When I could point at the sky and make a sword appear, a silver bolt in the sunlight, and control its slashing with my mind, the old people said I was ready to leave. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

I know them the way I know that Polaris, the North Star, is not actually the brightest star in the sky—it’s the fiftieth. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

In my final year at Healdtown, an event occurred that for me was like a comet streaking across the night sky. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the opposite part of the sky the stars were already sharp. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

I rose and held my arms to the sky. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

They would blast it out into recreation barracks fall of bobby-soxed, jitterbugging couples: Oh, give me land, lots of land, Under starry skies above, Don’t fence me in. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

He wanted her not trapped in the sky, not hunted by humans, not hopeless, and not besieged by nightmares whenever she closed her eyes. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

I thought about the sparrows falling from the sky. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

The mountains that surrounded us allowed only a narrow sliver of sky to view. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

The sky was blue behind the silhouette of his large, square frame. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

The sky was brighter now, breaks in the overcast; light streamed down in blinding rays. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

They opened their parachutes, but they lost each other in the sky as they fell. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

‘Those onagers will blast you out of the sky.’ Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

The brothers are each much happier when the grey of winter fades and the colors of spring bloom: yellow sun; blue sky; purple, pink, red blossoms; green leaves; new life. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Not because the rains had arrived, for Inti still reigned in the daytime skies, but because it was Coya Raymi, a time of celebration for the women. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

From here, the gaping wound in the sky looked like a part of the sunset. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

Zooming past the white water and onto the vein of ore, they sighted the ruins just as the sky was beginning to change. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

“As I am home now too,” Sifen said, and if it was at all possible, his grin grew broader, as if trying to include the entire garden and sky. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

Tendrils of light screamed down from the sky. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

The sky grew larger, a deep and cloudless blue. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

The evening spread itself slowly across the sky. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

It was always whispered, as though the land, the trees, the sky, the rivers and coves had ears. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

But as it is, I feel like the sky will light on fire any second now, and all the stars will crash into one another and burn away to ash. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

A wide broken slope of tumbled rocks and ice, where a track had been laboriously cleared, led up to a crag outlined against the sky. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

The wind was gusting, rolling clouds across the sky; the view was spectacular, the city miniaturized, utterly dwarfed by the chapel. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

It was a statue too huge to be conceived: upright, straight, feet toward the city, head in the sky, arms outheld in a pose of supplication. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

You are nothing, the darkness seemed to say, in its overbearing presence, in the humbling vastness of the night sky and the cold, innumerable stars. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

From the moon, he argued, one would have the illusion that the moon was stationary and that the Earth floated through the sky. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Except for the funerals I can’t say I remember my great-aunt and great-grandmother being under the same roof or together under the same piece of sky. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

A white light flashed, lit the sky in silver. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

The cloudless sky turned a deep purple, the color of an old bruise, then faded to black. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

I could see it in the worried glances he gave the sun as it moved across the sky, in the anxious way he appraised every length of pipe or cut of steel. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Most stars in the sky are members of double or multiple star systems. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sumac flew off to the sky world to make room for the old man to lean on my shoulder. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

In unison they tilted their heads as if looking at the same point in the twilit sky. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Lightning split the northern sky, etching the black tower of the Night Lamp against the blue-white sky. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Suppose he missed the lights, suppose— Toward morning there was faint color in the sky, not really daylight, a lifting of the darkness. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

In Hooverville tin roofs cartwheeled across the sky and shanties were simply shredded, leaving their denizens standing dazed among the wreckage. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

They rose into the night sky like kites, billowed, and disappeared. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

For a moment, the two of us were alone on the planet, with all the vastness of the sky and the future and the past spreading out around us. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

“I don’t think I can——” he gasped as a jagged slash of lightning ripped open the sky and the thunder stole his words. The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z

It was a warm spring morning with bright blue skies, and the cherry trees on the National Mall were bursting with pink blossoms. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

It was said they were brethren and sistren, each tasked to watch over a particular piece of the world—the skies, seas, jungles, deserts, mountains, and realm of the dead. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

There was no sign of dawn in the sky. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I kissed my fingers and bowed to the sky, the mountains silent witnesses to my worship. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

When lightning streaks over the sky, her dark eyes shine like gold. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

Pale morning, icy sky, frosted crusts on the hills, but no sign of sticking snow, worse luck. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

There was time to notice the clouds in a blue sky, the reddish-brown dust at my feet. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Over all the sky was blue, and the sun of afternoon glowed upon the hill and cast long green shadows beneath the trees. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

Andrius joined us, put his hands behind his head and stared up at the sky. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

But for a few wisps on the horizon, the sky was clear. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

You can find all colors in the sky. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Gray clouds hang low in a watery sky. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

The sounds of our voices rose up through the tree branches into the sky, but Ruth May did not. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

I cut through the sky, the wind whipping against my face as I kept my eyes high, staring intently at the horizon. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

When she could see it clearly, she had come fully awake and the sky city was gone. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

The night was cold and clear—all the better, we thought, for us to track our rocket as it streaked across the dark, starry sky. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

Perhaps he had looked without protection at the sky, and it had filled him. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

The clouds in the sky separate and release a scatter of flurries. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

"Yeah," Ty wheezed, his back aching as if a school bus had fallen from the sky and landed right on him. Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z

Sunlight was still shining in the sky, but long shadows reached over Isengard: grey ruins falling into darkness. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

My mouth drops open as a shimmering purple-and-blue abalone sky comes into view through the cockpit window. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

The plane sang in a deep tenor and Bull decided that it was an F-8 in the morning sky, though he was not certain. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

He crawled deeper into the black gauzy web where he could rest in the silence, where his coming and going through this world was no more than a star falling across the night sky. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

She felt the fine spray the boat threw back, inhaled the salty air, and looked out to a horizon made only of sky and water. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

She flung her head back and looked in the sky and then she slowed down again and said: “I grew up in this park, you know.” We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

The heat rose in the clear spring sky, and all was silent. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

At this, the people of the village let out a gasp, and the sound was great, like the sound of a storm passing across the sky. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

On his twelfth revolution, the sky went crazy with color. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

I went down the back steps and out the basement door, then over to Commons—its red brick facade flat as a stage backdrop against the empty sky—and called Henry from the pay phone. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

There were no birds in the silvery sky, no squirrels in the trees, no possums. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

It was almost five o’clock in the evening, although it could have been five o’clock in the morning; the sky had barely changed at all throughout the day. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

In my prison, when the sky turned red and a new day slipped into my cell, I found out that she was right. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z

Even after Lysa locked him in one of her sky cells and threatened him with her moon door, he had still denied it. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Over the next thirty days, there was only one day when the skies were not leaden with clouds, only four when it did not rain. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

The sky outside was indigo streaked with crimson. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

Overhead, American bombers and fighter planes thundered through the clear blue sky. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

The sky was still clearing, the clouds rolling back to reveal the blue underneath. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

They stood so close together that she could see only their faces, which were lifted up toward the sky, with the hard bright lights shining down on them. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Which leads to thoughts of Maxwell, the golden eagle, his favorite bird to visit at the sanctuary until the eagle was set to the sky. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

The dark of the sky was softened now. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

The sun was rising, turning the sky and air a rosy gold color. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was getting late in the afternoon and he saw nothing but the sea and the sky. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

I sensed someone moving next to me on Old Familiar, but right then I could only see snow flurries trickling through a shattered window and flashing red lights against a gray sky. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

Mollie, frightened, got up and went to the window and could see something burning in the distant sky, as if the sun had burst violently into the night. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Silver jets in a blue church sky, like moths in a beam of light. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The sun had melted to a stripe of copper and the sky was deepening blue. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

“And the sky. You can’t even see the stars. They’ve polluted the sky. This is a terrible time to be a satyr.” The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

We walk hand in hand down the beach as the sun dips in the sky. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

Which possibly was their sort of blue sky. Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Lee carried a tin lantern to light the way, for it was one of those clear early winter nights when the sky riots with stars and the earth seems doubly dark because of them. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

She went to the window and stared out, trying to spot the bird among bare oak branches that stood out black against a broken sky of gray and palest blue. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

The sky darkened, the clouds lowered, and the wind blew like a charging buck. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

The water was almost black, and pale twilight, darkly reflected in the waves, was already spreading across the sky. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

The streets filled with kite fighters, jerking and tugging on their lines, squinting up to the sky, trying to gain position to cut the oppo­nent’s line. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

When the sky was overcast, however, the tundra was black and she would stay inside, light her candle, and talk to Kapu and Tornait. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Outside my window the view was spectacular—a glorious vision of sea and sky I will never forget. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Above them a city of white stone towers — so tall she could not see their rooftops — rose to the blue sky. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Skathis had stolen the sky from the city, and the city from the world. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

One million people walking in the streets on their way to work looked up into the sky and saw the monster hovering above them, and started running for the nearest subway entrance to take cover. James and the Giant Peach 1961-11-01T00:00:00Z

The sim was only a quarter of the way up the sky when she saw her first man die. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

The moon was still high in the sky. Raymie Nightingale 2016-04-12T00:00:00Z

Ash shifted uncomfortably on the hard wooden seat, and as she pulled back the hood of her cloak to look up at the blue sky, she heard hunting horns in the distance. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

A pair of worn shoes poked from one end, pointing at the sky. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

The sky was the color of a bruise. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Her eyes cast over the streaks of black in the sky. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

“I know the sky’s gray, but it doesn’t look cloudy. It just looks ...” She searched for the right word. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

The sky started to darken, the sea turning the same rusty color as Ella’s wings. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

She was buried that Sunday, under cloudy skies and an intermittent drizzle. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

The sky was clear except for a few clouds that now and then drifted below the window. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

Wouldn’t it be strange, she thought, to have a blue sky? The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

The stars, burning diamonds in the cloudless sky, turn the road beneath their feet a silver grey. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Branch-cracking winds and thunder that shook the bowl of the sky would descend on the island, along with torrents of life-giving rain. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

To her, it looked like an enormous black wall against the starry sky. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

The rocks stretched for miles, rising into jagged, fang-like mountains that pierced the cloudy sky. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

“You like that?” she asked after a minute, pointing at the sky. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

Hazy blue mountains cut sharp lines into the periwinkle sky. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

I try to remember that as the sky darkens and the lights of Scottsdale and Phoenix brighten the earth—millions of lights for millions of people. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

The kind of color you’d only find in the sky just before sunrise, maybe. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

The sun’s almost made its way out of the sky by the time I reach the bayou. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z

It’s opening night, and it feels like an opening because even though it’s still not completely dark, those Hollywood-premiere searchlights are sweeping across the sky. A High Five for Glenn Burke 2020-02-25T00:00:00Z

“Words fall out of the sky like leaves, girl. Grab a couple and write ’em down.” Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

She had pictured him seeking her at the very first hour, and he had lived under the same sky since day before yesterday, while only by accident had he stumbled upon her. The Awakening 1899-01-01T00:00:00Z

A fat white seed sleeps in the sky. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

His hat looked very red and small, a dot on the white road, against the sky. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

He smiled at us, lifted his gun, and fired several rounds toward the sky. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

I went up into the den, looked out the window toward Avalon, and saw nothing but palm trees and clear blue sky. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

“What time is it?” he asked Ruza, glaring at the sky. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Swifts chased and chittered, in fluttering pairs, through the sky. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

“Is the sky sunny, or is it stormy?” he asked. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

There weren’t many trees or mountains to catch at that sky and keep it low. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

Sometimes the horizon disappeared in a confusing glimmer that seemed to be neither earth nor sky. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

They wheeled up into the sky, broke apart, came together, and disappeared among the houses. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

A bolt of lightning arced out of the clear blue sky. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

This noble war in the sky elevated my spirits; I clasped my hands, and exclaimed aloud, “William, dear angel! this is thy funeral, this thy dirge!” Frankenstein 1818-01-01T00:00:00Z

BaiMa sliced through the air, the wind making Pinmei’s braid a stroke of black ink on the paper white of the sky. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

The world around me tumbles, and all I can see is flying snow and evening sky. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Exhausted, the two men unrolled their blankets on the damp earth, laid down, and gazed up at the immense black sky decorated by countless points of twinkling light. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Yet if you look east, at sunset, you can see night rising, not falling; darkness lifting into the sky, up from the horizon, like a black sun behind cloud cover. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

I turned over and tried to sleep again but couldn’t, and so lay on my back looking at this gray burlap sky. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was picturing myself driving down a dirt road, clouds in the blue sky, U2 playing in the background. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

I turned and looked back, and saw that clouds were darkening the sky, announcing the arrival of the afternoon rains. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The water has gone deep black and the sky has gone ink blue. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

Ever since she had told him that gravity went only three miles into the sky, this aspect of their relationship was set. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

In a corner of the room, by a wall of windows, a telescope, pointed up toward the sky. Turtles All the Way Down 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

I know that is an absurd thing to consider—a dead horse falling out of the sky—but it actually happened. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

The blue sky and white snow of the morning had deepened into an icy purple laced with black. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

She’s staring straight at the sky, a ghost of a smile on her lips. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

The late afternoon sun hung low in the sky as Harry and Hagrid made their way back down Diagon Alley, back through the wall, back through the Leaky Cauldron, now empty. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

“Ever, my sky, ever?” he asked, putting on a hurt voice. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He looked up and saw the shape of Gollum’s large head and ears against the evening sky. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

Cora pictured the insurrections as great, bloody battles, unfurling beneath a night sky lit by vast fires. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

The clouds above the sea became heavy, and just as he began to hear thunder, a wall of dark water poured from the sky and into the sea. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

Through the windows, she could see the first stars just starting to peek into the sky. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

I watched the sky as we drove toward the town center. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

The skies above them were silent and deserted. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

The sun had almost set and left the sky swathed in smothers of purple and red. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

The sky was black, but it wasn’t nighttime. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

I take off running toward the infield with my arms straight up over my head and my cleats pointed toward the sky. A High Five for Glenn Burke 2020-02-25T00:00:00Z

The cottonwoods along the river stood out like pillars against the gray backdrop of the sky, their white bark shining in the sudden sun. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

Right near our tree was the big fire that had been lighting up the sky. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

There's a clap of thunder, and I see lightning electrify the sky through an opening in the rocks. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

I pushed myself on until I could see that the sky really was growing light. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

Long ago, Ouranos the sky god had been tricked down to the earth by Gaia and the Titans. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

They had to study the night skies through their telescopes every Wednesday at midnight and learn the names of different stars and the movements of the planets. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

When I used to look outside my bedroom window on summer mornings, I saw nothing but corn and blue sky. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

Still, that just made the next step all the more urgent, especially with the faintest of orange tinges creeping into the sky. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

Percy didn’t notice any cars veering off the road or Romans pointing to the sky and screaming, “Aliens!” The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

But the sky was blue, the air was warm, and the sea was regular in its motion. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

Axel opens his clenched fists, palms to the sky, and lets the light rain tap against him. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

The sun hung high in the sky, and there was not the slightest hint of a breeze. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

It wasn’t like the tractor she had seen at the trading post or the airplanes she had occasionally glimpsed, although it came from the sky. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

They looked up at the uniform gray skies and, seeing in them tokens of much colder weather ahead, wondered how they would make it through another winter. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Sometimes, after a quick meal, Pa sits quietly outside by himself and stares at the sky. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Auk XX zipped up the launch pole, accelerating a hundred feet in an instant, climbing to two hundred feet, three hundred feet, hurtling vigorously toward the blue spring sky. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

Then there was another boom!, accompanied by a flash that momentarily lit up the sky, and I realized I was hearing the crash of thunder. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

Duchess swooped over the cote and climbed up into the sky. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

‘Well, I am going back into the open air, to see what the wind and sky are doing!’ said Legolas. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

Aru watched in horror as a black line broke the sky, as if someone had unzipped twilight to show nighttime lurking just beneath its skin. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

But not one of the spells he had practiced had been designed to combat a sudden reversal of ground and sky. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

The sky and trees, the sun were immense—no longer framed by a window, no longer grayed with a fly screen. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Tally pushed away and floated on her back, looking up at the sky and wishing this conversation would end. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

Even her fingers look like calligraphy against the sky. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

We started seeing other flocks of geese in the sky. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

The sky fell to the tops of the mountains. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

And so following her directions, I drove through Pawhuska and headed west across the prairie, through the tall grasses, until I saw what she’d vividly described to me: scores of metallic towers invading the sky. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

She’s in one of her best dresses, sky blue with embroidery in white along the edges of the veil: flowers and fretwork. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

The snow goose called again, a piercing whoop that filled the sky, and then wheeled and turned an inch away from the boy in the striped T-shirt. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Water so everywhere and all around, you can’t tell it from the sky, or the sky from the water, or whether you’re rising or falling. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

The girl threw down her trowel and cursed at the sky. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

The city was covered with clouds, invisible from the sky. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

I turned up toward the sky and could see heavy clouds. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

The words "Bar Harbor, Maine" were painted in the sky. The Lemonade War 2007-04-23T00:00:00Z

Burke and Clarence disappeared, and there was nothing outside the window except trees and woods and a cloudy sky. Louisiana's Way Home 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

But on the third night, just as the moon began to slip down in the sky, Dragon saw a faint figure on the bridge. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

Sometimes giant bubbles of unburned gases rose within the column and then exploded high in the sky. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z

I looked out at the rain, at the skies that were getting closer and closer to black. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

The sun had dipped below Buck’s Peak but the sky still held a few hours of light. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

All those miles and days had been across a houseless, speechless desolation: rock, ice, sky, and silence: nothing else, for eighty-one days, except each other. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

