They found a little gold, a little silver, a great sack of copper pennies, and a dented goblet set with garnets that two soldiers almost came to blows over. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

The soldier crumpled to the ground, shrieking, a hand-shaped hole melted through his camo. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

Originally, historians stated that roughly 620,000 soldiers and sailors, about 2 percent of the population, were killed in the Civil War. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

The extra they produced fed the tiny minority of elites—kings, government officials, soldiers, priests, artists and thinkers—who fill the history books. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

“On our work details, the soldiers were strict with us—they would scream at us and even hit us—but I never saw them shoot anyone, like they did in other places,” Jack said. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

The soldiers had halted and taken cover as well as they could. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The nurse was removing the head bandage, and the sister was cutting away the soldiers trousers. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Maybe a soldier who had slept in this very bunk had been killed in the war. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

I do not know how long I stood upon the bridge with fire behind me and gunshot around me and soldiers galloping away from the enemy, clutching their muskets to their chests. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

Wright’s attack is so well choreographed that many of his soldiers are literally miles in front of the main Union force. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

“Asleep? And the woman’s alone? No soldiers with her?” The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

A shell detonates not far away, and the echoes of the blast shunt down between the wrecked houses, and the soldier in the street claps a hand over his helmet. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Ingrid spooled the soft scarf from the German soldier around her neck. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

I glance at the other soldiers before looking back at him. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

“I thought things settled down at Central once they called the soldiers in.” The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

On our trip to town, I had noticed that the soldiers seemed to be everywhere. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

By overhearing the guards and prisoners talking, Zeitoun realized the prison had been given at least two nicknames by the guards and soldiers. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

A soldier must've hit me with the butt of a rifle. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

Now Fifth Harbor offered berths to mercher ships, as well as boats from all over the world carrying tourists and soldiers eager to see the sights and sample the pleasures of Ketterdam. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

The soldiers stood outside the shelters, simply sent the fire in. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

With the soldiers there, my best option remained the same: stay with the bonobos while I waited for my parents to get through and rescue me. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

He thinks about the storm trooper earlier that day, how he said Germany needs soldiers. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

He was aware of the score of soldiers starting to surround him, and probably he could have made a few of them perspire for their victory. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

One group of soldiers beat Abraham until be almost died, and also punched me and bit me with sticks. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Three hours later, after encountering wave after never-ending wave of blue-clad soldiers—too many for his men to beat back— Gordon sent word back to Lee that he had “fought my corps to a frazzle.” Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

When Lancelot looked back again, without seeing any soldiers, he found the lady sitting beside him with no head on. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

He did not care for any of the officers, with their superior sneers and the way they treated their soldiers like sheep. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

To distance the thought he made himself count the two or three soldiers in the circle he reckoned bigger or stronger than himself. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

One of the soldiers walked up close and shot him and then aimed at the bottles of liquor lined up behind and shot those. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Poppy said Abu Hamra’s family had their well closed in by Israeli soldiers a few years ago after his nephew was suspected of throwing stones at an Israeli tank. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

After the missionaries come teachers and doctors, bureaucrats and soldiers. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

It reminded me of when Heritage came home, all bloody from serving as a child soldier, and I was afraid of him. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

Detectives and soldiers were searching the Maryland countryside, hunting the murderer. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her shoes clatter against the wooden planks faintly, under the heavier sound of soldiers' boots. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

There were dead German soldiers, he said, propped up in the shop windows like mannequins. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

A few minutes later, two soldiers, a man and a woman, came out of a back room. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

We sit opposite one another, Kat and I, two soldiers in shabby coats, cooking a goose in the middle of the night. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

The life of a soldier was.not without certain compensations. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

There are soldiers inside the apartment, turning over chairs, ransacking drawers. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Knowing Sam I was pretty sure he was trying to score telling points from the other soldiers he was with. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were let off at some barracks that Mama said had been a center for Japanese soldiers who were being shipped out during the war. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

June stands by as soldiers chain me to the wall again. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

On September 14, the army took control of the momentarily independent Republic of Congo, and Lumumba was put under house arrest in Léopoldville, surrounded by Mobutu’s freshly purchased soldiers. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was playing several small roles, my most dramatic being that of a soldier who dies a bloody death in one of the battle scenes. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

The soldiers are still hesitating—but one of them calls out to me. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

Casually, the young soldier stood and lumbered after. The Fighting Ground 1984-04-01T00:00:00Z

I met Ella’s second husband, Frank, who was now a soldier; and her brother Earl, the singer who called himself Jimmy Caiieton; and Mary, who was very different from her older sister. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

One soldier bitterly observed, I went to war, served eight months in France; I was married, but I didn’t claim exemption. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

The soldiers drag me out of my cell. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

“Watch your mouth, soldier,” the captain’s voice assumed captain’s status. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

As in prior wars, this one presented scientists with the challenge of helping soldiers and their commanders figure out how to take advantage of technology rather than be overwhelmed by it. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

The soldiers on the streets were back to work with their shovels and axes. I Survived the American Revolution, 1776 2017-08-01T00:00:00Z

Bands of soldiers were waiting there to strike each man down before he could join himself to others. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

On the way home, she passed by Main Street and was shocked to see it filled with North Korean soldiers. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

Aureliano Segundo, who was still waiting for it to clear, opened the door to six soldiers under the command of an officer. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

Nate might not be a real soldier, but he sure looked like one. I Survived the American Revolution, 1776 2017-08-01T00:00:00Z

In a split second the soldiers pounced on him. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

They were wearing a different uniform from the combat soldiers outside, but they carried the same hardware and had the same placid expressions. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was no way to reach the harbor unless they walked over the soldiers. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

To continue the war with any hope of victory, Washington would have to rely more on his spies than on his soldiers. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

All at once, from nowhere, other soldiers appeared and made their presence known by holding on to their nightsticks and moving toward us slowly. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“What difference is there between a mother and a soldier? None.” Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z

Union soldiers are digging trenches and fortifications along the road and reinforcing them with fallen trees and fence rails to protect themselves from rebel bullets. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

I told myself I had to be like a soldier in battle. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was never seen again after the soldiers took him away. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I expected the answer I got—that no soldier had been there. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

The emissary was slightly surprised at the ease of his task, but could find no objection, so he turned the soldiers and the box around and began to travel back to the palace. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

He raised his arms as a shield, but they did not protect him from the blows of the soldiers’ fists and rifle stocks. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The soldiers had stayed on in Alexandria after restoring Ptolemy XII to power. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z

On the morrow, we all know, rebel and soldier alike, that the rebel shall muster with impudence; and we shall invade; and the battle shall be joined. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

Sheltered from the snow, the cold, and Russian soldiers, I finally felt safe. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

Scipio stamped his foot so forcefully that he crushed one of the little soldiers. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

When Cleopatra finally arrived to take Mark Antony and the survivors back to Alexandria, she found the soldiers in rags and Mark Antony in despair. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z

Their mother told him to go ahead and obey the soldiers because she was afraid that they would kill Lionel on the spot if he put up more of a fight. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

He saw a soldier once that was run over by an army lorry and that’s what he looked like, salmon. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

Then the departing soldiers stood in a group and sang the song. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

And while we wait, the gentlemen, soldiers, carpenters, laborers, and servants all discuss their ideas about the New World. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

His soldiers moved about twenty paces behind the action. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

For my part, I merely watched young, deprived female bosoms panting before my handsome husband, soldier of the Lord. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

“She was a good soldier. Good woman. This kid Frank proved his stuff tonight. Happy late birthday, kid. Time you stepped up to a real man’s weapon.” The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

Jinjoo bowed deeply and thanked the man and then noticed that he was a North Korean soldier. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

In the distance to the right we see Judas and the soldiers coming to arrest the Lord. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

A soldier hurried over and hit the monkey with a double load of ketamine, and the monkey went limp. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Every time she ate the head off one soldier, another grew up in its place, with a green military coat and a yellow busby. Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z

I don’t know how to go to school with soldiers. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The advantage to this version of the simulation,” she says, her eyes alight, “is that he can act independently, and is therefore far more effective than a mindless soldier.” Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

For him to stop the soldier leading it, saying he has orders to search one baby carriage for contraband. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

If you take the first one, you’re told, 400 of your soldiers will die. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

When two union sympathizers were shot on the steps of the county courthouse, five thousand union miners armed themselves to face the corporate gunmen and soldiers. Fannie Never Flinched 2016-11-21T00:00:00Z

Then two more soldiers were coming at us. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

The soldiers had gone to the house; they had shot him to make sure he would never publish anything again. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

The police station was in full alarm, with officers and soldiers rushing in and out of the building. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

They had to stay just ahead of the oncoming soldiers. In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z

After a long ride in boxcars with soldiers jammed shoulder to shoulder, we had an even longer march in the pouring rain. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

We contacted the occupying German authorities, but they were uninterested because she was not a soldier. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

The soldiers were a yard away, shoving friars and students from their path. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

Some of the soldiers leaned over to wave at Junha, making him laugh out loud. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

Lying on the floor all around me are Dauntless soldiers with their eyes closed. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

Plus, for all we knew, the soldiers were just trying to scare Senor Betafil and no one really got hurt. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

I leapt over the remains of a sentry fire, bumped into a gray- bearded soldier wearing a homespun shirt, and startled a man carrying two live hens by the feet. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

Jack and the others were pushed aboard by the soldiers, who were shouting at them to move forward and to stay silent. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

Briony went to a bedside and plucked at the sleeve of a soldier who lay faceup, cradling his arm which had slipped its sling. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

If he were a soldier, he would fight bravely for Germany, just as Hitler fought in the Great War. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

One soldier grabs him by the arm and pulls him off the ground, but his knees buckle. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The soldiers carried the coffin into the street and loaded it onto the back of a simple, horse-drawn wagon. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

As they did, the old soldier edged forward, the rope trailing, and yanked open the door, then leaped to one side. The Fighting Ground 1984-04-01T00:00:00Z

From the mouth of the gravel road emerged a long line of Israeli soldiers. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z

The soldier termites fastened onto these and were pulled up and eaten. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

Many a woman, white or black, waving to her husband as the trains of soldiers pulled out of the station, harbored anxiety alongside her sadness and pride, worried about how to make ends meet. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

He was commander of the militia soldiers in southern Virginia. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

His job was to clean up after the Republic's soldiers, so he was usually gone, and Mom was left to raise us boys on her own. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

“But you have the soldier’s observation for detail. You notice without noticing, so to speak.” Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

What really caused indignation in the town was not the results of the elections but the fact that the soldiers had not returned the weapons. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

“Maybe I made a mistake. You’ve learned the dumb resistance of a soldier.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

A platoon of thirty soldiers or even a company of a hundred soldiers can function well on the basis of intimate relations, with a minimum of formal discipline. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Inside, soldiers were making a mess of the house. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

“You’re not getting away!” the soldier said in a tone that would have been mocking if it weren’t so vicious. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

Outside, other soldiers were laughing at the handler. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

American soldiers were winning individual battles, and the kill ratio was favorable—about 2.5 to 1. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

The area would be enclosed with high walls; the few gates would be guarded at all times by German soldiers. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

I was already tired down to my bones from the sleepless night before, and the scent of the soldier’s boot polish sent my head deeper into a fog. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

While he continued to operate his farm as such farms were operated in the neighborhood, he entered on a new career— that of the old soldier. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Shady eased in after him and the two hunkered down like soldiers in the trenches, their backs up against the wall. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

There had to be thousands of soldiers here. I Survived the American Revolution, 1776 2017-08-01T00:00:00Z

Miss Whitlaw darted a poisonous glance at the demon who had guided the soldiers over here. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

The judge's voice crackles over the JumboTrons' loudspeakers, but the people continue to shout, and soldiers push back against them. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

Hours later, the soldier came round from his anesthetic and muttered the student nurse’s name while the surgical ward sister was standing close by. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

The soldiers, petrified with fear, froze where they were. The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

The police and soldiers were in the city to prevent the widespread looting everyone had heard about. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

It wasn’t just the soldiers Johnson worried about. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

From miles away comes the thunder of big guns, and still the German transport trains are being hit, bending tracks and flipping cattle cars and maiming the fuhrer’s soldiers and filling his officers with fury. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

The eyes that had been on me lifted two by two, and the soldier never came back to finish his personal brand of torment. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

The tall soldier was sitting near the fire, which he had managed to light, his head nodding as he tried to fend off sleep. The Fighting Ground 1984-04-01T00:00:00Z

At one o’clock, the move out began with a call for the soldiers to assemble. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

For the first time it really hit Nate: This war wasn’t just about King George and soldiers on battlefields. I Survived the American Revolution, 1776 2017-08-01T00:00:00Z

In the beginning, the chief was all-powerful and ruled the village with his enforcer soldiers. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

But every soldier believes in Chance and trusts his luck. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

A long time dead but living still among the other soldiers on that monument in Washington, D.C. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

Being weary from the march, the soldiers stopped to offer sacrifices at the temple. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

With a little food in him, he is strong enough to get up and help the soldiers. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

"Look at me. Bandaging up a criminal like you when I could be helping soldiers from the warfront." Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

But the lad had lived among the soldiers when they were there and he had listened to their tales of war and plunder and battle, and he listened rapt to it all, saying nothing. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

My father had told me how Communist soldiers were trying to make the city of Wuchang surrender by starving it to death. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

All I wanted was to remember those hours forever, remember the sight of the once proud soldiers straggling past us in abject defeat. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

“It was while she was on the Block. They try to ferret out a soldier’s potential weaknesses. So they flooded the street,” says Haymitch. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

Realizing that the soldiers were starving was small consolation when, one morning, I smelled an awful sweet smoke as they burned corpses somewhere. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

Someone saw a North Vietnamese soldier, took a shot at him, and missed. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

I thought all of the soldiers were men until I made out a line of women in those green army uniforms and boots. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

Coupons are needed for everything, from flour to shoes, and yet the Nazis continue to press for war donations—more woolen clothing for the soldiers and German marks to buy cannons, tanks, and airplanes. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

With growing dismay, Jonathan gazed at the bodies, at the boy, at the remaining soldier, the old one. The Fighting Ground 1984-04-01T00:00:00Z

Though very crowded, I could see a group of soldiers crossing the far side. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

A total of 51,116 soldiers were killed, missing, or wounded. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

“I need Abeoji! Sunjin is in terrible trouble! The soldiers took him and his mother to prison. They said they were Communist collaborators!” Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

During the Great War, the German soldiers who occupied Poland were usually considerate of Poles, regardless of their faith. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

They were practically under the eyes of the soldiers, but step by step, from shadow to shadow, the dæmon crept with his little burden. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

South Vietnamese soldiers, stationed just down the road, had seen them enter and had opened fire on the village with rockets. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

She showed Amari how to walk with a limp and look with a vacant, stupid stare to make sure the soldiers would pass her by when they looked for women to come to their rooms. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

A competent soldier, but a man who works with an eye to the future, a slippery man, a careful soldier; he will build his reputation whatever the cost. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Rather than dismount, they work with other soldiers on the scene to make a corridor from one side of Tenth Street to the other. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

Just another sissy city soldier, I thought as I walked back to the hall. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

Through his wet eyelashes, he sees two Khmer Rouge soldiers, their rifles slung across their backs. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I swing back down, kicking one soldier in the head with my good leg. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

If the soldiers came to question him, he would say only that two strangers in need of medical assistance stopped briefly at his farm. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

He heard the sounds of the soldier pulling plastic gloves onto his hands. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

But the soldier was too far away, and the fever was too severe for Tayo to be sure of anything he had seen. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Came up to say hello, soldier. I’m between schools, so I’ve only got a few minutes. Couldn’t’ve seen you otherwise today. How are we doing?” The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

He knew that the Lakota warrior was a better war fighter than the Long Knife soldier. In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z

What will the soldiers do to Nan and Pop? An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

Dr. Taft sends a soldier to search nearby boardinghouses for an empty room. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

By that time German officers and soldiers were fleeing, doing their utmost to avoid capture by the rapidly approaching Soviet army. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

“No. I didn’t see any adults other than the soldiers,” I answered, feeling the pain in my shin and my stomach. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The gates opened, and soldiers marched into the yard. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

We'd see sixty, seventy soldiers in a row, Frenchmen, in horizon blue uniforms, all with eyes bandaged, walking with their hands touching the shoulder of the guy in front for direction. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

He’d been sitting behind me sharpening his bayonet and listening as I explained what a sennimbari meant to a Japanese soldier. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

The soldier kept us in tight formation, barking at us when anyone strayed too far. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

She was like a soldier, marching to nowhere, her head looking right then left. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

The hate and mistrust burning in the soldiers’ eyes might have shrunken my spine, but it only sparked rebellion in the older kids. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

The Tajik had said that if not for Massoud, the other man’s sister would still be “giving it” to Soviet soldiers. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

"Was it not you who told me warlocks were no more than old soldiers, vainly boasting of forgotten deeds and lost prowess?" A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Others hid in narrow trenches as Allied tanks passed overhead, and then leaped out fearlessly, blasting the tanks from behind, even though they knew it meant certain death from the next tank or foot soldiers. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

Early in the morning, reading a graphic description of combat wounds suffered by American soldiers, Gravel began to cry. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

The daily birdsongs were gone, replaced now by the raising of firing levers as the older soldiers readied themselves. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

“Is that far enough ?” The soldier who saw everything twice nodded weakly and sank back on his bed. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

In their coveralls and helmets, they reminded me of newsreels I’d seen of soldiers slogging off to the front. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

“I would think,” said Trefusis, “that to make a man a good soldier, you first must make a man worth losing.” The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

I keep up my act for another few minutes, gagging twice more as the soldiers continue to watch me. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

With a jerk the older soldier grabbed the rope away from the younger one and marched Jonathan along the road with them. The Fighting Ground 1984-04-01T00:00:00Z

Fear is part of being a soldier, something that you live with and battle as long as you’re fighting. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

I thought the soldiers would be against such black-market foreign exchange, but they didn’t seem to care. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

A young soldier came by with a plastic bag full of some kind of tablets. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

The soldier passed by with only the merest glance. The Whipping Boy 1986-04-01T00:00:00Z

He had one experience like this with the Orsini soldiers, when he attacked Bologna after the seizure of Faenza and saw them go reluctantly into that battle. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z

It was founded in the immediate aftermath of the Civil War by six former Confederate soldiers in Pulaski, Tennessee. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

