusts. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

It was a portrait, but the subject had no skin. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

The nothing greeted her hungrily—swirling around her, pulling at her, whipping at her skin. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

The baby was bom with a coating of moonlight stuck to her skin, and she was named Soledad. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

To bite down hard, chew up the core and have the taste of red apple skin to carry around for the rest of my life. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

He’s wearing tracksuit bottoms and a stained grey T-shirt, his hair is greasy, his skin slick, as though with fever. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

On the shelves were the books bound in a cardboard-like material, pale, like tanned human skin, and the manuscripts were intact. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

It was a rasping nervous wind, and the dust particles cut into a man’s skin and burned his eyes. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Just looking at it made my skin crawl, but I hadn’t come halfway around the world just to run away screaming at the sight of a scary house. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

"I liked the trend of darker skin and light eyes; will that be back in fashion?" The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

Even guys with dark skin like me could blush. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

With Eliot’s help the newspapers were crushed with all the peels and seeds and skins inside them. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

Otto pressed himself hard against my bare skin, his soft little cheek rubbing against my shoulder. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

Jessie had sand in all the places where her skin rubbed together: between her toes, behind her ears, and between the cheeks of her bottom. The Lemonade War 2007-04-23T00:00:00Z

But when my skin meets his, cold lances through me, and I gasp and jerk away. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

A raw skinning wind like a million trolls howling. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

The sister’s cheek patches were bright, and across the cheekbones the pink skin met the white in a precise straight line. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Jamie puts his hand against my back—my skin buzzes—and he leads me in front of him. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Except when I opened my eyes again, the bruise was still there, and it ached even more than the pale crescents my nails had made in my skin. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

He soaped and rubbed her until her skin squeaked and glistened like onyx. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

Worse, his normally brown skin had faded to dull gray, like he’d been underground for months. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

Robin had brown skin and black curly hair that was cut above her shoulders, which she pulled back with a wide headband. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

The barrel of a gun presses to my temple, a cold circle against my skin. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

All I want is to go home, and start scrubbing the deep-seated impurities of the Congo out of my skin. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

If you bleed into the third space, you bleed into the space between the skin and the flesh. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Scratched his arms like maybe the water bears were crawling in the crevices of his dry skin and he didn't know because he couldn't see them. Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z

"If they've let the boys escape, I'll have more than a little skin off their back this time, I swear it." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

After that came a layer of Molyneux’s Italian Paste to make her skin white as bleached linen. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her skin was the same color as my brown silk hat my mother had made me for my birthday. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

On this wagon was a sack, holding 30,000 gallons of wine, and consisting of leopards’ skins sewn together. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z

And I myself preferred not to see him in strong sunshine, for his pale, membranic skin was no barrier to the light, which pierced deep into the flesh and illumined it to a hideous translucency. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was so anxious I was starting to feel it in my gut and crawling up and down my skin. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

I try to bend over with the pain of it but he’s still holding on to my shirtfront and the skin below. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

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

I also don’t really like to shake people’s hands, sit close enough to touch someone else, or feel other people’s breath on my skin. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

Handing over a rebar sometimes meant ripping skin from one’s palms and fingers. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

His gray hair was slicked back on his head, and his skin was red, like he’d spent too much time in the sun. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

“Ah!” he screamed, feeling more of the rock scrape against his bare skin. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

Then, she just shuffled out of her skin, like it was a winter coat that got too hot to wear. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

Their brown-polish-on-black-suede skins wrapped not just dogs' bodies, but something else too, something that needs to kill. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

The sky seemed to embrace him, for the wind blew around him as if coating him with a new skin. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

Those who spied drops of him on their limbs or torsoes drew back with terror and revulsion, as though trying to shrink away from their own odious skins. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

The tips of his fingers graze my jeans, searing imaginary marks in my skin. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

Now, husbandless in this new neighborhood, my skin glows like a bare bulb. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

White-hot knives were piercing every inch of his skin, his head was surely going to burst with pain, he was screaming more loudly than he’d ever screamed in his life — And then it stopped. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

Instantly, I felt fire as the salt stung the scratches on my skin. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

His head still hurt, and his skin felt hot. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

Her skin was damp with sweat at all the places where Beto lay curled against her, roasting her with the heat of his small body. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

Commanded me to skin the impala and bring the meat down to the village. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her cheeks are now hollow, her skin hangs on her bones, and her eyes are dulled with hunger. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

In Clark’s journals, he wrote that many Native Americans were fascinated with York’s dark skin, his hair, his big frame. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

The skin is pinkish gray, close to the color of a white person. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I jammed my finger into an open pocket in the seam, wiggled it until the tape split, and the flowery paper fell away like a snake shedding its skin. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

The energy blade cut into its metal skin as if it were tofu, slicing the mech into two halves. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

People were standing over them cooking hot dogs on sticks and what looked like skinned possum or some other source of protein not usually found in butcher shops. Lawn Boy Returns 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s like Dad’s and Trey’s skin tones are a magic reflector. Black Brother, Black Brother 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

Every inch of my skin had tingled as I tried to process what I had just seen, if any of it had actually happened—if any of it might actually happen. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

Smaller pictures, some Polaroids of a woman, her skin dark and smooth, her teeth bright white. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

When one woman asked her, in an accusing tone, “What cream do you use on your face? How can one person have this kind of perfect skin?” Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

She wore jeans, a cream-colored jacket, and a white shirt that made her skin look as warm as cocoa. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

Kaz felt like he was about to climb out of his skin. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

In the center of everything, there’s a really big photo with Quinton and Maria crouching down beside a short elf with a head full of dark leaves and skin like mottled tree bark. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

But he forgets to cover his head, and the buckle strikes hair and skin and bone. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

His skin was the colour of wheat toast. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Du Barry clutches my shoulders, her red-tipped nails digging into skin and bone. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

As he peers at his reflection, I catch myself studying Nelson: his elbows darkened by use, his skin many tones of brown, like antique mahogany furniture. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

His skin was slick with sweat, and his eyes were drunken and glazed. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

They plunged down to him, wriggling their skins and yawning. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

Holly Short had nut-brown skin, cropped auburn hair, and hazel eyes. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

“Give me his name. Point him out to me, boy, and I will make you a cloak of his skin.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

I can’t see anything scandalous, just a quick glimpse of the skin at his throat. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

Fear prickled every inch of Seven’s skin as the cuco, which was now very much on fire, growled and snapped just inches from their heads. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

“The point is that being a minority isn’t only about the color of your skin or your religion. It’s about not fitting in, being on the outside.” The Misfits 2001-10-01T00:00:00Z

She has skin that fits and friends and Dad and The Sweetwine Gift and gills and fins in addition to lungs and feet. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

Everyone else seemed to be able to see skin color just fine. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

The only relief I had was the few moments each day when I could pinch and squeeze and knead the reservoirs of blood and pus from under my skin. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

Some went so far as to wear black gloves and socks so that not a bit of skin was showing. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

A dresser with navy-blue paint peeling off like the skin on someone’s nose after they’d been in the sun too long. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

He presses a needle into the soft, thin skin inside my left forearm and sloppily tattoos a number: A28865. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

There drummers who sounded the advance and retreat across the battlefields thumped upon the skins of their raucous instruments, judging the quality of the attack. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

She was her mother’s daughter, born darker skinned than Joe would probably ever be. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

The other had skin as smooth and black as polished jet, wide dark eyes, small pointed breasts. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

"Then tote the message yourself. It's no skin off my ear if you never get back alive." The Whipping Boy 1986-04-01T00:00:00Z

Unspoken things have arisen between Helene and me, things that have to do with how I feel when I see her bare skin and her awkwardness when I tell her I worry for her. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

Goosebumps rose on my skin and my body shook slightly. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

Her smile was bright, her dark brown skin was luminescent, and even her twisted hair seemed to hold a slight, nearly imperceptible hint of gold in its depths. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

Matt saw high security fences in the distance, and his heart sank.The air was foul, the temperature broiling, and the humidity so high that his jumpsuit clung to his body like a second skin. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were wet to the skin and all were scared. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

Beneath the light of the sky lanterns, her skin glows the color of warm honey. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

And she don’t have to remind them that I’m dark skinned. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

Their skin was sunstroke red —covered with tattoos of dragons, hearts, and bikini-clad women. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

He stayed no longer, but took his heartache home, and found the robust suitors there at work, skinning goats and roasting pigs in the courtyard. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was sharper than he had expected, and it nicked the skin of his finger. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

“No, they didn’t. New skin, big deal. And in three months we can laugh about this. Unless...” Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

"My skin is getting old and doesn't take color well anymore, can you fix that?" The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

It slashed at his arm, splitting his skin. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

Why was there no hemoglobin in his eye or his skin—even though eye cells and skin cells and, indeed, every cell in the human body possessed identical copies of the same gene? The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

I watch his eyes, taking in my skin, my face, my eyes. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

Its orange skin matched the color of the coral in his nose. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

She kissed his forehead as she’d done before, and where her lips touched, a red light burst out of his skin. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

She is tiny and pretty and smells like baby’s skin. The House on Mango Street 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

By the time I dipped my feet into the water, it was so dark and murky, my skin was dirtier than before I had washed. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

When she had a pile of seven, Stella gutted and skinned and cleaned the rabbits as unconcernedly as she had denuded and disemboweled the roosters. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Their skin was the color of a smoldering ember, red-veined with fire. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Even with his skin ashy, his legs and arms too thin, he’s still handsome. Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z

She had a face like a dinner roll and blancmange-colored skin, and ruled by wheedling. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

He’s got dark skin and permanent whiskers on his face. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

Ernie stopped short, pinching madly at the skin on his forehead. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

Jon twisted from the knife, just enough so it barely grazed his skin. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The water, when it came, was only lukewarm, but Selmy lingered in the bath until it had grown cold and scrubbed his skin till it was raw. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

It was still too short, bare golden fuzz over skin that showed cuts and bruises from his last fight in Hellgate. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

They didn’t seem concerned about spending hours lying in the sun, because their olive skin only burnished and became more radiant, while mine either freckled or fried. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

David has his dad’s gray-blue eyes and his mom’s deep-golden-brown skin. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

He is the grubbiest person I have ever seen, his skin dark with the dirt of years it seems. Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z

So she hardened her skin against the wind, her blood against the cold, her heart against the despairing sky. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

On that day, I realized it didn't matter how I saw myself, because other people saw my skin color. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

But I could tell I was getting under her skin. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

Heat’s rising off his skin and an overpowering man smell too. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

That was my life, all that dead skin. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

On my way back to the living room, I feel a rush of fresh air envelop my skin. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

She looked at her rags and stained skin, and she couldn’t suppress the twinge of shame. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

It made my eyes burn, my skin crawl, and my hair stand on end. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

“Bernard! How can you?” the passage of an old woman with ophthalmia and a disease of the skin distracted her from her indignation. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

Beneath the dusty, bristly skin I felt her warmth, but no heartbeat. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

I nodded, finally, my insides still squirming with revulsion at the memory of his skin against mine. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

"My daughter's been responsible for setting a few unnatural beauty trends among the younger courtiers. That terrible blip with the sea-blue skin tone, and the trend where courtiers matched their teacup pets." The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

If Jerome had told the truth, and fiends had pink eyes and pale skin and evil, wrinkled hearts, then these men and women surrounding William now were, without any question, fiends. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

Just to be on the safe side, keep this in mind for the future: If you think Jeffrey is looking at all yellow, in his skin tone or around the eyes, bring him in immediately. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her hand stung where the skin had been scraped, and there was blood trickling down her ripped pajama leg from her knee. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

She was wearing rubber gloves to keep this chemical relaxer off her own skin, which should have been my first clue that maybe this wasn’t such a great idea. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Her mother had filled in some of the blanks about her father’s childhood, including how he’d been mistreated because of his skin tone and his family’s poverty. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

The Queen extended her hand, and when Kaede took it, the skin was dry as paper. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

By the time they finished, the terrible lumps on Felicia’s head had disappeared, and her skin was as smooth as the pink lining of a conch. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was sallow and overweight and had a style of kvetching that got under the skin of many officers. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

She rolled up her denim sleeves, revealing that the skin of her arms was scaly and green. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

I took the knife and skinned it instead. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

One day I noticed there was no more skin to absently peel, just air where there’d been artifice. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

His voice was soft—and she realized he wasn’t staring at the amount of skin she was showing, but rather the bandage wrapped around her thigh. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

All I can think about is his nearness, his dark eyes, his breath stirring against my skin. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

They summoned her back now with the palms of their small hands laid flat against the bare skin of her midriff. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

I push the color down into her skin. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

A squabble of costumed microraptors burst out of the doorway first, followed by Mapper, his glasses all smoked over and his dark skin smudged with ashes. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

My skin thrills at the familiar scent of him. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

He himself stood there bare-chested, his skin as pale as the moon, which was hanging in the sky right above Elinor’s house as if it, too, had turned up especially for Dustfinger’s show. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

“Removed some skin, I would imagine. A few small parts. Nothing too essential.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

But in America, my skin color did define me, at least in other people’s eyes. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

No hair and no next of skin, and who’s to succeed to the throne? The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Anger sits just beneath my skin, mingling with my arcana. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

She was thinner, with pallid skin to match her gray eyes, and her hair had turned more silver than gold. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

It looked like a skinned person creeping on all fours, bent, a horrifying open gap where a mouth should be. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

“Yeah. They shed their shells the way snakes shed their skin.” Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

I bit down and felt my teeth puncture the skin of my lip. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

This topic had become the center of my thinking because all the adults around me were always talking about what it meant to be white or, among our people, light skinned. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

And then she rushed at me and threw her arms around my neck, the flame in her hand snuffing out just before she touched me, her skin hot where she’d held it. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

Physicians called these sores petechiae, which is Latin for skin spots, and Rush observed that they “resembled moscheto bites.” An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

They blew on her skin, but in spite of their care Nhamo’s feet had blistered and scarred. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Jewels and chunks of gold shot from the fissure with such force, they cracked the cavern walls and sent shrapnel flying, stinging Hazel’s skin through her jacket. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

It makes my skin crawl, makes me feel like I'm not myself anymore. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

She ate the food that the Huntsman gave her, and she drank from the water skin he handed to her without question. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

It was small, the skin dry and calloused. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

The point tore the skin and flesh over Ralph's ribs, then sheared off and fell in the water. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

His skin under his shirt was very, very warm. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

He admired Root’s white skin and muscular arms, his stance at the drafting table. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

He could dress a cow from start to finish: skin it, split its bones, gut it, and cut the meat into pieces. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

He dug his fingertips into my skin like he was trying to carve his way down to my bone. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

Nazario went over to the drum and circled his finger over the skin. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

It was like he could see through my clothes and skin, straight to the meat of me. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

Her day dress is buttercup yellow and perfectly complements her new skin color—a dusky light brown, like warmed milk with cinnamon and nutmeg stirred into it. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

She had smooth dark skin, and I recognized her as someone who had been in the courtroom when Mr. Carter was resentenced. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

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’s a place where his jeans are fraying, and a tiny patch of brown skin is barely visible between the fibers of the denim. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

