The son discovered that Carmine’s birth mother, a new arrival from Italy, died in childbirth, and his destitute father gave him up. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

Is that the pot where he keeps his son’s spirit? thought Nhamo with a stab of pure terror. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Thy mother will know and love thee always, my son,” the friar assured him. The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z

I had deliberately not said anything damaging about Margaret because I thought her own attitude would damage her more in her son’s eyes than anything I could say. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

His four dead sons looked at him sadly as his three living sons carried him to the window. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe that wasn’t something a minister’s son should want to see—but he did want to see it. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

Mr. Weasley blinked rather rapidly, then he too hurried to hug his son. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

Charles was so thrilled that he put aside his anger and wrote to FitzRoy about the birth of his son. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

"My own son. Hustling a hustler. Whoever taught you that should be shot!" When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

When he reached it, the little son he had left there was grown to manhood. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

Tom Weylin didn’t want me reading on my own, but he had ordered me to read to his son. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

“Fish and chips is tomorrow, son. Today is Thursday. Payday is tomorrow.” Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

—Plutarch Upon returning to Egypt, Cleopatra found herself and her son in a vulnerable position. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z

I could not bear the thought of losing my son. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’ll be a hero if I get a copy signed for my son.” They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

‘Retreat to where, son of Hades? There is no escape. You cannot kill us!’ Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

But Dad hated unprintable words, and the fact that he had stood up for his son didn’t prevent him from holding a full-dress court of inquiry once he got home, and administering the called-for punishment. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

"What happens? Who wins? The father or the son?" The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

Down in sick bay, the captain asked, "What’s your name, son?" The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

I remembered how my father had spoken to Clay’s mother in a halting, polite English and how he had excused her son for taking advantage of my timidity and misunderstandings. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Apparently he was driven by a passion of hatred against them which made him willing to sacrifice his son in order to bring upon them the horror of being cannibals. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Well, uh, I don’t think we want to be getting our son in trouble. This isn’t the kind of place you want to be getting sent to a time-out.” It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

“Come on, son. We’re backed up out here,” came a holler from outside. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

“Listen, son. I don’t know anything ’bout Langston Hughes and I sure don’t know anything ’bout any poems. Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z

Waves of darkness rolled off the son of Hades. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

In his youth Father led the life of a rich man’s son. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

He also confirmed for the guests that Seward’s throat had been cut, his sons attacked. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

At the happy ending of The Tempest, Prospero brings the king back together with his son, and finds Miranda’s true love, and punishes the bad duke, and frees Ariel, and becomes a duke himself again. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

It was John Roosevelt, the president’s youngest son. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

“It must have been about eight o’clock when I heard a noise,” Harrison’s son Preston said. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

And he said aloud then and slowly, “Well, and we will wed you soon, my son.” The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

Lee thought for the first time that day of his son. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

He remembered a time when he had thought that Lord Eddard Stark might marry him to Sansa and claim him for a son, but that had only been a child’s fancy. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

But when she saw the widow and the son, her expression cleared and was replaced with one of affection. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

Adam found himself talking and boasting about his son, telling people who weren’t very interested how smart Aron was and how he had jumped a year in school. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Talk to your son, Jackson,” said one of them. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

“But if he didn’t tell you he was your son, how did you know?” Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

She was exceedingly fond of Telemachus, not only because he was her dear Odysseus’ son, but because he was a sober, discreet young man, steady and prudent and dependable. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was a white man named Philip Johnson who was the son of a white trader on the reservation and so he could speak “Trader Navajo.” Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

From the moment in which she entered the room Úrsula felt inhibited by the maturity of her son, by his aura of command, by the glow of authority that radiated from his skin. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

“I’m trying to get you fired up, Ben. There’s people come to watch you, son. You ought to go for about forty big ones tonight,” Colonel Meecham said, unable to contain his ecstasy. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

I want to lean into it, but when he speaks, it’s to send me away: “You should get outta town, son. And I mean today.” X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

He loved his son no matter how he behaved toward him, and he knew I could do as I threatened. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

“I try with him. I say, ‘Be careful, son. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was no slowing down when your youngest son was missing. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

Along the way, the dead emperor's executors, four high-ranking nobles, schemed to depose and murder Washkar and install yet another son in his place. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

“Cooter,” Pa said, “today your lucky day, son. You’s ’bout to get two shows for the price of one. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

He lost his wife and son to an epidemic carried by the soldiery, his royal patron was deposed, and he was excommunicated by the Lutheran Church for his uncompromising individualism on matters of doctrine. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

She put a cooing tone in her voice and said, “Come, my baby, put your head in Mother’s lap. Come, my little son. Mother will hold you.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

“I am not the man I was at Ruddy Hall. Seen too much death, and worse things too. My sons...” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

If his son wanted this, and if his son was destined to swim—if God had made him a swimmer—then Mahmoud could not stand in the way. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

For some years now God has been a pal to us, practicing togetherness, and that causes the same emptiness a father does playing softball with his son. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

Cannek Reed was the son of a stonemason with rocklike fists, and he belonged to the water the way his father—a rare creature—belonged to the earth. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

“All right, Mrs. Gilner, since you’re here, your son has checked himself in due to suicidal ideation and acute depression, you understand?” It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

“Maybe Jesus was talkin’ in His sleep, son, or folks heard Him wrong. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

“Yes, he has been like a son to us, and we are very fond of him,” replied Mrs. March, returning the look with a keen one. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

So she plays the Beny More records over and over and teaches her son to dance, teaches him every dance there is to learn. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You know where I’m going soon, right, son?” Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

These were the sons of thralls and salt wives. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“How is de son gointuh be before his paw? Nature is de first of everything. Ever since self was self, nature been keepin’ folks off of red-hot stoves. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

“My son was very lucky to have had you in his life.” We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

Mary helped her son refine the vehicle until they possessed something that could roll down the street with its pilot, as the racers were known, in the drivers seat. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

“Please. I have watched how your son behaves, how your wife behaves. I know what people who are stained with violence look like.” Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

She would stroke his hoary hair and tease him that it was no longer black like his son’s. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

Dad married when he was twenty-one, had his first son, my brother Tony, at twenty-two. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

He hadn’t asked Rishi to give up comics from a sense of arrogance or pride or feeling ashamed of his oldest son’s artistic proclivities. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

"And sons too, of an age with yours. When she hears, perhaps she . . . she may take pity, and ..." "Send my daughters back unharmed?" A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Apart from seeing his son, Roosevelt was looking forward to going on a hunting trip through the interior of South America at the end of his speaking tour. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

“Look at my face. I am Lord Baton’s son. Your prince.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“I’m the second son of Frederick C. Little, of this city.” Stuart Little 1945-10-17T00:00:00Z

About two hundred yards ahead of her, her son Lionel was sitting in the stern seat of his father’s dinghy. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

So when there was still no plant growing in the pot a month before the Moon Festival, the father confronted his son on his nightly stroll through the garden. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

He would not fail his son, not whilst life remained in his body. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

I found Dionysus’s son Pollux propped up against a tree. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

The two sons of Atreus, Agamemnon, the commander of the Greek forces at Troy, and Menelaus, the husband of Helen, ended their lives very differently. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I was just wondering how I’d feel if I had to pass on my own sons.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

And the wife of the eldest son was correct and haughty and bowed only the least that could be considered proper for her position. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

Old Randall built the schoolhouse for his sons and the grandchildren he had hoped to have one day. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

It is often the case that with a great father the sons feel they cannot fill his shoes; the Darwin boys did not try. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Not a daughter at all anymore but, at least by looks, a son. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

When the man died, he left his estate to his son, the first time he acknowledged the boy outside of the walls of their house. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

The situation wasn’t serious; he just needed to talk some sense into his son. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

There was left in the house, then, none but the uncle and his wife and son and Ching and the laboring men, besides Wang Lung and his youngest son and the fool. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

“You made acquaintance with my son, sir,” said the old man, in his chirping way, while he warmed his hands at the blaze, “at his office, I expect?” Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z

There is something harsh, something unyielding about him when it comes to our son. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

In Cuban son, however, the melody is elastic in the other direction: it anticipates the main beat. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

“I'm her son. But she made me leave. She sent me away.” Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures 2013-09-24T00:00:00Z

She didn’t want Milo’s mother thinking that she and her son were friends. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Still, there was a lot of chaos as the parents of the flayers rushed to their sons on the floor in an effort to protect them from whatever this onslaught was. Ungifted 2012-08-21T00:00:00Z

Knowing better came with being the son of the black school principal, who was also Egypt Town’s de facto mayor. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

What sons might not be respecting their fathers? October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

They wanted to bring up their sons to be self-sufficient. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Rob’s father motioned for his son to go on into the building and squatted on the curb next to Gerald. Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Several years passed and the wife had two strong sons, who were as handsome as their father. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

As backup quarterback, his son Mike would be handling the snaps and holding the ball for the placekicker—in this case, Erik Fisher, a placekicker who can hit with deadly accuracy from fifty yards. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was Burke Allen, who was the son of Burke Allen, who was the son of Burke Allen, on and on. Louisiana's Way Home 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

In it, an infertility doctor secretly harvests extra embryos from one of his patients and uses them to create a colony of clones of the woman’s son, who died young in an accident. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

Now Matilde tries to sell Mary Kay products to other mothers at Public School 12, which their son Antony, who is eight, attends. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

Garfield’s two sons had arrived at the station in the carriage behind their father. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

She wondered where her sons were, and how she would find them to tell them what had happened. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Just look at them, arms around each other, eyes twinkling with anticipation for their oldest son. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

But no one dared to challenge Reb Saunders’ tacit transference of power to his younger son. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

Then Henry grabbed his son’s chin and wrenched it upwards. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

The idea of having to depend on Pilate to get his son out of jail humiliated him. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Well, you could make it your son’s name, although I guess that might be confusing.” Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

Taking up his Levy Pants ballpoint pen, he began writing on the first sheet of new Blue Horse paper: Dear Reader, Books are immortal sons defying their sires. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Didn't even bother to show his face at his own son's funeral. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

He said, ‘Sima. Sima! Your son is missing.’ Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

I often wonder it God recognizes His own son the way we've dressed him up, or is it dressed him down? Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Are you okay, son?” he said to me. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

Tom Weylin had probably marked his son more than he knew with that whip. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

If he could give all fifteen sons the same name, why not two Minervas in the Mirabal family? In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m trying to teach my teenage son to punctuate properly,” said a nice scholarly-looking man. Eats, Shoots & Leaves 2003-11-06T00:00:00Z

He said he can’t believe his one and only son is so talented and that he can’t wait to see my final portfolio. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

“The price of one of Min’s vases—two oxen, a horse, and your first-born son!” A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

The only son of a wealthy missionary couple, the Laughing Man was kidnapped in infancy by Chinese bandits. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

"My son Bran . . ." To her credit, Cersei did not look away. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

He told the people that he was adopting the bum as his son, giving him the full powers and privileges of The Son of the Creator of the Universe throughout all eternity. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Owens reached out a hand, touched her son’s shoulder. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

But when their two sons had grown to manhood Thebes was visited by a terrible plague. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

‘Are you certain, Octavian?’ asked the son of Venus. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

“This isn’t our son, this is just a little juvenile delinquent boy that we feel sorry for and let follow us around some of the time. Our real son has hair!” The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

On the other hand ... you just don’t say a thing like that and not expect a son to demand an explanation. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

His beloved first wife died early, in 1909, and the younger of his two sons was killed in the First World War. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

Captain Wilder stood looking first at Mrs. Hathaway and then at her son and her two tall, quiet-moving daughters. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

Still squinting, he looked his son in the eyes. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

“Your son beats a boy bloody and you leave it at that?” Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z

He had lost his son in the commotion. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Catelyn put her heels to her horse and rode off, leaving her son to ponder her words. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Coach Douglas’s son had strode into the library like he owned the entire school. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

“I’ve got some work to do anyway. Good night, my son, my son.” Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

An enemy on an island is an enemy forever, he’d been fond of reminding his son. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

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

"Now that I have observed the courtesies, my lady, perhaps my sons will do me the honor of shutting their mouths. Why are you here?" A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Yes, she would pay too, when her only son and support was dragged away in chains. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

“Yes, Lord,” said Sister Price, “the Lord done raised you up a holy son. He going to comfort your gray hairs.” Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

“My son. He’s fourteen. He’s in ninth grade at Dunbar Junior High.” The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Guy’s seven-year-old son—Little Guy—dashed from a comer and grabbed his father’s hand. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

No tumbling with Trip, or playing the bratty young noble’s son in Three Pennies for Wishing? The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

It was the only time I ever got to be his son. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

"They must not hint my son!" she cried. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

“Tell me, my son, do you know where Koil Street is?” Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

And whenever he went he took with him his youngest son, who was to be on the land after him, that the lad might learn. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

“If they find him wandering around and discover he is the son of an officer—” said Mrs. Arvydas. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

“My wife has left me. My sons have been taught to forget me.” Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

The woman says: We have your son in Texas, but $1,200 is not enough. $1,700. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

The main speaker of the day was Chief Meligqili, the son of Dalindyebo, and after listening to him, my gaily colored dreams suddenly darkened. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was insulted and told her son Wilse Howard, and the following week he exchanged gunfire with another of Turner’s grandsons, young Will Turner, on the road to Hagan, Virginia. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

Outside, Mrs. Reilly took her son’s arm for support, but, as much as they tried, they moved forward very slowly, although they seemed to move sideward more easily. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

And eight years later when she died his sons were not children any more and they did not return to him. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

To the end of Hercules’ life she never forgave him for being Zeus’s son. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

And soon enough he learned the faces too, when the lords and their sons and knights retainer came to Winterfell to feast. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

What better saint to protect her own son, in peril on the sea? Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

He sits in the seminar room—a man with brown skin, the son of working-class Mexican immigrant parents. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

She’d had a few miscarriages and Dennis was her only son, but he went to New York because he wanted to pursue music. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I am not interested in marriage, and I am especially not interested in marriage to your son! Goodbye and...thank you for coming.” The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

Dear Sirs, You may have my permission to run tests and experimental treatments on my son, Clancy James Beaumont Gray, provided these do not leave visible scars. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

“I’m so proud you gonna work at last,” Mrs. Reilly said emotionally and kissed her son somewhere in his damp moustache. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Jess Squirrel took her little son upon her knee and explained. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

And I felt the weight of a son in a Mexican family. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

As the flame came to her she said, looking into her son’s eyes, who quickly dropped his, “Your father has many good points.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

They did not kill the girl, though: the chief’s son married her and she became a very good wife for him. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

Phorcys, son of the Sea and the Earth, was their father. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Buckminster, this is your son. Have you nothing to say as the minister of this town, if not as his father?” Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

“It’s come upon the son of my father’s cousin.” The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

The parents accepted what Nye implied—that parole violation and financial fraud were all that motivated his pursuit of their son. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m releasing him tomorrow. But I just wanted to make you aware that your son has significant scar tissue buildup in his frontal lobe.” Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

By lunchtime I’d planned our honeymoon in Italy and was trying to decide if we should name our first son Orbit or Cosine, when someone slid into the chair beside me. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was from my youngest son, Makgatho, and it was only a sentence long. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“That really the way you want to play this, son?” Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

Behind Davos and his sons came another line of hundreds commanded by knights and lordly captains, and then the smaller, slower Myrish contingent, none dipping more than eighty oars. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

She had her purse over her arm and her son was waiting in the driveway in an idling Volkswagen. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

He knew the flood would come, and he had bidden his son build the chest, store it with provisions, and embark in it with his wife. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

Hastings passed both speed and malevolence down to his son Fair Play, who in turn bequeathed it to his incomparable son, Man o’ War. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I wonder how Reb Saunders will feel when he finds out that Danny is the friend of the son of a Zionist,” I mused. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

He didn’t tell them they did a “lousy job” raising their son or anything. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

The bearded man looked nervously at his son, and then back to William. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

This man’s son had served under the great Odysseus, gone in the decked ships with him to the wild horse country of Troy—a spearman, Antiphos by name. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

When she heard what had happened and how near she had come to losing her son, she took Stuart in her hand, even though his clothes smelled nasty, and kissed him. Stuart Little 1945-10-17T00:00:00Z

His mother had been able to live through that by a long nursing of her son, some occasional visits to a graveyard. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was the Stark in Winterfell, his father's son and his brother's heir, and almost a man grown. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

The woman wipes her face and keeps her arm around her son’s shoulders. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

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

Day’s interrogation, meeting the Elector Primo and his son, and then Thomas. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

In one way or another, that was the talk that all colored fathers had with their sons. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Felicia carries her son upstairs and gently places him on the fresh sheets. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

He wanted to be a dad, he really did—I’m sure he daydreamed about kicking a football around in the garden with his son, or carrying his daughter on his shoulders in the park. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Seven only knew how long mother and son might have together before Cersei’s trial... and possibly her execution. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Lord Tywin did not stir from his chair, but he did give, his dwarf son a long, searching look. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Her son squatted beside Grey Wind, ruffling the wolf's fur and incidentally avoiding her eyes. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

It was just the smile of someone who was very, very happy to see her son. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

“It is I, Arthur, son of Uther Pendragon, from the castle of Camelot,” I recited. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

It also reinforced her claims on behalf of her son as Caesars heir. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z

One mother led her beaten and frightened son to the preacher amid shouts of amen and hallelujah. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It is good, my son. But you must never lie to them. Never teach them to disregard their fathers.” Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

"No doubt we will have time for all this later, but my journey has fatigued me. I would speak with my son alone. I know you will forgive me, my lords." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

“So Joseph . . .” “Mr. Brook’s lawyer is thinking ahead. He wants to be able to demonstrate Mr. Brook’s strong parental affection for his son and, by extension, his granddaughter.” Orbiting Jupiter 2015-10-06T00:00:00Z

“Our son came here to work some years ago,” I said. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I can never repay you for returning my son from death,” he said. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

“He’s okay. He’s a son of Bacchus, the wine god. He’s got a drinking problem.” The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

Alex’s whole reason for wanting to go into politics, when he knows so many past presidential sons and daughters have run away screaming the minute they turned eighteen, is he genuinely cares about people. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Proteus was sometimes said to be Poseidon’s son, sometimes his attendant. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