Then, seeming to have decided Mark would live, he stood, returned to the controls and lifted the Berg toward the sky. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

All the world was green grass and blue sky and shoulders hot with sunshine. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

There, in the middle of the small crowd, against the bright blue sky, a big red umbrella opened up. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

He wanted the words to make a cloudless blue sky, pale with a summer sun pressing across wide and empty horizons. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

Blackjack darn near tumbled out of the sky, he was so tired. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

Frightful, a falcon of the open skies, did not follow. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

Canned peaches were sky high, eight frogs for a No. 2 can. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

The sun grew misty as the day grew old, until it gleamed in a pale sky like a high white pearl. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

I only know that my soul floated with the holiness of prayer into the sky of dreams. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ma stood by the window as the stars began to poke holes in the deep, blue velvet sky. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

The word is out that the sky is not limitless; it is finite. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

I held my hands up to the sky. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

I hadn’t the faintest idea how the night sky might serve as a road map. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

But Axel is too far into his worry now about Ray to even think about Braviary’s rescue, or the fact that Braviary will be set to the sky this morning. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

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

The hills were too green, the sky too blue, the cobbles too indifferent. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

Julia and I could look up at the canyon rims on either side of us and imagine the towering monolithic face of a one-hundred-fifty-foot-tall death trap that stretched across the sky from west to east. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

The sky above is grey but bright, despite the soft rain that is beginning to fall. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

As dawn washed the darkness from the sky, the shattered glacier was revealed to be a three-dimensional landscape of phantasmal beauty. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

Everybody did, we all looked up at the blue sky that didn’t have cloud the first in it. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

I stroked his smooth head as I leaned back to stare at the blue sky, still smiling, while trying to catch my breath. Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z

All my life, winter has meant gray skies and rain, puddles and umbrellas. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

At night, a giant beam of light like an endless sword scraped from one end of the sky to the other. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z

Soon the sun sinks into the wild sky of the west, and I stand in the rapidly cooling air. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

The sky was a soft gray, and it was drizzling lightly. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

I looked out at the rain-darkened sky, but it gave nothing away. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

Suddenly the hot day darkened and the sky began to clap and grumble. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Navigating your way through life is like flying a small plane in a windy sky. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

The gray sky curdled and the clouds resolved themselves into little lumps, like substandard mattress stuffing. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Beyond where the waving grass met the sky was South Carolina, but how could I get back there? Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

The heron flew up, his great wings beating as fast as my heart, and melted into the dusky sky. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

Their skin is painted with black and purple and blue, and reminds me of the night sky, or of black stones on the side of the beach, rubbed smooth by the waves. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

The fireworks have swept the sky in the city. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

Hers was the first head out of the opening, wrapped against the wind in a sky blue scarf. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

The sunset has turned the sky into a carnival of color as Noah and Brian walk out of the forest, hand in hand. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

Atal was saying, nudging Mary’s pocket with her trunk, so Mary took the spyglass and did as her friend said, pointing it up to the sky. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

How can there be electricity in the sky? How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

They came to a patch of milkwort—a blue as deep as that of the sky—with long stems creeping through the grass and each minute flower spreading its two upper petals like wings. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

The sky was getting dark; I looked out of the window and saw snow falling. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

A giant wooden raft the size of a boxing ring floated in the night sky, a rope dangling over its edge. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

It was nearly heaven, with that cool water rippling and a high, clear sky all around us, and trees waving along the banks. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

When the tents are all aglow, sparkling against the night sky, the sign appears. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

The rains washed away the heat, and by late Tuesday afternoon the sky sparkled. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Not Weep nor the Cusp nor the citadel were visible, but a great deal of pale-rose sky, and, beneath it, this broad path of smooth green water plied by birds with long, curved necks. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

“Well, I’m quite proud of my home. Except the yard. As I explained to the others, it’s like junk falls from the sky.” The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

I had never seen anything like it, we seemed to travel a sea of calmness but all around the sky darkened. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

A squadron of flying machines, which had been getting the better of a ragged battle with Lord Asriel’s gyropters, wheeled in the sky and made off to the west. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

The sun was finally going down over the mountains, turning the sky blood red. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

The sun rose higher and higher, burning away the leftover clouds, and the sky went from lavender to too-bright blue. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Henry stands quietly, hands in his pockets, contemplating the sky, and he’d almost look sober if not for the wobbly lean to the left he’s doing. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

The clear blue sky is the perfect setting for the orange, red, and gold pallet of the gods. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“If I were walking in Peebys moccasins, I would be jealous of a new brother dropping out of the sky.” Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

They multiplied prodigiously, hung abundantly from the trees, crowded the skies until they were redolent of yeast. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

She spiraled in a sky roll with him. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

I don’t want to see the empty sky. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

Green sea and blue sky stretched all the way to the horizon. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

The visible stars appear spread all over the night sky, but are particularly concentrated in one band, which we call the Milky Way. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

We untangled ourselves and sprinted across the sky bridge as more stones disintegrated and fell into oblivion. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

Black-and-white stripes on grey sky; countless tents of varying shapes and sizes, with an elaborate wrought-iron fence encasing them in a colorless world. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

The sky above the lagoon had turned red. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

The late afternoon sky looked like someone had rolled aluminum foil from horizon to horizon. Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The spire of First Congregational rose until it was itself a part of the night sky. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

The searchlights were combing the sky and the antiaircraft guns were firing as usual as the Po-2s approached the enemy lines. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

The sky was clear, and it did promise to be pretty—if hot. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z

Hundreds of feet for sure, and still rising, until it blocked out the sky. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

On some moonlit nights she and her mother slipped outside and stood together in the breeze, slapping at mosquitoes and watching the clouds slide past the bright globe in the night sky. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

My brother is Superman tonight,Sliding and Gliding into rare air, lighting up the sky and the scoreboard. The Crossover 2014-03-18T00:00:00Z

I remember standing on the terrace and staring up at the sky as the foolish rockets burst and fell. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

And the bird leaped into the sky and flew away. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

Archer took a seat opposite her, where he could watch the porter, though there was nothing threatening about the man who hung up the lantern—just a silhouette against the starred sky. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

When he reopened them they were solid blue, the color of deep water or the darkening sky. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

In books, there were giant metal boxes with wings that soared through the sky, carrying people. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

The silver hair of his beard seemed to flow like a glowing waterfall and disappear into the folds of his robes, and his dark eyes matched the blackness of the night sky. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

Seven towers, Ned had told her, like white daggers thrust into the belly of the sky, so high you can stand on the parapets and look down on the clouds. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

They paused in their preparations to watch it climb higher and higher, now black against the rapidly darkening sky, until it vanished over a nearby mountain. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

The great black lid of sky cracked in six powdery blue chips, like a marvelous crackled glaze, and rushed down. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

I turn to the page, and someone has underlined these words: “Then you will shine among them like stars in the sky.” All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

I stare out the window at the sky and feel this smack of reality right in my heart. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

The sun was high in the sky before I had dug Old Dan out. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s morning twilight. The sun is beneath the horizon. When the sun crests, clouds and sky will shine, glimmering orange-yellow.” Paradise on Fire 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

The sky above them was striped with grey and white bands of cloud, through which patches of blue could be seen. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

The Towers of Silence, where Zoroastrians buried their dead—it was called sky burial—had stood sentinel over Yazd for thousands of years. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

My walk home after dinner is so slow, I can see the stars rotate in the night sky. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Then, with his face as pale as a planet, he looked up at the night sky. Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Through the window he saw the sky, like soft black pitch. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

A chill, blue-gray light filtered down from the sky. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Coming out of the hotel, he stretched himself, yawned, looked up at the blue sky and climbed into the Dalmain. And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z

And before I got in the car, I looked up at the sky. Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z

About how we were all created by a super-powerful dude named God who lives up in the sky? Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

“Yeah, but was it, though?” said Harry, turning to look out of the window at the brightening sky. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

I found myself glancing at the vacant Arizona sky, hoping to see her black form swelling out of the earth, laying claim to her half of the heavens. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

The greatest test of the airplane’s new prowess—a nonstop flight through the turbulent skies over the Atlantic Ocean—remained to be achieved, though. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

Even so, I kept worrying that one of the strings would come unravelled and a single balloon would sail off up into that cloudy sky. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

The rising sun lit them from beneath with flames of murky red; but soon it climbed above them into a clear sky. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

It was the day after Christmas and a gray sky bellied over us, fat with snow. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

It’s funny how when the land is so flat, and the buildings so low, the sky seems to take over everything, announcing itself in a way you can’t ignore. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

He thought how much the brilliant creatures would love it when the sky was open and they could skim about over bright water again. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

Something crazy like a school bus falling from the sky. Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z

But now they were higher and smaller, settling at last into a mackerel sky like a beach at low tide. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

His eyes looked with Cletus’s to the sky, and I couldn’t keep mine from following. Missing May 1992-03-01T00:00:00Z

The darkening gray sky cast everything in a moody, deep blue, but not the fence. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

He doesn’t turn, but tilts his head up to the sky. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

As the sun dropped in the winter sky, the man called out to the empty track. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

The anthem begins, but there are no faces in the sky tonight. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

I liked to sleep out, too, when the weather was fair, the sky sagging with stars. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

When the light of day was come into the sky but the sun was not yet risen above the high ridges in the East, Aragorn made ready to depart. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

The position of the sun in the sky was delicate, transitional; and the season was unmistakable. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

It would be better for me to stand on a hilltop while lightning bolts contended in the sky. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

The western sky was a deep purple, speckled with stars. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

I know the same sky hangs over Iowa—over Charlie in France, for that matter—but I don’t think it looks like this anywhere else in the world. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

Blue as cornflowers, or dragonfly wings, or a spring—not summer—sky. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

The children were all standing silently with their necks craned, pointing at a section of sky. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

Beyond was the emptiness of the night sky, speckled with cold uncaring stars. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

The skies opened up and rain—glorious rain—quenched the dust-dry prairie. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

The northern sunshine seemed to pick up faint particles of whiteness floating in the air and powdering the sleek blue sky. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

The sun grew very white and warm in the clear, azure sky. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

I know that is a strange name for a dog, but it is the name of one of the stars in the Big Dipper, in the northern part of the sky. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

He imagined a journey to the Moon, the space travelers standing on the lunar surface and observing the lovely planet Earth rotating slowly in the sky above them. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had drawn the red cotton curtains against the bright, cloudy sky, which gave the room a fiery glow at odds with the rest of the airy, light cottage. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

Her players, some of them still strangers to each other, were high-fiving and shouting joyfully at the sky as they ran toward her on the bench. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

Beneath your world of skies and faces and buildings exists a rawer and older world, a place where surface planes disintegrate and sounds ribbon in shoals through the air. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

A full moon hovered low in the sky, breaking through reefs of bomb smoke now and then to shine like the lighthouse’s ghostly double. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

In an unobstructed sky the clouds seem more massive, sometimes grandly reflecting the earth’s curvature on their concave undersides. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

She and William saw them at dusk, when “the sky was so very lovely, too, maroons, lavenders, blues.” The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

The sky is covered in gray cotton clouds. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

Even the colors were crisp: vivid blue sky, deep green fields, leaves in every sharp shade that nature can bestow. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

I rushed to his side and tried to describe my unexpected flight in the sky world. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

A point of gold appeared above the sea and at once all the sky lightened. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

I waited and waited, but there was no thundering sound from the sky. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Dreaming of huge meatballs raining down from the sky as he runs after squirrels in your forest,” Byrd says. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

And then there was the matter of reaching the tear in the sky. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

As Cliff and Fred lowered Henrietta’s coffin into her grave and began covering her with handfuls of dirt, the sky turned black as strap molasses. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

Samuel said, “You stay close. That sounds like Adam playing true. He doesn’t know his wife probably couldn’t hear God Himself beating a tattoo on the sky.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

When they got out of the car, a few birds rose up, disappearing into the bright sky. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

We stop and look up at the sky. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

It was not survivable, the cold and the tumult and the endless sickening sky. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

When it’s Bren’s turn, she closes her eyes and says, “ ‘Leap! leap up, and lick the sky! All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Now the walls dissolved into distances of parched weed, mile on mile, and warm endless sky. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

The sun was gold, the sky a darkling blue in the east. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Slivers of sunlight squeezed through the cracks in the branches, and I caught a glance of cloudless blue skies more than once. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

For even in the misty light, the goldfish man could see her smiling a secret smile up to the sky to where the mountain meets the moon. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

There was a terrible drought once, with all the land crying out for water and the sky quite empty of clouds. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

The poster showed a wide expanse of beach, a sweep of sky with a lone star glittering far away. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then he would go out onto the porch to listen and to search the sky for airplanes. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

Out on the kings- road, it had seemed to cover half the sky, outshining the crescent moon. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

The Iroquois sky passes the windows, and if they do see it, it crayon-colors their love. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You know, most people don’t lie around looking at the sky for hours on end.” Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

The peregrine falcon stood hooded on a perch in the corner, a motionless idol dreaming of other skies. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Overhead, thousands of Sixer gunships filled the sky like an angry swarm of metal wasps. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

After we got Jake, Mr. Dubonnet, and the machinists safe in the blockhouse or hiding behind their cars, Auk XIV erupted from the pad, spinning once around the rod before hurtling into the sky. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

“The kind of day you want to share with someone,” he says, squinting up at the sky. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

The sky suddenly darkened further, and, as I looked over my shoulder to glare at the offending cloud, I realized with a shock that two men were walking quietly twenty feet behind me. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

Far out on the horizon, the oily black of the ocean turned blue, reflecting sky and sun. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

The three of us scour all the scabs from our bodies, helping with the others’ backs, and come out the same pink as the sky. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

The Mistress’s eyes flickered to the gray sky outside the windows. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

But others countered that if comets were the smoke of sin, the skies would be continually ablaze with them. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

One wire goes to ground, the other to sky. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Faster and faster until it rose right up through the ceiling and out the roof of Rocky Creek Baptist Church, disappearing into the sky and leaving me there in the fellowship hall with a stomachache. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

As they had in November 1933, people stood in Central Park and looked skyward, aghast at the blackened sky. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Her eyes never leave the blinking green dot, but Axel’s eyes go to the sky. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

The stark gray sky and bare tree limbs feel more suited to her than the uncomplicated promise of sunny spring days. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

It was impossible to tell which side of the sky would be the next to blaze. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z

The sky blushes from gray to pink to blue. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

The sky was utterly dark, and the stillness of the heavy air foreboded storm. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

In front of me was the black of the water and the black of the sky and the cold. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

When seventeenth-century European sailors first saw the southern skies they put objects of seventeenth- century interest in the heavens—toucans and peacocks, telescopes and microscopes, compasses and the sterns of ships. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

The dawn sky is a smudge of gray flecked with pink, like a picture drawn with two crayons. The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z

They lie staring up at the chandelier, the light reflecting over the crystals turning it into the night sky without need of any illusion. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

I just stood on the balcony, looking up at the night sky, at the crook of the moon, at the spangle of stars—each one in its proper place. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ships arrive from other stars, tracing lines of credit and expense through the skies, constellations of commerce. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

At this moment he saw Dandelion, who had run well ahead, squatting on an anthill clear against the sky. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

The sky was black when they started out. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ember’s colors were all so much the same—gray buildings, gray streets, black sky; even the colors of people’s clothes were faded from long use into mud green, and rust red, and gray-blue. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

At that moment the rope swung me out into the sky, I was free. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

There weren’t multiple charms on it now, but just one: a white-gold crescent, pallid and radiant, looking just as though it had been plucked down from the sky. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

But a dark and cloudy sky could be deadly—even without the Luftwaffe. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

Turrets and chimneys that had slumped lazily on the house I remembered now pointed confidently toward the sky. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

The sky was filled with stars and the moon was full and lighted the tops of the trees ahead of me. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

“And now you think it was big bad demons raining from the sky?” The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

I gazed out across the pond, to the treeline and the soft wash of sky. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

“You should have learned the art of questioning from Amaka. Why does the tree’s shoot go up and the root down? Why is there a sky? What is life? Just why?” Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

And then I turned a corner and, right in the mid­dle of that barren land, I saw a cluster of mud houses, beyond them nothing but broad sky and mountains like jagged teeth. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Fern piped, “Like a bird in the sky.” Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

“The weather since Christmas has been weird, like the sea and the sky are fighting. Then I talked to Annabeth, and she’d overheard something about a theft. And . . . I’ve also been having these dreams.” The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

The trees grew close together and were so leafy that he could get no glimpse of the sky. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z

The sky, every last inch of it, was slate gray. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

The moonlight quivered as thin clouds scuttled across the sky. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“And they’re camouflaged. Their black back blends in with the ocean if someone is looking down on them, and their white belly blends in with the sky if someone is looking up.” The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

Half the sky was dark with a tide of sand pouring toward us. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

I stare up at the bright blue sky and wonder what Adam looks like. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

Even if it didn’t crash, the gods of the air would probably swat it out of the sky for coming near the Empire State Building. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

He saw that the sword which Frodo still held unsheathed was glittering with blue flame; and he saw that though the sky behind was now dark, still the window in the tower was glowing red. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

I’m not sure what was going on with me the first time, except I’ve noticed that, sometimes, when we’re zooming along and it’s all blue skies, we can suddenly hit a bump in the road. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

My favorite activities, on the other hand, are sitting around in the dark and looking up at the sky. Shine! 2019-11-05T00:00:00Z

Even the Sun would be invisible in the daytime; its light would be scattered and diffused over the whole sky—just as scuba divers see only a uniform enveloping radiance beneath the sea. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Frodo’s head was bowed over his knees, but Sam leaned back, with hands behind his head, staring out of his hood at the empty sky. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

