The giants vanished in twin puffs of smoke. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

The smoking zone passed under the highway and fanned out through a neighboring woodland and up towards St. Ignatius Catholic Church on a knoll above the town. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

Maya was still holding the joint, its smoke rising up in a long, smooth line before curling up at the top, and when Grace moved, her arm cut through the smoke, sending it scattering. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

“Okay, I don’t want to sit with all the mother hens inside. You’ll be fine if I stay out here and smoke a few, right?” The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

He tore a flap from the opened cardboard box and chased out the smoke with it and then he climbed up and lowered the trap door and turned and looked at the boy. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

He sent one of the rats scurrying away with a smoking behind as a warning to the rest. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

After every rocket blast, Laila raced to the street, stammering a prayer, certain that, this time, surely this time, it was Tariq they would find buried beneath the rubble and smoke. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

But the smiles around her were friendly, and the place smelled like the living: a musty mix of sweat and smoke and whiskey—so much better than the grim, antiseptic emptiness of the orphanage. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

There was an eerie glow in that part of the forest, and a thick plume of smoke began rising up from the snowy treetops. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

Then there was a crash and a flash of flame and smoke. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

He was shaking and saliva dripped out of his mouth as the smell of smoked meat, dried fish, and various stews wafted out from the cooking huts. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

Radio listeners hear them coughing and gasping as they are overcome by the invaders’ poisonous black smoke. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

A few of the gentlemen, I noticed, were drinking spirits, and one or two, despite the presence of the two ladies, had started to smoke. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

Weak smoke of the type produced by burning leaves rose from one of the antennae of smokestacks. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Florence, who smoked the cigarette in the circus, had a hard cough. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

There, sitting on the back steps in the dark, stroking one of the Outside Cats, sat Granddaddy, smoking a cigar and staring at the sky. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

Somebody was smoking weed in the booth near the window. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

“A bird drooled on me? What are you smoking?” When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

The smells of food cooking and cigarette smoke mask the reek of waste. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

Across the road some troops stood in the church doorway smoking pipes. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then everything went black and red and smoke and screams.” Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Buford blinked and blinked again and then began moving, pushing his way into the light, the smoke of the room. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The sky was a pale grey, and smoke eddied all around them. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

The gentlemen retired to the smoking room for port and cigars. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

Only the day before Francis, in a swish of black cashmere and cigarette smoke, had brushed past me in a corridor. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

I bring it to my lips, pull in the smoke, inhale, and let it out. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

He knelt to pick up the pieces of glass on the floor, his voice rising from behind the bar like smoke: “Half an hour.” The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

The flashing lights and smoke machine make it hard to see. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Black smoke floated out of the ceiling into the scalding afternoon air. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

The air was heavy with smoke, yet somehow still damp. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

The wind blows smoke toward us and it makes me cough. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

Blue smoke curled into the air like an exclamation point. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

He traced his first heart attack to his smoking, his diet, and the stress from a grueling divorce. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

I half expected the sunflower leaves to dissolve like smoke under my fingertips, but instead, they felt solid and scratchy. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

The Colonel sat down next to me in religion class, sighed, and said, “You reek of smoke, Pudge.” Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

It seems to be a wide ice-river running down from the plateau between two mountains, volcanoes, both capped with steam and smoke. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

The man blew his pipe smoke in his wife’s direction. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

Then, exhaling smoke and brushing off imaginary tobacco flakes from her lap, she said grimly, “I’m listening to you.” Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z

“No,” he said, looking thoughtfully at the thread of smoke that curled from the burnt end. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Miss Sadie sat in a metal patio chair, smoking a corncob pipe and giving me instructions on how to put my weight into that shovel to turn up the dirt. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

"Downstairs to tell daddy about the smoke coming from the Westing house." The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

He walked back to the house, with the sun climbing behind him, warming his back, and he chopped wood and waited until he smelled smoke from the stovepipe. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

When I followed their gaze, I saw a thick cloud of grey smoke rising from the thatch, to become lost in the darker grey of the sky. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

Links of chain, now glowing red from the heat of the fire, flew upward to land smoking at the feet of those who stood above. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Wallace smoked incessantly and smiled at me while yelling oaths in answer to yelled instructions. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

The lane was of no great width, unpaven, and was filled with smoke. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

His lungs burned as he inhaled smoke and grew dizzier, but he shouted at her anyway. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

Pieces of melted plastic fell to the floor, giving off dark smoke that smelled like burnt rubber. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

We had panes of smoked glass to peer through; and, for more precise accuracy, a refracting telescope trained upon a piece of paper, so that the image was cast down upon it. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

“Yeah, maybe. Fang usually only smokes pot. He’s done acid a couple times. And Ecstasy. And shrooms. And Special K.” Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

Through the smoke we saw other launches put in from other brigs and sloops slipping toward the embattled docks. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

Lord Asriel was so surprised he stood up involuntarily, sending billows of smoke swirling around the angel. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

When he was not socializing or sleeping, he lay on his cot smoking or chewing gum and reading sports magazines or paperback thrillers. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

She hovered on the peripheries, speaking to no one, always smoking, raising the cigarette to her lips with a rapid, hungry movement, and pulling it away in agitated disgust. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

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

While the peasantry was chuckling, the Pierce Arrow would buck away in clouds of gray smoke, while the professor up front rendered a few bars of Honk Honk Kadookah. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her eyes Were wet, not from laughter, But from breathing in smoke. Neighborhood Odes 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

She and her father cook a pear tart and burn it by accident, and her father opens all the windows to let out the smoke, and she hears violin music rise from the street below. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

When my father goes for his long walk Bridey comes in and she and Mam sit by the fire drinking tea and smoking cigarettes. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

“We could block up their chimney and smoke them out,” Eilonwy said. The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z

Saturday morning, as Mia and Pearl crossed into Iowa, Izzy—the smell of smoke still clinging, faintly, to her hair—climbed aboard a Greyhound bus headed for Pittsburgh. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“And he said that she said that the agency won’t place her if they find out, and I asked, ‘Find out what?’ and he said, ‘Someone might tell them that she started smoking again.’ Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Gus’s cigarette smoke curled in the air as he handed over a cheeseburger and fries. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

In fact, we were getting smoked, 21 to 9. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

Miep drank ten schnapps and smoked three cigarettes—could this be our temperance advocate? The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

Today it’s Mr. Fox complaining about how he can’t breathe which would be a pitiable thing if he didn’t smoke so much. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

It must have been late at night when Nathan smelled the sweetgrass smoke because the air was chilly and the moon shone brightly through his window. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

Because if you can take care of yourself, you’d have clean clothes, and you wouldn’t smell like cigarette smoke, and you’d definitely remember your debate packet. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

Johnny looked about through the haze of tobacco smoke. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Unless it’s for Curtis, which I doubt, Sister holier-than-thou Daniels smokes. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

The air smells of Tootsie Pops and perfume and of the cigarette the usher is smoking in the lobby. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Some part of her considered being scared, but the smoke was kind of beautiful, and besides, her mother had made it, so how could it hurt her? Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

She laughed at herself, went back to her camp, and ate a piece of smoked meat. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was ready to give a deposition about her smoking. Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

A heap of smoking rubber tires polluted the air. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

They smelled the Smoke long before they saw it From high up the mountain, the buildings had the look of a burned-out campfire, smoking, crumbling, blackened through and through. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

"Some wanted to smoke us out, but the big one said there was riper fruit upriver, and they made for the Mummer's Ford." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

He had a yacht, smoked cigars, and had a reputation as a snappy dresser. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

His eyelids felt heavy and he could still smell the smoke from the burning letter. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

And weed makes me paranoid, like something terrible is about to happen, so I stopped smoking it. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Twinkle lit a cigarette and began to smoke it with relish, waving it around Sanjeev’s head as if it were a conductor’s baton as Mahler’s Fifth Symphony roared from the stereo downstairs. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

The air was heavy and full of smoke, and of other smells besides: acrid chemicals, decaying vegetable matter, sewage. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

The cigar had long since been smoked, the paper lay gutted on the floor, Katie had tired of having the news analyzed and had taken Neeley and gone over to visit Mary Rommely. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

The stench of smoke still filled my nostrils. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

But scarcely had that island faded in blue air than I saw smoke and white water, with sound of waves in tumult— a sound the men heard, and it terrified them. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then he lay back and sent from his lips a thin stream of smoke. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

The air between them a toxic cloud of cigarette smoke and resentment. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

I tried to explain to him how dangerous it was, particularly smoking, and even went to the trouble of finding a case history similar to his in a book by Sigmund Freud. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

He looked at the smoke curling from his bandages. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Dad was smoking, his eyes on the road. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Outside of Harpy’s, Ron sits on the curb, taking a smoke break. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

Because if I got trapped in a blaze started by arcing electrical overload in the wall of the garage, the searing pain of losing my mom and dad would go up in smoke with me. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

His eyes were closed and he was so hopping mad that it was a miracle that smoke waren’t pouring from his ears! Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

But sometimes she dated nerdy guys, or musicians, like my dad, who apparently used to smoke a lot of pot. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

The air was full of dust, smoke, and panic. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

Later we walk home, glancing back to see the great carloads of slag being dumped, red hot and smoking, into the ravine that skirts the steel mill. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

His eyes are the color of smoke and ringed with thick eyeliner. Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z

It froze water lines and hydrants and drove workers to break Burnham’s ban on smoking and open flame. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

“But”—Hugo lit his own cigarette—“it's my duty to point out, this isn't just about smoking a humble cancer stick.” Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

Then he noticed a thin spiral of blue-grey smoke, plain to see as it caught the sunlight, rising from a thicket above him. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

I’m certain he’s coming for the bag even before I smell the cigarette smoke and hear the footsteps. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

They stood in a group smoking, four cars down. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

“You think so?” the old man asked the cloud of smoke. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Chamberlain saw Tom come up, whirling through smoke, saw a rip»in his coat, thought: no good to have a brother here. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

To their right, the Phlegethon split into branches that etched the plain, widening into a delta of smoke and fire. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

And behold! there lay his weapon, but the blade was smoking like a dry branch that has been thrust in a fire; and as he watched it, it writhed and withered and was consumed. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

He read the article and choked, spitting liquid onto his smoking jacket. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Newspapers launched crusades against pestilent alleys and excess smoke and identified the worst offenders in print—among them Burnham’s newly opened Masonic Temple, which the Chicago Tribune likened to Mount Vesuvius. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

It was a joint of smoked goat and he was soon gnawing at it—not very hungrily because he was still fairly full of quail. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

It was early afternoon before we finally came to the source of the smoke, and what we found was not at all what we expected. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Lifting the tops off the boxes, she peered inside, swinging a tin bucket of smoke back and forth. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

We certainly expressed enthusiasm for our mother's hobbies, from smoking and napping to the writings of Sidney Sheldon. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

The waitress came over and asked if we wanted anything else and Bianca wanted another soda and Kicky asked if smoking was allowed. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

I read the papers with the coffee and then smoked a cigarette. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

There, near the fringe of the forest, tall spires of curling black smoke went up, wavering and floating towards them. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

They could see the smoke through the trees. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

Gray smoke formed a giant cloud that hung over the buildings and expanded outward like paint slowly being spilled onto an empty canvas. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z

All I saw were startled birds and campfire smoke. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

Finally, our trial-and-error method resulted in a combination of ingredients that seemed to have the most flash and smoke to it. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

A thin curl of smoke rose from the chimney of one. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

The smoke was getting thicker and flames were rising above the edge of the roof. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

So far so good with smoking, I thought. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

The smoke is spreading ever faster, approaching the announcer’s perch on the Broadcasting Building roof. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

Meera Reed rose, her frog spear in her hand, a chunk of smoking meat still impaled upon its tines. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

But the monk swirled away from him, like the smoke of a candle. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

Grampa sitting in his chair smoking a cigar and reading the paper. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

“The boy reeks of iron. Spends all day handling it, baking it, breathing its smoke. Then comes in here with clever eyes.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

He was sure he saw blue smoke coming from her ears. Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Jam looked at the creature, now free and sitting on the floor beside the empty canvas, surrounded by smoke and rubbing its horn. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

He has a pipe clenched in his teeth, and the smoke blurs his ravaged face. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

He listened unconsciously to all the sounds that had begun his day for twenty years and lit the first of the ten cigarettes that he smoked every day. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Gentlemen were rising now, drifting in a cloud of cigar smoke toward the same threshold where I stood. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

I’m so sick of the smell of cigar smoke I could just roll over and die.” Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z

The treated canvas burned fitfully, and the acrid grey smoke hung close to the ground in the quiet evening air. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

“Here you go, Percy,” Luke said, handing me a platter of smoked brisket. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

There was a loud crack, and the shape-shifter exploded in a wisp of smoke. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

Having seen the smoke and tasted the sugared air on his tongue, he delayed his journey to Palestine to detour back toward Vienna. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

He looked: there was a rider moving along in the smoke. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was not far out, since he said, after smoking a little:— Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z

A few hundred of us watch the barracks burn until they are just pits of smoking ground. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

The dust and smoke moved like a river among islands of debris—pieces of wall and roof, even an iron stove standing upright, as though it had been delivered by wagon. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

“They may have no past,” he said, smoking and looking up at the ceiling. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

“So,” she said, her voice ragged with both tears and smoke. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

Those who smoked would awaken to find a carton of cigarettes and an assortment of disposable lighters, while the others would receive an equivalent, each according to his or her vice. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

After they left, I lay on Francis’s couch, smoking his cigarettes and drinking his Scotch, and watched “Jeopardy.” The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

I saw Marge smoking a cigarette in the car park but choose not to mention it. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

Unlike the fog in my hometown, the smoke wouldn’t burn away with the rising sun. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

At least all of us pressed together in the coop helped keep us warm—we couldn’t start a fire, or the smoke would give us away. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

Drogon landed on the carcass and sank his claws into the smoking flesh. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

I didn’t smoke because each time I tried to, I ended up feeling nauseated and dizzy, and would vomit. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was smoking more than ever, as much as four or five packs a day. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

As they watched, it sputtered and smoked and then burned steadily, filling the little room with a warm glow. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

The woman whose reputation was spotless, and who tended to her family, who didn’t drink or smoke or run around. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

Voices and laughter, cigarette smoke and strange sweet smells I don’t recognize wash through sudden bursts of music and electric light. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

Looking through the swirling haze of smoke, they all saw dark shapes in the distance. In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z

I took the long way back, past the swaying lights of the harbor, the air heavy with brine and with chimney smoke from a hundred hearth fires. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

‘Don’t hrumm me, Ted. I didn’t smoke it. Not really. I had a puff or two. But it wasn’t my brand. It tasted like cowshed.’ The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

She called until her voice was hoarse ... and Drogon came, snorting plumes of smoke. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Beyond them, the screen stands unblemished, not even stained by smoke. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

I walked to the Sunny Kon-venience Kiosk across from school and smoked. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

My eyes water, not just from the smoke. Paradise on Fire 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

A few personnel were casual, talking idly against a Humvee, smoking. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

“Well, thanks . . .” Outside, Snuffy seated himself on the porch, smoking a cigarette and tugging luxuriously on his beer while O. J. Martinez counted and recounted his newspapers. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Everything: get the right temperature in your hot-water bottle and make sure the smoking tobacco in the silver humidor is fresh each and every day. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

On another trip he looked back and saw the smoke curiing up through die trees and realized, for the first time, that he now had the means to make a signal. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

My palm had a huge red welt, oozing and smoking with yellow guck. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

It’s only a few notes, but mixed with the soft rush of the wind and the smoke upon it, I hear...the strum of a distant guitar, and laughter. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

E & J, by contrast, had a far more ornate bottle: more squat, like a decanter, with smoked glass, foil wrapping around the spout, and a dark, richly textured label. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

Dreams and a restlessness of the soul came to him, arising from the smoke of the sacrifices, emanating from the verses of the Rig-Veda, trickling through from the teachings of the old Brahmins. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z

My next job is to figure out where I can build a fire, either by day so he will not see the smoke, or by night so that he will not see the flame. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

The mmplicntcH system of draughts sucked the smoke down the chimney. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

All the same I feel annoyed and smoke like a chimney as hard as I can. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

A frail column of smoke was rising from the roof of one of the sheds, and I saw a horse tied to the door. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

It smoldered and hissed—a thick smoke drifted over her platform—but it would burn slowly. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

For a split second, Luke’s guards were too stunned to do anything except watch the bear twins’ bodies dissolve into smoke. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

Now he took a deep puff, looked at the Wart, opened his mouth to speak, changed his mind, Mew out the smoke and drew another lungful. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

The sirens get louder, and the smoke thickens. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

More smoke emanated from his leg and head. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

“That man you conjured out of fire and smoke...is that how I look? Is that...is that how you see me when you tell your stories?” Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

The fire had gone out, but not long ago, since there was still smoke. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

He was also crying pretty bad, and he decided if anyone asked him, he would say his eyes were red from smoking pot. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

I lay in the bed, under a lamp, and read and smoked cigarettes. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

A corner of his mouth winked open and a silky rumple of smoke emerged, paused as if to be admired, then drifted off past his ear. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

We pretended to smoke cigarettes like the floozies. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

There was no rising smoke, no people, sheep, or cows. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

The smoke in the air was thinning, the roar of the fire dulled in his ears. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

He wouldn’t have kept smoking if my mother had been there, although he didn’t always pay attention to my mother. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

I smoke one with a recessed filter myself. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

The apartment was blue with smoke, through which the broad expanse of white linoleum was arctic, surreal. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

The air smelled of wet grass, smoke, and grilled meat. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

"I quit smoking last month," said the man in the cowboy hat. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

The smoke curled up from Miyax’s fire, and caribou strips shrank and dried. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

And when I was nine, smoke from a fire two ridges over had kept most visitors away. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

The smoke curled up with a bittersweet odor, and soon she fell asleep and dreamt that she was back in the fairy ring. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Takes a sip and then blows out smoke. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

I lit a cigar and smoked, trying to make myself feel better. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Her life before was as insubstantial as smoke. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

There was a tiny trickle of smoke drifting up from the chimney, which I could hardly see against the grey sky. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was silver and smoke, with eyes of yellow gold that saw all there was to see. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

As soon as she opened it, a puff of smoke drifted out. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