People come up from home to see how the army was doing, to deliver a package to a son, a brother. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I am a son of Odin, and I am riding to Hel on Odin’s horse to find Balder. Have you seen him?” Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

Even a poor cabbage farmer’s son like my father knows the custom. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Now, son,” said the deputy, “stand back there. We’re just going to give your daddy a ride to town.” Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

“But,” the duke went on, “with a son of marriageable age, she’s busy.” Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Wang Lung rose then, well-pleased, and he laughed and said, “Now we are friends, and have you no son for my second daughter?” The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

But most of the stories had to do with all the craziness his sons—Dad and his brother, Wood, which Genie found out was short for Sherwood—got into when they were kids. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

“Good to have sons. But it’s so hard to see them be slaves.” Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

She grabs her son’s hand as she takes her first step and almost pulls him after her. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

“He’s supposed to, son. That’s his duty. His job. All men are like that.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s all right,” she said to her son, motioning with her hands. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

“I’m not the carpenter or the carpenter’s son,” he chanted as we sawed and drove nails, “but I’ll do the carpentryin’ until the carpenter comes.” October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

Olmsted talked it over with his sons and with the newest member of the firm, Henry Sargent Codman—“Harry”—an intensely talented young landscape architect who had quickly become a trusted adviser and confidant. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

This honor extended to Cleopatra and Caesar’s son, too. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z

“Oh, please tell me what my son will be,” my mother glanced anxiously from me to Ultima. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

“No need to explain, son,” he said, putting his hand up. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

"You must have dyed it, dad," the son said. Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z

His deep friendly voice said, “Are you all right, son?” Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Perdita isn’t on the council, her son is. Why wouldn’t they just attack the council members themselves though?” Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

But be it known that I have now sworn him to my service, and he shall be known as Peregrin son of Paladin and taught the lesser pass-words. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

It began with Luke, the fourth of her five sons. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

The old man his father blinked and stared and did not recognize the one who had come until he called out, “Well, and Elder Brother and his son and his sons and my sister-in-law.” The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

So the “delicate mistress” sat and watched the plantation’s little mongrel-complexioned children, sired obviously by her father, her husband, her brothers, her sons. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

"I think you know quite well who I am. How many sons do you have?" A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

With his father temporarily away from the farm on business, it fell to son John to decide whether to take in not one but two men. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Five doll people lived in the house—a father, a mother, a son, a daughter, and a baby. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

“Why should I see an assassin as anything but a monster? I brought her here to do my bidding, not to meddle in the life of my son and empire.” Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

"That's what's wrong with the world today, don't nobody trust nobody. I can smell that hospital smell on you, son. You got enough ether in those clothes to put to sleep a dog!" Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then he said, “He’s in a tough spot, son. What would you have him do?” The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

As a father, it was my responsibility to make sure that my son’s spirit would rest peacefully. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Oh, son, there’s so much wonder in the world. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

With the death of Hector’s son, Troy’s last sacrifice was accomplished. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

I remember that Mariana doesn’t like the Doctorita, that she’s often told her son his wife is too fat, too dark-skinned, too bossy—far from the slim, fair, gentle wife he deserves. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then they drank their tea and the son said at last in a thick, uneven voice, “I did not believe it was so.” The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

“This is my son; you have no right to accuse him of anything. We’re going home right now!” The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

And Aragorn arose and went out, and he sent for the sons of Elrond, and together they laboured far into the night. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

I was not even my parents’ son in 1928 but a devilishly smooth impostor, awaiting their slightest blunder as an excuse to move in—preferably without violence, but not necessarily—to assert my true identity. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

Then father and son would quietly read the paper and sip their coffee together before Bobby would rise, pat his Pop on the shoulder, and head off to ride the commuter train into Manhattan. Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z

Nobody around here knew much about us—Mike Easton and his son, Finn. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

“This is why I came. They said she is controlling my son,” Master’s mother said, stirring the soup. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

The eldest son bounced a ball against the wall; the youngest remained prone. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

I was once again my mother’s son in her house; I was once again the regent’s charge in the Great Place. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“See, in chess, you plan everything. You strategize and all that. And even though we like to believe life goes that way, let me tell you, son, it don’t.” The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Davos and his sons joined the crowd making its way down to the shore and the waiting ships. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

They wound the entrails of his son around his loins and his hips, tied his knees and legs so tightly he could barely move. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

A Presidential candidate in 1980 was reported to have asked his press entourage how to convert % to a percentage, explaining that the homework problem was assigned to his son. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

She always seemed to find it awkward—That's our cleaning lady's son, she might have been whispering to her friends as she walked on. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

He told him he couldn’t bear to take any more money from his own son. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was hearing the lords bannermen speaking with her son's voice, she realized. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

“Always remember,” he says, “when yer ma died, you became our son, and I love you and Cillian loves you, always have, always will.” The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

Achilles had spared Priam, but Achilles’ son struck him down before the eyes of his wife and daughters. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

But her son was too preoccupied with his arrival in Baton Rouge to hear her. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was treated as if I had been one of the sons of Mr. Muhammad and his dark, good wife Sister Clara Muhammad. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

She watched her father pace back and forth, straining to hear his son’s next wheezing breath. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

During those trips alone among the demons, Father and I learned things about one another; and more, we learned about being a father and a son. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

Werfel considered telling the whole story, which involved feuding families, a cruel son, a jade amulet, and a burning salamander, but it didn’t really seem like a good time. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

The third picture was of Sergeant Bickle, the woman, and a young man— their son, I figured. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

Until they get home tomorrow and find that their younger son was sold into child slavery in New York City. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

My son, who had been gone so long. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Your son must stay in bed. There should be no physical exertion at all,” the doctor told my mother. Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z

So it was his son who had gone missing. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Hanako hurried back home, burst into the living room, and exclaimed, “Their son came home tonight! A man I think he lives next door—said their son is back, and it’s a secret!” A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

"I am your brother, you know. You need me, whether you care to admit it or no. Your son needs me, if he's to have a hope of retaining that ugly iron chair." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

“Well, I don't give my consent for my son to be on camera!” Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z

Seven sons had been born to her, brave and beautiful young men, and seven daughters, the fairest of the fair. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Hey. I don’t know the guy. I want to feel him out. I wouldn’t loan my car to a stranger. You think I’d send off my son? Out on the ocean, no less?” Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

The enemy stabbed him in the arm then clubbed him over the head with the butt of his sword, and Dionysus’s son went down. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

Behind us, Don Berto’s sons carried the coffin on their shoulders and didn’t set it down all the way there. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

She wanted her son to do well in high school, enter a prestigious university, and get down and do some real work. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

“Blackwood has six sons, but only the one daughter. He dotes on her. A snot-nosed little creature, couldn’t be more than seven.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“It’s your son I’m here to see, Mr. Gaunt,” said Ogden, as he mopped the last of the pus from the front of his coat. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

She knew what her older son was into but didn’t think there was anything she could do for him now. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

Only when the voice called out again, even angrier, “Crispin, you stunted son of a scoundrel!” did I realize it was Bear. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

It was perfectly believable that the Masks would want to turn their enemy’s son to evil. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

Men and boys went hunting, possibly as a group of fathers and sons, probably for days at a time. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Regina tried giving her son the approval that every child needs, and the wings to find himself, by encouraging him to engage in sports, take part in family excursions, and do better in school. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Red Ronnet’s sire had been quick to take advantage of his lord cousin’s downfall, true, but his son had been a child at the time. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Fat and lazy, no son of her own, and still she buys me the clothes for my new job. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

The thought of losing another son was just too much for her. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

She told investigators that her son was born dead and never took a breath, despite her efforts to revive him. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Tom, the third son, was most like his father. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

“I love you, son,” she said as I stepped up into the passenger car. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

Instead of studying, we talk about our fathers: hers lives in Eugene and is married, with a son. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

It was one thing for him and Marcy to joke about how they ended up with such an athletic son, but altogether different to hear it from others. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

He picked up his pipe from the ground slowly and pondered about his third son. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

Dr. Darwin had no problem with his son’s religious doubts. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

It is our earnest expectation that you will do all you can to help your son seize this opportunity. Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z

“And then she was freaking out about her son’s fate, like she knew he’d turned into Kronos. What happened to ... to divide her like that?” The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

“Tho I was of course expecting my son to bring you.” The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

“So, son, can you decode this thing? So far, our top cryptographers, all of whom are assembled here, haven’t been able to. What are the hostiles’ intentions? The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z

And the second I say it, I realize that if she does, she’s going to see her two dead sons lying in front of the truck. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

But his three sons who were not yet dead heard nothing at all. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

Mr. Fitzgibbon and his sons had finished greasing the tractor and gone on somewhere else. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

“I don’t know how a son of Neptune can drown. I can breathe underwater. But the crown of the legion—” “That’s got to be the eagle,” Hazel said. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

How does he regard the adults his sons and daughters have become? Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Farewell, my son,” his father had said, “forget not to be brave. God knows when we shall meet again. Farewell.” The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z

For a moment she imagined that Pilate, who had brought her son to life in the first place, was now bound to see him dead. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Why, sure you can, my son, my darling. You’re grown great as I knew you would. Open the table drawer and then make use of that turnip you call your head.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

He looks like a plausible Mr. Patel, face rounder than his son’s. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

Perhaps this was the result of growing up in Muscatine with a cosmopolitan mother who’d always urged her son to live “as if for eternity.” Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

It was real; yet it seemed a nightmare, it could not be true that my son lay dead before me. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

And they would rather reach out, in all their sanity, and push my four-year-old son as though he were merely an obstacle in the path of their too-important day. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

“This is my son. If you don’t mind, he will be riding in the front with me.” Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

And one answered him readily, “Eleven sons and eight daughters have your sons together.” The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

“Syrian Kurds are our people. My son can’t desert them now.” Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

A little over six months later, he was reunited with his wife and son, who joined him in Moscow. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

He’s been sleeping in my son’s room, he had said cheerfully of Thirty-six. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Frank, George, and Horace had children, and these three sons also continued in their fathers footsteps: Frank was a botanist and edited his fathers letters and published the Autobiography. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Yes. His son usually takes him out a couple of times during the summer for a short ride.” The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

Also in tow with her was her two-year-old son, Paul, a gentle, kind boy who seemed slightly confused as to who I was. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

As Sheriff White gathered evidence from witnesses, he learned that the victim’s slayer was his own son. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

He crept almost halfway down the stairs when he heard his mother say, “I can’t deal with him right now. Come and get your son.” Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z

"Come on, son," his voice amused and conciliatory. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Wilhite says Reggie is good with an audience because he seems like an ordinary guy, the person who could be your friend or son, your boyfriend. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

He wanted to speak to his son, but he could think of nothing to say. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

Lord Tywin had put an end to that hope ten days before his dwarf son’s sixteenth nameday, when Tyrion asked to tour the Nine Free Cities, as his uncles had done at that same age. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

He’s a son of Poseidon, I told them. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

He became depressed and paranoid and accused son John of orchestrating a “coup” to remove him from the firm. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

And because that unlikely monarch had himself followed his heart when he chose his queen, he allowed his sons to have their way, making bitter enemies where he might have had fast friends. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

When the crowd exploded in applause, clapping and whistling, the man could not clap, because he was holding his sons legs, and so he just smiled and smiled, his face suddenly young with joyfulness. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

“Where are you going, pig’s son? Did I say I was finished?” The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

Although I did take care of their son one afternoon when Mrs. DiAngelo had to go over the bridge to Annapolis for a doctor’s appointment. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

The door shuts, which is when, with a slight quiver of recognition, as if he’d known it all along, the perfect pet name for his son occurs to Ashoke. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

But the other two he brought away, through the enemy, past the city gates, out into the country, his father on his shoulders, his son clinging to his hand. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

"When you meet your gods," a different voice replied, "say it was Gunthor son of Gum of the Stone Crows who sent you to them." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Davos had fathered seven sons himself, and lost four on the Blackwater. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

I expect my son to do his job at school. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Well, in the tribes sons grow up to be like their fathers.” Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Sadly your father died some years ago, Kabir. And all these years, we never knew he had a wife. Or a son. Not until the cook called us looking for your father." Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

“Yeah. Cut them both off. He fought. Strong boy, even if he didn’t show much sense. The judge’s son hit him, and he struck back. And he said some things he shouldn’t have said.” Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m not a baby!” her son said when she wanted to cut his muffin. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

“We believe the email is linked to the campaign for changing the school’s mascot that your son was participating in,” Ms. McCrea said. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

Hearing Luke call Chiron his son was weird enough, but Kronos put contempt in his voice, like son was the worst word he could think of. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

She fled to a cousin’s house in the country, disgraced, while the minister kept his post and was deemed a generous man for acknowledging his son. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

A bracing example of how the landscape was changing can be seen in the unfolding career of the classically trained son of an orthodox Jewish cantor, Kurt Weill. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

“And now,” said Deydey kindly, touching his son’s prickly hair, “what was that I heard you yell before the syrup spilled onto your feet? What about your first kill?” The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

Rochambeau’s son, a colonel, broke security by telling his girlfriend that the American-French force was heading for Chesapeake Bay, where they would meet up with more French forces. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Have I? Maybe—but maybe the wrong kind. I don’t know my sons. I wonder whether I could learn.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

With one of her fingers, chafed from many years of scrubbing her son’s mammoth, yellowed drawers, she tapped on the glass case to attract the saleslady. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

The blacksmith said, “How old are you, son?” The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z

Now where was that lazy son of his? The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

Coming within strangling distance of the Crown Prince of Adarlan, son of the man who sentenced her to a slow, miserable death, her self-control balanced on a fragile edge—dancing along a cliff. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

"This is no way to speak in front of our noble guest, Father," one of his younger sons said. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

“I can’t keep taking him home forever. My spouse is already somewhat annoyed about it. The children enjoy him, though. He's been sleeping in my sons room. He seems to do well there. But...” Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Charles kept making his son yell, and every time he did, he closed his eyes. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

‘Nay, my son, for so I will call you, speak not the soft words of Wormtongue in my old ears!’ The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

Although a widow would sometimes manage her late husband’s affairs, Matthäus’s sons from his previous marriage were grown men and quickly took charge of the family business. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

No one spoke to the master or his son. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

The old man was proud of his son, the Colonel. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“My son sucked one liter from my husband’s car this morning, just so I can get to the market. O di egwu. I hope fuel comes soon.” Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

A regally bred mare named Brushup had foaled a near-black colt, a son of Man o’ War, and they couldn’t take their eyes off of him. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Not in the way that Princess put all her dresses and skirts into trash bags and started dressing like the son I never had. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Pontus, which means the Deep Sea, was a son of Mother Earth and the father of Nereus, a sea-god far more important than he himself was. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Doorman looks at me with bemusement, then asks, How about a coffee, old son? I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

Her calling me “Asta’s son,” since I was all she had, and that was all she could say. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

The father is killed, and the son is rushed to the emergency room. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

He has an assignment for his son: Yifeng will please study his Older Sister. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I walk back into the house, I hear the rise and fall of my son’s breath. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

By the time I was returned to South Carolina, their oldest son, Perry, age twenty-four, was in prison for murder. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

She had a son, Ullr, before she married Thor, and Thor is Ullr’s stepfather. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

She wept silently to herself for the pain of her husband, for the death and the dishonor of their sons. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

And then, the woman begins to shift her consciousness from the dead father to the absent son, her husband. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Waterman also happens to be an expert mountaineer who taught his three sons to climb at an early age. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

He didn’t take such long walks after that, but he still walked whenever he could and encouraged his sons to do the same. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

But no son and he said you gave him the feeling of a son. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

He was still thinking about the lines of prophecy the harpy had recited—about the son of Neptune drowning, and the mark of Athena burning through Rome. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

Frank stuck the jar in his backpack and thanked Esther, who had already switched from calling him sugar to son. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

He wanted his son to know what he was doing, and why. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

He watched Caswell’s weakling son named a page, a squire, and finally a knight. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

She drew her son close, holding him safe in the circle of her plump white arms. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

“My son left me here. He takes me with him to pick up Ravi from school every day. I told him to go by himself today. I’m tired, so he’ll be tired pushing me.” Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

“Open it up, son,” Coach Johnson ordered me. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

Both the Jewish people and the Palestinian people have lost too many sons and daughters and have shed too much blood. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Beatrice walked outside with Jeremiah and explained her concerns to Coach Luma: she wanted to know that her son would be safe and with an adult. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

And then, even the grown men cried, but it was all right to cry, because it was fitting to grieve the death of a son. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Painter Chen," the magistrate said, "I commend you on your work on my son’s project. The paintings in the Long Walkway are beautiful to behold." When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

“Watch for splinters, son,” his mother warned as he walked over the gapped wooden slats to the dresser. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

Her son had never been a person to her, a separate real person. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mahmoud wanted Mohammed, and all of his sons, working on dry land, so Mohammed spent his early teenage years as a craftsman, laying brick and apprenticing for an ironsmith. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

Prior to his Brazil expedition, Teddy went on an African safari with his son Kermit, pictured here, and brought back specimens for the National Museum of Natural History and the American Museum of Natural History. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

“Those of you who are true sons of Trinity, that is. I pity anyone who is not.” The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Oh, it’s La Cocina’s mother and son. How nice of you to stop by our little gathering.” The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

And among the Brahmins’ sons in the towns and villages, every pilgrim and stranger was welcome if he brought news of him, the Illustrious, the Sakyamuni. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z

Because Tyler was the third son, he barely remembered school and was happy to study at home. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Thus they talked back and forth drinking tea, and the second son took his fill of what he saw and he went away, and Wang Lung was eased of his second son. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

Next to the governor is our Senator Whitworth, whose son Hilly’s been trying to set me up with on a blind date. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

At the moment, arguing with a crazy wind god seemed safer than befriending an angry son of Hades. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

It was Lance Devlin, the mine owner’s son, with a couple of his buddies. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

Her son shares the middle bed with a Enrique's Journey migrant. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

She followed them, and as she crossed the threshold to the hall where the mother sat holding her young son, a divine radiance filled the doorway and awe fell upon Metaneira. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now whether the tears would have alone moved Wang Lung he did not know, but he was moved, by the words of his son when he said “the great house of the Hwangs.” The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