A rainbow trail emerged and shot straight into the sky. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

And something vast, green, and glittering erupted from the patch of darkness Harry’s eyes had been struggling to penetrate; it flew up over the treetops and into the sky. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

“Come on,” Max says, and charges up the winding narrow stairs, and Jutta huffs along behind, each quarter turn presenting a narrow window of blue sky, Max practically hauling her up the steps. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

The stars had slipped down the sky when at last she stood up and walked swiftly back to Kapu. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

The sky was getting lighter and I saw Doc come out of his cabin, the door creaking softly. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

Outside the east had just begun to lighten, and the stars of morning still hung in a pitch-black sky. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Fires burned throughout the khalasai, great orange blazes that crackled with fury and spit embers at the sky. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

The sky above and to the west was still dark with thunder, and lightning far away flickered among the tops of hidden hills. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

The oars lifted, expanding into aerial blades with a sound like ninety umbrellas opening at once, and the Argo II rose into the sky. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

From the dark, heavy look of the sky, visible through the roof of the fodder house, it would be an all-day rain. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Pippin was standing studying the sky and weather. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

Out of the black sky there came dropping like a bolt a winged shape, rending the clouds with a ghastly shriek. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

I didn’t know what was more shocking—the endless stretch of road or the sky. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

Up, up, up into the night they hurtled, into the sky until the Dactyl Hill Penitentiary was just a small, torchlit pit amidst the teeming city. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

There were so many of the Luftwaffe planes that at first the young Soviet pilots thought the black dots in the southwestern sky must be birds. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

He could no longer recall what the sky looked like through hexagons of cage wire. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

All he could see as he walked down the trail was snow, blurring the boundaries between the earth and the sky. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

Late in the afternoon of a day when the sun was like a circle of fire in the sky, Sassur came home early from school. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

In a great circle, under the starry sky and the waxing moon, they now made their bivouac. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

The gray light, streaking across the cloudless sky, stung my eyes. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

They were issued a new plane, and as soon as Aleksandr’s shoulder was in working order, they were back in the sky. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

They studied the night skies from the mountain- tops and listened to the winds at dawn. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

Nell looked up at me, her eyes as clear as the sky. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’m sure if an actual prophet surfaced today, he or she would receive plenty of Haldol injections, until the sky opened up and the doctors were slapped silly by the Hand of God. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

The Great Pyramid shouldered eight hundred feet into the sky, from its huge square base to the lofty apex where the queen kept her private chambers, surrounded by greenery and fragrant pools. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The sky was so overcast it was almost purple. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

The world below was distant and small; it was dwarfed by a sky so blue and vast the clouds were lost in it. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

She put baby clear sky light to outwit the day light on her eyelids and touched bandit to her throat, earlobes, and wrists. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

He glanced toward his building, standing tall and dark against the sky, puffs of thin gray smoke coming from an upstairs window. Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Finally, as dawn had begun to silver the sky, he’d fallen into a shivering sleep. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

He lifted his hand and opened his eyelids; gazed blank, and with a straining effort, on the sky, and toward the amphitheatre of trees: one saw that all to him was void darkness. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

He kicked at the door several times, each kick making it give slightly until he saw snow, sunshine, and an oblong strip of sky. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

I could see half the sky above us, stars twinkling down through the branches of oaks. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

The stars had changed positions in the sky. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

The sky was blue with a hint of that burnt orange that had haunted the atmosphere since the devastating sun flares had struck without much warning. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

The sky is dark and gloomy, with gray clouds hanging low. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

I cup her hand, unfurl her fingers, and let the lines of her palm speak to the sky. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

Instead, he gives one last long look out his window, his window framed, and framing sky, creek, tree. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

As she gazed, her wonder grew, because there in the sky was the unmistakable outline of a city: towers, domes, walls...Buildings and streets, suspended in the air! The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

They leapt into the open sky and...failed to fall. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

The sky above them was dappled with more stars than he could count, a thousand diamonds dropped into an inkpot. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

In this place there was even a sky. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

The sky was a mere block to allow a visual effect on the horizon: sunlight flooding the ocean, the vertical edges between light and shadow perfectly distinct. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

The broad-leafed trees become smaller, there are more pines, the air cools, the sky turns an icier blue: we’re heading away from spring. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

The white sun sinks in the rosy sky as we gather in the hut. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

It was dark and cloudy and there were no stars in the sky. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

The clean cold air, the constant motion of the treetops, the brilliance of the moon-painted clouds in the dark sky, and the millions of stars all calmed her a little. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

Billy looked up at all the young people in bright elastic clothing and enormous boots and goggles, bombed out of their skulls with snow, swinging through the sky in yellow chairs. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

The sun was reddening the western sky and painting scarlet shadows on the golden skulls atop their spears when they took their leave of the captain-general’s tent. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Perhaps even more marvelous, however, was the prospect that the Jupiter bird may have had the power of flight, making it by far the largest creature ever to soar in the skies.’” A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

My hands were still by my side, my face as blank as a clear sky, but I wasn’t fooling him. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

She held both hands overhead, like a little child, sending dazzling streams of light up into the sky. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

Epicurus likewise declared that “there is no end to the knowledge of things in the sky. . . than peace of mind and firm conviction.” Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z

The listening buildings, rising upward yet, leaned, closing out the sky. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

The Stormhold itself was perched high in the sky, where the thunder clouds gathered before they went down to the lower air, spilling rain and lightning and devastation upon the place beneath. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

The days’ routines were as before, the only change being the constant redness of the sky as trainloads of nameless zugangi were shipped along the rails of death. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Almost 2,000 more people—men, women, and children—crowded outside the jail walls under overcast skies. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

Hours upon hours he had watched birds from his pen, quivering at the sight of them slicing the sky as recklessly as the lightning he often saw on summer evenings. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

Once the file cabinets were walked away from the wall they could see that actual slivers of sky shone through it, lustrous and white. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

A tall whitewashed building, blinding bright against a cold blue sky, appears to be our destination. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

When you looked up to the sky and cried “Why?” sometimes the sky shrugged. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

The next time the sky opened, the two-legged animals found a scene of carnage, with only two dogs left alive. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

When he didn’t say anything, she clasped her hands around her knees and looked up at the sky through the glass ceiling. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

Massive gateways, temples, roofs and whitewashed walls rising thick along its crowded streets traced a long, angular pattern against the sky. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

The sky was a black canvas, not a star in it. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

A long, curved sauropod neck cut a slender silhouette against the dark blue sky between them. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

Lake Carnegie lay mirror smooth, reflecting a translucent blue sky. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

All I want to do is be outside eating ice cream, looking at the sky, and listening to the sounds of summer approaching. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

The tree branches bent in the wind violently, as if being shaken by the sky. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

They reached another set of glass doors and went through them into a massive downpour of rain, falling from a black sky. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

My thoughts, always eager to escape, shoot out and try to picture the whole sky—even the whole huge world. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

Neel ran to help, looking up at the sky. Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z

They’re beautiful and stark against the sky, and I imagine how stunning the moonrise will be if we can see it this evening, a silver crescent hanging above the summit. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

It was a fine day of blue, cloudless skies and unhurried winds. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

At night I sang to them glorious songs that came out of the sky and into my head. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

He decided to wait until the sun had sunk a bit lower in the sky before following his flock back through the fields. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

A garden of Belle-roses reaches up toward a dark sky, their petals large and rich as sunshades, their thorns glistening like arrows. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

The craft tipped its wings and zigzagged across the sky. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

The sky seemed wider and a warm wind blew. Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z

Very gradually, like one instrument after another being tentatively rehearsed, beacons of color began to pierce the sky. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

At first his screaming was just that, but then he began to babble, yelling about the seas boiling and ash raining from the sky and an endless blanket of smoke smothering the earth. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

And gradually she stopped moving; the lifeline held fast, and she felt the weight and strength of the current pushing against her as she hung there in the sky. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

The train cut through deep green pine forests where the ground was covered with the slick brown needles and the tops of the trees stretched up virgin and tall into the sky. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

Away he soars into the bright sky; and I cry aloud—all this in dream—I wail and round me gather softly braided Akhaian women mourning because the eagle killed my geese. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

I paint a girl with white hair, blending into a forest of white trees, with stars exploding in the sky above them like shattering glass. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

A naked man fell from the sky and landed on the deck, body bursting like a melon dropped from a tower. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

No trees grew there and it was open to the sky; stars were shining already in lakes between shores of cloud. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

It has disappeared like that crane into the sky with its jackhammer cries. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Ash and dust bedim the sky, blocking the sun's light. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

Perhaps that was how those young crows felt as they nestled in their warm and sturdy nest, yearning for the sky. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

It's as if the sky reflects my insides. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

The papers sent special correspondents to shadow the pilots as they served in the skies over Europe, each dispatch from the European front producing shivers of delight. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

Outside, the sky is dark and getting darker. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

And now he was here in that mystical place, the huge oval of Memorial Stadium at the University of Texas, with those smooth flanks of concrete curving to the sky. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was chilly in Capricorn’s church—Meggie was to remember that later, too—although the sun must have been hot outside and high in the sky by the time Mo began to read. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

Seeing the faces of the eight dead victors projected into the sky. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

As the sun sank lower in the sky, the tall trees at the entrance to the woods looked dark blue. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

The world seemed to be spin-ning around her, mountain and sky and mules, whirling like a child's top. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Rain is just tike tears from the sky. Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z

These pictures are not, of course, really in the night sky; we put them there ourselves. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

I watched, confused, as Nyame stood up and plucked a rosy cloud from the sky. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

The developers built the outer structure quickly and then left it, abandoned and unfinished, its unpaned windows staring emptily out into the Brooklyn skies. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

The sky was pale in the southeast, and the air was suffused with a gray mist, through which the gyptians moved like bulky ghosts, loading sledges and harnessing dogs to the traces. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

Finally the soldier got the Berg up and running, its thrusters pushing them into the sky. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

Or I would say, “It is a beautiful day. I have never seen the ocean so calm and the sky looks like a blue shell. How long do you think these days will last?” Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her eyes were the same as his, too, the same color as the clear sky outside. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

The sky is orange and pink and brilliant. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

The next day, the sky turns black with angry storm clouds. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I seemed to see the whole universe, even the sun and sky, leaping forward, then sinking away again, decomposing. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

Or, there were ghosts, but Minya’s binding was too strict to allow them the choice they might or might not have made: to catch godspawn girls and keep them from falling into the sky. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Instead, he had a house built all of bronze and sunk underground, but with part of the roof open to the sky so that light and air could come through. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

She could wake him, but already the sky outside is brightening, and she dreads the thought of saying goodbye. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

“Just look at you! All those heads inching to the sky.” Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

The girl who stands under this Montana sky? A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

The sun is in the sky but I have no idea how much time has passed since Aaron took Viola. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

He saw a star fall: a pale cold spark in the eastern sky. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Black smoke billows and swirls in the morning sky, and below it, maybe fifty yards ahead, is a single car that has caught on fire. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

The constellations glittered in the black sky, a star streaking across it like a shimmering loose thread. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

I know beyond any doubt they have seen far worse things than a dead horse falling out of the sky. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

The stars seemed brighter up here, so close that she could almost touch them, and the homed moon was huge in the clear black sky. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

High up, small chinks of blue sky showed between the leaves. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

Piece by piece, the sky appears, a put-together line of blue and white. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

Silently, the emissary and the soldiers watched the paper lift higher and higher in the night sky, until it overlapped the moon and disappeared. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

A boom sounded overhead, and an explosion lit the sky just to the right of the Squaller. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

He didn’t think the universe owed him an apology whenever something went wrong—unlike another son of the sky god she’d recently met. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Silhouetted against the darkening sky, he hoisted himself a few feet off the ground and clung there, trembling and out of breath. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

Under pale blue skies, he drove along the base of high, sheer basalt cliffs. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

The whole sky smelled sour green, and stray pieces of ash flicked over my head. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

All the sea and sky were wholly dark. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

This time Frightful scanned the sky for thieves before flying with it to the rooftop. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

When he could see them no longer, Biff waited for a moment and examined the sky. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

There was more wind in the sky than there had been, and soon he hoped that he would see land. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Every evening before Voyager l’s encounter with Jupiter, I could see that giant planet twinkling in the sky, a sight our ancestors have enjoyed and wondered at for a million years. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

We laugh, running across the grass as tiny water bombs drop from the sky. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

"Nothing, sire. I see the evening sky above us, and clouds below us." Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

To the northeast two hawks circled endlessly in the clear sky. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

He lifted his muzzle to the sky and a whining scream ripped from his throat. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

The sun had broken through near midday, after seven days of dark skies and snow flurries. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

It was just him, the sky, and London. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

As he stood there the sky over the house screamed. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z

And the sky looked different, much larger than it looked over land. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

It makes tears roll down your cheeks at a blue sky. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

The skies are blue, the grass is green. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

We all looked up and could see this speck in the sky start to grow. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Above her, the sky was an empty unnerving blue. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

The blue sky arched there in the distance, but above her head the sun was blocked by clouds. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

By this time the sky was beginning to brighten in the east. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Grandfather had already collapsed on his covers, snoring loud enough to shake the stars from the sky. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I turned my head to another light in the sky. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

The weight of the sky dropped onto Atlas’s back, almost smashing him flat until he managed to get to his knees, struggling to get out from under the crushing weight of the sky. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

Night had recently fallen, and the sky remained a deep blue, staining the snow piled upon the panes of the windows. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

“In your satchel when I was hunting for the minutes? And Skeeter”—she flash her eyes up at the sky and back down—“I don’t know. I just do not know anymore.” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

What curious principle demands that a candle flame taper always toward the sky? All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

And then he seemed to disappear into himself, his gaze drifting past me to the sky, bristling now with stars. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

And I look at a bright blue sky and where it touches the ocean, and I hear a voice tell me that I don’t belong anywhere. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

He steered Covadonga through an unfamiliar section of the city, down dark back streets in which garbage was piled against the walls of factories, in a forest of smokestacks that shut out the sky. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Every now and again a tiny red gleam far away flickered upwards on the rim of earth and sky. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

It had been silent for some time—since the sun began to warm the sky. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

Now the sunlight had lifted clear of the open space and withdrawn from the sky. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

We leave the camp as early dawn pinks the sky in the east. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

They took sparks from Muspelheim and placed them in the sky as the sun, moon, and stars. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

The sky was clear and dark and bright with stars. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

If you followed their apparent motion over many months, they would leave one constellation, enter another, occasionally even do a kind of slow loop-the-loop in the sky. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

The sky seemed as close as the tops of the trees, covered with still cloud and flushed on the morning side with a lurid, foxy glow. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

His elbows are on his knees and he’s staring out at the slowly brightening sky. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

There were no more moons on her wrist—and none visible in the sky, either. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Such beings may pity us for our handful of naked-eye stars, because their skies will be ablaze with them. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Thunderheads rolled in, painted the sky iron gray. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Dad and John Mark just stand there, looking at the sky, at the cars, anywhere but at each other. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

The statue toppled, slowly at first, then gaining speed as the weight fell from the sky to the ground. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

The skies were hidden by mist and the ground was clouded by the chilly fog. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

High John waved his hand, and like fog lifting when the sun rose in the sky, the clouds faded away into nothing. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

There is a foot of snow on the ground, and the sky is a piercing blue. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

“You know, you are like star in sky.” Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

The sky was white and overcast as it had been when I came away from the cliffs. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

As they approached the summit, dark shapes flitted across the sky above them, letting out occasional hoots and squawks in the night. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

It almost seemed like the Underworld, because I immediately felt claustrophobic and I couldn’t see the sky above—just a close, heavy darkness, as if I were in a cave. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

There was a singing of heat in the land, off the rocks and off the blue sky. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

December 31, 1999, is the evening when the great odometer in the sky clicks ahead. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

Against the sullen redness of the eastern sky a cleft was outlined in the topmost ridge, narrow, deep-cloven between two black shoulders; and on either shoulder was a horn of stone. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

Night falls and the anthem plays and there's no picture of Cato in the sky, only the faint moans coming through the metal beneath us. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

“Tonight I’m in love with the whole world. Everything of the earth. The dirt. The sand. The sky. That cave we went inside the other night.” We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

A majestic green mountain sat in harmony with the deepening blue sky, the sun spreading its light for the last time before it set. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

The sky has brightened by the time we arrive at the first buildings on the outskirts of Reyhanli: blocks of apartments and houses, mosques and schools and traffic. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

Though the December skies were cloudy, everyone felt a little safer when they flew over the airfield to pick up their escort and found thirty-six Soviet fighter aircraft joining them in the sky. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

Through mirrored sunglasses, he’s watching the sky, which is still overcast, though it’s not raining anymore. Dragons in a Bag 2018-10-23T00:00:00Z

As they rode, the empty sky and snow melted into each other, making Pinmei feel as if they were sailing on a vast white sea. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

Hazel squinted at the sun, which was now high in the sky. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

She kept leaning over and yelling in the guys ear, and every time she did, he’d throw his head back and howl at the balloon sky. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

I felt my mom’s arm circle my shoulders and pull me close as I gazed up at the cloudless blue sky. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

In his bunker, Oppenheimer leaned against a wooden beam, glancing back and forth from the sky to the scientists at the control panels. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

And soon the sky seemed to wrap itself around them, a glittering blanket to protect them from the awful sights and sounds and smells of their ruined neighborhood. I Survived Hurricane Katrina, 2005 2011-04-01T00:00:00Z