The soldier’s dæmon was growling and nuzzling at the sergeant’s, who had fallen into a semi-stupor. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

The Duke of Berry had lost a kingdom through the unpopularity which he earned by feeling sorry for eight hundred foot soldiers who had been killed in a battle. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

The soldier’s theory was that most of the people we were likely to meet would be English people but he also said That doesn’t mean they won’t shoot you on sight. How I Live Now 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

In their place, the soldiers hung portraits of Adolf Hitler. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

With precision, she hopped over the front seat and sat like an obedient soldier midboat, where there was more room. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

A young soldier stepped into the driver's seat. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

Keeping an eye on the old soldier, Jonathan tentatively plucked at the rope that held him. The Fighting Ground 1984-04-01T00:00:00Z

He had come home from the war and seen in his own eyes the disturbed empty reaches he’d seen in the eyes of other soldiers he’d known. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

He was supposed to get me a few hours ago to relieve him, but he tried to soldier through the night on his own. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

Then I saw the soldier between us, writhing on the ground, a bullet torn through the shoulder of his coat. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

Routed from their positions in total disarray, tens of thousands of South Vietnamese soldiers deserted. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

“Old soldier’s trick,” I said as I set off. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then, standing a little straighter, the soldier began to speak. The Fighting Ground 1984-04-01T00:00:00Z

Ethel responded like a soldier who comes in his cushion age upon the sergeant who trained him. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

I hadn’t really seen many true soldiers, and I wondered what they were like. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

I still wasn’t moving fast enough for the soldier. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

Using a large crane, soldiers eased the five-foot-wide ball of explosives out of the truck bed and set it down on the sand. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then Pinmei realized she was looking at the soldiers through the posts of the covered pathway. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

I turned my attention away from the woman heckling me as the soldiers paraded down the aisle with military precision. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

For the whole first year America was in the war, there were no photographs of dead American soldiers in any American newspaper. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

I tossed and turned all night, worrying that the soldiers would be gone the next day. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then Bear picked up the steward, held him over his head, and flung him bodily through the air at the soldiers. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

I feared that the soldiers might harm her. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z

The soldiers, standing still, seemed to be growing more nervous. The Fighting Ground 1984-04-01T00:00:00Z

I listened to what the newscasters said about the soldiers harming civilians and doing worse. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

The only Jews we knew were the Israeli soldiers. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z

In fact, I'm almost certain that the soldiers have been back at least once, because the X is bright and the paint's fresh. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

One troop of soldiers didn’t look like the others, but they were too distant for a clear view. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Along with Finnick and Gale, the squad includes five soldiers from 13. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

Chinese executed women who disguised themselves as soldiers or students, no matter how bravely they fought or how high they scored on the examinations. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

So was I. “Careful, now,” the soldier warned her. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

Alas, Egyptian mines were tapped out; the Ptolemies were therefore constantly on the make for gold and silver to pay their soldiers. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z

I looked at the ledger in front of the soldier. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

Even as I did, the great doors—hauled by soldiers—swung in and shut. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

No few had fallen, renowned or nameless, captain or soldier; for it was a great battle and the full count of it no tale has told. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

“We were so frightened. We heard about the soldiers shooting anyone they found in the streets.” Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had thought all the NVA soldiers were dedicated to the Communist cause. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

Mohamed and I ran as fast as we could back home before the soldiers started shooting. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

To recruit potential soldiers, Waffen-SS officers visited the Reich Labor Service camps. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

“Did your parents report your symptoms to the soldiers?” The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

Lack of soap and water and toilet facilities weren’t the only problems that the Soviet soldiers faced in terms of hygiene. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

In many places militia members far outnumbered soldiers in the professional Continental Army led by George Washington. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

Two soldiers pick up the boy's body and take him away to the cremation chambers. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

It was a young soldier with a goofy, gap-toothed smile. I Survived the American Revolution, 1776 2017-08-01T00:00:00Z

All of a sudden, a soldier in one of the last trucks waved at them and said something. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

Unable to speak, I raise my hands and give the signal, my skin crawling as word passes down the battlefield from soldier to soldier. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

True to their word, the soldiers returned Davi to her parents the next morning. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Tonya put in a radio call to soldiers on the ground and told them that their Pe-2 was in trouble. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

But instead of stopping him, the unsuspecting soldiers ignore the black man and run right past Powell. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

“Very nice. Mark him down,” she told the soldier. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

The driver and the soldier had finished strapping the walnut chest to the back of the carriage. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

Supposedly this Devil One person was going to get one million dollars from the United States to pay soldiers to do that, go against the very person they all just elected. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Their task was to get behind the soldiers. In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z

“They are reenactors. They come here and play the part of soldiers. They talk to the tourists.” In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z

Sitti told the soldiers, “He’s not home,” because that was the way she talked about him—as if he might turn the corner any moment. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

The land was quickly disappearing, the soldiers looking like miniatures of themselves as they dragged another coffle of slaves into another small boat. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Are there any soldiers in the village?” he said to Lyra. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

With sudden comprehension, the young soldier sat up, knocking Jonathan away so hard the boy fell backward. The Fighting Ground 1984-04-01T00:00:00Z

For we discover that some of them always lived nobly and demonstrated great strength of character, yet nevertheless lost their empire or were killed by their own soldiers who plotted against them. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z

It was wrong that he hadn’t been allowed to retrieve any possessions, and he felt that the treatment by the cops and soldiers had been rough. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

“Spice soldiers and cheese lords,” his lord father called them, with contempt. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Fritz told Sophie that the soldiers needed warm gloves, sweaters, and socks, but she argued with him, refusing to donate to the Winter Help. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

People are at their doors on Barrack Road and Roden Lane telling me it’s grand to see me back, that I’m a great soldier, a credit to my father and mother. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

A toy soldier, sighting down the barrel of a rifle pressed tight to its hard green cheek, aiming at whatever happened to be in the way. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

She brightened as she saw the ruthless soldiers arrive, and they smiled back. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

My mother had escaped El Generalissimo’s soldiers, leaving her own mother behind. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

Commander Jameson leads the soldiers to a flat circular stand in the middle of the roof, a stand with the Republic's seal embedded in it and strings of heavy chains hooked around its rim. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

But when order is restored at Black-cliff, Serra’s ports will shut down, the legionnaires will bar the city gates, and the streets and tunnels will be flooded with soldiers. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

Those soldier boys that went back to the States after Vietnam. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

The young soldier grabbed the shovel from him and Hung in the rest of the dirt. The Fighting Ground 1984-04-01T00:00:00Z

The soldiers searched the barn and other buildings on the farm but found nothing. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

She told me about how he and his fellow soldiers were intimidated, arrested, and beaten for failing to comply with government rules about carrying personal identification cards. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

After that she dared not look at the little soldier again—until Fenoglio put his hand on her arm. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

The house was still empty of soldiers and their wives. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

When he finished, the soldier lifted the knife and began to scratch at Lourdes’s belly with great concentration. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

“But nothing. This is no time to satisfy a whim and unravel everything you’ve accomplished. There’ll be enough of a circus, what with the soldiers, FBI, city police, and who knows all.” Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was a soldier standing with his girl in the shadow of one of the stone buttresses ahead of us and we passed them. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

I allowed myself to become hypnotized by the sight of soldiers executing their duties. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

In truth, the soldiers barely looked at me as I passed through an entryway crowned by statues of Mary and Jesus, plus other saints whose names I did not know. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

“They are soldiers and people are cheering because the war is over,” he replies quietly. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I never forgot the pitiful sight of those dead soldiers, some without heads or arms, some with legs missing, and rifles bent or snapped in two. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

President John Kennedy, elected in 1960, increased the number of American soldiers from a few hundred to over sixteen thousand. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

The other soldiers hurry back into their formations. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

"Come to the parade. Watch Germany awaken. Germany needs soldiers like you, to fight for the Fatherland." The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

Jonathan looked down at the rope, then at the soldier, who was holding it and watching him. The Fighting Ground 1984-04-01T00:00:00Z

There weren’t many of them left: the soldiers had cut most of the wood for lumber and firewood. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The streets are dark and I have to keep an eye out in case I might be lucky like Malachy long ago and find fish and chips dropped by drunken soldiers. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

He saw tents there, and military vehicles, and a dozen or so police officers and soldiers. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

As winter settled in, the German radio blared out urgent appeals for Winter Help, a program to aid the soldiers and German families living in German-occupied territories. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

Then he washed the two soldiers down with bleach, spraying it all over them, and pounded on the door that led to the staging room. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He picked up the toy soldier and began to retrace his trail. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

“Consider this a pop quiz. This soldier’s identity should motivate you to get it right.” Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

It is, in the mind of one Confederate soldier, “the crudest marching order the commanders had ever given the men in four years of fighting.” Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

One of the soldiers had a pair of scissors. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

“Okay, Mr. Teacher! See you!” the soldier said and Ugwu thought he saw a glimmer of triumph in his eyes, the illiterate fool. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Thrusting out his chin and holding his head high, he tells the soldiers he is ready to go. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“But we might need your old superhuman soldier brain to hack it.” The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

Bernhardt played the part of a French soldier who had lost his leg in the War. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

One of the soldiers stopped, lifted his gun, and fired. The Fighting Ground 1984-04-01T00:00:00Z

“The soldiers with the hard white hats and clubs. The girls were crying. ‘Did we do anything wrong?’ they said. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

Thus momentarily we have the two things a soldier needs for contentment: good food and rest. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

He went to his top dresser drawer and retrieved a bayonet he had found on a decayed Japanese soldier near an airfield in the Philippines. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

The crowd melted under the eyes of the armed soldiers. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

She moved around like a tin soldier, her legs stiff, trying in vain to grab the rope with her teeth. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

One soldier almost caught it, his very fingertips touching the page, but another sudden wind burst through the air and stole it away. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

When we met the following day with President Habib Bourguiba, his response was utterly positive and immediate: he offered training for our soldiers and five thousand pounds for weapons. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

But now, standing before the General, Thorn looked like a silly wannabe soldier. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

"Gudanod, worms," yelled one of the soldiers, “tell us what we want to know! ” The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

She could hear echoing noises coming closer—the stomping boots, the bangs as the soldiers forced open doors not opened quickly enough, the shouted questions. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

The muffled drums now beating, now steadily rolling, spread a dead silence upon the air, a prayer tor the unknown soldier. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Oppenheimer wasn’t fit to be a soldier, Groves acknowledged. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

They struggled to their feet, and keeping bent, limping like footsore soldiers, they shuffled back towards the rear of the line. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

In this same war movie, the American soldier goes home and he falls to his knees asking another girl to marry him. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Only good thing was that after that battle, no one could say that the coloreds couldn’t be good soldiers too. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

We were formed in ranks, with Russian soldiers guarding us—Englishmen, Americans, Dutchmen, Belgians, Frenchmen, Canadians, South Africans, New Zealanders, Australians, thousands of us about to stop being prisoners of war. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Depending on who you talked to, he was an inventor, a scientist, a soldier, or even a lunatic—or maybe all of the above. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

By now, soldiers have found a partition usually used to divide the state box. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

Hundreds of people lined the riverbank.The soldiers were forcing some of them into the water, prodding them with their rifle butts, shooting into the air. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then she walks away and disappears into the elevator with the Girl, leaving the rest of the soldiers to stand guard. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

Above the mob, soldiers were trying to figure out who in the fleeing crowd had caught the monster’s eye. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

“Don’t tell them anything, syndrigastiV’ shouted Bekhir—and then one of the soldiers kicked him in the stomach, and he groaned and fell quiet. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

One day, without warning, Amari and the rest of the women were brought into the center of the prison by the white soldiers, who chained their hands behind them and shackled their feet as well. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

Because flying was still very risky and extremely expensive, we took a troop ship filled with soldiers and sailors, which fairly crawled across the water. This Side of Wild 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

The surprised soldier pulls the trigger and the noise of the explosion warns her lover away. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

“After all,” Brinker continued, “there is a war on. Here’s one soldier our side has already lost. We’ve got to find out what happened.” A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

We imitated the soldiers, pointing our fingers or pointing bananas, spoons, or slippers at one another and making the sounds of shooting. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z

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 old man had been a good soldier for too long; you cannot worry about Ewell. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Why do you do this, my brother?” he whispered when out of earshot of the white soldiers. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

The soldier then moves on to the next family. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

And then, holding their heads high, the young soldiers drove into captivity. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

The soldiers roam our village daily, looking for young, able-bodied men to recruit into their army. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He should be a fine soldier, and sometimes is, but he is often ill for no apparent reason. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The soldiers shove me toward a raised block of cement in the center of the platform. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

“I don’t care what she says,” muttered Dolorous Edd, as Val vanished behind a stand of soldier pines. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Don’t I have the soldier’s blood in me? Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

When they were done marching, the men would practice loading their muskets quickly, which seemed to Nate to be the hardest part of being a soldier. I Survived the American Revolution, 1776 2017-08-01T00:00:00Z

The Allied occupation consisted of Western soldiers, mostly Americans, who were stationed in Japan to restore order and tell the Japanese people how to make a new government. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

The soldiers reappear in the doorway, this time dragging another man. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

Then she came back to the phone and said that yesterday soldiers had gone to the small, nondescript rooms that served as the offices of the Standard. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

A wagon driven by a king’s soldier and piled high with spoons and bowls and kettles was making its way to the castle. The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z

Erect, rifles at their sides, their faces stern, the soldiers did not make eye contact as they surrounded us in a protective cocoon. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Terrified and screaming, civilians and German soldiers tumbled and leaped into the icy water, grabbing for chairs, oars, life vests. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Nel sat opposite, facing both her mother and the soldiers, neither of whom she could look at. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

They will think they can use soldiers to frighten us, and we’ll always have to obey them. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The grenadier likely dead by now, had been a soldier of the Tenth. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

All sorts of people went about their business—tradesmen and soldiers and officials and many monks. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

“You’ll go one at a time,” Brullo said, and behind them a pair of soldiers rolled out a cart of bows and quivers loaded with arrows. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

He bounded past Lyra almost in a blur and crashed into the Tartars, scattering soldiers, daemons, rifles to all sides. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

His soldiers set out in the night and went to the meadows of Fenlo; but they couldn’t get down the rabbit holes. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

And this highlights a theme that runs through almost every Soviet female soldier’s story of the Great Patriotic War: War is gendered, and it is not feminine. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

To further complicate the psychological torment of this terrifying end, Kind Herod, who had encouraged Salome to dance for him in the first place, orders his soldiers to kill his stepdaughter there and then. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

This set a precedent for using federal soldiers to enforce corporate interests against labor. Fannie Never Flinched 2016-11-21T00:00:00Z

My dad begged the soldiers to take him instead of Heritage, arguing that his son was too young, but they didn’t listen. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

Each jeep contained six soldiers and a vast quantity of thick rope and heavy chains. The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I wanted to see whether the army has any discipline these days. Good boy. I knew it would be good for you. You’re a man and a soldier, my boy.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

The next thing Lefty knows, he’s sharing a sofa with three Greek soldiers, looking across at seven plump, perfumed women sharing two sofas opposite. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

A Khmer Rouge soldier comes over to us. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The soldiers were already going from tent to tent dragging out those who were still asleep and splashing buckets of water on them. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

“Unchain him,” I order one of the soldiers. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

What was I doing dressed in soldier's garb, with an oversized sword dragging the floor at my side? The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

“Quickly, quickly,” the soldiers called, gesturing with their guns. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

And then the bus began to slow down and the trees were replaced by soldiers with big guns, all aiming at the road, at the bus. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

One day a soldier entered the clinic compound carrying a gun. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

Every soldier in New York was marching up island to attend the hanging of Thomas Hickey, the man who almost assassinated General George Washington. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was reassuring to see the young soldier’s head nod in agreement— until he added, “God and Trujillo willing.” In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

A soldier in a Biafran Army uniform and a helmet walked past them, speaking a mangled Pidgin English that made little sense, his voice too loud. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

All the soldiers were watching the desk guard to see what he would do. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

This is the type of soldier who tries to learn Dutch and gives children pieces of candy. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

Slept more than 24 hours, flat out, which is just as well because that was the day when the farm was simply crawling with German soldiers. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

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 assume you made someone angry," she says, then snaps her fingers at the soldiers. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

The Israeli soldier shouted at them and they got scared. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

When the 46th Guards were quietly idling their engines, maybe the cowering soldiers below imagined that the swooping wings sounded eerily like witch’s broomsticks soaring through the dark sky. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

Doctor Warren was standing on the guardhouse steps, telling Miss Lyte that her father must be allowed to finish the night out on the bed the soldiers had made up for him. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Olanna saw the four ragged soldiers carrying a corpse on their shoulders. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Me and Monaco went around the side of the hut and saw two Cong soldiers trying to pull an American into the bushes. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

The soldier pressed her lips together, as though trying to force her words inside. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

Three other soldiers were hit as they were running along the street. I Survived the American Revolution, 1776 2017-08-01T00:00:00Z

But Allen wasn’t a foot soldier in the civil rights struggle anymore. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

“Not my boy. You don’t involve anymore Meekers in this terrible war. Send your own child out to play soldier if you want, Stephen Betts, but no more of mine.” My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

As I stared at him, there was suddenly a loud Bang! from right next to me and one of the buttons on the Japanese soldier’s uniform shattered. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s an error to believe that most soldiers are fearless. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

Minya’s “soldiers” were everywhere, armed with knives and other kitchen tools. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

His hands stayed clenched—one on the crutch grip, one on the toy soldier. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

“General Lee is the soldier of the age, the soldier of the age.” The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

An elderly woman fainted, and before people around her could help her get up, a soldier rushed over and hit her hard with his gun. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

It contained only four soldiers, each manning an oar. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were stunned to see that the Twenty- fifth contained black soldiers from a new branch of the army known as the USCT—the United States Colored Troops. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

In the background of his speech, gunshots and angry soldiers, cursing and jubilating, almost drowned him out. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

"My father worked with American soldiers in Afghanistan. He was a translator." The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Soviet women soldiers waged a private battle against men’s underwear the whole time they were fighting their invading enemy, the German army. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

The soldiers fire a volley of bullets at me. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

I imagined Ade Coker being pulled out of his car, being squashed into another car, perhaps a black station wagon filled with soldiers, their guns hanging out of the windows. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