He lit it and puffed out two quick clouds of smoke. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was dark all day, as the wind veering around from the west again blew the pall of Drumner’s smoke on us. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

Snape stepped forward, waved his wand, and the snake vanished in a small puff of black smoke. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

Recently, she had picked up a bad cough along with the smoking. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

If they crossed paths, Mom might smell smoke in her hair or tell Lily her pants were too tight or ask why she put all those blond streaks in her hair. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

I could almost believe the gods could live off that smoke. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

He makes a gesture like smoke dispersing into the air. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Sciola’s expression did not change, but a wisp of smoke curled from his nostrils in a manner subtly indicative of surprise. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Liam hit a pothole in the road that sent the front hood flying up, along with a cloud of gray-blue smoke. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

The cloud of dark smoke grew denser as they ran down the hall, which was streaked with soot and slick with water. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

And then he looked directly at me—slyly—meaning that she was worried that I might tell the agency that she started smoking again. Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I wish they could see me on Thursday after school when I’m on the float and Mr. Hannon hands me the reins so that he can smoke his pipe in comfort. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

Finally I shuddered it off and lay sleepless, hugging around my shoulders a thin cotton cloth that smelled of sweat and smoke. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

The rest of June was spent smoking it, tanning it, and finally, starting on my deerskin suit. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

Seabirds cried wheeling over the breakers, and smoke of the hearthfires of small villages drifted blue on the wind. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

The smoke from their cigarettes hung close around them in the still air. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

The explosion, the fire, the smoke, the faintest recollection of me shouting Hammie’s name as we lean against each other. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Within the cache, Mama first placed several packs of dried, smoked fish and venison, all tied carefully together in two layers of bark. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

A towering funnel of smoke gradually drifted over us. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

All the firecrackers in his hair had popped, and his braids were smoking. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

The room stank of Jordan's suffocating cologne, stifling smoke, and fear. Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Alaska made an O with her lips, moving her mouth like a goldfish eating, trying unsuccessfully to blow smoke rings. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

Spewing black smoke, it passed behind the camp, traveling much faster than the train we had taken from Guadalajara. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

He muttered something in Russian, then blew a long stream of smoke in my face. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

I went to the kitchen and he was sitting there with his tea, smoking and reading the Korean-language newspaper. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

But then it disappears again behind a mantle of smoke. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

There were three cars surrounding our smoking, useless hunk of metal. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

We heard the rumble of explosions and saw smoke rise over a hill on the horizon. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

Gupta, a balding, plump man smoking a fat cigar, was shouting at a foreman. Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z

Yet at the brush of those fingers the wood dissolved and the very ground turned to smoke beneath his feet and swirled away laughing, and then he was spinning and falling, falling, falling . A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

He ignored the smoke that was billowing around the corner as he sprinted down the hall. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

The smudge pots were hellish machines, belching foul-smelling smoke and shooting a dangerous wild flame out the top, like upside-down rockets. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mariam would see them when she passed by, always dressed in their fatigues, squatting by the front door of Tariq’s house, playing cards and smoking, their Kalashnikovs leaning against the wall. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

Gramps pets the puppy and smokes his pipe as I drive, and we both play the moccasin game. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

There were spiced and pickled herring fillets, sardines, smoked eels and cod’s roe. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

We waded through Queen Anne’s lace and thick-stalked purple flowers, into dragonflies and the smell of Carolina jasmine so thick I could almost see it circling in the air like golden smoke. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Granddaddy lit a cigar and politely blew the smoke toward the ceiling. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

“Maybe. At least the smoke from the campfire keeps mosquitoes away, so I stayed in front of it all night. The tent is crowded, too, so outside is the better of the terrible choices.” Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

Chamberlain could see nothing but smoke, the blue mounds bobbing in front of him, clang of ramrods, grunts, a high gaunt wail. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Close to me, a broken body lies under a heap of smoking rubble. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

The silver chain was now nothing but smoke and vapor. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

I smoked some hash and then dove overboard. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

Probably smoking cigarettes with some boy in the parking lot of the Piggly Wiggly across from the high school. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

She bought two dollars worth of delicacies: sliced tongue, smoked salmon, creamy-white slices of smoked sturgeon and crisp rolls. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

But the young dog was the leader: however longingly the bull terrier looked towards a distant curl of smoke from a chimney he must turn away. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I finally caught my breath, I smelled the smoke and saw the light, bright as day, outside my window. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

The great smokes had risen and grown thinner, and the last hours of a sombre day were passing; the red glare of Mordor had died away in sullen gloom. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

She found a park bench where she had once been accustomed to reading and smoking. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

I smelled like sulfur smoke and sunscreen for days on end. The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z

Take it then, and smoke it when you wish or when you have a little pain.” The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

They argued a bit more then went on to the house where Joe was and found him in his shirt-sleeves, standing with his legs wide apart, asking questions and smoking a cigar. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

I pictured him and Baba drinking tea in Baba’s study, then smoking near the window, a sweetbrier-scented breeze blowing from the garden and bending the twin columns of smoke. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

When I was first hired out as shepherd t’other side the world, it’s my belief I should ha’ turned into a molloncolly-mad sheep myself, if I hadn’t a had my smoke.” Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z

The building has a festive air: its usual smells of Dustbane and furniture polish and mouse droppings and snakes mingle with other smells, of winter clothing, cigarette smoke, and women’s perfume. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

We sat in a circle around the trays of fries, and Alaska taught class, smoking while she ate. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

I watched until the last faint puff of smoke disappeared. Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Swordfish and the hulk were gone, blackened bodies were floating downstream heside him, and rihnkmg men dinging to bits of smoking wood. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Thousands of people found themselves surrounded by flames and smoke and rushing headlong to escape. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z

They could no longer afford lantern oil, so she burned branches, and when her eyes watered from the smoke, she sewed her tears into the lotus ponds. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

All the old pipes and wires are hanging down, and everywhere underfoot is broken glass the color of smoke. Freak The Mighty 1993-10-01T00:00:00Z

The Appalachian Highlands, says the voiceover, where the Angels of the Apocalypse, Fourth Division, are smoking out a pocket of Baptist guerillas, with air support from the Twenty-first Battalion of the Angels of Light. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

All of a sudden, while I was laying there smoking, somebody knocked on the door. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

They laughed again, reclining against the wall, smoking, the lids of their eyes drooped softly against the sun. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

On the podium, a plume of gray smoke rose out of the side of the broken, useless Stormbreaker. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

"I saw only fire," he said, "but the smoke was making my eyes water. You must pardon me, ser, the king awaits." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

The other assassin takes advantage of my hesitation and shoves me back into the smoke. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

Now that he’d quit school he roved about with a group of boys his own age, smoked cigarettes they gave him, and talked of automobiles and motorcycles, though no one owned one. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

Across the brush fence were other brush houses, and the smoke came from them too, and the sound of breakfast, but those were other songs, their pigs were other pigs, their wives were not Juana. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

When the lightning stopped, the First and Second Cohorts were facing one surprised-looking giant and several hundred smoking piles of ash. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

He heard the train pull out behind him, leaving a column of white smoke. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Magdalys blinked through the billowing smoke, trying to make out the rooftop of the theater. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

She did—taking no insult, very serious, through a pall of smoke. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

Uncle stamped on the dirt over the sleeping bag until finally the smoke stopped. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

With memories of my homies getting smoked and all my problems on the way home, I decided to get one. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

A miasma of cinder-flecked smoke blackened its streets and at times reduced visibility to the distance of a single block, especially in winter, when coal furnaces were in full roar. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

A haze of smoke hung in the air; it wasn’t the sweet mustiness of her abuelo’s Malaguenas but a danker, cigarette smell. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

The smoke was a tight little knot on the horizon and was uncoiling slowly. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

Then Cas started coughing from the smoke, and he went back to the most important thing on the agenda. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

The boys sat under the bridge drinking malt liquor and smoking as the morning quickly turned to afternoon. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

He held the smoking pistol still aimed at Tenorio, but a second shot was not needed. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

The smoke in the air made his eyes water. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

The Shieldhall was one of the older parts of Castle Black, a long drafty feast hall of dark stone, its oaken rafters black with the smoke of centuries. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

If low-key meant pumping music, throngs of people sipping on beer or mixed drinks, and clouds of smoke hanging in the air, then that’s exactly what it was. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

She removed her green jacket, then gently took the smoking match out of the girl’s hand. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

He got detention twice that month before he bought a pack of nicotine gum and chewed it instead of smoking because his dad said if he got detention again, no bike. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

The Colonel blew smoke rings, and Takumi called them “pretentious,” while Alaska followed the smoke rings with her fingers, stabbing at them like a kid trying to pop bubbles. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

Archibald Yronwood had been cradling his prince’s scorched and smoking body when the Brazen Beasts had found him, as his burned hands could testify. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

From stillness came a wind rushing between the smoke spindles. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

A few days after that, newspapers would appear throughout the world with photographs of the first American soldiers bludgeoning their way into the shattered city through rubble and smoke. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

The Dunmore, rigged and coursed with smoke like some spirit vessel, cast volleys of flame through its entanglements of cloud, and all its gray was incarnadined with fire. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

He was preoccupied, smoking a cigarette, but the thought that he might see me filled me with an inexplicable anxiety. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

There was a haze of smoke and a lot of dust and books on the floor, but the room was in better condition than most of the school. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

The boomer ethos in which I’d raised my own daughter was obsessively protective, perpetually on guard against everything from lead paint and genetically engineered food to helmetless bike-riding, drinking, smoking, sex, and possible learning disabilities. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Jury meted out punishment for nonexpellable offenses, for everything from staying out past curfew to smoking. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

Nine years ago he had sworn that the children’s home where he’d lived was protected by one—by “a bird who smoked a pipe.” Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

I slide it into the microwave and stare through the window, watching the carousel turn as the food starts to smoke. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

My father and my uncle Jim from Pennsylvania were sitting on folding metal chairs and smoking cigarettes. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

The smoke and pall of incense made Matt break into a coughing fit. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

As we entered the apartment, I smelled smoke, acrid and choking. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Noxious clouds expanded around the giant, filling the ruins like thick cigar smoke. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

"Like this? Aren't we going to let any one smoke a cigarette first?" The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

She was digging through her purse for the cigarettes she could not smoke in front of Mama. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The smoke suddenly cleared, and a familiar shape loomed out of the darkness. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

Or: We had scarcely begun to cook when the smoke alarm went off. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

He continued smoking for perhaps an hour, and then, his pipe still lit, he died. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The man is Polish, smoking cigarettes, with a pink nose and his collar turned up around his ears, his gun leaning against the farm gate. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

Compared to Maxwell Street, the Prairie Avenue District seemed as though it belonged to a different place and time, untouched by the coal smoke and ruin. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

Oily smoke hung above us like a net, drooping under the thatched roof. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Madam let loose on me in the kitchen after the gentlemen had taken Master Lockton to Ashley’s Tavern for a night of beer drinking and pipe smoking. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

The house is filled with smoke when I come downstairs. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

“The bulk of them,” one critic said disparagingly, “are scarcely known beyond the smoke of their own chimnies.” An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

He was, I couldn’t help but notice, smoking a cigarette. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

Somebody had left the door that led to the backyard open, and the blue-gray firewood smoke that hung heavy in the living room blurred the facial features of the guests. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

He entered a world of clamor, smoke, and steam, refulgent with the scents of murdered cattle and pigs. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

“You want to smoke before we head out?” Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

It began to seem that the room smelled like cigarette smoke. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I got it!” he said as small clouds of smoke drifted up into the air and a low flame started blooming on the mound of sticks and leaves. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Cowled in their blankets against the cold and their breath smoking, shuffling through the black and silky drifts. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

He had been taken when the ruffians smoked out a band of rebels that he led from their hidings up in the Brockenbores by the hills of Scary. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

Gently, carefully, she peels scorched and smoking cloth from my raw skin. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

Tendrils of black smoke have begun to snake into the hall. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

I can’t stand in a television studio wearing a costume and makeup in a cloud of fake smoke and rally the districts to victory. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

“I want to see what kind of parents you kids have,” the skinny one added, lighting a cigarette and blowing the smoke into the back seat. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

“I haven’t smoked in three years. A couple of months back here, and voila. Every bad habit I had, back on me like a tick.” We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

The excuse given by the government was slum clearance, a smoke screen for the government policy that regarded all urban areas as white areas where Africans were temporary residents. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

His voice is good but raw, like he’s smoked too many cigarettes. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

There is no right, there is only the hunt, Pet said, a snarl of impatience behind its words, the smoke from its mouth darkening. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

A large puff of greyish smoke and sparks poured out from under the hood that covered Mr. Evans's face. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

The smoke from the burning houses filled the air, draping the city in fog. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

The whole southward side of the city was covered with black smoke now. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

A puff of white smoke came from the deck of the ship. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

But fire smoke is worse, reminding me of dreams and death. Paradise on Fire 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

The place I’m sitting in is the part of the H that mirrors the part next to the smoking lounge; Noelle said she didn’t smoke, so I think she wants to meet here. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

Once some old chief went with him; they came back with arrowheads and sat on the porch smoking pipes until two o’clock in the morning. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

The smoke billowing out in a long plume on this cool spring morning. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

They stood with the cigarette smoke curling around their noses and into their eyes without making them blink or squint. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z

But if he turned round—he was standing with his back to the house, smoking—he would see right into the room. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

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

Sometimes I saw them up on the roof of their apartment, smoking a water pipe and talking together in their funny Ningbo accent. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

What’s more important still is the issue of a double ration of smokes. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

Their laughter trails behind me, lingers like cigarette smoke. Watch Us Rise 2019-02-12T00:00:00Z

Flames came teeming from its mouth, and molten spit, and reeking, scorching smoke. Beowulf: A New Telling 1968-01-01T00:00:00Z

The first time Charlie Kahn tried to make me smoke a cigarette, I was eleven years old. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

White plumes of smoke sent the crowd back and the girl squealed. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

Look back and see the smoke now and turn, please turn. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

He turned and went back indoors so the smoke would not soak into his carefully ironed shirt. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

A smog is technically a mixture of smoke, fog and chemical fumes but this was a mixture of smoke, smoke and more smoke. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

And if the smoker is a blower of smoke rings, you get to see all the way in to the dark velvet of the inner cheeks. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

First we saw teenagers at a party smoking drugs. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

The candle had burned low while she read, and now its blackened wick began to smoke out on its own. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

He puffed violently at his cigar and mumbled the rest through the smoke, “Bogert will help me there, of course.” I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

Then I told her how The Grand High Witch had shot out the fiery white-hot sparks and how they had turned one of the other witches into a puff of smoke. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z

But no police have come, and no smoke rises from the stacks at Minerwa. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

I watched it burn away, and followed the trail of smoke through the air as it burned. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

He carried an old-fashioned leather briefcase in one hand and a smoke in the other. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

I reached for Lovey’s hand as we watched the cars start, smoke blowing from the exhaust pipes, kicking brown and orange and yellow leaves up. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

“Well, she’s the only one in school that has Willard Hughes’s name crossed out on her sneakers. Besides, the smoke is so thick in there you need a gas mask.” Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z

Somewhere between the second column of smoke I spied before I blew up the supplies and this point, she ran into trouble. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

We enter a small, dingy room where a man is lighting a bidi, smoke snaking out of his lips. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

‘Doesn’t that agency that placed you tell you that you shouldn’t smoke around a baby?’ Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The venison is much better when smoked in a building where the fire can be controlled. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

She reached level ground and made her way around the base of the hill, crouching low to the ground to duck under the smoke. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

He lit the cigarette and blew out a cloud of smoke. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

In the center of a room, smoke drifts lazily out of the top of a chiminea, leaving the room in a magical haze. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

She stepped down onto the pavement and the bus belched black smoke and roared away. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

The kitchen table was set for breakfast, and the room smelled of coffee, bacon, damp plaster, and wood smoke from the stove. Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z

“Kill you. Turn you into smoked bacon and ham,” continued the old sheep. Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z

A sheet of white smoke poured from the fire, forming images like an Iris-message. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

"Day," Bran told her, "but it's dark from all the smoke." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

To be helpful, her husband smoked in the shared kitchen next door. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

The surrounding landscape grew covered with smoke, and it was even harder to find the way home than it had been to get to the target in the first place. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

Evan said he quit smoking pot, and I asked him what he was going to do with his pipe. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

It didn’t draw all of the smoke, but it was some improvement. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

Lillian was sitting on the steps, smoking a cigarette and looking out at a barge coming through the opened bridge. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Hi Brightbill my name is Chitchat and I’m a twelve-and-a-half-week-old squirrel and I’m new around here and your home is really big and round and I don’t understand why smoke sometimes comes out of it...” The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

We walked down the steps, past men smoking in clusters. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

The child was laughing and trying to catch the smoke, to grab it in his small fist.... Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

I try to tell them about the bus, but explosions go off and thick white smoke engulfs us. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

“January. Something like that. Mrs. McCullough said that one of the firemen came out for a smoke and found her there in a cardboard box.” Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

There was no telling what was being made behind those high filthy windows, or why yellow and black smoke poured from a single slender aluminum stack. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

A little plume of smoke was creeping out from the instrument panel! My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

He turned and looked at the boy crouched above him blinking in the smoke rising up from the lamp and then he descended to the lower steps and sat and held the lamp out. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

The leaves twisted and writhed in the flames, and a pungent smell tickled my nose before the smoke was lost to the sky. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

He was looking up, aghast, at the unimaginable sight of the citadel tilting off its axis, when, through the blowing smoke and grit he saw something plummet from it. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Like me, they were all watching the smoke, and when it had cleared away, the chair was empty. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z

Suddenly the fine brown dirt became mixed with thick black smoke. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Flames explode from its innards, sending plumes of black smoke into the sky. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

Cato has finished the first phase of his tantrum and takes out his anger on the smoking remains by kicking open various containers. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

Eventually, the KGB came up with a scheme that would serve as a kind of smoke screen for Blake's spying on behalf of Russia. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

"That's kind of you," said the small figure who sat on the other side of a little fire which crackled and smoked in the morning air. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

Pet moved its head, and the smoke angled newly. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

The traffic is slower in this hottest part of the afternoon, but horns still blast, and buses still belch smoke. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

Uncle Wilson smiled into the cloud of smoke rising from his pipe, and he crossed his bony legs. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