“What do we have here? A son of Poseidon?’ The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

“Now we’re going to offer up a prayer for your healing, son, believing that God’s gon’ mend you,” the pastor said. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

In his badly penned sigmas and deltas she spied the shaking hand of her son’s growing anxiety. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

“And I know you have met my son, Clay,” Mr. Derby said. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

He spoke again: “Yevaud! Swear by your name that you and your sons will never come to the Archipelago.” A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

By the beginning of August 1990, Chris's parents had heard nothing from their son since they’d received his grades in the mail, so they decided to drive down to Atlanta for a visit. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Having seen firsthand how loving families behave, he cannot bear the memory of the kind of son he once was. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

“Because of you, I have a son now who . Her voice broke. “I have a son who has speech and coordination problems. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

Conger ordered the Garrett sons to collect a few armfuls of straw and pile them against the side of the barn. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

“They were looking for their husbands, sons, and grandsons. They wanted to know that their loved ones were safe. Many of them were angry at the Long Knives. So that’s when it started.” In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z

Tom, her eldest son, had recently moved from Hazelhurst to Jackson and lived near the outskirts of town. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

“There are only so many times my son will let things pass. You must remember: You can’t forget your place.” Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

She bore twin sons to Poseidon—but fearing her father’s displeasure if he learned of the children’s birth, she abandoned them. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

A son can never go to somebody else’s house to live. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Matt Di Carlo, a Navy veteran and CO’s son, had run a gas station and, for the present, was still doing so on weekends. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I recognized him—Mr. Weaver, whose son Harry was five grades ahead of me. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

“It is, isn’t it? He’s been trouble already, hasn’t he? You can’t fool me. I was married for thirty-two years, raised two sons, and expect to soon have a husband again.” The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

Stone told me that when he had worked at Green Haven, among the inmates had been a father, his grandfather, and his son. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were men of middling birth, by and large; merchants' sons, lesser lordlings, sometimes even foreigners, but judging from their results, far more able than their highborn predecessors. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

So he dialed again and put the phone to his ear, waiting to hear his son’s voice. Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z

He doesn’t wanna make small talk with his dead best friend’s parents as they eat his favorite meal and not their son’s. Dear Martin 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

“Oh, yes, think about future! All I want every day is see my son, meet his children. I want to meet his wife to make sure she good enough.” A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

“And I suppose he didn’t know that I was his son, when he put us out in the boat?” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Indeed, the fact that the bass jumps ahead of the beat is what gives son such a powerful dance feel: it almost pushes your feet to move. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

She was known far and wide and supported herself and her young son with the embroidered pieces she sold. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

He was the son of a king; I was merely destined to be a counselor to a king. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He unhorsed me at the first tilt—my son did.” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

“She is a giant. I have seen the great cauldron with my own eyes. And as my mother’s son, I will be welcome in Hymir’s hall.” Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

Gerald wasn’t sure if Rob’s dad called everybody “son” or not, but he liked it. Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s not my fault you lost your son, not my fault that I am an orphan! A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

One of the boyfriend’s cousins left behind a wife and son, two months old. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

She would not forget the uniqueness of her son, his singular life. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

This particular lodge was the home of a Lakota medicine man named Worm and his two wives, their daughter, and their two sons. In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z

Andrew’s mother, who was just getting home from picking up her younger son from school, had not been aware that her son had not gone to school. Tears of a Tiger 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“My son's name is Hamlet, as was his father’s, and he is a prince of Denmark.” Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

Stilled by the power of slumber the son of Nestor lay, but honeyed sleep had not yet taken in her arms Telemakhos. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Whatever claim this woman had on him, still he was my son; I could not let her heap all the blame on him. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her son will not leave her, that much she knows. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

After he had gone his two sons asserted their right to the throne, and each tried to be made king. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even though Dr. Darwin was not a religious man himself, having a son who was in the church was not an anathema to him. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

“My sons,” she said, looking at me speculatively, “are not mine alone.” Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

“If it was really important to you, son.” Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

Hugo’s father had always brought home broken clocks for his son to play with, and by the time he was six, Hugo was able to fix just about anything. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

“But when I was down in the mud, I remembered that line from Ella’s prophecy—about the son of Neptune drowning. I thought. ‘This is what it means. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

"Don't thank me, son," he said from the door. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

He is the son of a famous professional hunter named Iain MacDonald, who was killed at the controls of a light plane that crashed on the African plains in 1967, when Robin was thirteen. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Someday in that far future, my son must hear of the foul crimes of Denmark, the revenge unleashed there, and its tragic ending. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

There was none to trouble him, for his youngest son was a silent lad who kept out of his father’s way and Wang Lung scarcely knew what he was, so silent a lad was he. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

I hesitated, not wanting him to call me what I had always been called—Asta’s son. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

I imagine Dad praying aloud, his eyes drawn heavenward, as he carries his son to the truck and sets him in the driver’s seat. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

“Isn’t this the name of the missing son, and you said he’s number three?” In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Ben,” Bull cried out to his son in the darkness behind him. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Odin set out to find the cause of his son’s dreams. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

In 1990, he borrowed enough to give his firstborn son a chance. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

Seeing the look on Matthias’s face, he leaned across and murmured in his ear, “All work and no play makes Matthias a dull mouse. Cheer up, my son.” Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

"If my son's men will not obey his commands, perhaps the vanguard is not the place for him. No doubt he would be more comfortable in the rear, guarding our baggage train." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

This is not who you are, my son. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Both sons are aware that he might not live much longer. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

“Bullies don’t like to fight, son. They like to win. Being afraid is normal. The only fight you really have to win is the one against the fear. ” Booked 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

Then he carries her off to the camp’s hospital with his son trailing behind him. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

But he had great admiration for Brian and when he thought about what his son had done, and what he wanted to do, it seemed like nothing short of a miracle. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

She carried the baby to full term, and one evening in September, we helped her deliver a son. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

It had never belonged to us, we had never prospered to the extent where we could buy, and Nathan, himself the son of a landless man, had inherited nothing. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then she woke and stared at him out of a dream, and he said impatiently, “Well, and here is your son and yet you sleep on!” The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

If he does a good job, one of his sons will be chief after he dies. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

He leans forward, jaw set, eyes narrow, searching his son’s face for some sign of agreement, some crease of shared conviction. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

And this was the bitterest moment of all: her younger son didn’t even recognize her. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

"Don't be so suspicious. He had a son who worked at the warfront. He died of the plague a few years ago." Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

And as he did so Carl’s sons came around the corner of the house running—a boy of three or four, Art guessed, followed by another of about six, who limped. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

After this Wang Lung’s eldest son came in dressed as he had been in his red robe and his black jacket and his hair was smooth and his face fresh shaven. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

Listen, son, your poor old ma wants you to promise her one thing. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

I guess they figured that it was up to Father to speak first, seeing as Sam was his son. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The baby’s father was a neighborhood boy who had no interest in helping out with his son. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

This is my baby son over there right now. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Heaven only knew what new sin committed by the minister’s son was being announced over the phone. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

He looked at his son for a long time. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

Her grandfather John—the son of William Ford and his African concubine—became a preacher. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

You’re constitutionally unable to love or understand any son of God who throws tables around. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Frisby began nervously, trying to arrange her thoughts: “It’s about my youngest son, Timothy. He is sick, too sick to leave his bed. And Moving Day is only five days off.” Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

Even those three miserable traitors in whose innocence you once believed—Jones, Aaron- son, and Rutherford—in the end we broke them down. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

“Your country needs you, son,” said the other. The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z

He is their son, and they are relieved to be able to help him. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

“You lie still now, son,” the first doctor said. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

And the thought of my ma knowing what a coward her son would be one day makes me want to throw the book in the river. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

He remembered what Hercules had said to him at the Straits of Gibraltar: It’s not easy being a son of Zeus. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

To shut him up, I said, “Did you know your son is a Quaker?” Crash 1996-03-19T00:00:00Z

“All the pictures are hand-drawn in this one with pen and ink,” he added proudly, eyeing a book neither he nor his son could read. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

“They say they have no jobs, but they mean they have no jobs for a boy like me. Everyone there is someone’s cousin or brother or best friend’s son.” Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

An entire family—a mother, father, and two sons—were taken in for giving three migrants a place to sleep. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

Joaquin could still remember the placement where the oldest biological son would greet each foster kid by saying, “I decide whether you stay or go.” Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

But their lives and deaths have had a greater impact on my thinking as a scientist, scholar, historian, physician, son, and father than I could possibly have envisioned. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

He had known her not once but twice; he had gone back to give her a second son. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Our son must learn to read,” he said frantically. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You know how old-fashioned my father-in-law is, Pernilla. He prohibits French, no matter how much I implore him. You are so fortunate to have an understanding husband. Do your sons study French as well?” Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He wrote to Fox that his son had “caught the other day Brachinus crepitans My Blood boiled with old ardour when he caught a Licinus—a prize unknown to me.” Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

The birth of a son, the death of a patriarch—these events likewise affected the state of a household’s garbage. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

Bull asked his son what he had extracted from the morning exercises. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Relief that he isn’t saying I can’t be his son anymore. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z

“Is this how you will be the day of this play, son?” Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

In the early accounts Eros was not Aphrodite’s son, but merely her occasional companion. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

The son of Italian immigrants, he had come into the world in Olean, New York, on January 26, 1917, eleven and a half pounds of baby under black hair as coarse as barbed wire. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z

Cook was too busy, and Mama had her own tasks; Mrs. Caruthers was too mean, and her sly, handsome son was never around. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

“To Koil Street. Our son lives there, we are going to him.” Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

She thought about Doon’s father, who would be frantic when he saw his son’s name on those posters and then realized later that Doon had disappeared. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Finally she came to the cottage where her sons lived. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

Send your sons off before it’s too late. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

Almost all of the sons of the founders were implicated, although none of them knew concretely what action they were plotting. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

Selmy was training knights for her, teaching the sons of slaves to fight with lance and longsword in the Westerosi fashion... but what good would lances do against cowards who killed from the shadows? A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“The Olympians never seem to pay for their crimes. And Hera has always hated the sons of Zeus...or Jupiter.” The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Ira comes forward from the courtyard where she has been standing, she is holding her son by the hand. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

And Wang Lung answered proudly, “My sons are both good scholars and they can each tell when a letter is wrongly written, and whether the wood or the water radical is right.” The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

“What is your son doing going to temple?” asked the priest. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

Thomas Thistlewood, the plantation owner who cataloged his sexual exploits, had a lifelong relationship with a slave named Phibbah, whom, by all accounts, he adored, and who bore him a son. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

His first day of school, the father’s not around, to comfort his son when he’s sad and down. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

"He knows that your son's short reign has been a long parade of follies and disasters. That suggests that someone is giving Joffrey some very bad counsel." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

For a boat does not have sons, and a boat cannot protect itself, and a wounded boat does not heal. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

And the father watched his son and could feel the drive and the fear, the advance and the retreat, because he could feel it in himself. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

They don’t want their son to be buying or selling drugs, being bullied or bullying anyone else. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

Gawaine, who now remembered all his adoration for their peculiar mother—an adoration which the queen-witch had wished on each of her sons —rode to the King’s court in gloomy penitence. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

If Papa- Nnukwu minded that his son sent him impersonal, paltry amounts of money through a driver, he didn’t show it. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

“Your son and daughter are here,” this fat, huge nurse said, opening the door to Room 304. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

I send friend requests to Mr. Ram’s son, his wife, and Nuah and invite everyone already on my friends list to Mr. Ram’s page. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

Roz turned, and with her long strides, she carried her son away from the gravesite and over to the base of the sea cliffs. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

Even without the sons, though, how much luckier they were than Grover! Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

My mother and Ultima dressed in black because so many women of the town had lost sons or husbands in the war and they were in mourning. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

My forlorn thought flows variable as her song, wondering: shall I stay beside my son and guard my own things here, my maids, my hall, to honor my lord’s bed and the common talk? The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

The grandmother pushed a sack of food into Jinjoo’s hands before quickly rushing after her son. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

I had asked Pedrito to talk to our son, but you know how the men are. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Come, let us see what mischief my sons have rooted out now." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Brothers will fight brothers, fathers will kill sons. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

When the echo died away, Reek found himself alone in the hall with the two Boltons, father and son. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Tony didn’t profess to know his son very well. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

He sent three DNA samples, labeling them as his own, his father’s, and his son’s. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

She did not want her son to be lost to water. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

“I am happy my Daniel has chosen you for a friend. My son has many friends. But he does not talk about them the way he talks about you.” The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

“You’re doing a great job, son, but no more sneaking around at night—especially with your sister. You hear me?” Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

You don’t have to be a minister’s son all the time. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

Fezzik’s father cared for his son greatly and he tried to keep his voice soft, so Fezzik wouldn’t burst out crying. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

“Take care of yourself, son,” he said softly. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Baratheon brothers would drown each other in blood while her son faced the Lannisters alone, and nothing she could say or do would stop it. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

“How could I eat while my son was in danger?” Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Weasley bent over her son and pressed her lips to his bloody forehead. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

For the previous few years I had taken my son, Thembi, with me, and by 1956, when he was ten years old, he was a keen if spindly paperweight boxer. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“That s all, he said. “Can you describe the strongest feeling in your dream, son?” The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

Kali had three sons already, she could afford to sympathise. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

Others swore that the woman’s good-for- nothing son had gambled away the family’s entire fortune. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

Grampa looked sad when he heard that, and he said quietly, “So do I, son. So do I.” Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

Finally, she placed Mary directly below her crucified son. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Along with her brother, her son, and a team of household servants, Cleopatra settled in for an extended stay as Caesar’s guest. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Reilly put down the paper bag she was carrying that contained her son’s scarf and cutlass, and asked, “What you want, Mr. Levy? Ignatius! Come back here and talk to this man.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Does the school know what that thug did to our son?” Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Meanwhile, Mrs. Bircz's sons, Yossel and Samuel, and I would hide in the crawl space of a storage shed behind our building. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

Adam called after him, “Don’t be angry, son.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Well, I used to have dreams where you were an astranaut and you were on the television and I thought that’s my son. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

"You want me to tell her, or will you do the honors like a man, son?" When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

He could not forget his youngest son, how he had looked standing tall and straight and his black brows drawn together in the gravity of his youth, and he could not forget the maid. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

“I can set up an account for you, if you want. You could send his son a friend request or a Facebook message.” Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

There was never any simple, intimate, human kind of conversation between him and his son. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

“We shall be able to pay the landlord, and eat, and perhaps even put by a little. We may even make enough to visit our son—would not that be good?” Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

I heard him mutter a prayer under his breath—he always said a prayer when his son left the house. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

He plays up the baker's son thing, comparing the tributes to the breads from their districts. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

I saw two of Nigel’s sons wrestling, rolling around on the ground. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

He remembered Madame Zeroni telling him that she had a son in America. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

Then something else drew her from her meditations about her son and her problems, both of which were really the same thing. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Our next-door neighbor and her sons had set up a table on sawhorses nearby, and a caldron of water bubbled over the fire in the pit, tended by some people I didn’t recognize. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

The son of a country doctor, Wilkins had studied physics at Cambridge in the 1930s. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

“My son’s Champion is the victor,” the king growled. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

And I saw the Virgin draped in the gown of night standing on the bright, horned moon of autumn, and she was in mourning for the fourth son. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

In his attempts to advance his son the Duke, Alexander VI encountered many problems, both present and future. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z

“We can do that,” said one of the sons of Ivaldi. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

“Mrs. Bradley, when your son’s body arrived in Chicago, were you able to identify it as him?” Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

"Bran, your lord brother will not have time to see you now. He must greet Lord Karstark and his sons and make them welcome." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Mundín says that our uncle has been feeling bad that he got out just in time, leaving my father and Tío Toni and others to bear the brunt of the dictator’s son’s wrath. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

Ali and Musab shake hands with the man and his son; they smile and nod respectfully at the woman. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

The more he looked at the two deputies driving him back to death row, the more convinced he became that one of them had tackled his son. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

No son of mine is going to be a failure! Tears of a Tiger 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Working for her were her son Oliver, her mother, and her brother-in-law, all busily preparing fried chicken for the Washington boys’ lunch. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

“Yes. Everyone’s fine. It’s your date. It isn’t going to work out,” said his father, sitting down across from his son. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

“My son goes to the same school, and I hear the things he brings home with him,” she yelled. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Aaron took three or four breaths of his metal cigarette and made the room smell musty and hot, then announced: “Let’s motivate, son! What do you want to get?” It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

The national news printed his mother's full statement decrying the violence that took her son's life, and demanding justice. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

And he had his sons to consider as well. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

To the waitress Scheer said, “I’ll have a vodka martini, very dry, two olives, and my son here will have a beer.” Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Six months after that she became pregnant with their son. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

When it came to her son, Dr. Jones’s country did what it does best—it forgot him. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

“You disappointed your mother and me today, son,” he said in a somber voice. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

Lou and Marcy are united in their belief that what happened in their marriage took a terrible toll on their son. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

Our family allowed some romance, paying adult brides’ prices and providing dowries so that their sons and daughters could marry strangers. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

"You are almost a man grown now, and my heir," Lord Randyll Tarly had told his eldest son, his long knife laying bare the carcass as he spoke. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

If he had, and if he had been able to call me voluntarily, I might have found myself standing between father and son during one of Rufus’s beatings. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

She was angry because Zeus loved Aegina, the maiden for whom the island was named, and whose son, Aeacus, became its king. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

“This is a fine place of my son’s, sir,” cried the old man, while I nodded as hard as I possibly could. Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z

“Always happy to rob a fellow son of Poseidon. I am Chrysaor, the Golden Sword. As for what I want...” The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Luke could tell she was trying to make it jokey, the way she might talk to some other mother’s runaway son. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Come, my son, come . . .” I got up, with clenched teeth. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had held his son, who had known life only within her, against his chest in a darkened room in an unknown wing of the hospital. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

One is the son of a defrocked snakehandling pastor who is currently serving a prison sentence. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

He expected his sons to enter the business when they were of age. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

Gertrude was jealous of her son’s company and spent many hours with him, laughing at his clever stories and hearing tales of his journeys. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

I was the son who was scheduled to inherit the farm because Luke was scheduled for greater things. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