The area was swarming with soldiers and vigilantes and Isaac knew that in order to survive, they’d have to keep moving. How I Live Now 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Frankly, I really shouldn’t hang out with them at all, since I tend to end up evacuating small soldiers while indulging depraved thoughts after watching them flirt with each other for hours. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z

Jonathan suddenly realized that he had never seen an enemy soldier before. The Fighting Ground 1984-04-01T00:00:00Z

Then the last thing anyone needed was a bunch of infected soldiers running through the streets. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

Mr. Flux told his brave soldier, “Thank you Bed Time! Your sacrifice will not be forgotten.” The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

My eyes dare not blink as the soldier raises the hammer above his head. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

A young militia soldier was checking tickets at the bus door. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

But aside from its great size, it was the soldiers about the doors that made me hold back. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

“If my masters were to complain about the annoyance caused by his soldier...” the woman said, drawing herself up to her fullest height to gaze directly into his eyes. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

I tensed, sure one of the soldiers would shoot him, but they let him continue. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

Dunbar broke through and leaped up furiously on the soldier in white’s bed to see for himself, pressing his gleaming eye down hungrily against the tattered black hole in the shell of white bandages. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

Two soldiers came into the house and told the sergeant doctor that the lieutenant had sent them to help take me back to our former base. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

Land Rovers created clouds of dust while a helicopter hovered above the soldiers. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z

A soldier has his arm outstretched, obviously organizing them into rows. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

But the Russian soldier shouted something that made the other two flinch. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Among our new arrivals there are two young soldiers with flat feet. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

Others joined the soldiers, who had started looting shops. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

Soon there was a line of soldiers coming down. In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z

Watched over by armed soldiers during the week, they left the briefing room only for meals and sleep. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

These things always brought about the downfall of those emperors who, by nature or experience, did not have so great a reputation that they could keep both the people and the soldiers in check. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z

"But there were soldiers loitering on the corner. I didn't think it was safe to walk past them, so I hid in an alley like a street beggar until they left." Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

If only Dorian had been born a soldier, not a reader. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

See, while I was working with the brigades in one of the mountain villages, I met this really cute soldier. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

“Come on, baby,” he heard the drunken soldier urge determinedly. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

Up ahead of us, a soldier motions for us to pull over to the side of the road, along with the other cars. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

She pushed one of them aside and went into the former classroom, where a group of half-dressed soldiers were oiling their weapons. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

The streets in the Abnegation sector, now crawling with Dauntless soldiers. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

A soldier comes running at me, his clothes aflame. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

All the soldiers assembled at the village square, dressed in their uniforms, carrying their weapons and ammunition in backpacks and waist belts. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

‘The soldiers will leave me alone, an old woman on her own. It would be more dangerous for me to travel with you.” A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

“No, he’s not! He’s Dr. Han’s son. The doctor who’s taking care of all the wounded soldiers.” Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

I saw other 101st soldiers standing at intervals along the hall. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I turned back to make sure there really was a soldier following me. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some soldiers wore coats, while some wore only their uniforms. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

When I stepped inside the school, the soldiers were not as visible as they had been the day before, but I thanked God that they were still there. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You try it—stay with four children in a tiny room all day while soldiers are shooting outside. You try it,” she pressed. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z

Watching the soldiers and the people in Vietnam on the six o’clock news was the only time I was glad we didn’t have color TV. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

The cross was heavy, and when He fell the soldiers whipped Him and struck Him with clubs. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

I helped her straighten up, noticing all the bottles of pills, lined up on the table, a small army of brown plastic soldiers with white caps. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

And before Lourdes or the soldiers or the unshaven defectors can respond, El Lider stalks to his Jeep and drives away. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

As the fire grew, it lit the inside of the barn so that for the first time the soldiers could also see their quarry in the gaps between the slats. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

KLA soldiers had put sometimes violent pressure on fellow Albanians to flee Kacanik for refugee camps in Macedonia, with the aim of provoking sympathy from the international community and—they hoped—a military response. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

Everyone’s attention seemed riveted on the center of the line of soldiers where a big commotion was taking place. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I get all this from the reactions of the soldiers setting up their beds, because the two women do not speak Polish at all. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

Twice at roadblocks, soldiers searched both him and the nuns. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

Rumors spread that the soldiers made Pa a prisoner on a faraway mountain and tortured him every day. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Six other soldiers from different countries wrestled with different parts of him, striving to help him and hold him still. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

He had joined the Continental Army as a colonel and had led soldiers to victories at Fort Ticonderoga and at Saratoga. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

A Japanese soldier was supposed to die in banzai charges or kill himself rather than give up. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

In war the innocence of a child is lost, and though the soldiers feel theirs is a worthy cause, they behave like children when trying to achieve their goals. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

“Throw me the gun!” the soldier yelled at him. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

Lady Meng and Yishan crouched next to her, and when the soldiers struck at the door of the gate, they all clutched one another. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

“I bet no soldier ever thought of this one,” I said, wading back in the water with my improvised net. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The young women of Marina Raskova’s regiments treasured the thought of finishing the war and living ordinary lives, drawing heavily on Marina’s model of perfection as a soldier, a woman, and a mother. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

Everything was stolen, because the soldiers and police who arrested Zeitoun had left the house unlocked and unguarded. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

They walked arm in arm in matching gold: his on his head, hers on her neck, and soldiers marched behind them, clad in gold surcoats commissioned for the occasion. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

He is wounded severely in the Wilderness, 1864, but returns to be Lee’s most dependable soldier, his right hand until the end at Appomattox. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Russian soldiers patrolled the main roads and the train station, and the Jews of German-held West Przemyśl were expelled across the river. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

“I like this one,” the soldier said to Mr. White. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

However, we must keep in mind that the Dauntless soldiers did not give any evidence of wanting to harm the majority of us, or they would have killed us while we were unconscious.” Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

An officer and two soldiers later removed the children’s mother from the ship and killed her. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

Pol Pot has many soldiers with guns and rifles guarding the cornfields every night. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The soldiers were forming a queue about a grindstone sharpening their bayonets. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sometimes the soldier boy led them in war songs: “Over There,” “K-K-K-Katy” and “The Rose of No Man’s Land.” A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her joints were a bit stiff from sitting still in the damp air, yet she moved with the measured gait of the former soldier she was. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Oh, whenever it happened the people would get up a petition and complain, but it never did much good because the soldiers were gone and the beef was eaten. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

On cue, two soldiers appeared up above, leaning over the castle wall. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

The black pajama pants hang looser on his body than those on the two soldiers who follow behind him. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Why was he leading a group of soldiers there? Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

There were a few compartments of the shack, where the soldiers searched people. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

They were soon in combat again, and after a prolonged, bloody battle, Allen was ordered to guard a pile of several hundred dead NVA soldiers. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

This is a siren from a military medic truck, the ones used for transporting injured soldiers to the hospital. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

A soldier alerts my mother that she’s needed in the first- aid station. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

“Probably fake as a rubber glove,” answered the soldier. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

Or worse, German soldiers could be staying in the house themselves. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

Many soldiers quit the war right then and there, convinced that this endless wave of blue is unbeatable. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

She assured her new chief of staff that they’d go over field service regulations with the new soldiers when the train started to move. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

“Why doesn’t Koch have you in uniform?” asked the soldier. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

The soldiers pinned Tsalig's arms behind his back and shoved him out the door. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

They would pick up South Vietnamese soldiers and civilians, and take them down to Saigon, to safety. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

Now he was one small soldier in a city preparing for a great assault, clad in the proud but sombre manner of the Tower of Guard. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

They were, he reminded himself, looking at him, for he too was a soldier. The Fighting Ground 1984-04-01T00:00:00Z

The soldiers fired, but it did not slow the warriors. In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z

When another man tried to run, the soldiers mowed him down like bank robbers in an American gangster film. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

The “enemy,” a Khmer Rouge soldier or a wild beast, a monster or a ghostly man-creature, comes after me with knives, guns, axes, machetes. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

At last in slow motion one of the soldiers turned his head so that his cheek was cradled between the girl’s legs. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

A soldier from the hallway ushers him outside, then quickly relocks the door. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

When a crowd of fifty or more closed in like diving vultures, the soldiers stared straight ahead, as if posing for a photograph. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

She looked at Yishan and saw the boy who had pulled her out of a fiery hut and away from the hands of a cruel soldier. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

Morgause had got it from the body of a soldier which had been brought home by her husband, for burial in the Out Isles. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

The perfect place, a little fortress where a soldier can get some R & R. I'm headed for one of those soundproof listening rooms. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

One of the soldiers standing near her lifts his gun higher. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

His great head lay pillowed against a sand dune and a dozen or more soldiers waved their wicker shields, trying to fan cool air upon him. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

“But there’s a good chance he just came here with a small troop of soldiers and sent the rest of them, with Amah, off to...wherever.” When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

Cleopatra sent her soldiers to guard strongholds on Egypt’s borders, expecting Mark Antony’s troops to engage Octavian on land, but Mark Antony no longer had an army. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z

Johnny tagged the marching soldiers, but it was not until they turned into the Province House that he saw the three prisoners. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

The doctor no longer visited because there was no petrol and there were too many dying soldiers to treat. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

The German soldiers keep talking, and now it’s obviously about us. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

The soldier leading them turned back and backhanded Sunjin across the face. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

Hall spent the early morning hours listening to nervous soldiers trying to distract themselves. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

“An army is made of soldiers. These creatures were born to be weapons. They were born to serve the soldiers of Djel.” Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

At that very moment, more than a quarter million Chinese soldiers massed on the Chinese side of the Yalu, preparing a surprise attack in support of their Communist neighbor. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Imagine, if you can, three million armed soldiers and an army of tanks and guns and bomber aircraft, all hurling themselves in a ferocious attack across the United States from Maine to Florida. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

Over the next two days, North Korean soldiers charged past the dividing line, scattering South Korea's military forces. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

The MPs started lobbing tear gas bombs, and then, with no announcement or command to shoot, while the mob swirled frantically to escape the gas, several soldiers opened fire. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

George Blake had entered adulthood as a warrior against Nazism and emerged from World War II an English soldier and patriot. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

A group of soldiers tried a mounted charge. In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z

It's possible that it's just a fluke, that she'd been looking at the soldiers, and a noise or a movement distracted her. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

“The soldiers just shoot you if you don’t have your card.” Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

The soldier walks up to Pa, but I will not let him go. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

On board, one of the ROC soldiers kept watch. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

He had been a soldier in the army in the Great War and that, of course, was how he had received his title. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

The soldier who used Day as a convenient scapegoat. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

Once upon a time there were three soldiers, tramping together down the roads after the war. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

He would also show it a few years later in the South Pacific when, against orders, he stayed behind with wounded British soldiers as Japanese troops surrounded them. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

“Oh yeah,” the former soldier replied through a grunt as he stood up. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

At once the king’s soldiers fell upon them, their swords smashing the men’s wooden staves like twigs. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

We lay low behind a dead mule and some dead soldiers. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The soldier teetered at the top of the porch and released Jonathan. The Fighting Ground 1984-04-01T00:00:00Z

There were always messengers going by and trains of supply wagons crunching over the snow and sometimes groups of soldiers on work parties would appear at the tavern for beer. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

When we had taken bread and drink, I picked one soldier, and one herald, to go with me and called again on Aiolos. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

The skinny soldiers—with no boots, no uniforms, no half of a yellow sun on their sleeves—kicked and slapped and mocked Ugwu during physical training. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

The soldier is trying to get Starry's contact information, and my sister is sweetly but firmly refusing him. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Hundreds of British soldiers landed from Royal Navy warships. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Two bobwhites scooted across the tracks right in front of us, heads up and backs straight as tin soldiers’, but they flushed before T.R. could point. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

He was surprised to see a new checkpoint on Aggrey Road and even more surprised that it was guarded by soldiers. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

But only moments later, a jeep filled with soldiers arrived. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z

“We all know you’re smart and brave and a good shot. But we need soldiers in the field. You don’t know the first thing about executing orders, and you’re not exactly at your physical peak.” Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

“Yes, he will—and the best-looking soldier in the army. When are we going for the azaleas?” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

In 1918, asking that soldier’s permission to take tissues for this kind of future research would have been impossible, Korn says. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

The tall soldier sprawled before the fire, his long body stretched full length, his head cradled in one arm. The Fighting Ground 1984-04-01T00:00:00Z

Sherman sent soldiers to guard the jail and protect the shooter from the angry crowd, just as Guiteau asked the general to do in his undelivered note. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

“Let the flood descend, the flood of Poor peasants and poor soldiers, The flood of the poor jobless multitudes Let that flood descend!” Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now he was in a small white room being asked by two soldiers, each of them in full camouflage and holding automatic rifles, to remove his clothes. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

The tin soldier started at the word fire. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

Keav follows the soldiers, with twenty other boys and girls, and never turns to look at us. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Many families left the camp, to search for relatives or to hide in the bush from the Nigerian soldiers who were coming with whips. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

The wind blew signs off buildings, overturned soldiers’ tents, and stripped the clean clothes that had been pegged out to dry. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

I have seen so many soldiers whose cheeks have had that sunken look, even though they were young faces. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

He let Johnny have his rig and also wrote him a pass which would prevent any molestation from the Whig mobs and told Cilia to get a similar pass from the British soldiers. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Snowflakes drifted down soundlessly to cloak the soldier pines and sentinels in white. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

That was all he said; then he smiled and walked away, asking the other soldiers to strip us of our military equipment. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

“I don’t know. They went with soldiers,” the woman says quietly and looks away. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Quickly he turned and saw a Hessian soldier standing not far off. The Fighting Ground 1984-04-01T00:00:00Z

She pulled the infant close and kept her eyes on the soldier. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

Her father told her stories of how the recently emancipated black people were essentially re-enslaved by former Confederate officers and soldiers, who used violence, intimidation, lynching, and peonage to keep African Americans subordinate and marginalized. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

“We are dying for you and you are here driving a pleasure car?” a soldier asked, pulling her out of the car. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

The camp’s soldiers appeared in force around the edges of our lines, pointing rifles at us, and the camp commandant hurried out from his cozy office. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

His hat wasn’t a cop hat or a soldier hat, it was the kind of cap men wore who drive fancy cars for rich folks. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

When the commandant had pulled seventy-five prisoners out of our lines, he had them marched to the other side of the tracks and ordered his soldiers to shoot them. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

As his soldiers shoved us past him, I caught a glimpse of the name stitched on his shirt: white. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

I wanted him to think I was a good soldier. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

We’ve watched Macbeth change from a noble, trusted, dedicated soldier, willing to sacrifice his life for king and country, to a wretched, depraved, corrupt murderer who no longer has feelings of guilt or morality. Tears of a Tiger 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

She has been alone since soldiers murdered her husband. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

All three of us had trained as soldiers and we probably had the best chance of actually executing an escape. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Fires raged and the roads out of Saigon were jammed with refugees and water buffaloes pulling overloaded carts and crying children searching for parents and retreating South Vietnamese soldiers. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

But by dawn, Sasha finally reached a group of Red Army soldiers. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

The soldiers then shoot them to finish the job. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

His eyes were fixed on the passing soldiers. The Whipping Boy 1986-04-01T00:00:00Z

On the night of August 26, soldiers from different companies gathered around the campfires. I Survived the American Revolution, 1776 2017-08-01T00:00:00Z

Now it is more necessary for all princes, except the Turk and the Sultan, to satisfy the people more than the soldiers, since the people can do more than the soldiers. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z

An enormous crowd has turned out to watch me, held back and patrolled by an almost equally large platoon of gun-wielding soldiers. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

But the men said he worked as hard as a common soldier. I Survived the American Revolution, 1776 2017-08-01T00:00:00Z

All the songs are about worshiping the powerful leader of the Angkar, Pol Pot, the glory of Angkar society, and the unbeatable Khmer soldiers. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The soldiers were paraded so close to the house, which stood flush with the sidewalkless street, that Johnny at first thought they must be in the room. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Through the ways of the city, I heard the call of the drums, beating the soldiers into formation. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

Once more around the floor, then the vocalist sang the chorus again, this time varying it slightly in honor of the soldiers present. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mark and the old soldier were about a mile away from the village when the stench of death hit them like a fresh wave of unbearable heat. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

Fewer than 400 American soldiers had been killed in the actual fighting on the island, while over 2,000 died of yellow fever. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

The soldier saluted again but did not move. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

I said I was a hawk for my uncle Darnell and the soldiers he slept in foxholes and trampled through jungles with. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

So we spent hours talking about politics, looking at photos, and making predictions about what will happen when all the American soldiers leave. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

“Kneel!” another soldier ordered as the pounding of drums became even louder. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

They reached the city without further incident, except for being stopped by soldiers. The Whipping Boy 1986-04-01T00:00:00Z

The Serbian army holed up in Kacanik, but two weeks later, on April 9, a swarm of KLA militiamen attacked the Serbian soldiers there. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

They showed a lot on the news: Dead soldiers. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

The British soldier was grinning, and Johnny guessed that he had been put up to this game merely to snare ‘the yokels.’ Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Japanese soldiers had been taught that there was only one thing to do when things were hopeless, when they were surrounded, or when their leaders were killed. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

The soldiers were no more than violent, cruel bullies. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

Jonathan watched intently from behind a bush, certain the soldier was looking for him. The Fighting Ground 1984-04-01T00:00:00Z

“Down there,” the blond soldier called out again. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then I point the slingshot at one of the soldiers holding John, pull back as far as I can, and fire. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

The soldier stepped back, but his face was stern. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

There are only six of us going: me, Captain Smith, Namontack, and three soldiers. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

His soldiers reduced the forest to a heap of kindling. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Men in planes and tanks, or armed with guns, artillery, and advanced weapons, tore apart the bodies of millions of soldiers and civilians. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

“As your fellow soldier, I have to strongly recommend you stay with your squad. But I can’t stop you from coming, can I?” Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

Straining and pushing, the rat soldiers trundled the tall contraption from its woodland hiding place. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

And as I look around the room, at every Dauntless soldier and every factionless soldier, I begin to see a pattern. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

The soldiers did not even seem to hear him. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

But he returns to become one of the most remarkable soldiers in American history. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The soldier caught sight of my shirt through my open coat. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

The next morning, the drive was completely silent except for the soldiers’ radios and the kids that were crying toward the back of the bus. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