Amanda had a very pessimistic view of the world, and to get through her depressions she smoked hashish. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

A lieutenant came down the road, pointing back toward die smoke, yelling wildly that someone was hurt. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

By now, with Monica back in from her smoking break, Mark scurries out of the way and Garret stands. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

I couldn’t bring myself to say “bum a smoke.” The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

Big puffs of smoke were coming out of his nose and mouth as he tried to squeeze his laughs down. The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

He coughed again, choking as the smoke thickened in the cellar. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

At five, he started smoking, picking up discarded cigarette butts while walking to kindergarten. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z

How do these three rules help us understand teenage smoking, for example, or the phenomenon of word of mouth, or crime, or the rise of a bestseller? The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I don’t know if it was the smoke from the campfire that calmed me, or the sudden reappearance of Zu, who had come back from scouting a nearby campsite, making sure it was deserted. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

Minerva made her hands into shallow cups and pulled the air over her head and face, making prayers out of ashes and smoke. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

Wisps of smoke— suggesting she has either just been extinguished or is about to burst into flames—rise from her clothes. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

When I pulled off my visor, I saw smoke pouring in through the holes being cut in the door and the wall. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

Inside the plane the cartridge exploded, releasing a cloud of acrid yellow smoke. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

He wormed his way through the thicket toward the forest, keeping as far as possible beneath the smoke. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

It had a high brown smokestack that the blue smoke was pouring from and an extra little roof that seemed to be sitting on great billowing white clouds of steam. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

The army of demons and rakshas—many of them now little more than melted lumps on the lobby floor of the museum—vanished in a puff of smoke. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Pipe smoke twirled while voices rose and fell. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

But he thought probably they had smelled the smoke. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

The billowing gray smoke, with its eddies and swirls. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

Her Pepperup Potion worked instantly, though it left the drinker smoking at the ears for several hours afterward. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

She raised two fingers, blew imaginary gun smoke from the tips. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

Or, late at night, I’d hang out of my bedroom window and smoke. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

The rear wheels of the cab smoked a little, squealed, and then twenty yards ahead of me the truck was waiting. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

The night smelled of dampness, mud, and smoke from the small house’s chimney. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

When I saw that the smoke trail was angling off to the left of the tipple, I knew we’d escaped at least that particular disaster. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

In the men’s bathroom, inmates smoked—also against the rules but, from what I could tell, tacitly accepted. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Inside the building, folks must be coughing, choking from smoke. Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z

All the while, acrid smoke swirled around him. In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z

His one good eye squinted upwards through the smoke of the morning campfires. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

But I keep smoking because I’m hoping that one day it will feel good, that I’ll be all floaty and calm, like everyone says. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Up ahead, in a clear area near the summit of the hill, she saw the source of the thin smoke—a waist-high cylinder of stone with a wooden windlass and a dangling bucket. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

In 1989, smoking was more prevalent than it is now, more embedded in everyday life. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Then we’re out on the soundstage, where I seem to stand for hours while they adjust makeup and lighting and smoke levels. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

Although they seemed more interested in smoking and telling jokes, slipping a beet into my underwear unnoticed was no easy task. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

And now the cake was behaving very curiously for while the bottom was burning and sending out a black smoke the top was rising and falling glueyly with a series of little explosions. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

He thought he could smell smoke, though perhaps it was just the scent of his nerves fraying. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

“You think”—Madame Crommelynck snorted smoke—“‘This old witch is crazy! Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

Six feet off the slack, it made a poot sound and then fell back in a cloud of gray smoke and landed heavily, breaking off its nose cone. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

Everyone on the street paused to watch as the train leaped past crossing gates waving a raccoon’s tail of white and black smoke. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Finally, just as they were getting into Vancouver, the chariot wheels began to smoke. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

A dangerous smell, an unpleasant smell, a totally unnatural smell—quite close outside: a smoke smell—something was burning. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

The image wavered, curling at the edges as the door disappeared behind the dark smoke that spewed through its cracks and joints. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

He tried to hold on to her, but it was like trying to hold on to smoke or shadow, or—like Sathaz from the folktale—the reflection of the moon. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

The things I could've done rise up around me like smoke from Noodle's joint. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

“Thanks,” he said, and ran ahead, the scent of cigarette smoke lingering in the air. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

The telltale smell of smoke filtered in through the open windows. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

The walls, which may have once been white, were a tarry yellow, and judging from the smell and the big, brimming ashtray, smoking was definitely encouraged at the Red Carpet. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

And despite his own paper’s editorial, not even the editor in chief of the Chicago Tribune, Horace White, smelled a good story in the smoke that was blowing into his neighborhood. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z

It was almost dusk, the wind had dropped, and I saw old men squatting in the dirt, Papa and some of his cronies, muttering and smoking their cigarettes. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

From a smoking tower, a great stone beast took wing, breathing shadow fire. . . . mother of dragons, slayer of hes . A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

But at home smoke greets us at the front door. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

And then a little finger of smoke rises from the hollow. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

“What do you want to go see an old Indian smoking a pipe for?” Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

The room in the tree smelled of smoke and mint. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

She hears Madame Manec stand and collect the bowls and her father exhale cigarette smoke as though it is very heavy in his lungs and he is glad to be rid of it. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

The wooden rocker where Pa sat and smoked his pipe by the fire. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

We built a fire in the cave once and had to run outside because the smoke got so thick. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

The hot dogs had melted into a black goo in the skillet, which was now billowing a foul-smelling smoke. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

She coughed as she started a fire; the wood smoke stung. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

They made him look haggard, as if he smoked a great deal and slept very little, in spite of the fact that he was only seven years old. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

My grandmother had lit up one of her disgusting black cigars and was puffing smoke over everything. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z

When Senor Leal Finally grabs his goat, The pipe is smoked. Neighborhood Odes 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

He listened, smoking and nodding his head; then he asked me to read it again. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z

Their hands and faces were all caked with blubber smoke, soot from the Primus camp stove, and dirt, and some of the men tried washing up in the snow. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

As the smoke cleared, there was a breathless moment in which no one moved or spoke. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

There was an explosion, a ball of flame and a fist of gray smoke that followed Alex up as if trying to seize him. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

The land under the castle swelled—it rose and rose and rose, and great plumes of smoke and ash came billowing from its center. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

He led the boy out into the yard trailing the black smoke from the lamp. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

He snorted—my suggestion was ridiculous—and I remembered a time in junior high when I came home from health class and talked to him about the dangers of smoking. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Our private room has two leather loveseats and a smoked- glass coffee table. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Four disconnected strands of gray smoke melt into a white sky. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

When the smoke cleared, the rider was still galloping along beside them. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

He rolled a smoke out of his precious tobacco stores and plucked a twig out of the fire with a burning ember at the tip to light it with. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

She could see smoke rising from its wind-carved summit, miles away. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

But then the patches blinked more rapidly, dulled and went out, so that he saw that a great heaviness of smoke lay between the island and the sun. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

I sat there for surely an hour, staring at a daylit hole in the window blind, without smoking or taking off my coat or loosening my necktie. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

The smell of smoke is stronger out here. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

In the drawing room, the air was thick with tobacco smoke. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

She landed barefoot and filthy with smoke and soot. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

They stumbled into the road, shading their eyes, the trunk of fire and smoke tearing out of the mountains like God’s finger stuck suddenly toward the sky. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

The wind rose then, taking the brown leaves in a whirl from the trees, and smoke wafted from the chimneys of cottages as fires were fed. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Before the sound died and the smoke lifted, Lem was bellowing again. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

The stars are followed by a trio of attackers who spring from the smoke like coiled snakes. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

It was so easy to disappear, so easy to deny knowledge, so very easy in the smoke and din to mask that something dark had taken root. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Bass blew out a cloud of smoke which made me cough. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

There’s Marv, who never shuts up, sitting there trying to smoke cigars and simultaneously enjoy it. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

He had a lean, intelligent face with a neatly trimmed brown mustache and eyes as gray as smoke. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

Her overpowdered hair left a trail behind her that settled like smoke on the carpet. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“So, King,” he says, leaning in closer—close enough I can smell he’s been smoking those cigarettes again. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z

Sometimes, he smokes in the backyard, but not very often. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

“Oh, hello, Marion,” he said, exhaling a cloud of smoke and turning his back to us. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

He was wearing a silk vest over his shirt with dragons embroidered on it in red thread, and he was smoking a long white clay pipe. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

Piggy took back his glasses and looked at the smoke with pleasure. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

Barack smoked the way my parents did—after meals, walking down a city block, or when he was feeling anxious and needed to do something with his hands. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Black smoke pours from the hull of the Ardent. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

The atmosphere was so still that the smoke from a mill in the district went up in a straight, unbroken line. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

Mr. Hatch had come inside to start a fire, and I smelled a faint tang of wood smoke. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

They were smoking cigarettes and reaching out to touch the sweating forms of the starters as they glided past them. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Green palm fronds might send off dark smoke, but until they were dried, they were too tough to tear off the trees. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Carl’s dad, in fact, and I didn’t want anything whatsoever to do with smoking. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

With a shock he realized that this was the smoke from his little cooking-fire, which he had neglected to put out. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

But then I saw it: the white smoke puffed out of the front of the car and crept in through the vents on the dashboard, penetrating my lungs and causing me to cough uncontrollably. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

The horizon stretched, impersonal once more, barren of all but the faintest trace of smoke. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

I carry books around, and I’ve started to smoke a pipe. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

The rockets came like locusts, swarming and settling in blooms of rosy smoke. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

At first I thought the smoke had materialized out of thin air as a sort of judgment, but then I remembered it was Doreen's smoke and pushed the button that opened the window vent. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

Scythe Chomsky used his flamethrower to set a corn maze ablaze, smoking people out to be picked off one by one by the other scythes. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

There was smoke coming out of the chimney, but that was all—no sounds, no sign of men, no horses. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

I looked up at a small, dim yellow line of smoke. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

The overlanders were mixed up with pickup trucks and vans jammed with people, and the road reeked of diesel smoke. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

They do not drink, smoke, or swear, and they still call sex “nookey.” The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

Beneath her, bits of broken glass cut into Koffi's palms and knees; plumes of smoke filled her lungs with every ragged breath she took. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

When summer came, Brad didn’t have to worry about school or anything, so his drinking and smoking got a lot worse. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

This came chiefly from a blazing log-fire, for the three lamps hanging from the beams were dim, and half veiled in smoke. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

Did she think I thought smoking and drinking were supposed to make me live longer? The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

White smoke spiraled into the air and made strange shapes: Harry thought, for one heartstopping moment, that he saw a phoenix fly joyfully into the blue, but next second the fire had vanished. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

Simon, forgetful of the lies, shaded his eyes with both hands and peered at the smoke. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

I could still hear the country music, softly, could still feel the truck’s warmth, still smell the hot air and coffee and sandwich and cigar smoke. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Seized again by coughing, I fell to the ground where the smoke was not so heavy. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

The spicy musk of tobacco smoke only added to the impression. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

Bang on a log, send me a smoke signal, SOMETHING! Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I got old enough, I planned to smoke my cigarettes in just that way. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

He set down his oatmeal creme pie ... and noticed that his fingertips were turning to smoke. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

He blew a thin stream of smoke forcefully toward the lake. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

John smoked a second cigarette, and then somehow we got enough nerve. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

And then there were the actual lessons where they showed us horrible pictures of what smoking did to the insides of your body. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was standing with his feet in the bright circle of sunlight below the center of the log ceiling open for smoke. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

Then he’d stand right outside the door and smoke and watch me mop the entire floor of the auto shop. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

They heaved and heaved until they were nothing more than ash and embers and smoke. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

My parents talked quietly, Granddaddy smoked cigars and read his National Geographic, and my brothers and I took turns at fighting off sleep and failing miserably. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

He takes a pull and exhales thick white smoke that swirls up into the air like a cloud. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Chandresh himself wears a suit of vibrant purple with a gold paisley waistcoat, and throughout the evening, he smokes specially made cigars that spout matching violet smoke. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

"I used to smoke a pack a day. Now I eat a sack of these every week." Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

But the sun was blotted out by the ash and smoke. I Survived the Eruption of Mount St. Helens, 1980 2016-08-01T00:00:00Z

An acrid smoke fills the air, which is not the best remedy for someone trying to regain the ability to breathe. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

No. And could we smoke and dry it? The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

They puffed slow streams of pale white smoke. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

"On the desk next to the smoking table." How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

He was a short man, with round, pink features, always immaculately dressed, always smoking long, expensive cigars. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

But now he kills as many as he can, cuts them up, dries or smokes the meat, and then sends it on a truck to the towns. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

And he drinks and smokes more than any boy I ever heard of. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

He touched the molten gold that was creeping down his face, and smoke rose from his finger. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

When we woke up the next morning, all the smoked meat was gone. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

No boats were tied to the pier, but she could see thin tendrils of smoke rising from some of the chimneys, and part of a wagon jutting out behind a stable. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

It’s the mechanic, and smoke is drifting up from the knives in my machine. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

Over us hangs a dense cloud of smoke. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then we sat and smoked for a while without saying anything. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z

Soldiers streamed down the hill across the smoking patch of field and then plunged into the river. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

Then he opened the car door on his side and strolled round to my side, his breath shaping tortuous smoke signals in the gray air. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

He could see the green dragon ripping at the smoking carcass of the sheep, his long tail lashing from side to side as he ate. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

He stared up at the smoking hill of ash and then down at the stampede of footprints around it. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

You couldn’t see the top of the tent at all—it was completely obscured by rolling clouds of smoke. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

Through all that the Reb cannon were firing steadily and smoke was filling up the hollow between the armies and no one could see the motion of the troops. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was black smoke pouring out of the exhaust pipe. Raymie Nightingale 2016-04-12T00:00:00Z

What I’d really wanted when our fingers rubbed each other’s as I took the joint from him, when I’d smoked it and stared straight into the crowd of seniors, was that same sense of confidence. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

He was standing by himself in front of some glass doors, his back to the room, smoking a cigarette. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Jones covered the two with some smoke and said, 'I think Darlene and that there bird very unusual. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

He imagines her in a bed in the corner, sullen, emaciated, a cloud of smoke over her head. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

And smoke and be by herself a little while. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

The light flickered back on and the smoke cleared and I could see that hanging on to the other end of the shoe was a giant gray hand with cold, hard square fingers. The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the cold night air the wound was smoking. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

He let the smoke trickle out from his mouth, pulled it back into his nostrils. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

He lit a smoke while I asked him what was wrong. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

He trailed away, sat smoking for some moments, an expression of frustration and vague irritation on his face. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

It has found me here on this island, in our little town, in a back alley where sleek boys smoke in a stairwell amidst the day’s uncollected refuse. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

When the elf and the goblin looked up again, all that was left of the summit where the two kings had met was a spherical hole, smoking. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

They could hardly see for the thick black smoke issuing from the stall in which Hermione was stirring the cauldron. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

There was a house to the right, smoke pouring from the roof, a great clog of men jammed behind the house, but men were moving across the road and up toward the ridge. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Chess sensed, more than actually seeing, that Finn and Natalie were throwing smoke bombs, too. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

Every camp saw fewer fires burning, and those that were lit threw off more smoke than heat. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The smoke from the burning pizza changed into something fragrant—the smell of a dean sea breeze with wild- flowers mixed in—but I had no idea if that meant my father was really listening. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

Because the Impala is parked, I’m fine being in there, even though it smells like smoke and old fast food and, faintly, of pot. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Getting smoked out with my homies, then going out and canning walls is what I call a day. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

“Last to get here, first to leave,” says Ma, blowing out some cigarette smoke. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

The smoke had ruined most of her clothing. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

They sat smoking, with the wisps of smoke curling up around their chins, looking very wise, Mario thought. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe they’d tried to fight the corrupted with fire—or maybe the corrupted had tried to smoke them out. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

I smell some sort of sweet smoke in the air and then see that Mike is puffing on a joint. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

After a meal, they’d play cards, smoke cigarettes, maybe a cigar, and drink a snifter of brandy. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

Cigarette smoke hazed everything like in a TV flashback. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

Gussie was indeed a fearful sight nursing that way and he looked not unlike a man with his foot on a bar rail, smoking a fat pale cigar. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

There had been a sign behind the department store counter: “For digestion’s sake, smoke daily!” Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

I heard Mama sobbing every time I woke up and saw Papa smoking one cigarette after another. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

There wasn't anything to do except smoke and drink. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

Fishtail drew thoughtfully on the pipe and the fragrant smoke clouded his face. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

Like a comet it bursts into a streamer of smoke and falls headlong. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

She seemed more like a mistress: her brazenly red lipstick, her tight dress, her smoking. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

How often had I seen Miss Lilian sitting on that bench, smoking, drinking a glass of wine, her mouth drawn down with disapproval? The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

Her father hunches over his slanted ink-stained table by the window, sketching, smoking, listening to the Voice of America. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Mr. Ray was obviously all out of cigarettes, because this was definitely one of those times he would’ve been sparking one, taking a drag, and blowing the smoke high into the air. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

What a way to get out of smoking. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

It made a horrible loud noise and spewed ugly black smoke over the beautiful lake. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

If they did I’d be on the first thing smoking back to Flint. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

Now he can sit down, smoke a cigar and prepare himself for the return of the man who lives there. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Outside teahouses, on carpet-covered wooden platforms, men drank tea and smoked tobacco from hookahs. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

Fishtail, meanwhile, smoked peacefully and looked into the leaping flames. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

He took one extra breath of the fresh air, scented with clover and honeysuckle and—coming from far away—pine smoke. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z

The flame sped into the air, rising higher and coming closer and shedding sparks and smoke, and then fell with a great splash of fire near the gun. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

Finally, in frustration, he would grab one of the piles and go off and begin to smoke. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Without fire there could be no smoke, and without smoke they had no protection against the mosquitoes. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z

She had a long stack and always puffed thick, blade smoke. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

A man in a blue jacket emblazoned with the store logo stood in the doorway, smoking. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

Now he could see: masses of gray rock wreathed in smoke, gray men moving. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Beneath the capering boys a quarter of a mile square of forest was savage with smoke and flame. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

I made for the kitchen; smoke was surging there too. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