She rolled them all in a soft leather skin and placed the bundle inside her bag. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

The heat was working its nasty magic, and the inside of the body was beginning to swell even as the skin was drying out and shrinking. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

True, it had been noticed that skin cancer was prevalent among workers exposed to arsenic fumes in copper smelters and tin foundries in Cornwall and Wales. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

Kaede put her hand to her throat, touching her skin with cold fingers. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Once he had finished this task, he slipped into the skin and bounded out of the house. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

And it’s strange, because now I see: I get my eyes from her, my nose from him, and my skin color from them both. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

She looked thin and her skin was golden yellow, her greased black hair slicked neat. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

They were darkly spotted, and the skin, translucent in appearance, was prominently veined. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

I then removed my shirt and undershirt, rubbed my skin almost raw with the undershirt, and looked into my hand mirror. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

The scales under his human skin were wet with blood. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

There was a circlet of whiter skin on his third finger where he used to wear the signet ring that Katie had given him when they married. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Fortunately, none of the gunk stuck to her, but still her skin tingled with revulsion. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

A man with dry, graying skin and a mop of white hair came in with a plastic tray of herbal potions for sale. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

He passed people with horrible burns, their faces swollen, their blackened skin hanging in strips. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was all shipshape, and the skin of the hull was undamaged, though the neat gyptian paintwork was a bit scratched. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

Her bare skin looks so white against the floor. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sweat streaks had washed away her pressed powder in parallel lines of darker-colored skin down the sides of her face. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

He even makes me aware of my skin. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

The inflammation round his wound, he sensed, was growing, and the skin was becoming tighter, harder, with something, not blood, leaking out of it onto his shirt. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Four’s cold hand clamps around one of my hips, one of his fingers finding a strip of bare skin just under the hem of my T-shirt. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

And one day it did burn her, as she moved slightly and Aunty Ujus hand moved slightly and the hot metal singed the skin behind her ear. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

“But I paid you—” “You paid me to contact the buyers. No way am I getting near them. They’d love a blue monkey skin on their wall.” The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

As for me, it’s as if God mixed my parents’ skin tones in a paint bucket to get my medium-brown complexion. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

“A piece of your skin? But no one—” I began. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

It was such exquisite clarity of blood and skin and breath that I felt like crying. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

The wetness against her skin was very pleasant, but she couldn’t waste time enjoying it. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Half of them ending up dead, or burned up so bad that when someone finds them, their skin is black and their lips are cracked open? The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

My cheeks are so hot, my skin might start melting off my face. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

Not the nut brown of the Summer Islanders on their swan ships, nor the red-brown of the Doth- raki horselords, nor the charcoal-and-earth color of the dusky woman’s skin, but black. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The skin around my wrist still stings, like the belt was real, but it is as pale as the rest of me. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

Someone’s arms went around her and the touch of skin on skin made her shiver. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

So we’re looking for blood, skin that needs stitching, a gash from a homemade blade. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The flesh-colored fabric of the dummy’s skin makes a good, absorbent canvas. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

For a time I looked like an unevenly trimmed topiary, but gradually as I got used to my new life, my skin settled down and I regained my face. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

She lay on her side across two bales of hay, the afternoon light brightening the green in her eyes, her tan skin the last memory of fall. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

You could see bits of skin starting to bond, and soft red bits peeping up from underneath. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

But I felt the heat radiating off his skin, like a warp core about to breach. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

Hazel looked around again and then picked up the skin and let it unfurl. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

“The last time someone told me he wouldn’t bother me, he walked in and beat the skin off my back.” Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

Or him sitting in the tattoo parlor, his ear taped forward so it wouldn’t get in Tori’s way as she drew a snake on his skin. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

We ate them down to their skins, then scooped water into our hands and drank, not caring about algae or tadpoles or whether the cows used the creek for their toilet. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Jam felt her palm twinge in memory, and she curled her fingers around the bandage sticking to her skin. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

He is hunched above me like a dog, one hand rubbing hard at my skin and the other unbuttoning his trousers. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

She wanted him to put some coconut oil on his face because she thought his skin looked ashy. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

Can my own mother really want to strip all the color left in my skin? How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

Wave after wave of magic surged silently under her skin. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

The sky and the driveway and the house and the car and Susie gurgling and Mom’s hands pressing me, and my skin stung and I couldn’t get the words out. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

The pain was sharp, like little lightning bolts striking under my skin, hitting every nerve. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

Its blade was dark, inelegant; the textured skin that covered the hilt was nearly black, as though many hands had held it over the decades. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

“The lesions aren’t an accident, Tally. They’re part of the operation, just like all the bone sculpting and skin scraping. It’s part of the way being pretty changes you.” Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

Matthias was horrified to discover that it was full of cast-off snake skins. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

Luke hadn’t felt it until he stopped, but now his skin was suddenly puckering in the sharp air. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

They were followed by fish no bigger that looked like they were permanently under X-ray; their internal organs showed through their transparent skins. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

“The Boltons have always been as cruel as they were cunning, but this one seems a beast in human skin,” said Glover. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

It was a magnificent, life-size illustration of the female body, with the skin missing so you could see the muscles and tendons and organs and all that. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

Her whole body felt flushed, suffused with blood as if she were being slowly cooked in her own skin. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

It would be good to shed these shabby woolen garments and feel once more the softness of silk against her skin, and to hear the rusde of petticoats wherever she moved. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

My white ribbed socks do a poor job of hiding the skin peeking out. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

Every time I was with him now, my skin tic-led and my brain buzzed and my blood romped around as if it were percolating. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

The pilot had flown away, perhaps thinking I was just another native fisherman waving at an aircraft I knew that the color of my skin was very dark now. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

I could still see some of the brands lining her skin, and the sight still made me angry. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

In my dream it was very dark, and what dim light there was seemed to be radiating from Edward’s skin. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

"It doesn't seem to be contagious. And Eden's skin still looks good. No bleeding." Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

She screams into her mask and clutches the hole in her skin, sinking to her knees, her hands covered in blood. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

As much as Ophie was worried about Clara riding around in Penelope’s skin, she was also worried about her mama as well. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

The mother kissed him when he emerged from within the elephant, and then she wiped away the fat and the pieces of pumpkin that stuck to his skin. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

It used to scare me, even thinking about the chance of seeing her—but now when I think about her, I can’t help but feel a peace surging beneath my skin. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

She says that her skin is not black and never will be and that she doesn’t know anyone from Africa; why should she change what has worked perfectly well all of her life? Tears of a Tiger 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The longer I stare at her, the more my skin sweats. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

His breath brushed against the side of my neck, tickling my skin. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

Her skin was stuck to her ribs and her breathing was forced because of an immeasurable exhaustion. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

There were pouches under the eyes, the skin sagged from the cheekbones. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

None of them was bound in leather, because Meggie didn't like to think of a calf or a pig losing its skin for her books. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

Thinking I must have dropped a grain or two, I vacuumed the entire apartment with a straw up my nose, sucking up dead skin cells, Comet residue, and pulverized cat litter. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

She figured out how to throw knives and make poisoned arrows from the skins of frogs, to sneak up on prey twice her size and track targets in the dark. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

And so you’re hurrying to join them, selling me out to save your skin, I thought, but there was no point in saying it. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

“You won’t be singing that tune the first time the knife breaks your precious skin.” Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her skin was blue and her slip was...it was pink, and her hair, spilling loose, was the orange-red of copper and persimmons, cinnamon and wildflower honey. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Throwing hypodermic needles at a picture of a man with no skin. Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

I felt the ripped-up places of the car seat sticking my bare skin. Girls Like Us 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

He’s tall like Trey but his skin is black marble. Black Brother, Black Brother 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

After a while Getheren could see that the person was naked, his skin was all white, and his hair was all white. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

His eyes were dull, with the pupils shrunken, and the skin of his neck hung in yellow, pulpy folds. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

He sat down at the table and tried not to think about how he was going to look on his first day at Stonewall High — like he was wearing bits of old elephant skin, probably. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

It felt like a wet silk scarf against his skin. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

“Great” Tally’s skin tingled, her eyes picking out the dark fissures all around them. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

And the other is a woman with skin so black it’s blue and a lilt in her voice. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

A few quick swipes and there was nothing left up there at all, only skin. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

A thousand eyes, a hundred skins, wisdom deep as the roots of ancient trees. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The fear was like icy dew on his skin. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

A liquid ache spread under her skin, and she walked out of the world like a witch, to a better, happier place. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

I climb out, blubbering like a little kid who skinned her knee. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

Hazel’s skin tingled coolly, as if she’d been rubbed with alcohol. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

I asked the moment I walked out the gate at Reagan Washington National Airport, my hair still in fuzzy summer braids, skin browned by the southern sun. Monday's Not Coming 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

The woman's hair was white as snow, her skin was wrinkled, and one eye was blind. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

As soon as my skin was dry, I pulled on a flowered skirt. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

Fear settles under my skin, and my hands quiver. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

The dancers, the music, the lights, the people in the theater are all so beautiful that I want to wear them on my skin for the rest of my life. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Pterodactyls had wings formed by a thin skin and muscle membrane stretching from one of their elongated fingers to their hind limbs. Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z

When he came down the steps at last the tanned skin was drawn unusually tight on his face, and his eyes were bright and tired. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

We are a family—not perfect, not all the same, some rich, some poor, all kinds of religions and skin colors, some born in America and some immigrating here. Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z

Her skin had withered in the time she had been hidden, going gray and leathery, but there was no doubt who she had once been. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

Our skin was burned and raw and the vests chafed. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

A friend who shares this awful thing, this feeling like maybe the world sort of hates you because of the color of your skin. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

When she was small, Naomi would snuggle into bed beside her mother, taking in the smell of her skin, tangy like grapefruit. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

She has dark-brown skin and big curly hair. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

The shorn hair falls on my feet and shoulders, itching whatever bare skin it finds. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

Roza’s hand dropped to her lap, the tears still wet on her skin. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

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

Pippin saw his carven face with its proud bones and skin like ivory, and the long curved nose between the dark deep eyes; and he was reminded not so much of Boromir as of Aragorn. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

It wouldn't have surprised me if they had one of those skin cooker things in their houses. Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z

The doll was naked, with horrible words scratched into its plastic skin. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Her forearms thudded against the branch, the bark scraping her skin as she scrambled to get a firm grip. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

When he walked, they would twist and jerk under the skin. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

As they did, the cold mist collected on Nathan’s hair and exposed skin. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

She touched the skin around her eyes with her fingertips. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

He was five years old and he looked almost white in spite of Alice’s dark skin. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

“God only knows what I have got under my skin from being here. I may die of tuberculosis, or perhaps there are worms right now eating me inside.” Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

Slowly, they descended along a rocky trail into the gorge, the sheep moving single file, and, once in the gorge, they came across a rattlesnake, which his father killed so Joe could skin it. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Kendra smeared sunblock across her arms, disliking the greasy feel of the lotion against her skin. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

In the end, it was more of a tumble than a climb, and he left a little skin and a little blood in one or two places—though, thankfully, not on his shirt. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

Her fine, tanned skin looked coolly fresh even during the hottest days of summer. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

The skin would make a good pouch, and she remembered her mother once saying that the entrails could be dried and used as string. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

The light was different in the entry hall, and Jude could see the odd green tint of his skin and the way his lower teeth seemed too large for his mouth. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

He was so skinny, just skin stretched taut over bones. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

If there was no solution from Elizebeth before Christmas, Andresen felt “bound” to give the tiger skin to his wife instead. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

I was on edge the rest of the day, the encounter with the boy sticking to me like burs pricking at my skin. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

I went to my room and skinned off my shirt and pants. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

He felt the blood trickling on to his hand, but he also felt the cold touch of steel against his skin. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

I never think about how old he is because he never acts old, but tonight he's all white and bent and his skin is saggy. Freak The Mighty 1993-10-01T00:00:00Z

She's a little younger than him, skin slightly darker, long black hair woven in a tress. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

I use a paintbrush to finish coating the man's skin with the paste, like sticky marmalade on toast. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

In the daylight, her skin was so translucent, her veins seemed to glow. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

They even have muscles that change their skin’s texture. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

When I was seven, Amá found out I hadn’t showered for five days, so she dunked me in a scalding hot tub and scrubbed me with a brush until my skin ached. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Balder was pale; his skin was the color of the world on a gray day, when there is no sun. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

I was being judged for the first time not by the color of my skin but by the measure of my mind and character. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Although we were dealing with officials whose competence was no greater than our own, their authority was founded on and protected by the color of their skin. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He could taste the foul water, feel the burns on his skin. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

By the way I stared, you would have thought his skin was covered in scales. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

The tanned-looking skin around her brown eyes is red and puffy, her long black and gray hair is splayed across the sidewalk. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

I feel uncomfortable, like I have shifted in my skin and it doesn’t quite fit anymore. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

This girl’s name was Aluthra, and her skin was of a dusky perfection unseen in India for eighty years. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

I stare at the gun in my hands, at the smooth skin between Will’s eyebrows. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

Mom startled at the sound of my voice, looking down at where her nails were digging into the soft skin of my upper arm. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

The sights, sounds, and smells of the Sunderbans were as much a part of him as his dark skin and curly black hair. Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z

A clammy dampness sank through to my skin. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

Amá even chose the worst color imaginable for my skin—peach. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Her skin lightens to the color of whipped butter and cream. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

I look up at his face, perfect teeth, perfect skin, and he’s just started to grow his hair out and is wearing it in a short Afro. Watch Us Rise 2019-02-12T00:00:00Z

Its fragile golden skin is punctured, and the sun bleeds oranges and yellows across the bottom of the sky. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

He remembered how when the pilot had his heart attack he had felt cool—the dead skin had felt cool. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z

He was a young Japanese man with long, unkempt hair and bad skin. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

Then he saw Grandmother’s stern face, her skin as thin as rice paper, her white hair spread across her pillpw. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

It had curly black fur, but when you got close you could see that the skin underneath the fur was a very pale yellow, like chicken. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Then I turned the other way, and Alaska was smiling at me, the skin between her eyes and temple crinkled into a starburst. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

He thought of Druzmilla’s children and the wonderful parties they had as each child split open their first skin. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

His face was too wrinkled to still be alive, yet his dark skin was shiny and he spoke slowly, gobbling the words in his jaws before he let them out. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

She spent weeks in a hospital enduring painful skin grafts that left her terribly scarred. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

A faded scar ran down his stomach to his navel, marring the smooth tan skin. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

The fire in the hearth gave a somber orange cast to his skin and put deep shadows in the hollows of his eyes. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Not only twins, mind you, but also a tow-headed toddler, whose skin seemed too thin, for she wailed at the slightest discomfort. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

One of them was dressed in mourning, the other in white, turbaned, her brown skin a shimmer. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

My mother's knuckles were bone-white, as if the skin had worn off them in the hour of waiting. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

She could not breathe; her fingers scrabbled at her skin, but there was nothing there to grab onto. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

She was lightheaded, and exhausted, and her skin felt like it was on fire. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

I saw the glimmer of bare skin, like a pale veil separating two bloody-minded adversaries. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