Some had twenty soldiers, some two hundred or two thousand, all slaves they had trained and equipped themselves. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Excited, I cheer and wave at the soldiers even though I don’t know why. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Mamie Johnson’s cousin cooks for that school. They called to tell her where she has to check in tomorrow morning to get past the soldiers.” Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I ran across the meadow and came upon a troop of soldiers marching, with a drummer boy and flag bearer in front. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The two men pick up their machetes and raise them to their shoulders like soldiers their guns. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

Just as we approached the gate—and the soldiers—Bear said, “Begin.” Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

At noon, some hours following the announcement of John’s sad fate, Will fell to beating a fellow soldier over whom should receive an extra ladle of bone and broth. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

The father, still on his knees, lowered his head to the ground, banged his forehead on the dirt, and also pleaded with the soldiers. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Very bravely he went to the authorities and told them about his family and the pagans they were sheltering, and the soldiers went to the family’s house in the middle of the night. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

He forms two lines, with blue-clad French soldiers dug in on one side and gray-clad Germans attacking mercilessly on the other, just as they had fought on the Western front during the Great War. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

A republic armed with its own citizens is less likely to come under the rule of one of its citizens than a city armed with foreign soldiers. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z

I had not known of her son Tom or of his death as a twenty-year-old soldier in the very place where I was born. Inside Out and Back Again 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

From down the hill we heard the sound of breaking glass and rough, coarse laughter, and then six demon soldiers walked by, their blanket rolls bulging with loot, valuables tucked into their belts. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

When the wood wagons had been attacked before, soldiers always came out of the fort to save them. In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z

Celaena turned just in time to see one of the larger Champions—one of the discharged soldiers—shove a nearby guard, knocking him to the ground. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

But then how did the soldiers know to look under the tiles? The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

We stop chatting and sit up like soldiers. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

“Well, nobody ever said they wasn’t good soldiers. Well, they’re Americans anyway, even if they are Rebs.” The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

I don’t think what I just said is offensive, but the soldier obviously didn't like it. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

At Yishan’s feet was a mussel with the tip of a soldier’s arrow in it. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

I leaned down to tell the soldier that he would see his son and give him the book. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

I was starved beyond recognition when the first British soldier walked through the barracks door, only thirty kilos. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

A soldier with his gun at the ready peers in when our turn comes. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

The soldier rubbed his gloved hands together, suffering in the cold. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

I risked a look behind me and saw the soldier following and closing distance. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

It was a military craft, with three men aboard: a soldier, a man with a video camera, and one holding a microphone and a notebook. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

“What are you children doing out here a media—in the middle of the night?” the soldier asked. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

Poppy said the soldiers pushed past her into the house and searched it, dumping out drawers, ripping comforters from the cupboards. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

A pair of slave soldiers lifted her to shoulder height on a shield. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

I pretend to look at bandages before I go somewhere else, and then a whole group of soldiers walks into the pharmacy, talking loudly in German. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

The old soldier took out a pipe, but having no light, merely sucked on the stem. The Fighting Ground 1984-04-01T00:00:00Z

Pa showed the soldier at the guardhouse his driver’s license and asked for the “discharge site.” P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

Most of the soldiers thought I was the man’s son, so they checked his documents and not mine and charged him for both of us. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

For a few brief seconds I think of Geak and hope the soldiers did not put her in a bag and throw her into the river. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Matthias was furious; the enemy now knew he was dealing with untrained and untested soldiers. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

Then he remembered the tiny fire dancer, and he wondered if it still lived in there with the fire-sword soldier. Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

He hastily put together a plan that would convince Clinton that 12,000 American soldiers were about to pounce on New York City. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had thought, What if a soldier finds the money somehow? A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

“O Gott!” cried the tall soldier, flinging up an arm to stop them. The Fighting Ground 1984-04-01T00:00:00Z

But aside from the latter privilege, and a garrison of Macedonian soldiers quartered in the city Cyrene was left pretty much to rule herself. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z

While the fires still raged, groups of soldiers searched for arsonists. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

Jonathan, terrified for, a moment that the soldier was going to strike him, jumped back. The Fighting Ground 1984-04-01T00:00:00Z

“Is this true? You were taking brandy to the soldiers and not asking them to rescue the girl?” the doctor said. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Apparently, not all the soldiers valued her as the Storyteller. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

When he came back up, he told me soldiers had arrested Ade Coker as he drove out of the editorial offices of the Standard. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

From the way the demon soldiers acted, you would have thought each of us had a knife up his sleeve. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

She lied when she claimed she met Powell for the first time that evening as he arrived at her house while the soldiers were there. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

I turned the top on the soldier’s flask and raised it to my nose. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

“Igbo soldiers and Northern soldiers can never live in the same barracks after this. It is impossible, impossible,” Colonel Madu said. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

When they looked at him doubtfully, he mentioned the army general who was Efik, the director who was Ijaw, the minority soldiers who were fighting so brilliantly for the cause. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

I thought about our Volunteer Army soldiers and how they had to sleep in the snow in Korea.” Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

"I knew you'd be a bigger nuisance than you're worth. You have a knack for wasting my soldiers' time. Not to mention the soldiers of several other commanders." Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

The soldier swung his light across the snowy ground around the plant. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

So I went home, and with Lmatarion and a friend and some soldiers I knew, I went up to an area near the Ethiopian border where there are a lot of cows. Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z

A soldier slammed a rifle butt into Doha’s abdomen. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

They hurried to catch up with the other soldiers, who were galloping north. In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z

I turn around, and two soldiers are behind us, skulls grinning on their hats. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

The soldier stopped the van and pointed his gun. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

By dawn, the advancing soldiers could see figures all around them in the half-light, armed men running through the surrounding fields, outpacing the British in their rush to get to Lexington. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The next day he buried the soldiers in the backyard. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

There were soldiers stationed at every entrance just in case, but no one dared to even step close. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

American soldiers rarely found able-bodied men in the villages, as they would flee or hide to avoid the possibility they would be interrogated. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

Hurriedly, I pulled back into the narrow passageway, but peeked out, watching as the soldiers paused. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

Bending down, Pa looks me in my eyes and says softly, “They lie, the soldiers he. We cannot go home tonight.” First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Don’t say anything. If the soldiers hear us we will be in danger.” First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

A man named Hitler from Germany has lots of soldiers following him. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

He looked back and the road was clear and unending; there was nothing to shield him from the soldier’s bullet. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

When policemen or soldiers stopped Papa, he spent so long showing them all his car papers, letting them search his car, anything but bribe them to let him pass. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

He encouraged his generals and soldiers to marry Persian and Indian women. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then one soldier takes his rifle off his shoulder and points it at him. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Like my brothers and me, the soldiers were always in groups. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z

“Crispin, there’s an old soldier’s saying: ‘If you have to choose between alertness and worry, being alert will bring you more days of life.’ Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

Then she stared into the faces of the other two soldiers guarding the prison door. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

The tall soldier was now stretched out full length, asleep. The Fighting Ground 1984-04-01T00:00:00Z

A soldier shoved the boy and the alchemist into a tent where the chief was holding a meeting with his staff. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

The doctor tells a soldier in the room what he needs and orders the soldier to obtain the items at the Lincoln General Hospital, a nearby military facility. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

The soldiers, swords in hand, had formed a semicircle behind us. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

She behaved as much like a soldier as a wife. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

They tell tales of Pa forming his own army, trying to recruit more soldiers to fight the Khmer Rouge. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

As government soldiers shelled and burned the countryside and airplanes strafed and bombed the villages, refugees moved south. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

And every minute the temper of the soldiers was growing shorter and a queer feeling of jubilation was apparent among the people. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

It seemed as though the coming of the soldiers had been like the coming of a swarm of wild bees that leave behind them stings wherever they can. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

Once when I walk past a soldier interrogating a girl my age on the street, and once just before I ring the doorbell. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

De Maricourt was a mathematical scholar and, it would seem, a soldier. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

“After the visit from the emperor’s soldiers, no one else in this village has any hospitality left.” When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

With thousands of soldiers being sent to Vietnam, there were not enough volunteers for the military to meet troop needs. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

Though I had yet to see a live enemy soldier, the Japanese were still there and a constant danger. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

The soldier had to bite the end off his cartridge before he loaded his gun. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Arsinoe was among the prisoners in chains whom the soldiers marched past the crowd. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z

On April 20, Colorado National Guard soldiers aimed a machine gun at a union camp during a strike in Southern Colorado. Fannie Never Flinched 2016-11-21T00:00:00Z

It was one of those things that gave you a false feeling of soldiering. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

Yoyo stood before both of them, blocking their view of the soldiers in helicopters landing amid silenced gun reports and explosions. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

He handed the two passports to the soldier and carrying the bags we started into the village to order a carriage. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

I didn’t come back to be with soldiers anyway. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

Meggie didn’t know what was so exciting about times when, if Elinor was to be believed, your only choice was between dying of the plague or getting slaughtered by invading soldiers. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

We count the number of soldiers on each side. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

There was a huge table with miniature tanks and soldiers fighting along a blue painted river, with hills and fake trees and stuff. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

A pair of Jackboot soldiers stood above him, laughing. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

Opposite the soldiers, Pa straightens his shoulders, and for the first time since the Khmer Rouge takeover, he stands tall. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Jonathan saw that the other end of the rope was fastened to the soldier’s ankle. The Fighting Ground 1984-04-01T00:00:00Z

The tanks were defended by nearly as many planes, and about two million soldiers were involved in the fighting—a larger number than the combined populations of present-day Philadelphia and Pittsburgh. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

I quickly spotted Tio leaning against his convertible, talking to a soldier. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

It is very bad for the soldiers to be short of food. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

They say she was a good woman, not the monster the soldiers portray her to be. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The convoy was the same as it had been that morning; in front, the open jeep filled with soldiers, a machine gun mounted on its hood, with a similar vehicle behind us. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I study the soldier's face: blue eyes; tan skin; nice, defined jaw. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

A Dauntless soldier with an arm in a sling approaches us, gun held ready, barrel fixed on Tobias. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

"There was only one character on the page," the soldier said. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

“Uh-huh,” he mumbled, focused on balancing a soldier on top of a lamp shade. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

“The soldiers don’t know the difference. Most of them are like me. They would not be able to identify your cookies either.” Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

I could see soldiers sprawled out in the pews and lying in the aisles, trying to sleep. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Etienne sees soldiers with hollows in their cheeks like inverted cups. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Pax watched as Runt tossed the toy soldier into the air and then pinned it down, over and over. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

Finally, through intense indoctrination, beatings, and desensitization, its army cultivated and celebrated extreme brutality in its soldiers. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z

A soldier with crammed cheeks pushed past Turner with a box of pink and white marshmallows. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Crazy Horse and his warriors saw the soldiers emerge through the gate. In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z

Dozens of skeletal soldiers clawed their way to the surface. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Army Airborne School is a collection of soldiers, sailors, airmen, Marines, Coast Guardsmen, cadets, and anyone else who has received the funding and possesses the will to become Airborne-qualified. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

I was a soldier, and now I am nothing but an agony for myself, for my mother, for everything that is so comfortless and without end. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the training ground the soldiers were settling down to eat breakfast, dumping their packs on the ground, and stacking their muskets into neat little tepees, four or five together. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The boy had been no more than a babe in arms, yet Lord Tywin's soldiers had tom him from his mother's breast and dashed his head against a wall. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

I have dealt with worse injuries than this—I have been hit harder than I was by the soldier who slammed the butt of his gun into my jaw while he was arresting me. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

Both Franklin and the French officials knew that many of the American soldiers who won the battle had fired French bullets from French guns. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were hundreds of ships here already, and tens of thousands of soldiers. I Survived the American Revolution, 1776 2017-08-01T00:00:00Z

“You, stay,” he barked, motioning to a soldier in green. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

“Joshua was a soldier—a general. I don’t like soldiering.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Immediately a second is ordered; people know how much they are indebted to the soldiers. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

The first-class citizenry comprises the chief, who has authority over the whole village, his aides, and the Khmer Rouge soldiers. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

School is out, and Helmuth is sitting on the floor playing with lead soldiers. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

The next level was the wavering or neutral class, which included soldiers, technicians, and teachers. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

Disputes among groups of corrupt soldiers periodically lead to fistfights and shootouts, according to a number of defectors and reports by aid groups. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

I don't want to have to see the people the soldiers are taking away. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

The soldiers began pushing us toward the nearest car, the policemen going ahead to scatter what few passengers remained inside. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

The cellar was turned into a barracks for five soldiers who had their wives with them. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some of the soldiers, hearing children’s voices crying out from close by, looked around startled. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

They dumped him next to Mark.The soldier grunted and groaned but didn’t resist because they still had the other end of the rope that was tied around his neck. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

The soldiers made us run, beating us with clubs if we took too long to find new pants and a shirt, so we took whatever we could as fast as we could. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

We spake it during supper, as once, at the inception of our Regiment, all told the tales of escape; now we tell the tales of the return of soldiers to bondage. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

I passed through towns with familiar names, through the pine forests and down to the prairie, and then to Vietnam, where I was a soldier, and then home again. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now Alan and his friends drag the dead cables behind them as they play soldiers. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

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

When they were supposed to parade like a lot of soldiers, Mrs. Popper played Schubert’s “Military March.” Mr. Popper's Penguins 1938-09-01T00:00:00Z

Every night the Po-2s dropped thousands of pounds of explosives behind the front lines, destroying enemy camps and supplies and not allowing the enemy soldiers a wink of sleep throughout the entire war. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

For a decade he and his Greek soldiers have been battling their way across the known world, defeating even the mighty Persians, rulers of Asia. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

The soldiers, sensible, perhaps, of my anguish, did not speak. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

They were the only valuables the soldiers didn’t take. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

But as they went his soldiers blew their horns in signal long arranged; and even before they came to the gate Sauron sprang his trap. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

Moments later, another passing soldier looked at Zeitoun and muttered “Taliban.” Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

In January 1943, Soviet soldiers managed to get control of the railway in and out of Leningrad, allowing a little relief for the desperate citizens of the city. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

In Russia, they saw the horrors of war as they tended the wounded and dying German soldiers. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

Each soldier had a rifle and a pistol in a holster. In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z

The dark clouds move over them, casting black shadows on the soldiers. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

One was Karim, the other two were soldiers, one Afghan, the other a grinning Russian, face like a bulldog’s, cigarette dangling from the side of his mouth. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Then he said, “Company: discharged,” and some of the soldiers shouted a big “Hooah!”or yelled, and some said nothing. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

Time I’d go out and come back again, her face lit up like I was a soldier home on leave. Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z

“I read that book like...four years ago. And there aren’t any soldiers in it,” she says, pointing at a picture hanging on the wall of the room I made. Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

So he came up with a sketchy plan: he would travel west and south, putting as much distance as possible between himself, North Korea, and border patrol soldiers. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

The story of soldiers closing down the Standard was tucked into the middle page, next to advertisements for womens shoes imported from Italy. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

At the third sentence the tin soldier sat bolt upright. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

A hurricane won’t move her, but the sound of a crying baby or a falling pot will send her to her feet like a soldier at reveille. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

The soldiers had punched a hole in one of the walls on the upper floor, through which you could see the street below. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Billy and his chaplain had gathered a congregation of about fifty soldiers on a Carolina hillside. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

The soldier in white was like an unrolled bandage with a hole in it or like a broken block of stone in a harbor with a crooked zinc pipe jutting out. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

My father wears his faith like the bronze breastplate of God’s foot soldiers, while our mother’s is more like a good cloth coat with a secondhand fit. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

I think of the fight I staved off on the Yankee Clipper that day, with the beefy, drunken soldier I made strip. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I don’t know what you did, esteemed guest,” Werfel said in Elven, “but if those soldiers see you, we are in trouble.” The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

Twelve soldiers rode with the body as an honor guard. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

He knew that seeing that pathetic young soldier had upset her, and he knew, too, that she was thinking that the young soldier was not the reason the crops failed. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

As soon as the man stepped inside and into the hall, a soldier shut the door behind him. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

After I finish my small portion, I lie back down and leave the world of the Khmer Rouge soldiers behind. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The soldiers killed the girl, skinned her, and used her skin to cover a drum. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

What’s more, they were able to point in the direction the soldiers took. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

Or maybe, like the soldier was going to do for our imaginary grandma, they sent someone to get us, but we were already gone. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

A wise prince has always avoided these soldiers and has turned to his own troops. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z

Meanwhile, the column of soldiers and horses poured down the slippery slope. In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z

Wincing at the pain in his foot, he turned his head a little to the right and saw the face of a soldier near him fly off. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

I used to follow the progress of the Nazi troops on a map I had hung on the drawing-room wall, while Clara knitted socks for the Allied soldiers. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was as if the elderly man’s leaving had angered him and that he held not the second soldier but the new conscripts responsible. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

They could see the fallen soldiers on the slopes below them. In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z

The old soldier puffed a cloud of smoke. The Fighting Ground 1984-04-01T00:00:00Z

Fewer soldiers accompanied us up the front stairs. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Before long, a group of Khmer Rouge soldiers come by and yell at us to keep moving. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The clothes had been taken from the bodies to keep the living soldiers warmer. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

That moment, the shift from fear to fury, could have summed up the feelings of every soldier at Thurmond. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

“Children!” one of the soldiers spat with disgust. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

Hel's fighting off three soldiers below her and two above, with more coming. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

Several other military jeeps cross our intersection, and I see the blank faces of their soldiers. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

Groaning slightly, partly opening his eyes, the young soldier awoke for a moment, then dropped back to sleep. The Fighting Ground 1984-04-01T00:00:00Z

A party of foot soldiers sprang from the woods behind the companions. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z

I thought the Lady was dozing, but her eyes snapped open when Madam described how British soldiers had looted the City Hall library. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

The soldiers fired their guns into the air and chased the people away from the camp. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Natalie has stacks of buttons in perfect lines all around it, like little soldiers guarding something precious. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

He stationed soldiers around Ngaliema Hospital with orders to let no one enter or leave except doctors. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Every soldier would like to defeat his enemy on the field, but in this case, such a victory was out of reach. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Instead of bringing in soldiers, the police chief petitioned the city council for a supplemental cadre of special policeman. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Aycliffe stayed with us as did an escort of some seven soldiers. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

Before the soldier even approaches, Ma has gathered all our bags and put them in a small pile in front of our family. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The captain was stationed with eight American soldiers in Haiti’s rural central plateau, charged with keeping the peace for 150,000 Haitians, mostly peasants, spread over a thousand square miles. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

She tried to stop the desk guard but was dragged back by the soldier behind her. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