They might have smoked in front of him, or sipped from their canteens, or eaten bread and let the crumbs drop carelessly on his body. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

The lights of Ravenskill glittered beneath them, smoke came from chimneys, and Seven could even see most of the mansions on the Hill from this side of the house. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

They saw that straight away; saw what they had really known down on the beach when the smoke of home had beckoned. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

A tall, thin man smoking a cigarette approached us. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

He started up his car and swung it back out onto the highway, leaving behind a blue-black cloud of smoke that drifted over the protesters. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

‘I need smoke! I have not tasted it since the morning before the snowstorm.’ The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

We fooled around and smoked pot in his car. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

It's amazing how many college boys don't drink or smoke. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

Someone had replaced the glass in the upper part of the window with plywood, and wrapped tinfoil around the opening to keep the coal smoke from leaking into the room. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

When nothing happened, she went out to the kitchen and opened the windows so we couldn’t tell that she was smoking. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

Kabul was eerily silent, quilted in white, tendrils of smoke snaking up here and there. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

He puffed on cigars, his eyes shining through a veil of blue smoke. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

In Kabul, particularly in western Kabul, fires raged, and black palls of smoke mushroomed over snow-clad buildings. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

He was very cautious about when he smoked. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

And Wang sat and smoked his pipe and he was proud of himself that when he was an old man he had done what he wished. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

The boys who were not smoking were eating. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

Skirmish firing broke out in the fields below Seminary Ridge; musketry popped in patches of white smoke as the lines felt and probed. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

I asked, “Will the Summerhill Agency find her another place if they know that she didn’t keep her promise to stop smoking?” Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

From somewhere, as in a dream, I heard a scream and looked back just as the big smoking engine roared around a bend. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

As direct as Kate is, she doesn’t want either of my parents to know she smokes. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Is only when it gets light I can sleep at last, without the dream of smoke and fire and boys screaming. Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

She exhaled, and I could almost smell the smoke. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

The vision seemed so vivid, but then Joseph remembered Leo wasn’t real, and the boy dissolved like smoke into the winter sky. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

Miig squashed his dying smoke under his heel and stretched out his legs, making a pillow between his head and the log with his hands. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

The world swirled, then steadied as Frankie balanced his weight on his good leg and peered through the thickening smoke. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

It all felt rather distant and untouchable, fading to smoke around the edges. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

Not that he smokes so much, not at all; it just looks so distinguished. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

He no longer smoked or touched alcohol, so what was the use? Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

Magdalys could still see Two Step waving frantically from the roof, but the smoke kept getting thicker. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

As Chaplin, the Harvard historian, has argued, New England Indians were indeed disconcerted by their first experiences with European guns: the explosion and smoke, the lack of a visible projectile. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

After a bit they relaxed and leaned against the wall, smoking. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

Cigarette smoke wafted up from the entrance of the guesthouse, where some boys had gathered. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

He shouldn’t have gotten out of bed and he shouldn’t have ditched me in that home of fire and smoke. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Bloom, with his wailing daughter cupped in the crook of one arm, started pushing back through the people, the smoke, and the Spanish babble. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The way you smoke,” I said, “no wonder you’re short of breath.” The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Hazel had never thought of it as actual smoke, but as she watched it curling around Arion’s legs, floating through the broken arches of the ruined courtyard, the hairs stood up on her arms. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Although no one thinks I can, I remember a time when smoke filled the house. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Grinning skeletons in Greek armor crowded around me, draping me with silk robes, wreathing my head with laurels that smoked with Chimera poison, burning into my scalp. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

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

Chocolate normally was dull-brown crumbly stuff that tasted, as nearly as one could describe it, like the smoke of a rubbish fire. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

Tree-ear’s joy at being forgiven was like a wisp of smoke; Min’s orders for the day blew it into nothingness. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

Madame Sabbar blowed a long cloud of smoke out of her nose holes. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

In one of the porch’s three rockers, Lewis sat smoking his pipe and nursing a bottle of Pearl. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

But maybe in the darkness the guards heard them as terrifying weapons; maybe the thin columns of smoke seemed to be the first sizzlings of a larger explosion. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

Millard was right—the skies were quiet, the battle had ended, but rolling drifts of bomb smoke still mixed with the clouds. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

And so when the nights were hot, I crept out to the living room, where the window stayed open, letting out the stale smoke. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

A moment later we saw plumes of black smoke rise from the Tang people’s town. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then they would sit all afternoon in her parlor, playing cards and telling indecent jokes, and making the air foul with whisky and smoke. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

It's the safest place to smoke a cigarette in the known universe. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

A flame blooms inside the station— one of the trains must actually be on fire—and a thick, black smoke billows against the windows. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

The smoke filled my mouth, warm and dry, with a taste like burnt maple. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

All night long, they just smoke those mountains. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s a shame you don’t smoke cigars,” Bull said as he walked out the back door. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

The rest of the room blurred, white and hot, until all she could see was Tanin, resting easily behind her desk, her lips meeting and parting, sending words into the air like sweet, toxic smoke. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

Her head spun from the pain and the smoke and the tears she’d refused to let fall during the climb down or when Frankie had insisted she climb through that hole after he did. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

She was on her knees, struggling to shove the mattress into the flames as thick grey smoke eddied around her and filled the room, when the door burst open and she heard her maid gasp. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

“Once, with the cigarettes, remember? You smoke to enjoy it. I smoke to die.’ Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

The crowd backed away and ahhed as the rocket disappeared at the top of a tremendous column of white, boiling smoke. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

He held a stick of wood in one hand and the end of the stick was charred and smoking. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

Now it was not smoke but the red glow of fire they could see. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

The fire smoked heavily and stung his eyes whenever it drifted his way, but at least it helped keep away the swarms of bloodthirsty mosquitoes. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

As Arisue’s plane circled above what appeared to be a smoking, ash-gray desert, the pilot pointed down. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

He smiled and puffed on his pipe, blowing a smoke ring or two to entertain us. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

Where was that persistent smell of smoke coming from? Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

She blew it out, the smoke rose and dispersed, and Father Stylianopoulos broke the candle in two. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

The smoke filled the room, commingling with the warm scent of the river that spilled into the marsh seventy yards from their window. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Northwest of downtown, in the old Scandinavian neighborhood of Ballard, tugboats belching plumes of black smoke nosed long rafts of logs into the locks that would raise them to the level of Lake Washington. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Beatty leaned forward in the faint mist of smoke from his pipe. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z

His body, despite the smoke and his burning eyes and heaving chest, was flexed taut. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

“I looked for the barrel of smoked meat, too. And baskets of dried oysters. Gone.” Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

“Baptists. They had a stronghold in the Blue Hills. They smoked them out.” The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

Down one way, a man was puffing a pipe under a tent, and curls of sweet-smelling smoke rose from the gnarled twigs of his beard. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

The Englishman says, “I’m going to my club to smoke my pipe, sip some sherry, and chat with the blokes.” The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

“I—I—” Choking on the stench of smoke and soiled sawdust, I tried to break away from Frankie. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

She blew the smoke through her nose and, watching it disappear in the air, asked, “This is crude, isn’t it?” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Mr. Grote has become even more distant, up at the crack of dawn to go hunting, then skinning and smoking the meat at night. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

The smoke was thickest there, rising not from shimmering flames but two small black canisters—the kind PSFs kept hooked on their belts, waiting to be thrown into a crowd of unruly kids. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

“I was hoping there would be some kind of smoking gun. But it didn’t exist.” A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

His wife sat on a matching sofa chair next to him and smoked a cigarette. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

In its furnaces the power plant burned coal, and out of its chimneys black smoke poured day and night, blanketing the town with soot and making all the floors dirtier than ever. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

One of the gunners makes unimaginative comments about the smoke, a dead horse he can see at the base of the walls, the intensity of certain quadrants of fire. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

There were three tall columns of black smoke rising from the south. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

From time to time, they could even smell the smoke, though the wind held steady and the flames never got any closer. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

I did know that I wasn't going to get anything done by smoking hash and sitting in the lobby of the Chelsea, no matter how cool it was to do so. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

He helped me throw all of our drinking water, as well as all of our sodas, on the sleeping bag, which-sizzled and smoked. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

Then you get your meds and then there’s a smoking break, and then maybe you have fifteen minutes to yourself before there’s some kind of activity. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

Burr then delayed his shot for “four or five seconds,” waiting for the smoke to clear from around Hamilton and also waiting for Pendleton to begin the count—“One, two, three, fire.” Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

The sun was up, walking among clouds and long flags of smoke, but even the sunlight was defiled. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

The smoke burns my lungs a little less. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

Gunpowder smoke drifted across the crowd as soldiers started running every which a’way, carrying on about “orders this” and “orders that.” Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

The gathering was coming to a close, and Neda was putting my brother to bed upstairs, away from the ruckus, when she noticed that my sister's bedroom smelled like smoke. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

The air was thick with smoke and “Walkin’ after Midnight” was playing on the jukebox. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

The hospital ward had dissipated like smoke into that desolate stretch of earth, surrounded by shadowed structures. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

He was blowing little puffs of smoke from the thin cigarette he had rolled; he looked very satisfied too, as if he were satisfied with everything that morning, even that his cattle had wandered away. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

“We’re going to do the sound for P again. This time so we can hear ourselves. Remember P. For P, blow through your lips, like a puff of smoke.” Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Inside was a narrow hallway and a cramped office, where an old man with his back to them was smoking a cigarette. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

People running between homes in little groups; a few fires in yards and smoke coming from half-crumbled chimneys; carcasses of dead animals that had been stripped of meat. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

Fat flies rise from stinking holes where dead bodies rot beneath smoking ruins. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

He took a quick pull on the smoke. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

“It’s the smoke. I’m fine,” I said feebly as the world went black and I pitched over backward. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

The heat is horrible, but worse than the heat is the smoke, which threatens to suffocate me at any moment. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

“Through the smoke, Leo managed to find his grandfather, who was choking Leo grabbed his hand and pulled him forwards, but just then, there was a terrible sound and something broke above him and...” The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

The chimneys were contributing their thickness to the clammy air, and the pleasant reek of smoked herring and mackerel and haddock seemed to breathe out of the very cobbles. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

The gold on his body was definitely smoking now, attracted to the catapult’s payload like iron to a giant magnet. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Stella could still smell smoke in the distance. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Few lights burned; but from a half-dozen chimneys slow, almost phosphorescent pinon smoke emerged, dissipating in a flat way over the town, seeping into bushy cottonwood foliage. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Heat and smoke, flames so bright they nearly blinded him, and a lone figure treading into the fire, pulling smoldering books from the shelves. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

The smoke of the cooking fires hung in the evening air, and the setting sun spread its own kind of hazy gold over everything. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

Mr. Morrison leaned on his elbows and smoked, gazing at the fields and woods as if they were his own personal estate. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

Did America shift under my feet, or did it stand still while I stomped along my road toward whatever I’m chasing, following a column of smoke through my own Exodus? The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

He anxiously awaits their return, praying they will be overflowing with grains and smoked meats and leading calves and pigs to be slaughtered. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

Firemen doused the area with water, and amid the steaming smoke everyone began clawing the rubble away. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Now the smoke was simply pouring out, not only out of the paper but out of the kindlings, too. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

He was smoking with two other soldiers on the steps. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

She drank and smoked pot occasionally, but she was also an A student and widely known as the most responsible girl in the squad. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

He was standing next to the wall, smoking himself to death and looking bored as hell. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

Pudgy grim smoking men played this horse-racing game where you bet real money on plastic horses that move round a track. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

The smoke from chimneys keeping people warm and happy. Missing May 1992-03-01T00:00:00Z

He drew in a breath and blew a plume of smoke over our heads. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

But the sausage balls, or the salt pork, or the smoked hams and the venison, Ma could get for herself from the shed or the attic. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

The view was lovely—the rolling swell of the Cohutta Mountains, brushed with a bluish haze the color of cigarette smoke, running away to a far-off horizon. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

Even you can become the object of desire; out here you have a faint resemblance to home; your rooms, full of the smell of stale food, sleep, smoke, and clothes. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

The sofa cricked in criticism, and Tom looked at it and at the smoking lamp to which the sofa referred. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Did the smoke from the furnace show from the wharf? Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

“She smokes just like an old woman when life gets hard.” Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

A red glow was creeping up the church tower, and gray smoke formed a dense cloud above the rooftops. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

But Gwenforte bolted forward, past the palace guards, and into the smoke and the flames. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

The scent on the evening breeze was a fragrant compound of roasting rice, wild-duck stew and wood smoke. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

The room smelled of smoke and blood and death. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Eight days ago, Jeanne lay in her bed of straw, staring through the smoke hole in her thatched roof. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

Off to one side rose a feeble column of smoke—a thin, wavering distortion. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

I’ve smoked weed a total of five times now, and every single time, I start worrying about the stupidest things. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

“I won’t have them ruined by this smoke,” she told me as I lugged the boxes out to the car. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

He held it in for a moment, then blew the smoke toward the ceiling. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

“Well, maybe you got the smoke, buddy, but I’ve got the fire.” The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

“He was burning. Constantly. Sometimes just smoke and sparks, sometimes engulfed in flames. The way you are now.” The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

There was a potbellied stove there, and a pipe leading from it to the wall to let out the smoke. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

That night the two of them drifted like smoke through the twin towns of Beaumont and Banning, and the rising of the sun found them in the Mojave Desert. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

In the meantime I could let loose clouds of smoke and die by suffocation. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

The smoke from the hearth escaped through the roof, and the only opening was a low doorway one had to stoop to walk through. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I looked out through the hole where my now-shattered bedroom window had been, and I saw smoke coming from the house across the street. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Listeners wondered how they could possibly remain calm when lethal black smoke was drifting over the landscape and the enemy was moving toward New York City. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

An explosion of light and smoke, and the quicksilver of the bullet splitting the distance between them. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

The last thing I see that day is Thomas and Tony O’Reilly sitting on the steps of the church, smoking together. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

He felt ill as he watched them bum, and not only from the smoke. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

But the guards on the stage—the ones closest to the smoke bombs—just stumbled about, barely even managing to hold on to the Gustano kids. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

While she smoked, she murmured my poem “Rocks” from May's magazine. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

Can’t see a thing for the smoke, not even the Just Us bus. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

As his body was lowered, the rebels on the quays who smoked and watched applauded. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

Mundungus stank of stale sweat and tobacco smoke: His hair was matted and his robes stained. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

What was left of her, ice, snowflake, smoke, blew away in the wind. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had smoked so many through the bone that he could just light a match before the empty bone, draw the heat through, and get what he called a “contact” high. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

"I was talking about smoke! Don't you want to be rescued? All you can talk about is pig, pig, pig!" Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

The bombers pass through the clouds of black smoke. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

All around us there was the smell of smoke and filth and deep greenery, and the evening was humid and very hot. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

The pops get closer, and the smoke thickens. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

The house was dark, but smoke coughed from one of the center chimneys, grayer than the gray sky. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

The first was from early on—a jokey pose to answer his—of her peeling potatoes and pretending to smoke one of Miss Peregrine’s pipes. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

The smoke could be from a fire the First Arrivers started before the toxin was dropped. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

He drew Riptide, but the blade was made of smoke. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Mr. Justice Wargrave looked thoughtfully out of the smoking room window. And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z

On one side was the stream and wavering smoke from her village; everywhere else was a sea of low, gray-green trees. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

This means, for example, that a woman who knew that her husband occasionally smoked pot could have her car forfeited to the government because she allowed him to use her car. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

It made little or no smoke but gave off an aromatic scent. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

I happen to be able to dribble past some of his friends with no problem, especially the ones who smoke. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

The two things I remember most about Bestepapa were that he wore black boots and that he smoked an extraordinary pipe. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

Lourdes lights a cigar, and rolls the dry, tart smoke on her tongue. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

No smoke had risen from the chimney since that fateful Halloween; still they stared up at the Westing house, murder on their minds. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

A rack of antlers adorned the apex of the roof, and smoke rose from the chimney like a signal tower. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

“Yesterday, I could’ve smoked pot, but didn’t,” I say, looking up, curled over my plate. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

They stay close to the door and go out in groups to smoke. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

The reek of wood smoke and human waste and bad food thickens the air. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

The two cars missed each other by an inch, and the Jaguar wedged itself between the school bus and the principal's 1970s Cadillac, tires smoking. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

Only Maniac and the man from the funeral home and the six pallbearers and two men off to the side, smoking cigarettes and leaning on a little hole-digging tractor that made Maniac think of something. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

First a house with no damage, next a house still bearing black streaks of soot and smoke, then a field of ruin, with makeshift hovels crafted from tent, brick, and scorched timbers. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

Pax slept fitfully through the afternoon, plagued by dreams in which his boy was tangled in smoking wires. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

Within a minute of the zeppelin’s hitting the ground it was a mass of twisted metal, a pall of smoke, and a few scraps of fluttering fire. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

It was a short way through the night to Lee’s headquarters, and they rode past low sputtering campfires with the spy puffing exuberant blue smoke like a happy furnace. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

No matter what Joey said, I wasn’t ever going to be able to stop thinking of Megan Renshaw as smoking hot, and in some ways she was more accessible to me than Annie. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

It was good, despite the odor of rot that smoked up from it. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

The whole place carries the smell of unwashed bodies and tobacco smoke with a faint air of decay. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

In all likelihood, she continued to run in whichever direction seemed the most fire and smoke free. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z

James goes out for a smoke and I take a quick bathroom break before closing duties. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

She used her other senses—listening for the echo of open spaces, feeling for cross-breezes against her face, sniffing for any scent of danger—smoke, or poison, or the stench of demons. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

He sat back a trifle in his chair and smoked without any sense of taste. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

The ground smoked around their feet, but the horses seemed tame enough. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

The smoke in the hall was thicker than it had been moments before. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Mad she may be,” Ser Kevan said, “but with so much smoke drifting west, surely there must be some fire burning in the east.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

I lit a fire, ate smoked fish and dried apples, and went out again. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

Nearly ready to open up his mouth to the clean air on the other side of the smoke, Byrd does another wrong thing. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

One day I was in the hallway smoking a cigarette just before the siesta when a dark little boy appeared in front of me and stood there silently. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

She needed to stop smoking, take her medications, walk for exercise, come back in a month. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