I said: “You better skin out for that house, you little scamp!” Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was a loud sickening smack of skin slamming against skin. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

To my disappointment, Hideo leaves one last kiss against my skin. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Her skin was pale and translucent and her mouth was tender. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I can make you a fresh poultice tomorrow and every day after that until the skin has healed.” The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

“We’ll put the kids between us. Put the baby under your blouse and coat, against your skin.” Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

He touches my shoulder, the pad of his thumb grazing where the fabric meets the skin. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

Cas’s olive skin looked like paste, and there was blood everywhere. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

My skin crawled, thinking of that hungry wolf from two months’ back. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

The green looks good against my brown skin. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

When she awoke it was dark, and the night air was cool against her skin. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

The skin is paler than either Ashima’s or his own, translucent enough to show slim green veins at the temples. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

He had cooked squab in soy sauce so that the skin and meat were a deep, deep brown all the way to the bone. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

His face was pink, as if the skin had been scraped off and was still growing back. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

“Mrs. Horsepool-Worthingham says it will keep my skin from scarring. I smell like a pizza.” The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

When his skin touched mine, I prepared to fight that primal need to push him away, but it never came. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

They all saw what he held, the unbearable broken form of her, the pink and red and cinnamon so brutally beautiful against the blue of her skin and his. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

His skin prickled with urgency, but he couldn't leave Father Cham, not now. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

I scrubbed my armpits, and scratched at the grass stains on my elbows until my skin was pink and angry. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

I thought the cap’n had made a mistake, ’cause whilst this woman did have a eye patch and a scar running ’crost her cheek, he hadn’t said nothing ’bout her skin! The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z

Leer trips over a root and skins his elbows. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

His skin erupted, stinging as the spiders bit into his flesh. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

I can see the real meaning of beauty, and it ain’t got nothing to do with having light skin and a little waist. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

Gagging on the vapors, I threw myself forward blindly, batting away the sparks that landed on my skin. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

She leans over me, so close that her lips touch my ear and I can feel her breath against my skin. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

Our legs refuse to move, our hands tremble, our bodies are a thin skin stretched painfully over repressed madness, over an almost irresistible, bursting roar. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

Slowly, I peel off the skin, which tastes tough and rubbery. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

In later years, when Mama Lessie told me this story, I wondered, If he was an uncle, why did Johnny have white skin? While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

I looked at his hands and feet The skin was alligatored and cracked, tough from age and walking barefoot on the hot decks of schooners and freighters. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Muscles all over his face twitched underneath the drum-tight skin when he talked. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

He'd showed them his leg, stretching it out on the bed in dorm, and letting everyone peer at the puckered, wartless skin of his knees. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

Their skin is thin and almost leprous gray. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

He opened the paper, which wasn’t paper but some sort of dried animal skin, and saw that “The Prophecy of Gray” had been carefully written upon it. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Shadows flit across your smooth skin as you walk. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

It had a bite in it and goose- pimples jumped out on my skin. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even if you skinned your knee or something, she’d say, “Oh, darling, there’s no need to cry!” with a huge grin on her face, as if she enjoyed seeing you bleed. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Or dig his nails into his bare skin like he is doing. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

As soon as the room was dark, there was the same electric spark, the same restless craving to stretch my hand across the short space and touch his cold skin, as yesterday. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

Going to the plague-infected areas of Lake makes her nervous, and she always comes back scratching at her arms—as if she can feel an infection spreading on her skin. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

She had to get back to the reserve before she was killed and skinned, with each of her body parts sold on the black market to line that rich man’s pockets with even more rupees. Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z

When they found the fool he was naked, his skin white and wrinkled and powdered with wet sand. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

My skin is slick, the room pitch-black, but my eyes are open. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

But it suited David, somehow, as if growing up here in the wild allowed him to fuse with the animals that had donated their skins to his clothes. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

“I do not think the Creator made a tribe such as these creatures. They have skin the color of goat’s milk.” Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

Every day, the whale would swim across the oceans and rise up out of the sea at sunset, making a great leap into the sky with drops of water still clinging to its skin. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

My skin is covered in goose bumps as I remove the dress from the hanger. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

He stuck his lip out slightly and felt the skin splitting open. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

There he was, with the same fair skin and frizzy hair. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

The rhythm gathered beneath my skin, and my palms itched with the need to create, to shape. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

The nasty injuries, beneath the scarred skin, the things I'd like to disappear by ignoring. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

She could not let that happen, but fear prickled her skin. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

He was gripping a handful of pamphlets, and his gray suit and pale skin made the blood dripping from his head all the more vivid. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

She had a big round face and a body that sloped out from her neck like a pup tent, and she was so black that night seemed to seep from her skin. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

On the table next to the plate of wafers was a creepy-looking doll with peach-colored skin and a head of big curly black hair. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

His skin was back to full color, his eyes no longer crisscrossed with red veins; he seemed to have gained fifteen pounds in twenty-four hours. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

Septa Scolera was thick-waisted and short, with heavy breasts, olive skin, and a sour smell to her, like milk on the verge of going bad. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Tiara’s skin was, in fact, perfectly clear and dewy. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

So Hazel flung herself into the thin layer of icy slushy watery mess and rolled around in it, numbing her skin until she was part ice cube herself. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

For some unaccountable reason, all wore black dresses, evidently not realizing how unbecoming black was to dark skins. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

He clenches the steering wheel; his veins pop up against his skin. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

His skin was pallid, with an undertone of grey. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

I didn’t even know so much water could be inside a person—like he was hiding an entire ocean beneath his skin. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z

A good fifteen minutes of scrubbing and it felt like I had turned every inch of my skin inside out. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

The baby was a beautiful little thing with white skin and downy black curls which grew down into a point on her forehead, like Mama’s. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sometimes the hormones she took made her skin break out. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

I came into this world looking every bit like my father, with his blue-black skin, black hair, and even blacker eyes. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

Her dark skin glistens with powder, like she's covered in stardust. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

And the texture of skin around the eyes, how fragile it was, and earliest to wrinkle, and the dart and flicker of the orb beneath the lid. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

My skin, muscles, and bones feel as if they have melted away and I can simply step out of my body. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

The coarse weave was scratchy against her skin, but no velvet had ever felt so fine. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Close up she could see there was a band of paler skin around his forehead, which his cap must have kept shaded from the sun. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Scrape every inch of skin on my legs, arms, and hands. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

My entire body tingled, especially my shoulder where Sumac’s claws dug tightly into the skin. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

Its arms reached out for me, smoke flowing from beneath its skin. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

I wore it underneath my clothes, tight against my skin. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

If genes were discrete particles specifying one trait, then how could this property be reconciled with the occurrence of human characteristics, say, height or skin color, in continuous curves? The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

"I invented it forty-one years ago. Had this lightweight, skin so thin would start bleeding if his mother kissed him. Lightning Lou Epp, real good little—" "I need a headguard," said Red. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

The blood lifted briefly from his skin in droplets of red then vanished. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

True, his nose is long but not so long, his hair dark but surely not so dark, his skin pale but certainly not so pale. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

The longer the statue stood in Pompeii, the more anger it seemed to radiate, making Reyna’s skin itchy and her nerves raw. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

He gripped my sleeve, and I could feel the heat of his skin like a fire. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

Gogol has already been taught to eat on his own with his fingers, not to let the food stain the skin of his palm. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

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

When he raised his hand to the spot, Bran felt only the smooth unbroken skin. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Black clothing and red eyes and skin without any color at all. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

Besides, she says, they won’t get much out of you all bones and little skin. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

I was already forgotten, dismissed, though the outline of her palm and fingers still burned on my skin. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

In Phnom Penh, Pa once told me the Youns are just like us but with whiter skin and smaller noses. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

His skin rippled in voluptuous delight when Evy rubbed him dry. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

The sunscreen Mom got me is like chalk against my skin. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

For the fourth man had not been a man at all, but a demon wearing a man’s skin. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

His skin was dark and his teeth flashed when he smiled. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

The little hollow in his collarbone stood out against his glowing skin. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

No one is bom hating another person because of the color of his skin, or his background, or his religion. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

To be clear: this is not an argument that affirmative action policies conflict with King’s dream that we might one day be “judged by the content of our character, not the color of our skin.” The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Some shepherd tribes used to kill the offspring, eat its flesh, and then stuff the skin. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Can you see how the Huangs almost washed their thinking into my skin? The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

My thumb rubs over my ring finger, over the smooth skin of the missing tip. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

She has the same smile she had on her face when she died, and her skin is glowing, as if something were lit inside her. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

She was bathing four or five times a day, scrubbing herself with horsehair brushes and strong lye soap, as if she meant to scrape her skin off. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

She said, “Don’t go, dear. Don’t go now, my love. My sheets are silk. I want you to feel those sheets against your skin.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Some nights the boy would even bring a skin of wine to the cell and ask Davos about the smuggler’s life as they drank. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

His skin was crawling, felt like it was changing color, from brown to yellow. Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z

He pinched the wattles of skin at his throat and turned his good eye on Judge Fielding. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

It seems to come pouring from his skin, right through the stocking on his face. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

Ordinary sores An eel skin takes the cramping from a leg. Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!: Voices from a Medieval Village 2007-07-24T00:00:00Z

But most pools are enclosed by something less expensive than leopard skins. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z

The soft cotton on her skin still thrilled her. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

Before the gritty sand, the hot sun, and my itching skin demand a return to reality. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

Smart adhesive flexed against her skin as the mask settled onto her face. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

“My skins. My previous skins. When we shed every few years, we keep them.” The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

Along walls and on top of tables, jade trees, whose trunks were as thick as ankles, stood stoutly, green now and without the pink skin the sun gave them in the spring. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

But the multicolored bruises flowering under her green skin only remind me how impotent I am. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

Poor, dead boys in army uniforms from every era, their pale skin even whiter in death, clung to bridges and passenger cars, their grasping fingers reaching out for the memory of life. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

Somehow, Greenstreet had lost his mittens, and the blisters on his hands froze like pebbles under the skin. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

His nails were bitten so deep, there was a ring of pink skin at the top of his fingers. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

His hands tingled, not unpleasantly, where his skin touched hers. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

My fingers dug deeper into Beau’s fur, scratched down into his skin and pulled him toward me across the seat. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

The skin melds together, swirls of fingerprint ridges finding one another again, closing solidly once more. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

He put the broken bone down on the goat skin and covered it with undamaged bones, so nobody would know. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

Taisin: the warmth and the smell of her skin; the pleasure of her kisses. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

I wallowed through the coal and climbed down the outside ladder of the car and jumped for it, skinning my hands, knees, and elbows on the packed coal around the track. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

“You wrote on your leg? Like on your skin? What’d you write?” Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

The magistrate was skinny under his coat, balding but bearded, and the skin on his face was yellowy and pockmarked. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

The rich black earth clinging to bodies and biting the skin like ants. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

The skin between them darkened, too, knitting her freckles together into a speckled harlequin mask. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

I reached down and unstuck my underpants from my skin. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

The coal dust that collected in the moist skin around his eyes would remain—the miners of Coalwood walked around with their eyes lined like Cleopatra’s. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

He wasn’t smiling, and he kept pulling at the skin of his neck as if he were itchy. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

When the bar rises up, I see nothing on my skin. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

“Second, I don’t think the ballistae will do any good. That shell is like Nemean Lion skin. Its head isn’t any softer.” The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Heat pressed against every inch of my skin—a dry blast so hot that my sweat evaporated before it made it out, and yet the shadow crow made it with little effort. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

I don’t know if it’s because I’m friends with his son or because of the color of my skin. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z

His skin was so white it looked almost blue, like cold milk. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

The skins were too leathery to bite through, so old Ikwa used his sharp rock to open them. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

Outside stood a hard-faced woman with leathery brown skin, three necklaces looped about her scrawny neck. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

It was the fashion in the Free City of Volantis to tattoo the faces of slaves and servants; from neck to scalp the boy's skin had been patterned in squares of red and green motley. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

When it hits my skin, it turns my vitiligo patches almost to silver. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

I looked up to watch him, to watch his dark skin covered with beads of sweat that gleamed in the sun. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

Its sides were coated with ice, where the moist Florida air came in contact with the freezing-cold skin of the rocket in the vicinity of the liquid oxygen and hydrogen tanks. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was evidently very pleased, for she kept running the skin backwards and forwards through her fingers and looking at it admiringly. Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z

The blindness lasts just a second, then the colors start flooding into me: not through my eyes but right through my skin, replacing blood and bone, muscle and sinew, until I am redorangebluegreenpurpleyellowredorangebluegreenpurpleyellow. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

The water evaporated against Hatsue’s skin, leaving a residue of salt behind. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

Dark round glasses covered his eyes, but what really caught my attention was the skin on his face. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

His anger seethed under his skin and behind his teeth. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

She liked that their skin looked different—his white, hers brown—but their smiles looked the same. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Her loose white dress contrasted with her creamy brown skin, and a three-plated gold torque covered much of her chest and neck. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

There were eight in all, each of them like a little fire burning just inside his skin. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z

Scorching pain flared up both his arms; he felt the sting of raw skin on his hands. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

He looks different in person than he does in his portraits or on the city’s JumboTrons, where his skin has a much warmer color and no wrinkles. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

The second, in the turban, had his shirt off, and he was pale except where his sleeves would have ended and the skin was burnt pink. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

He has olive skin and wears a brown shirt—he is the only transfer from Amity. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

She rubbed her arms hard, scraping the last bits of flaking skin from the burn in the process. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

I look at my palms, tracing the remnants of the tiny crescent marks that I pressed into my own skin. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

Whether it’s tinted pink with a tomato skin or green with a leaf of cress, it’s still manioc. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Cordell Rackley was small and wiry, with skin the color of biscuits that had been cooked for just a minute too long. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

They were dusty from the road, and the dirt made my skin itch. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

I shook my head, anger rippling over my skin. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

“Look over here, hog. Is this a skin book?” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Snape made a slight flexing movement of his left arm, where the Dark Mark was branded into his skin. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

When my skin glowed pink and clean, I began working on my hair. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

One morning, the Ngoni came up the mountain dressed in animal skins, holding massive shields in one hand and spears in the other. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z

No, her skin isn’t exactly pea green now. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

Just before the baboon parents came back, however, the hare got into the lion skin and was a lion again. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

I am delirious with longing and the fulfillment of that longing, the desire to touch his warm skin, trace the sinew and muscle just under the surface, pulsing with life. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

And you got eyes that see no further than the color of my skin. The Misfits 2001-10-01T00:00:00Z

They were all Dominicans with real dark skin. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

The sight of it made my skin crawl. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

Couldn’t get the redness and the swelling out of my mind, my skin responding to the invasion of parasitic bacteria. Turtles All the Way Down 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

The shine spread across her skin inch by inch. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

One of my legs is askew, the skin and muscle peeled away so that I can see white streaks of bone. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Its high, somewhat stiff collar against my neck, the wide cuffs touching my wrists, the rich material against my skin excited a sense of strangeness and distinction; I felt like some nobleman, some Spanish grandee. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

But his are overly full, the skin stretched too tight. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