Next to it, I discerned the air-lock corridor, the gray zone through which the soldiers had passed into the hot zone. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Farther down, below the salt, were others that Reek knew by sight if not by name: sworn swords and seijeants, soldiers and gaolers and torturers. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

They rolled Yossarian away on a stretcher into the room with the other soldier who saw everything twice and quarantined everyone else in the ward for another fourteen days. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

They were taking the place of some Pennsylvania soldiers who had been on duty there for three days straight. I Survived the American Revolution, 1776 2017-08-01T00:00:00Z

It's weird to see the soldier salute someone so young. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

It was one thing leading cadets, but would I honestly be ready at such a young age to lead soldiers? The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

On such a morning and in such a light two soldiers and two girls strolled easily along the street. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Fathers hands clenched and unclenched, but behind the young officer we could see a squad of demon soldiers. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

She is Chief Powhatan’s daughter, the girl who saved Captain Smith’s life, the Indian princess who has more courage than a hundred soldiers. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

Outside, in the dim first rays of light, soldiers were ordering people to begin walking to the village square. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

I almost keel over before the soldiers prop me up. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

Blanca called me in so I could hear what the soldier had to say, but I refused to believe it. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

I stop because the soldier's uniform is green. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

I have what the Republic considers good genes— and better genes make for better soldiers make for better chance of victory against the Colonies, my professors always say. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

I told how I had lost my family the night the northern soldiers came to Duk Payuel, and how I fled across Sudan with Abraham. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

She released the other soldiers, and they fell back into their slumber, puppets with their strings cut. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

“You will be a servant!” shouted the soldier. The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z

The soldier shined the bluish light toward the chamber to the right, finding the massive shape of the Berg nestled there. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

Whatever you do, please don’t marry a soldier. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

Only soldiers got Juicy Fruit, although probably rich people could get it somewhere if they wanted. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

There are whispers about terrible things happening in Poland, about low-flying planes that shoot women and children, about German soldiers who machine-gun Poles and Jews over mass graves. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

A soldier was already moving through the room throwing out bags of what he called katapan to eat, and everybody scrambled madly. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

The dog barked furiously in our direction, but the soldiers were all staring at the illuminations above. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had the disturbing realization that each time he put down his boot he might literally step on an enemy soldier. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

The soldiers shove him into the second jeep. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

The awning and the ridiculous cow cover us as much as I hoped they would: Two pairs of soldiers have walked past without noticing we’re there. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

When we returned, the drill instructor had stopped warming up the soldiers. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

Three by three they came, ten rows, thirty soldiers, all moving in lockstep, their legs lifting high and stiff. The Fighting Ground 1984-04-01T00:00:00Z

Much of the medical staff was now under quarantine inside the hospital, but the soldiers made sure that the quarantine was enforced. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’ve already got what I need — footage of ROC soldiers and an explosion. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

Just then, two Japanese soldiers who’d been hidden in a cave attacked them with hand grenades and a sword. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s as if they don’t want to entirely lose the Mockingjay, but they want to downgrade my role to foot soldier. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

The foxes watched the soldiers run down the hill, sweep their beams of light over the heap in the field, then go back. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

The first time I saw the body of an enemy soldier was November 7. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Being bombed at gave us the feeling we were like the soldiers fighting at the front,” said Irmgard Burmeister, eight years old when war began. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

There are soldiers by the camp of the sick who question closely as to whether we have previously suffered the smallpox. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

She was trying to appease the other woman, who kept screaming until the soldiers who were stationed at the marketplace came to her aid. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

As Jonathan, led by the boy, went out, the soldiers followed. The Fighting Ground 1984-04-01T00:00:00Z

The jackets the soldiers wore were not the blue of Union soldiers. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Anyone, therefore, who wishes to be unable to win should make use of these soldiers, for they are much more dangerous than mercenary troops. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z

A silver-haired Martial with a soldier’s build—the captain, I assume—is overseeing a group of Plebeians and Scholar slaves stacking boxes of cargo. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

There is even a song about a woman soldier hiding her knife in her skirt and thrusting it into the heart of a Youn. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The iron gateway blazed its five stars above the gleaming T. As we passed, our young soldier passenger saluted, though no guards were in sight. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some of these boy soldiers were orphans whose parents had been killed by Doe; others were kidnapped from their families by Taylor’s own militias. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

The soldier is on friendlier terms than other men with his stomach and intestines. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

Nina swept her hands in an arc, and the soldiers toppled without protest, row after row, stalks of wheat felled by an invisible scythe. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

I was really relieved and grateful that President Eisenhower had sent those soldiers to protect us, because how much trouble must we be in, if we needed that much military power? March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

“Well, they distracted the soldiers, tricked them into turning and chasing them, the decoys. If that hadn’t happened, I wouldn’t be telling you this story.” In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z

Here, for the first time in my life, I was witnessing black soldiers commanded by black generals applauded by black leaders who were all guests of a black head of state. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“What do you do?” the soldier curtly asks Pa. “I work as a packer in the shipping port.” First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Lewis Powell—who also goes by the name Lewis Payne—is a twenty-year-old who served as a Confederate soldier and spy before joining Booth’s cause. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

Two soldiers guided him to the front door and led him outside. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

Said he to me—and this I shall recall until my final hour—said he to me: “We shall make you proud to serve us, soldier.” The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

“Are they with you?” the soldier asked again. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

Some of the soldiers were grinning, so eager were they to watch us die. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

Some go to live in other camps, where they learn to make poison stakes, and others follow the soldiers as porters. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

All around the Commons folks went on their business, soldiers rubbing the cold out of their fingers, women wrapped in long cloaks and thick shawls. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

The soldier is already looking past Pa and merely waves his hand for us to hurry on. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

They look like an older version of the Khmer Rouge soldiers that stormed into our city, except they do not carry guns. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Does any of you have a powder tester?” asked one of the soldiers. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

The soldiers turned and fled in panic, their discipline shattered. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

The young soldier half turned in his seat, surprised that a woman should interest herself in such things. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Don’t worry. I’ll be per-fectly safe. I’m not even a real soldier. Just one of Plutarch’s televised puppets,” I reassure her. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

Ten of these vessels, all staffed by soldiers or police officers, ignored their canoe and their calls for assistance. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

The youngest of the soldiers looked at him curiously. The Fighting Ground 1984-04-01T00:00:00Z

In four years of fighting, nearly eight million Soviet soldiers and twenty million civilians died. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Some bootblacks sat together under a tree talking to a soldier. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

The toy soldier lay facedown at the burled root of a butternut tree, as if he had pitched himself there in despair. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

“No,” he whispers, and this time it's real Ollie, talking to me, and not the Ollie pretending to be a soldier. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

They are Edith Cavell’s, the British nurse who smuggled two hundred Allied soldiers out of Belgium in The Last Lot, the 1914—1918 war, and who was caught and shot for treason. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

As the war dragged on, the Soviets found these repeated night attacks also affected the morale of the German soldiers. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

There were pictures of soldiers standing around supply caches. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

I supposed that’s what it meant to be a soldier—to survive. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I suspected he had found me a foster home and that I was going to be “repatriated”—the term used to describe the process of reuniting ex-child soldiers with their former communities. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

After they destroyed the temples, the soldiers roamed the country searching for monks and forced them to convert to the Angkar. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

She stood three steps from Lewis Powell as the soldier asked, “Do you know this man? And did you hire him to come and dig a gutter for you?” Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Those thousands of tons of bombs didn’t do much more than disturb the sleep of the Japanese soldiers in reinforced caves and tunnels a hundred feet below the black sand. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

My wife and I give consent that our daughter Jenny Elizabeth Creighton, age 16, may marry Shadrach Yale, Union soldier, under the witness of a trusted friend, Editor Ross Milton. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

I waited for the police and I was ready for death, like a soldier on a battlefield. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

They are just two regular guys in uniform joining the sea of pedestrians, soldiers, and tourists. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

It would be best to wait for the departure of many of the soldiers and detectives who had already followed Booth south into Maryland. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then—wonder upon wonders—the soldier gave me a blanket, a pillow, and sheets for the bed. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

“See you! The emperor?” the other soldier said, laughing coarsely. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

The commander gives me an impatient nod and snaps her fingers, then mutters something to the soldier that approaches her. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

Officers and wounded soldiers would also be granted passage. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

And at each call a little group separates itself off, a small handful of dirty, pallid soldiers, a dreadfully small handful, and a dreadfully small remnant. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

The import of the remark was clear to his audience: it meant that two young soldiers, who had been standing trial for the murder of a Kansas railroad worker, had received the ultimate sentence. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

He held his men back, waiting for the soldiers to get farther away from the fort. In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z

How fitting, I thought, that the villain had found a position as a mercenary soldier, paid to protect Claudius and fight his battles. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

The British army finally appeared—four thousand Redcoat soldiers, marching in endless lines. I Survived the American Revolution, 1776 2017-08-01T00:00:00Z

Two or three soldiers were starting to struggle up the slope. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The other boy, who was also a former child soldier, introduced himself. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

Our spirits rose as we realized the soldiers would not follow us. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Tidings would make a terrible soldier on watch. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

A long time would have to pass—several months, in fact—before I understood that the soldier had told the truth. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

The stairwell isn't wide enough for two scims, so I sheath one and pull out my dagger, driving it into the kidney of a third soldier and the heart of a fourth. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

In Phnom Penh, I had black buckle shoes that went with my school uniform; the soldiers burned those too. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

One girl shared a soldier's bed three nights running; the Mountain picked her on the fourth day, and the soldier said nothing. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Soldiers and war heroes are honored and commemorated, explorers are granted immortal fame, martyrs are revered, but how many people look upon women too as soldiers? The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

Suddenly, I’m thinking of Prim, who was not yet fourteen, not yet old enough to be granted the title of soldier, but somehow working on the front lines. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

In the market square, with a guard of SS and German soldiers, and half of Przemyśl there to watch him die. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

She slipped quickly down the stairs and into the crowd, moving steadily toward where a group of soldiers garbed in silver-and-white military dress surrounded a portly man with a luxuriant mustache. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Washington, who presided over the court, found Hickey guilty and ordered him hanged as “a warning to every soldier in the Army.” George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

But Jake and maybe six or seven other guards stand by me and the other internees, facing their fellow soldiers. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

Very very cautiously, the six soldiers who were working on the Fleshlumpeater began to pull at the huge arm, trying to release it. The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

They especially feared unconditional surrender, which would allow foreign soldiers to take over their country with no conditions. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

The May Day parade in Cleveland spawned even greater violence, where mounted police and soldiers in trucks and tanks clashed with Socialist marchers who were sympathetic to the Communist cause. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

“Joan of Arc is the patron saint of soldiers,” Julie said. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

The hubbub of the party did not concern the soldiers patrolling the streets because it was a neighborhood where they expected no opposition. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Both the soldiers and the villagers have on black pajama clothes and red-and-white checkered scarves with mud stains on their bottoms and knees. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Before Jesse, I knew that no matter what happened to me, I could soldier on so long as we were together. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

In his confusion, Jonathan turned a half circle, only to see three Hessian soldiers charging in his direction. The Fighting Ground 1984-04-01T00:00:00Z

“Some of the soldiers are taking items from the commissary to sell on the black market. They had me sell some cigarettes today.” A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

But once they were beyond the area surrounding the camp, the soldiers continued to drive them onward, shouting and shooting. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Standing guard were two more soldiers—that made six altogether, including Mr. White and our escorts. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

The teacher beckoned me to take a seat near the door, where I was in full view of the soldier. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

When all the others had left, the commander turned to the remaining soldier with a transformed manner. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

I felt myself being molded into a soldier and began to think as a soldier thinks — a far cry from the way a politician thinks. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The soldiers never brought back their dead colleagues. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

They try to come often, but the soldiers make them work harder, leaving no time to visit. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was fiddling with something—a little metal toy soldier of some kind. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

She matches up Finnick, Gale, and me each with a soldier from 13. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

Behind Nel was the bright and blazing light of her mother’s smile; before her the midnight eyes of the soldiers. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

The girls climbed up on the rails and walked along on them and the soldiers put their arms around the plump waists to keep them from falling. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

I know very well that the President didn’t send those soldiers just to protect me but to show support for an idea—the idea that a governor can’t ignore federal laws. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He uses her to shield him as he fires over her right shoulder at the Dauntless soldier across the room. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

I thought of making a run for it, but then I caught a glimpse of the soldier’s eyes, and their bulging, pupil-less whites convinced me not to. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

I scrambled for them and, clinging to the rickety railing, half-ran, half-fell down them, with the soldier hard upon my heels. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

The air was filled with the din of wailing babies and frantic adults, cut by the angry shouts of soldiers. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

As the food filled my plate and the soldiers and former prisoners around me began to eat, I remembered that day in Kraków so long ago, the day the war had begun. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

My family will stand frozen in our living room long after the soldiers have left. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

I clutch the satchel and viola to my chest and brace myself for the inevitable tackle of a British soldier, the demand for papers. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

“I have been a soldier—a private soldier. What do we want ice for?” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

These were members of the Royal Family’s personal guard: ruthless, lightning-swift soldiers trained from birth to protect and kill. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

“No one’s crossing now. Unless you want a cold bath,” said the soldier as he opened my papers. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

The children played with toy soldiers and blocks, with hobbyhorses and with dolls. The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z

The Russian soldier’s grin never faltered when he heard the translation. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

I eat with great anxiety and urgency, fearing the Khmer Rouge soldiers will come and take it all away from me. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He knew one of the soldiers guarding the Neck that night. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Early on, supplies became so short and the fighting so chaotic that many Red Army soldiers were reduced to wearing rags and going barefoot. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

At breakneck speed he dashed down the stairs and handed the stick to another soldier, who sped away. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were forced by the soldiers to scramble down the high gravel embankment, and the slippery stones slid away underfoot. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

I hate the soldiers now as much as I hate the Angkar and their leader, Pol Pot. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Bryce picked up Edward and held him so that he was standing straight, like a soldier, at the end of the bed. The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane 2006-03-30T00:00:00Z

“Mothers and soldiers are enemies of freedom. I am doubly occupied.” Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z

Amari did see in the distance, however, occasional garrisons of soldiers the farther south they traveled. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

That seems like rather a grand name for it, and I don’t want to suggest that I went through anything like what soldiers who saw combat in Vietnam did. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

But when all this commotion was happening, because people were yelling, a soldier came around the building. In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z

He had been warned that the town was crawling with soldiers, so he jumped from the train as it slowed to enter Musan station and headed southwest on foot. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

The soldiers all went about their business, one of them whistling. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

Percy Jackson, his sword still in hand, was glaring at the giant soldier. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

When flowers were in bloom, the women of Raskova’s regiments—along with the other women soldiers of the USSR—filled their living spaces with fragrant blossoms. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

His soldiers were the tallest that any of the Windblown had ever seen; the shortest stood seven feet tall, the tallest close to eight. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The soldier had been stealing from the farm. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

I stop because the soldier’s face is young and pretty, and because his voice has a wink in it, and because I bet he would make me laugh during an afternoon at the movies. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

A woman defending her underclothes from a battalion of soldiers was comical. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

For a foot soldier, however, violence served a purpose. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

The fire cast a yellow-orange glow that flickered eerily across the faces of the soldiers. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

“All right, out of the truck!” says the soldier using his no-nonsense boot-camp voice. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

“I’m not going to wait for him to kill off my soldiers,” she snaps back at me. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

The soldiers jumped down from the wagons and formed a line, pointing their rifles toward the village. In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z

Orders were pouring into northern factories for food, clothes, and munitions for soldiers fighting in Europe, and the factories were looking for new workers. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

There was my great grandmother Eveline who was killed by Dominican soldiers at the Massacre River. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

Turning, they ran to the front of the building, lined up in two long lines, and marching like little tin soldiers disappeared inside the school. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Somehow he manages to get a hold of the soldier’s gun, although another soldier instantly knocks it from his hands. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

“My son wants the book Max und Moritz for his birthday,” a soldier repeated, eyes closed, blood leaking from the sides of his mouth. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

In the meantime, the soldiers Tonya had been in touch with on the ground came hurrying to meet the stunned crew. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

Bellingham sighed and waved at the soldier closest to where Madam sat. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

One of the elevator doors opens, and 3 Dauntless soldier shoves Uriah—whose lips are stained with blood—toward the short row of the Divergent. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

The soldiers of Mordor lifted their heads and also began to put on speed. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

As we approached, so did a frenzy of activity and a number of German soldiers. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

The Army Intelligence soldiers, those black spies in civilian clothes, hung around in Harlem with their ears open for the white man downtown. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Down across the field there was a small farmhouse surrounded by horses, flags, many soldiers. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Why are we here?” he asked a passing soldier. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

His head was beginning to nod when the soldier came over to him again. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

The soldiers withdrew as quickly and quietly as they had appeared, out of sight in an instant. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

So we may well believe that the King’s men were shriven on the night before they fought Something of the young man’s vision had penetrated to his captains and his soldiers. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

All four of the bodies were slung out by the soldiers onto a siding. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

A new regiment moved into the Presidio and a new bunch of soldiers always shop around a good deal before they settle down. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

The two spies had better luck in Concord, where they learned that the Patriots were grinding meal into flour for soldiers’ rations and were storing “powder and cartridges.” George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the foreground, I can make out a teenage boy in a chocolate-brown coat sticking his tongue out at the soldier, in an unseen act of defiance. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

No jobs besides cleaning the toilets of German soldiers. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

He slapped Jonathan’s arms up and tied the rope around his waist, then handed the free end to the youngest Hessian; Leaving Jonathan with the young soldier, the two others went forward. The Fighting Ground 1984-04-01T00:00:00Z

As the soldiers turned, Louie ran to the flag and immediately realized that it was much higher than he had thought. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z

Fenoglio was picking up some toy soldiers from his rug with trembling fingers. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

Everybody knew how blacks were, how soldiers were. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Everyone stopped dancing and sang a farewell to the soldiers. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

As far as Allen could tell, it was a complete suicide mission, the ten of them being dropped into the jungle next to a battalion of hundreds of enemy soldiers. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

The telephone poles stood firm, but the pines, both narrow and thick, had fallen, like soldiers in ugly army green had been shot up in the road. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

Most of the shades were on foot, but two soldiers burst out of the stables in a golden chariot pulled by ghostly black steeds. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