In front of them was a field of waving sea grasses dotted with chrysanthemum flower anemones, but beyond that there was a silver glow in the darkening sky, as if the moon were rising. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

Dorian glanced at the gray sky and rode on through the silent game park. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

And still the snow was falling, drifting down in silence from a windless sky. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

It was as if she were walking through an infinite night sky, and it was making her dizzy. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

There is a 747 high, leaving a crisp white line through the cloudless autumn sky. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

“I know all right,” I say, looking at the sky. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

The night had passed completely The morning star shone in the sky. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

When the sun rose, the red strings of the bridge melted into the sky and the bridge seemed to disappear, only showing itself again at night. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

The sky was littered with an infinite number of stars. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

We both spend half a minute looking up into the sky. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

Old snow made the sky soft and blackened tree bark. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

I watched the strange blue and green flames crackle toward the sky. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

The few owls that managed to battle their way through the stormy sky to deliver mail had to be nursed back to health by Hagrid before they could fly off again. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

The campus seemed deserted—everyone was at the party, I supposed—and the green lawn, the gaudy tulips, were hushed and expectant beneath the overcast sky. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Watch the sun make its slow arc across the sky. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

After a little while, Jinny reached the spot where all the shoes were buried, where the white bone tree stuck up into the sky. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

It was a miserably wet, blustery day, with rain slanting down out of dark skies in torrents—no kind of day for standing out in the elements and watching a race. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

The sim wasn't yet up, but its rays arced over the horizon and brought light to the sky. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

Eventually he saw the cold, unfriendly blue of earliest morning, the moon and a few stars still lingering in the sky. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

I am light on my feet and feel like I am a little girl in Cuba again, lifted by the breeze, way up to the sky. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

Water, sails, blue sky and suspended gulls flashed by like an improbable postcard, and we were across. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

I want to hug him, hold him tight, and feel the sky fill up with a million stars. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

With half a mile to the cottage, the skies open up. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

She didn’t like the open sky, or bright lights, or people. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

A searing sun already sat in the sky, and Moss wiped the sweat off his hairline before putting his fitted cap on his head. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

The sky gets hotter and hotter with each passing day. Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Jonathan scanned the sky, noticing clouds building to the west. The Fighting Ground 1984-04-01T00:00:00Z

“Also, Gandhi has a message for you: ‘Rise, traveler, the sky is light. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

The sky was gray, not blue or pretty. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

The sun was high overhead in a vast sapphire-blue sky beaded with low, isolated, puffy clouds of dry and immaculate white. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

The sky had clouded over and a light mist was falling as I left the building, but the rumbling in the sky hinted at a coming storm. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

Since we have no instruments to tell us the time, and we’re no good at guessing it from the sun’s position in the sky, the wait feels like forever. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Snowflakes danced in the awakening sky, touching down softly on Hazel’s long black hair. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

I stared through the windshield as the burned lights took over the sky. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The sky was a fierce, burning blue, the trees ferocious shades of red and yellow. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

That evening they all watched orange and pink clouds float against a turquoise-blue sky. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

Just three nights ago she had dreamed of Daario lying dead beside the road, staring sightlessly into the sky as crows quarreled above his corpse. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Birds flew onto dancing treetops below me, and many distant towns flickered on the bright horizon, each with a minaret that pointed to the sky like a pencil pointing to a page. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z

The sky is pitch black and the air is still. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Tristran would stare into the darkness of the sky until he thought of nothing at all, and then he would go back to his bed and sleep like a dead man. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

The sky darkened, but we floated in a milky whiteness that seemed to hold the plane suspended above Puerto Rico. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

I don’t see a clown or a giraffe or a heart or even popcorn; they’re just gray shifting to darker gray and then back out to edges of white where the sky seems to disappear. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

The tall corn whispers as we go, about sky, about clouds, about secrets corn knows. Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z

I asked as we walked, the setting sun burning up the sky behind us. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

I lay on my bed and stared out the window at the lowering sky. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

They prowled under the trees as a piney wind blew ashes and embers through the sky. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

There were none, but on the other hand the sky was mostly overcast and a plane would not easily be seen. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

It won't take you long, standing there, to understand what I mean about that sky, the endless and aloof Montana sky. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

The mystical reverence that he felt for her was somehow mixed up with the aspect of the pale, cloudless sky, stretching away behind the chimney pots into interminable distances. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

The sky was clear, the sails shone white against it. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

They hoisted children onto their shoulders to see the fireworks painting the skies. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

I grab the parrot’s limp body and hurl it from the crow’s nest, watching it arc across the sky like a feathery fireball, until it is taken by the sea. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

We see the sad trees, with their autumnal leaves dripping rain, the grey sky reflected in the puddles on the road. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

But as the sun came up there were only streaks of clouds in the sky. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

I spent the night in the arms of those trees, between earth and sky. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

The glow of it rose above the trees and shone reflected in the haze of the sky. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was raining, hard, thunder snarling and rumbling and ripping through the sky. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

The stars instantly appeared in the black sky, reflecting their light on a quiet ocean. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

But on the last Sunday of that April, a Sunday of sunlight and bright sky, Jethro lay in the grass on Walnut Hill, and rage mingled with the grief in his heart. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

The sun had slipped low in the sky. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

We are safely inside my room, but outside snow pours—not drifts—from the sky. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

The hunters were looking uneasily at the sky, flinching from the stroke of the drops. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

My feet touch the ground, and I lift my face to the sky, to all those bending branches and drifting clouds. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

Octavian would be remembered for saving Rome by hurling himself into the sky in a fiery ball of death. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

More than a minute passes before Franz speaks again; squinting at the sky, he begins to reminisce further about the time he spent in the youngster's company. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

He trudged through the streets, hat and gloves on, studiously ignoring the broad blue sky, the winking sun. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

And she pointed to a star streaking through the night sky. The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane 2006-03-30T00:00:00Z

The night sky was full of streaking, shimmering, and blinking lights that she simply couldn’t identify. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

So you stand there, and you squelch your toes, and you raise your arms up above your head, and you watch the clouds get sucked back into ducts in the sky. Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

He said, The sky, the tree, the fish. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

They’re chattering to each other, both flat on their backs again, batting words back and forth, English and Swahili, gazing up at the glowing night sky. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

The sky had turned to fire, smoky and orange. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

At that exact moment, a star shot across the sky. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

When the rains finally came, the skies darkened and the air became heavy. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

They turned left and right, scanning the sky. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

“But maybe by then they’ll have figured out a way of clearing the ash from the sky. The scientists must be working on that.” The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

Those were the only two things to be seen in the dark sky; they made a dismal group. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z

We walk outside, and the brisk air and gray sky remind me that we’re back home. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

Dutchy is standing in the middle, looking up at the sky through that glass ceiling, and then he takes off his cap and flings it into the air. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

It was motionless, a giant bicycle wheel in the sky that did not turn. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You old sorcerer,” the boy shouted up to the sky. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

The sun is dropping in the sky by the time they come out. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

Minnie stood beaming and proud as Anna’s gaze moved over the interior city and upward to its steel sky. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

The river itself had turned a rich and lustrous shade of violet, reflecting the sky overhead. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

A gust of wind yanked him into the sky. Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

And now she was flying, twisting and rotating in the air, seeing sky, then earth, then sky, then earth. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

The sky was always a deep, hard blue. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

He couldn’t look down at the water, so he stared up at the sky, at all of those stars. I Survived the Sinking of the Titanic, 1912 2010-06-01T00:00:00Z

I looked up at the sky and realized that she was right. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

The sky was clouding over to the east and one after another the stars he knew were gone. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

I sat there for a long time and watched the sky. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z

She held both palms up to face the sky, one gloved, one sleeved in bees, like a shaman performing some ancient ritual. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

“Mountain lion,” he whispered, “mountain lion, becoming what you are with each breath, your substance changing with the earth and the sky.” Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

Downtown, the Smith Tower pointed, like an upraised finger, toward somber skies. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

“Is it good to be back in the sky, Windrider?” he shouted up to me. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’m sucked back into my seat as we catapult from the ship into the sky. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

Birds were all around her—on the water, in the reeds, in the trees and sky. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

The prairie became as hard as stone, birds disappeared from the sky, and the Grandfather sun looked pale and distant. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

But the vast flood in the sky was another matter entirely. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

Outside, it was still and very hot, the sky a brilliant blue. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

She dreamed of paper birds and paper stars and paper skies. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

We sat in front of Charlie’s house for hours, as the sky darkened and rain plummeted around us in a sudden deluge. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

The trees hung over the top and there was nothing to see but a slot of sky and the water ahead and the endless, endless green. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z

“Not necessary,” I say, throwing my hand in the air with my pinky pointed to the sky. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

The black night sky was beginning to lighten and turn a deep blue with the new morning. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

The ones I loved fly as birds in the open sky above me. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

“But the Starry River is the sky,” Pinmei said, shaking her head in confusion. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

There was no mooring, no ground, no sky. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

A half-moon floated in the sky above the city, attended by a thousand stars. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

A dull red glow lit the sky to the northeast, the color of a blood bruise. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“No. They got hit by the arrows from the sky. Both of them. They died real nasty.”Tears welled up until they spilled over and washed down her dirty cheeks. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

As they go over the line, Sophie collapses, and down there, on the ground, she rolls onto her back and looks up at the sky. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

The sun continued making its way westward in the sky and was almost directly above us now. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

The sky was a cold azure and the stars were very bright. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

“I don’t think so; the sky is blue.” The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

In the sky above the clearing, Orion had fallen over the south edge; he was running out of night. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

Rondell smiled big and nodded his head some, and we all three of us kept walking along the wet sand, a half-moon pasted on the sky over us and shining in the black ocean. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

Smoke was rising in thick, blinding fumes that blended into the star-filled sky. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

Cars growl in the streets; leaves whisper in the sky; blood rustles through her inner ears. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

No Joshua moments for him, no sun stilled in the sky. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

I walked over to the doorway and checked the sky; still clear, but for how long? Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

It took several huge, clattering steps, then it was off the side of the hill and cantering across the sky. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

He knew, at some point, someone would likely find the trapdoor and the sky garden; by then, he’d likely be long gone. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

The sky arched over them, higher than they could have imagined, a pale, clear blue. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

The robot turned her head around and saw that the sky was filled with a swirling wall of darkness. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

The sun reached its apogee and started down the blue sky of early afternoon. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

When she thought of Lord Shiva dancing, she imagined someone stomping their feet on the sky. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Like the Sun and the Moon, stars always rise in the east and set in the west, taking the whole night to cross the sky if they pass overhead. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

She looked up: the sky was blue, beautiful, cloudless. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

He looked up past his house to the hill beyond, the church steeple poking up into the cloudy sky. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z

Up in the sky, behind the rest of the perched, cackling lechuzas, there was a tinge of pink on the purple face of night. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

I was lying on the ground after my morning sun prayer, watching Sumac fly in the sky world. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

Not even the biggest giant I could imagine could brush this Montana sky with his fingertips. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

Up above the treetops, a crescent moon was floating in a dark sky, half-obscured by mist, like an eye peering through a veil of silk. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

This was the night of September third, 1940, and in a little while a bomb was going to fall from the sky and blow a giant hole in the house. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

The sky spoke of rain to come; but the light was broadening quickly, and the red flowers on the beans began to glow against the wet green leaves. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

As Percy and his friends strolled past the damaged Senate House, a dazzling rainbow appeared in the night sky. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

“This is my doom upon you and all who follow you. May it last until the world ends and the Aleu fall nameless from the sky.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

I tap my foot impatiently while I peer out the plate-glass windows, scanning the sky for seagulls. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

He slathered a blue sky on the top of the canvas, leaving gobs of paint as he worked. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z

There wasn’t a cloud in the sky to dream about or make up stories about, but Will dreamed anyway. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z

A long stretch of low, overcast skies at Cape Canaveral put the kibosh on two more scheduled launches, on January 20 and February 12,1962. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

The sun had risen high into the sky. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was past dinnertime; the sun was dipping in the sky. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

They are gray and troubled, like a dark-clouded sky, but there is no unkindness there. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

She was squinting into the distance, at the sky rather than the water. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

John saw that the sun was beginning to stir, somewhere in the sky; the silence of the dawn would soon give way to the trumpets of the morning. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

The sun was out and the sky too bright a blue to look at as the snow melted off the yews and came clumping down. Orbiting Jupiter 2015-10-06T00:00:00Z

Then they all took off into the night sky. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

The sky was slightly overcast, but the sun was trying hard to shine through the clouds. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Above me are the empty buildings that stand at the edge of the hole, and the sky. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

At last, the sun was reluctantly forced from the sky. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

Doc took a peek at the sky out the window. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

The day was warm and cloudless, the sky a deep blue. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

The man who wound his watch looked at the sky. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

Shortly after dawn, when the sky turned not rosy and welcoming as it does in summer but merely a lighter shade of gray, the midwife kicked her awake. The Midwife's Apprentice 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Golden wheat flew in every direction, while the blue sky and the mountain lurched absurdly. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

“Please, Tristan,” Miss Rose called as Miss Sarah hurtled from the sky, a fetterling in each hand, and dashed them to pieces on the ground. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

And across the vast, blue sky, white clouds hurried before the wind like sheep before invisible wolves. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

He turned over on his back and looked weakly up into the sky through the high shifting lattices of fight. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

As they watched, it rose higher and higher, blazing in a haze of greenish smoke, etched against the black sky like a new constellation. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

After the explosion, Piper and Jason - free-falling and unconscious - were plucked out of the sky by giant eagles and brought to safety, but Leo did not reappear. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

The plants were too green, the sky too blue, the road too black, like a scar knifed into the landscape. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

The sky was pitch-black, but by now Tally could read the stars well enough to know that the first notes of dawn were only a couple of hours away. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

The sky between the stars was of the deepest and fullest velvet. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

As the sun climbs in the sky, we find ourselves among wide brown pastures. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

As day drifted into night, the sky shucked its oranges and purples for black and blue. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

As the Jürgen Eichman looms ever larger in the night sky, as big as the moon and then bigger, people around the world realize something is wrong. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

She took in the gleaming tower of an office building, the blue sky reflected off its sides. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

Not five feet away, where a wall ought to have been, where a wall would be in a proper dungeon, the floor ended and the sky began. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

By the time I’ve finished scrubbing the roasting pan, the sky is dark and the yard has faded from view. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

Ralph took in the thumbnail moon, the young trees like tracery, edging the indigo sky. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

I push away from the cement wall, and the sky moves sideways. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

The sky was blue, almost cloudless, and a mockingbird sang from a fence post. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

Clouds are the Kleenex to wipe the sky's face. Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z

But when I looked out, all I saw was a sky the color of an old teakettle, rainy and gray. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

At that, the armored Amari lifts her hand to the sky and says, “Finis.” Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

The sky was bright and hazy at the same time. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

As soon as the sky began to lighten, Thor walked into the forest without waking his companions, looking for the source of the sound. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

She belonged to the sky, and the sky belonged to her. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

The chariot lifted off and zipped out of the house, Triptolemus shouting to the sky, “Away, my serpents! Away!” The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

It’s nice being able to see patches of uninterrupted sky. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

People read the sign, sometimes twice, and then look at the setting sun and the clear violet sky and scratch their heads. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Finally the gray light of morning touched the sky. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

I was five that year and I sat next to Dad and we looked up at the sky. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Ready,” Grandfather drew his sword from the scabbard and held it in the sky. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

As the western sky turned the color of a blood bruise, she heard the sound of approaching horses. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Instead, I felt I was with him in the skies, flying through the air. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

I gazed up at the wild, exploding colors in the night sky. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

So they stood and ate beneath a sky of thunderous brass that rang with the storm coming. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

Instead of the ashy haze that hung over them, he saw with Gray a vast blue bowl of sky. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

At first it seemed all hollow and singular, but by the last fading light of the moonless sky we caught the outline of a ladder on the far wall. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

While I think on those words, Director Horus twirls his staff and the stars scatter, returning the night sky to normal. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

He began to paint, while behind him the stars glittered for all they were worth—which was considerable—and every single one of them held its place in this night’s sky without falling. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

Floating on my back, as I am now, staring at the blue sky while the chatter of the woods was muted by the water. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Where he used to hold up the sky.” The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

Everything Seemed gray: the sky, the water, the air. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

It has seven impressive arms reaching up to the colorful evening sky. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

And when we look up at the night sky, we confront an infinity of the very large. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Catelyn raised her eyes, to where the faint red line of the comet traced a path across the deep blue sky like a long scratch across the face of god. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

I haven’t seen a blue sky in a longtime, so when it spreads out above me, I feel the breath catch in my lungs and the effect is dizzying. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

“The wind called me out here, Dri. The sky—my God, the sky will never be like this again. Don’t you see it?” Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

And the sky tonight would be alive with the rustling of the Angel of Death’s wings. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

The library windows were open wide, and when we did not talk or touch one another we looked at the dark dull sky. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

They were all on their backs on Ida Nee’s dock, staring up at the sky. Raymie Nightingale 2016-04-12T00:00:00Z

And then they danced, the two of them careening around the deck, swinging, smiling, laughing, giddy for now under a blue Seattle sky. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

The green leaves were the roofs, and through them they could see bits of the blue sky. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

I try not to stare at him, dripping wet and naked, so I watch the crane, the sky, anything but him. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

No matter that the sky had changed—it was an obstacle course of balloon cables and restrictions and military aircraft and, often, dirty weather. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

Our neighbourhood looked odd at first, as if a giant alien presence had been beamed to another planet, leaving behind naked sky. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