I lift it up, and underneath is a bolt of beautiful fog-gray cloth that ripples like smoke. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Someone screamed, and through the smoke, Frankie saw a shadow crumple to the ground. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

I know that was a lie, but then she said that if Mrs. Zamborska didn’t want her to smoke in the house, she wouldn’t do it again. Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Black smoke poured from its funnels, and the lights flickered. I Survived the Sinking of the Titanic, 1912 2010-06-01T00:00:00Z

"My lords, there's smoke in the city. Flea Bottom's afire." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

The smell of the powder and smoke bit in the air; the battle lay across my tongue already; I could taste its iron, and I wished to chew. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

Could the smoke really make it out of Tartarus? The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

In bars, on street comers, in passing cars, on buses, at the beach—people grew it in their home gardens and smoked it like cigarettes. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

As we pull up alongside the house, I can see smoke billowing out of the chimney. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

Same size; same flames licking up the sides; same smoke billowing out. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then, at the end of her patience, she yelled into the phone, “What more do you need to know? It’s the place with the smoke pouring out of it. Get somebody out here!” Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

As the rabbits stared down they could discern, here and there, a very fine scour, like smoke—chalk and powdered gravel carried along by the river as dust is blown on the wind. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

The heavily perfumed smoke in the room was making him feel sleepy and stupid. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

He imagines billows of smoke as the brave German infantry attack with all their might. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

"She said not to look at her when she comes in. She just arose from the sack. Have a cigarette. Are you smoking now?" The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

He smacks his gloved hands together, and the dogs swirl around him, their breath smoking. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Everything else was just so much smoke and lies. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

Beyond, villages appeared, with dwellings of all kinds; curving stitches of smoke from fires were threaded with dull purplish grays. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Boast, strut, and smoke, that was all they did. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

The Negro seemed quite resigned and blew out a new cloud of blue smoke that enveloped him and the old man and the little cards. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

All the time there was a little smell of smoke in the yard, and when the door was opened a thick, smoky, meaty smell came out. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

They leaned their backs against the redbrick wall of a building, smoking, their cigarettes slanting white across their black chins. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

Back there, a few kids were eating the last of the ice cream sandwiches, while a bunch of the men had lit cigars, and their long smoke whispered up into the golden trees. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

The man came up, smoking a short bamboo pipe, and it was the father of the family in the hut next but two to Wang Lung’s hut. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

Man, why does everywhere smell like smoke around here? Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z

The two operators had finished work and were smoking together. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

For two days after the shootings, smoke blacks the sky. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

Marshall came first, carrying the smoking incense burner. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

Middle-aged Lazy Larry is pacing around, avoiding work, and then goes out for a smoke. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

She had quit in the hospital, then returned home to a husband and a neighbor who both smoked. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

The walls near the window and the threadbare curtains had turned black-gray from the kerosene smoke. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

When she got it lit at last, she took a long pull and sucked in the smoke. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z

Angel, coughing and dizzy, struggled to sit up as the smoke began to come in through the open door. Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’ve never tasted fire, but the smoke from it makes my mouth feel thick. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

I opened my mouth a wee bit, and a tiny stream of smoke curled out into the air, and when I saw that, for some reason I was reminded of my mother. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

Officers around us were smoking, though nobody was supposed to. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I heard that too—there are even some phone videos that people uploaded. Very blurry from all the smoke. Can’t see much of anything.” Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

“Yes, ma’am,” Maya said, her voice rough, and she held the smoke before passing her joint to Grace. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

There are no columns of smoke, no dark clouds staining the blue, but already we see blackened, broken buildings. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

Behind him billowed the coal smoke from the forge. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

If only she could escape with the smoke! The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

McConners flung the door down and then Anderson’s clothes began to smoke. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z

As he spoke, puffs of cloudy steam left his mouth, like smoke, in the cold air. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

I cleaned up my front yard, scattered needles over the bare spots, and started a small fire with very dry wood that would not smoke much. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

She stared obsessively at the frail column of white smoke that was issuing from the volcano, and peered at the changes in the color of the sky. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Not much could be seen on the other side of the channel; bursts of flame that illuminated only smoke. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

He saw: a red flag, down in die smoke and dark. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The candles burning in the temple had scents as well; even the unscented ones gave off faint wisps of smoke from their wicks. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

If I looked at the sun through a piece of smoked glass on Easter Sunday morning, I would see the sun shouting in praise of a Risen Lord. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

The smoke thickens around her as she climbs out of the wreckage of her apartment. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

At night we slept in a loft beneath the eaves, where on cold nights the smoke from the kitchen fires rose and hovered beneath the rafters, warming us. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

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

I smelled smoke, retreated farther up the hill and looked back. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

His breath smelled faintly of smoke and cloves and liquor. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

He reached and got the bottle and tilted it and lit the wick and blew out the flame in the dish and handed the smoking bottle to the boy. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

This must be where the counselors come to smoke so we won’t see them. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

She wanted to pretend that the room was full of smoke. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

The room was crowded with tables and chairs and as many people as church on Easter Sunday, except church was never cloudy with tobacco smoke nor the smell of roast beef. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

We were untied and treated to some cassava and smoked fish. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

Israel Thomas saw the flames from his home a mile away, and Ed Turner had been awakened by the smell of smoke only minutes before he heard the ringing of the dinner bell. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

At night, instead of sitting and reading and smoking his pipe in the living room, as he had done before, Mr. Popper would put on his overcoat and take his things downstairs. Mr. Popper's Penguins 1938-09-01T00:00:00Z

The great billows of smoke veiled their audacity. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

Further along the beach, beyond the little river and near a great slab of rock, a thin trickle of smoke was climbing into the sky. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

No smoke yet showed above the rooftops, so, reassured, all the faces turned back to Capricorn, who was saying something about deceit and falsehood, discipline and negligence, but Elinor only half heard him. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

One hundred twenty-three dollars in legal tender was promptly reduced to ash and smoke. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

The silence that fills the car is like smoke. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z

The bridge had been bombed after all, so we watched them come in line after line over the railroad bridge, the smoke of the burning synagogue still rising black behind them. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

The conversation ended when both began to smoke, but Lupita stored what they had said in her memory. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

His hair smelled of blood and smoke and horse, and his mouth was hard and hot on hers. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

I don’t remember what he smelled like, but probably cologne to cover the smoking smell. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

“Well, I mean, Brady and Patrick were out in the parking lot of the Coachlight Inn smoking pot with him night before last.” The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

He lives in the same apartment complex as us, but his mom smokes. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

She smelled the invaders’ deadly black smoke, and it made her cough. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

My dad was outside smoking a cigarette when Maribel and I pulled into the parking lot of the building. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

The wood smoke still smoldering from the barn fire made Anya’s eyes water, and her stomach clenched. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

The other teams didn't stand a chance; our boys smoked everyone. Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z

To this day, I have always marveled at how Rudy, somehow, got the word, and I know he must have caught the first thing smoking out of Boston, and he got away. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s nice and warm there with a fire blazing in the grate, Mam sitting in the bed, and Dad reading The Irish Press and smoking a cigarette by the fire. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

A number of curious silver instruments stood on spindle- legged tables, whirring and emitting little puffs of smoke. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

The stars above twinkled through the rising smoke, and Koffi used them as her guide. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

Incense smoke curled over her head and disappeared. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

He asks us if we want to smoke or if he could make us a drink, which is nice of him because he probably has no idea who I am. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Great blue clouds of smoke billowed from the exhaust. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

There was a fire burning in the center of the hall, and the smoke stung Shadow’s eyes. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

He sulked and smoked on the balcony while I made rice with chicken neck stew. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

They sit by the fire smoking and talking about names. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

“I smelled smoke,” and then he saw what Cal was doing. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

The incessant rain made the fire sputter and send up whiffs of smoke with a sweet burnt smell. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

There is only white smoke visible inside the box, and it continues to ripple and undulate against the glass. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

As a teen, he smoked pot in the lush volcanic foothills of Oahu. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

He smoked a cigar and watched the patterns the sunlight made on the wall. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

He leaned forward, puffing out breath soured with stale tobacco smoke and whiskey. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

They were fading, that was the answer; fading and drifting away like atoms of smoke, for all that they tried to cling to their men. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

Yes….But he hadn’t said anything about a haunch of smoked goat that had been found on the floor, with several large bites taken out of it. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

“Maybe it was a dream—but it wasn’t—or maybe I inhaled some of the fat kid’s synthetic toad-skin smoke, or probably I’m just going mad...” American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

The little dog was sitting on the table looking with blind eyes through the smoke and from time to time groaning faintly. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

A trail of gray smoke snaked up to the sky, merging with the clouds. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Lane looked at her, then exhaled a thin, overly expressive stream of smoke down at his plate. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z

Perhaps they were just street people who had wandered in to flop down in the beat-up chairs and smoke pot or shoot up in the elevator. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

I take one last look back at my old home, the flat tin roof flashing in the afternoon sunlight, the column of smoke fading and drifting away. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

At ten that night I go to the break room for my final break, too footsore to walk out to the smoking area, and sit down with my feet up on the bench. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Talks and smokes cigarettes a lot,” Agent Burger noted in a report. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Something creaked: it was a door ajar; and that door was Mr. Rochester’s, and the smoke rushed in a cloud from thence. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

The smoke stung Meggie’s eyes, and the flickering firelight danced on the red walls and columns as if the whole church were ablaze. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

We stare at the towering column of black smoke twisting upward from the city’s newest bomb site. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

No one else moved liked that, as if the world were smoke and she was just passing through it. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

He needed a high spot, above the smoke and stir of the fire mines and the smithies. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

The top half foot was filled with a mix of two-thirds sulfur and one-third zinc, tests demonstrating that it produced a slow-burning oily smoke. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

Oh, and while you're here, there's another guy in the backyard smoking hash. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

“My mommy would just die if she knew I was smoking El Producto Cigars,” Ben said. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Old men blew colored smoke through long painted flutes, etching the air with soundless music. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Teenagers often sneaked onto the farm to drink beer and smoke and kiss each other. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

“We may need to wait a little bit,” he says, frantically trying to clear the smoke. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

The smoke curled in black boas around the women in their scholars’ black gowns. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Soon she'd be on the phone with Lydia and smoking out the window. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

Paul told them what had happened: how he smelled smoke and heard the alarm clock ringing. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

He is particularly mute when he and Moushumi get together for dinners with groups of her French friends, drinking Pernods and feasting on couscous or choucroute, smoking and arguing around paper-covered tables. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Otis paused to pull his poker from the flames and thrust it smoking through the center of the sumac spill he held. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

All her hard work, what she’d given her life for, was turning to smoke. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

After the battle, before the smoke had died from Hardred's funeral pyre, the Geats sent again to Beowulf, asking him if he would be king. Beowulf: A New Telling 1968-01-01T00:00:00Z

One of the most impressive was the Federal 515 Triple Chaser grenade, which exploded into three parts upon landing, each piece spewing smoke. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The barrel-vaulted ceiling was stained black with soot, the floor was hard-packed earth, the air smelled of smoke and spoiled meat and stale vomit. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Finally he waved it back and forth in the smoke from the incense burner, chanting, “Hear us, O Thoth, ancient and wise. Hear us and answer.” The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

The moaning of the wind and the cries of the animals outside mixed into the thin smoke of incense and the fragrance of piñón wood burning in the stove. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Behind him stood his house, great and rambling and very new, and in the kitchen his wife, a beautiful woman, made breakfast, and the smoke rose out of the chimney, melting into the morning air. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

But it was noon before we smelled the smoke. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

“Fritz seems to have made a good big fire. Look at the smoke coming from the chimney.” Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

A man got out and stood near me, smoking a cigarette. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

On the throne now sat Notus—a bronze-skinned old man in a fiery Greek chiton, his head crowned with a wreath of withered, smoking barley. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

He drinks too much coffee, smokes too much tobacco, sleeps too little. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

"We could experiment. We could find out how to make a small hot fire and then put green branches on to make smoke. Some of them leaves must be better for that than the others." Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

Both men lit up and puffed smoke into the fragrant murk above New York Harbor. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

She sits at the table, eats a bit of bread and cheese, smokes her Wild Woodbine. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

The effects of smoking on the body are becoming well known, but the effects of space flight were largely unknown in 1965. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

The sleet on one’s lips tastes of smoke and sulphur. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

Either Kubat was engaging in wishful thinking or the statement was just a public relations smoke screen to give the match more credibility. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

We started to run with the sand at our backs and just a trace of smoke in the air. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

I get a smoked ham hock from the butcher. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

She bowed to the aviator and disappeared into smoke. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

We all step outside to find Sergio fanning the hood of the truck, which has smoke curling out. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

She stepped back into the street and saw smoke rising from the schoolhouse. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

He explained to me, in a bloody irritating whisper, that he personally had no objection to smoking, but that, alas, the school’s policy was against smoking in the instructors’ room. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

It didn’t make any sense, but my brain was saying, “There goes your mother,” and I watched the trail of smoke disappear into the air. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

Thick black smoke climbed furiously into the cloudless blue sky, hot and windless. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

For two hours, I smoke cigarettes and read Life magazine. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

I stopped as we reached an isolated alcove at the far side of the building, well away from the crowd that had gathered to watch the smoke rising. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

Several horses were running away from the billowing smoke and yellow-orange flames. In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z

She put her cigarette out, half smoked, in a little scrolled ashtray on the lamp table beside her. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

It had a cold, smoked smell that chilled my lungs. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ngoma placed one hand behind his neck and blew smoke rings at the ceiling, “It was a little off.” I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

Yellow smoke curled above the dragon’s long head, from the nostrils that were two round pits of fire. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

“It would be nice to find that out without smoke signals,” Mom growled. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

That she was lewd, tonguing her teeth at them, upside down and dying, that she vomited a serpent that turned to smoke when it hit the ground. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Chuck Day smoked Lucky Strikes and cracked jokes. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Sometimes she held a joint to my lips so that I could smoke while I grabbed the rim of the pool. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Luckily the day was windless, and the smoke rose straight as an arrow into the clear blue sky. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

There was smoke curling off his black clothes. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

Russell and Piper, kiddie Cobras, pop their own beer cans, guzzle, swagger, belch, smoke, curse. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Chamberlain could begin to see out across the valley: mass of milky smoke below, yellow flashes. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then, to avoid blowing smoke on Daddy’s clean shirt, she’d draw her lips to the side to exhale. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

The air was somewhat clearer in the alley, though the choking smell of smoke and wind-driven dust must have been ever present. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z

My grandmother picked up her cigar and took another puff, inhaling the foul smoke deeply into her lungs. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z

And then somehow, the Colonel talked me into paying five dollars for a pack of Marlboro Lights I had no intention of ever smoking. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

After I don’t know how long, a wisp of smoke broke my line of vision. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

While outside the cool night air is scented with caramel and smoke, this tent is warm and smells of incense and roses and beeswax. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

The train is unremarkable as it chugs across the countryside, puffing clouds of grey smoke into the air. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

They lingered by the road after their lunchtime meal, the white men smoking pipes by the horses and reminiscing an escapade. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

Dad got up and went to the garage, for a smoke, most like. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

"Oh yes. Without the fire we can't be rescued. So we must stay by the fire and make smoke." Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

The lamp was smoking; the black smoke going close up inside the chimney. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

He stuffed the Playboy in his back pocket, dropped the joint he had been smoking, carefully killed it with his sneaker, picked it up, and put the roach in his wallet. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

There was the Sidewinder, where she politely funneled smoke away from the person she was talking to out the corner of her mouth. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Because for a second, just one, all I could think about was the sight of fire and smoke rising from the sharp lines of her shoulders, and the door she couldn’t open. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

And there came a second crack, loud and sharp as thunder, and the smoke stirred and whirled around her and the pyre shifted, the logs exploding as the fire touched their secret hearts. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

They were made of small hard things—aunts and uncles, smoke breaks after sex, girls on stoops drinking from mason jars. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

“Great. I should have installed a smoke screen that makes the ship smell like a giant chicken nugget. Remind me to invent that, next time.” The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Under the stairway lights, you could see the dark smoke billowing, moving by in clouds. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

A fire burned constantly in the center, the smoke venting through a hole in the center of the roof. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

A rolling billow of smoke surged toward her, choking and blinding her until it passed. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

He felt no regret as the image of the smoking furnace and the white pieces of bone came back to him. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

Connie Peery was home from college, and she snared me for a quick dance while her boyfriend was sneaking a smoke in the parking lot across the river. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

“He just stands around smoking and yelling at us.” Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

The hall fills with a river of bodies and voices whispering that Cassie was murdered/no, she hung herself/no, she smoked or snorted her way to the Final Exit. Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z

Coughing at the smoke that was getting thicker and warmer with every passing second, Frankie pulled on the metal bar, urging the door to break free. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

She still does, thought Davos, but he could smell the peat smoke drifting off Seal Rock too. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

When the sun went down, I put my smoking pamphlet on the page where I stopped reading and started driving home. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

Mist and the smoke of guns lie breast-high over the fields. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

For a long time he lay on his back smoking, staring into the blackness of the cavernous roof. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Men smoked at the edges of the clearing, waiting to see how big the strike might be. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

A haze of greenish smoke was hovering over the scene. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

In the courtyard, my mother climbs to her feet, peering through the dust and smoke at the dais. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

My opening paragraph rah some three pages, and very nearly smoked. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

It was just a woman—a woman smoking a pipe. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

The black smoke was pouring from a huge bonfire of trees. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

He gazed at him for another instant and then sniffed the southeast wind before he crossed the stream and disappeared into the trees, his outline lingering like yellow smoke, then suddenly gone. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

Booth hears the crackle of burning straw and smells the sweet smoke of burning cedar. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

All there was was smoke, dissolving into the lightening sky. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

He’d often smelled of the same sort of tobacco, aromatic, a little strong, but, unlike cigarette smoke, pleasant. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

Beneath the smoke was a dot that might be a funnel. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

I didn't know what to do next so I went out back and smoked a joint, then returned and ordered another drink. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

Flames, like yellow demons, streaked through the thick smoke that poured from the fire. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

The games went good because there’s always some smoking brothers playing at the Y. At the Y if you can’t get down you got to watch. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

Blue smoke settled over the stricken Plymouth, and he was gone. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

It flowed like smoke, but looked solid, like the strands of a silkworm web. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