"You can't keep your soldiers in a straight line. You must circle the enemy." The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

Hands that were not soldier hands took hold of me, pulling my torn dress and my torn flesh together. Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

But these soldiers have no buttons on their jackets. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

Liyana followed the soldier down a gloomy hall, staring into dark cells as her eyes adjusted. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

He mourned the fact that he could not be a permanent soldier because of his wooden leg, but he could not imagine any career for his sons except the army. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

To make it worse, it seemed that she not only knew the two soldiers to the right and left of him but was friends with them as well. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

Ahead of him the guns were firing into a line of blue soldiers and Longstreet spurred that way and Goree pulled alongside, screaming, “What are your orders, General? Where you want me to go?” The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

A soldier’s farewell: goodbye, good luck, and see you in Hell. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The night of the first frost, I woke up to a soldier pulling off my blanket. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

The soldier took up a smoky torch and led the way. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

“Somewhere out there. Very good indeed. And you’ll get the tin soldier back. Who was it who said that all's for the best in this best of all possible worlds?” Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

What’s more, the soldiers were allowing only a few people in at a time. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

The soldiers started shooting into the river, aiming their guns at the people who were trying to get across. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

They went into the police station, which was now full of North Korean soldiers. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

She turns left and right, desperate to see my face, but all she finds are strangers and street police and soldiers. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

The man next to her—her husband, from the familiar, tender way he touches her—tries to help her up, and the soldier lifts his gun and gestures for the man to keep going. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

And the soldier turned and went back up the steps and opened the door to the outside world and some small light leaked in before he closed the door behind him. The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z

This rubbish is broadcast over and over to make the American soldiers homesick. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

From their vantage point, the children could make out the khaki uniforms of American soldiers escorting women and children onto the ships. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

They were stopped by a pair of soldiers. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

Annie and I used to look out the attic window and pretend the Yankee soldiers were about ready to come charging over the hill. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

Council left the mortally wounded soldier lying on the sidewalk, returned to his bus, and completed his route. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

This, together with the search for “loyal” soldiers, had given rise to the ill-fated “oath.” Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

They carried the soldier’s greatest fear, which was the fear of blushing. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the dark, the soldiers patrol the area, listening and looking into the houses. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“That’s because the North Koreans did not consider South Korean soldiers to be prisoners of war, protected under the Geneva Convention. Instead, they considered them to be fellow citizens who were committing war crimes.” Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

“Everyone has to honor and sacrifice for Angkar!” the soldiers yell. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The rest of the family forgot about him, including Fernanda, who did not mind leaving him there when she found that the soldiers had seen him without recognizing him. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

The words of Wooden Leg, a Cheyenne warrior, were simple: “We had killed soldiers who came to kill us.” In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z

“Ah! That, Your Lordship—that is a soldier in your Ethiopian Regiment,” said Dr. Trefusis loudly, rising from his chair. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

A soldier wearing civilian clothes, with a whistle around his neck, stepped up to a rack of AK-47S and handed one to each of us. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

He was on the slope below the soldiers. In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z

There are probably Carib Indians on the island, Captain Newport tells us, but we will give them beads and our soldiers will stand guard at night, and we’ll be safe. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

The soldier pushes me away and points toward the end of the hall with his gun. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

The soldier took off his helmet, and Pinmei could see he was much older than the commander. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

He was beginning to understand how difficult it must have been for the soldiers. In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z

The Norwegians would lead the way and do everything possible to help the British soldiers demolish key parts of Vemork. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Palmer had dumped the toy soldiers onto the bed, poked air holes in the lid and deposited the pigeon. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

As he rode closer to the fighting, Crazy Horse could hear the screams and shouts of the soldiers. In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z

As we stood waiting, some of the soldiers returned from the front line and reloaded their guns and side packs with ammunition. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

On December 6, Soviet soldiers began to push the frozen and exhausted German troops away from the city. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

The crowd shouted again as another soldier lifted the King’s head freshly removed from his neck. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

Beside him, a soldier held up a few guns and was shouting. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

He was a soldier, a diplomat, a statesman. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He nodded to the soldiers next to him, who grabbed Doha by the arms. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

I think I can hear the rumble of footsteps overhead, the shouts of soldiers. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

It’s the soldiers behind us—they’ve begun to press against the crowd to clear a path in the road—and then empty school buses pull in, like it’s just an ordinary school day. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

I turn away from the soldiers long enough to see the doctor pointing at the top shelf in the fridge. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

And when the lad was still silent, he coaxed again, and he said, “Tell your old father why you want to be a soldier?” The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

“If you do not take your person from that chest, I shall order these soldiers to remove you.” Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

From the conning tower, another soldier whistled to him, and he ran back toward the hatch with it. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

My other half brothers, Buddy, Sonny, and Robert, asked me what being a soldier was like, and I made something up that sounded vaguely heroic. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

A soldier who sat on the far right of the lined tables, a cigar in his mouth, motioned for me to come over. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

“Gentlemen docking, sir!” cried a soldier on the wharf. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

I remembered the soldiers taking Papa from our house. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

“With one hand. Huge Feng Fu! The man who strangled an ox with his bare hands! The emperor’s soldiers must have special powers. They are invincible.” When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

She strode past him and returned to the soldiers. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

I remember soldiers coming home and then there wasn’t no more talk about the World War. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

A soldier hit him in the face with the butt of a gun. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

“But her husband did. And the soldiers. Monsters.” The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

The soldiers ignored her and the boy kept his posture straight-backed, as if he could not trust himself to look back at his mother. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

During the past year, there had been pictures of the revolution’s soldiers in the newspapers and on TV, but I’d never seen so many in person. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

First, he increased the size of Germany’s army from 100,000 soldiers to 500,000, five times more than the number permitted by the Treaty of Versailles. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

This is a parade with no soldiers, not even imitation soldiers. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

The soldiers are hosing the buildings with fire. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Such behavior became lethal in the presence of peasant soldiers ungracefully blasting away with guns. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

The small cortege walked on foot, slowly, all the way to the cemetery, between two rows of soldiers who had cordoned off the streets. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

He would sit up tall, protecting her, with his ears standing up straight on his head, like soldiers. Because of Winn-Dixie 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Remember all the American soldiers in trucks yesterday? Must have been twenty trucks that drove by us. They definitely took that road.” Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

Grandfather did kill British soldiers with that sword. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

It is not the face of the gaunt old man the soldiers took away but the face of the man I once thought was a god. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Had the bolas come in massed, coordinated onslaughts instead of being wielded by individual soldiers as they thought opportune, Pizarro might well have met his match. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Weeks later, they returned to Jerusalem to find their house “occupied”—filled with other people—Jewish soldiers with guns. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

When the troop of soldiers surrounded the house, the family looked fearful. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

Though no one mentioned another word about faeries, as they traveled onward, Celaena continually scanned the soldiers’ faces for any indication that they’d seen something strange. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Cops and soldiers and medical personnel gathered there every day to share information and receive assignments. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

She spoke to the soldiers as they suited up. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The first bullet hit the black soldier in the heart. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

Our enemies had learned that American soldiers love to take souvenirs. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now I know it was Ma and Geak telling me about the soldiers. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Spanish soldier looked at the three children and smiled. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then a transparent Roman soldier on a spotted horse. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The soldiers carried the president up the curved staircase. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

He often thought that it might have been better for all his dead soldiers to be alive—even if they had lived under tyranny and madness—rather than be quite dead. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

The army didn’t want to pay for a child soldier’s medical care. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

More shooting as a couple of soldiers went after them and Paul’s men pounded the soldiers. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

But not before a significant number of the soldiers had joined with the Mississippi vigilantes and the local posse in hunting down blacks. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

He took it and he called over a soldier. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was a soldier and patriot, for whom no task was too small. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

McNamara agreed that more soldiers were needed to prevent defeat, but pointed out that if the United States escalated, so would the enemy. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

A soldier threw his hands up and said, “That goat, that goat was a bad omen! All is lost! We have to surrender!” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

“I’m proud you were a soldier. Do you know that?” Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Two soldiers extract me from the bunk like a splinter. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

“Better hook that tunic collar, soldier,” he said softly. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

After a few minutes, the soldiers waved them on. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

Did he always want to be a soldier? The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

The soldiers set up their garrison in another unfinished brick house, and there they socialized separate from the civilians. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

A few feet from the soldiers, Captain Mark Haines began to suit up. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dr. Lange was dining with colleagues and I accepted the arrival from the soldiers. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

No soldiers wait in the hall with guns drawn. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

None of the soldiers have dust bombs or tear gas. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

Besides this, they had used every means to spare themselves and their soldiers fear and hardship, not killing each other in their scuffles, but instead taking each other prisoner without demanding ransom. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z

Dozens of soldiers stand in clusters around us. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

The gates were open, soldiers coming and going, drays rolling in empty and going out creaking and swaying under their loads. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

“Cain, soldier in the king’s army. I hail from the White Fang Mountains.” Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Again he looked back at the old soldier, recalling—with an avalanche of associations—all the stories he had heard about Hessian brutality. The Fighting Ground 1984-04-01T00:00:00Z

He thought to make the great soldier give way at the door. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

The young soldier was standing on the porch, staring into the distance beyond the shed. The Fighting Ground 1984-04-01T00:00:00Z

Ahead of us in the line, Khmer Rouge soldiers yell something to the crowd, but I cannot hear what they say. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Pentheus angrily ordered the soldiers to bind him and take him to the prison and Dionysus went, saying, “The wrongs you do to me are wrongs done to the gods.” Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

Comprehending, the soldier shrugged, then turned and took the bucket inside, leaving Jonathan alone. The Fighting Ground 1984-04-01T00:00:00Z

Something went wrong with one of the soldiers’ suits. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He is immediately arrested and taken away by the soldiers. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

Healers learned the intricate work of healing wounds, while Heartrenders became soldiers—experts at doing damage, not undoing it. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

I ran back to my soldiers and gathered the fastest horsemen for pursuit. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

In fact, most of J. T.’s foot soldiers also held minimum-wage jobs in the legitimate sector to supplement their skimpy illicit earnings. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

“When I was brought in I was half conscious. The Count was giving the orders, but three soldiers were carrying me. They know too.” The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

She read the number tattooed on his arm and checked it against a list on a clipboard the soldier carried. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

It was the way I always went home, but Laura had said there were a lot of soldiers in the area. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

When no one moved, the soldiers raised their guns. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Are you sure you don’t have beer? Are you hiding it because you think we will not pay you?” one of the soldiers said to her. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Bell’s cries are sure to bring soldiers and police. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

Parents picked their children’s hair, girls played singing and clapping games, and some of the young soldiers played soccer with the boys. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

Hadn’t he said, “We must all be soldiers now”? And hadn’t Jonathan talked with his friends of war, battles old and new, strategies fit for major generals? The Fighting Ground 1984-04-01T00:00:00Z

No occupation soldier comes to arrest them; no one even speaks to them. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

A dozen nations were using the new technology of aircraft for bombing, for taking photographs of enemy troops, for shooting at soldiers on the ground, and for aerial combat against enemy pilots. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

The soldier gave a quick nod, and the two of them headed for the door. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

The way is littered with hundreds of dead soldiers, their unburied bodies swollen by death and sometimes stripped bare by scavengers. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

The young soldier was obviously frightened and fear might be the worst thing that could happen to him in handling the situation. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Even as I hear the shouts of soldiers behind us, in the hall leading to the firing squad, I force myself to turn around and keep going. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

In this sweeping international epic, black and white American soldiers protect each other under enemy fire in the African desert. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

They try to kill her with arrows but they just bounce off her and kill the soldiers who shot them. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

Good Friends, the Buddhist aid group with informants in the North, reported in 2009 that one soldier on a state farm was stabbed with a sickle during a fight over corn. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

She surveys me without feeling as two Dauntless soldiers pull me out of the room. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

The first soldier exchanges looks with some of the others. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

Sullenly, the young soldier swung about, groped for his boots, and pulled them on. The Fighting Ground 1984-04-01T00:00:00Z

My heart tightens when I think of the soldier’s words: Forces in Aleppo are targeting Kurds. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

Most Soviet and American soldiers went home after 1948, and many assumed that Korea would eventually unify under a single government. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Fireworks explode above the bridge’s massive pylons and armed soldiers salute us on both sides as gigantic steel cables shoot to the sky. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

They were rescued on the ground by Soviet soldiers who’d seen the plane crash. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

This leads to great confusion in the kingdom of the devil, and this strife leaves many dead and injured, which is why children make the perfect soldiers. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z

More days passed, and just when Kennedy and his men thought they all would die, they were rescued by soldiers from New Zealand. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

There is a shouting crowd of Dauntless soldiers dressed in black. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

“We are the children of Dr. Han, who is taking care of many of your soldiers at our medical clinic.” Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

One soldier sitting on a crate lifted his eyes sleepily from the orange he was peeling. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

And the soldiers wore the girls’ hats, one a tiny yellow straw boater with a bunch of daisies on the crown, the other a white knitted half-hat to which medallions of blue cellophane adhered. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

A soldier came along after the last of the stragglers. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

During the civil war, Portuguese soldiers came through the village and destroyed all the boats to keep them from being used by Frelimo. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Meng also cannot come because the soldiers are keeping him busy with work. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I helped the soldier with the rupture up on the seat with us. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

People fought with fists and bricks; soldiers fired on the crowd, killing two and injuring more than two hundred. Fannie Never Flinched 2016-11-21T00:00:00Z

In the next five hours, before immigration agents and Mexican soldiers stopped the train and opened the doors, Zepeda saw seven migrants fall to the floor. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

“This was a good school, ranked high on the national scale, and now our halls are filled with soldiers and people are treating us like criminals!” Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then I dressed Sammy in his soldier pajamas, and I put on my pajamas with the lace collar that my mother had made for me. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

“Americans....soldiers...Soldat!” he said, remembering the word the young soldier had taught him. The Fighting Ground 1984-04-01T00:00:00Z

When I lift my eyes, I see a Dauntless soldier standing over a kneeling woman. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

Becky was somewhere in the crowd watching General Washington parade down Broadway with five regiments of soldiers. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

She spotted a soldier walking through the room, and her heart sped up. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

But the soldiers had their rifles up already. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

This time, there's a dragging sound mixed in with the crisp march of the soldiers. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

He wanted the soldiers to keep certain things in mind as they followed him in. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I dove behind a log barricade just as two soldiers turned the corner, talking intently to each other and sweeping the street with their eyes. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

Every day I watched the German soldiers in their field-gray uniforms who guarded a petroleum tank across the street from our apartment. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

He doesn't say anything, and so I keep talking, as if I think he doesn't remember when we kissed for the amusement of drunken soldiers in the street. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

He gestured with his hand and the soldiers behind him made the same movement with their guns. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

The tall soldier, moving silently, took several steps in Jonathan’s direction. The Fighting Ground 1984-04-01T00:00:00Z

As the trail twisted along the river, the patrol began to take on a nightmarish quality that would become all too familiar to soldiers in this war. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

“You can get a carriage and a soldier will go in with you.” A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

When we caught up to him, we saw he had stopped near a group of soldiers carrying assault rifles. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

‘Happens they caught more than the farmer and the soldier?’ Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

He dreamed of it in the way other soldiers dreamed of their hearths or allotments or old civilian jobs. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Doctors and soldiers look up at me with startled faces. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

Then he indicated the location of the soldier barricades. In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z

The extra soldiers were not the cleanest sort, or maybe they were too busy drilling and making gunpowder cartridges to wash. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

In 1532 Pizarro and fewer than two hundred men captured Atahualpa, the Inca chief, who had an army of fifty thousand soldiers. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

There are letters from Confederate soldiers lying on a Federal desk, strategically placed antique spectacles and handkerchiefs. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

We both know what it means when the soldiers come to the village and take someone with them. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I see his fingers creep closer to his gun's trigger, but one of the other soldiers shakes his head. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

“Good,” I said, and I imagined two leather chairs near a fire in a paneled room, where two old soldiers could drink and talk. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Fortifications,” a soldier explained to a cart man. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

“This is the first of my soldiers they have slain.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

He was a short pathway away from home when he saw two soldiers standing next to a van and holding guns. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

To return home a sopping soldier in tight new clothes. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

The soldier takes me far away from the direction of the base, where I assume we would go for water. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

A soldier is sent to clear the tavern. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

My mother opens it immediately, lets the soldiers in, and then closes it. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

Meade had ordered every soldier to action, even the Provost Guards. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The soldiers waiting by the elevator stand even straighter as I approach. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

They, along with our laborers, soldiers, and other working men, are the ones with the strength and speed to get the job done. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

Her mother was sewing uniforms for Jackboot soldiers in a Warsaw factory. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

On her way to get toilet paper, Petra stepped heavily on a headless soldier. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

Everything went to the soldiers, pilots, and sailors who were defending our island. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

“We were instructed about military formations and how soldiers move in the countryside unseen. We learned how to shoot, throw hand grenades, and how to storm trenches.” Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

What could a soldier do who had killed people for no good reason and then returned starving to his country? A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

The soldiers all left to fight the Russians. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

He wasn’t going to find that toy soldier. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

“My father used to call all soldiers angel warriors, ” he said. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was watching a group of soldiers with a trained vork in a metal collar. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

There were pictures of soldiers cutting through a jungle path. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

British ships continued to land at Staten Island, hundreds of them carrying thousands of soldiers armed with countless guns and bullets. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

I don’t understand why the governor sent grown-up soldiers to keep us out. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The infiltration of soldiers from North to South was steadily rising. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Or soldiers on trucks from the bases in Norfolk. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was in no rush to cut a deal that would send American soldiers home. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

I whispered to Sander as we stood in line like soldiers awaiting inspection—or execution. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

Hubbard was marching in place, like a soldier, marine, pounding, pounding, iron pipes, sledgehammers, belly, chest, throat, chin. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

At the Executive Mansion, the soldiers carried the president’s body in its temporary coffin to the second floor for an autopsy. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Still, he and his family had to fend off thieving neighbors and roaming soldiers in order to survive. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

One soldier ordered Farmer to say “Long live the Haitian army.” Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

The gun barrel pushes me toward a door guarded by two Dauntless soldiers. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

In 1920, two years after the World War, the soldiers was still traveling about. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was terrifying and energizing to be among the soldiers, after watching them from hiding for so long. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

“I have these dreams all the time where I’m fighting loads of Roman soldiers.” Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were images of blue-clad soldiers marching off to war next to mass graves. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