He gnawed the reindeer haunch, and a wild notion flew into Lyra’s mind as she remembered all those witches in the night sky; but she said nothing about that. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

It was a gorgeous morning, with clear blue skies. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

The pale sky looked vast and you could see it reflected every so often in the patches of water breaking up the land. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Looking out the window I can see it, a glimmer, like the phosphorescence you get in stirred seawater, behind the sky, which is overcast and too low and a dull gray infrared. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

I see the starry night sky, the darkened road, streetlamps attracting bugs. Ghost Boys 2018-04-17T00:00:00Z

The November weather turns colder, the sky always dark and gray. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

The Paqo pointed low in the black cloth of the night sky, and there, in the pattern of the stars, were the ground animals. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

There was the Cliff, opening out into a gray-dark sky, about twenty feet away. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

The crash was followed by a noise like stones falling from the sky, or guns firing. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

It looked like someone had taken sidewalk chalk and smudged the colors across the sky with their fingers. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

It seemed as if the sky were going to break and fall on the earth. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

Now, under the clear night sky, she wondered if it might be the time to break it all down like some elaborate pageant set the day after the show. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

It hung down from a glowering sky behind London’s tower blocks. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

Bare trees poked their bony arms into the sky. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

Difference: She tells me she saw a school bus fall from the sky. Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z

The chimneys of Swift’s packing plant stood tall against the sky, belching thick smoke that spread over Packingtown like a blanket, smothering the community below in the stench of blood. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

To the west, the sky was crimson with sunset. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

And there, when the skies are clear and the Moon not too bright, he finds his supernovae. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

And Boom!...The sky opened wide and rain sheared down like curtains. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Mother would look to the sky and take me in her arms. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

The rim arced through the sky at a height of 264 feet, as high as the topmost occupied floor in Burnham’s Masonic Temple, the city’s tallest skyscraper. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Out on the Iron Horse Trail that morning, the sky is blue. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

One man remembered seeing a man’s burning shirt sail into the sky, its sleeves outstretched. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z

I often went out into the yard after dark and lay down on the grass and looked up into the sky, hoping to catch a glimpse of a satellite going over. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

He flopped onto his back, stared up at the branches and the stars above.There wasn’t even the slightest hint of dawn creeping into the sky. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

A second anti-air battery fires from a distant corner of the city, and then the 88 upstairs goes again, stentorian, deadly, and Werner listens to the shell scream into the sky. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

However, as she looked at the sky turning to night, she frowned. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

No wonder they forget pebbly creeks and when they do not forget the sky completely think of it as a tiny piece of information about the time of day or night. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

For months there had been no rain and the sky was empty of clouds. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

The clouds separate in the sky and the sun shines beams of white light on our new home. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

A shot is fired into the sky; the sound ricochets through the camp. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

The ceiling was painted a watery blue-green that looked like the sky. Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z

The dusk sky looked molten, as if it might explode in the west. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

The light on the lawn was golden, casting long velvety shadows, and the cloudy, radiant sky was straight out of Constable; though I didn’t want to admit it, I was about half-drunk. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

The sun is dead high in the sky. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

Taisin was falling in love with her—the emotions were as clear and hot as a summer sky. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

He spun and lunged at imaginary enemies in the dark, yelling at the rocks and the sky and at the water, “Get away! Don’t mess with me!” Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

Through the low buildings, chips of stars glitter in a velvet sky. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

This miracle—it was nothing less—of recalling Hercules, from frenzied feeling and violent action to sober reason and sorrowful acceptance, was not wrought by a god descending from the sky. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

“When Castor died,” he says, “Pollux missed him too much, so he made a deal to share his immortality with him and that’s how they both ended up in the sky.” I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

By the time the sky began to lighten the sound of drums had faded away, though warhoms were heard thrice more, each time a little closer. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

I watched the sky go light pink and then red and orange and then dark blue and purple. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

Down the street, a firecracker sprayed crimson sparks across the sky. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

Looking up, Roosevelt and Cherrie saw the Big Dipper shining brightly in the clear, dark sky. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

Once back under the starry sky, Harry heaved Dumbledore onto the top of the nearest boulder and then to his feet. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

He shouldered open the trapdoor, then pulled himself up and into the sky garden. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

Outside, where there should have been a long, windowless hall with dark green numbered doors leading into other apartments, there was a greening field and a lowering sky. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Part of the moon still hung in the sky, a pale halo over his blond head. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

It hailed for a minute, then the sky was empty and luminescent; clumps of sagebrush along the roadside glowed like torches. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The sky closes to a pinpoint and a wave of dry leaves sweeps over my head. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

The buildings on this street, so near that John could touch them on either side, were narrow, also, rising like spears into the sky, and they were made of beaten gold and silver. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

She looks lovely in a sky blue frock that brings out her eyes, her blond hair pulled back in a matching ribbon. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

I drive into town as the sun edges up the sky. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

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

Winter had once again clapped itself over Chicago, siphoning the warmth from the air and the blue from the sky. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

He had learned well how to stack similar-sized vessels into a tower that could touch the sky if need be and never topple. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

At first it was just a small fuzzy dot in the wide open blueness of the sky. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

Then, two by two, the Dactyl Hill Squad hopped on dactylback and swooped out into the sky over Brooklyn. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

His eyes jerked upward as a huge, sharp beam of yellow light shot into the sky. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

He sputtered, a sound that verged on laughter, and tipped his head back, gazing at the faded gray sky. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

Its eight towers were like lanterns suspended from the sky. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

The rain pattered continually against the side of the plane: he imagined small children tossing down dried peas by the handful from the skies. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

My only regret is that the clouds had blown in while we walked, leaving the sky flat and grey as slate. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

A small bright light had arisen in the sky to the north and appeared to be drifting along the lakeshore toward the wharf. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

There were several hours to daylight, two at least, maybe a bit more before the sky started to grow fight. The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

And earlier that day, the sky had been clear. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

The moon, after all, still smiles from time to time, and the world still spins like a dancer through the skies. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

After that we drove in silence as the sky blued and the few big clouds showed their low gray bellies. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Their dark pointed wings were erased from the sky as if they had sensed her deadly purpose. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

The boy turns his chin upward, as though he is observing the moon that hangs in the sky of the lighted screen. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

Over them was a lane of pale-blue sky, around them the dark overshadowed River, and before them black, shutting out the sun, the hills of Emyn Muil, in which no opening could be seen. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

The rain had stopped, and the sky was just beginning to lighten. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

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

Looking to the future, he saw no future; and who doesn’t hurt when he sees his life fizzling, his life that should have climbed and burst, blooming, a fire-flower in the sky? Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

It must be the police, the guardia, but up in the sky! Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

In the sky above him a few big white clouds drifted. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

She glanced at the sky, where a long dark plume of smoke rose above the rooftops and long graceful necks of sauropods. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

With a deliberate motion, I pushed the hair behind my ear and looked up to the sky and Inti for help. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

A few moments ago the sky had been clear, and now in the gloom we saw each other as dark bultos. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

I don’t know if anything I said made sense, but somewhere between the gray sidewalk and the gray sky, a laugh burbles out of me. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

I aim my radio at the farthest point in the sky and click it on. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was lost in the immensity of land and sky, but my father knew where to go. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

As the sky grew dark, the exhausted Americans sat on the ground gulping water from canteens and licking melted chocolate bars from the wrappers. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

He left the midway, and I moved closer to the foot of the ride, pressing against others who, like me, watched the night sky while wearing an expression most people reserve for fireworks. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

He shoved his hands in his pockets and tilted his face to the sky. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

The sky stretches long and wide, and maybe this bus can go to the very edge of the world—or at least to my mother in New Jersey. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

At dusk through her tears she saw the swift and luminous disks that crossed the sky like an exhalation and she thought that it was a signal of death. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

“Do these planes ever just fall from the sky?” When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

And in between the two, in between the sky and the sea, were all the winds. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

In the blue-gray sky he could see their dusky shapes wheeling lower and lower, and he quickened his retreat. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Deep blue swirled among lighter shades, like ocean draped in sky. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

Though the rain still fell, a vague light suffused the eastern sky. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

We walk amid the jostle, and the darkening sky fills with sad music. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Like an arc of pure fire, John R. Isidore soared across the late-afternoon sky on his way home from his job. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

The sky was a panorama of orange flame bright enough to read by. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

The entire sky garden was beyond recognition, burned and charred as though an unseen force had ravaged every iota of life there. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

Poppy was standing outside looking up into the night sky when they appeared in the dark. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

His two black laborers walked the rows, touching the tender flowers, fingering the soil and trying to puzzle out the sky. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

She rose high into the morning sky and flew faster and faster until she disappeared behind the chimneys. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

A small wisp of cloud hovers in the sky wearing the moonlight like a silver dress. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

Somebody on horseback had blown Grandma’s mailbox sky high. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

The sky remained dark around us, but the clouds of dust abated somewhat. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

To the west the sky was opening into a high gray overcast, and where the clouds were rubbed thin, the streaks of sky were almost blue. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

I tilt my face up to the sky, forcing myself to look directly into the sun. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Theo chooses a night sky over the Rhone River, and a still life of irises. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

All morning the truck heads northwest as the sun climbs higher and higher in the sky, and the wind blows away what little protection the clouds have to offer. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The sun was too hot and it made the color of the sky too pale blue. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

Their bright-red hair is out in full effect, and they wear coordinating outfits the warm blue of a twilight sky, edged in pinks and yellows. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

The wind and updraft lifted flames hundreds of feet into the sky and created such a bright light that it reminded some people of daylight. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z

The ornate sign reaching to the sky like an electric peacock feather. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

The skies didn’t darken, the moon didn’t turn to blood. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

The water, the birds, the sky excited her. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

I lay down and stared at the darkening sky. Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

The rumbling came closer out of an empty sky, filling my ears. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Okay,” I said as she leaped from the porch into the night sky. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

The sky brightened to a dull bronze glow as the last of the seasons geese rushed southward, flying so low I could hear the beat of their wings against the morning air. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The leather jacket belonged to the days of the Corsair when men dueled in the skies for possession of Pacific atolls and for airspace above the gray, endangered fleets. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The night was still pitch black, save for an occasional flash of lightning in the eastern sky,” Laurence recalled. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Man pushes his arrogant self out, poking holes through the sky; God will sling His arrows back down on man through those holes in a mighty rain.” Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

The captain began by expressing his utter conviction that there was no God, no deity in the sky watching over the human world. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

Carl leaned out the window to look up at the darkening sky and rubbed a hand over his mouth. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

Rain showers had begun to slant down out of the sky again, but the rain wasn’t the problem. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Over the olive grove in a sunken sky and a dark rain of cold evening stars. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

He started to call to the boy where he trudged ahead and then he looked about at the gray country and the gray sky and he dropped the coin and hurried on to catch up. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

The rocket leaned over, puffed a big cloud of smoke, and sped off into the sky. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

The sun became an orange dusty ball low in the sky. The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane 2006-03-30T00:00:00Z

The moon sets and the eastern sky lightens, the hem of night pulling away, taking stars with it one by one until only two are left. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

The bombers crossed the sky and crossed the sky over the house, gasping, murmuring, whistling like an immense, invisible fan, circling in emptiness. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z

He heard a cracking sound as the sky crashed to earth with a violent impact that shook the ground. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

Lazlo looked up: at the shining citadel of alien blue metal floating in the sky. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Above her, the sky was filled with stars. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

The sky was still a deep blue, but the sun hadn’t quite risen over the trees’ peaks. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

Evening was coming and the sky above was growing dim. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

Out of the sky he drops to a cornice beam with mortal voice telling me not to weep. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

“But all I want to do is slap it out of the sky.” Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

The old Willis house loomed ahead, dark and crooked against the starry sky. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

The sky had begun to lighten, but there were still nearly two hours before she was supposed to leave for Kelly's house. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z

The ground rumbled as another grenade exploded, sending spirals of whipped cream into the sky. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Her valentine hairline, the heart in her ribs and all the ones on her sleeves twinkled like the pinchers of the crab in the sky. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

Surveying the skies, I didn’t see any sign of the Sixers, but that didn’t mean they hadn’t already arrived. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

It might have been the breeze making the fires dance or the bright stars frosting the sky, but Tendai thought he had never eaten a better meal. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

The moon shone on the garden like it had been hung in the sky for that purpose alone. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

We kept walking in the direction that the sky was glowing with a orangeish light. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

“Perhaps you’d like to take the sky for her, then? Be my guest.” The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

Even when the moon was high in the sky, she continued. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

Tilt your head back and you see a pie-shaped wedge of sky through a screen of wire mesh. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

The sun was lower in the sky than it should be—she hadn’t been in the clearing that long, but it looked like late afternoon now. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

The rising sun nudged above the horizon and colored the eastern sky, flooding the Garrett farm with light, which shone on Booth’s face. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

And this one kid Mark at the party who gave me this came out of nowhere and looked at the sky and told me to see the stars. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

In the distance, mare’s tails swept out of nowhere across the sky. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

When at last the sun was low in the sky, Khal Drogo clapped his hands together, and the drums and the shouting and feasting came to a sudden halt. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

In the gateway to the east, Hazel saw the Argo II plunging through the sky above the Apennines. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

And the night, far from being frightful, was lovely beyond thought, for the stars were close, and although there was no moon the starlight made a silver glow in the sky. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

The eagle was perched on a spine of rock far above them, outlined against the darkening sky. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

At about four that afternoon, after weeks of blue skies, dark clouds rolled over the desert. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Thomas found most of the Gladers standing near the entrance to the Box, pointing at the dead sky, everyone talking at once. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

I followed the jumping light into the garden, where dry stalks pointed to the skies like scrawny fingers, and rotted, wormy vegetables sank into the cracks of the parched soil. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Looking to the sky, Kendra noticed that the eastern horizon was turning purple. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

The sky was blue, with white puffy clouds, but she would have been just as terrible and looked just as stupid on horseback in the sunshine as in the drizzle or the dark. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

And with that, High John the Conqueror soared into the sky on his giant crow, hooting and hollering as he cut through smoke and flame to confront the swarm of brand flies racing toward us. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

The Borribles did and there, just a little beyond the rim of the bridge, they saw a halo of harsh whiteness reflected on the underneath of the dark sky. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

The sky is velvet black and the moon is bright white. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

Above the Buddha's head, a wide hole in the cave's ceiling opened to the sky. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

Suddenly Frightful plummeted out of the sky and landed beside him. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

Nuwa slipped from his grasp and thrust herself into the hole in the sky. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

Once, in a vision, instead of working, I am lazing in a soft furrow of our milpita, gazing up into the endless sky at a hawk. Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z

I watch a mind movie of her taking a stick and drawing a line in the dirt between us under a bright blue sky. Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

The sound grew in anguish, and it filled the night sky as it spread across the castle grounds, over the walls, even into the Great Square beyond. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

The wind moaned and cried, and in the middle of the sky the sun was a blood-red dot. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

I sat there as the sky turned black and the air grew brisk. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

"Mackerel sky, mackerel sky, not long wet nor not long dry," said a man in a black silk top hat to Tristran and Yvaine. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

The patrolman glanced up and saw, framed against the starlit sky, two winged silhouettes— the baby owl’s parents, anxiously circling their frightened fledgling. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The statue unsettles me the longer I stare at it, and I waste no more time leaving the corridor to head to the sky garden. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

The ceiling, which was twice as high as the ceiling in our house, was painted blue like the sky, and there were clouds and angels. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

“The gods are playing tricks on us. How could they be so cruel and still make the sky so lovely?” First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Both moons are more than halfway full and the sky is clear so there’s at least a little bit of light to walk by, even under the swamp canopy, even in the dark. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

A green lushness seemed to bloom from the rock — a jewel-colored splendor softened the sharp edges that had painfully sliced the sky. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

Virgil imagined a bright purple sky with thick blue clouds. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

The narrow strip of sky visible between the rooftops was as dark as if the sun were about to set. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

"I saw blue sky, white clouds, and pine trees above me," Gordievsky remembered. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

In the beginning, on a dog-day Monday in the middle of August when the West Texas heat congealed in the sky, there were only the stirrings of dreams. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sure enough, the elevator had shot right up through the roof of the factory and was now rising into the sky like a rocket, and the sunshine was pouring in through the glass roof. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 1964-09-12T00:00:00Z

The black stones had turned to grey and the eastern sky had gone indigo when Stonesnake spied the rangers below, wending their way upward. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

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

Ahead, where the black road twisted out of sight between black trees and gray sky, was the mountain. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

I watch him hypnotize the girls as he does the fruit in the trees, the clouds in the sky, as he did me. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

Slowly, with many halts and detours, the Costas’ boat drew nearer the fens, that wide and never fully mapped wilderness of huge skies and endless marshland in Eastern Anglia. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

She lay back in the grass and stared up at the sky. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

It flew straight down from the sky in drops the size of coffee saucers and hit the hot sidewalks with a hiss that sent clouds of steam writhing up from the gleaming, dark concrete. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

Fidelito pointed at a shower of red and green sparks in the sky. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The West Wind carried them into the sky above Split. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Rain splashed from a moiling sky and the day was dreary and cold. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

They all looked up and saw a great mass of seagulls wheeling round and round in the sky. James and the Giant Peach 1961-11-01T00:00:00Z

He closed his eyes and kissed his fingertips to the sky. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

One minute, Kingshaw looked up and he could still see beige chinks of sky, far above, and the next minute, he could not. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

His afterlife is definitely more impressive and thoughtful than Dad’s—Dad believes in the usual golden-gated island in the sky. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Thunder boomed and lightning cracked, lighting up the sky in sudden, glaring washes. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