That sort of entrance might serve for a sellsword and his son, but not for a great lord and his prince. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Given the unusual things Cox and his son were about to do for Booth, given Booth’s state of mind, there is little doubt that Booth confessed all to his hosts. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

“How can I lose men I do not have? I had hoped to bestow Winterfell on a northman, you may recall. A son of Eddard Stark. He threw my offer in my face.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Just as he went to sip his orange juice, his father, never looking up from his plate of food, said slowly, “I’m proud of you, son, for trusting that I know what’s best.” Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

Then, “Well, son, what can I say? It’s pretty much permanent, isn’t it.” The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Lee said, “Thank you Adam. I know how hard it is. I’m going to ask you to do a much harder thing. Here is your son—Caleb—your only son. Look at him, Adam!” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Now, you all know my own sons are over there right now,” he began. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

Lourdes breaks down as she talks about her life and her separation from her son. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

“It takes a lawyer to see my own son,” said Mr. Brook. Orbiting Jupiter 2015-10-06T00:00:00Z

One mother was in a gorgeous red- and-green pagne wrap, her sons drowning in suits whose shoulder pads hung around their elbows. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

Then he says, "Of course. You're right. Sorry, Bobby. We'll work with this, and see where it leads us. Quite right, son. Have to keep your word." Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Hard Tack, also a Man o’ War son, inherited the fabled Hastings temper distilled to crystal purity. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Part of her knew she had to help her son, but another part knew she had to stay out of deep water. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

"So you've come back, have you? High time. That son of a scoundrel will be troubled to see the face of a Das again." You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Recognizes the look of a mother watching her son, even from a distance. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

His two sons eluded him and he had had no further contact with his daughter Blanca. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

I am the youngest son of my mother. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was sure my son had managed to escape abroad by crossing some border pass or had taken refuge in some embassy, on the assumption that he was being looked for. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

I want my son out of this area. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Because that white teacher could not really understand our language, he did not realize that Biye’ in Navajo just means “son of.” Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her father had been Ops, Peisenor’s son, and she had been a purchase of Laertes when she was still a blossoming girl. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

All up at once, the men took helm and shield— four fighting men, counting Odysseus, with Dolios’ half dozen sons. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

None of them spoke about Mrs. Caruthers killing her son’s first fiancée, a woman who had been her personal maid and a colored girl light enough to pass as white. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

They might spare Catelyn herself; she was still young enough to bear sons. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

“I don’t want to tell you just yet, son. Oh, what the hell!” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Been a month of Sundays, son. Long time no see.” As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

The two we killed were just some miller’s sons. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

He’s always been “too nerdy to be Law’s son.” On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

When his wife and child moved closer, he put the knife back in his pocket, letting his fingers slide across his son’s tightly coiled curls. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

The sons of Bull Meecham lived with the awareness that they would never match the excellence of their father in athletics. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You should get up. It’s dark and damp here, and our clever sons have gone off and left us.” The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

She examined the photographs on the cover, the young Kenyan woman staring befuddled at the camera, arms enclosing her son, and the young American man, jaunty of manner, holding his daughter to his chest. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

“Yes. He wanted to know how you were. He told me his son is very sorry over what happened.” The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

Jim turned in his seat to face Wash. “It can’t be. Face it, son. We can take the girl and her brother back to their family in San Antonio, but that’s the end of it.” Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

He must have just said goodbye to his son. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

All they were told was that their sons were doing well. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Black woman in the South who raises sons, grandsons and nephews had her heartstrings tied to a hanging noose. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

There had been a great discussion as to whether big lawyer son should be notified. The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z

Still, Mrs. Delaney’s holiday plans didn’t really revolve around her son. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

Lonna didn’t get along with her son and nagged at him constantly. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

He tossed the dove against a tree and stared at his son. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

The old man pulled free of his sons, and stood straight and tall, then. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

Until then she must see that her son was securely guarded in his chamber where he was still suffering from his wound. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

She sent whatever she and other family members learned to her son Lieutenant Charles Darragh, who was in Washington’s army at Whitemarsh. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

It is her duty, they say, to marry soldiers and bear sons for the Angkar. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had put the best man he knew, his own son Jimmy, in charge of his breaking and early training. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Think carefully, my son. Was there anything special you noticed about this rat?” Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

And I was glad that Rabbi Eliahu continued to search for his beloved son. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

When they withdrew, there were two dead bodies next to me, the father and the son. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Alpert grew up in the Midwest, the son of a man who ran the first discount store in northern Minnesota. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The stories were never verified, but they occurred often enough to arouse deep anger in the minds of people whose sons had died under Grant’s command. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You make a wonderful pinata, son of Jupiter!” The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Instead, he was born in Braintree, twelve miles south of Boston, in 1735, the son of a farmer and shoemaker, who sent Adams to Harvard in the hope he might become a minister. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

“I’m Caroline Fisher. This is my son Paul.” Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

She scrubs till my skin burns and tells Dad she wouldn’t give it to the world to say her son went on the altar dirty. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

“You know what our son Buddy used to call himself?” Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

“Our sons got five dollars a week in middle school,” he replied. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

He seems to have overdone it with a couple of young recruits on the ploughed field at home and unknown to him the son of the local magistrate was watching. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

He could not face his own son like a real man. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

The last things he said were, “I love you, son. Tell your mal...” Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

“Eight sons I had, little wizard,” said the great dry voice of the dragon. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

“Ethan!” they both shouted as they raced to their son and hugged him. Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

Other than his mother, who sat in her shack with six. younger sons working roots, he had never met an interesting woman in his life. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

She confessed her affection for the seven Moscote sisters, for their beauty, their ability for work, their modesty, and their good manners, and she celebrated her son's prudence. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

The national news printed his mother's full statement decrying the violence that took her son's life, and demanding justice. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

By autumn, things had gotten so bad that she confessed tearfully to a friend that her son was being ridiculed and ostracized by classmates at his exclusive private school. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

He was born in Thebes and for a long time was held to be the son of Amphitryon, a distinguished general. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I have a son, Narfi. A good boy, although I must confess that he does not always listen to his father, and another son, Vali, obedient and restrained.” Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

Twenty days after they lost Annie, on May 13, a new child, a son, Horace, was born. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

“How hard it must be, how terribly hard, for a mother to be away from her sons.” A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

He did not use the whip as his son had. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I like working. I like helping people and having a purpose. My son may be a millionaire, but I’m not.” Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

She most treasures a photo of her son in a pink shirt. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

“Don’t mention it, son. I like to help my people out.” The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

She adopted him as a son who would share her solitude and relieve her from the involuntary laudanum that her mad beseeching had thrown into Remedios' coffee. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

"You know full well, Stark. This girl of yours attacked my son. Her and her butcher's boy. That animal of hers tried to tear his arm off." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

“We need to ask you about your son.” The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

“By the way, there is somebody who wants to meet you. You know Igwe Onochie’s family? Their son is an engineer. I think he has seen you somewhere, and he is very interested.” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

That proud pity for Saint Springfield’s two sons. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Maybe, like Laura Cramp, when pressed up against the rocky reality of their son's death, the Millers’ faith finally started to crack. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

The robot plucked her son from his little woven nest and placed him on the floor. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

Saint Springfield’s son needed to go full ride too. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Mary knew her younger son was no innocent. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

‘Welcome son of Thranduil! Too seldom do my kindred journey hither from the North.’ The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

He passed his hand over Percy’s arm and shouted: “Percy Jackson, son of Neptune, first year of service!” The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

He also served Commodus, who was the son of Marcus Aurelius and became emperor when his father died in AD 180. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

Immediately, a dad jumps in with a slew of rapid-fire questions about his son’s dietary restrictions. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

And so his sons would do after him, and his sons’ sons, to the final generation. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The students, the sons and daughters of older black residents, started the political and social unrest in Selma,” recalled Annie Lee Cooper. Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

It helps they’ve given People an exclusive—a few generic quotes about how much Alex “cherishes” his friendship with Henry and their “shared life experience” as sons of world leaders. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

He said, “You keep me in mind next time, then, son.” Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

Lou and Marcy agreed that until their son left home and went off to college, three years away, they would go on as if nothing had changed. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

"Not a boy who looks like your son." Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

When she saw the state her son was in, she knew he would die from his lovesickness if she didn’t help. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

Maybe it was kismet, but they spotted an elderly Iranian man dining with his son and decided to rope them into their kooky divorce plan. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

“He’s the son of one of our tenants. But the man’s not responsible for what he says or does. He’s been an idiot since birth.” Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

“It is of the English. I so heard our lord of the land tell his young son who was setting out for the great university of Heidelberg long ago.” A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

When the police arrived a few minutes later, they found the American kid’s mother at the scene of the shooting, picking up the shells that had discharged from her son’s weapon. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

How will I do this and not lose my son, my precious son whom I love as I love the Master of the Universe Himself? The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

“Sorry...I’m such a monster nerd! I’m sure you know all this, being the son of Poseidon, and all.” The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

“Time to get aboard, son,” the conductor called. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

As his son later said about him, “Gustavus Franklin Swift was never content simply to get on. Always he saw opportunities ahead.” A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

That act, in turn, gave her son, John Ford, the privilege of a skin color that spared him a life of slavery. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

If the words and the tone wasn’t mean—“Sorry, son, but we can’t serve colored”—we would ask the next question. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

But the kind of parents who name their son Jake don’t tend to live in the same neighborhoods or share economic circumstances with the kind of parents who name their son DeShawn. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

“He tried to kill his son’s destined wife, but they ended up together anyway.” Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

Sometime after their first son was born Carl bought his own boat. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

“It’s vital in ways that go beyond your son’s physical health,” another said. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

Dr. Darwin warned his son, “Conceal your doubts!” Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her son’s name was Fred, like my friend who had died. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

“She said I should never come here again. That I am misleading her son.” Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

“A couple of months ago, Mrs. Ruiz’s only son had tried to hijack a plane in Havana to go to Miami. He was shot and killed by the airplane’s pilot.” Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

She claws at the guard who holds her son down. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Matherson reached over her son’s shoulder, but he pulled away and crumpled the envelope in his fist. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Whereas Robert Stewart Howard was wealthy, his son evidently refused to base his life on its advantages, embarking on his westward journey with virtually no money to his name. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

At my son’s high school graduation a week earlier, I had listened as a self-important cable news commentator droned on for thirty minutes about the future of the media in a digital world. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

“Protect my son!” said the ghost, and Mrs. Owens thought it was a woman. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

“Even if I had,” Kaltain chuckled, “Your Majesty surely would not have approved—I’m far too lowly for the attentions of your son.” Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

They left a son in the dark earth of Colorado, crushed into the tilled earth by a spilled tractor. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had a wife named Mary and a son named Billy, and he was frantic with worry about them. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

And he turned and went into his own room and so dismissed his second son. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

“Please, please, we are going to look for our son. They told us he was seen in the refugee camp.” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

“Why are we living in a hotel? Why are we letting our son burn through five million dollars? This should make us all upset.” Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

She stepped forward and took the arm of her son, whose face, with the marks of the stag’s blood like dark slashes in his cheeks, was downcast. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

The widow and her son rushed after it, but only saw it fluttering in the distance. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

"He had no son, you—" Big Harm says. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“We deserve that honor. I mean you deserve it, my dear son.” The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

“Mr. Dalton,” said Daddy, I'm not sure you were aware of recent events involving your son, Raymond Edward Dalton.” The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

He and Bessie settled in San Antonio, where the first of their two sons was born. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

“I wouldn’t expect too much, son. They’ll think of something they want to do with the money themselves.” Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Mister Brekker, surely you must know that I sent my son packing months ago.” Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Min’s words rang in his ears, over and over: orphaned one . . . father to son .. . not my son. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

He was tom between his love for his son and his role as guardian of the hacienda. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“My son,” she answered, “I have no strength to move. If this is in truth Odysseus, then we two have ways of knowing each other.” Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

"A son doesn't have to testify against his father." Freak The Mighty 1993-10-01T00:00:00Z

Gomo had been so sure that it would be a son. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

“But turns out your son’s an apple off that same tree. So now we’re all celebrating!” We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

Some young squire or hedge knight, like as not . . . though by the vehemence with which Lord Hoster had opposed him, he might have been a tradesman's son qr baseborn apprentice, even a singer. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

“Who are Caesar and Brutus?” my son asked. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

A few weeks later, I had stood on my porch, waving, as Mrs. Bowman’s son drove her away to her new apartment attached to his house. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

"His dagger left these scars. The blade he sent to open my son's throat." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

I was getting a lesson in the sort of influence a wealthy baron’s firstborn son could bring to bear. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

“I have to go to the bathroom,” said his son. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ma Charles said, “My Henry and I had pigs. A pen full. Remember, son?” Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

The two sons she bore him, Zetes and Calais, went on the Quest of the Golden Fleece with Jason. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

All of Poseidon’s sons had the same power: they could run dry-shod on the sea as on the land, so the two followed her with no trouble. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was proud because he had three sons and one was a scholar and one a merchant and one a farmer. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

“Come, my son. Doth thy father stop to say “I cannot go into battle for my King because arrows are sharp’? The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z

“And I have no intention of marrying your son.” The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

The brothers had agreed that if and when Otto had a son, he would hand the infant over to Joergen to raise as his own. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

The cart driver roused us when we reached the outskirts of the city where my son worked. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

Susan, likewise, dashed out in the middle of the day if one of her sons spiked a fever or was performing in a preschool music show. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Then since evening came on, he wished his son would go away out of this court and into his own. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

By the end of his first year he would never again be known as the son of a Muggle-hater, but as nothing more or less than the most brilliant student ever seen at the school. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Reilly listened to the squeaking and belching emanating from her son’s room and wondered whether, on top of everything else, he was having a fit. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

But even then, as he swerved back up onto the porch, Mercedes usually managed to uncork a half-dozen infinitely annoying gravel bits that plinked around his feet before he attained her son’s door. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Their son, Forsete, was growing to become as wise a judge as his father. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

When I went to the rear of the store, the boss and his son were washing their hands at the sink. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

His visit made no difference to the only reality that mattered: their son was gone. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

South Africa was now deprived of one of its greatest sons, a man who would have been invaluable in transforming the country into a new nation. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I mean what are you going to do for your son and your daughter?” Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

Then Ma Charles said, “You stay here, son. Where I can see you.” Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

It was during those weekends that Milton, desperate to cement his restored relationship with his son, urged him once again to go into the family business. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

“Because you’re my son, and I don’t want you to get hurt.” Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

Mrs Helena Kingshaw got up, straightened the bedclothes, and then leaned over her son. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

At daybreak his son Telamon woke him saying that a great host of men was approaching the palace. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

She fled her fishing village in a boat with her husband and son. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

I, who treasured my children more than my own life, couldn’t believe my sister would leave her son for anything. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

We have a daughter and a son, whom we raised as normal American kids without the burden of my family's past. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

That’s why Milkman began to talk about his father, the boy they knew, the son of the fabulous Macon Dead. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was the woman’s spoken concern: the fear of having a dark- skinned son or daughter. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

This prince liked to dress the creature in his dead son’s clothes and pretend he was a child, Ser Axell claimed, and from time to time he would propose marriages for him. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“And because I was your son,” Ben said, almost bitterly. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Three days later, Daniel Ellsberg and his son Robert carried plates of barbequed chicken to an outdoor picnic table. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Hrothulf, he knows, is a danger to his sons; but he cannot abandon the child of his dead younger brother. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

Had I informed this woman that when she pushed my son, she was acting according to a tradition that held black bodies as lesser, her response would likely have been, “I am not a racist.” Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

“Our false king has a prickly manner,” Melisandre told Jon Snow, “but he will not betray you. We hold his son, remember. And he owes you his very life.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Tom White’s son had also joined the bureau, making three generations of White lawmen. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Splendid images drifted through his mind, golden forms and shapes, any one of which might be the destiny of this very small ingot that he, Ranofer the son of Thutra, had poured. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

"Let that be a lesson, son. Plus, everything costs more over time." Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z

“You and Taro were such good friends. Sometimes I felt like you were my third son.” Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

He’s probably the second son of a second son, trying to win renown in the arena. Red Queen 2015-02-10T00:00:00Z

When the prodigal son comes home in Luke 15:20, “His father saw him and was filled with compassion for him; he ran to his son, threw his arms around him and kissed him.” Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

At this instant the younger of Wang Lung’s two sons came creeping to the doorway upon his hands and knees. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

There would be only this store, and their son, and a lot of gold. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

But Theo's not only the hardworking art dealer and “good” son his parents think he is. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Troy is his home, and within its walls live his wife and infant son. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

You are a wonderful son, and a wonderful man. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

The northman had brought a son, three grandsons, four hundred spears, two score archers, a dozen mounted lances, a maester, and a cage of ravens ... but only enough provisions to sustain his own. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Weasley was clattering around, cooking breakfast a little haphazardly, throwing dirty looks at her sons as she threw sausages into the frying pan. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

They often gasped in surprise and delight and said, “You are the son of the man who was the great wrestler!” Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sometimes he had brought his son, Eddie, who was my age, with him. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Elaine was going to leave her son and become the bride of Christ, because she saw that this was the only thing to do. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You is killed him! You is killed him! You is killed Master’s son!” Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

This hobby, Mahmoud insisted, was taking them away from their schoolwork, and if they forsook their education for pigeons, he would be stuck with not only the birds but two illiterate sons. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

“Then they don’t know what for. But I do. And I’m telling you, the day’s not far off when I come back here to take my son away. Like I said, a father’s got rights.” Orbiting Jupiter 2015-10-06T00:00:00Z

Several Ivanov sons were asleep around the fireplace, resting on one another at various angles. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

His sister would be scornful, the Sand Snakes would mock him with smiles sharp as swords, and Lord Yronwood, his second father, who had sent his own son along to keep him safe... A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“But you are a small son. Someday you will be tall and strong and then you will be able to handle a big canoe.” Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the other telling, she’s the jealous maniac who murders Maryam and decides to kill herself when the son insults her pride with a proposal. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

But he spoke that same evening to his eldest son, saying, “Have done with all this painting and polishing. It is enough. We are, after all, country folk.” The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

She was beautiful above all the other women of the land, but this was small comfort to the King for not having a son. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