And Mrs. Bessermann and Cesia baked, which made Max angry, because what were we supposed to tell Mrs. Krajewska or the foul SS man, Ernst, when they saw the smoke coming from the chimney? The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

An explosion detonated and death crept closer, curling around me in fingers of smoke. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

He lit the joint, inhaled, then held the smoke in his lungs. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

His family’s finances have been stressed in recent years, and both his parents quit smoking in order to save money. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

Here, there is more smoke, more alcohol, and the conga drum voices blend with the heavy bass music. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

She tried to recall Eroeh’s face, but the dead girl’s features kept turning into smoke. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

A haze of cigarette smoke drifted through the room. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

The can of tear gas smokes in my hand. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

After resting he drank a glass of iced coffee and smoked a cigarette. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

The man of fire and smoke stalked forward. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

But as it turned out, everyone who had eaten the smoked salmon in the first-class airport lounge during our layover in Poland—like I had—was now suffering these unfortunate consequences. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

The aircraft’s final pass pulled all the litter of their lunch out into the field, brown crusts and brown paper fluttering in the blue smoke like the devil’s confetti. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

The kitchen smelled like cumin and smoke, browned onions and fish. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

I got out of bed realizing there was only smoke and bright light where my bedroom window once was. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

Marie’s in the office finishing the part-time drivers’ cashout receipts, smoking a long menthol cigarette, and listening to a hard rock radio station. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

She smelled like smoke, if you got close. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

The smoke was making me sick to my stomach, but I couldn’t leave until I got an answer. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

He went without a shirt but something about the wood smoke smell on him kept die insects from bothering him as he walked to the berry patch. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then Light Hair realized it was smoke, blowing in the breeze. In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z

She’s about forty and wears deodorant that smells like sweet smoke and makeup the color of roses. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

Columns of greasy black smoke rose up to stain a merciless blue sky. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Thick white smoke from the bleaching palm oil filled the kitchen, and in the stuffy mix of the fumes and heat and flies, I felt faint. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

But he was chilled, and the fire felt good even though it smoked and made his eyes smart. The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z

I watched the German soldier breathe out a long cloud of smoke. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

The flames grew and soon his mother smelled the smoke and rushed in. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

Then the cousin laughed coarsely and he said to Lotus, who sat there smoking her water pipe, “These town women are too finicking, are they not, Old Mistress?” The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

The flames flickered, pushed sideways by his breath, then went out, leaving two trails of smoke drifting slowly into the air. Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z

He vanished from sight, although there was a stir in the Dust he left behind, like smoke when a hand is passed through it. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

What little remains is no more than the wisp of smoke that lingers in the air after a great fire has burned out, and even that is fading. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Through the forest, lining the mountain range, I see layers of color: orange, yellow, red, topped by gray smoke. Paradise on Fire 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

Tally retraced her path to the top of the hill and peered down through the smoke. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

He lit a cigarette and blew out smoke leisurely. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Shorty had been smoking marijuana ever since his adolescence, and he had his own private pot plot by the river north of the Dancing Trout. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ruby Archuleta chuckled, lit a cigarette and dragged deeply, let the smoke out pensively. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

He sat across the table, smoking cigarette after cigarette with his dark blue eyes fastened on mine. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

My father answered their questions in detail, and they listened intently—this group of men with nets, blowing their smoke into the wind. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

I would drag myself into a tree and take cover now if I could, but the smoke is still thick enough to kill me. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

I drove, and he smoked his pipe and told stories. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

The smoke was foul; it had a sickening, fetid smell. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Wisps of dark smoke rose from his fingers as he pointed at the maester. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The apartment had no smoke alarm, so Jordan never even noticed the smoke or the smell. Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The curls of smoke from her cigarette slide between the raindrops as they wind around her head and up into the damp air. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

A sidelong look will be enough to tell him to smoke on the back porch. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

A haze of cigarette smoke drifted through the room. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

This “excellent” so-called “very professional” letter said nothing at all about Vivian’s smoking. Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Going up the stairs I heard a voice from the Butt Room say, “Funny, he came all the way down here and didn’t even have a smoke.” A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

His mother returns to the stove, where she is deep-frying a batch of samosas, filling the air with a haze of smoke. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

So, I climbed in Patrick’s car, which was filled with cigarette smoke. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

I also found on Google the next day that Popocatepetl is really a volcano, and the name is literally Nahuatl for “smoking mountain.” The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

To the south, a pall of smoke mutes the shine of the river. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

Of course when the clay dried, it pulled away from the tree, and all the smoke poured back in on me. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mr. Moss was planted in his recliner, smoking and staring at the television screen. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

The Thunderhead monitors heat on every inch of the planet, and the fighting of fires often begins before one can even smell smoke. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

She was concerned about the reports of black smoke and gas near places she recognized. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

My dad went out on the balcony to smoke a cigarette, which he did whenever he was really upset. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

The two worked side by side, with Tad wetting the paper towels and Rashid shoving them under the door until the smoke coming in was less noticeable. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

He sits back, studying his cards and letting smoke waft from the corners of his mouth. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

Nothing has been the same since my parents started smoking crack. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

Maybe then he’d hire somebody to keep it clean, or an armed guard to stop people from plugging up the toilet, smoking, or writing on the walls. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

Two drivers stand at their trucks, staring at the screaming crowds, at the bedlam and the white smoke. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

It roared up the street like a tsunami, a boiling swirl of dust and smoke blown out by the falling building. Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z

However, it might have to be sent to someplace like Milwaukee or Chicago or some other city whose name Ignatius associated with efficient repair shops and permanently smoking factories. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Have you heard, Joe,” I asked him that evening, upon further consideration, as he smoked his pipe at the window, “who my patron was?” Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z

When I was a kid, my parents smoked. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

But he wasn’t there last Monday, in the parking lot, when Jenny and the Detentionheads, all dressed in black, gathered around her car and smoked. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

I looked into the church and saw smoke and dust flying around like a tornado was in there. The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Doreen lit a new cigarette, blowing a long string of smoke from her mouth. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

The smoke rose in dense fumes and arranged itself in complex patterns against the sky. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

What else but this fever could commute my father’s ghost crying, “Jezebel!” into a curl of blue smoke drifting out through a small, bright hole in the thatch? The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

The rebel with the semiautomatic machine gun, who had been standing against a tree smoking a cigarette, furiously walked toward the old man and pointed his gun between the old man’s legs. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

The volcano sent forth a column of fire and smoke, swallowed power un-swallowed at last. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

All seemed to be smoking, and their arms and legs curved in the breeze. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

They reeked of smoke, grease, and stagnant alley water. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

After dinner they drank vodka and smoked, the volume of their voices rising steadily. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

I opened my eyes and they stung with smoke. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

It was because you wadded up your underdrawers to stop up the flue on the stove and smoke out the schoolhouse. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

Through his coat, through the thick smoke of wintry air, I can see TJ’s heart pounding out of his chest. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

Guests with drinks in hand were chatting in the hallways, smoking on the stairs, leaning against doorways. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

The room was stale from smoke; a few beer cans were scattered around. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The air was hot and damp, but there was no smell of smoke. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“She is like all those foreign women. She feels she can be alone. And she smokes too.” Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

By that time it wanted but ten minutes of one o’clock, and we began to look out for her smoke. Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z

“We can at least get away from the smoke.” The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

He watched in silence as the guy drove off in a cloud of blue smoke. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

His voice ceased and I saw the strands of pale blue smoke drifting across the mirror and heard the electric lighter snap back on its cable into place behind the back of the seat. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

In this confectioner’s we used to eat ices, and there we learned to smoke cigarettes. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

The sweetness mixes with the smell of smoke. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Despair hung in the air like the smoke from the Map Room, thick and acrid. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

She could smell Mrs. Coulter’s scent again, and the roses, and the cigarillo smoke, and the scent of other women. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

He smelled of fire smoke, salt breezes, and man. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

With the fire going and sending up black smoke and a steady roar from a pitch-smelling chunk he put on, he turned once more to the pack. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

There is a splash and a hiss, and she smells smoke and steam. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

One of them was smoking a long pipe. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

After I had gathered enough roots and bulbs and smoked enough fish to last Alice and me for a couple of months, I began it. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

When we reached the waterfront, I saw the old dockmaster coming along toward us, the smoke from his pipe trailing behind him like a dirty veil, and I hurried ahead to meet him. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

There was a cluster of men, all smoking pipes, gathered around an exhibit in a glass case that gleamed in the dim light and lit their faces ghoulishly from below. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

When i kiss him goodnight, as if I mean it, his breath smells of alcohol, and I breathe it in like smoke. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

He saw smoke and could smell the pigs that had been roasting on a spit most of the day. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

The next thing I know, she’s blowing smoke in my face again. The Skin I'm In 1998-10-16T00:00:00Z

This is where the Burnham students go after school to smoke and to drink glasses of Coca-Cola with maraschino cherries in them. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Here and there, he could see streaks of light snaking through a haze of smoke. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

He smelled wood smoke and sage in the old man’s clothes. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

There were packets of split, dried fish, a makuk of special powdered fish, moose meat, a little manomin traded for with deer meat, smoked fish, and a bag of dried pumpkin flowers to thicken soups. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

She found her son surrounded by his father's lords ban- nermen, in a drafty hall with a peat fire smoking in a black hearth. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Once more before it disappeared a white puff of smoke rose from the deck. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

Bang, bang, bang, as if each floor was falling onto the other, and when it finally ended, there was nothing but smoke. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z

The air was full of drifting smoke from the cookfires drowning in the rain. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Around her in the smoke, the trackers laughed and told ribald stories that would have made a lesser woman flush with embarrassment. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

He neither smokes nor drinks alcohol of any kind. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

I’m looking out of the window again, but I can feel his eyes on me and I have the oddest urge to turn towards him, to smell the smoke on his clothes and his breath. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

She sat them down in front of a black-and-white television set, gave each a chocolate bar, and they spent the entire day watching cartoons, while Tata smoked and drank beer. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

“Then we’ll have holy smoke,” I said, and was in such a good mood I laughed at my own joke. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

The sky was impossibly blue, and white industrial smoke rising from factory chimneys was frozen in the sky, like a photograph. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

He joined her outside for a while, standing silently next to her while she smoked. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

Still, I hear him pad through the living room hear the squeak of the front screen door and know, he's made it to the porch swing, to smoke a cigarette. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

Stewart smoked on his pipe and looked at them. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

On the third wrench it caught, spewing a stream of smoke and fumes into the night. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

He had heard that many are Africanized bees, and when smoke from the locomotive angers them, they swarm and attack migrants on top of the cars. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

She was scared, and it wasn’t until she had a sip of whatever we were drinking or a hit off of whatever we were smoking that she would calm down and be the same Sam. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

Some were already exhausted, clouds of smoke still rising from the blackened wood and swirling through the camp. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

Francie heard that the principal often came down to Mr. Jenson’s furnace room to sit and talk for a few moments while he smoked a pipeful of tobacco. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was trying to seal off the front of his cell by hanging plastic bags and blankets all over the bars—the smoke was that dense. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The only wood left to burn is green and the whole city smells of wood smoke. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

“Here, smoke this,” Shin said, handing the guard two packs of cigarettes. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

Two night riders, tall and densely proportioned, idled on the porch smoking their pipes with complacent sloth. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

I had never smoked a cigarette, but when in Rome . Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

He could still remember the smell of the smoke mingled with pine. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

Upstairs was my bedroom, Baba’s room, and his study, also known as “the smoking room,” which perpetually smelled of tobacco and cinnamon. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

“I couldn’t see, sir, I kept getting bounced around back here pretty hard and I couldn’t see. Everything’s covered with smoke now and I can’t see.” Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

The wood smoke rising from the home-hearths rose from his heart. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

The smoke breezed in and out of her mouth, just like her own breath. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

By then, the entire second story of our house had filled with smoke. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

He slashed his sword through the smoke, tearing the image to shreds. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

Jack offers me a strip of smoked salmon, but I lie and say I’m full. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

As they waited throughout the afternoon, the living room filled with smoke and the murmurs of plans. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

He sat on a bench, drinking coffee and smoking, reading poetry and listening to rain pound the canvas roof. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

It gave the smoke a spicy scent, a pleasant enough smell, yet Eroeh fled sobbing, and Dany Was filled with fear. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

And while we were rolling it, we both smoked some. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

She wouldn’t be able to smoke them out—her five remaining matches had perished at the same time as the kudu meat—but perhaps she could use a long stick to fish out the honey. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dad was so sure a posse of federal investigators was on our trail that he smoked his unfiltered cigarettes from the wrong end. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

In the east, where Pong had thought the sun was rising, a black column of smoke rose above the rooftops. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

She smoked and picked a little bunch of grass blades. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

Dad smokes in there, so there's often a whiff of cigarettes. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

He works fourteen- hour shifts in the neighborhood plant's friction stoves and always comes home rubbing his eyes from the smoke. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

I heard a sound like an echo turned inside out, and then Miig, who had been standing still, trying to see, to understand, under the blue smoke of moonlight, finally took a step forward. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

When I climbed the staircase to the house, Dad was standing on the porch, smoking a cigarette. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

We go to movies, where we sit in the smoking section and neck, or we go to drive-ins and eat popcorn and neck there as well. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

The fire by the platform appeared to be out, or at least making no smoke. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

Next to the house was the kitchen shed, from which a thin curl of smoke wove into the air. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

James taught Sammy how to put out a fire properly; how to cover it with dirt and then stamp on it and wait, to be sure no telltale smoke rose from the ashes. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

She averted her eyes as she limped past the wall of the gymnasium where a few mothers had ducked out of the afternoon PTA meeting to smoke. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

I pulled out the broom and tore out a batch of straws and tossed them into the fire and watched them smoke, turn black, blaze, and finally become white wisps of ghosts that vanished. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was nervous to ask, waiting until he’d smoked the last of his cigarettes, crushing it with a firm twist into the saucer. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

I didn’t care that I smelled of smoke or that my blouse was singed. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Joseph knew she smoked more when she was nervous, and there was a growing pile of cigarette butts at her feet. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

His pistol smokes, and he takes a long drink from his flask and passes it to Werner, and Werner puts it to his lips. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

“Help me wet down some paper towels and shove them under the door to block out the smoke.” Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

From my high vantage, I could see a thick, oily smoke slowly filling the bottom of the well. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

A History-shaped Hole in the Universe through which, at twilight, dense clouds of silent bats billowed like factory smoke and drifted into the night. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

If he was cooking, there must be smoke coming from the chimney. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

Before Ma can answer, the ground beneath our feet shudders as the volcano belches out more lava and smoke. Dragons in a Bag 2018-10-23T00:00:00Z

Sarai woke in her bed in the citadel with the warmth of his lips still on hers, and Lazlo woke in the city, a moth-shaped puff of smoke diffusing on his brow. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

The smell of damp seaweed, richer than the smell of wet wood, rose with the smoke from the fire and lingered over their faces. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

But that feeling of terror he’d experienced in those last moments in the subtrans tunnel wouldn’t leave, lingering like the smoke from an extinguished fire. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

Coughing, chest heaving, he looked back at the devastation he’d just escaped: one tower continued to burn; smoke and flames still roared from the upper floors. Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z

Wondrous aromas of potatoes, onions, smoked meat, and spices mixed to warm our faces and tease our nostrils. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Last time, she pulled out a pack of Montclairs and smoked right there with me in the room and that was kind of something, the casualness of it. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

“I’m fine! I’m not doing anything. I don’t smoke crack, I don’t snort Ritalin or suck gas from whipped cream cans, and I don’t shoot up Drano.” Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

She could never manage the seamless grace with which Kabuli women smoked. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

Lefty was dealing with the loss of their parents in the only way he could, by disappearing in a cloud of hash smoke while listening to the absolutely saddest music in the world. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Eventually, the drugs wore off and I decided that I would never, under any circumstances, smoke pot again. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

"On the afternoon of Halloween, when we were watching the smoke in the Westing house chimney, you told a story about a corpse on an Oriental rug." The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

As they jogged out of the room, I realized that they were the ones that had been letting off the smoke. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

My name spread like smoke in an airless room. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

The air was swirling with smoke, the back wall a sheet of fire ground to roof. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

The smoke was agonizing and there were no rounds, no bells at three minute intervals to relieve our exhaustion. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Inside the homes all the fires had been put out, but some still smoked, and none of them were cold. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

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

The old soldier shifted about and smoked his pipe indifferently. The Fighting Ground 1984-04-01T00:00:00Z

And then, suddenly, I heard a puff of air and smelled chemical smoke. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

When they arrived, Ash followed them into the center of the Square where hundreds of people were gathered around a huge bonfire; the smoke of it rose like the breath of a great dragon. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

The school’s policy, in order to discourage smoking, was to make these rooms as depressing as possible. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then Turner knew why he hadn’t been able to make out the smoke. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

They lounged against the wall of a liquor and soft-drink store, smoking cigarettes. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

“Sherlock Holmes cleaned his pipe with these. Between smokes.” Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z

I ate the pumpkin pie because the lady said it was in season, and Patrick and Sam smoked more cigarettes. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

By now smoke was seeping from the ground all over town, and people were beginning to grow nauseated and faint from the increased levels of carbon dioxide in their homes. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

Their citrus fragrance filled the room like smoke. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

Sol Spiegelman and I went straight for a butler carrying smoked salmon and champagne, and after a few minutes sensed the value of a cultivated aristocracy. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

Pinon smoke and the words of the best characters ever known fill my senses. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

Her brain simmered with bursts of lilac, cigar smoke, sweat, the cringe of a missed opportunity, pangs of hunger. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

A couple of months after Erma died, Uncle Stanley fell asleep in the basement while reading comic books and smoking a cigarette. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

They return to their smoking as if it’s serious business. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

We placed the smoked meat and the gallon of water by the door of the room we occupied. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

More tanks, more cops in riot gear, more smoke. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

He made urging motions at the smoke with his body. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

A rusty moped put-putted past them, a red wagon bouncing behind it, streaming smoke. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

Miig even had his nighttime smoke down there with her, taking extra-long hauls so she could smudge herself, making shallow cups out of her crepe paper fingers and pulling the smoke over her covered head. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

Black blood was flowing from the wound where the spear had pierced him, smoking where it dripped onto the scorched sands. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Chimneys, belching smoke, reached to the low hanging sky. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