The moon was down; the night sky was filled with stars. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

I look up and see wisps of clouds in a sky that goes on forever with layers of pink and orange. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

There were no windows, just a wall of glass looking out into nothing but sky. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Life has been horribly hectic and the years have flown by like so many swallows in the sky. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then the blue sky turned black, and Jason saw nothing at all. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

He plunged and snowballed and tumbled and laughed until the sky in the west turned fiery orange. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

The sun is big in the cartoon-blue sky above the trees. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

The sun shines as I emerge from the barracks, unfeeling in a cloudless sky. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

Next time I open my eyes, the sun is at its height in the sky, blaring down with all its yellow glory. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z

The weather was fair and cold; the sky was clear day and night; there was no prospect of rain. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

A generation ago, the skies would have been clear and the road would have been a two-lane highway. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

Why couldn’t the stars in the sky be planets or moons or suns on their own? Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

Even with her head on the pillow she’d see a big lot of sky, and if it was warm enough, she could get all the fresh air she wanted by stepping out onto the balcony. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

The girandoles looked like fiery lace in the sky. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

No one said a word, as if all speculation on the new sky had been exhausted. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

Drops of rain fall from my sky full of stars. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

And Javi and I went back and forth, calling out toasts, invoking the sky, celebrating nonsense with nonsense until we had everybody cheering. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

Without the Sleeper covering it, the ceiling now looked like open sky. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

There seemed to be a cottage a short way away under the wide starry sky, and he thought he saw movement outside it. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

She watched the blue sky of Mars as if it might at any moment grip in on itself, contract, and expel a shining miracle down upon the sand. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

Rocket summer People leaned from their dripping porches and watched the reddening sky. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

The rebels fired their guns toward the sky, as they shouted and merrily danced their way into town in a semicircle formation. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

The sky was dark: gray clouds above black ruin. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

A thin, cottony layer of clouds veiled the sky. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

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

Harry shouted, his voice echoing across the empty hilltop, and several blackbirds rose into the air, squawking and spiraling against the pearly sky. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

Many times when I came home, the sun was high in the sky. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

But the sky is peeking through the thinning white haze overhead, in pale blue patches. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

He had stopped dead where he stood, and, his head thrown back, had begun to howl at the sky. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

A safe place for injured birds to heal, then return to the sky. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

And when they came forth evening had fallen and many stars were in the sky. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

He soared higher in the sky world toward the mountaintops and Inti’s home. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

They smiled at each other and then looked up to where the spirits danced wild circles across the darkening sky. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

What in the skies is wrong with her? An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

The crossed timbers supporting the rails had the look of bayonets when they were silhouetted against a twilight sky. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

Hanging from his fingers, framed by a slick blue sky, it looked precious and clean and permanent. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

Somehow Id ended up on my back, because I found myself staring straight up at all the junk floating in the sky. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

Fracture lines etch the surface of the glass box as if a body fell from the sky and landed on it. Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z

Only trees and more trees and plenty of blue sky. The House on Mango Street 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

He picked smooth winds between towers of clouds as he led Frightful through the sky. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

Everything looks fuzzy—the cars whizzing by, the sun in the sky, the budding trees, the woman pulling a shopping cart filled with groceries. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

Apparently the crew was trying to get the ship airborne, but, even if they managed to take off, Jason wasn’t sure the sky would be any safer. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

They had passed the tear in the sky that had doomed Cat and her crew, but the wind had died soon after. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

She looks up at the sky and then all around her as if she sees signs everywhere. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

The eastern sky changed from white to pink and from pink to gold. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z

And together, the four of us jumped out the window into open sky. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

The sky was barely getting light and the birds just beginning to wake up and sing when I tiptoed downstairs in my Sunday suit and my new linen duster. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

He found a blanket and started pulling hay over himself for warmth as the sky got darker. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

And they showed bony Vietnamese people older than Big Ma, pointing to the sky and to the hills in the distance. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

All around us, the trees are brown, their green leaves, wilted in the heat of the white sky, hang quietly on the branches. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ray’s pointer nose and wide eyes stay on the sky. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

She looks up and sees faint lights in the sky—the sun, the moon, the other planets. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

The dark sky was shattered by a blue-white scar. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

The ocean perked up a little from the reflection of these colored slivers in the sky. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

They leave the highway behind and drive on steep, slender, two-lane ribbons of road, the mountains appearing like enormous milky waves suspended against the sky. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Now it was just the three of them and an expanse of empty sky. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

He can continue to travel as long as he wants, always resetting the first clock at noon, when the sun is at its highest point in the sky. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

Before him, then, the slope stretched upward, and above it the brilliant sky, and beyond it, cloudy, and far away, he saw the skyline of New York. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

The sky is black and echoes with the thunder of monsoon storms. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

While our heads are in the sky, her feet are on the ground. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

I did not heat the water, either, because I was afraid that the heating coil would make the rainwater lose the scent of the sky. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

Outside, the sky felt deep and dark as if a large soft blanket had been thrown over the hills and valleys. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

Ivory towers, now beet red as they reflected the burning rip in the sky, stood tall and angry. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

We both tipped our heads to the sky. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

He must have been shocked to see me sky because he didn’t even move. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

“An anchor in the sky will hold their attention. Keep them on us instead of switching channels.” Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

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 nearing its autumn place in the sky, each day dropping lower, leaving more and more of the sky undilute blue. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

Out of nowhere a veil of radiance had fallen to hang shimmering in the northern sky. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

Aech smiled wide, then began to bob his head and press his palms to the sky, as if dancing to some unheard rave track. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

The skies darken earlier since the clocks turned back. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

It had seemed so gentle and welcoming when seen from high in the sky. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

He admired the sky lanterns that lit the streets, strung so cleverly that they looked as if they were floating. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

For example, as we have seen, the other stars in our galaxy form a distinct band of light across the night sky, called the Milky Way. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

He explained how the proposed Ladd Devine Miracle Valley project would drive their land values sky high, and what that would do to their taxes. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Yet its waters were dark: a deep blue like clear evening sky seen from a lamp-lit room. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

Once again the giant peach was sailing peacefully through the mysterious moonlit sky. James and the Giant Peach 1961-11-01T00:00:00Z

He returned to the cow byre, took off his boots, and slept until he woke, when the sun was high in the sky. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

I waited, but he just kept his eyes trained on the faraway sky. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

For my father had opened his curtains and was sitting, shaved and in full uniform, on the edge of his bed from where evidently he had been watching the sky turn to dawn. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

Cole rolled onto his back and gazed up at the sky. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

The gussak principal was already outside watching the southeastern sky anxiously. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

The snow had stopped falling and the city, white, still, was a vast stretch of roof-tops and sky. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

This man was different: it would have been easy for him to hunt in the flatland, where there were wide skies and light, but he chose instead to go into dark and thick forests. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

The staircase led so far down that by the time it reached a level floor, the sky behind them at the head of the flight was quite invisible. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

Chamberlain rolled over onto his back and lay for awhile longer, hands clasped on his chest, gazing at the sky, trying to see the balls as they passed. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

But beneath the starry sky, the field that stretches out below his tree is empty, as though nothing has ever occupied the space but grass and leaves and fog. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

I lay down on the bank, breathing hard, looking up at the raw-bacon sky, streaked with color. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

He watched the thick white smoke drift upward like a twisted ribbon dissolving into the sky. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

As the sun dipped below the horizon and night waited high in the sky, I placed Harry’s box into the hole. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

From her brief glimpse of the sky when she had tried to reach the nest before she was attacked, she guessed that it was now very late in the day. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Above them in the sour red skies, things were circling on huge black wings. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

They move quickly across the sky, the day strobing between sunlight and shadow. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

I tiptoed away from him as the sky exchanged sunlight for darkness. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

The real world was here and now: this clearing, where the clouds overhead were thin enough to remind her what a blue sky might look like. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

The sky was almost clear, with small, fluffy bits of clouds moving across the blue, and he shrugged his shoulders to ease the stiffness. The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Taken all in all, the sky is a miraculous achievement. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The sky was growing brighter, and along the river the mists of morning hung in the early light. Stuart Little 1945-10-17T00:00:00Z

Under a brilliant blue sky Wethersfield held far more welcome than on that first foggy dawn. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

“I told them you were all right,” my mom said, but she sounded like the weight of the sky had just been lifted off her shoulders—and believe me, I know firsthand how that feels. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

He pushed the porch screen door wide open and looked up at the sky: Old Betonie’s stars were there. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

Behind the mountains the sky was overcast, dark as slate. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

And to him war was a thing like earth and sky and water and why it was no one knew but only that it was. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

Above them, the door rattled and the sky roared. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Not as much as a single hawk in the sky in search of a rabbit. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

Staring up through the ragged branches of the acacia to the stars, spangling the dark sky, he could see only the kindly face of Rekh the goldsmith rising before him in reproach. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

And if you opened the little window latch and gave it a shove, the windows would swing open, all the sky would come in. The House on Mango Street 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

It's the middle of the afternoon, but the sky grows darker by the second. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

Four disconnected strands of gray smoke melt into a white sky. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

I spun in time to see him toss himself, spread-eagle, into the sky above us. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

She didn’t seem particularly upset, but the smile had gone, and her eyes looked far away, fixed somewhere on the sky ahead of us. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

The next morning Wab made sure we each ate a bowl of lukewarm mush in the cold hour before the sky started shedding layers into a lighter blue. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

I don’t think twice about it, because the sky here seems wider. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

In the mornings they wake early to the frenzied chirping of birds, when the eastern sky is streaked with the thinnest of pink clouds. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

A dark cloud rolls lazily towards her in the sky. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

Dropping out of the sky by twos and ones came the goshawk, the kestrel, the red-tailed, and the sharp-shinned—the bird club. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

His voice cracked with the strain, and they stood looking at each other in the whiteness and the emptiness, and Harry felt they were as insignificant as insects beneath that wide sky. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

It reminds me of the pale sky of a Würzburg summer morning, the white blossoms on the orange trees in the gardens. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

My mind is as blank as a cloudless sky. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s surrounded by razor wire, but also by hills and trees and sky, a three-hundred-and-sixty-degree view of the world, the world. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

The silver clouds embraced them and then parted as the dragon flew through, as if he were rippling the sky; the pale moon looked as if it were smiling at them with a soft glow. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

Overhead the last stars were still visible, but the light from the east was gradually soaking into the sky above the Hall. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

She gulped the air like water, the night sky the best meal she had ever had, the stars made succulent and ripe after her time below. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

She tipped her head back and looked to the sky for signs. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

The sky looks like gray wool, and that's a good thing. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

As the sun rose higher in the sky, Sefia grew more and more nervous. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

I lifted my face to the sky and for the first time in much too long, I prayed. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her eyes cast wide, holding in their gaze the final remnants of a sky the color of blood. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

Clear skies—I can nearly make out the landscape below, but it's still blurry. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

A white rabbit hopped beside me, and for a moment I thought it was a blob of snow that had fallen out of the sky. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

He saw Maester Luwin on his balcony, studying the sky through a polished bronze tube and frowning as he made notes in a book. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

The sky is dark and silvery; it fills with a few gray wispy clouds and countless twinkling stars. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I went to the window and looked out at the cold, wet sky. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Lightning flashed across the sky as their carriage came to a halt before the great oak front doors, which stood at the top of a flight of stone steps. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

Above him, the interweaving branches seemed to split the sky into a million little pieces. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z

“Cadence was the first,” he says, looking up at the sky, not into my eyes. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

Hours later, however, we haven’t found one meteorite, not one piece of sky litter, but I so don’t care. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

At dawn, when the stars were still in the sky, we began our preparations. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I stare from seat 12F into the dark sky, and I see the moon. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

That time, last year, it rose in a great cloud a long way away, and stayed in the sky for two weeks. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

It lasted only the fraction of a second and I rejected it immediately; still it had flashed across the dark sky of my mind. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

We will have to take an airplane that flies in the sky to get there. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

In the heavens, five bright blue stars climbed out of the horizon and up into the studded sky. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

Percy glanced up at Bacchus, deciding what final curse he would hurl at the useless wine god, when he saw a shape in the sky above the Colosseum—a large dark oval descending rapidly. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

I arced into the sky, the wind whistling in my ears. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

As the sky blackened, Zeitoun saw an orange light through the trees, less than a mile away. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

Outside the windows of O’Hare International Airport, the sky was painted a particular shade of gray and leaving droplets of water on the large glass windows that looked out onto the airstrip. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z

The mountain peaks majestically jut into the sky as large clouds cast dark shadows on them. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

From the lowering December sky handfuls of snowflakes were falling, but as soon as they came to earth they turned to ice. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

For some reason he’d expected the weird sky to throw all normal plans out the window. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

A thick white cloud cover hid the sky, and the air smelled of snow—the first of the year, earlier than usual. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

The elegant soldier leapt from his peak into the sky and found himself a pretty angel to swing with. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

The sky was speckled with puffy silver blimps tethered to the ground by long webs of cable. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

By eleven, when the sun was high in the sky, we would begin to flag. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

After four seconds, the crack of thunder sounds like a giant breaking the sky in two. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

“We are taking you to a place where you will have your freedom. You will be able to move around; you’ll see the ocean and the sky, not just gray walls.” Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

So overweening, now they have killed my peaceful kine, my joy at morning when I climbed the sky of stars, and evening, when I bore westward from heaven. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

The sky had never seemed so sky, the world had never seemed so world. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

The camp isn’t a safe place after light seeps from the sky. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

She was looking out into the empty sky, and Pinmei knew she had forgotten about them. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

We saw the tall buildings in the distance before we got to them, long rows of huge white apartment towers against a brilliant blue sky. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

The sky was a cloudless blue and the rays of the sun grew stronger. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

She stared at the sky, carrying on conversations with no one. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

The sky was a dull slab of gray—not the natural pale light of morning. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

Then she and her sisters rose on their bats’ wings, fluttered into the smoke-filled sky, and disappeared. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

Shin's mother knelt on the ridge in the sun for an hour and a half, arms reaching for the sky. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

He thought of her cry flying through the night sky and making the moon turn her face away, making the owls tremble in their flight. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

We just sat there not saying a word, looking up at the sky and waiting for the docks to quiet down. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

Beyond, he could see the mouth of the bay where the ocean disappeared into the dull, rain-misted sky. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

I move onward, through the colors and cheers and music, floating into my future, and it is a clear, open space that stretches wider than the sky and higher than the Andes. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

The sun shone down through a hazy sky, and there was the smell of burning in the air, as well as something less pleasant. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

The sky was the color of wet gray aluminum and there was no indication on the translucent shield where the sun might be, so I couldn’t tell direction. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

He looks at the sky and says only the one sentence: “I would go straight on with the harvesting.” All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Then die!" the snake hissed, and it seized Ku-Ang with its knifelike teeth, lifted him up into the sky, and flung him away with all its might. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

Finally the wind lost its fury, and the sky ran out of rain. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

The wind was howling now, and Pinmei could see the tree branches clawing at the darkening sky. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

Their campfire sent orange sparks into the sky. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Some sleep under the open sky, close to the heater in the center of our camp, while others retreat to their tents. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

Beneath it the water was clear and still in the shadow, whispering and clucking about the stone in fading swirls of spinning sky. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

The water and sky were the same color, almost black, and all I could think about was JoJo, how lucky he was to miss what was coming. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

A hole in the roof frames the darkening sky. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

What was it like to be in the sky? The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

“He’s awfully eager to die, isn’t he?” said Andrius, staring up at the sky. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

Evans could swing his little sixteen-inch telescope around like a tail gunner in a dogfight, spending no more than a couple of seconds on any particular point in the sky. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

The ram galloped away from the sky, startled by human sound. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

Finn imagined Roza sitting on a bus or perched in the window seat of a plane, blue sky behind her. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

All I could do was search the sky. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Then I started thinking how Papi and Tío Toni might not even have a glimpse of sky and fresh air or a bite of food and all my positive thinking went out the window. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

And she reached up and peeled back the tarpaulin a little, revealing a blue stripe of shifting sky. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

I wished I’d stayed back at the tree and just stared up into the sky through the branches. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

A vague white square was visible, presumably the sky. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

The early morning sky was deep, silky blue and the moon had turned from silver to white. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

The contest will be happening up in the sky. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

The sky was a bleak and uniform gray. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

Then I caught the patient’s eye and followed it, but could trace nothing as it looked into the moonlit sky except a big bat, which was flapping its silent and ghostly way to the west. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

It was huge now and low in the sky. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

Black Panthers from around the country, in sky blue T-shirts with pictures of black panthers on them stood tall, patrolling the park. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

He left the dwelling shortly after the sky became dark and the community still. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

The clouds in the sky grew steadily denser, and foretold a heavy summer rain before nightfall. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

It turned out she was wearing a brown housedress the exact color of her skin, and mistakes are easy to make at six a.m. when the sun is barely a blip in the sky. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

The sky doesn’t look like that in North River Heights. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

Then, with a flick of her paw, Nettle sent Brightbill tumbling over the ground, over and over, until he flopped onto his back and stared up at the sky, stunned. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

Recognizing the female by her great size, I stop running to admire the silver gray body streaking through the sky. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

The sun rose earlier than usual and was at its brightest in the blue, almost cloudless sky. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

Inti had set, and dozens of fires rose up into the night sky, burning so powerfully that they lit the field almost as if it were daytime. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

It was late morning, and although it seemed warm outside, the sky was gray and clouding over. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

The sky is vast, unblocked by buildings, even the modest ranch-style homes are separated by many acres. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