My grandfather gathered his son in his arms and cried. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

The old man struggled to catch up, gliding clumsily after his son. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

But since he had a working son, he could receive only a small portion of what he would get if he had no living relatives. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

He would have a young way of explaining things I could bring home to my son. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Park could hear his grandma again, Seriously, son, you're giving yourself a stomachache because you did something nice while other people were watching? Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

“Darin doesn’t have anyone else. You were close to my parents. Think of them—please. They wouldn’t want their only son to die because you refused to help.” An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Gaddis thought of her dead son and her daughter’s withered arm. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

He said sharply, “Your son is marked with guilt out of himself—out of himself—almost more than he can bear. Don’t crush him with rejection. Don’t crush him, Adam.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Then fatigue and its brother sleep came for us, and we stumbled off to warm beds while in the kitchen the questioning of the sons who had returned continued into the early morning. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

“My son started it,” said Wanda, who now stood at Moss’s side. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

This time, the song was believed and the chief’s son, a kind young man, fell in love with the girl. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

“Now we have a son and a daughter,” Bando said, putting his hand on Sam’s shoulder. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

But his mother had begged her favorite son to go so he could look after his father. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

Twice, however, the minister’s son had brought them a young squirrel to feast on. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

“He beat up my son for the money he had collected,” Father said. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

But her two sons determined that she should have her wish. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

It hits the son square in the chin. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

"I tell you again, I had no part in the attempt to kill your son." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

The son of the subject, an African male of sixteen years, demanded entrance to the experimental chamber; this being denied, he forced the door. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

“The Corcorans have delusions of grandeur. The problem is, they lack the money to back them up. No doubt they think it very aristocratic and grand, farming their sons off on other people.” The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

He has committed himself to Vincent as Vincent, not as some ideal first son their parents still—in spite of it all—hope for. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

“I want to cook a proper soup for my son.” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

But Wang Lung himself would not go at once, and he kept with him his youngest son. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

Her son's crown was fresh from the forge, and it seemed to Catelyn Stark that the weight of it pressed heavy on Robb's head. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

She felt she was helping her son; he felt she was simply being a pushy stage mother. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Another son might not have heard his mother’s last words as a prophecy but as drug-induced gibberish, forgotten soon after. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

He lay in the mud, shocked, for a moment, then he climbed to his feet and lunged toward his son. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

“Yes, yes. I heard about it from my son. Poor things. I do hope you find them. Now, if you don’t mind—” “Oh, Beryl, did he say ‘children’?” said the old woman by the fountain. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

Dad goes to work.Younger son goes to emergency room.Younger son allegedly has cancer. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Maester Luwin, I trust you as I would my own blood. Give my wife your voice in all things great and small. Teach my son the things he needs to know. Winter is coming." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

“That is my son you are discussing,” she hissed at them. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

Though he rarely called you a brother, sister, son. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m not sure I’d want any son of mine getting too good at baking, anyhow. That’s what a man gets married for.” Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z

“After my son and daughter went to jail, I was determined to go also,” said one mother. Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The girl must be given to the brother of Goré Mtoko as a junior wife. As you know, she will really be the bride of the ngozi, and her first son will bear his name.” A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

The official story was that she needed someone to tutor her young son. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

They talked about whose daughter had run off with whose son, who’d had babies, who had died, the price of groceries, the hot weather, the rickety buses between San Juan and Santurce. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

The next day, he gave his son a pouch that held three ancient Spanish gold coins. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

How do you think your son changed you? Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

She says the way I lay around all day and dont do anything I remind her of her son before she threw him out of the house. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

When Flint refused to move away from the place where Flo had died, Fifi had to leave him so she could feed herself and her one-year-old son, Freud. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

After a long silence, he said: “No, my son. We cannot do this.” Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

When someone in the crowd shouted that he couldn’t see the president, Lincoln’s son Tad volunteered to illuminate his father. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

As often as she could she caught her son’s eye, nodded at him and simulated a smile which, though flimsily constructed, affirmed her loyalty. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

“If death stares you straight in the face, believe me, son, you’ll get scared.” Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

“What do you want me to do? Make up your minds,” said the son, who was getting impatient. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was running with one of the packs of wild dogs, and though I caught only a glimpse of him, I was sure he was Rontu’s son. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

Look,’ people will say—are already saying—‘he can’t handle his own son. How can he possibly handle a church?’ Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

His words brought her some comfort, though he believed it would still take her some time to reconcile with her living son. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

Blanche throws her head back and walks, wobbly and caked with sand, the last few yards to her son. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

His mother, Dale, felt the same way, for football had become as important to her as it had to her son. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

“But won’t they hurt him, the poor darling? Throwing things at him like that? If I were his mother, I would be afraid for my son.” Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

There would have been a sixth, but the Usurper’s dogs had murdered her brother’s son when he was still a babe at the breast. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

And she let me come here, and that’s no easy thing when you come from where we do, to let your son go away to school. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

He looked up at his son with pride. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

Tizard’s formation of a committee to study the theory under the leadership of G. P. Thomson, son of the legendary J. J. Thomson, marked the start of organized atom bomb research in Britain. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

When winter came, she went back to a far-off town where she lived, leaving two of her sons to keep the cow and the little house they had all built together. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

He went back upstairs and told his son he would have to move out of the house. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

The police arrested him in front of his house and threw him in the car while his son, Little Alfred, watched from the lawn. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

The air, heavy with the smell of sweat, popcorn, and the sweet perfume of mothers watching sons.Our mom, a.k.a. The Crossover 2014-03-18T00:00:00Z

This was because his son died of influenza during the First World War and he still wanted to talk to him. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Eventually one of the other sons had cm her head off in a storm of jealousy, on discovering her in bed at the age of seventy with a young man called Sir Lamraak. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

So when he arrived, Haupt's father, Hans, was completely surprised to see his son. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

Wealhtheow's last words had been: "Take care. She was the wife of Cain. She is ten times more terrible than Her son." Beowulf: A New Telling 1968-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had spawned one son, Francis, who in Jean Louise’s opinion looked and behaved like a horse, and who long ago left Maycomb for the glories of selling insurance in Birmingham. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

I felt like a bully, a son of Poseidon throwing his weight around. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

Then she tells her son, "You are not going to school tomorrow." Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

Then they were quiet for a long time as they looked at each other, the sons seeing the father suddenly old, and the father knowing his sons were men and going away. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I tell Ignatius, I say, ‘Take care when you cross the street, son.’” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Why should we need the father's promise, when we have the son's?" A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

She says she’s sorry for Mr. Hannon’s troubles but we have troubles of our own and the last thing she needs now is a blind son stumbling through the streets of Limerick. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

“Born in 1762, a son of a slave. For a short time, a slave himself.” Black Brother, Black Brother 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

Aunt Shuvai nursed her baby while busily shoveling porridge into the mouths of her two smallest sons. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Eugenia walked over to her son and he bent down so she could kiss him on the cheek. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

The four eldest sons of Davos Seaworth had perished in the battle on the Blackwater, when the king’s fleet had been consumed by green fire. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

For boys who were the sons of working-class parents, this was uncertain but intriguing terrain. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

“So, you see,” he said, “I am Mordred’s father. Gawaine and the others are nephews, but he is my full son.” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You...you feel like our son; we can’t imagine not making it permanent.” Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

When my son was young, he got detention once for throwing paper airplanes at the ceiling during class. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

No parents in their right minds would ever allow their son to come here alone, and certainly not to stay with Cole. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

But she would not have found her son. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

“Which makes it more surprising in my son,” said the old man, “for he was not brought up to the Law, but to the Wine-Coopering.” Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z

There was happiness in his father’s heart because of his son who was intelligent and thirsty for knowledge; he saw him growing up to be a great learned man, a priest, a prince among Brahmins. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z

“A son comes before an uncle by all the laws I know.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

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

“We’ve been here since five in the morning. All I need are papers for my son. Please tell him I desperately need the papers for my son. Please, murena, please.” Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

"My guess is that he and my son Bruno are up to some devilment," Mr Jenkins went on. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z

“Speak up, son. I don’t think your father heard you.” Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

What induced them to do this is not known, but Creon urged it and Oedipus’ sons consented to it. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

His father had somehow managed to obtain a gift for his second son, a little horse named Forest Dawn. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now then, their colloquy at an end, they went their ways—Athena toward illustrious Lakedaimon far over sea, to join Odysseus’ son. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

And James, son of a cardiologist, was a model of healthy living. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

Mama Mwanza shouted again and clapped her hands, bringing a reluctant son out of the house, dragging the flat, pinkish soles of his feet. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

His father hurriedly took off his hat and stepped in front of his son. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

The protective mother was never far away, and she felt something like amusement at the silly conversations she overheard, and she felt something like happiness that her son had made such a good friend. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

He was, it occurred to him, his father’s son, and now he brooded in the same spindle-back Windsor chair his father had brooded in. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

She sprang from the couch, embracing her unrecognized son. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

He looked at me, his eyes glassy and lost like I was some stranger helping him out, instead of his son. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

There were left yet his three sons, and he was strangely ashamed before them of what he had done. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

The black woman climbed up on the wagon and took a seat beside her son. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Painting a picture that justifies her opinion of him—an underdog cursed with an ungrateful son upon whom he has showered love and concern, only to be infamously treated by that son in return. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

For example, one of the boys in our group said he was the son of Biln daalbahi, “One who Has Roan Horses.” Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

He said, “Look, son, do you really think you should be going around asking questions like this?” The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

We have a son who attends Harvard University. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

“Oh my aching ear. Father Abbot, you wouldn’t see a poor son of the Spike suffering like this without a drop of last October’s nutbrown ale to wet his parched gullet,” he pleaded. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

He was stopping at the jail so the father could speak to his son. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

Up close I could see there wasn’t a whole lot left of the pretty, nervous mother who’d picked her son up at my place after work ten years back. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

Bailey was his son, true enough, but I was an orphan that they picked up to provide Bailey with company. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

My mother luckily secured a job in a white doctor’s office at the unheard-of-wages of five dollars per week and at once she announced that her “sons were going to school again.” Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Did he sense a glimmer of doubt in his son’s eyes? The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

At the top of the staircase, Seward’s son Frederick confronted Bell and the stranger. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was the eldest son, so be was bound to be knighted but he would not call himself Sir Lancelot. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I snuck a look at Mrs. Diamant, she was shaking her head, but her eyes were crinkly, just like her son’s. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

His brother had always been the better son, and he’d always been the lesser son. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

“What if we told someone what we heard—told them we know they killed that diplomat's son. Maybe then something would happen.” Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

I was in a car with the brother-in-law of the son of the ruler of Arabia. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Miss Thomas said, “Yes, son, hurry up and go get that picture.” Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

There I was again, being a good son, good boy, good citizen, assuring authority. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

And he told her about lost sons that couldn’t be helped, and country music, and the confusion of a kind man not knowing which way was right. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

“I want to have a last word with my son. ” The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z

Outside the walls, however, they were still fathers, sons, brothers, and husbands—mainly of poor people from New York City. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Pretty summer day, you can’t think of anything better to do than hassle some helpless little girl? That’s flat- out pathetic, son.” Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

I wondered how such a perfect speller like Dad could end up with a son like me. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z

Marcus smacks at Tobias’s leg, blood streaming past his lips, but even if he was at his strongest, he still wouldn’t be as strong as his son. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

And if they did, why should they caret They never knew my sons. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Their son, Max, is six, fond of mud, dogs, and questions no one can answer. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Fearing that Inka Yupanki was becoming too big for his britches, Wiraqocha Inka chose that moment to remind his younger son of his subordinate status. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

He was chainsmoking Camels as he waited for his son in the parking lot. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

The parents of a black teenager who had been shot and killed by police told me that their son had been stopped for a minor traffic violation after running a red light. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

“You cannot blame my son,” I said wearily. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The little boat’s for my son, Sir, and if you would lay such charms on her, it would be a mighty kindness and a friendly act.” A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

“I saw your picture in the newspaper. And you were on television too. I am really sorry about your son. Has he been found yet?” The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

In the following weeks, Celia boils mild chicken broths for her son, feeding him one spoonful at a time. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now when Telemakhos and Nestor’s son pulled up their horses at the main gate, one of the king’s companions in arms, Eteoneus, going outside, caught sight of them. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

"I’d love to, son, but I can’t. The company I work for has a strict rule against picking up hitchhikers. It could get me canned." Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then he and I could go together, and find my son, and... Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

“Your son was a ballplayer, wasn’t he? He didn’t have no missing parts, did he?” 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

After her son’s arrest, she could not bring herself to tell friends and relatives and kept the family’s suffering private. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

The fact that his own son had burned down the Coral Queen was not the worst news that Dusty Muleman would receive. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

He doesn’t care about his son or any of his family— all he cares about is his drugs. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

She would take him to the theater, to the opera, and people would see them together and wonder at their loveliness, and recognize that they were either brother and sister or mother and son. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

No. If he had to die, he would die a son of Jupiter, a child of the gods - the blood of Olympus. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

“My line had sons. Nothing but sons,” Miss Trotter said. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

But the voice repeated after a moment, quiet and strong and impossible to deny: “Come on, son. Come higher.” Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

After I ate too much dinner, and moved some furniture around for her, and took down the trash, I went to meet her other son, who had a job waiting for me. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

Her son has on one of those surgical masks that Chinese people wear so they don’t catch diseases on trains and stuff. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

She wants a better life for her son. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

It was in those old and bountiful fields that Pedrito and his son and a few of the other men buried the boxes once we got them loaded and sealed. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“My mother was a good woman until she met King Arthur. She had a happy home with Lot of Orkney, and she bore him four brave sons. What happened after?” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

The academicians watched my mother as they played with me, to see how she took their games, their dandling of her beloved son, their demonstration of amiable paternity; and her smile warmed us all. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

I wrote to my son tonight, a long letter. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

If I were a son, would he so casually tell me to forget my dreams? Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

Cora kicked her beggar’s cup, the few coins flew into the hubbub, and she continued on her afternoon errand to fetch flour for her son’s birthday cake. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

The housekeeper came forward, and told them it was a picture of a young gentleman, the son of her late master’s steward, who had been brought up by him at his own expense. Pride and Prejudice 1813-01-28T00:00:00Z

He had waited so long, surely the gods would grant him a few more years, enough time to see the boy he’d called a son seated on the Iron Throne. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“Look, son, I don’t have time to deal with this now. I’ve got to close up and get home to my family.” Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z

“Do as you like,” the doctor said, “but if it were my son, I would not subject him to such a journey.” Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

Her husband was struck with madness and killed their son, Melicertes. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You have nothing to worry about. We are merely relocating you. You and your wife and your son have ten minutes. You must each pack one suitcase.” Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

It was also impossible for her to take time off to accompany her son on the long trip to Oklahoma, and she worried about his going alone. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

“Janna, your mom told me you don’t have school tomorrow. Would you be able to do your studying here? Stay with my father?” asks Mr. Ram’s son, Deval. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

Her last days were spent in a nursing home near her son in New Jersey. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Any supposed father who doesn’t even address his son say, once a day, isn’t even a father, in my opinion. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Camilla falls after giving a very good account of herself; the wicked Mezentius meets the fate he so richly deserves, but only after his brave young son is killed defending him. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

The firstborn son is the man of the house. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

My mom thanks him effusively, going on and on about how he shouldn’t have and congratulating his parents on raising such a wonderful son. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

Cora’s assailant was boyish and slender, perhaps the son of one of the other hunters. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

“I go to work,” she said wearily, “and I don’t know when I’m going to get that call, that your son is dead or in jail again.” Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

“I suppose it’s good to be honest if you’re a minister’s son.” Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

"Hullen speaks truly, son. Better a swift death than a hard one from cold and starvation." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Papa was not going to get the son he wanted, after all! In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

And if Baba could forgive that, then why couldn’t he forgive me for not being the son he’d always wanted? The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

“Don’t you tell me how to raise my son.” Dragons in a Bag 2018-10-23T00:00:00Z

For, before he ran, he was asked by Joab: “Wherefore wilt thou run, my son, seeing that thou hast no tidings ready?” Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

I didn’t know how the doctor was holding up, having just lost his son. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

Then he said, “Did anyone ever tell you that my first son died?” Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

The son and his parents touched only arms, not chests; he might have given his mother the briefest of kisses. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“One last thing. My son Pollux Is he alive?” The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

McDonald, a widow and housekeeper for her son, said she was “often mistreated” on the bus and quit riding to support the boycott. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

“Now, Reuven, listen very carefully to what I am going to tell you. Reb Saunders’ son is a terribly torn and lonely boy. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

Hamilton had been born on the West Indian island of Nevis, the illegitimate son of a down-on-her-luck beauty of French extraction and a hard-drinking Scottish merchant with a flair for bankruptcy. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

“Dear son,” said Aslan, “I will tell you what you must do. Turn and look to the West and tell me what do you see?” The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z

While his thirteen-year-old daughter Kelly, an exceptional young athlete, swam measured laps, his eleven-year-old son Burt kept flipping gracefully off the diving board. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

I wondered if she was aware of just how cruel her son had been to me all these years. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

Supreme seems to look at his son in the rearview mirror. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

The young mother loved her firstborn son deeply, Kunti said, but she was unmarried and couldn’t keep him. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sofía had been in the bedroom, tending to her son, who was wild with all the noise in the house tonight. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

Then Wang Lung, remembering his anger against his son, said sharply, “Well, and what is it to you? I will not have him in these rooms at his age.” The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

It took some convincing, but without her sons, Mrs. Diamant wasn’t as hard to persuade as I thought she might be. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

Afterward he nuzzled at her ear and whispered, “Gods grant that we have made a son tonight.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

There was another Linus, the son of Apollo and a Muse, who taught Orpheus and tried to teach Hercules, but was killed by him. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Please don’t have my son’s teeth rotten by the end of the summer.” As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

“I’m writing a feature about promising teen athletes whose careers were cut short. I’d like to talk to you about your son.” Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

They had four sons born a year apart. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

He has gone from being the obedient firstborn son to being scared of his own parents. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

“Yes, well... and this is my son Triton. Er, my other son.” The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

The robot wanted to explain things to her son, but the truth was that she understood very little about herself. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