I was sure I didn’t, but it was weird how hot my skin felt. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

It embarrasses me to think that skin color should have anything to do with supposed beauty, but that is the culture. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

I looked away, feeling as though my skin had been peeled away and my insides photographed. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

But the other satisfied every cherished idea of a fairy: tall and graceful, with huge eyes, skin as unblemished as satin, lips as red as pomegranate seeds, and cheeks the color of early sunset. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

I was famous in my neighborhood just because of the color of my skin. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Yellow slivers of cucumber skin flecked her bosom. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The limp body, with not a torn spot or a tooth puncture in the skin, would be laid at his master’s feet. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

The body under the sewn skins was showing in the early turns of pregnancy. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Bone protruded through skin and there was bleeding. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

Your spots or patches may stay small and be confined to one area of the body, or they may continue to spread, covering much or even all of the skin. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

The skin was red and chapped and raw. Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z

I asked, touching the frayed skin around his thumbnail. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

Black hair framed the fair skin of her face, with eyes the blue of pure flame. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

Hers are smaller than Baba's, but the pressure and warmth on my skin feels so familiar. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

They left the shore at dawn in their skin canoes and did not return until night, towing after them the slain otter. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

His eyes are dark brown, almost the same color as Christina’s skin. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

“These spots on her skin. What are they?” The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

Her skin is paler than a white privacy screen. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

In the middle of his chest, right on the breastbone, a furious red horseshoe was indented in the skin. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

“Let’s go skin to skin,” Dr. Martin says to George. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Same beautiful brown skin and soft oval face. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

We put pepper in the feet of our stockings, Vaseline on our faces, and stared through dark icebox mornings at four stewed prunes, slippery lumps of oatmeal, and cocoa with a roof of skin. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

Power oozes from every American pore of her skin. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Coarse rope bound my wrists over my head, the fibers gnawing into the skin. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

Up close, his skin was tough and scaly. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z

His neck was bent and the red light played over the polished skin of his hairless head. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

I skinned a papaya with a sharp rock and removed the seeds. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

The skin looks as if it will peel off in one crisp layer. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He first took Mother’s pulse, then felt the skin on her ankles and wrists, then peered down her throat and under her eyelids. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I try to remember that when all I can see is the woman who sat by, blank and unreachable, while her children turned to skin and bones. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

As the sea spray mingled with the snow and fell against her skin, Jinny let herself tremble. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

"Your skin is the right shade of brown to match it. The designers worked hard to ensure it'd be the right fit." The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

I know that when Mother had removed the gauze that morning, she’d found that his ears were so burned, the skin so glutinous, they had fused to the syrupy tissue behind them. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Horrified, he describes the creature the way H. G. Wells did in his novel—the leathery skin, the tentacles, the quivering mouth. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

She saw the blood seep from her skin like rainwater from a sodden earth. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Bats her eyelashes against my skin, feels like a moth’s wings. Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

I feel tapping and tugging and a vague sense my skin is being stretched beyond the limits of its elasticity. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

At the base of his neck was the mark I’d seen before—the dark shape of a bird grafted to his skin. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

The ships that escaped his deadly grasp banked around and sprayed him with laser bolts and machine-gun fire, but both deflected harmlessly off his armored alien skin. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

The night’s warm, shy, barely touching our skin. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

What is so important about a little skin of wine? The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

His skin seemed so pale against the dark, knotty wood. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

The giant’s golden skin paled as if it were turning to brass. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

Cardan begins to strip off his shirt, showing an expanse of moon-pale skin and a back with a delicate tracery of faded scars. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Before September 15, 1963,1 didn’t know to worry about dying because of my skin color. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

The rain was a misty sprinkling on her skin. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

Tree-ear approached as if merely passing by, but his very skin prickled with curiosity. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

I felt such envy for them, enjoying the warm sun on their skin and the blue sky above. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

The sun was bright overhead; the ice field was broad and unbroken; the air stung their skin with its briskness. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

“Tattoos. An ink drawing under your skin. Weird.” Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Anyway, this study in the Times showed that state police are more likely to pull drivers over to the side of the road if they have dark skin. The Misfits 2001-10-01T00:00:00Z

She was grownup-looking for her age, tall with red-gold hair and her skin like something just this moment coming out of the oven, giving off a warm golden glow. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

She pretended his eyes weren’t scouring her. up and down, steel wool scraping her skin raw. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

But he didn’t really have twelve fingers, just baby skin that looked like it wanted to grow. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

Some even wrote parodies of my poem, reading them to me in the hopes of getting under my skin. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

What is it like to experience discrimination based on skin color, something over which one has no control? Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

And all the way home, I feel too big for my skin. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

Then he looked into her bedroom and saw her lying on the bed covered with the ermine cape, more beautiful than ever and with her skin turned into an ivory casing. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

Then I’m myself once more, and the warmth of Phil’s skin seeps into mine. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

When you peeled back the skin, you were dealing with bone and muscle, blood and nerve endings. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

The same year, a restaurant in the South banned Indian independence leader Mahatma Gandhi’s personal doctor from its premises because of his dark skin. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

A never-ending line of carts brought the raw material in—thousands of skins, goat, calf, lizard and snake skins—and took them away again tanned, dyed and finished. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

I made the bottom first, putting the skins end to end, and using three of them. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

As they entered March the weather became drier, but cruel winds skinned their hands and faces every time they went out onto the grounds. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

I screamed and pulled away, leaving some of my skin be-hind. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

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

When they had finished and were curled up together, naked skin touching skin, whispering endearments, then Bolverkr sighed mournfully. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

I use the fine material of my skirt to scrub my face of the snot and tears, the chains around my wrists digging into the soft skin. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

My fingers turn and burn on my healing skin. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

His cheeks above his beard were pink where the sun had burned his Irish skin. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Her pale, fine skin was creased like cream on cooling milk and dusted with tiny red moles. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

She showed him a keloid behind her ear, a small enraged swelling of skin, which she got after Aunty Uju straightened her hair with a hot comb in secondary school. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

But José Arcadio kept looking for her all night long, for the smell of smoke that she had under her armpits and that had got caught under his skin. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

My aunt used to say things like that to me when I was little and did something to annoy her—“Girl, I’m going to skin you alive!” Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

Inej lay perfectly still on the table, her luminous brown skin dull in the swaying lamplight. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Tally touched the peeling skin on her nose. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

Both of her knees had the skin ripped right off them, and the flesh underneath was scarlet and raw. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

That is to say, he had a dream—a guiding and abiding one, so much a part of him it was like a second soul inside his skin. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Her skin had taken on an unhealthy pale green cast. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

When he raised his head from her breast, the skin was dark red where his mouth had marked her. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

For these situations, we were taught how to cause pain through “pressure points”—places where clusters of nerves lie just under the skin. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Cold seeped through her clothing, into her skin, until she felt the icy floor of the fortress beneath her feet. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

As we hurry across the grass, I stumble, and he is beside me, steadying me, his warmth seeping into my skin. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

His skin was less pale, I decided — flushed from the snow fight maybe — the circles under his eyes much less noticeable. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

Its fingernails scraped her skin, but it was too slippery to grip, and Coraline pulled away successfully. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

The girl was younger, maybe thirteen, with amber eyes and chocolate skin and long curly hair. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Rippled beams of light shone out from the tattoo under her scarred skin. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

Eighty-nine, and skin and bones like a mummy, she stood listening at her open front door, hands on hips and very grim of face. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

A sheen of sweat covered the broad dome of the old man's brow, and wisps of white hair clung to his wrinkled skin. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

He reached a small clearing—and half jumped out of his skin. The Whipping Boy 1986-04-01T00:00:00Z

“Cool a burn, cool a burn,” he keeps repeating as the damp gauze feels like a match held to my skin. Paradise on Fire 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

That trapped and cornered feeling slipped into my skin, and I quickly looped her arm. Monday's Not Coming 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

We would take it home, skin it, and fry or barbecue that meat. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

This was why she always had broken nails and cracked skin and why, with time, her fingers grew deformed. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

She plucks the string, revealing a secret line of white skin that wraps around her neck. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

When we get there, Al is sitting in the chair already, and a small, narrow man with more ink than bare skin is drawing a spider on his arm. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

A group of three Underlanders, all with the same translucent skin and violet eyes, waited to greet them. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

The Magic Marker ink seeped down into Miss Patty Cake’s soft plastic skin. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

I picked up her hand but she didn’t have no ink on her skin. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

She says her hair is drying out, her skin and nails, she shows me all over how she’s dying on the vine. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Nearly Headless Nick chortled so much that his ruff slipped and his head flopped off, dangling on the inch or so of ghostly skin and muscle that still attached it to his neck. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

It became fully terrifying when I realized that if my skin were permanently black, they would unhesitatingly consign my own children to this bean future. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Wes remembered leaning back in the black, padded parlor chair and taking a puff on his blunt as the tattoo artist sealed the ink into his skin. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

A strip of hide came off the zebra’s belly like gift-wrap paper comes off a gift, in a smooth-edged swath, only silently, in the way of tearing skin, and with greater resistance. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

Whenever Old Tallow looked at her like that, she could feel those fierce eyes resting on her skin. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

I shut my eyes and felt a force like a nuclear explosion blister my skin and crack my lips. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

The artist’s many jabs left its residue under the surface of the skin. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Every drop was cold as ice: hard little shards pricking at her skin. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

On the contrary, some patients developed severe skin reactions that lasted for years. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

Wind whips my damp skin and hair, chilling me even though the air isn’t cold. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

I need a distraction from my own skin. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

Whenever he did, I shook inside but let my fingers fly over the potatoes, stripping off every centimeter of skin until they were clean, yellow, and unblemished. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

She can feel wetness down to her skin. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

Pa skinned it for them carefully, and into the large end he thrust a sharpened stick. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s about the shade of your skin and the shape of your nose and the kink of your hair. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Dorothy had never met Uncle Johnny before that day His straight black hair and white skin scared her. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Sierra nearly jumped out of her skin with fright. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

The skin on his cheeks was stretched tight, and its surface shone as though it were glazed. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

She is an impostor in my mother’s skin. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

I feel it on my skin—my face feels tighter, as if all the salt has found its way to every crevasse and pore. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

I was skinning a hide and I dare not just put my work down. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I felt my skin tighten, I couldn’t feel my face, and it seemed my ears had fallen off; my fingers hurt, and my teeth chattered. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

He blends into the background, the same way his features blend into each other—pale skin and hair and teeth and shirt—all yellowed shades of white. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The taint,” said Dr. Trefusis, “is not a stain upon us, but is, I believe, our primary operation. It is not simply a mark upon our skin.” The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

And with that, he set to work, taking cup after cup, touching the soft rims with glue, and setting them against Westley’s skin. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

Thanks to Big Ma, I could skin a potato with a paring knife without wasting a scrap of white potato. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

The cheerleader covered her face with both hands, but through her fingers I watched her skin blush. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

She reached out and playfully pinched the skin of his neck, a gentle pressure between her fingers. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

I had always been very flexible, and my skin stretched like soft rubber. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

Despite this, I couldn’t resist scratching the flea bites clus- tered at my ankles, making the skin more and more raw, oozing blood and pus. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

He concluded, “Losing my shed skins...It is like I have lost part of who I am.” The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

Suddenly he bent down and laid his hand lightly on it for a moment, then pulled back the skin above and below one eye and looked more closely. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Women knelt with their knives to skin the meat, even before the hooves stopped beating the ground in panic. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her skin was white as mare’s milk, her hair so thin that he could see the scalp beneath. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The skin under his eyes was puffy, and Ekon noticed that Fahim's usually neat topknot of dreadlocks looked frizzy and slightly unkempt. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

I bend over Therese and examine her eyes and skin, feel her faint pulse. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

The material felt so good against my skin. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

Then the skin on her face begins to melt, becoming transparent, exposing the outlines of her large eye sockets and the skeletal bones behind them. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

She touched there, in the space, the skin soft-looking, faintly hued. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

The first traces of dawn had crept up on them, and Thomas could see every detail of Newt’s face, his skin tight, his brow creased. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

He scrubbed and scrubbed with the gray, seaweed soap, but it only made his skin turn a violent red. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

She examines him fiercely, running her hands over his dusty body, feeling the shape of his skull with her fingertips, turning him around to lift his sweater and check his spine, his smooth undamaged skin. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

The kimono was open slightly at the neck and he could see the light brown color of her skin. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

I pulled forward again, heard the shirt rip and felt his fingernails tearing the skin of my back. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

Her cheeks are bright pink and her skin is a fierce white. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

And my nerves are tingling, ready to burst through my skin. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

It was always provided in his everyday life for the bruises and wounds, for a mashed finger a stomach ache, a skinned knee from a fall from a bike. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

Slowly, he turned and felt his skin prickle. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

My skin was prickling, I was alive with ants, they were in my hair and on my neck and chest and I leaped to my feet, clawing them away. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

John and Mary were stopped along the way, seemingly for no reason other than the color of their skin. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Since her pregnancies she had put on weight, thickened in the waist, but her skin and hair were still beautiful and she was still an attractive woman. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Hair the color of root on milky skin. Inside Out and Back Again 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

The heavy brief case that he was carrying bumped against his knees at each step, sending a tingling sensation up and down the skin of his leg. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

He touched my cheek, his fingers grazing my skin, and I gasped. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

Her hair is twisted into a messy bun, and dark circles paint the skin under her bloodshot eyes. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

I take a deep breath and lift my shirt and see that the infection has only gotten way worse, the skin red and puffy, the G-tube and the area around it oozing. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

They did not wear many clothes, and the shadows between their sliding muscles were blue on the nut-brown skins. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had very dark skin and huge eyes and dozens of long, skinny braids that seemed to dance around her face. I Survived Hurricane Katrina, 2005 2011-04-01T00:00:00Z

The skin under my jaw felt swollen and tender. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

Even the idea of being this near someone should have set his skin crawling. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

As he landed on the ground, a surge of intense rage rushed over me, murderous wrath that felt like a fire had been stoked beneath my skin. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

It sends heat through my skin, and I immediately push the gesture from my mind. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

And my skin prickles when a breeze wafts over me. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

Tyrion asked him once, as he pulled a stopper from a skin. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

He kept on examining her, discovering the miracle of her intimacy inch by inch, and he felt his skin tingle as he contemplated the way her skin tingled when it touched the water. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

The face itself had been spared: it was uniformly brown, the brown skin so smooth that it looked as if it'd been ironed with a hot iron. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

Taryn watches me warily as I talk with the leader of the mock war, Fand, a pixie girl with skin the blue of flower petals. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Their beaks were breaking my skin like arrows. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

As long as we do this, butter our skin to keep it soft, we can believe that we will some day get out, that we will be touched again, in love or desire. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

Auma had ebony skin and brilliant white teeth and spoke with a strong British accent. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

While Meng talks and answers questions, I become conscious of the charcoal on my face, the knots in my oily hair, and my flaky skin. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Yore skin...hit’s so soft, Love. See? Hit ain’t hard a-tall to call you Love. Yore cheek, Love, it’s like”—he laughed—“like a mule’s nose....Like velvet.” Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