I wiggled the dam thing around so that it was aimed upward at the sky, although I had no idea exactly where the satellites were orbiting. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

The moonlight was white on the roof next door and the sky was a gentle summer blue. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

I stared at the orange haze of the sky and tried to understand how Grover could pursue a dream that seemed so hopeless. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

I can tell from the way the sky starts to turn colors like a kaleidoscope. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

“Those lights up there...they’re not like anything else in the sky.” Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

He was staring up at the sky as though he was waiting for the sun to send him a message. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

The tracks came to a point in the sky. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

She looked up at the trees that closed off the sky, beat her wings, circled Sam’s head, and climbed out of the forest. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

He watched an owl flutter toward the school across the bright blue sky, a note clamped in its mouth. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

I’m not prepared for the sight of it, high and blazing hot and white against the washed-out white sky. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

I did my best taxicab whistle, and within a few minutes two dark shapes circled out of the sky. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

From blue skies to golds and greens and browns. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

We were a proud pair, dropping by the pool hall, playing a quick game of eight ball, and then, as the sky darkened, swaggering down the sidewalk. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

Instead, he would have flown in the opposite direction, up, into the deep, bright blue sky. The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane 2006-03-30T00:00:00Z

Dicey lay on her back and looked up, past the roof frame to the sky. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

The rain was silver on the windowpanes and the sky was wet and cold and gray. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

The policeman leads us to a yard, walled in and small, but open to the sky. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

"Nothing," the master said, "only that I have painted this dragon on the ground, not flying in the sky like all other dragons. Perhaps the magistrate will see how his wealth weighs him down." Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

Gasping for air, he looked up into the bright sky and he saw Alec’s head poke out of the house. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

Illapa ruled in the sky with a club in one hand and a sling in the other. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

I stared at the sky and tried not to let his words sink in. Miracle's Boys 2000-04-23T00:00:00Z

The sky above the hills was still light. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

It is a metal sky, light shining through the holes like twinkling stars. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

He doubled over, his life spilling down his chest, mingling with the rain that still fell, unceasingly, from the sky. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Kingshaw wanted to climb up the bank again, and go on climbing, up and up one of the elm trees until he could see the open sky. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

“Hel, you don’t know what you’re saying. I almost killed you—” “Thank the skies for it!” An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

Beyond it, through the windshield, the sky was brightening even more. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

The storm had ended; the sky glittered with stars. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then something large and bronze swooped out of the sky. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

They made good time—Thomas was glad for his wristwatch, with the skies being gray—because it quickly became obvious that the walls hadn’t moved from the day before. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

He swallowed water from the canteen and watched the sky for the autumn evening stars to appear. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

But behind him, something gigantic took over the sky. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

Clouds covered the sky from horizon to horizon, and warmth fled. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The vertical row of connecting rods, so many they seemed to reach the sky far above, slid toward their corresponding holes on the left wall, ready to seal shut until the morning. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

He smelled the air and looked anxiously at the sky. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

If she were there, the cliffs, the brightening sky, the trees, the stag, the waterfall would suddenly snap into position around her, sane again, well organized; but she was not, and the morning was crazy. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

They all came out and looked at the sky that night. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

Jonas had set Matthew on his shoulders and the couple became silhouettes against the sky as the moon rose and Claire watched. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

The men were still sitting there, listening, and watching the sky. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

Through a crack in the rocks, I watch the moon cross the sky. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

The encyclopedia said Arizona is famous for sun and blue skies. Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z

It must be someone in the sky, I think. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Do any of the instruments actually make you think of specific shades of color, like fire-engine red or sky blue? Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

The sky lightens as we follow him through a maze of streets, ending on one that's bordered with small shops. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

Her hands drifted from Celaena’s cheeks, and a white light filled the sky. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Branches crisscross, making it hard to see sky. Paradise on Fire 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

They sped through the sky until the plane became so hot that their parachutes started to smolder. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

Honestly, I was worried about the sky god the most. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

Even for western Kansas, renowned for the longevity of its Indian summers, the current sample seemed far-fetched—dry air, bold sun, azure sky. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

At that moment, my body felt light, lighter than the water surrounding it, like a balloon lifting into the sky. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

Clouds stretched thinly across the sky, with just enough moonlight glowing through to light my way. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

Outside, the air is crisp and cold and the sky is orange from the setting sun. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

The sun’s fully up now and the sky as blue as fresh meat. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

Outside light from the moons and dwarf sun in the purple sky fills the room. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

I leaned against a knobbly pine sticky with sap that matted the back of my head to the bark and watched the sky betray me into navy. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

He could see nothing but the sky through the small wind hole, for it was high in the stone wall and only in the early morning allowed a ray of sunshine to come in. The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z

Under the touch of his hands, Jonas had found himself suddenly in a place that was completely alien: hot and windswept under a vast blue sky. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

Far beyond the eastern mountains it leapt into the sky and splashed the lowering clouds with crimson. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

In the last hundred years, that premonition has focused on a bright red point of light in the night sky. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

The planes moved farther away in the sky. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

I make myself stand and begin to limp away from the wall of flames that lights up the sky. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

Right next to Axel while the dust scrambles its way to the sky. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

It was sunset and we walked quietly toward the big red sun and the still sky that awaited darkness. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

The sun, already long fallen from the noon, was shining in a windy sky. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

Men working high in the sky on tiny platforms with no safety net to catch them. Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z

“You know,” I said, “the last time I was here, the sky god made me a charm. An adinkra. If I remember right, he made it out of light and air.” Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

The sky stayed hard looking and quiet so she went inside the house. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

She caught sight of Mr. Diggory’s feet, and slowly, tremulously, raised her eyes to stare up into his face; then, more slowly still, she looked up into the sky. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

I lifted my head to the sky and mouthed, “Thank you, Jesus!” Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

It was, of course, a cold November day on Long Island, and everything was, of course, gray—the sky, the air, the grass, the drizzle misting down. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

“Closing the tear in the sky, defeating these iron monsters—that is only the beginning.” Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

They moved back toward Svalbard and south a little, soaring for several hours under a sky turbulent with strange lights and shadows. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s still dark, but the eastern sky pales, and Veturius speeds his gait. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

He was looking at the sky, as if he might fly off at any moment. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

The sun was very high in the sky. Raymie Nightingale 2016-04-12T00:00:00Z

They best be gettin’ back up here 'fore dark,” she said, scanning the sky, worry crossing her face. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

The sun was low in the sky, but it would not set for several hours, and the disk of the moon was pale, but it was there, high in the heavens, as well. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

The sky is black with shimmers of glitter, and in the lake, there’s the sky’s rippling twin. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

The sky turned gray with streaks of silver. I Survived Hurricane Katrina, 2005 2011-04-01T00:00:00Z

That, and keeping a watch on the sky. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Friday nights under a full moon that filled the black satin sky with a light as soft and delicate as the flickering of a candle. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

He could see her now, as the sky lightened into a dawn grey. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

It had stopped raining, and the clear sky was just at that darkening point as the sun dipped in the west. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

He could barely look at her, afraid that on close scrutiny she might dissolve into sainthood and be blown like holy pollen into the sky. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Suddenly, they appear in the sky, two blocks down, maybe a hundred yards above us. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

From a distance, they could see smoke rising high into the sky. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

Hailstones as big as heads would shoot out of the sky and the lightning would stab like swords, but never at those on my side. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

The sky was blue, not a cloud in it. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I remember turning my face up to the sky, squinting, breathing like the world was running out of air. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Three stars twinkled in the purpling sky over the treetops. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

Up ahead it curved to the right and there was a faint blue radiance, like the sky of early night. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

Now, though, rowing under gray skies, Germany easily cruised past the Czechs and the Australian police officers. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

If you've never passed a winter in Chicago, let me describe it: You can live for a hundred straight days beneath an iron-gray sky that claps itself like a lid over the city. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

She almost thinks she can smell the moon, golden and otherworldly in the sky. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

I walked around Main Street as the sky turned dark, ignoring the few visitors who still ambled around. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

When I went to Path finder, I watched Phobos transit the sky to figure out the east-west axis. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Colorful lightning spiderwebs across the sky; silver, white, and emerald green weave the most beautiful and terrifying exhibition to mark the hour of the princess's birth. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

He developed a predictive model to understand planetary motions and decode the message in the skies. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

They watched the darkness fall softly and the first stars begin to twinkle in the sky, listened to the croaking of the frogs, and kept their silence. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

The morning of March 3, 1913, dawned to ideal conditions—cloudless skies, a light breeze, and temperatures expected to reach the mid-fifties. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

After ten noisy, rocky minutes, the trees thinned, and Harry could again see patches of sky. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

When they finally reached camp it was 4:30 A.M., and the sky was starting to brighten above the eastern horizon. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

Above me, the sky is blank and dark, the moon shielded by clouds. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

There was no sea and no sand, no grass nor rocks, no soil, no trees, no sky, no stars. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

It is only five A.M., but today she could see that the sky is hazy and cloudless. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

One afternoon, while we were searching for food in a deserted village, a crow fell out of the sky. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

He’s worked through lunch, and when he steps out of his office building it is colder, the light fading rapidly from the sky. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

“I feel not only the sails, but the hull. Not only the ship, but the sea. Not only the sea, but the sky. And not only the sky, but the stars. I feel everything.” Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

I'm sure I'll enjoy learning new ways to pray to the God in the sky. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

The sky was clear but dull above the fig trees lining the street. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z

Celia stands on a shimmering white desert with a sparkling night sky stretching in every direction. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

A half-dozen kites were flying high, speckles of bright yellow, red, and green against the gray sky. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

“Because of the terrorists, I’ve lost it. Can’t hold a job. Even when my cough is better, closed spaces, blue skies...make me anxious.” Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z

The water itself wasn’t visible, but you could tell it was there, just from the big sky and the seagull noises. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

I began to sink, lower and lower to the ground, the sky’s weight crushing me. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

She was staring up at the sky, her lips moving like she was praying. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

“Now, finish what—” His cool voice trailed away as his shadowed hood slowly tilted to look toward the sky. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

And as the train stopped, this time we saw flames rising from a tall chimney into a black sky. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

The sun is three o’clock in the sky. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

Just before he comes to the covered awning and the automatic doors, he looks up into the sky. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Every cornfield under its wide-open sky seems fresh and broad and exciting. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sun shining down through the fog, burning a hot blue hole in the sky. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

Against the sky in the cave entrance Juana could see that Kino was taking off his white clothes, for dirty and ragged though they were they would show up against the dark night. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

Half a moon was hanging up in the sky, and the sidewalk in front of them glowed silver. Raymie Nightingale 2016-04-12T00:00:00Z

The sky is like a monochromatic contemporary painting, drawing me in with its illusion of depth, pulling me up. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

I look up and see the clear sky is filled with kites, green, yellow, red, orange. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

And when they had walked for several hours Ged thought he saw, away off on the hills in the northwest where their way tended, a tiny scratch against the sky, like a tooth, white. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

Those seeds, Minli said to herself, they are really falling through the sky to the earth. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

February’s sky is gray and cloudy, but at least there’s no snow. Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Dawn was growing in the sky, and the dell was filling with grey light, when Strider at last returned. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

The copper sun and the piercing paleness of the sky, which were so welcome in the captives’ homeland, imprisoned them each hour. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the sky around him, Heiberg could see the other men, along with the supply crates the British crew had tossed out of the plane behind them. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The sky’s always falling. Always. You’ll see. People have no idea.” I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

Seven stared up at the ceiling, looking at the royal-blue night sky through the skylight, and she let her tears fall. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

He had hardly put a morsel to his lips when the hateful monsters darted down from the sky and in a moment had devoured everything and were flying off, leaving the intolerable odor behind them. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

And the clouds made the sky grow dark even though it was still day. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

I dream that lawla flowers will bloom in the streets of Kabul again and rubab music will play in the samovar houses and kites will fly in the skies. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Outside, great, flat spots of rain began to fall heavily, one by one, like sweat from the sky, as Kingshaw walked back, very slowly, across the allotment. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

Then the unicorns reared and leaped and she and her entourage disappeared back into the sky. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

The bow had given him this way and he exulted in it, in the bow, in the arrow, in the fish, in the hatchet, in the sky. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

The only notion Lyra had of the search for her was the incessant drone of the gas engines of airships crisscrossing the skies. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

The sun, in Anaximander’s view, was not a spherical body, but a world-girdling wheel of fire; the bright orb we see in the sky is just a hole through which we glimpse the conflagration beyond. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z

Everything seemed unreal: the dark road, the starry sky, and the old man and woman who guided his steps. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Only the sun is alone in the sky,” the Virgen’s voice answered me from beyond the shadows of the night. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

The sound in the leaves was like water rushing across the sky. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

I stood on the roof and watched the darkening sky. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

She walked home down the quiet path, surrounded by trees and grass and blue sky. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

I glanced up to the clear sky with its bright, full moon. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

In the distance she could see the city on fire, the orange-red flames reaching toward the sky. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z

Streaks of smudged gray clouds covered the sky. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was curious to think that the sky was the same for everybody, in Eurasia or Eastasia as well as here. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

I lie down and face the sky, and Rhiannon lies down next to me and does the same. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

In the early 1930s, he turned his attention to a question that had long troubled astronomers: the appearance in the sky of occasional unexplained points of light, new stars. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

Since we are now a family of peasants I will have to learn the time of day and night by the position of the sun and moon in the sky. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Fyrian was already in flight, screaming and streaking flames across the night sky. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

As the observation train drew back upriver again for the start of the varsity race, the atmosphere grew electric, the dusky sky crackling with static. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Then I just lie there, staring out my window at the winter sky, pondering how on earth this will all turn out. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

May always said that once she got with Ob, her mommy and daddy could rest easy, and they finally flew off to that big church picnic in the sky. Missing May 1992-03-01T00:00:00Z

But one day, an evil Witch rode across the sky on the back of a dragon. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

Not on the roof, not in the sky. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

“No, just going up into the sky. Like I was being pulled up there. But I got scared and I fell back.” Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

In a moment they had lifted into the sky and turning north, headed back in the direction of the War Memorial Opera House. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

The white wolf raced through a black wood, beneath a pale cliff as tall as the sky. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Dr. von Braun’s rocket lifted off the pad in a caldron of fire and smoke and went right up into the night sky without a moment of hesitation. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

The top is shaved off and a television relay station lunges at the sky and feeds a ner-vous picture to thousands of tiny houses clustered like aphids beside the roads. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

The skies were clear and bright; there wasn’t a cloud in the sky. Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z

The wind drove off the clouds and skimmed the sky clean and drifted the sand of the country like snow. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

Papa was quiet and shy with Sarah, and so was I. But Caleb talked to Sarah from morning until the light left the sky. Sarah, Plain and Tall 1985-04-25T00:00:00Z

Above me, the sky swirled into a huge funnel cloud. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

He wished he could reach out and twist the sky and bring victory to Biafra right away. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

You don’t keep your eyes to the sky, you won’t last much longer. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

When Georgie and I woke in the morning, the falling snow hung like gauze between the mouth of the cave and the ravine, blurring rocks and trees, earth and sky. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

Grace doesn’t think she’s ever seen such a blue sky before. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

On the blue water, boats sailed or motored as if they were in an entirely different world, and it wasn’t clear, in the bright August light, where water ended and sky began. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dark trunks traveled up into the distant sky, connecting this world to the one above. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

He never looked up at the sky, not once. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

The sky took on a light gray color. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Just then, something came streaking down out of the sky heading right at him. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was standing on the edge of Baby Kochamma’s ornamental pond looking up at the kites wheeling in the sky. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Silhouetted against the sky, they looked like a travel poster for a distant land. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

His voice rose, and he lifted his fist to the sky. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

The llama in the sky was formed in the blackness between the stars. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

Even though the sun was starting to creep up into the sky in the east, it seemed like everybody was asleep on the entire bus except me. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

The western sky went green, then grey, then black. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

If you wore special glasses you could see them spinning through the sky among the bats and homing birds—blondes, wars, famines, football, food shows, coups d’ etat, hairstyles stiff with hair spray. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Irene’s face was bright against the dark of the sky, her eyes all shimmery wet, pieces of her hair blown free from her ponytail. The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z

But you could hardly beat the shop’s setting—if you looked west, beyond nearby Brigham City, the Rockies exploded dramatically toward the sky. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

She wanted tall southern grasses and the vast sky above the Sikurzoi Mountains. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Sleep came for me eventually, just as the storm clouds peeled back to reveal a pristine night sky. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

She is safe at school in Switzerland, neutral Switzerland, where no Allied bombers raid the skies at night. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

She imagined him up there, someone like Velutha, barebodied and shining, sitting on a plank, swinging from the scaffolding in the high dome of the church, painting silver jets in a blue church sky. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Purple mountains reaching towards angelfeather clouds; a falcon soaring in a calm blue sky; God combing His sunshine fingers through green pastures straight out of the Psalms. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I looked up at the sky and said, “Yes, sir. It is hot and we sure could do with a good rain. We need one bad up where I come from.” Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

The buildings create a dark, jagged pattern on the sky. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

But here is a true thing: Almost everything in the night sky gives off light. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

Here and there, military men in fancy dress uniforms are looking up at the distant flashes of fireworks in the sky. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

Behind it, the sky was starting to lighten into a pale lavender, the clouds almost soft looking now. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

So they built a broad, straight highway, six lanes wide in places, with concrete dividers down the middle and outsized sodium street lamps that light the night sky for miles around. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