He talked quietly with Wilkins, who was so miserably nervous he had become virtually mute, and Wilkins’s wife, who wore a little pin that had a picture of their son Stan in his football jersey. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Behind him came his two brothers, and Wang Lung, seeing them, was fit to burst with pride at this procession of his goodly sons, who were to continue after him the life of his body. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

When they reached Evander’s home a warm welcome was given them by the King and his young son, Pallas. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I have a son,” cried Garikayi over the howls of the infant. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

“Dudley gets enough, don’t you, son: Dudley, who was so large his bottom drooped over either side of the kitchen chair, grinned and turned to Harry. “Pass the frying pan.” Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

“Chip will take him,” he said, turning to his son. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Paraguay’s right-wing national police chief, for example, named his son Adolfo Hirohito, a tribute to Hitler and his soon-to-be ally, the emperor of Japan. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

He had enough problems with the empty restaurant, a lazy son, and his nagging ulcer; now he had to put up with this bigot. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

“And you, being the Coalwood superintendent’s son, can probably get all the materials you need.” October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

Outraged over the violent, brutal murder of her son, she ordered the undertakers to leave Emmett’s body just as she had received it and to hold an open-casket funeral. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

He would be suffering more than I. “Listen to me, you son of a swine!” said Idek coldly. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

“She has not borne in her first blooming, who can say she will conceive later? I need sons.” Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

“When you told him the defendant had given you dirty looks your son reacted exactly how, Mrs. Heine?” Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

He might send his sons to college without comment, might wear a vest and white shirt and tie in the daytime of a weekday, might wear gloves and keep his nails clean. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

His eyes were wild with joy as he searched the eyes of his sons. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

If so, she could well have a son his age. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

The midwife chased Joan’s husband, her young son, two pigs, and a pigeon out of the cottage, bade Alyce wait for her in the yard, and slammed the cottage door. The Midwife's Apprentice 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her thinking was that the trip would be educational, exposing her son to new places and different people. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Jackson went to her son’s bedroom where Andrew’s body was found with a fatal gunshot wound to the head. Tears of a Tiger 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He spoke rapidly to his son: “Telemakhos, one of the serving women is tipping the scales against us in this fight, or maybe Melanthios.” The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

But what Bobby liked most was that nobody at the inn, other than Bezold and his son Michael, an up-and-coming chess player, knew who he was. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Finally, after three girls in as many years, Lady Tarly gave her lord husband a second son. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

She knew no boys, except her sister’s four-year-old son, and it wasn’t going to be him. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

Jon would be a son to him, the child he would never have. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

He talks to him, tells his son about his concern for him. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

“He was soon a great favorite in the family, and gradually filled the void made in all our hearts by the loss of the brother and son.” Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

“How old is your son, ma’am?” the ticket agent asked. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

"Three sons, two daughters. The direwolf is the sigil of your House. Your children were meant to have these pups, my lord." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Roy piped up: “I’m the one your son tried to strangle the other day. I’m the one who slugged him.” Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Well, I’ll be; him being the son of a slave owner and all,” Mama said. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was not a god, but the son of a Giant, and wherever he came trouble followed. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

I didn’t go to the funeral, but I know that Mrs. Duncan hasn’t looked the same since she buried her son. Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

My leaving had broken down the barrier which for eighteen years had barred me from reaching into my father and sharing with him the love and understanding of fathers and sons. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Two of Maggot’s sons and his three daughters came in, and a generous supper was laid on the large table. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

He longed for his home, his wife, his son. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

Like other sons of noble family, he would be sent away from his mother and father to live in the household of another knight, where he would learn all the ways of knighthood. The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z

And then he will frown and say that it is an evil thing, a slap in the faces of the gods, that the son of Thutra the goldsmith should be a stonecutter’s apprentice. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

“I don’t know what you’re talking about, son. You must have dreamt that.” The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

I described May Castellan, and the weird moment when her eyes had started to glow and she talked about her son’s fate. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

I am his lone American son, blessed with every hope and quarter he could provide. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

She did not wish for any further communication to pass between her daughter and their son. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

Dirty Deed said, “Now don’t let that horn whip you, son.” Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

She had given up her own child, a baby son, when her husband had died and she had come to our house to be my nursemaid. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

She flattens out the creases as well as she can and drags the floor lamp closer and places the print before her son. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

If a marriageable son belonged to the family where she boarded a proposal was automatic; if there was more than one claimant, vicious fights occurred over her hand. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

“You going up against your pops’s manager’s son.” On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

“People from all over the world have passed through this village, son,” said his father. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Because didn’t she, after all, deserve the very best, when it came to sons? The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

Imagine, sons running away from what he wished most to do! A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

They seemed particularly concerned, for religious reasons, with preventing the state from performing an autopsy on their son's body. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

"I . . . there are no words, my lady. My good lady. Your sons, they . . . they're with the gods now." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

She said she usually scolded them for fighting, but she was secretly proud of her strong sons. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

He wondered if there was some new rule for a minister’s son that he hadn’t come up against yet—if there could possibly be yet another rule that he hadn’t come up against already. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

Mute, carrying his pitiful chalkboard around, lost in his restoration of Sappho, Lefty had begun to seem old to his son. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Father and older son stand around like idiots and prepare to buy a huge supply of— what? Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

The mother and son slipped into a good nighttime routine. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

“Don’t worry, my son will find a good woman and he will not send you away after he marries.” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

From his wheelchair Pop says, “The neighborhood people don’t know you, son. It’s not safe to walk across town at night alone.” Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

“She must feel very lonely without her son,” said Edna, desiring to change the subject. The Awakening 1899-04-22T00:00:00Z

“Your brother and Billy were fantastic with our son, Marcus. I don’t know what we would have done without them. And then, after Marcus . . . sorry . . . I’m not sure how much you know.” The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

“Why, no. Him and my son Thomas left together for the Army in August of ’61. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

“For my son. Please. This one is so little.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Apparently, Ambrose, firstborn son of the wealthy and influential Baron Jakis, had been busy as a bee in the social circles of Imre. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

So the king at the time decreed that sons of potters must become potters themselves.” A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

But he had not left the Wall for that; he had left be-cause he was after all his father's son, and Robb's brother. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Some time later, while still walking under the burning sun, they met the son of Chief Mmeke. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

“Tonight is for prayer. For the family. For the lawyers on the case. I understand your anger, but, son—” “Prayer? You mean y’all just gonna sit around and pray about it?” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

At first he was pleased by what he saw: The Washingtons, extremely distressed, had raised an outcry about their lost son, seeking help from all quarters. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

He could hear the swampy guitar start and then the first line of the song: "7 am the son . . . and the heir ..." She lifted her head a little but didn't look at him. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

Maidservants gave them baths, anointed them, held out fresh tunics, cloaked them warm; and soon they took tall thrones beside the son of Atreus. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I am here my son, very near you.” Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I didn’t never ask you,” she said, “what you wanted for your birthday. But you take this, son, and go out and get yourself something you think you want.” Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

She misses her son, and she wants to feed one of his old classmates his after-school snack. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

“The boys, Tuck! Our sons. I’m going to ride down to meet them.” Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

Most of them were city boys like the boys lounging up on the quad—the sons of lawyers and businessmen—dressed neatly in woolen slacks and cardigan sweaters. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

But thet don’t seem so awful as you grow older, son. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

Tommy was friends with the owner’s son and went to play with him in the back while Liz and I sat down to drink our sodas. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

"If you were strong enough to climb your own battlements, Lord Frey, you would see that my son has twenty thousand men outside your walls." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Her sons begged her to wear a conventional dress when she visited them at boarding school. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

“I know how hard my son worked to get where he is. All that is not to be wasted on a loose woman.” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Apollo, in great anger at his son’s death, went to Etna, where the Cyclopes forged the thunderbolts; and killed with his arrows, some say the Cyclopes themselves, some say their sons. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was her only son and we were very close. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

Helen, for instance, had become friends with Janis again, who had happily given birth to a son, Alexander, about Mona’s age. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

Felicia visits her son the first Sunday of each month at his school in the potato fields outside San Antonio de los Banos. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

On Thursday, April 13, Olmsted wrote to his son John, “Every body here in a keen rush, the greatest in imaginable outward confusion.” The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Their oldest son, Logan, round and berry-brown from a day in the sun, is digging a hole nearby, while the newest addition, Luke, lies on a quilt wearing a swim diaper. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

LeAlan: Do you feel that your absence from seeing your son led to the alleged incident? Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I got a son,” he said at last, “and the Lord’s going to raise him up. I know—the Lord has promised—His word is true.” Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

While Hermod was in the underworld, Odin had had a son to replace Balder; this son, named Vali, was the son of Odin and the goddess Rind. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

Praying was usually the best you could do when confronted with a son of Man o’ War. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was always looking to do extra work ’cause he was saving up enough money to buy his wife and daughter and son out of America. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

It was when she had been thinking of her yellow-haired son that the fragment had first come to her mind. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Most families in Salcedo had at least one son or daughter or husband in prison. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

And within a year the place was fresh and flowering again and each son had moved again into his own court and there was order once more everywhere. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

"And yet, I fear that Lord Varys and the Grand Maester have the right of it. The blood will tell. I have only to remember how your sister set her wolf on my son." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

They had always said they could smell him because he was a demigod—the half-blood son of some old Roman god. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

Most of the men in Zmeyreka were fishermen, but Ivan was too well dressed to be the son of a fisherman. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

“I have no wish to serve with an insolent pig-boy. I am a king’s son. Whose son are you? So you have stood against the Cauldron-Born,” he scoffed. The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z

“Did you know that seventy percent of men aren’t as attached to their female children as they are to their sons? It’s true. I read that somewhere.” Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

He was the son of the man who had destroyed Khazaria and killed Saba. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

When the eldest son was gone Wang Lung felt the house was purged of some surcharge of unrest and it was a relief to him. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

She was in front of her room with her son, his cloth-covered head bent over a steaming bowl. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

How it was revealed to her that it was Zeus who had visited her in this shape we are not told, but she knew that the child she bore was his son. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Look, son, it isn’t that easy. The world isn’t going to kiss your boots because you learned to think. You have your answer. It’s no. Now, if you’ll excuse me, I have things to do.” Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Papa blushed and said, “Well, uh, let’s see, son. It’s kind of like the way hens lay eggs and then biddies hatch out of the eggs.” Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

He was finally able to obtain a match for his son with one of the emperor's many granddaughters, and his son would inherit the rule of a remote city. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

When he introduces his wife, Eugenia, and his son, Jake, he is so proud, with cheeks rubbery smiling and eyes shining crinkly. The Unfinished Angel 2009-09-22T00:00:00Z

Across the aisle, a man in a gray fur hat was pinning down his son to put a gray fur hat on him. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

"You really think I want to put you in jail? Ah. This many years and this is what your son thinks, Rona?" The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

He saw the scarred woman standing proudly in their midst beside her son, and the people of Village gathered to listen. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

“It is not their children who concern us. We fear the fathers, not the sons.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Ashoke’s mother was always convinced that her eldest son would be hit by a bus or a tram, his nose deep into War and Peace. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Excuse me. I’m his son. I’m Macon Dead’s son. Not the one you knew.” Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

“When you become mothers, how will you name your sons?” Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

This tradition doesn’t exist for Bengalis, naming a son after father or grandfather, a daughter after mother or grandmother. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m the son of the stupid war god. I have to go on this quest and—” “Have to,” Iris said. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

Lord Cerwyn was a captive of the Lannisters, but his son, a lad of fourteen, arrived one bright, blustery morning at the head of two dozen lances. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

“I told you he was the captain’s son.” The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

“C'est moi? Why must it always be I who takes the blame? If your son is such the disappointment, it is as much your fault as mine. ” The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z

Isioma was asking why their son was not yet doing much of mathematics and English. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

The Reverend Buckminster looked at Turner, and Turner suddenly had the impression that his father was seeing him for the first time as someone more than his son. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

Duntz’s story concerned a father and son who shall here be known as John Senior and John Junior. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

The mother was looking at her son with such trust, and he turned and smiled at her with such love and reassurance, that Mrs. Cooper couldn’t say no. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then, finally, he had relaxed and nodded and gone out to find his son. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

“This man has not admitted that his sons live. He has cut them off mid-air.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

My daughter, one, and son, now three, would be thrilled to see me, and I treasured this time together. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The smith stared at his son who stood wraithlike in that weird, dank mist. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

I knew it was his handsome son, Ramfis, a full colonel in the army since he was four years old. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Your son, ha. That’s a good one! I’ll tell you what I want, mouse. I want it all. The lot. Everything. Do you hear me?” Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

“The last time I was here you offered me a peach. My visit was about my son then too.” Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

We’re going to sit in the darkness now, together among her canned pickles, to commune with her dead son. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

Her son, a man my father’s age, had blood running down his forehead. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

I jumped into the seat of the Black Panther’s son behind me—his window was open. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Any son of mine who’s having a Zoom bar mitzvah is going to have the best Zoom bar mitzvah it’s possible to have.” Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

The alarmed homeowner called her son, who came and physically removed George from the house. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

A small dry mustached man in the front row blared out, "Say that slowly, son!" Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

I came over today to meet my son who is here from Portland on business and to get my little granddaughter's doll repaired. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

“Well, I like that one about Dead and his son Icky flying up to the sun.” Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z

My son is dead, she thought as Jhiqui left the tent. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

“I know you’ve written to Wylan every week since he left your household, begging him to return. Those are not the actions of a man who doesn’t care for his only son and heir.” Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

“You’re an amazing big brother and the best son I could ever want.” Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z

It is the voice I hear even now when my mother addresses her son- or daughter-in-law. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

The preacher says, A great father, son, and husband has crossed over. The Crossover 2014-03-18T00:00:00Z

By 1886 he and Margaret were the parents of five children: two daughters and three sons, the last, a boy named Daniel, born in February. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Peralta’s daughter and son grabbed his fat hands as they ran some errands. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

And gently the great captain, son of Atreus, handed him the goblet. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

But a moment later, her familiar voice returned, and the robot said in the language of the animals, “Hello, son. How long was I out? It seemed like only an instant to me.” The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

Then without changing her tone she called to her son, “And get upstairs here, you. I’ll learn you to bother me when I’m taking a nap.” A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

“He leaves behind a wife and son,” I thought, my son, I thought, my grandson, I thought and thought and thought, and then I stopped thinking ... Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

It’s up to our sons now—they’re the only ones who can save us. Harry Potter and the Cursed Child 2016-07-31T00:00:00Z

She talked constantly about wanting to see her son. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

For all her fighting words she gave no overpowering aid—not yet; father and son must prove their mettle still. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

And the Duke of Vaal beating his son like an animal. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

First Ira herself, then the long, long interval and after that almost every passing year I bore a son. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

For his part, Norman Mackworth had been born in India, the son of a British eye surgeon who performed cataract surgery for locals. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

But there was just one Vincent—the eldest living son, upon whom, traditionally, parents placed their hopes. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

“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

My oldest son, he fought in the first Persian Gulf conflict. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Around the son of Jupiter, storm clouds gathered, swirling into a hurricane. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

The same wandering blood in his veins was in his sons. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

He looked for the last time at his sons, but they avoided his gaze. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

As if Theo’s portrait has actually been painted over the stillborn first son. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

I feel certain he would never have hit his son the way she did over the burned bread. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

The elder son ran from the shore and brought his mother back a phlox flower, which he presented to her with great show of gallantry. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

“I told you. My parents, I made them a promise. I’m their oldest son. It’s just not going to happen. I have duties, obligations.” When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

“Kainene is not just like a son, she is like two,” her father said. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

I felt that Wallace was Mr. Muhammad’s most strongly spiritual son, the son with the most objective oudook. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Only the Klan looks out for the white man,” Paul Ellis told his son, with the profound solemnity of inebriation. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

Harrison Smith, gently guiding the witness, said, “I will ask you if, after July, 1950, you observed any change in the personality and habits and actions of your son, Richard?” In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

Our school has not had a winner of this competition in recent years, but your son, Neel, is the brightest student I have seen in my tenure here. Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z

“I spoke with the man this morning,” Patrolman Mancuso said, hoping that Mrs. Reilly had exhausted the subject of her son. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

They are all musical; the father plays the violin; the oldest son, the cello. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

They are the ones who came up with a one-drop rule that separated the “white” from the “black,” even if it meant that their own blue-eyed sons would live under the lash. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

Hanging out, almost like if we were friends and not just a mom and her son. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

"But is it not probable, O my son," said the Tisroc, "that at the taking of the woman either King Edmund or you will lose his life?" The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z

Tea Cake was the son of Evening Sun, and nothing was too good. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

Sit quietly with folded hands while the world rips their sons, husbands, sisters, loved ones to shreds. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

When I entered the first grade, I found myself in a community of boys from all over the town, and it became apparent that, as my father’s son, I was marked by his position. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

The second son was ordained at the age of seventeen, and by the time he was twenty had achieved an awesome reputation as a Talmudist. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

He spun round just in time to see Mrs. Parsons dragging her son back into the doorway while the boy pocketed a catapult. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

“Take your son in your arms, Theseus,” she said. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Ah, well. Just be careful of him. I imagine he can smell a son of Neptune a mile away. Out you go, now. Good luck!” The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

“I seen it. I seen it. I ain’t the Devil’s son for nothing.” Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

The president’s son rose slowly, shutting the lid of his laptop. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

He strode into the house, brushing out of his way his two small sons who played, naked in the warm sunshine, about the threshold. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

They were the ones, Arjuna in particular, who had publicly reviled him for being a lowly charioteer’s son. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I don’t keep my oldest son’s heart in a bottle.” A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Take a look at it, son. What do you think it is?” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

“No. Not a son. Just a boy to help around here.” Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z

“Haven’t we been a little too calm? They get to do whatever they want to us, to him—to your son—and we’re supposed to just calm down?” All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

“For, I really am not,” he added, with his son’s smile, “an alarming personage.” Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z

What sort of mother in her right mind asked her sons girlfriend to visit? Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Only once did she take off the blindfold, to look at her eldest son. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Pattillo grew up in the thirties, the son of a blacksmith turned railroad worker in a small segregated Louisiana town. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

As I have told you before I am not a son of a wealthy dad, your gift increased my clothes. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