Huge curls of dense white smoke swirl up into the night sky. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Then a tearing noise filled the air, the crackle of dry brush inflamed, and the smell of smoke swept over Tally, bringing her suddenly and completely awake. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

It was supposed to be temporary, but I was sealcoating the parking lot of this building and the landlord, he used to stand out on the balcony, smoking a cigar while I worked. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

He struck a match, intending to smoke a cigarette, but something seen by the light of the flaring match brought him to his feet and carried him across the barn to a cow stall. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then, as the coach headed back to the finish line, Lu shook his head at me and growled, "Hope you ready to get smoked." Ghost 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

He watched the thick white smoke drift upward like a twisted ribbon dissolving into the sky. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

Anyone looking on might think I was smoking Dad’s pot, I bet. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

A fire had been started under the tree, to smoke the bees out of the hive and make them sleepy. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Three days after we opened for business, every chair in the front room was filled, the air thick again with arguments, tobacco smoke, and the smell of fresh coffee and cakes. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

His slate-blue eyes pierced through the veil of smoke wreathing his features. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

All it would have taken was just one more question about smoking. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

The winter was the best thing, because then there were the geese on the islands—long smoke lines of them singing like bounds in the cold streak of morning. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mariam could not see him from where she stood with Jalil, by the rear bumper, only the smoke of his cigarette curling up from the open window. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

The smoking, bloodied bodies of over a dozen recently slain Sixer avatars lay scattered on the stone floor around them, slowly fading out of existence. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

She sat there smoking away and gazing at the fire. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z

Smith smokes with closed eyes, and explains, “I’m thinking. I want to remember this just the way it was.” In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

And he and the Simply Enormous Dragon disappeared into the smoke and plunged themselves into the heart of the mountain, stopping the eruption, forcing the volcano into a restless sleep. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

He’s smoking a lot so he won’t feel hungry all the time; his teeth are breaking apart from decay. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Tendrils of smoke curled up from the burns. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

Hood’s smoke stayed where it was, then slowly, very slowly, like a huge ghost, the white cloud came drifting gracefully up the ridge, clinging to the trees, drifting and tearing. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“They pay for what I provide by working for me, keeping the place clean, obeying my rules. No smoking, no lying, no stealing.” The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

If I'd had my way, we would have all stayed home and conducted the class through smoke signals. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

The crowd soon moved to get out of the smoke and to see if the fire really had leaped across the river. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z

In the sixties it clouded the minds of the hippies like the pot smoke rising in their bongs. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

“Listen,” she said, and together they listened, smoking while Ruby moved almost imperceptibly on him. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The smoke came first as a faraway scent, and then as a thundercloud rolling from the kitchen into the living room: the hot dogs. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

When it was lit and a thread of smoke was curling up from the bowl, he used the pipe to emphasize what he said, drawing little designs, like Chinese writing, in the air. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

Looming over the chasm, she was a churning figure of ash and smoke, as big as the Athena Parthenos statue, but very much alive. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

He reached into his cigarette pack for a smoke, but it was empty. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

The pamphlet-makers were still clustered around the remains of the Decoy Detonator, which continued to hoot feebly as it smoked. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

As soon as I set the hook, it smoked thirty yards of line off the spool. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

She sat at the table as he ate, drinking more wine and asking how his day was, but eventually she went to the deck to smoke a cigarette, leaving Eliot to wrap up the leftovers. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

The massive shape of the giant loomed over him, obscured by layers of black smoke. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Zoe let loose two quick arrows that exploded at their feet in clouds of sulfurous yellow smoke. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

“Ought they to smoke like that?” asked Beth from her perch on the bed. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

She shrugged her shoulders, blowing a great cloud of cigarette smoke into the air. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

Hiding out in our apartment, sleeping on an improvised bed like the draft dodgers, a refugee, a displaced person, smoking up the kitchen with Jon wondering who the hell she is and why she’s there. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

On New Year’s Eve, as a matter of tradition, she’d buy a special hors d’oeuvre basket, the kind that came filled with blocks of cheese, smoked oysters in a tin, and different kinds of salami. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

“If that person in a passing car hadn’t noticed the smoke and called the fire department, and if they hadn’t come so quickly, the entire building could have burned to the ground.” Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

“Vilkas,” he said, shaking his head and blowing smoke out of the corner of his mouth. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

Bull slid his finger between his cheek and his oxygen mask and sniffed for smoke. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were looking back up, searching for smoke or flames. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

Abruptly, we were almost blinded there upon the isle; the smoke of burning houses inhaled us, and we were within it. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

In the center of the clearing sat a hut with smoke wafting out of the chimney. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

Albert carefully lit his pipe and clouds of smoke escaped from his mouth. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

"We got no fire on the mountain. But what's wrong with a fire down here? A fire could be built on them rocks. On the sand, even. We'd make smoke just the same." Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

Anya struggled to her cold feet, eyes wide as smoke began to seep through the floorboards into the cellar. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

I smelled smoke and then saw flames leaping at the open window. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

When the Americans and their guards did come out, the sky was black with smoke. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Like the first time Diego smoked me out at the levee. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

Only the state engineer was smoking and the smoke from his cigarette curled quietly in the still air. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was smoke in the air, sweet from the fragrance of perfume, and there was laughing. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the smoke he could see a blue line. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Unlike all the other pillars of smoke issuing from the city’s smokestacks, this pillar didn’t disperse into the general smog. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Giant waterwheels and turbines churn along the water's edge behind veils of smoke. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

She couldn't see the wagon for the smoke, but she could still heat Biter screaming. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

He had a cigar in his pocket which Mr. Pontellier had presented him with, and he was saving it for his afterdinner smoke. The Awakening 1899-01-01T00:00:00Z

Spassky, looking uncomfortable, sat on Bobby’s right, and Vasiljevic, smoking a meerschaum pipe and appearing relaxed, was on his left. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

There was suddenly heavy smoke and we moved through a thick white screen of it, the smell sulfurous, burnt. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

A strand of smoke was rising from the village, making its way to the sky. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

The smoke came again this afternoon, still in the same place as yesterday. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

The chimney hasn’t been swept in ages, so the room is bound to fill with smoke. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

I clear the rubble across his chest so he can get air, even though that air is thick with smoke and ash and fumes. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

White steam now belches forth, blending with the black smoke as the fire licks its wounds. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

For perhaps ten seconds they crouched tike that while the flailing fire sent smoke and sparks and waves of inconstant tight over the top of the mountain. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

He ordered coffee, asked for a million refills, and smoked. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Going up to Phil Resch—who stood off to one side vigorously smoking a small gray cigar—he said to him, “I hope to god you do test out as an android.” Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

After a while the air became gray with cigarette smoke and the noise increased. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

Frank batted at them until they stopped smoking, but he wasn’t particularly worried. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

But grass isn’t the only thing that they smoke. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

Marcus led Aurelia and Boots to the back of the villa where the servants lived and where there were many storerooms and cavelike vaults for storing wine, olive oil, smoked meats, and other goods. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

They were smoking huge cigarettes they had rolled in newspaper. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

After the first lesson, we parked the truck and my dad smoked a cigarette. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

She slammed the car into drive and pulled off in a cloud of burning rubber and smoke, swerving down the street, screaming hysterically— “ Wooooooooo!” The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

I pulled smoke and flame from outside the hallway and shaped it into a tall man. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

I watched as Vivian took a long drag on her cigarette, pursed her lips as if blowing kisses, and blew out the smoke. Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I asked, as she sank into the sofa and continued to smoke. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

As I lie here, bundled in my winter coat and scarf, I can smell Dad’s wafting pot smoke, and I find three planes all flying in a row in the dusky sky. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

We were sitting on the grass after a rounders match and Miss Lucy had been giving us a typical talk on smoking when Marge suddenly asked if Miss Lucy had herself ever had a cigarette. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had a feeling that the entire building could burn down around them right this second and still the old man would say he didn’t smell any smoke. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

He took a long puff of the cigarette before slowly blowing out the smoke. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

My shift was sticky with perspiration, and I smelled of tobacco smoke and unwashed strangers. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The smoke from the gun, now tinted red from the gaslights, partly blocked his vision. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

“There’s a lot of smoke coming down the hall. Once we get Kaitlin free, we’re going to have to find a way down to the first floor and out of here—fast.” Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

Then he stopped, looking up at the windows and the smoke that was swirling against them. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

The air had begun to look hazy from the smoke now that the sun was up to reveal it. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

"On September first we moved into Sunset Towers. Two months later, on Halloween, smoke was seen rising from the chimney of the deserted Westing house." The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

I saw the smoke drifting out of the crowd and followed that to see where it came from. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

No Muslim smokes—that was another of our rules. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was smoking now in silence, for Frodo was sitting still, deep in thought. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

And then the Rouge appeared against the sky, rising out of the smoke it generated. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Then that flag was down in the smoke, and Longstreet could no longer see, and the retreat began to flood by him. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

A few people even imagined they smelled poison smoke and saw fire caused by the Martians’ heat ray. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

He pointed to a brick chimney towering over a flat-roofed building where a thin line of smoke curled lazily into the air. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

‘We counted all the slain and despoiled them, and then we piled the carcases and burned them, as is our custom. The ashes are smoking still.’ The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

A few days later, I sit in the hot kitchen, bored, smoking a cigarette, something I can’t seem to stop doing lately. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Behind the smoke the expression on his face seemed lost, vague, absent. The Fighting Ground 1984-04-01T00:00:00Z

“What kind of question is that?” she said, and went back to whisking the gravy in the fragrant, smoking pan. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

Pale gray smoke was gushing out of the top. I Survived the Eruption of Mount St. Helens, 1980 2016-08-01T00:00:00Z

He explained that the colonel only wanted to know if he needed permission from Farmer to smoke his cigarette, if that was what happened in a democracy. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

Pike and a friend came running down the box alley, drawn by the smoke, and I was trapped. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

A little while later they came out smoking cigars, talking contentedly in the mellow lower register of the German language. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

The column of smoke was thick as mud. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

I know without turning around that there are dark clouds of smoke streaming from the muffler. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

All over America today people would be dragging themselves to work, stuck in traffic jams, wreathed in exhaust smoke. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

“I feel like a smoke, don’t you? Let’s go down to the Butt Room.” A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

We spent several days gathering white oak acorns and groundnuts, harvesting the blueberry crop and smoking fish. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

I watched it hit the ground and roll a little, still smoking. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

A fire was kindled in the center of the dance lodge, and its fragrant smoke rose through the central opening in the roof. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

The priest led him into a parlor heavy with tobacco smoke, where a cast-iron samovar steamed quietly on a side table. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

Up-stairs in the office I read the French morning papers, smoked, and then sat at the typewriter and got off a good morning's work. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

The warriors said the slow matches on the English men’s guns were smoking up the room, making them sick, and they should put them out. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

She had a great many boy friends, and she smoked cigarettes and drank. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

A weird funnel device was attached to the forges chimney, trapping the smoke and heat and channeling it through a pipe into the floor, next to a big bronze manhole cover. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

Piper yelped and dropped the dagger, which was now smoking and sparking. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

It didn’t make sense that the little puffs of smoke made the guards crash into each other and mutter “Why am I doing this?” The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

I leave behind choking white smoke, but even so, it stings my throat, my eyes, my breathing. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

“Everybody in the world knows that. But he’s got to have the mental attitude. I hate to see it all go up in smoke. Three or four more years, I would have had ’im ready. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

This part of the forest has just been burned a few days before and the ground is still hot and smoking. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The head of the creature faced the user, who sucked in tobacco smoke from its mouth. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Tally ran until she reached the fire, skidding to a halt against its cushion of heat and smoke. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

He listened, his eyes red and streaming from the smoke. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

I watched the sudden round puffs of shrapnel smoke in the sky above a broken farmhouse near where the line was; soft puffs with a yellow white flash in the centre. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

Bad grades, absence from classes, and an incident with a smoke bomb were just some of the reasons he rattled off as my mother sat silently on the couch with the phone to her ear. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

Behind him a column of smoke rose thickly, so that Ralph's nostrils flared and his mouth dribbled. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

So, I kiss him and it feels really nice, and I really don’t care that James is twenty-three, or a college dropout, or that he smokes. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

Sometimes open leads of water in all directions were wreathed with wisps of frost smoke as the water began to freeze, and Shackleton commented that the effect resembled the smoke from a prairie fire. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

But the soldiers wait, standing around the chief’s house, slowly smoking their cigarettes as if they have all the time in the world. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I haven’t smoked in two months and the smell makes me feel ill. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

With that sweet thought curling around my head like Uncle Holt’s pipe smoke, I fell right to sleep. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

Schaffer was showing some visitors around the tower when one of them pointed to smoke in the distance. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z

Her very special marinated goose, smoked turkey, and honey-glazed ham and all the trimmings made the base of a meal that everybody contributed to. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

The three boys stood quietly and watched the skillet smoke through the glass. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

Apparently the smoke from my fire was spotted, and a man was sent to check it. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

Inside the dugout were the three drivers sitting against the wall, smoking. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

Then eight people have to disappear to the well-curtained attic and lie on the floor unmoving, in complete silence, miserable and sweating, while Lubek talks and smokes cigarettes at my half kitchen table. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

Using an oven mitt, he was gripping the plate of smoking grapes. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

The smoke must have had the same energizing effect on the water monster, who stood firmly on his legs. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

He smoked his cigar and paced the length of the cell with the folder tucked beneath his arm. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

She brought the blunt to her plum-painted lips, pulled, exhaled, then pulled the smoke back in. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

‘Put that in your pipe and smoke it,’ she said to him. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

She blew out some smoke and gave me a smile and put the cigarette back in her mouth. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

It was easier to smoke joints and have someone deliver drinks than it was for me to deliver sentences. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

She waved a hand and turned into white smoke. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

The hall going to the back of the school where he had originally come from had gotten hit in the second explosion—not to mention it was the same direction the smoke was coming from. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

Tonight, as I come in, the girls in my room are setting each other's hair with bits of rag and smoking cigarettes with the windows open. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Following her gaze Alice lifted the iron and saw what Violet saw: the black and smoking ship burned clear through the yoke. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

To him, Harrison represented the old Chicago of filth, smoke, and vice, everything the fair was designed to repudiate. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

The gun quivered in my hand, following the dark, shifting patterns of the smoke. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

And Frau Elena’s toothache is better now but she can’t smoke which makes her cranky, did I tell you she started smoking . All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

After a minute, he dug into his pocket and flipped open his pack of smokes. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

But the sky over the forts was still clear of smoke. I Survived the American Revolution, 1776 2017-08-01T00:00:00Z

Tally made her way toward the fight, and the incongruous smells of breakfast reached her through the choking haze of smoke. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

Bono and his companions sit only four feet away, smoking pipes and murmuring. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

The room beyond the doorway comes into focus, the haze from a trio of half-dressed ladies sitting around a table smoking cigarillos and playing cards. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

The common room smelled of smoke and sweat and spilled beer. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

A row of factories chugged smoke into the air. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was all wreathed in smoke from the hot lava inside it. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

The room spun round me, a swirl of lights, smoke, sweating bodies surrounded by tense white faces. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Maybe if we built a little fire by one door we could smoke ’em out the other, like bees,” he said. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

Marcial was smoking a cigarette guardedly, holding it in his hand. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

The candle on the dressing table had been blown out already, but its wick still smoked. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

There was no grand puff of smoke or anything, but he appeared as if from nowhere, right in our very own woods. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

I look around for smoke and flames, but instead of a fire, I see a grinning fireman descending from the truck carrying a big wrench and an even bigger radio. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

In die afternoon, toward evening, with his face smoke smeared and his sldn red from die heat, he finally began to think ahead to what he needed to do. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

This was almost as alarming as seeing her mother smoke. Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures 2013-09-24T00:00:00Z

He was a poet, or a college president, or a movie star; he drank expensive whisky, and he smoked Lucky Strike cigarettes in the green package. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

Char blows a fat ring of stinking gray smoke in my face. The Skin I'm In 1998-10-16T00:00:00Z

The words disappear into a cloud of smoke. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

He will fall to smoking cigarette after cigarette, not bothering to extinguish them, and the glowing stubs will lie around on the ground like petals. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

The fire looked as though an invisible animal were dancing on it, crushing it, until it was angry smoke. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

Piggy stood up and pointed to the smoke and flames. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

A tall, lean figure crossed the deck, holding up a smoking gun. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

She was smoking a cigarette of her own as she waited to be given further instruction. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

I couldn’t smell the smoke, but I saw it right away, gliding beneath the old classroom’s door like spilled milk racing across the ground. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

Then Sam saw that he was in a long cave or tunnel that bored into the Mountain’s smoking cone. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

They reached the smoking wreckage of the plane’s cabin. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

The last thing I remember before losing consciousness was flying, flying so high Zeus would never have forgiven me, and then beginning to fall, smoke and fire and water streaming from me. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

“I didn’t think it mattered anymore—if you haven’t figured out the Maps by now . . .” Minho looked disgusted, the pale light and fog of smoke making his face seem almost sinister. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

A Tareyton ad comes on, the one where the girl smoking the cigarette has a black eye—Us Tareyton smokers would rather fight than switch! The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

The wraith vanishes, the smoke dissipates, and the barracks go still, as if the last fifteen minutes never happened. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

“I was smoking a cigarette,” was his reply. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

He was sitting on a large rock, looking up at the sky, smoking his pipe. I Survived the Sinking of the Titanic, 1912 2010-06-01T00:00:00Z

She stood, leaning against the central pillar, smoking and watching her brother. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

We breathed in air filled with fire and smoke, and our eyes shone with hope. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

It cracked and snapped and smoked and filled the woods with brightness. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

Clouds of smoke billowed up through gaps in the platform, adding flavor as well as preserving the meat. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Another time I got my mother to bring home a pamphlet about smoking in which they showed lungs damaged from tobacco poisons. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

Hazel tried to collect her thoughts, stall for time, but it was difficult while staring down the smoking barrels of those flintlocks. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

The effect is similar to the blue cast of the light reflected by fine smoke particles. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

When Harry saw that his family was intact, he dashed back into the smoke and flames. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Plus, I have to smoke in here because it’s about the only room in the house without a ceiling fan to blow ashes everywhere. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