The split spread out and down, his human skin peeling away. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

One night I saw Grammy so clearly that I could even make out her skin of soft, crinkly velvet. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

You got skin the color of I don’t know what, the inside of almonds. The Misfits 2001-10-01T00:00:00Z

She only had time to see its eyes and the blur of its skin before she drove Damaris through the ridderak’s face. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Papá was fair-haired and light-complected, implying a Spanish bloodline rather than native Mexican, but Mamá did have olive skin, black hair, and dark eyes. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

That secret was making her feel like something was pushing under her skin, desperate to get out. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

Her red lips are purple and dry, her cheeks are sunken, there are deep shadows under her eyes, her porcelain white skin is brown and wrinkled from the sun. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“If nothing happened to your ankle you must have an egg under your skin it’s sticking up so much. Here’s another egg for your other leg.” 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

It stops being about the color of your skin after a while and starts being about how you comport yourself. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Our bottles and skin are fairly full, but with two drinking and this hot sun it won't take long to deplete them. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

She was the color of pale caramel, with skin thin and waxy stretched over long, delicate bones. Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

As I stumbled out of the stall, my skin cold and sweaty, feeling like one of those eyeless white cave salamanders, Chas was there, still smirking, wiping his face, and watching me. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

His arms were red to the elbow as he laid the skinning knife aside. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

We’re similarly liable to pick up diseases from wild animals, such as the tularemia that hunters can get from skinning wild rabbits. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

I would think of nothing but the warmth on my skin, I told myself severely. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

He saw only a flash of pale skin and enormous eyes—the haunted image of an apparition—and cried out, tried to run, but it was too late. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

A streetlight outside the nearest window to the left cast stripes through the blinds onto Javier’s skin while he was in the kitchen, crossing over his shoulders and down his arms. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Your skin looked the worst—it wasn’t just bumpy with bites, it was dotted with red where you’d scratched so hard, you’d bled. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

His skin looks darker, and his hair is completely matted down with sweat. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

As soon as her lips touch his skin, Chandresh feels better than he has in years, as though the last of a fog has been lifted from him. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

But I’d be lying if I said the human bat’s comments didn’t get under my skin. Fast Pitch 2021-08-31T00:00:00Z

They had the fair, brownish skin of the true Martian, the yellow coin eyes, the soft musical voices. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

Before an audience of intellectuals, Swammerdam cut away the skin of the silkworm to reveal what appeared to be a tiny model of the future moth inside, from proboscis to antennae to folded wings. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

I spread my fingers through his hair, feeling the warmth of his scalp, the faint scratch of his mustache against my skin. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

My skin feels too tight, and the room seems suddenly too small. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

She catches sight of me and smiles, sunlight dappling her skin. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

His wife, seated beside him behind the tiny glass counter, fanned the mottled skin above her breasts and agreed. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

And when she felt the next drops of water begin to splash against her skin, she grabbed the camera and took a picture of Rishi. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

That is surely childhood’s end, when you look at a thing like a rabbit needing skinned and have to say: “Nobody else is going to do this.” The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It is no wonder? your skin is so dry. Let me make a liniment that will soften it and ease the pain.” Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

When she’s there, her pale skin and watery eyes make her look glamorously tragic, like a literary heroine wasting from consumption. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

Dieldrin, named for a German chemist, Diels, is about 5 times as toxic as DDT when swallowed but 40 times as toxic when absorbed through the skin in solution. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

The Mask presses the shard of glass deep into the soft skin below Nan’s eye, and her nostrils flare. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

Her wrist tugs against the handcuff, just enough that the metal carves a line into her skin. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

Maybe just as skin on a hand grows tougher after pain in repetition, a person does too. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

The axe swept back down, rasping over the skin. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Then the morning after I finally slept, I awoke with only your scent on my skin. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then he mumbled to himself as he went to work picking at his skin. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Holding a knife, I contemplate a rabbit carcass slung over a hook on the wall, waiting to be cut open and skinned for the stew. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

So light skin is valued in the community of American blacks. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

There is really no such creature as a single individual; he has no more life of his own than a cast-off cell marooned from the surface of your skin. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

I am wearing a choker to cover the bruises blooming on my throat where Valerian’s fingers sank into my skin. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

The bright blue color brought out the rosiness of her skin. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

With her light skin, semiblond hair, pale seagull blue eyes, she could easily pass herself off as something other than a woman born and raised in East Harlem. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

I winced at the sight of the raw skin hanging from his shoulder. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

All of the badness boils under my skin, stingy ginger-ale bubbles fighting to breathe. Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z

One was asleep, curled up tight and buried beneath a great mound of skins. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

His eyes were bloodshot; his skin had a whitish, almost colorless cast. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

The scent of Marco’s skin beneath the ink and his cologne. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Her skin was milky white and smooth as a newborn’s. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

His torso is a mess of blood and mangled skin. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

It had grazed the skin of my shoulder as it passed through my clothes, and the cut burned. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

Of the sand that still clung to my skin and the scent of Mabel everywhere. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

“You comin’?” The boy had high cheekbones and freckles and light brown skin lit up by the setting sun, which cast a long dancing shadow onto the causeway behind him. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

At thirteen, she was really pretty, with her golden-brown skin and long, slightly fuzzy ponytail that she liked to toss as she walked. Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

But possibly her skin’s gone numb; possibly she feels nothing, like one formerly scalded. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

The veins of the young girl’s legs suddenly appeared like worms on her dark skin. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

The corners of her smile, turned up in delight, were as neat as the tips of a crescent moon, and her brows were bright against the blue of her skin, as cinnamon as her hair. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

But he already had lived in and with it: True Belle had been his first and major love, which may be why two gallops beyond that hair, that skin, their absence was unthinkable. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

In her place was a skull with empty sockets, a few strips of marble-colored skin clinging to its cheekbones, and a lock or two of moldy hair at its nape. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I got up, skin was missing from most of my knee. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

The corpse’s connective tissue, skin, and organs, already peppered with dead spots, heated by fever, and damaged by shock, begin to liquefy, and the fluids that leak from the cadaver are saturated with Ebola-virus particles. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was smiling, and when people wanted to touch her gown, well, let them, and when they wanted to brush their skin against hers, well, let them do that too. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

The skin of many who had gotten the fever retained a sickly yellow glow. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

Next, he had to stand still while his skin was coated with a chemical disinfectant to kill lice. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

He held something in his two hands that looked like a freshly skinned rabbit and hurried across the corridor with it and in through another door. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

Every time he saw her, he had been forced to stare at the pink, shining skin, and then to look quickly away. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

He pushes me to the wall, heat flaring from his hands and tingling across my skin, sending my heart into a feverish beat. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

Martin’s really tall, so the amount of his skin on display is actually pretty obscene. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

I felt my red skin was going to scald plumb off, and then I’d look just like that poor antelope. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

And she saw the ill-favored one, whose sun-ravaged skin was healing in the citadel’s shade—though he was no more appealing for it. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Keenan releases me as quickly as if my skin has turned to ice. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

“You know, with your light skin and that long braid you got hangin’ down your back...If you ever went to Africa, they'd kill you. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

Her body curled too; as the weeks turned to months, she shrank into herself like the stiffest of fetuses, shrivelling, her skin sallow and waxy. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

I push the thorns deeper into his skin, then let a vine hook around his neck. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

They snaked around my wrist and up my arm, digging into my skin, and Uncle Cotton leaned in close. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

I could see how tightly the skin was stretched across her face, showing the cheek-bones. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

He wanted to suck her finger, to lick honey from her nipple, to smear ice cream on her belly, as though it was not enough simply to lie bare skin to bare skin. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

“No. It’s funny how you get under his skin.” The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

And then larger flakes of skin fell off. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

I was going to be comfortable in my own skin even when some people wanted to make that impossible for me. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

He bucked against the sudden cold that touched his skin as the first shadows of the trees reached him. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

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

It was enough for me to dig my fingernails into the skin of my thighs and squeeze my eyes shut until the nausea passed. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

There was no exposed skin on any of the men. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

The experience left her shaken and embarrassed, but her skin eventually cleared up. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

Under her hands her nipples wrinkled and hardened like dark nuts, pulling at the soft skin on her breasts. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

A golden Allah rested on her chest, the chain burrowed under the skin tags and folds of her neck. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Looking down at the black, empty doorways, Tally’s skin crawled with the thought of descending to peer into one. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

She was more beautiful than before, with eyes that seemed to have darkened as her skin glowed paler. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

She scrubs till my skin burns and tells Dad she wouldn’t give it to the world to say her son went on the altar dirty. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

After such a long time at sea, my skin was like a hide and my hair was long, matted and as silky as a fly- catching strip. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

After that she would squeeze the almonds from the fat ends, so that the nuts would pop out of the skins. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

And skin the color of sunshine through honey. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

The young boy’s bare skin shone pale in the moonlight. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

The hot New Mexican sun singed his exposed skin. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

I smacked them on my arms and legs until my skin stung. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The leader was a fine specimen, hair as yellow as the sun and clear, unblemished skin. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

They had loved to talk about her skin at the House of Exotics. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

She looked older than she could possibly have been, and she was very thin, just skin and bones, with a wan, yellow complexion and neglected, nicotine- stained hands. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

I closed my eyes and breathed in, letting the beads of sweat on my skin dry up in the cool air. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

I would sit up there and breathe the unfiltered city air for a while, feeling the wind on my skin. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

Diego sighed, and I wasn’t sure he was going to answer, but then he said, “Snakes get to shed their skin, why shouldn’t we?” We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

He took a skin off his saddle and offered it up to Jon. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

They pressed well between the pages of a book, and you could stamp a star-shaped pattern on your skin with their pepper-pot seed capsules. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

When I let go, the pink rushed back into my white thumbprint on her skin. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

Unaccustomed to the white man’s agricultural methods and deprived of buffalo, the Osage began to go hungry; their bones soon looked as if they might break through their skin. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Wishes I keep to myself: Wish I could do what boys do and let the sun darken my skin, and scars grid my knees. Inside Out and Back Again 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

Eric writes a poem about my hair and skin and eyes and lips. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

They usually had me skinning hides and I got to be pretty good at it. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I feel itchy inside my skin—antsy, that’s what my mother would call it. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m from down south, from Mississippi, where they say the livin’ is easy, but not so much for a man with black skin. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

Her veins have a yellow tint beneath her skin. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

Their skin dried, then their hair and finally their clothing. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

I rub at the thin skin on the underside of my wrist until it turns red. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

And so, obediently but without expectation, she had untangled and rebraided her hair, wiped away the kohl that had smudged below her eyes, patted some Cuticura powder from a velvet puff onto her skin. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Alex lets himself stare; the whipcord muscle under his skin, lean and long and lithe. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

He was bleeding badly, his skin pierced with splinters and broken glass. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

When those packs were set neatly down on the bottom, she told Omakayas to fetch the parched corn, which she had stored in neat skin bags. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

In winter his mother put Jergens Lotion on his face to keep the skin from becoming ashen. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

It felt as though live snakes were writhing all over his skin. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

It made my progress slow, but finally, I got to the tree where Susie had left her skin that night. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

If she was blessed with flawless skin and a great rack, then I was blessed with unwanted hair that was less visible in the sun. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

I dabbed them on top of my other hand and swished the brown around on my skin. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

I looked at it, at a piece of glass, small as a stub of diamond, burrowed in a puckered setting of skin. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

When she spread her hands, her palms side by side, a tiny globe—the size of a tennis ball—floated an inch above her gray-blue skin. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

The boy’s clothes his host had dressed him in made him feel like ten pounds of sausage in a five-pound skin. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

There was a sag now to his eyelids and the skin of his neck, which was wrinkled and leathery. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

I’m walking along the street and parts of my body are sticking out through the dress, parts of my bare skin. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

The tins of Ramses and Romeos were kept behind displays of aspirin and skin lightener in a plain wooden box labeled “para hombres.” Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

The tinge of gray in her skin is more visible now. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

He was light skinned with curly hair so everyone said they made a cute couple. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

Wherever the droplets of mist touch my skin. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

She looks too small to be a Martial, and the skin of her hands doesn't have the dark hue of a Mariner’s. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

“Selfish, disobedient child! I know you’re up there. I can see fresh fig skins on the ground!” A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

My face feels as hot as the water now, and I become keenly aware of our bare skin brushing together. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

His skin was tanned by the salt of the open air, his hair was short and straight like the mane of a mule, his jaws were of iron, and he wore a sad smile. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

Those with husbands had folded themselves into starched coffins, their sides bursting with other people’s skinned dreams and bony regrets. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

It got under Obie’s skin, mostly because he suspected that it was an act, that Archie wasn’t as cool as he pretended to be. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Davos waited wet and dripping, his wrists chafing where the wet rope dug into his skin. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The rays from the lantern fell on his wasted face, on the tight yellowed skin, on the lips split with fever, on his limbs which were like a child’s. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

She shot an anxious look at the freckled patch of skin on her wrist, where her red Talent bracelet with the shiny silver beads usually sat. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

I can tell it’s been recently cut because of the uneven tan on the skin visible between his shirt collar and the back of his fitted sandstone infantry cap. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

A star drifts over her face, the veins beneath her skin glowing blue as it passes. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

Not a single white person was around, even though some of the men and women had the lightest of brown skin tones. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

After a while, the trees settle me back into my skin. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

Finn rubbed his fingers together, feeling the tug of the honey drying on his skin. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

She touches my hand, plucks at the skin of my wrist. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

She saw that his skin was looser than she remembered. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The soldiers killed the girl, skinned her, and used her skin to cover a drum. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Didn’t pull away, just watched, black eyes begging as the knife cut into her brown skin. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

He pulled the wattles of skin at his throat again and gazed at the ceiling for a moment. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

Ironbom, he knew at a glance; lean and long-legged, with black hair cut short, wind-chafed skin, strong sure hands, a dirk at her belt. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

I glanced at one of the men against the wall, and it looked as if he was skin-popping—shooting heroin under his skin. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

Some mornings, I still wake up and examine my skin for signs that my treatments are working. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

They are wonderfully built homes, aluminum skins, doublewalled, with insulation, and often paneled with veneer of hardwood. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

Trying to stretch the plastic band they’d tightened around them did nothing but force it to cut deeper into the soft skin there. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

Raindrops stood out on his oiled skin like studs. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Katherine gasps, stealing up behind us like a shambler in the night, me near to jumping out of my skin from the surprise. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

I eat in pink restaurants, which are better for the skin. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

I wrap a tendril around a rod to give her the perfect coil, and mix two skin tones together—seashell white and a dark citrine brown. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

Surely some of them, some of those young prime field hands, glossy skinned, supple-jointed, surely some of those strong young men must have reached the North. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Carlton was a frail man in his late eighties, with skin so pale it looked almost translucent. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

My skin is freckled and my lips are sunburnt. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

He’s tall, with cropped black hair, a thin mustache, and dark brown skin. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

Then sharp spice and skinned knees and damp hair. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