There were the echoes of nostalgia I heard in the crying strings of wild geese winging south against a bleak, autumn sky. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Over the spreading canopy of the Oxscinian forest, the clouds rolled through the sky, growing darker and darker with each wave. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

Bod woke early the next day, when the sun was a silver coin high in the grey winter sky. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

Flames explode from its innards, sending plumes of black smoke into the sky. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

The preacher yipped and jabbed at the sky with his fraying Bible. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

I didn’t notice it until I was already outside, the darkening sky sapping away the last bit of the van’s warmth from my skin. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

His eyes were growing used to the darkness and a little light seeped into the room from the winter sky through a window. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

How was it possible that such effort, such plain virtue, could overnight be reduced to this—smoke, thinning as it rose and was received by the big, annihilating sky? In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

And in her soul, the madwoman felt a thousand birds—birds of paper, birds of feathers, birds of hearts and minds and flesh—leap into the sky and soar over the dreaming trees. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

He would not raise his eyes to the sky, though he knew there was a flying saucer from Tralfamadore up there. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

The moon hung pale in the sky above the church tower, and the night wore a veil of moonlight when the Magpie came back to fetch Meggie. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

I’m putting on my shoes at the very moment the sky opens up and it starts to pour. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

The sky was full of stars, and the wind was gusting along the Wall. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

It’s three stories, or four if you count the turret that points into the sky. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

I can see it immediately, the rim of the descending sun, the sky streaked with soft shades of orange. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

“They say when you see a rainbow in the sky, you are seeing Nuwa and the colored stones she put there,” Amah said. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

He looked at the sea again, the sky, letting his mind roll. The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

When he raises his face to look at my mother, it is as though he is looking at the sky. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

The water was clean, the sky a sharp Sunday blue, with all the engines of that white sardine fleet puttering up into it, and a lot of yelling, especially around Papa’s boat. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

And then, a soft shimmering spread across the sky. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The wind and rain that had pelted the island all week strengthened that night into a vicious band of storms that closed blackly over the sky and whipped the sea into foam. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

Dark clouds raced across the sky, veiling the moon and altering the shadows. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

It was now dark and the falls were pale and grey, reflecting only the lingering moonlight of the western sky. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

And even when he was in America, he never looked at a night sky again. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

The dim sun was as high in the sky as it was going to get, only a hand’s breadth above the horizon, so it must be nearly noon, she thought. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

A half-moon brightened the sky, and the school yard was laced with the ghostly shadows of the parasol trees. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Fingers of deeper pink stretched across the sky. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

In this daze of death and sky, I hear a bell. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

He discovered a scheme of energies—the same unfathomable force that kept the citadel in the sky—and he could feel it all. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Ayanna pitched the raft upward slightly and we popped into clear sky. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

Her husband, a burly man in baggy pants and sky blue turban, cradled an infant in one arm and thumbed prayer beads with his free hand. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

In response the President looked up to the sky, put his hands to his mouth, and uttered a piercing yell. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

“Our hope in bringing you here,” Eril-Fane said, addressing them in a beautiful salon of the guildhall, “is that you will find a way to free us of the thing in our sky.” Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

It was like walking through the blackness of the sky, surrounded by thousands of stars. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

She kissed the side of my face and rolled onto her back, watching the sky. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

Heaven is in the sky and far away. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

He watched us as we approached, his eyes as blue as the sky. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

They were only perceptible at first as the light is in the sky before the moon rises. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Frodo sniffed the air and looked up doubtfully at the sky. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

He could see the blue sky and the gutters roll by up above. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

The branches laced across overhead, almost shutting out the sky and letting through little moving spangles and sequins of sunlight, so that everything was dappled with gold and silver. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

As he scrubbed his hands clean, the thunder hit two more times, back to back, like the sky was literally cracking open. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

Night was in all the trees and coloring the sky, and the lamps were halos of pink light in the gentle house. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

He rakes his own hair with his fingers and looks to the sky. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

The stars are the friends of explorers, then with seagoing ships on Earth and now with spacefaring ships in the sky. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

There shouldn’t have been that many stars in the sky. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

By the time the sun is at the center of the sky, I have a shiny hill of coins. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

“The bottom of the Heavenly Lake is your sky.” When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

The night sky was an inky blue-black blanket strewn with thousands of crystal-bright stars. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Suddenly it seems as though the whole sky has opened up and pours down the tears of every Cambodian, drenching him to the skin. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The picture side shows a black-and-white etching of a child in a bed covered in fluffy pillows and a checkered quilt, not in a nursery but under a star-sprinkled night sky. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Up in the sky the woes of this world could not touch her. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Several minutes passed before Schaffer looked up from what he was doing and saw flames leaping wildly into the black sky. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z

Those who tended stock, like Einar, or who farmed, like Andras, or all of the village fishermen—they knew the sky. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

I look, and wow—I mean, wow, that sky. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z

So Sun Man knew what to do: He took the flint blade and he cut out the Gambler’s eyes He threw them into the south sky and they became the horizon stars of autumn. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

Harry watched the cloudy sky, curves of smoke-gray and silver sliding over the face of the white moon. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

The blue sky was reflected in it and made it look almost as if the square had turned into a lake overnight. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

The moon hung in the sky in front of their window, with a cloud drifting past it like a tattered dress. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

Beyond the edge of the fields the sullen haze hung over earth and sky alike. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

The air was dense with moisture; clouds thickened and darkened the sky. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

I could be having a boring or awful or just not very fun day, and then as soon as I started playing my trumpet, it felt like the skies were opening up. Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

From the night sky came a cluster of black limos. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

On either side of them the trees, silent, relinquished the dark color they had held, paled, grew transparent and stood white and ghastly against the black sky. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

The Pacific Ocean spread out below, gray under a cloudy sky. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

The sky was at its bluest and seemed to curve down and join with the ocean in the distance. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

When the sun went down I was still lying there, seeing only walls of wood and the open sky, blue-gray as a pool. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

In August 1563, for example, a conjunction of Saturn and Jupiter took place—a rare astronomical event in which the two planets are so close together on the sky that they seem to merge. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

The Golden Gate Bridge was ablaze against the night sky. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

His head was dark, crowned with sharp white stars that glittered in the black pools of the sky behind. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

I told Gram and Gramps a story that my mother had told me about the high sky, which looked higher here than anywhere else I had been. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

The sky came closer, and it stretched forever above her, away and away to distant lands she’d never heard of. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Whenever the wind came through the sky, he and his small family would sit in the stone hut and warm their hands over a wood fire. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

A dark and restless sky still moved overhead, but where was the hard ground, the wet, the mud, the dead birds? Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

The ball of smoke hung in the sky like a shrapnel burst, and as I watched, another rocket came up to it, trickling smoke in the bright sunlight. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

As we drive out of town, the sky is the saccharine blue of a baby blanket, filled with puffy cottonball clouds. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

Two days after the president left, and even before he reached his Virginia home, a meteorite fell out of the morning sky and thudded into Third Street. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

Same trees, same sky, same awful weather—I was either drenched in rain or sticky with humidity. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

Over his head the blue sky was cloudless. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

We caught it with our mouths and laughed at one another, at how ridiculous we looked, three bedraggled kids sticking our tongues out at the sky. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

The sky was getting cloudier, and in the darkness the cold seemed more intense. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

When the sun was halfway across the sky, the bombs and the artillery shells went quiet, and I heard the machine guns come, faint, then closer, jeeps driving fast past our building. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

I walk along the path, and growing up in front of me is the cathedral, spiraling towers reaching high for the sky. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z

"Then die!" the bird shrieked, and it grabbed Ku-Ang with its stabbing claws, flew into the sky, and flung him away with all its might. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

When Boomer and I return from the Spinney, the sun hangs in the watery blue sky like a juicy golden apple, ripe for the picking. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

I stay silent and stare at the sky, trying to make out constellations as I think about how to respond. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

Two, you will travel with young Tristan and follow his instructions to the letter to fix the tear in the sky.” Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

The rain had started to gust from the gray sky, a freezing rain. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

I like to walk down Main Street in the early evening as the air starts to cool and the sky turns colors I’ve never seen before. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Every few seconds, seemingly at random, one of the three pits shot a column of fire into the sky. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

The light Ruta Skadi saw them by was still not that of the sun now climbing the sky, but some other light from somewhere else. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

A tree of lightning crackled in the sky. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z

His stomach protruded and the water dried on it Ralph squirted up at the sky. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

For weeks we’d been toiling in what amounted to a canyon; now, for the first time on the expedition the vista was primarily sky rather than earth. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

The men stood upright against the dark cold sky. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

When that happened, the past would really and truly have finished, he would be wearing black and gold like Hooper, not sky and navy blue, there would be no way out at all. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

He moved on more slowly, and she kept watching the sky until her eyes splintered again with tears of cold, and she saw no end to the numberless witches flying north. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

Scipio kept looking at the sky and the trees, as if they were new and strange to him through his grown-up eyes. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

The tunnel goes on and on and I think of the tons of rock separating me from the sky, and my chest tightens. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

Loki and Thor clambered into Thor’s chariot, and the goats who pulled it, Snarler and Grinder, leapt into the skies, eager to be off. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

I push him away from the rocks and squint out into the dark, rainy sky. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

He could sleep anywhere, even with his life changing in the middle of a stormy sky. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

The sky had darkened and red lantern lights started to glow all over the lake. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her eyes looked up through the delicate leaves of trees into a depthless sky. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now that she noticed, there were countless chained slaves working the docks, lifting and sweating, holding parasols and pouring water, eyes on the ground or the sky—never on what was before them. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

The desert sky he had known before was always empty. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

It went round and round in the sky and seemed twice as high as by day. Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z

At the far end of the sky, where daylight begins, a dense radiance like a shooting star breaks forth. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I awoke, the sun was high in the sky. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

Pearl stayed just as she was, staring up at the half-clouded sky, and Mia leaned out almost to the waist, angling for the right shot. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

The sky was clear, quiet, and the bluest blue she had ever seen. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z

And when he was not sitting enchanted listening to his mother’s words, he thought of airplanes, and pilots, and the deep sky that held them both. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

As they moved away, he looked out and looked up, for one hasty glance at the gray winter sky. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

The rain was a mere drizzle, slowing every second, the sky brighter through the clouds. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

Stunned, I watched it hover over the academic quad and slowly sink like a black claw reaching down to the ground from the sky. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

Mama Killa, the moon, rested in the sky, round and heavy, but she was leaving even as I watched. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

If I could just keep the sky aloft a few more seconds. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

The sky is so full and bright above us, shining down in all the hidden places. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

You go outside and yell at sky, you so angry. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

Even the sky fills with brightly colored blossoms of light. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

It was long and oval, shaped like a great spear-head thrust deep into the northern glen; but its southern end was beyond the shadows under the sunlit sky. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

The sun was shining brightly out of a soft blue sky and the day was calm. James and the Giant Peach 1961-11-01T00:00:00Z

Resplendent geese stand on a headland and peer into a heavy sky. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Half of it shines and rolls on up to the sky like a sail and there’s a chimney that curves up and out, folding down to a point, smoke coughing from its end. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

There was a sudden popping sound and then we were up in the sky. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

Second, the Greeks knew from their travels that the North Star appeared lower in the sky when viewed in the south than it did in more northerly regions. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

The sun’s setting and the sky’s filling with pink wispy clouds. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

Behind me, black crows rise from the trees, flying west against a fading sky, calling to one another. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

The Virgo cluster is already the richest collection of galaxies known, replete with spirals and ellipticals and irregulars, a jewel box in the sky. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I wake, the rickrack of sky visible above the canopy has gone from cerulean to black. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

Nathan gazed into the sky and stared at the Milky Way cluster. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

On the fourth side the nightfire roared, lashing at the darkening sky with swirls of flame. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The blue of the sky was pale and it occurred to me that maybe everybody had fled the city and its heat. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

Koffi watched the fractured sky above her pale as night yielded to dawn. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

And perhaps that was why the second night, when the sky darkened and the moon rose, Dragon crept out from the shadows of the trees and approached the closed, sleeping city. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

Across rain-sodden fields and stony ridges, she could see the great castle of Storm's End rearing up against the sky, its back to the unseen sea. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

He tipped back his head, smiled, and blew smoke into the muggy sky. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mother Lois then said, "God is able to take the different gases from other planets and mix them to make the sky blue. You remember we told you there are other planets?" March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

There was a black look in the sky, and the sun was wan. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

It seemed to me as if the sky split open from one end to the other to rain down fire. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z

And as the sky turned a dusky purple, the fat man began to snore. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Her father looked up at the sky—clouds were rolling in from the west. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

She would have walked beneath yellow-ringed pines rising to a brilliant eastern sky, and her senses would have succumbed to the joy of the morning. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

The day was an excessive warm one; the dirt itself smelled of heat when we landed; and, as if distempered, the skies began a sickly-warm drizzle as we formed upon the dock. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

As they rocked back and forth, Gary tipped his head to the sky, and began singing in a hauntingly beautiful baritone. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

“I never thought you were a nature lover, but you’re certainly interested in the sky tonight,” he said. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

Leaves blown by a cold autumn wind sailed across the sky, baring trees in the woods. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

He looked downward and saw nothing but black darkness into which now and then a few flakes of white floated from the sky, falling slowly in the dim glow of the flashlight. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

It was a clear sky full of stars with a bright moon overhead, and we passed the time naming the constellations. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

Down the river was Notre Dame squatting against the night sky. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

The wind blew strong as we climbed the trail, cover- ing the mesa with sand that sifted around our legs and shut out the sky. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

Behind Corporal Nettle’s head was a wide strip of deep blue sky and, etched against it, the ragged black edge of the cellar’s ruined ceiling. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Way up in the sky, along with the sea gulls, my kite, tugging up and up to catch the last gold flash of sun. Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Clouds moved from the north, covering the cold sky. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

As we rode on, the day grew more chill, the sky’s blue more hardened with silver. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

He pointed up at the sky and said, “So the light pollution is terrible, but the brightest star you see—there, see it?” Turtles All the Way Down 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

Initially the water was indeed too hot, but as she became used to the heat she relaxed, and was, for the first time since she had tumbled from the sky, utterly happy. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

Mark could see it in the man’s eyes: he was anxious to be at the controls of a Berg again, flying it fast and free through the sky. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

It disappeared into the storm clouds, and the sky exploded in a dome of fire. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Wisps of smoke still rose into the grey sky, but no more than might have risen from Winterfell's chimneys on a cold autumn afternoon. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Then he realized that if he were within a hundred miles of Los Angeles or even further down near San Diego, the sky would be glowing, the whole world would be light. The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

She leapt up into the night sky, surrounded by the pulsing lights of the shadows, and landed far outside of the tide’s reach. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

Blue like if I lived in a bubble in the sky. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

Soon I heard her quiet, even breathing, but I still couldn’t sleep, not until the sky began to lighten and I heard Pretty Boy stir under his cover. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

The first sight I see when I open up my eyes the next morning is the glum upside-down face of Chou against the background of cloudy skies as she tugs at my hair. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

By noon, the sky was streaked with Japanese bombers, buildings were exploding, and a few startled men on less than three square miles of coral found themselves on the front in the Second World War. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z

No one was on the street but a single tourist who was photographing the sun in the sky. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was falling from the sky down to the ground, into a pond. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then it had started to grow towards the sky again. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

As far as he could see the trees were standing up against the sky. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

It is cold, cold; so cold that the grey heavy sky is full of snow, which when it falls will settle for all winter as the ground is hardening to receive it. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

The cloud caught up with them, and the first stout drops plopped on the ground out of the riven sky. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Just as he arrived, 426 swooped under her, took her feet in his, and swung her in an arc up into the sky. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

But this time Jinny looked up and shouted at the sky, “I quit!” as she plunked Ess back on the sand. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

Meggie did not go to bed until everything outside was so dark she couldn't distinguish the hills from the sky. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

As darkness fell, everyone watched the sky for the first rockets of the night’s display. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

And then, with him having seen his last patient of the day, as if now he can finally relax, his long, lean frame sinks back into the ground, his eyes searching the sky. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

Festus became an indistinct ball of fire in the sky - a second sun - growing smaller and hotter. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Again there was no one; there was only a large flock of terns in the sky. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

When the sky splits asunder and the dark powers of Muspell march out on their war journey, Frey will wish he still had his sword. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

The open French windows framed a greenish sky, and against that, in silhouette at some distance, the familiar head and shoulders of her brother. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

The hills drew near, but the tall peaks of Thrihyrne were already dim against the darkening sky. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

Dad belches and goes out on the back porch to look at the sky, same as he always does. Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

I open my eyes to a sky the color of blue cornflowers and treetops swaying in the light breeze. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

And for a minute, Louisiana almost looked like an angel, with her pink dress and the blue sky lit up behind her and all her barrettes glowing. Raymie Nightingale 2016-04-12T00:00:00Z

She stepped into it and it closed around her, sealing shut just as tiny smears of yellow touched the sky. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

They trembled and looked into the dark sky for the owl, but it was gone. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then, three miles up, the wind steadied and bore it in a descending curve round the sky and swept it in a great slant across the reef and the lagoon toward the mountain. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

The National Weather Service switchboard took more phone calls in that week than ever in its history, with nearly every caller asking if the skies would clear for Seabiscuit’s run at the Handicap that Saturday. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

The sky was a great gray wall of cloud. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Furthest away in the sky were lots of little white clouds which looked like fish scales or sand dunes which had a very regular pattern. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

The webworms seemed to mirror me, floating in their own balloons of gauze in the pale turquoise sky. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

Big Ben seemed to be endlessly toppling forward against the restless sky. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z