I remembered the swirling green trident that had appeared above my head the night of capture the flag, when Poseidon had claimed me as his son. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

“Have you thought about the education of your sons?” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Matt Gordon never knows how to react to his son’s questions. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

Tracy, not yet a year old, was her nephew, the son of Eveanna, the sister to whom she felt particularly close. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m going to miss you, son,” he said with a catch in his voice. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

“No sons of mine have cause to go into the city.” The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

“To be blunt, son—that car’s an absolute outrage. It’s disgraceful.” I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

At Agra Fort he and his family look through the window of the room where Shah Jahan was imprisoned by his own son. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

I tell her that I profess God’s goodness and mercy, but what I love most truly is his marvelous creature, my son. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

ALBUS/RON: My dad says he wishes I weren’t his son. Harry Potter and the Cursed Child 2016-07-31T00:00:00Z

I took him into the drawing-room, where his son lay, and left him there. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

"What is it, son, what do you feel?" a shrill voice cried. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I had a son, I’d be watching him like a hawk around a girl like her.” Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

George Lawrence from over near Grandville heard that his youngest son had arrived in the river town, and he made the long trip by wagon to bring the wounded boy back home. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had gone into Afghanistan to bring back my half brother’s son. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

“Don’t talk that way, turn over a new leaf and begin again, Teddy, my son.” Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Ten thousand lousy dollars! Ten grand—that’s what he makes in one stinking night off that casino operation. It’s a joke, son. It’s chump change to a rich maggot like that!” Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

Suddenly the secretary’s Lewis Powell after his capture, under , . . guard at the Washington Navy Yard. son Frederick Stands at the top of the stairs, blocking Powell’s path. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

“Well, son, I calculate you owe Julio something for taking him away from his work.” The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Gilly is giving suck to Dalla’s son as well as her own. It seems cruel of you to part our little prince from his milk brother, my lord.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

He was a former Columbia oarsman himself, he said, and after watching their recent exploits he had decided to send his son west for college so he too might become a great crewman. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

I proposed that Lord and Lady Arryn foster two of my grandsons at court, and offered to take their own son to ward here at the Twins. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Nevertheless, both brothers, Castor and Pollux, were often called “sons of Zeus”; indeed, the Greek name they are best known by, the Dioscouri, means “the striplings of Zeus.” Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Half the time he seemed to think his wife and son were still alive, and he kept talking to Percy about work and giving him instructions.” Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

“You’re unlucky enough to be in my line of sight, and I don’t want any sudden reconciliations between father and son before we set sail.” Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

“You asked me about trust, and taking a risk? Well, here you go, son of Jupiter. How much do you trust me?” The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

He said, “A son. Soon he’s going to be taller than me. Taller and smarter. He’ll be a great doctor. A brain surgeon. Or lawyer for the Supreme Court.” Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

At one point, she had a local restaurant drop off daily dinners for her teenage son, just to be sure he got fed. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Major Christian Piercy had fled Philadelphia after his son and an apprentice caught the fever, bribing a stagecoach driver to take him and his family to south Jersey. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

Celia half drags her son to her bed, the bed in which he was conceived, and for three days he sleeps wrapped in blankets and his father’s frayed pajamas. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I need to be left alone, son. Now go.” Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

In African culture, the sons and daughters of one’s aunts or uncles are considered brothers and sisters, not cousins. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You go on home now, son. Back to your own kind. I seen ya at the block party. Now you get goin’.” Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Has any of your sons shown an interest in business?” Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

But now I could see how careless I’d been, how stupid, because one look at my dad told me what a son’s name on a list of dead men could do to a father. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

“How could I feel tired when I have such a wonderful son as you?” A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Ancient Greek parents were no more prone to call their sons “Crow” than modern ones—and would anyone called “Crow” have the brass neck to teach the art of public speaking for a living? Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

“Well, I'd certainly love to help out your team, son. I think I have a few dollars in here. Yes, here we go.” We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

“Yeah, son, this looks pretty close to how it was,” I said. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Mr. Hickock, you say you never had any trouble with your son until after 1950?” In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

“My mother didn’t enjoy being pregnant. My father said that since he had a son, he didn’t need any more children.” Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

"Perhaps he is Odin's son," said a third. Beowulf: A New Telling 1968-01-01T00:00:00Z

“And that was in 1949. Yet now you tell us your son had a change in his attitude and conduct after 1950?” In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

“If you are the son of Poseidon,” Echidna hissed, “you would not fear water. Jump, Percy Jackson. Show me that water will not harm you. Jump and retrieve your sword. Prove your bloodline.” The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

Terry adores her only son, and would do just about anything to make him happy. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

Uncle Alfred—who was actually Ophie’s cousin and Rose’s son, a bit of gnarled family tree that Ophie didn’t quite understand—was indifferent to Ophie and her mother, but Aunt Helen resented their sudden arrival. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

But instead of telling Erna that her son was back in town, he told her that his wife, Lucille, was sick. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

He lied to an old man who just wanted his son back—who just loved his son. Harry Potter and the Cursed Child 2016-07-31T00:00:00Z

Now fphitos, when he knew Odysseus, gave him the master bowman’s arm; for old Eurytos had left it on his deathbed to his son. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You’re a smart girl; that is what I always tell my son. That is why I told him you have to be the only one to walk me—you know that.” Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

“You mean, like, if you were my son or something?” Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

Grandfather stands in his box, backed by the rest of the family, reminding everyone here that one of the Empire's most powerful gens has seen a son graduate today. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

Mom looked at me again and decided she did not care about her son. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

Let them say that Eddard Stark had fathered four sons, not three. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

But what was it about the three-layered Cuban son rhythm pattern that was so seductive? The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

There would be no son for Loraq, no heir to unite dragon and harpy. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“My son is a better musician than I,” she said. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Shortly before eight o’clock his son left the dining room to go up to his room and dress for an engagement in the city later that night. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

I fear for my son, learning to be a man from such men. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Do you want to tell me what that was about, son?” Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

He hoped that the group would lift his son’s spirits, help him make new friends, and instill a sense of discipline in him. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

“All this only applies to my own doings, as I do not feel at all sure enough in any way to interfere with the pleasures of sons of the age of mine.” Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

But he felt unwelcome here, his son stood, moving the pencil sharpener from hand to hand, waiting. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

But he got back reports from friends saying that his son had broken free with the ball and then hesitated near the goal line, as if he was scared of getting hit. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Not because he was a white boy and she was a colored girl, and not because he was a teacher’s son. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Stannis, my lord, my sad sullen boy, son I never bad, you must not do this, don’t you know how I have cared for you, lived for you, loved you despite all? A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

He was a tellin’ somebody that Albert’s son was in trouble. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

“Not even die men who slew your son?” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

While the others set forth food for him, Boreas’ sons took their stand beside him with drawn swords. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

Nancy’s son, Jason, who was seven, was watching television in the living room. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Imagination, like memory, can transform lies to truths,” Felicia whispers in her son’s ear. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

This chapter is where my son Jason stopped reading, and there is simply no way of blaming him. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

But who could control Jaimito, only son of his doting mother, unquestioned boss of his five sisters! In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He calls her name, and then in a voice drunk with sadness he calls for his sons, his daughters, he doesn’t want to be left alone. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

“This will be fun, son of Neptune. It’s been eons since I broke a demigod of your caliber. I await you atop the ice.” The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

Mom said, grabbing Finkle by the lapels of his suit, “and let my son take his shot.” The Million Dollar Shot 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

He was the oldest son, but she was certain it was not his fate but hers to take care of them. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Then she said in a harsh whisper, “The eldest son goes too often into the inner courts. When you are away he goes.” The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

But for this he cared nothing, since he had sons and daughters, and he was willing enough to keep her for the pleasure she gave him. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

“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

“Let’s talk in green,” her son would have told her, trying to distract her from her misery. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Ah, she has gone home. Señor Aguilar sent her home when Captain Ortega’s son came here to the hotel for her. I am doing your mother’s work on this floor now.” Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

Narcissa knew that the only way she would be permitted to enter Hogwarts, and find her son, was as part of the conquering army. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

There’s a mom there with her four-year-old son. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Women, in particular, express complicated, conflicted views about crime, because they love their sons, husbands, and partners and understand their plight as current and future members of the racial undercaste. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

We pass another room, what used to be the bedroom shared by the four Hsu sons. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Heads turned toward them as he shouted, "We'll have the Mud Gate all over again. Let him stay where he is, he's the king—" • "He's my son." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Jones, Aaron- son, and Rutherford were guilty of the crimes they were charged with. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

“Especially if he has found out Percy is a son of Poseidon. . . ” The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

Agueda has a new expense: she must raise the young child left by her dead son Victor. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

“Well, Mr. Gaunt,” said Ogden, “to get straight to the point, we have reason to believe that your son, Morfin, performed magic in front of a Muggle late last night.” Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

"And your son came and, uh, sat in on my practice today." Ghost 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

“Did you move them? Did you move my son? My poor son? Did you move him out of the cold street?” Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

He had raised his two sons to be loving and caring, and like Morrie, they were not shy with their affection. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

In confidence, the old man tells me that he gave all thirteen sons the same name to try to outwit the regime. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Showing it all around, he ended up in front of his older son, who during the past few days had barely put in an appearance in the laboratory. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

Of her children, two sons and two daughters, only the younger girl, Barbara, had entered ordinary life, married, begun raising a family. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

And with him stood the great lords her brother had named the Usurper's dogs, cold-eyed Eddard Stark with his frozen heart, and the golden Lannisters, father and son, so rich, so powerful, so treacherous. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

His son searched him, took the crust of bread, and began to devour it. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

In Cuban son it is not just the melody, whether played on a trumpet or sung, that pushes ahead, but also the bass line. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

“That is,” his father added, “if you promise to take care of them and pass them on to your own son some day.” Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

“No matter. Run upstairs and get changed. You’re driving us to the River Café for lunch. Hurry on up, son, ’cause I’m plenty hungry.” Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

“About time we had a bit of summer. Alan, this is my son, Jason.” Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

Cole knew what his dad hated most about this whole situation was that his son wasn’t something that could be fixed with a lawsuit or a stiff drink. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

Mikizi had a son, but the mother of that boy did not want her son to be chief. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

On the rare occasions when they are all together, the daughters get on easily with the sons, though there are occasional tensions. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

I understand why Evelyn keeps touching that sculpture—it’s the last piece of her son she has, just like this is the last piece of my mother that I have. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

That’s where she was, no doubt; in the blacksmith’s shop, eyeing Matthew, the blacksmith’s son. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Don’t you begin with prayer?” asked Turner, as sweetly and innocently as if he were a minister’s son right out of a Sunday school book. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

She’s told that if her son is bringing in a pound a week that’s more than some families get on the dole and she should be grateful he has a job. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

“Own your greatness, son. False humility doesn’t become a gentleman.” Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

"I do not know your son, my lady." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

“My son is such a fan of Book Scavenger. Can I trouble you for a photograph?” Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

But one of the applicants was the son of someone in one of the Munich orchestras, so, for the sake of fairness, the Philharmonic decided to make the first round of auditions blind. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

DRACO: These rumors — about my son’s parentage — they don’t seem to be going away. Harry Potter and the Cursed Child 2016-07-31T00:00:00Z

It is the principle for which our sons fight tonight in the jungles of Vietnam.... Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

The most ingenious craftsmen of them all, he decided, were the three dwarfs known as the sons of Ivaldi. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

He was highborn, the son of the most pow-erful lord in the realm, the brother of the queen. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

But by this time the gods were very strong and they were helped, too, by mighty Hercules, a son of Zeus. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

He is survived by his wife, Dr. Crystal Stanley-Bell, and his twin sons, Joshua and Jordan, who recently won their first county championship. The Crossover 2014-03-18T00:00:00Z

I think the reason Uncle had originally been so strict with Father was that he thought of Father as his spiritual son. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

Yule was a subdued affair, for the King and his eldest son were away on a military campaign far in the south, and because of the harsh weather the hunting season ended earlier than usual. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Whether or not he thought the parents hit their son. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

“These are her sons. This one is in the Marines,” I said, placing my finger on the guy in the military uniform. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

The son, named Vincenzio after his grandfather, was later formally acknowledged as Galileo’s heir and took his name. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

“I need you here with me,” the old woman said, and her son sighed. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

She knew that life would not be easy for her son. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

"I do not sit on my son's war councils, my lord." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

The lowering of the image of her son brought out in her all at once all of the compassion that she owed him. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

She knew that Sir Lancelot was going to his son by another woman—but she hardly minded that. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Has your son told you why he made the decision to shoot?” The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

“What my son means to say is that we’re keen on improving the level of education at New London Colored School. Sure want to be a credit to the county.” Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

Then he knew that it was his own son whose face had so reminded him of something, and his heart beat quickly. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z

One night, Lonna’s son brought home an orphaned baby raccoon, which promptly crawled into one of Leon’s favorite moleskin slippers and relieved itself. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The drug economy played out every day on the cracked concrete lawns of Robert Taylor, and her preteen older sons, Nicholas and Willie, could not help breathing it in. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

After they left the niece’s suburb, the son drove them to the address his mother had given him, which turned out to be a skyscraper in downtown Los Angeles. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

But still none dared to speak thus as he passed, for he was a rich man’s son. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

“I really doubt if you’re my son, you know that?” he said. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

What can you say about the family who is suing the railroad after their drunk son was killed walking on the tracks? Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

Then John knew that a curse was renewed from moment to moment, from father to son. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

Do they know what kind of person their son is? Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

If I concentrated hard enough, I could almost hear his voice: Malcolm, my son, you can he and do anything you put your mind to. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Siddhartha could not take his friend’s advice; he could not give up his son. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You drive that vehicle back, son. But don’t let me find you behind the wheel till you’re sixteen and got a card in your wallet.” Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

“All right, you son of a hunk of iron ore, if we didn’t make you, who did?” I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

“My son,” she said, “may I speak for your honor and for Athens?” Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Amos ran over to her son and fell on her knees. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

Someday, after she was gone, if the time was ever right, when the boy was old enough and ready, he could pass it on to her son. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

“I’m here to make sure that my son never causes problems again.” Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

Therem the younger son; Arek the elder, that brother whose voice he had heard in mine bespeaking him; both dead now. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

Her son, about twelve years old, peeked out from the window upstairs with a textbook in his hand. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

But Laxmi was always on the phone with her cousin these days, who was still in bed, whose husband was still in London, and whose son still wasn’t going to school. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

“What do you mean? You are the most precious, wonderful per­son on earth. Come, my brother, let us be together and feast on each other’s company.” Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

I trust that our sons will be doing all they can to stop her, but. Harry Potter and the Cursed Child 2016-07-31T00:00:00Z

"It was my idea. Besides, the same people who made up the son rule probably made up the oldest child rule. Let's break both at the same time. Come on, we have to hurry." You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

By tonight Trotter would go upstairs and find the money gone, and nothing was sure about what might happen with Mr. Randolph’s lawyer son next door. The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z

“But surely your sons will come back to see you.” Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

The robot wanted to be strong for her son and her friends; she wanted to ease their worried minds and tell them everything would be fine. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

Later that day I overheard Gay scolding her sons. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

She was especially concerned because she had four sons of her own. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Telemachus accepted gratefully and leaving Mentor in charge of the ship he started the next day for Menelaus’ palace with Nestor’s son. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Had to let their hired man go because of taxes, and their oldest son took the king’s coin early this summer. He’s off fighting the rebels in Menat now.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

The woman refused and stood there holding her son, shaking. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Aunt Petunia burst into tears and hugged her son, while Harry ducked under the table so they wouldn’t see him laughing. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

“I’m only blind, son. My junk still works.” As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

They also had an adopted son, Matthew, who was about twelve; Luke; and a foster baby named Keisha. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

Once, for instance, he told me that he had learned that a Harlem couple, not Black Muslims, had named their newborn son “Malcolm” after him. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m sorry. I know you don’t want to hear this. Your other son has the right spirit. He’s a real litde lion.” The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

Searching the names, separately and together, she finds a small notice about the fire noting the deaths of Patrick Power and his sons, Dominick and James. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

“They are welcome, being yours,” said Wang Lung’s eldest son, “and we will prepare a meal so that they may eat before they go on their way.” The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

In the later poets he was her son and almost invariably a mischievous, naughty boy, or worse. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

They are Aiyi’s oldest son and his wife, and standing next to them are four other people, around my age, and a little girl who’s around ten. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

A son who does not even go to his own uhmma’s funeral. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

He had come out of nowhere, Mohammed Zeitoun, a sailor’s son from the tiny island of Arwad, and stunned everyone with his strength and endurance. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

“How can you be a son of Poseidon?” The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

Jethro had forgotten for a while the sad-eyed President, whose pictures had been in the papers only days before, above the story of his own son’s death. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

A family could indeed walk proudly if a son married the schoolteacher. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

He didn’t want to be a war god’s son. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

And this is all he answered: ‘Laertes’ son, whose home is Ithaka. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Lawrences’ second son, born just after New Year’s Day 1941, was christened Robert, after Oppenheimer. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

“You can’t do that, son. You saw that shark who took your fish. He’s still around somewhere.” Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

“Well, son,” Mr. Muhammad said, “what is on your mind?” The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Alive?” she gasped, and her gaze was pinned to her son. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

“I play cards with the pool man’s sons sometimes,” she told him. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

As her son’s condition deteriorates, Celia reluctantly cuts back on her revolutionary activities. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Sometimes I wonder how I ever got so lucky to get a son like you, Albie.” Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z

How else could they afford to buy wives for their sons and insure that they would eventually become ancestors? A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

I look at the two of them mirroring each other across the table and realize: They are father and son, just not by blood. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

“Ortega does not want his daughter courted by anyone but a rich man’s son. He does not permit Salvador to see her, and Salvador does not. But he will not forget her.” Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

I guess he wanted to be strong in front of his son. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Yes,” said Sir Lancelot “The lady was looking past me at my son Galahad, and he cantered away as soon as she had spoken. Soon afterwards the lady went away as well.” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

The gods of all the rivers on earth were their sons. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

“No. I don’t kid myself much. Your son is still alive, isn’t he?” Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

She kept a photograph of her dead husband on the windowsill, beside the braided horsehair basket that was a gift from her son. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