The yellow skin on his hand was tight and glazed. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Such arguments depended on analogies: comparing the skin, for example, to porous earthenware. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Haymitch sits in the chair by my bed, his skin waxen, his eyes bloodshot. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

Nearly blinded by the flying embers he had dashed water on his head and face, and his matted hair and begrimed skin added to his frightened looks made him seem like another person.” The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z

She remembers the painful transitions to spring, the sea grapes and the rains, her skin a cicatrix. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now it sticks to my feet, coating them like a second skin. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

Hot bricks and rubble have burned my skin. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

Abrasions on my legs, which will require skin grafts; and on my face, which will require cosmetic surgery—but, as the doctors note, that is only if I am lucky. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

He couldn’t see anything moving on the road or in the fields, but still, the skin on the back of his neck prickled. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

The so-called glacier water smelled one way in the bottle and a lot different once it hit a person’s skin. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

Its body was leonine, the skin stretched across its lean frame the pale pink color of something that hadn’t seen true sunlight in years. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

Silky hair, flawless skin, perfect lips, long legs. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

"I spent hours trapping and skinning and cooking that squirrel, and you not only eat most of it, but then you throw it all up!" Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

And in the front, where the band had stuck directly to the bare skin, there remained a whole lot of small patches of brown leathery stuff that no amount of washing would get off. Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z

His skin is white, and his nose is crooked and has a diamond stud. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

He saw various women of indecipherable age, their skin dry and cracked, some apparently pregnant, all of them barefoot and dressed in faded rags. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then I feel like many tiny pins are pricking my skin. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The angrier, more powerful ghosts used the trolley to find new hosts: tired, unsuspecting bodies to possess for a little while, warmth to steal from cheeks and other exposed skin, and ill tempers to stoke. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

It also always took longer for me to get ready after being in the pool, because my darker skin looks a million times better with lotion to keep it from getting ashy. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

My skin was grimy with dirt, my nails long and ragged. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

It was hard and cool as one would expect of metal in the shade, and his skin slipped right over it without any kind of friction. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

He panicked, removed the cells, and hadn’t tried transplanting skin cells since. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

The skin on his hands and face was milky white, almost translucent, showing the branching veins. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

“Why? Because your skin is light and you have blue eyes?” In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z

He pressed his fingers against the skin as if to force the life back in her, back into the place it was escaping from. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

Hazel had straight black hair, odd big brown eyes, and dark brown skin. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

Katz’s arm lowered around my chest, only so that he could place the knife directly against the skin under my jawline. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

The morning light coming through the window was gray and watery, giving her skin an unhealthy pallor. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Our fingers were long and bony like vampires from some Hollywood horror movie, the skin on our faces cracked and drawn back like mummies. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

The girl’s golden brown skin set off the beads, making them sparkle even more. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

“I’m so dirty, you could take a spatula and scrape the filth off my skin.” Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

The sun had set, but the western sky was the color of peach skin, while the sky over the ocean was a clear lapis blue. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

One of the gardeners passed me with a barrow full of bits of paper, and litter, and the skins of fruit left on the lawns by the people last night. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

The skin around it had gotten old, but the number had not. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Yakov’s skin held an ashy pallor, his dark hair a stiff bramble. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

The cooks were serving the meat course: five suckling pigs, skin seared and crackling, a different fruit in every mouth. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

I circled my fingers around my own throat; my palm felt cold and coarse, not living skin anymore, but braided leather. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

Perhaps the bar had forced iron rust under the skin and made a kind of tattoo. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

And he wore a small piece of wood stuck through the skin at the bottom of his nose. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

I feel my shoe soften, blood flows into it, it grows warm, it becomes a skin. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her voice was mild, her skin was copper. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

I see one of them has a large raw patch on its shoulder where the yoke has rubbed the skin off. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

His lips pressed together; the skin around them twitched, as if he were trying to speak but couldn’t. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

My skin felt too snug for me and I wanted to jump out of it. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

Bobby Joe could smell their skin and their old dusty clothes, and he could smell their guns. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The surgical team took life-size pictures of my face and X-rays of my skull so they could match the two together and see where bone and skin would have to be cut and moved. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

But what if real-world traits, such as height or skin color, were the result of not a single gene, with just two states—“tall” and “short,” “on” and “off”—but of multiple genes? The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

The girl was a shade plump far his taste, with skin as splotchy as oatmeal, but her breasts filled his hands nicely and she had been a maiden the first time he took her. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Her cheekbones were still high and strong, but the skin was parched and ruddy from all those winters and summers exposed to the elements. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

He was crouching a little now and pushing his face still closer and closer to James until the tip of his long nose was actually touching the skin on James’s forehead. James and the Giant Peach 1961-11-01T00:00:00Z

Christoffel the errand boy has curly blond hair and big blue eyes and the tender skin of someone who hasn't been shaving long. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

His puppy muscles knotted and rippled under the velvety skin. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Its emotional tone is as familiar to me as my own skin; it is but another way of saying that sinners shall be bound in Hell a thousand years. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z

The light in the room pulsed, and her skin tingled. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

“They recognize a strong back in a black skin,” says Auntie. Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I first threw water on my skin, it became slimy. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

My skin buzzed, like it was crawling with microscopic organisms that had been accumulating steadily since my last shower weeks ago. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

I could feel her sticky lipstick on my skin. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

She put her hand on my spine, and my skin tingled. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

The burn was healing, and now the layer of damaged skin was flaking away. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

The skin of her bare arms and face glowed with health and vitality, but her skin was not the only thing transformed. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

As I carefully peeled it off, the contact patches made tiny popping sounds as they pulled free of my skin, leaving tiny circular marks all over my body. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

I swayed from knee to knee, hoping for a second or two of relief, but the pain cut deep into my skin. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

When Kaisa’s skin was no longer touching the moonstone ring, it flared into life again, burning as though it were angry with her. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

And, since the women in my family had been the ones who discussed it in such worried tones, I felt my dark skin made me unattractive to women. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Up around her collar the cotton of her dress was plastered to her skin. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The door to the bedroom was ajar, so Moss moved into the bathroom, the humidity instantly clinging to his skin. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

I scraped the skin off my palms trying to catch myself, but that was nothing compared to the screaming pain in my shoulder. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

My cheek and my eye are just singing with pain and I haven’t even moved properly before Aaron’s grabbing me by my shirtfront and the skin beneath and lifting me to my feet. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

Malcolm was already primed for fear and felt his skin prickle all over and a lurch in his stomach. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

“Well, have you noticed skin being reactive to it?” Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Her skin was cold, but my fingertips tingled as if they were burning. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

At thirty weeks her skin thins, and her hair gets thicker. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

With her bright eyes and dark, flawless skin, she easily earned the doctors’ stamp of approval, though later we would learn that she had some serious medical problems. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

The blade slashed open Seward’s cheek so viciously that the skin hung from a flap, exposing his teeth and fractured jawbone. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was awed for a second, goose bumps rippling down my skin. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

The skin on my fingers was all ripped up and my legs was shaking. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The skin is soft, probably exfoliated and moisturized daily by some royal manicurist. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

I just need to hang on long enough for my new skin to graft. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

At one end of the cut the skin flapped. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

A film of sw'eat covers every inch of my skin, the inside of my mouth prickles, my eyes itch, mascara rubbed into their corners. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

He has seborrheic dermatitis, which means that his skin appears to be constantly in a state of rash. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

A few of the portraits change—hair grows shorter or longer, noses shrink, skin tones flush over with enhanced or brand-new colors, hair textures morph, mouths plump up. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

Then they commenced making a sound that made my skin all twitch-ity with gooseflesh. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

Where do I begin telling strangers about a place whose smell is on my skin and whose memory is always in my head? Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

A chill pierces my skin, and I cry out. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

Mutto wobbled howling out the back door with half an inch of neck skin clamped between Beans’s Technicolor teeth. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

Moments later, Alice rushed out and threw herself on the ground, rolling this way and that; in the evening sunlight, her sand-patched skin was tinted with gold. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

"Everybody knows they found a white man's skin under that girl's fingernails where she had fought whoever killed her." Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

The concrete patio bakes my skin through my denim shorts. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

I’d come home from Morgan’s sleepover, feeling too big for my skin. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

Princesse watched her own skin grow visibly darker as she sat near the open sea, the waves spraying a foam of white sand onto her toes. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

Katherine glares at me but says nothing, a thin sheen of perspiration shining on her skin. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

The windows’ tint was light enough that I could look through them and skim the trees for any flash of his waxy skin. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

It was so cold he felt the skin on his legs searing as though this were fire, not icy water. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

This giant was smaller than a lot of monsters he had faced, but something about him made Percy’s skin crawl. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

She had tied rabbit skins around her hips to save the precious cloth for her eventual arrival in Zimbabwe, so everything from her waist up was bare. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

In her hands she held a flickering light, which wasn’t a lantern or a candle but seemed to be a ball of raw flame, attended by nothing more than her bare skin. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

For example, at the Columbia session, I paid particular attention to a young woman with pale skin and blond, curly hair and a tall, energetic man with green eyes and long brown hair. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

I carry the smell of the camp on my skin and in my soul. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

She was a pleasant enough woman, with her steps made mincing by age and her little hands like gentle claws that liked to touch young skin. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Someone stomped their foot down on the same hand I was trying to maneuver toward my attacker’s skin. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

“Of course I’ve read that you shed your skins...but not that you keep them lying around.” The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

Nels pulled at the skin of his throat, then took his briefcase in his hand. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

He was as ragged as a rock star, but his missing teeth and the unhealthy pallor of his skin spoke eloquently of a life of privation and despair. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Selkies from Queen Orlagh’s Court of the Undersea speak together in their own language, skins slung from their shoulders like capes. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Each summer day they prayed for a storm to cool their skin from the burning sun. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

By his handsome cheekbones the muscles twitched with the movement, and along his forearms they fanned and shifted in complicated rearrangements under the skin. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

He rolls the president on one side and carefully searches for a puncture wound, his fingers slipping along the skin, probing for a telltale oozing of blood. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

Sweat beaded on her skin and ran down her arms. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

The baby doll’s white skin had been painted the color of midnight, with thick cherry-red lipstick smeared over its small mouth. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

The horse was, as they said, “sound as a Roosevelt dollar” and jumping out of his skin to run. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

A younger girl with the same skin color and the same height takes her hand—Christina’s younger sister. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

Then we came home one evening and found the cats strung up by their tails from our front gate, gutted and skinned and bleeding out, their heads chopped off. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

And because my skin has never fit this badly before. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

This time, when it hits the board, my ear stings, and blood tickles my skin. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

Dark bags under his eyes and ribs showing through ghost white Asian skin. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

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

When they got to the midden, they skinned out of their clothes and dove naked into the dump. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

His skin was so red that it seemed to be burning. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

She doesn’t resist as I work off her clothing, scrub the blood from her skin. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

It begins to rain, lashing water against our skin and making the sea splash into our hair, and even then we just stay in the water together. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Back in your skin, of course, you’ll shriek for a cure. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was like being plunged into an ice bath, a thousand small knives pricking at his skin. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

At one stall, flies swarmed up from an open gutter onto the skinned carcasses of goats. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

For the few seconds it rested there, I lay motionless, living in the press of skin beneath her palm, sensing something big behind every beat of my heart. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

The old zebra skin, which he still had on the wall, had dried out and cracked. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

In the candlelight her skin was the unreal color of wax statues. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

My teeth chattered, my skin turned to goose flesh, my knees knocked. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her light brown skin is smooth, her eyes still young and playful, oblivious to the tumor growing inside her—a tumor that would leave her five children motherless and change the future of medicine. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

By the next morning, three separate palmists had examined Bibi’s hand and confirmed that there was, no doubt, evidence of an imminent union etched into her skin. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

I get up and walk into the bathroom and I feel raw, like my skin was scraped clean and every breath of air stings it a little, but stable. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

Because who in the world’s history ever has played a worse “skin game” than the white man? The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

With her pale skin and white-blond hair she all but disappeared into the thin curtain that had been pulled around my bed. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

As the old man ended his story they reached the simple hut where he lived and there Aeneas spent the night on a couch of leaves with a bear’s skin to cover him. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

He said, “Elves are prissy. They have fine skin. Killing an elf slowly will be fun.” The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

He's scrubbed the mud from his skin and changed into clean fatigues. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

Thinking of her makes the sun burn hotter on my skin and my pores push out more water, drenching my clothes. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

It no longer scratched my skin when I wore it. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

It has a purplish skin and is often found lurking beneath bridges. Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

She grabs my arms, her nails scratching my skin. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dany's skin was flushed and pink when she climbed from the tub. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

And then there was the Persian eyebrow threader who decided to dole out skin advice while she kept my evil unibrow at bay. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

The skin around her eyes is purple and black. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

I do not think life anywhere else would look very much like a reptile, or an insect or a human— even with such minor cosmetic adjustments as green skin, pointy ears and antennae. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

But there was also children that asked me, “Why is your skin so dark?” Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The skin of my feet will be bloated tomorrow,” I said. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

I strip, and flakes of skin the size of playing cards cling to the garments. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

I kept on rubbing, working that soft area at her lower back, where the required team racing suit just allowed for a window of skin, a couple of knobs of vertebrae. The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z

His skin hung loosely, and deep lines had appeared beside his mouth. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

I lay down next to him, our jackets touching without our skin touching. Turtles All the Way Down 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

There was the one with flaming red hair and pale white skin. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

The scars on Cook's face are livid against her skin. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

He had metallic golden skin, armor made from platinum links, and an iron staff the size of a totem pole. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

But when he touched the skin of her elbow, she lurched from him, stumbled. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

She was a short woman with very dark skin, round cheekbones, and bright eyes. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

The roof of the tunnel was scraping his shoulders and he was afraid that it would tear through the dry suit and gouge into his skin as well. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

Someone bumps them and her lips touch his skin. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

He’s looking at me again in that way of his, like he’s trying to see beneath the skin. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

Kurz came up off the ground with his skinning knife in hand. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Can’t ever be more anyplace, it turns out, as long as I wear this brown skin. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

It had smeared down on the latex, right against her skin, right against the Band-Aid. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The odor is left behind in the pores of their skin. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

Stuffing the sleeping skin into her pack, she tied the caribou hide to the bottom and shouldered her load. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

I clench my hands so hard into fists that my fingernails cut into my skin. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

And, of course, Callie is using my dress as a beach towel so that her precious skin doesn’t touch the hot plastic seat. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

Even when I could no longer see, I could still smell death crawling over my skin. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

So I scolded myself good, while Hirohito filled up his second carton: I should keep my curiosity to myself; I should not stare at his long black eyelashes and coppery-colored skin. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Small, beach-living insects had feasted on her skin overnight, and she scratched at the red bites that covered her legs and arms. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

The skin under my fingernails had been pale blue all week. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Velvety, fluid, and when I concentrate, I can almost feel his skin as my own. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

The tongue’s skin may be tom off during rushes of the black vomit. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Slowly, the gray pallor faded and the killing fever cooled from her cousin’s skin. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Deep brown skin like mine, a wide jaw, and a proud stance. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

It had been a very long time since he had had such a large amount to eat and his skin was stretched thin to accommodate all the delicious meat. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