A few customers had left, the rest were smoking their pipes and enjoying their conversation. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Rather than snapping at me like usual, she took a hit off the joint and held the smoke in for what felt like forever. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

His eyes were lakes of molten gold, and smoke rose from his nostrils. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Mr. Ray sat there smoking a cigarette, flipping through the last few pages of the newspaper. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

A peat fire burned smokily in the large fireplace against one wall, and the smoke trickled out of the chimney far above. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

Serena winds, the cigarette held in the corner of her mouth smoldering, sending out tempting smoke. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

Five cars were parked in the yard when he arrived; eight men had gathered in a single group smoking and talking quietly—one man had a bottle. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Mies van der Rohe smoked cigars,” I said, by way of promotion. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

The branch crackled, the leaves curled and the yellow smoke expanded. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

The far wall looked almost ghostly through the haze of smoke. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

It was too late to ask for help, and he waited to die the way smoke dies, drifting away in currents of air, twisting in thin swirls, fading until it exists no more. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

At last it covered her, filled her eyes, her nose, her throat, and she woke gagging and overwhelmed with the smell of smoke. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

I lie in bed thinking about those days when the streets smelled like smoke and ash, when the stores where we’d just bought candy were closed and all boarded up. Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Not fish or decaying rat; tanned skin, moist in the sun, filmed with smoke. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

It flared up quickly, billowing acrid, sweet-smelling smoke. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

But life is hardy, and when the smoke cleared there were enough lucky survivors from every species that none permanently perished. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

Even through the smoke, Nate could see the hatred and fury in the man’s eyes. I Survived the American Revolution, 1776 2017-08-01T00:00:00Z

They were smoking and giving some boys who were yelling at them the finger. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

Kira had matched oranges and reds of different shades and had found the various grays for the smoke and the buildings. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

And Mother was wearing a pair of shorts made out of denim and a light blue bikini top and she was smoking cigarettes called Consulate which were mint flavor. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

I shook him, but he only murmured and turned: the smoke had stupefied him. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

We sat under the huts smoking marijuana and watched them dig in the rain. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

“If you make me go back, I swear I’ll start smoking pot.” Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

In the communal kitchen, smoke still rises from the ashes. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Then I’d say you don’t need to worry. You don’t got a fire. Just a bunch of smoke.” Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The smoke carried with it the scent of soups and stews: nourishment for chilly nights. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

The billowing clouds of Mordor were being driven back, their edges tattering as a wind out of the living world came up and swept the fumes and smokes towards the dark land of their home. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

It glinted in the sunlight, but still, it was thinner, more translucent than ever it had been before; in places it seemed as if it were made not of silver but of smoke. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

She was smoking and drinking and watching Bunker with the volume muted so she could read. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

The television crew means to provide a sense of heightened jeopardy by releasing smoke bombs and adding gunfire sound effects. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

And he and Mama have always made it clear that smoking is completely off limits. Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

A big steelmaker belches too much smoke into the air? Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

It was full of smoke and drinking and singing. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

We lit the stove a few days ago and the entire room is still filled with smoke. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

It seems ironic that the commanders considered the boys old enough to fight but not old enough to smoke: The youngest recruits were given candy instead of the usual cigarette ration that older soldiers received. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

A few minutes earlier, she had wandered off to smoke her last cigarette before showtime. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

A plume of black smoke curled into the sky somewhere over Harlem. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

Clouds of white smoke seemed to float out of the tall rocket, held up by the hugging arms of a kind of straight Eiffel Tower. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

He lights the cigarette, inhales deeply, then makes the smoke come out his nose like a dragon. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

A handful of men sit at the counter, smoking and chatting with the girl who stands behind it. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

Once more the smoke rose, yellow and thick. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

It was mostly smoked meat, bread, and those sweet potato things. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

A blast of lightning split the tree down to its roots, opening a smoking crevice. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

I remember I was smoking out with my homies when the cops rolled up. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

In the corner, a person was smoking, the gold cherry pulsing like a lightning bug. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

She inhaled and all, but she didn't wolf the smoke down, the way most women around her age do. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

“How very American, complaining about smoke,” Obinze said, and she could not tell whether he meant it as a rebuke or not. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

As he talked he smoked three cigarettes, crushing them in a saucer by the side of her bed. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

All the man could smell was the nasty smoke he was making. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

He stood in the background, silent and motionless except for the dark smoke pouring from his body, pooling around his feet. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

The air fills with clouds of white smoke. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

Open pools smoked day and night in a dozen small courtyards. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Villagers from all round, like us, were converging towards the bonfire to be lit there; already smoke wisps were curling towards the clouds, torches were beginning to flare. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

"No good—she's gone. It must have been all the smoke. When I got to her, she was already gone." A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

They knew they’d be trapped by the gas and smoke if they stayed in Manhattan. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

He grabbed the nearest snake, and though his gray flesh began to smoke on contact, he strangled the basilisk with one hand and flung down its limp body. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

But he passed like cold smoke through her arms, and though she felt his little hand clutch at her heart, it had no strength to hold on. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

His skeletal legs seemed to dissolve into smoke with every step. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

She was a hard-faced, pretty litigation lawyer who smoked constantly and wore her blond hair in a China chop. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

The smoke Bitter had painted around it was as dense as clouds, and Jam thought she could see it move, a jerky tendril here and there. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

But now more masses were coming, in clots, broken lines, red battle flags plowing through the smoke, moving this way, drifting to the left, toward the base of the hill. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The grounds were still smoking from the fire. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

When smoke stopped coming through the cracks, Laura would bring more hickory chips and Ma would put them on the fire under the meat. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

The violets were good tinder and soon greasy clouds of smoke were billowing high into the air. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Chicago seemed an unreal city whose mythical houses were built of slabs of black coal wreathed in palls of gray smoke, houses whose foundations were sinking slowly into the dank prairie. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were all miserable, cold, and completely filthy, since the last of the soap had been saved for Green, who stood all day in the greasy smoke of the blubber stoves. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

Men lay groaning, mortally wounded, and the floor smoked with blood. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

The owner of the show stood smoking a cigarette by himself. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

Judging from their corroded shields and the smoking plumes on their helmets, they’d already learned about the basilisks’ poison and fire. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

Out in the snowy woods all day, it might have gathered a little dampness, and the inside of the barrel was sure to be dirty from powder smoke. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

A trail of smoke floated up from it. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

Stepping off the tracks to let it pass, I watched as the engine screeched and ground to a halt at the depot, belching smoke and steam. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

It was amazing how fast they came, but when he built up the fire and the smoke increased the flies almost magically disappeared. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

When the final bulb pops alight, and the smoke and sparks dissipate, it is finally legible, this elaborate incandescent sign. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

In addition, once the fire died down, Stone Age entrepreneurs could walk through the smoking remains and harvest charcoaled animals, nuts and tubers. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Veer—you have to score me some smokes, man. I’m dying here.” Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

So I have him sit on one of the couches, and I ask him what he wants me to tell him about himself, after his memories disappear like smoke. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

To the south and east I could see smoke rising into the sky and the low, brown buildings of Trebon. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Burnham treasured beauty but saw none for miles and miles and miles, just coal, rust, and smoke in endless repetition until the train entered the prairie and everything seemed to go quiet. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

I smoked the meat I couldn’t eat and stored it. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

I tell Mr. Hannon if he wants to smoke his pipe in comfort I’ll take the reins and when he hands them over I’m sure I hear the boys gasping. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

I walked over to where Mr. Benson sat in one of the porch chairs, smoking his pipe. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

Over the rise I could sense the city of Petoskey, the smoke of stoves and chimneys down there. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

From the pyres of the dead rose black columns of smoke and white-hot ashes. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Quichua words come back to me in tiny pieces that smell like wood smoke and people sweating in fields and rain-soaked wool. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Waiters offered drinks of every description and brought water pipes for those who wished to smoke. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The turtle was already a hundred yards behind them, its head charred and smoking. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

The first thing he thinks when he reaches the illuminated courtyard is that it smells the same, of smoke and caramel and something else that he cannot place. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

I smoke a little J when someone lights up and hands it around. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

No smoking anywhere, or at least not within fifteen minutes of arrival at a house. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

They saw the fire and smoke before them, but could not believe that the city, with their means of livelihood, had been swept away during the night.” The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z

Lana looked over at Jones, who was sweeping out the booths in a cloud of cigarette smoke and dust, and said, “Put the record on.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was pretty sure sword wounds weren’t supposed to smoke. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

“You’re only about a half mile out. If the wind was blowing southerly you could smell the smoke.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Particularly the Arab Muslims smoked constantly, even on the Hajj pilgrimage itself. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Oh, can’t you make them do something about that smoke! Who uses their chimney in spring, honestly?” a squirrel complained to Seven. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

Whatever, after a hundred ravens had boiled noisily off, one mammoth black beast remained, flapping around hysterically in the smoke. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

She slipped another cigarette from her pack, lit it with the car lighter, pulled a drag and let her smoke out slow. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

In the remains of the gypsy camp there was nothing but a garbage pit among the still smoking ashes of the extinguished campfires. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

‘For one thing,’ said Théoden, ‘I had not heard that they spouted smoke from their mouths.’ The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

The smoke was starting to get to us, so we gathered up our stuff to go inside. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Many hours later she opened her pack, spread her skins, and took out a strand of smoked meat. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

The field was strewn with stricken orcs and men, and a reek arose of torches cast away, sputtering out in swirling smoke. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

The fire flared for an instant and then dropped, smoke and steam rising and disappearing in the air above the river, and the boys quieted, scrambling off the rocks toward the beach. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

The smoke had grown thicker, making it hard to breathe. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

Fang coughed up a lungful of smoke and shook his head, staring at the empty shelf in disgust. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

“Ah yes, thank you, Madame. By the way, does your husband smoke?” Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

And so the brave little wizard—ignoring his own great peril—ran into the smoke and flame. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

Now there's someone hiding behind those trees, a boy with a dark, heavy brow and glittering eyes, always laughing, living loud and bright and magnetic, always there with the tang of smoke on his lips. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

“The minute you were out of sight this morning, why I just happened to see the smoke coming up, see—” She stopped. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

I said no, I liked the smell of smoke. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

They sat in silence on the hay bales smoking the first cigarette of the day. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Agent Jones peered into the smoke and pointed to the girls. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

They sat in the afternoon, smoking, digesting, considering, and now and then having a delicate drink from the jug. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Well, that’s done at last,” he remarked with a final nod at the smoking embers. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

The gypsy wrapped him in the frightful climate of his look before he turned into a puddle of pestilential and smoking pitch over which the echo of his reply still floated: “Melquíades is dead.” One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

In the parking lot, she saw the same shopgirl who had been smoking before. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

"I know I can't see very much," said Piggy, "but have we got any smoke?" Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

Pikes, the man of ten thousand faces, a fury, a smoke, a blue fog, a white rain, a bat, a gargoyle, a monster, that was Pikes! The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

By the time the coffee came, my head felt heavy and I smoked a lot. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z

Inside every after-hours spot, the smoke would hurt your eyes. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was impossible to tell through the stew of smoke how deep the hole was. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

The moon was rising behind one mountain and the sun sinking behind another as Jon struck sparks from flint and dagger, until finally a wisp of smoke appeared. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

The boat shuddered with the great, smoking, sunlit waves that hit her as she ran, but she went gallantly as her builder had promised, answering the magewind as true as any spell-enwoven ship of Roke. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

In some places wisps of pale smoke still rose from the ashes. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Soon there was a ceiling of smoke and a bush of yellow flame. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

The faction she led in the Sub-Deb girls’ club had been admonished to stop wearing low-cut dresses, smoking in the rest rooms, and sneaking out of class to smooch with boys in the band-instrument storeroom. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

“Now, smokes are at—wait, you don’t smoke, do you?” It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

Like a black smoke driven by a mounting wind they fled. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

Oyster shells crunched under the weight of the ambulance, and white dust trailed behind it like smoke. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

Bodies were taken out of the smoking ruins. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

And then he put the lid back and reached around to the side of the stove and pushed something—and suddenly the smoke stopped coming. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

Leaders organized parades through the neighborhoods and meetings at union halls and in smoking rooms. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

The old man looked ahead of him but he could see no sails nor could he see the hull nor the smoke of any ship. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

I like the smell of wool and wood smoke. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was still warm and red, giving off a little smoke. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z

On the way home we stopped in the People’s Park and sat on a bench while Malachy and I sucked on our sweets and Mam and Nora smoked their cigarettes. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

The tug bore down on their shell, belching black smoke, its whistle shrieking, its horn blaring. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

The snow in my eyes withdraws like smoke. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

She pushed the door open, peeked in, and saw that the ashes of his fire were still hot; wisps of smoke drifted from the chimney and disappeared with the wind into the gray sky. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Private Jocko gave forth a grunt—collapsed—and the smoke of combat twined with that of arson. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

He took a pull of his cigarette and blew the smoke into the air. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

“Let me have some of those smoke bombs!” he whispered to Emma. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

“My pal brought some smoke from Saigon, and we all got stoned.” Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

And he smiled, too, and lit his cigarette, blowing the smoke carefully away from her. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

Spires of smoke twist up and disappear into the sky. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

Whenever the smoking lamp was lit—which meant any one who wanted to take a break could do so—my friends and I would pick up our rifles and practice bayonet fighting with them. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

She thought about him sitting in the booth at the diner with Lee Ann Dickerson, holding a menu and smoking his cigarette. Raymie Nightingale 2016-04-12T00:00:00Z

A smoking roll of leaves juts from his mouth like a giant cigar. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

They continued on, and at sundown he smelled smoke from a distant fire. In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z

“The battle lasted an entire day, and when the dust settled and the smoke cleared, it was Dimarion who remained standing, and it was Dimarion who claimed the diamond.” The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

Flames leap, and thick black smoke engulfs the entire fort. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

Her first thought was to see if one or the other of the alley openings might be passable despite the billowing smoke. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z

The smoke grew thicker and the temperature was getting warmer. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

The blond boy blows out a puff of smoke. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

From time to time they get up, unbuckling themselves laboriously, and hobble to the back of the plane, to smoke cigarettes and line up for the washroom. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Charles smoked a cigarette and drank his soda through a red-and-white-striped straw. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

On each floor as I passed, smoke and flame arose. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Behind him, a huge black cloud of smoke rose. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

An orange blaze and a trail of smoke in the forest. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

The first time he tried to smoke it made him sick, but he persevered, and spun the packet out for a long time, smoking half a cigarette after each meal. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

On weekends we lounged barefoot in drawstring pajamas, drinking tea and smoking Rothmans, or set out to watch cricket at Lord’s. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

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

He just stood there, listening and inhaling his cigarette smoke. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

The fire instantly died, and only smoke remained. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z

‘I went round there in person. Her name’s Claudette. She smokes Charisma cigarettes.’ The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

The house and barn were gone, and smoking piles of ash and charred wood were all that remained. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

I lit a cigarette and watched the smoke climb toward a light in the ceiling. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

Men in baseball caps and tank tops played pool, clouds of cigarette smoke hovering over the green tables, swirling in the fluorescent light. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Lit windows, smoke from the chimneys, bunches of brightly colored corn affixed to the front doors as decoration for the upcoming Harvest Festival. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

On a hot day, the gray smoke from the cars makes for sunsets with the strongest colors. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was an old man in front of the yard smoking a badly carved wooden pipe. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

Once in a while people hung out in the lot and smoked weed and drank and yelled and fought. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

To clear things up, a tweeker is someone who smokes or snorts speed. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

It’s the Mayor, shouting his first words ever to me in person, thru sheets of smoke and heat that make him look all wavy. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

The train disappeared over the horizon; all that was left was thick, dirty smoke. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Worse, I knew that die smoke might have blotted out the lines of rocks that spelled help. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Our clothes always start out that way, too, but once we take them back to 109, the smoke smell grabs them and holds on tight. Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z

Spotting a duck or some other flying prey, he would take aim and fire until the air was laced with smoke and blood drained into the soil. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Next he rolled a cigarette, and, quietly smoking, he listened woozily to faint meadowlark songs drifting melodically on the clear summer air. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

And then I could taste her again, the wine and the cigarette smoke and the Chap Stick and Alaska, and I wondered if she had kissed me because she was drunk. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

“Say, got a smoke for an old man?” Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

Armelio is playing solitaire in the back of the hall, by the smoking lounge. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

Some swear it was Jack Ford, with his Hendrix records and split-level room attached to the roof for late-night smoke breaks. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

The velocity of the burn was such that it flung the door open, blew the stovepipe loose, and sent white smoke gushing into the yard, along with us and the dogs. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

Lizzie’s granddaddy was not sitting on the doorstep smoking his pipe, and Turner felt the loneliness of the place. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

We sat side by side, not speaking, only smoking, facing the interior of the museum. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

The redhead lit it with exaggerated care and blew a careful smoke ring. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

The smell of cigarette smoke and fried eggs greeted me, and I sauntered into the kitchen like I’d come from my bedroom, still bleary-eyed and sleepy. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

I could see Favell leaning back in his car behind us and smoking a cigarette. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

It felt like smoking marijuana was my patriotic right. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

Gray mist creatures churned all around me, whispering rags of smoke that I somehow knew were the spirits of the dead. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

They looked out at the windows; one smoked. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

“He used to smoke more than anybody before he got it, too.” Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

“Yes, dear,” he answered, with a glance following a misty puff of smoke. The Awakening 1899-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I saw what I saw, and I saw smoke coming out of the chimney today,” the short one said. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Carlyle hurries out and returns in seconds with a branding iron, red-hot and smoking, as if it had been waiting just outside. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

Like the boys, some of them smoked cigarettes. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Matches were easy to find because both his parents smoked, and soon he had a fire going. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

Scented smoke rose from braziers that lined the winding streets. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

He’d lit a smudge and a candle so that his face was clear in the handful of light and obscured by the handfuls of smoke. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

I stood up again in Engel’s cloud of smoke—hadn’t even ordered anything, just as well as it always panics me to have to speak French to strangers. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

They’re mostly cops and insurance salesmen who bet on football games and smoke disgusting cigars. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

He looked above the tip of the island, hoping he might at least see the smoke rising from Lizzie’s house, but he couldn’t make it out at all. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z