Next to them stood a smart soldier, his uniform perfect, his hat off and under his arm, looking away like he wasn't supposed to be seeing this. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

I look on helplessly as she runs right into a soldier, and when she tries to turn away from him, he grabs her and throws her to the ground. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

Along with the bad pay, the foot soldiers faced terrible job conditions. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

Liyana reclaimed her purse from the office and asked the soldier if he knew where her mother might be, but he pretended he didn’t understand her. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

The soldiers had been going to houses and stealing food. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

The only problem was that I would be in full view of the soldiers sitting on the couch. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

Above me I can hear furious voices coming from the third-floor window as the soldiers realize they're going to have to double back into the laboratory to disable the alarm. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

And the dead soldiers posing in the shop windows were Russians now, propped up with broomsticks, their faces painted with swastikas. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

Another brief was filed on behalf of former child soldiers whose terrifying behavior after being forced into violent African militias made the crimes of our clients seem much less aggravated by comparison. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

She thought soldiers didn’t get paid that much. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

“Now he is gone to be a soldier.” Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

When the French soldiers invited Washington to dinner, he eagerly accepted, hoping that he could get some information. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

And on the other side of the field were thousands of Russians and Poles and Yugoslavians and so on guarded by American soldiers. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

We both watch the soldier walk away, hearing the congratulations of other passersby who overheard the exchange. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

Yet this same soldier had gained a new resolve to persevere. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

"The night with the drunk soldiers" is a much easier way to remember it than as "the night with the desperate kiss." Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

She imagined what it would have been like to be a Union soldier on this island in 1861. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

To give the soldiers their due, they were extremely courageous. The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

A soldier sat outside the door that opened onto the garden making crosses and painting on them the names, rank, and regiment of the men who were buried in the garden. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

Hiding their guns, the soldiers can easily infiltrate the refugee camp and spy on our activities. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

That night in his room Palmer debated where to hide the twenty-seven toy soldiers. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

Unseen warriors on a high hill to the south fired a few long-range shots at the soldiers behind the barricades. In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z

The soldier in command gave an order, and the guard who’d been holding Julie down took aim at the younger of the captive men and with one bullet maimed him low between his legs. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

“I need to know. Did the soldier really say that he had wired Koch?” Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

The soldiers, really not much older than I, were cordial, even friendly. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

Thomas, the soldier who would happily carry out any order from Commander Jameson, even if it’s to kill a childhood friend. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

Quietly and serenely she moved across the field, beheading her golden soldiers as she went to greet the Red Calf. Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z

Older men had gone to war as soldiers or been killed in battle. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

He prizes me as a soldier would a good weapon; and that is all. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

The house was not far from City Hall, along a street where soldiers with heavy axes were chopping down the row of tall poplar trees. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

All he had to do was tell the soldiers that John Wilkes Booth and his accomplice were hiding at his farm. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Hitler had been a soldier in the war and had been wounded. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

Even if a Japanese soldier was captured and his rifle taken from him, he would still try to attack his captors with a hidden knife. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Since Washington had spent eight years sending American soldiers to their death in battle against Great Britain, one might expect that he harbored even more hostile opinions toward his former adversary. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

And therefore, if it was then necessary to satisfy the soldiers more than the people, that was because the soldiers could do more than the people. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z

On the other hand, the stoicism of some of the soldiers amazed and even appalled her. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

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

“No,” my father said, “I myself will go,” but the women held him back until the foot soldiers passed by, my husband and my brother leaving with them. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

The soldiers can't see me up here, with our wide chimney and the shadows cast by the taller buildings around us. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

Did the soldiers have my name on a list of traitors? Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

He told them the Nazis had executed every one of the British soldiers. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

We lost a few adult soldiers on our side and my friends Musa and Josiah. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

It learned how the Matabele ants carried their young at the center of a line while the soldiers ran along the outside. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

The plump commander of the Stalwart Shields looked more like a scribe than a soldier, with his inky hands and heavy paunch, but he was as clever as they came. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“Tell her ’bout the windows,” called another soldier warming himself by the fire. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

It happened so quickly the soldiers had no time to react. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

The man across from me started to cry, and the American soldiers didn’t know what to do. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

"I should bring you, too, to keep him company," the soldier offers. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

Now, with the added millions of American soldiers to feed, the potential profits were astronomical. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

The ghostly soldiers returned, their haunted eyes seeking warmth, food, life. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was bad enough being an aviation cadet without having to act like a soldier in the blistering heat every Sunday afternoon. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

“It is now,” one soldier writes in his diary, “a race of life or death.” Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

“Might just as well be happy, seeing as it doesn’t make a difference to anyone but you if you are or not,” said the soldier. The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z

“Did the soldiers know it was Crazy Horse?” In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z

Mudd was the unknown soldier who had never had a chance, for that was the only thing anyone ever did know about all the unknown soldiers—they never had a chance. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

The soldier crossed the hall to open another door. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

The strange thing about Roman soldiers in the comics, according to Rahel, was the amount of trouble they took over their armor and their helmets, and then, after all that, they left their legs bare. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The fire’s reflection leads along the gun barrel, over the sight and hammer, to the soldier’s ecstatic face. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Jinjoo was so grateful to the soldier for giving them such a wonderful gift. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

It has been estimated that as many as 400 women cut their hair short, disguised themselves as men, and fought as soldiers on both sides. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

When I returned, holding the heavy bag at the bottom so it wouldn’t split, Dad and Brian were arguing over the plastic jack-o’-lantern filled with green plastic army soldiers that Brian wanted to bring. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

But the first time Olanna saw Nigerian soldiers, on the main road, they did not hold whips. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Pa does not look the soldier in the eyes as he hands the watches over. the soldier orders and then walks away. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I didn’t want to believe that the man I’d seen with the soldiers had been Papa’s boss, but it had to be true. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

“Don’t make me call in one of the soldiers. They won’t be nearly as nice, believe me.” The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

A dozen or more soldiers of the Protection Units police the roadblock. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

Jonathan turned to the door as the tall soldier came in, his great size filling the doorframe. The Fighting Ground 1984-04-01T00:00:00Z

And I’d have swum off, towing him by the hair, if it had come to that, and I’d a got him aboard without the soldiers. Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z

“If you didn’t want to lose soldiers, you shouldn’t have started a war.” The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

"He has no gold to pay soldiers. What if he's betrayed?" A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

I tell her that the soldiers detained me with many others. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z

He stretched his neck a little to match the chilly height he hoped the soldiers had seen in his eyes. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

At the same time, not unrelated, machines were being put to important scientific use: Researchers were trying to measure the ability of pilots and soldiers to sustain their focus while operating the advanced weaponry. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

Bright lights from the guard towers moved across the White Island, and Nina could hear the shouts of soldiers closing in around the palace. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

When we reach the center of the circle, the soldiers force me to stand while they bind my shackled hands and feet to the chains. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

A group of Frelimo soldiers gave a speech outside the trading post. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even at war, soldiers of the crown hardly merited that term, which belonged to ancient battles and bloodcurdling cries. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

“I guess here we didn’t have enough colored soldiers for a parade.” Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then it was a dormitory for soldiers during World War II, and later the Transit Authority used it for storage. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

When the soldiers dump him before the Commandant, he doesn’t move. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

Those soldiers were firing rapidly and had wounded several warriors. In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z

The Japanese soldier, a colonel had explained, would die fighting before he would surrender. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

One of the soldiers pauses to give the commander a quick salute. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

The soldier stood watching him from the doorway. The Fighting Ground 1984-04-01T00:00:00Z

She recognized one of them as the soldier in green from so long ago—the same soldier she knew was not a soldier, any more than he was a guard now. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

He even had them officially listed and denounced for desertion, in case some British agent needed proof that the agent was really a former American soldier and not a spy posing as a deserter. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

From where they stood Robin could see it all as plainly as if it had been a toy village set in a toy landscape, and the soldiers, toy soldiers. The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z

Lee thought: docile men do not make good soldiers. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The soldiers are taking me down a wide hallway that seems to be a mile long. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

When Zlata wrote about Bosnian children becoming the “soldiers” and the soldiers becoming “children,” at first I didn’t get her meaning. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

The women soldiers at the gate seemed meaner than the men. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

“They think we’re soldiers. Sometimes they raid to transport the kids to orphanages.” Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

But as time goes by, the soldiers make them work longer hours and allow them to return to Ro Leap once every three months. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had joined them two weeks ago, in the town hall, sewing singlets and towels for the soldiers. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Then three other soldiers ran to the window, and while Bronwyn cried “Please, don’t kill him!” they raked the field with bullets, filling our ears with the thunder of their guns. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

The palm trees along Wilshire were nice and uniform, like soldiers standing at attention, and the medians were landscaped with flowers and low shrubs. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

The soldier who opened the door has started reacting—his hand goes to his gun as if in slow motion. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

If Judith was a soldier, now is when I would lower my eyes and talk softly about how she was right and I couldn't possibly understand any of it. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

I exchange a friendly look with Thomas, the soldier in the driver’s seat. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

He was a grave and courtly man, a soldier all his life. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

At first I didn’t see the soldiers at all—just a giant, swirling mass of insects, so dense it was opaque, about fifty feet down the footpath. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

The last checkpoint we passed that day was manned by soldiers well dressed in complete army gear. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

“And will that make him a better soldier?” The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The end of the Greenwich Road was lined with British soldiers, relaxed and laughing as their prisoners—captured American soldiers— walked three to a row between their enemies through the doors of the Bridewell Prison. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

With my arms flat against my sides like a soldier at attention, they mummified me from my shoulder to my wrists. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

The soldiers just didn’t have enough food to share with so many. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Not more than a week later, I was talking at gatherings in Freetown about child soldiering and how it must be stopped. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

As I spat it out and wiped it off my face, I saw the soldier it had come from. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

Disappointed at the lack of anything to mock, the soldiers returned to their meals. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

The next morning, Wednesday, September 25, at 8 a.m., as we turned the comer near the Bateses’ home, I saw them, about fifty uniformed soldiers of the 101st. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The soldiers studied the tips of their boots. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

Odenigbo wanted to go to Abba, to see where his mother lay, and each day he walked to the main road to find out whether the Nigerian soldiers were letting cars pass. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

I sat quietly and pondered the question as I glanced out the front window at the few soldiers standing at attention. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Spirits began to appear around Minos—shimmering forms that slowly multiplied, solidifying into Cretan soldiers. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

“He was the last of the Min emperors, killed by the soldiers of Emperor Shang.” When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

Of most direct relevance to wars of conquest, it can be used to feed professional soldiers. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

I do not in fact know if the body is a civilian or a soldier. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Lifting his weapon, Ellsberg spun and saw a very young soldier, maybe fifteen, wearing nothing but black shorts. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Sometimes my own little brothers—unaware of what it really meant—would pretend to be Taliban militants or army soldiers. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

They hurled insults at the soldier as well, but he seemed not to pay attention. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

They went with a soldier named General Pershing. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The king sent his soldiers to take the bull away, but it tossed them on its horns. ‘You turned me away when I asked,’ it bellowed. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ingrid stood facing the soldier, clutching his scarf to her chest. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

Scholars have long acknowledged such borrowings as moccasins, maize, and military tactics—the Indian-style guerrilla skirmishes with which the rebellious colonists bedeviled British soldiers. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

I’d been born with the kind of biceps and muscled calves that, back in third grade, had earned me the nickname swoldger—a cross between swollen and soldier. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

A fierce and focused soldier, she was awarded a medal for rescuing fifty of her wounded comrades in one battle, and was even made a commander. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

They were also called suicide attacks because that was what it turned out to be for those Japanese soldiers. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Upon his command, the soldiers lowered their guns. The Fighting Ground 1984-04-01T00:00:00Z

We paused at a corner while a soldier drove a cart filled with barrels down the street. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

These soldiers came with tons of warring equipment, including helicopters, tanks, jeeps with machine guns, and long rifles with bayonets. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

His song was loaded with the blunt, sarcastic humor soldiers used to get through their days, following orders that didn’t always make sense. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

Without horses, Indian soldiers unavoidably traveled slower than European or Asian soldiers. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

“They will get used to it,” the soldier said as if the words were rote in his mouth. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some six helmeted soldiers, armed with broadswords and bearing lanterns, were coming down the street. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

We are not beaten, for as soldiers we are better and more experienced; we are simply crushed and driven back by overwhelming superior forces. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

He looked rather bored as he put a tin soldier on a tiny horse. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

Arriving at Medicine Tail Coulee, they saw the soldiers running away. In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z

However, the soldiers say that Meng, at eighteen, is too old to live at home with us, and they force him to go live in the labor camp with Khouy and Laine. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

They stood over the guards’ bodies, panting, weapons raised, waiting for more Fjerdan soldiers to flood out of the gatehouse. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

She’d camouflaged her face and arms with dirt like a soldier in a war movie. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

They came with dozens of badly wounded soldiers, and once again the medical clinic was over capacity. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

The middle of town was still empty of villagers but full of North Korean soldiers patrolling the area. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

“There will be other soldiers. But who says they can’t be Patriots in disguise?” Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

There’s no reason for the soldiers to stop the attack. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

I watched in silence as an older soldier walked by and started to untie him, stopping only when the teenager who had given Otto the beer complained loudly. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

The battle was over, but Nguyen was afraid there might be NVA soldiers left behind, ready to take aim at anyone that moved, or that a nervous South Vietnamese soldier might shoot them. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

"I might have killed every man of you and given your women to my soldiers for their pleasure, but instead I protected you. Is this the thanks you offer?" A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Belgium, and hired soldiers left over from the Bay of Pigs. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sentinels and soldier pines grew thick about here, and there was nothing as dark and gloomy as an evergreen forest. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

The two soldiers who had come and eaten her jollof rice filled her with rage. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

The Point Prospect camp-ground south of Rose Hill was said to be swarming with soldiers who made forays on chicken coops, pigpens, and smokehouses where winter meat was hung. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

But there’s no sign of that—none of the soldiers wear gas masks. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

A group of soldiers came in looking for shelter and striking matches, just as he and Nettle had. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Bloom had no idea whether Russia even had a standing army, let alone how many soldiers it might include and how many square feet they would cover. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

The spy went into his act: a simple- minded fanner seeking a runaway wife, terrified of soldiers. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

In this part of the resort now there were hundreds of soldiers, many of them in loud gangs drifting through the streets, singing and shouting. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

The adults, civilians and soldiers, spoke about the weather, planting seasons, hunting, and nothing about the war. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

“What about the dead girl?” one of the soldiers asked. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

As they went by, one of the soldiers shouted out, “The hour of Compline is at hand! The curfew is in force! No one may be on the streets!” Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

The theater was thick with servicemen, taking breaks from the endless drilling that was the life of the peacetime soldier. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z

A soldier had his rifle aimed directly at them. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

“You are summoned to the New York Provincial Congress for suspicion of aiding the enemy, Elihu. I am placing you under arrest. These soldiers will escort you.” Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

The soldiers, stunned, and very frightened, moved back several steps as Aycliffe rolled back on the stone road, twitched, kicked, and became very still in his own pooling blood. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

Before I could answer, a soldier dashed up to him. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then the four remaining soldiers ushered every single one of the prisoners out of the bus and made them lie down side by side on their faces in the middle of the road. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

If the soldiers are still looking for me, I’m not safe here. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

Maybe the soldier just marched by and decided to stay. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

The commanding officer told them to go after the NVA soldier. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

Sitting in the back of the truck, we dare not move until the soldiers instruct us to. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were older teens in mostly black clothes and Afros posted like soldiers guarding the outside. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Aycliffe was impaled on the soldiers swords, run clear through by several points. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

Once we are in the train, there are no more words between soldiers and passengers. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Ugwu raised his hand again but the other soldiers held him, dragged him away, said it was just a book after all, told him to drink some more gin. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

He was a soldier, preparing for his deployment. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

I stopped and stood shaking, while soldiers crowded around the hut. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

To put that number into perspective, if we took that new 2.4 percent figure and applied it to today’s population of 313.3 million, the result would be about 7.5 million soldiers and sailors killed. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

She smelled the soldier’s coarse soap, the salt of his perspiring back. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

He caught the attention of one of the soldiers passing by the open back of the van. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

Our group approached the village registration point and the soldiers. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

The soldiers overturned the tables and chairs, and Amah’s carefully organized box of threads and sewing tools were strewn on the floor, red silk lying on the ground like a pool of blood. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

Which means if the soldiers throw her over and I'm still dangling like a comatose spider, we'll both fall hard and fast to the hereafter. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

“I hear nothing important from Jews,” the soldier said. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

She dropped to the ground in fear when she saw a German soldier standing with his back to her. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

The soldiers come after me, but I’ve grown up among the squat, mud-brick houses of the Quarter, and I lose my pursuers quickly. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

There were six more seasoned soldiers—all of them thrown out of the army for questionable behavior, which must have been truly questionable, given that Adarlan’s army was notorious for ruthlessness. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

I look down and see the soldiers spill from another house. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

She must've been deteriorating for months, because her skin is cracked and bleeding everywhere, and I find myself wondering how the soldiers could have missed this one during previous inspections. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

Then the intensity of the soldiers’ shouting and laughing swallowed me. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

The soldiers are in Iraq to kill Saddam Hussein, who’s evil. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

Then Ma hears the slush of mud as a soldier moves his position. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Salva passed several rebel soldiers waiting by the side of the road. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Later, two village women came and were taken in to the commander’s quarters; much later, the soldiers threw stones at them as they left. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Within days, however, more German soldiers are shipped on trains to the west. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

The winding roads hid them from view, but they could hear the loud stomping of soldiers in the streets. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

In the years since the war ended I have met former Japanese soldiers. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

As we walked up the now-deserted streets, Lefty warned us to watch out for demon soldiers. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

Two of the men obeyed, and the balloon lurched up, but the other two had their attention on the soldiers, who were moving quickly around the corner of the building. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

He noticed that the soldier was watching him. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Old Mrs. Immerglick and her family were being dragged away by German soldiers. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

They set down their burdens and lined up between the tables like rows of soldiers. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

‘I’m no soldier. I’m a farmer. I hate the smell of gunpowder. What I like is manure.’ Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

The soldier in green looked at Amah, and a shock ran through her. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

After he hid from the soldiers for twenty months, they finally found him. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The first: that everyone can paint his house the color he feels like. The second: that the soldiers leave at once. We will guarantee order for you.” One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