I was the only one who knew that despite her sharp ways, her heart was more tender than a flower skin and she loved me beyond reason. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

My body felt heavy, and though someone had pulled off my sweater, my shirt was plastered to my skin with a thin sheen of sweat. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

He was drenched, and his thin, white clothes clung like another skin to his black body. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

“Was his skin like yours or like mine?” The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even though he’s shot up by at least a foot and his skin looks baked by the sun, I know it’s Jamie Merrick. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

I stripped right down to the skin, not caring that the girls were watching. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

She worked from memory, swelling and cracking the skin on Muzzen’s face and chest, raising blisters until the swelling and pustules were so bad that he was truly unrecognizable. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

She had slipped out of her old skin. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

I gently touch my side, lifting my shirt to unhook the tube, surprised that the skin around it is even redder and more inflamed than it was before. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

From her earliest childhood that scream came, with a memory of flowing, spotted skin and rending claws, and later of Ambuya tearing out her hair when they brought Mother’s bones home from the forest. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

The pain of it sends a shiver across my skin. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

She handed Sierra a little flowering bulb of garlic, its crackling paper skin fluttering like broken wings onto the kitchen floor. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

Carefully she gathered the skins on which she had slept these four nights guarding her mother’s spirit. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Better wait till the train has come to a stop. You wouldn’t want to fall and skin a knee just before you see Father.” In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z

His skin glowed as brightly as ever, his hair had grown back, and his muscles rippled under his tight T-shirt. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

That they would infuse her skin, her bones, her blood, even her hair with magic. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

He seemed about her age, not long into two syllables, and was a good-looking boy with clear skin and bright eyes. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The grandmother with nine hundred heads killed each ox, skinned it, and tossed it into her enormous cooking pot. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

Her skin had been blanched by the night’s cold, and her cheeks looked blue-black. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

Or, I think Lewis is a total buttmunch, but I shouldn’t have let him get under my skin and I definitely shouldn’t have been so mean to him, and I’m not sure why I was. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

He wipes my forehead, cheeks, and chin, leaving my skin damp. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

There was nothing but obliterating sensation, thrilling and swelling, and the sound of fabric on fabric and skin on fabric as their limbs slid across each other in this restless, sensuous wrestling. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

The wound now looked several days old; new skin stretched over what had just been open flesh. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

"I told you twenty times, Renard, you don't come in here! Never again! I will skin you with a branch if I gotta!" The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

He was shocked to find her skin was hot to the touch, almost feverish. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

“It has to pick out every grain of salt before it can wear the skin again,” Doc said, his voice a tobacco-scented whisper. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

Then she picks up another tomato and sets the knife against the skin. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Colonel Korn was an untidy disdainful man with an oily skin and deep, hard lines running almost straight down from his nose between his crepuscular jowls and his square, clefted chin. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

My dad was flying—long grooves of slush that ribbed the pavement sprayed up onto the car—and the whole time I was shaking in the backseat like there was an earthquake under my skin. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

Once it is out of sight and no longer pressed to my skin, my head feels clearer. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

I tossed on the sheets, wishing I could crawl into bed with her and smell her skin. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had a developing carbuncle on the back of his neck and the skin from the inside of an eggshell stretched over it to draw it to a head. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

It bounced off, making a little dent under her earlobe, like a fold in the skin that was hardly a disfigurement at all. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

She could feel air currents on her skin now. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

It’s odd to think I have a skeleton of bones hiding under my skin, holding me up. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

Her skin was stretched over her puffy cheeks like shiny scar tissue that covers old vaccination marks. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Coach’s eyebrows are pushing the skin on his forehead into folds and he’s swallowing every five seconds now. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

I love seeing her, her dark skin the kind of brown that can’t be found anywhere else in nature, only on her, and I love seeing her twisted locks piled up onto her head. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

He put his headcloth in place and secured it with a ring made of camel skin. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

When dinner is over, Mom lays a hand on my arm, fingertips barely touching the skin, and says, “Isn’t it nice to have your brother back, Decca?” All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Three men-at-arms had escorted him into a wood near Horn Hill, where his father was skinning a deer. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

He nodded gratitude and pulled it on, buttoning the front over his damp skin. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

Liyana started thinking of the word “immigrant” in a different way at that moment and her skin prickled. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

They were Europeans, and they seemed so odd to us with their long noses and white skin. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

He wanted to pull off his clothes and roll in the snow until something nourishing seeped into his body through the pores of his skin. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

The moment they touched the creature’s skin, it shrieked. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

Laila watched the arch of her closed fist, slicing through the air, felt the crinkle of Rasheed’s stubbly, coarse skin under her knuckles. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

I could tear the skin off her face right now if I weren't tied up. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

The splintery carvings bit into his skin, but he could not make sense of them. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

I rub the butter over my face, work it into the skin of my hands. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

Its harsh skin afforded such a marvellously good grip that without thinking about what I was doing, I pulled. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

Then Fang suddenly let loose a great, echoing bark, making both Harry and Ron jump out of their skins. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

Its skin was tacky, like warm bread dough. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

Disgust, for the way he had touched me and invaded even the pores of my skin. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

Like I don’t know that from looking in the mirror, or from having kids tease me about my blue-black skin all the way through school. Bronx Masquerade 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

I imagine it: gliding my hands up his long oblique muscles, lingering over the grooves of his abdomen, feeling the heat of his skin in my hands. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

The gown lay against her skin like a dress made of lead, pinning her to her seat. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

I discovered pools of oil and pus under my skin. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

Worse, they saw the college president as trading on his skin color to prove a solidarity with the black residents of Edgemont, a solidarity that did not, in fact, exist. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

He’s been checking her often, her pulse, her eyes, pinching her skin. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

"I messed up with the skin. It turned out too bright." The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

His skin grew cracked and itchy without the daily wash of his beloved swamp water. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

Matt was clad only in a pair of shorts, so the peas landed on his bare skin. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was alarmed by how feverish his skin felt. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Her skin was white and pink, her eyes small, her nose and chin slender and sharp. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

I took a break from homework to check my phone for new texts later that evening and nearly jumped out of my skin. Liar, Liar 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

He removed all of his clothes and sponged his skin with yellow soap until the odor was gone from his pores. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

For one long second, he thinks she’s serious and his heart stops completely, goose bumps rising like soldiers across his skin. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

About his tattered clothes and golden skin and funny gray eyes. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

The big white bone sticking out of the skin. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

It’s like fighting, except what we’re fighting for is to crawl inside each other’s skin. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

The breeze against my skin, the fading pain in my fingers, the sound of this tape winding from one spool to the next, reminds me of everything I’ve heard over the past day. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

His skin was like moist soil that had just been turned. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

He was conscious of something warm and sticky on his hand and his sense of it covered him, all over; it cast a warm glow that enveloped the surface of his skin. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

Calpurnia nearly took the skin off her with the rough towel, and commanded her to raise her hands above her head. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

Kids called me Cochise because of my light skin and curly hair. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was wearing brown cowboy boots that were probably made from rattlesnake skin, like the ones Papá had on his feet the morning he walked out of our lives. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

Her skin is dry, rough on my lips, and I know better than to put any gloss on because that's also "too fast for church." Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z

Curzon lay insensible, his skin burning with fever, his eyes rolled up into his head. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her very black skin looked ashy, and she had the tired slump to her shoulders I recognize in my boys when they’re getting hookworm. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

The pain is almost unnoticeable at first, and then second by second the heat doubles and deepens until you want to claw the burning out of your skin. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

She knew Jesper was well armed and could take care of himself, but between his lanky frame and Zemeni skin, he was just too noticeable for comfort. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

The feeling of her skin against mine makes my flesh crawl. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s like the dust in Mobius is woven into the fiber of every article of clothing that touches my skin. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

Her skin was more luminous than the moon, her eyes wider than the sky, deeper than the water, darker than the night. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

The sickly gray skin resembles an elephant's trunk with thick hair poking out. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

Rain spattered his skin, coming in cold where palm thatching was already tearing away under the increasing battery of the winds. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

A jagged piece of iron tore open the skin and crushed the fingers of one of his hands against the fence. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Its face is full and round, skin blemished with craters, and white as milk. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

He put his hands on her shoulders, and her bare skin was cool to the touch. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

His antics definitely would have gotten under her skin. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

“I’m very partial to that color with your skin,” he offered unexpectedly. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

My nerves jittered so much it felt like my skin was giving off electricity. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

Her eyes were darkly shadowed, traces of green veins crawled just underneath her pale skin, and Olanna wondered if she was sick. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

She skinned the rabbit, saving the fur to line her new mitten. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Boys who should have been covered in wolf skins, protecting the new growth from hungry animals, had nothing to guard. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

Everywhere I went in Tanganyika my skin color was automatically accepted rather than instantly reviled. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had dark, smooth skin that looked like it was carved out of midnight. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

The skin at her cheeks was stretched out tight like the rubber skin on a balloon just before it pops open. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

I brush my fingers over his face: his skin is soft and warm, his breath hot on my hands. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

His hair was cropped short, his skin a deep golden brown, and he had that sort of lean muscle that came easy to some people through the gift of genetics. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

His skin was light brown and the water made it shining. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

I revel in the moment, the echo of his skin against mine. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

Her smile was exactly the same as before I removed Susie’s skin. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

The new arrival was a young man in Western dress, but the color of his skin suggested he was from this city. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

And judging by the way he was skinning and grinning and frolicking ’round this one colored girl, he wasn’t holting on for the ride, he was getting dragged foots-first by anything the girl done. The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z

Grinning, he reached out and slipped me some skin. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

“Yes, at least there I could keep the skin on my back.” Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

Overhead was a dark purple skin with gray veins. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Clusters of Amity sit at the other tables, their clothes bright against their tanned skin. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

They came into town once a week, their skin scummy and stinking and blackened from oil and caked-on dirt, to get a bath and a shave at the barbershop. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had stopped pinching her cheek because I did not like the feel of her skin. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

One of the cooks renders cooking fat with herbs to rub into our chapped skin. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Her skin was dusty brown— the color of earth, Amari thought. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

He’s dark skinned, about six feet tall, and one of his arms ends in a stump because he lost his hand in the Games he won thirty years ago. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

It felt like my fingers suddenly swelled to three times their size, like cooked sausages splitting their skin, as I tried to flip through them all. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was so frail and thin, with no strength left in his hand, but she could still feel the warmth of life through his skin. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Not noticed the hurt that was not linked to the color of his skin, or the blood that beat beneath it. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Time has turned his skin into wax paper. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

A thin layer of pain across every inch of my body, as if I can feel the very color of my skin. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

My throat is no longer tight, I’ve stopped clenching my teeth, the skin on my feet has begun to grow back, my fingers have healed partially. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

“I had a chile, my massa’s chile for shure. She be as pretty as the dawn—blond hair, blue eyes, and skin the color of weak tea.” Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

Straight black hair, olive skin, we even have the same gray eyes. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

The skins would burn, maybe, but she didn’t think she could get a pot of water boiling on the small fire she felt safe building. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was rather handsome, with dark skin, a proud look and a long straight nose, and a floral scarf was tied across her silver hair. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Following the trail I found first the red and then the gray: clusters of long wing feathers still attached to gristle and skin, splayed like fingers. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

The heat from the river baked Percy’s skin. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Her skin was smooth and cocoa-colored, and she stared right back at him through oversized sunglasses. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

Hastily throwing the hare on the caribou skin she was dragging for just such a purpose, she walked on. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

From the waist up, they were women with green scaly skin, yellow eyes, and forked tongues. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

Rex was wearing shorts and a monogrammed shirt, ripped at the shoulder, showing tanned skin. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

I looked down to see that the knife had barely cut into my skin. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

I am not a skin color or a hank of wavy hair. Bronx Masquerade 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

He felt his skin darkening with a blush. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

There were white hairs scattered among the red, and the skin across his forehead and at the corner of each eye was wrinkled as if he had been frowning for a long time. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

Pima and Nailer huddled through it, watching the roar and rain and holding close as their lips turned purple and their skins pimpled with cold. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

His nose drew a line up the skin of my throat to the point of my chin. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

If someone came up behind me suddenly or startled me, I jumped out of my skin. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

The skin tastes the air, and every deep- drawn breath is sweet. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Chubs might have hated me, or wanted to scare me off, but he at least recognized I had played some small part in saving his skin. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

“Wait!” said the Hamadryad, as Mary Poppins bent to pick up the skin. Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z

He was teaching her the language of the white skins! Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

He wedged off the lid with the metal key and then peeled off the thick, dried skin covering the white liquid underneath. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

He could feel his trousers sticking to the skin. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

The four officers in the Amadou Diallo case had their judgment derailed by the color of Diallo’s skin and the lack of white space and the physiologically disruptive trajectory of those seven seconds. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

During the wait her skin had become wrinkled, her breasts had withered, the coals of her heart had gone out. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

Her arm brushed against his; tingles shot across his skin, and he felt mortally embarrassed. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

My fury was back, rushing under my skin with a vengeance. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

There were things you and the people around you pretended not to know, because just to acknowledge that they existed meant they could get into your homes, into your beds, under your skin. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

She had golden hair and eyes, high cheekbones, and her mouth was a red slash across white skin. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

She had worked for so many years in the dark, her face was chalk white and her blue veins were visible through her skin. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

His skin appeared yellowish and waxy in the firelight, and his eyes were sunken and shadowed. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

It had nearly black skin on top which was covered with brilliant orange spots, and it had, of course, been perfectly poached. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

She takes the back of my arm in one hand and runs the other over the blue patch that’s spreading beneath my skin. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

Wide sleepy eyes that tilted up at the corners, high cheekbones, full lips blacker than their skin, berry-stained, and long long necks. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

The skin round her neck's the softest thing I've ever stroked. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

He saw the pack of Grievers between them and the Cliff, spikes extended, their moist skin pulsing in and out. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

Even though Bram’s skin is brown and he has hair and doesn’t drool. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

He carried the pearl still in his hand, tightly closed in his palm, and it was warm and smooth against his skin. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

He wore only a skin around his middle. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had the big eyes, smooth skin, and small nose, but her cheekbones were too tight, the skull practically visible beneath her flesh. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

She was wearing some tight pants that were the same color as her skin, a light sienna, and for a second I thought she didn’t have any pants on. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

Mr. Lawson presses four cold, sticky pads to the bare skin around my right knee. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

“He has sores in his mouth. His skin condition, I would say, comes from a combination of dirt and an allergic reaction to chicken litter.” The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had pale skin and the intense eyes of a madman. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

Where I had imagined Yakov reaching through me, my skin itched and burned. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

Blood vessels and tendons weave like hoverways under the Chancellor’s translucent skin. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

She stiffened as his mouth touched her skin, and though the kiss was brief, he breathed in the scent of her. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

I silently roll across the main room, my skin changing to match snoring Frank and his recliner as I pass by. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

As they made their way back to the steps, the empty eyeholes of the skins upon the walls seemed to follow her. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

It sounds more like something you would order at an Italian restaurant than a skin disease. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

The ropes burned at my hands so that the rope fibers seemed to brand my skin. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

He’s wearing so much clothing I can’t see an inch of his skin. Dragons in a Bag 2018-10-23T00:00:00Z

This swollen, bloated, blue thing with the dead, dead skin is not anyone I know or recognize. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

The head seamstress paced around Mom, peering more closely at her features—her fine bones, creamy skin, and straight dark hair. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then he balls his fists and I watch his skin harden into metal. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

My natural tan never burned like her fair white skin. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

He tilts his head and kisses the skin just beneath my jaw. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

“Remember, its skin tried to turn us against each other a few minutes ago.” Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

It was as big as a soccer field, carried by a thirty-foot-tall giant with bright blue skin and icy gray hair. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

The skin was firm and unblemished, without scars. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

Her tears dripped into the space between my collar and my neck, directly onto my skin. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

My feet would be cool and slightly damp, smooth, like the skin of mushrooms. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

He wanted to hurt her, destroy her, but he also wanted to continue smelling her, listening to her baby’s voice, and having her soft skin within reach of his hand. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mother with her rose-petal skin and her hair curled into soft waves that bounced about her shoulders. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

“Why would I wear my lion skin? Do you wear a fur coat to the beach?” The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Suddenly Sir Fig Newton jumped up onto all fours, his claws digging through my shirt and clamping into my skin. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

His skin was tinged with blue, his eyelashes and hair were covered in frost. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

I open the fridge and am met with a rush of cool air against my skin. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Since it was a snappy gold-colored day, we went off to get some more rabbit skins to finish my winter underwear. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

If he thought about it too much, Joaquin could almost feel the warmth of her skin, the heat of her mouth, the way she always smelled good, like soap and shampoo. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

His skin was smooth beneath her touch, almost hairless. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Your hair might become straight enough, your skin might become light enough, your accent might become polished enough—and you’d be reclassified as white. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

“Hard bread, hard cheese, oat cakes, salt cod, salt beef, salt mutton, and a skin of sweet wine to rinse all that salt out of my mouth. I will not die of hunger.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The shadows of the willow leaves made her skin look mottled and dark, the way the iron deposits streaked the yellow sandstone cliffs dark orange. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

The burns had healed, leaving faint, spidery scars across Haye’s skin. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

Pop’s being kind, but underneath his skin, I sense his stress, a low panic in his muscles and bones. Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z

"Strip off their skins," he urged, his thick lips glistening. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

She remembered reading once about how they injected anesthetic into your skin so you couldn’t feel them biting into you. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

She pitched her tent and spread out her sleeping skins. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her skin had had a moist pinkish sheen, and her hair had been long, dyed deep brown and ironed into loose curls. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Because my skin is dark, my teeth look very white. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

“What demon scratches under your skin tonight?” he asked crossly. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

Gently, carefully, she peels scorched and smoking cloth from my raw skin. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

It feels cool and moist against my skin. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

The skin was broken above his left eye, and blood ran down that side of his face. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

“There! I hope to have a lavish apology,” grunted Tam Lin, peeling the tape, none too gently, off Matt’s skin. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Their blunt doglike faces stared at the people with contempt, their noses twitching for a scent, their dappled dark skin and yellow eyes watching hungrily. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

The skin was green and purple and gray where it had ripped. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Piper and Isaac didn’t say anything but the dogs were upset and behaved strangely, as if the hum and the smell of our skin made them anxious. How I Live Now 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

"So, it's basically when you born without the brownness in your skin," she explained. Ghost 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

In here, the lines of light cast a faint blue hue against our skin. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

The merpeople had grayish skin and long, wild, dark green hair. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

Surrounding it is a patch of blue strands,like someone injected blue dye into the tiny veins just beneath the surface of my skin. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

But I couldn’t help noticing that her hair and skin were not as beautiful as they once had been, and she seemed thin. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

They were night creatures with blue skin that they could remove before slipping under doors and through keyholes. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

The skin was drawn so tightly over the cheeks that you could see the shapes of the bones underneath. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 1964-09-12T00:00:00Z

He looked more like a baby than ever with his bewildered blue eyes and the fairness of his skin made more noticeable because of the clear red blood. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

The lamps had been lit now and there was a deceptive normality about the big stone rooms with their colorful murals, animal skin rugs, embroidered drapes, and comfortable gilded furniture. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

A flap of skin hung limply over the raw stump. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

Her skin is so soft, like old thin leather that’s been folded and wrinkled a thousand times. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Captain Reed rubbed the sun-browned circle of skin at his wrist, the only empty patch of skin on his left arm. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

She had perfect skin, and a perfect outfit: white T-shirt with some kind of logo, tucked into her belted jeans. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z

Where the necklace had lain, his skin was powdery red and white. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

Her slip hiked up her thighs, her skin as smooth and frictionless as mesarthium, or nearly. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Yolanda eats several right on the spot, relishing the slightly bumpy feel of the skin in her hand, devouring the crunchy, sweet white meat. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

She wore a pointed hat and layers of capes, shawls, sweaters buttoned at the throat like capes, the sleeves flying behind like sausage skins. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Does that burn look like it’s going to give him skin cancer?” Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

Next to her stands a smaller girl with pale skin and a smattering of freckles, her hair in pigtails. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

She slowly pulled down the front of Shawna’s shirt, exposing a newly formed welt on her brown skin. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

And then, just when I thought that I might jump out of my skin from worry, the fire door opened. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

The boys cut through the thick elephant skin to rescue their small brother. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

He shoves his face into mine, spit spewing from his lips onto my skin. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

She could smell his sweat on the girl’s skin, his tobacco, his appetite. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

Blood boiled under my skin, burned in my lips. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

Wes would always say, “The only thing white about him is his skin. Everything else is black. He’s a real black dude.” The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

Sweat soaks my skin, half from fever, half from the unabating heat. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

"I forgot, I would of . . ." Alfred tasted his own blood, warm and salty, and he felt the pavement scrape the skin off his shoulder blades. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

Finn and the mare stood in the circle of hives, listening to the deep hum of the bees, feeling that hum in their skin. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

Half of something, a quarter of something else, brown skin and black hair like his dead mother, but with weird pale blue eyes like his father. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

Bearded vendors draped in thin blankets sold animal- skin lampshades, carpets, embroidered shawls, and copper goods from rows of small, tightly jammed stalls. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

My skin grows too tight for my body. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

Massive and slow and strong he seemed, dressed all in skins, with a club in his right hand and an axe in his left. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

He was emaciated, the bones of his face sticking out sharply against the yellowish skin. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

Looming over her was a forty-foot-tall statue of Athena, with luminous ivory skin and a dress of gold. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

They say I was born with a caul, a skin netting covering my face like a glove. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

She liked the straight line of his jaw, his skin’s rich olive tint. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

He was going to butcher her, skin her, and give the carcass to the Webbs for stew meat. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her soul returned fully to her and nestled happily inside her skin, for this moment not travelling in the past where her children were nor to America to be with my father. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was a bit taller than me, with warm brown skin and a smile too large for his face. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

Perfect beads of light reveal the cherry red of her fluttering eyes and the gray of her skin. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

I would bend my foot up and bite a small opening in the thickest part of the skin, on the bottom, along the outside edge. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

“She is dressed in skins just like the men,” Ulape said. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

When my turn came, I handed my buckets to the ancient slave who worked the pump handle, a man old as dirt, with stone-gray hair and skin the color of the night sky. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

“With my paint box at home, I can make every color imaginable. Pink. As pale as a baby’s skin. Or as deep as rhubarb. Green like spring grass. Blue that shimmers like ice on water.” Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

The makeup made her cheeks rosier, her skin more even, more alive. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

He strokes the skin above his cheekbones, squeezes shut his eyes, to feel what happens when the creases form, tries to visualize it. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

I say nothing but I notice that his eyes are the same almond color as his skin, that they’re centuries older than his face. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

If you could for a moment rise up out of your own beloved skin and appraise ant, human, and virus as equally resourceful beings, you might admire the accord they have all struck in Africa. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

I slid my arms up under her shirt and felt her ribs and her hot skin under my hands. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

When my tender skin has toughened enough to withstand the pressure of sheets, more visitors arrive. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

There had been found that morning, just outside of town, the dead body of a soldier, his uniform shredded where he had been flogged, and, turned upward through the black skin, raw, red meat. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

With that, he grabs the skin from the neck and pulls it off the bodies. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Something was inching its way across her skin. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

He found a fresh skin of wine instead and sucked at it as if it were a woman’s breast. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The wind-driven sleet stung our skin like thousands of pricking needles. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

The mere mention of them used to send shivers of joy rippling over my skin. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

We were going to kill him and gut him and skin him and cut him up and eat him. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

But the cap he wore over his ears was made from tawny thick fur which shone when the wind ruffled through it; it looked like mountain-lion skin. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

They could only be called skin swellings, even by the kindest critic. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

This swells the kernels and loosens the skin. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

It grasped at the land with long yellow fingers and made the mottled trunks of sycamores look like people’s skin. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

I can see it in the turned-down corners of his mouth, in the purple skin under his eyes. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

The interior of his house was always lined with strung skins, hung with lush furs made up into sleeping robes, and red-and-white-point blankets. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

She had to be carried to her chamber, her skin the color of an old beeswax candle. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

A cold, clammy sweat breaks out on my skin and I can't rid myself of the feeling that the boards above my head are about to collapse, to bury me alive under the rubble. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

The elderly women and men look on, working their gums, dressed in clothes exactly the same color as their skin, from all the many ground-in years of wash and wear. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Behind him, a nervous-looking satyr was peeling the skins off grapes and handing them to Mr. D one at a time. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

She nearly jumps out of her skin when I throw my arms around her. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

His skin was dark and wrinkled, his cropped hair nearly white. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

First snow day always lifted her out of her skin, made her feel sharp and alive. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

My skin felt hot, my stomach dropped, and I had trouble breathing again. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

Anya spied a doll tied around its waist with a string, bundles of wheat cut short and tied with festive bows, and several apples with simple pictures carved into the skin. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

She tried to think of some hero out of one of her books, someone whose skin she could slip into, to make her feel stronger, bigger, braver. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

She is white, and the black sweater she is wearing makes her skin look pale and washed-out. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

The night's warm air skates over my skin like soft fingers, and it tastes even sweeter up here. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

Bruises mar the pale skin of her arms. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

He stood up, and it looked to Sam as if he was clothed in flame: his naked skin was scarlet in the light of the lamp above. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

Coach absolutely changes his game plan depending on the opposing team’s skin color, because black and white teams usually play different styles of basketball, and that’s just a fact. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

The scars were disappearing, the skin was becoming smooth; the mangled nose became whole and started to shrink. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

Estha had, and when he did, his skin grew hot and shiny, and his eyes helpless and beautiful, and Ammu loved him more than usual. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The skin beneath his eyes is puffy from too much sleep, and he's wearing a blue and gray plaid shirt and jeans that fit him way too good. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

The sun was the same as it had been the day I’d buried Maman, and like then, my forehead especially was hurting me, all the veins in it throbbing under the skin. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z

He was tall and skinny, skinnier than Dari even, in a way that looked like his bones might rip right through his skin with one wrong move. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Like holding ice in his hand and having it melt against his skin. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

A watershed map of veins spread out under the surface of their skin. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

I was fascinated by his pink gums, the tongue spotted with white, the lips almost the same color as the rest of his skin. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

Then my flesh melts, and my skin sinks into the ground. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He will settle into it, the skin that was always going to be his. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

As it gets bigger it molts several times, splitting the old skin with its head and wriggling out, revealing stretchy skin underneath. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

The drums were so near that the beat crept under his skin and set his hands to twitching. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

We slather ourselves down, even taking turns rubbing the ointment into each other’s backs where the undershirts don’t protect our skin. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

Your own skin like a map, a diagram of futility, crisscrossed with tiny roads that lead nowhere. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

“What is this?” she asked, picking up an oblong fruit, its bright pink skin shading into orange. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Every time she moved, the reindeer cloak parted, revealing a flash of round calf, white skin, the shadow between her breasts. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

In order to keep her complexion immaculate—Hatsue, said Mrs. Shigemura, had skin as smooth as vanilla ice cream—she must take care to stay out of the sun. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

It was as though invisible snakes were rippling beneath the skin and forcing its arms and legs to move in a ceaseless bid for freedom. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

He wore nothing but shorts, his whiter-than- white skin stretched across his bones like a sheet wrapped tightly around a bundle of sticks. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

I used to think things were different, because Papa used to tell me stories about all the great things I could be and could do, and how mighty this brown skin was. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Christina joins me in the group going to the right, along with Uriah, whose smile looks white against his skin’s bronze. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

Many of their cell lines tested positive, including the skin cells George Hyatt had transplanted onto a soldier’s arm years earlier. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

The skin was shiny and scarred, and he had little feeling in the fingers, but Meggot's salve had taken most of the pain and sped the healing process immeasurably. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

As she spoke, playing on all their senses, the ghosts crowded closer, feeding on her words, remembering the time when they had flesh and skin and nerves and senses, and willing her never to stop. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

She will miss this glorious light warming the inside of her skin and jeweling the trees, the grass, the lily pond beyond the hedge. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

Her hair is silver and her skin reminds me of a walnut, all wrinkly brown. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

There was no way out of my own skin. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

The prickle of rejection tingles unpleasantly across my skin even as we continue to dance. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

The things that matter stay with you, seep into your skin. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

It wasn’t until the next morning that Worsley discovered holes scorched in his socks, but the skin on his feet was still so waterlogged that it hadn’t burned. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

He put in their mother’s old skin trunk, which had carried her meager trousseau to this mountain and most of the food she’d managed to preserve before she gave up trying. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

“When we find the man who did this,” Lord Ramsay promised, “I will flay the skin off him, cook it crisp as crackling, and make him eat it, every bite.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

She had long, dark hair that she wore tied back behind her neck, and deep brown skin. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

She is sweating despite the cool river air, and her skin is deathly pale. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

I say, reaching over my shoulder to press the bandage to my skin. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

“Are your eyes blue like hers? Is your hair blond like hers? Is your skin white like hers?” One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

A squire brought meat and bread to the two guarding the storehouse, and later two more men joined them and they all passed a skin of wine from hand to hand. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

I look up at his face, and he’s smiling down at me with his skin all brown and his teeth all white and his eyes all dazzly. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z

And her fingers felt like a dead person’s, like an old peach I once found in the back of the refrigerator; the skin just slid off the meat when 1 picked it up. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

He annoyed me for sure, but he really got under Audrey’s skin. Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z

With a feeling of surrender, and anticipation, and apprehension, she crossed the small distance to his brow, settled on his warm skin, and entered his world. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

She had big arms and a solid torso, light brown skin, and a dusting of powdery blush on her cheeks. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

The rosary was there, a cold pressure against his skin, when Mr. Richard came some days later. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

I scrub at the caked rubbish so hard it feels like my skin is flaking off, but I'm glad to be getting cleaner. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

The skin of her hand that held the pipe’s end was stretched over her little bones as smooth and as yellow as the gilt upon an idol. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

Their hair smelled of freesia, their skin of vanilla. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z