Though this was supposed to be a chartered train that the deportees had paid for, a mass of Japanese soldiers in their khaki uniforms and caps pushed on board. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Out on the streets, two big gray military trucks pulled up, and Jews from our apartment building and all the buildings around us were herded into them by German soldiers. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

The president felt as if “he was himself again” when he saw people swimming and walking at the beach, boats sailing on the ocean, and the soldiers pacing the perimeter of the cottage lawn. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

When I take a good look across the sector, I see that red tape lines almost every block, and plague patrol soldiers with gas masks and black capes stand at every street corner. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

But what we Nigerians needed was not soldiers ruling us, what we needed was a renewed democracy. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

He was a very good soldier—about to quit, about to find somebody to surrender to. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

It stays there as if protecting me from the sun and the soldiers. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

And that is how Miggery Sow came to be sitting in a wagon full of soup-related items, next to a soldier of the king. The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z

He didn’t look like a soldier at all. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Besides soldiers, weapons, and supplies, Oshiro and Big Jim carried highly classified information back and forth to the camps in locked bags. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

And yes, his sentences come marching out one after another, polished and crisp like soldiers on a parade ground. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

Caught between the hatred he felt toward the soldiers and his fear, he remained unmoving. The Fighting Ground 1984-04-01T00:00:00Z

Anxiety spreads through my body at the sight of the Khmer Rouge soldiers. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

At night soldiers came running to the village for ammunition and a quick respite. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

The soldier who had meant to shoot Baba had already holstered his weapon. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

That morning didn’t come just with sunrise; it brought with it soldiers, the few who were able to make it back to the village. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

Nearly half of the Allied soldiers who were captured by the Japanese during the war died in those camps. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

To look me over and tell me he’s seen a lot worse injuries among the soldiers when they teach choke holds in training. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

Good soldier, I thought, taking advantage of the element of surprise. Liar, Liar 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

I am waiting for the soldier to step off the bus. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z

He knew the two soldiers had been good friends with the platoon leader. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

Expeditions from France and Spain were usually backed by the state, and generally staffed by soldiers accustomed to hard living. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

For several years after the war's end, federal soldiers were stationed in the former Confederate states. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

He lay on his belly and looked through his binoculars at the soldiers in the meadow. In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z

On the left was an American colonel; on the right, another soldier looked away, his face obscured; and in the middle stood a Soviet officer, whose face had been cut out of the photograph. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

The condition of the soldiers spoke to the fate of the Reich. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

A soldier was violently hitting the bonnet of the car. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

But with crackers and cigarettes they could often buy their freedom from hungry police and soldiers. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

In one tomb archaeologists had discovered soldiers, servants, and even dancing girls laid out as though they were sleeping. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Tell me something,” I asked the young soldier in the front seat. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

But the Incas, like all other foot soldiers, were never able to defeat cavalry in the open. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

The soldiers’ tunics were unbuttoned and their belts were threaded through their epaulets. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Whatever Clancy had been expecting, it wasn’t two Psi Special Forces soldiers. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

With a look, Jonathan tried to appeal to the young soldier. The Fighting Ground 1984-04-01T00:00:00Z

First, though, he needed answers to the kinds of questions that a general needs as he prepares for battle: Where are the enemy soldiers? George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were no 101st soldiers at their usual posts along the corridors. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He does not look like the sleepwalking Dauntless soldiers; his eyes are alert. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

I flirt with German soldiers, but only because it saves me. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

A group of ragtag soldiers could take on the most powerful country in the world. I Survived the American Revolution, 1776 2017-08-01T00:00:00Z

A few seconds of a medic putting a tag on a wounded soldier. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You think the life of an assassin is worth more than that of a soldier?” Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

When I exit the Block on the far side, a soldier congratulates me, stamps my hand with squad number 451, and tells me to report to Command. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

It was strange sleeping in the barn with all those soldiers and it felt a lot less safe than you might have thought, given how many guns were around. How I Live Now 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

The soldiers continued to beat them all the way into the street, where they were ordered to lie face down on the ground. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Do what soldiers do...pick up the gun...make them pay for what they’ve done....” The Fighting Ground 1984-04-01T00:00:00Z

I don’t care if soldiers find us in this railway car and drag us away. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

I stand on my toes and look over people’s heads at all the soldiers moving the giant herds. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

There were two more soldiers in it, and though both wore mirrored sunglasses, I knew what was behind them. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

Two soldiers with halberds came first and took their stand at each side of the entry. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z

On the right, more soldiers sat under a shack covered with tarp. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

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

He also sends him a drawing of a Zouave, a French soldier, which amazes Bernard. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

No one knew how many Japanese soldiers and civilians would die. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Instantly, the two other soldiers brought their guns about and stared where the tall one pointed. The Fighting Ground 1984-04-01T00:00:00Z

The soldiers pushed the three of them onto the road, tied their hands behind their backs, and marched them onto the training ground through the troops. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’m not a very good soldier if she has to leave to get better. Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z

The nearly dead call out for help, reaching up to soldiers rushing by, and die with their hands in the air. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

The soldiers’ blue eyes were filled with a bleary civilian curiosity as to why one American would try to murder another one so far from home, and why the victim should laugh. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were almost overcome by their own mercenary soldiers after the first war with the Romans, even though the Carthaginians had their own citizens as officers. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z

The goal of a foot soldier was to someday become an officer. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

As soon as they let him out, he’d fight another soldier or get belligerent with an officer and they’d throw him back in. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

It was then that I saw the other group of soldiers. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now when he hits the gas, we lurch forward, making sawdust of the little tree, and careen away from the school, leaving gawking people, and frustrated soldiers who don’t seem to be following us. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

Then two soldiers with gas masks emerge from behind the house, dragging my mother between them. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

He stepped out of his canoe and walked up to a man, a soldier of some kind, standing on the grassy median—New Orleanians called it the neutral ground. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

‘After this we will not meet again, for I believe Gage knows all about us. He might be moved to arrest Mr. Lorne. He might send soldiers to arrest us all.’ Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Three days later the Connecticut 5th was ordered to Brooklyn along with six thousand other soldiers. I Survived the American Revolution, 1776 2017-08-01T00:00:00Z

The next day, Serbian soldiers came to take revenge for the attack. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

He dropped the soldier and made a grab for his ankle. The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was the first time that I was ever saluted by my own soldiers. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I think there will be one doctor who tends to both the women and the injured soldiers.” Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

If the soldier gets killed, then he did not listen to Pol Pot’s advice. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dark hair is cut closely to his scalp with a single silver stripe down the very center, marking him as a soldier from the House of War. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

The soldiers were yelling at us to sit on the ground, to stay frozen there. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

“Not in a moving vehicle,” the soldier says as he begins to frisk us. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

They were city soldiers who, like the MPs who were in the truck with us, hadn’t yet been to war. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

The moment Zeitoun and the three other men were led off the boat, a dozen soldiers descended upon them. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

The blacksmith called after me, but his words were lost in the din of the soldiers and the sailors who cluttered my path. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

Far ahead of us, I see a Dauntless soldier push a gray- clothed man to his knees. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

The bridge led right to the plant, but it was patrolled by German soldiers. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

In Mrs. Miller’s class we make goody bags for American soldiers in the war and it is very important that I help as much as I can to prove whose side I’m on. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

Max laughs, and Jan Dorlich laughs, and I laugh, and when the soldier puts me down again, I throw my arms around Max. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

But now the Klan provided no answers for the questions that stormed out of the darkness, like soldiers into battle, threatening to overwhelm him. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

The soldier holds his nose and waves away an imaginary smell, making it clear he doesn't think much of Van Gogh. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

“No, this is not the route to Battambang. The soldiers have taken us to a different place.” First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The soldiers swept the compound, washed their clothes, lined themselves on benches to welcome him. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

“Thank you, comrade,” Pa says meekly, his head bobbing up and down to the soldier. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Life for these Roman soldiers was relaxing and carefree compared to what they might be required to do elsewhere. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z

“Not as long as I can read. But I did the next best thing. I went off to be a soldier.” Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

A German soldier with a flashlight went down into the darkness, was gone a long time. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

And they progressively got bigger, older, and right in the middle was the ultimate image of a strong soldier. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

It was a fascinating experience to follow a year spent executing American policies as a soldier overseas with one watching how those policies are formulated. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

There would be money forthcoming to pay soldiers for that purpose. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

I just let the sounds of soldiers’ breathing fill the night. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

If they were stationed near a village, they could exchange soldier’s luxuries such as tobacco, cigarettes, and sugar for milk and eggs. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

Riverbanks, hillsides, the cool sloped rooms under the pine trees—China provides her soldiers with meeting places enough. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Reflect what it would be like to be a soldier in the Confederacy during the beginning, middle, and end of the Civil War. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

Nina and Aleksandr had been taken prisoner behind enemy lines by the Germans: the Soviet soldier’s worst nightmare. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

Throughout the war, there were never many formal organizations for women soldiers. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

At midday a group of over twenty soldiers arrived in the village. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

How about I pump you full of lead, soldier, would that get you motivated? It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

“I am telling you, all of the Hausa soldiers turned and ran, they had seen what was bigger than them.…” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Their master’s overseer was waiting to take charge of them, with a mule cart and two soldiers. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The same way she had stopped the beating of the young soldier. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Many of the roaming soldiers didn’t themselves know who was paying for their weapons. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

"Here's the soldier, to the left. Do you see? Giving instructions to the prisoners. And just in front of him is his partner." Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

People start shouting out questions to the soldiers. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Only Lieutenant Jimmy Cross and the young soldier were still searching the field. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Most of them, especially those who came to the principality as new men, when they recognized the difficulty resulting from the two opposing humours, turned to appeasing the soldiers, caring little about injuring the people. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z

Black leaders, including Ferdinand Barnett, concluded a two-day conference on the matter with a public statement calling on both the mayor and the governor to send in the soldiers. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

One night of uncertainty, when Pilar Ternera was singing in the courtyard with the soldiers, he asked her to read the future in her cards. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

“Get into the van!” the first soldier said. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

I hadn’t parted with my gun since the day I became a soldier. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

His voice wasn’t as firm as a soldier’s voice should be, but he did his best to control it. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

Looking up, we are startled to see a Youn soldier walking in our direction. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

They don’t know that he doesn’t hate the Japanese, not even the Japanese soldiers who were grim-faced watching Tayo and the corporal stumble with the stretcher. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

The housemen also resupplied the ground soldiers if they sold their allocated amount. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

Never had the soldiers seemed more enormous to Jonathan than they did then. The Fighting Ground 1984-04-01T00:00:00Z

Why weren't people out cheering and celebrating the soldiers who had come to our defense? The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

After that, when Hanako and the other kids walked to school each morning, the soldiers in jeeps would stare at them like they were criminals. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

A fireman, a neighbor, some German soldier hunting food? All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Then the soldiers went to Mexico and it was a kind of painful picnic. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Still woozy, I followed the soldier into the hallway. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

Yet the sounds of soldiers were getting louder. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

“Get the hell out of here!” she shouted with such ferocity that the soldiers lowered their guns and backed toward their Jeep. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Our soldier had been laughing loudly at the riddles he always guessed wrong. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“A Cheyenne warrior later said it was the bravest thing he had ever seen. That charge took out an entire company of soldiers—probably a big reason Custer’s five companies were defeated.” In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z

My eyes grasp at the prisoners corralled behind the soldiers, locking on each row, desperately scanning for sky-colored material. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

The soldiers who guarded them liked to rip the tops of the women’s garments so their breasts were exposed. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

Of course they were religious people, and the men who could read and write, who kept the records and drew the maps, were the tough untiring priests who traveled with the soldiers. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

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

I changed my name to Jacob Gruener and took to calling myself Jack, like the American soldiers called me. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

A lone soldier sat on a fallen pillar, gazing at the sky through the broken ceiling. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

A soldier ran past her and caught the child and gave it to her. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were too many other German soldiers around. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

We are making a fort, like soldiers in a war. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

As a soldier, he has already traveled the world, and has learned so much. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

Next to him, a soldier was mumbling prayers in the softest voice, so soft that Ugwu felt he was whispering in his ear. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

One of the soldiers restraining me strikes me in the back with his rifle. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

The smell of steel and forge wafts past, ever-present in a city known solely for its soldiers and weaponry. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

“Goddamnit! You’re eighteen. How much growing up do you need to do? There are soldiers dying in the field at eighteen. Old enough to be left to die on the roads. Did you know that?” Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

He could be trying to trap me here, hoping I’ll stay a Mask long enough to decide that a soldier’s life is better than an exile’s. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

We sat and watched as what looked like almost a full company of little soldiers moved out. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then, turning to me, “Served His Majesty this man. Was a soldier in the line and bought his discharge.” Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z

Another Liberian who knew the boy told her she didn’t understand: the boy had been forced by soldiers to shoot a close friend. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

We keep ourselves pressed as closely against the side of the bank as we can so idle soldiers and drunk workers above can't see us past all the grass and rocks. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

She cringes, and my soldier barks something sharp that must be telling him to stop. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

It is hard to tell the soldiers from the civilians when they are all the same people, speak one language, and wear the same black clothes. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The soldier crumples, clutching frantically at his mask. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

The soldier shuffled forward; Mark could only track his movement from the sounds he made. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

The military helicopter we saw before idles there, offloading water behind an entire gauntlet of armed soldiers. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

Not believing what I was seeing, I stopped, aghast, and watched as the soldiers dropped huge beams across the doors to brace them shut. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

The next hallway he guides us to is empty except for one fallen soldier. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

To their south sprawled the Temple of the Feathered Serpent, where the empire’s rulers, as ruthless and preoccupied with national glory as so many Bismarcks, considered what to do with their soldiers. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

They leave in the morning, taking a few soldiers with them for protection from the natives. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

Now the room was crowded with soldiers, and the smell of infection was made worse by the continuing heat wave. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

After the soldiers had gone his father sat with him a long time. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

The soldiers were still moving into line when McLaws was back. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

What were the soldiers going to do next? Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z

He drank ten beers, stumbled across the world’s most heavily militarized border, and surrendered his M14 rifle to startled North Korean soldiers. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

But even these soldiers did not march with the smartness and precision of the Ethiopians. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

She saw the charming, ugly face, talking so seriously about the interests of its honest heart She loved these interests—loved the old soldier to follow so faithfully his innocent love of God. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

He plowed his fingers through the heap of plastic soldiers in the battered cookie tin—identical except for their poses: standing, kneeling, and prone, all with rifles pressed hard to their olive-green cheeks. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

Werfel said, “My house is surrounded by soldiers. Eight or nine. On the lookout. They’re waiting for us to come back. They know it was you. Whatever it was you did.” The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

“We’re going to fight until we win!” the union leaders swore, sounding like soldiers. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

And the two women left, arm in arm, with the other soldier hesitating, glancing at the Elder, and then hurrying behind. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

One of the soldiers of the Fourth Regiment who were encamped upon the Common was earning a little money helping at the Lyte stable. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

I keep my eyes closed, trying to feel pious and sorry for the dead soldiers, who died for us, whose faces I can’t imagine. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Another soldier was kicking down trays of fruits, squashing papayas with his boots and laughing. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

They'll send a guy to the ten- second place at midnight, and then place soldiers along the back alley. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

Garfield learned about military leadership through experience and observation of the professional soldiers around him. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

The soldier gazed at his photo another minute before slipping it into his wallet. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

Of course it made the Red Army soldiers even angrier at the Germans, but it also baffled them. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

The soldier bit her lip and hesitated for a moment. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

I have to reach them before the soldiers do. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

Gunshots erupted nearby, and the soldiers began to move, taking the six of us with them. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

The soldiers, who somehow anticipated the attack and knew they were outnumbered, left town before the rebels actually came. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

Then I looked around the beach and saw, drawn up in ranks, regiment after regiment of strange, silent, scaled soldiers, but I paid little attention to them. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

Behind me I hear the laboratory door burst open and soldiers spill out. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

When my father was in my life, wrestling me for control of that life, I perceived him with the eyes of a soldier, through a fog of conflict. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Which means he had disguised himself as a soldier, and we caught him near San Diego, the only city that requires everyone to wear those blue pins. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

But when the older soldier did not stop, the suddenly taut rope made Jonathan slip and fall into the mud. The Fighting Ground 1984-04-01T00:00:00Z

It was a nervous time: every afternoon, one of his force later recalled, several thousand Indian soldiers approached in canoes to within “a stone's throw” of the Spanish and mocked them as they labored. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Most of the soldiers that were riding in the trucks looked like they were in their twenties, but a few seemed to be my age. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

Some of the guerrillas were actual North Korean soldiers who crossed over to recruit, mostly kidnap, young South Korean men. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

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

The church directed soldiers to crush “enemies” in their midst—people who questioned or did not follow church doctrine, women who were suspected of witchcraft, and commoners in general. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

“But I’m not a soldier. I’m just going home.” Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

Later on I bought him a drink, played the bluff soldier, old Arctic hand, "more things in heaven and earth" line. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Cavalry soldiers, ninety-seven Cheyenne, Kiowa, Pawnee, and Sioux Indians, another fifty Cossacks and Hussars, 180 horses, eighteen buffalo, ten elk, ten mules, and a dozen other animals. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

One afternoon when she was trying to put the parlor in order, Úrsula asked for the help of the soldiers who were guarding the house. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

His prisoners come to an uncertain stop in the middle of the street as the soldier sweeps a flashlight in Ollie's direction. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

In January, 1863, shortly after Lincoln had proclaimed the slaves free, she saw a regiment of Negro soldiers for the first time. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

I tried to distract the soldier while he looked at my papers. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

I can't stop imagining what will happen if the soldiers mark my mother's door. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

He’s never told us about going back to Gateshead, or what happened when he was with the soldiers. How I Live Now 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Once again he saw the face of the light- haired, bloodied soldier as life left his eyes. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

Then there were another 20,000 unpaid rank-and-file members, many of whom wanted nothing more than an opportunity to become a foot soldier. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

The smoke and the soldiers had frightened them away. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

I stand in my corner with more conviction than ever to kill these soldiers, to avenge the blood that drips from my brother’s skull. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Cordelia is a serving woman, and also a soldier in the final battle scene. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

The soldiers are another force that separates us. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z

Jones concealed his excitement as the soldiers rode away. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Chouchou’s grave offense had been to mutter a disparaging comment about the condition of Highway 3, overheard by a soldier not even in uniform. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z