Neither Robert Newton nor his son Isaac ever learned to read or write, but Hannah’s brother William was a Cambridge graduate, a clergyman who enjoyed the living at the nearby village of Burton Coggles. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

And when everything had sworn its oath not to harm her son, Frigg returned to Asgard. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

Her middle son in military uniform, smiling and holding a baby. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

It may be one of the explanations of her double love—perhaps she loved Arthur as a father, and Lancelot because of the son she could not have. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

I ironed and sorted Nasreen Baji’s clothing the next day while she was out with her son visiting a prospective bride. Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

But it was night before the youngest son came in and he came alone also. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

Jean Graham Finch had brought to the family the heart that killed her son twenty-two years later on the sidewalk in front of his father’s office. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

You have made me, the son of poor immigrants, rich, powerful, and respected. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

So accompanied the old man passed the guards and came into the presence of the man who had killed and maltreated his son. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

Three years before I lived with Mr. and Mrs. Potts, a relative reported that their son, who allegedly had been charged with attempted murder, was living in their home while a foster child was there. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

"Understand, O my son," said the Tisroc, "that no words you can speak will move me to an open war against Narnia." The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z

I am the rightful king, he had declared, his jaw clenched hard as iron, and your son no less a traitor than my brother here. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

“This was my son’s room,” she said, gesturing for him to enter. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

“Trick question, son. The answer is dead. Dead is dead. There’s no other word for it.” Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

So OK, here’s October 7th with theAlper family.Wake up as normal people.Younger son gets nosebleed. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mr. Eberhardt came over and put a hand on his son’s shoulder. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Why are you standing there like a statue," Hoo shouted at his son. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

I asked permission of the authorities to attend my son’s funeral. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

A few weeks later, he turned up with a metal stand his son had made especially for me to lean on as I bowled. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

Years later Gogol had learned the significance, that it was a Bengali son’s duty to shave his head in the wake of a parent’s death. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

At fall of dusk Odysseus and his son heard the approach of the good forester. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Though his hair was as blue as his son’s, he had red roots and redder eyebrows. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Once outside, I realized Mrs. Baylor's son could hear them too. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

"Very well. Who will my son marry when he is of age?" Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

“That’s true form, perfect brother. The Great Peacemaker. You rack up brownie points with Mom and maintain the image of the perfect son.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

I pointed to the woman who was still near the tracks about thirty feet away crouched down on the ground, crying with her baby and her son. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

And if Henry couldn’t make Beto into a proper son, maybe he was thinking he’d try his luck at making one inside of her. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

“My son considers the Lady Aurelia his closest friend. He deeply admires her.” Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

The only North Koreans considered trustworthy enough to become guards in political prison camps were men like An Myeong Chul, the son of a North Korean intelligence officer. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

At last, however, he went to his son Hermes, the messenger of the gods, and told him he must find a way to kill Argus. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was once a son who did bad things, and every time he did one of them, his grieving father drove a nail in a door. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

I thought of his lost son, far away and dead. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

“These two are dangerous. It'd be much safer, while we’ve got them here—” “Ares,” Poseidon interrupted, “they are worthy heroes. We will not blast my son to bits.” The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

I was not her son, and apart from those eight dollars, I owed her nothing. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

One day Tea Cake met Turner and his son on the street. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

I didn’t want to come but Padma says that when it comes to facial growths, sons need their fathers. Harry Potter and the Cursed Child 2016-07-31T00:00:00Z

“Don’t go back,” Brave Orchid ordered her son. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The man was his son, whom Mr. Eng had not seen since his arrest, and who now was in prison himself for armed robbery. ‘It was the worst moment of my life,’ Mr. Eng recalled. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Sister or no," she had replied, "if you try to steal my son, you will leave by the Moon Door." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

In less than twelve years they baptized with the name Aureliano and the last name of the mother all the sons that the colonel had implanted up and down his theater of war: seventeen. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

They range from six feet two inches to six feet five, and I know that both my sons, when they stretch their full height, will overtop me. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

The mother was fierce in her son’s defense, saying that it was dangerous to have a fountain when children were about, and that she was writing to the M.P. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

He went home and his dad said: No son of mine is going to play violin. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

“It said,” my father says, “that Marcus’s violence and cruelty toward his son is the reason his son chose Dauntless instead of Abnegation.” Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

He asked easy, drawling questions about me, his other son, his wife, and he laughed, amused, when I informed him of their destinies. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

This idea was strongly affirmed by Manilal Gandhi, the Mahatma’s son and the editor of the newspaper Indian Opinion, who was a prominent member of the SAIC. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Finally the boss’s son cornered me one morning. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

When they arrived at their block, Jessie paused to get a signature for the petition from their neighbor Charlotte and her son Joseph. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

“So have I, my son, so have I.” Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

She hadn’t expected her son’s illness to take this turn, and she feels helpless and angry, like the times Jorge had bullied Javier as a child. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

And Wang Lung stammered and muttered, and would have spoken, but when he took his pipe from his mouth, no sound came, and he stared at his son. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

In my deluded solitude, I sat waiting for my son in the armchair of my library, my eyes glued to the doorsill, calling to him with my mind, as I used to call for Clara. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Marching is all very well," she said to her son, "but where, and to what purpose? What do you mean to do?" A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

But Denethor rose and looked on the face of his son and was silent. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

“My son’s wife just had a baby boy.” The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

Dona Zaida, once a formidable matriarch who ruled her eight sons by a resolute jealousy, spent long afternoons watching novelas on television and perfuming her thickening wrists. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

“And your son seems to delight in dropping them, I must say.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

If what you want is to be proved my son, my fears for you are proof enough that I am your father.” Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was addressed to her father, her brother, her son, "or whoever now holds Riverrun." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

“My son, my Daniel, has also become a man. It is a great joy for a father to see his son suddenly a man.” The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

The mother says that, yes, her son is handsome. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

“You could go look in the Hall of Open Records. You’d find the names. But think, son. If you apply for children, then who will be their parents-of-the-parents? Who will be their grandparents?” The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

One of the teenagers, Dan Daniels’s son Scott, took a three-step running start, threw out to sea, then pitched headlong into the salt water. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

“I heard your father died. Tsk-tsk. I always did want to take him on. Looks like I’ll have to settle for his weakling of a son.” The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

I want to move in with this good-hearted couple and have them call me “son,” and Violet can live here too because there’s room enough for both of us. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

They knew that quiet lady must be told the prince her son had come ashore, and sent his good ship round to port; not one soft tear should their sweet queen let fall. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

My gut told me that the Darcys were all conceited, and their sons thought that they were better than us. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

And what I see is that most of the pictures are already hung, part of a permanent collection, that this room has always been a kind of family chapel to their son. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

This is the story that the old people told: Captain Wallace and his son, Hiram, had let down their sails and were waiting out the storm. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

So when he passed it on to his son Light Hair, he himself took the name Worm. In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z

Handing me the box, he said, “Here you are, son. There’s over three hundred dollars in this box. It’s all yours.” Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Those two dwarfs? No, no, no. Oh, no. Not for my sons. Not for my sultans. They deserve better.” A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

She paused to give her son time to light another cigarette. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her son nervously stood on a stone behind her. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

Then he says, "I don't know how you located this woman, Bobby, but it's not a small thing. This is first- class work, son. First class." Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

My mother’s sister is my mother; my uncle’s son is my brother; my brother’s child is my son, my daughter. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

To-day, over all our land, the unburied bones of our fathers and sons and brothers tell the sad mistake that those men made when long ago they left this one great wrong. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

Having fathered one son, Dad took it pretty much for granted that all the rest of his children would be boys. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

My son sticks out, so how can you tell me that you don’t see any difference? Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Isn’t it ridiculous, after all, to think that a son could forgive his father for beating the drum that sent him to his death? The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z

“I’m getting sick of selling stuff. Jeez, my father’s starting to call me ‘my son, the salesman.’ The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The death of his son in 1867 more or less killed him. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

“My son never stored dynamite in the trunk of his car,” said Mr. Dalton. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Let him grow as tall as his father, and hold his own son in his arms. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

“My son, my greatest pride ... my poor May ...” He sounded so devastated I didn’t know what to say. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

Much to his unhappiness, thirteen of his children were girls, leaving my uncle and his precious son, Usman, the child of his first wife, as the only males in the household. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

There his son went too when the black ship put him ashore from Pylos. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Thomas Jones, Captain Cox, the Garrett sons, and many more were seized and taken to prison. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

My son will not allow any fires tonight, Gaea said from the depths of the warehouse. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

How Ares had ended up with a dragon for a son, Frank didn’t want to know; but as punishment for the dragon’s death, Ares turned Cadmus into a snake. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

“Our parents are dead, and he’s the son and heir,” Betsy said as though that explained everything. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

He could be exceedingly stubborn, another trait that may unfortunately have been passed down from father to son. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Fowler continued, “You know that we have a signed confession from our former employee Yvonne Grayson. Yvonne admits stealing Legos from our store—God only knows how many—to give to her friend’s son here.” The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

Her son’s resistance to schoolwork was a mild disorder that many children go through, but his study of chess, an intellectual activity, was supplanting it. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s what people have, son. The community’s been hit right hard, and your father was trying to help out. Couldn’t stand by and watch animals suffer.” Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

In just one week both of her sons had gone from success to failure, from public praise to public shame. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

In 1630, Harvey received an even more prestigious appointment as personal physician to James’s son Charles I, who came to the throne in 1625. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

According to Chubs, Jack Fields was the second son in a family of five kids, and the only one to survive Idiopathic Adolescent Acute Neurodegeneration. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

Near the stream was the bear bush, which had frightened their oldest son once, when he thought it was a bear crouching there. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

He found no trace of Dolios and his sons nor the other slaves—all being gone that day to clear a distant field, and drag the stones for a boundary wall. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I know that. But the Italian—really, he’s a very pleasant man—began to look all concerned. ‘Can that be right, son?’ he said. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

If Cook is surprised that the Commandant’s son is using my given name, she doesn’t show it. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

I don’t mind the stink — I grew up with it, being the son of a butcher. Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!: Voices from a Medieval Village 2007-07-24T00:00:00Z

"Father and son? You look more like twins." The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

My father had told me once that it had been built in the early twenties by a group of Orthodox Jews who wanted their sons to have both a Jewish and a secular education. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

There was no tension here at all but a battle between equals, with Reb Saunders losing only a little less frequently than his son. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

Many notables had given Chiron their sons to rear, but of all his pupils the child of dead Coronis was dearest to him. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

Yet, although I grieved, it was not for my son: for in my heart I could not have wished it otherwise. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

Father and son alike shed happy tears at this strange meeting between the dead and the living whose love had been strong enough to bring him down to the world of death. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I bother. I bother very much, my son.” Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

His son Willy, Jr., often played touch football with us, coming down with the other boys from Mudhole to scrimmage with us on the broad concrete between the church and the Club House. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

Of course, Mary also knew that her son was a ringer; the two of them had been building to win. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

With hounds questing ahead, in open order, the sons of Autolykos went down a glen, Odysseus in the lead, behind the dogs, pointing his long-shadowing spear. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Will you tell General Hancock . . . Can you hear me, son?” The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

All along the benches, his sons and brothers and sworn swords leapt to their feet, grabbing for their steel. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

I traveled back and forth to Clover, sitting on porches and walking the tobacco fields with Cliff, Cootie, and Gladys’s son Gary. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

Lourdes gives her son a dark prediction: “God is going to punish you,” she says. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

We watched a father helping his son brush his teeth at the bathroom sink. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z

Looking up now, suddenly, he saw what it was about his own son that reminded him so vividly of himself. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

They join a bristling gang of miners’ sons who sit in the market square, sleeves rolled up, shorts hiked to their hips. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Nevertheless, she wanted to follow in the footsteps of Aeneas, son of Aphrodite, the first demigod to settle here after the Trojan War. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

“I’m sorry, son. It was instant. There was nothing anyone could do.” Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

When they reached London, Captain Clarke lodged Essie with his mother, who treated her in all ways as her son’s new wife. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

“Everybody don’t have a phone, son. Plus, he ain’t even home right now.” The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

"If my husband was a lion,” she said to her brother, "then what are my two sons?” The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

The Barnetts’ sons found themselves under regular attack by white boys in their own neighborhood. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

“Now, Brandon,” said Hugh’s wife weakly to her little son, who had run into the kitchen and was attempting to swing from his mother’s arms like an ape. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Her son laughed at his mother’s ill temper. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

“I don’t think it’s important, son. I think it’s the thought that counts.” Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Queen frowned at her son, who gave her a weak smile. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Between my son and my doctor, I will probably live to be a very old man.” The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

“And your mom? That orthodontist must be coming around to the idea of having sons by now. Your mother has always been able to wrap men around her little finger!” Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

They get an express passport with “Gogol Ganguli” typed across the United States of America seal, Ashoke signing on his son’s behalf. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

“I cannot accept seeing my son’s life threatened every moment by the presence of Indians, more than that of any other member since his canoe goes at the head of the expedition.” Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

"Well, Mother," the son said, trying to comfort her, "your embroidery is so lifelike perhaps you should embroider this picture. Then you will feel the same as if you were living in it." When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

Paul kept trying to look past her, for his son. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z

Everyone enjoyed these jibes immensely, and it gave me pleasure to see my son so happy and confident. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

And he remembered that of late his son had said nothing of going away but had been content, and why was he content? The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

“He’s my son, too,” his mother said, with heat. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

I have lost four sons in the king’s service, and my fifth serves as his squire. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Only I’m allowed to walk him, he tells his son, nobody else. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

He surveyed the feverish eyes, then went to his son with a movement of concern. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

My own son will probably never forgive me. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

"My son," she said with one hand on the embroidery and the other clasping his, "help me bring this out in the light so I may see it better." When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

I was his champion son, you will remember. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

“Excuse me, Your Honor. Only credible because they’re from a rich, white private school. But my son, the defendant, doesn’t lie.” Black Brother, Black Brother 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

“Oh, dear. I’m not that old, son! Billy died, let me see. He died about four or five years ago, I think. One of the first, I’m afraid. Can it be that long already?” The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

“You gave me a brilliant son, and I have thanked you for him a million times. But you had to make him so brilliant?” The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

There hadn’t been a suicide in Cold Sassy since the Crabtrees’ son, Arthur, got drunk on a cold winter night, laid down across his sweetheart’s grave, and took an overdose of laudanum. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

“Yes, and for this he weeps in the night, and this is why he is so pale and so reedy a lad,” answered the eldest son. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

“Her son lives. He has her eyes, precisely her eyes. You remember the shape and color of Lily Evans’s eyes, I am sure?” Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

But the father cannot be as big as the son—for now that William is eleven years old, the tallest monk in the abbey barely reaches his collarbone. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

Darwin was then twenty-two years old, the son and grandson of prominent physicians. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

I have two sons and they are twins. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

On June 23, Cleopatra gave birth to a son, whom she named Ptolemy Caesar. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z

That the armorer's sullen apprentice was the king's son, Ned had no doubt. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Born in 1964 in the tiny farm town of Benjamin, Utah, the son of a plumber, Singleton was a nice kid but a poor student, shy, a follower, a practical joker. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

Minos, the powerful ruler of Crete, had lost his only son, Androgeus, while the young man was visiting the Athenian King. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

“That was not flying,” said Roz, looking back at her upside-down son. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

It added to my grief that I was not able to bury my mother, which was my responsibility as her eldest child and only son. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had forgiven the people who killed her son. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I think he is my son, but perhaps the god gave him to me. Either way he is mine.” Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

HARRY: And I told him that there were times when I wished he weren’t my son. Harry Potter and the Cursed Child 2016-07-31T00:00:00Z

“Really? I didn’t know you had another son.” Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

But he stood well back where he could not hear the words, and when the sons filled in the grave he had walked away and strolled in the paths where the white violets grew. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Nasser and his son followed my parents to the county clerk's office, but once they got there, my dad realized he'd left his wallet at the restaurant. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

And so because he was who he was—his mother’s son, tidy by nature, survivor of the sinking of the U.S. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

As the northern lords studied the castle, a sally port opened, a plank bridge slid across the moat, and a dozen knights rode forth to confront them, led by four of Lord Walder's many sons. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

He wouldn’t be so happy if he knew he was the son of a beggar. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

Each day Ackelow would send his eldest son up to the children’s room to call them for their meals. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

She generously said I could stay with her and her husband after Christmas, as their son would be away at school for the semester. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

In the homelands, the firstborn son almost becomes the father/husband by default because the dad is off working in the city. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Her son was a blessing, and Laila was relieved to discover that her fears had proved baseless, that she loved Zalmai with the marrow of her bones, just as she did Aziza. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

The navigator and nose gunner would be Robert Mitchell, a professor’s son from Illinois. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z

It was at Berea that Justice met the man who became her husband, Troy Price, the son of a tobacco farmer with a sixth-grade education. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

"We will marry, and when we do, Hugo will adopt you. You will be his son." The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

“Have faith in the Yankees my son. Think of the great DiMaggio.” The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I am thirty-nine, my wife is thirty-six, and our son is nine,” the man told Mengele. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

But a woman determined to achieve a better life for her son. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z

With sudden clarity I recalled my daughter’s looks that far-off day when I had gone to Kenny; my son’s words: “Such men have power, especially over women”; remembered my own foolish silences. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mr. Derby looked at his son with pride, but the young man had his dark eyes on the terrified African girl. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

One morning, while I was polishing brass out front, the boss and his son drove up in their car. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

He saw, not the silver in the alien hand of a merchant in the town; he saw the silver transmuted into something worth even more than itself—clothes upon the body of his son. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

“Why, the Emperor himself would be proud to clothe his son in such fine raiment.” Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

I don’t know where Father got the idea that his youngest son was itching to step into a cage with a ferocious carnivore. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

“His suffering is over, son. It’s all over for Pete. You don’t need to worry for him.” Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The rest of us—my aunt, his two young sons, me—stood there, silently, cleaning the plates, averting our eyes. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mother Marie, when Mr. Muhammad was busy, would tell me about her son’s boyhood and of his growing up in Georgia to young manhood. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Since when are you a fortune teller to know it’s a son?” In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

At the entrance of the center, my uncle hugged me, and as we parted, he turned around and said, “I’ll see you soon again, my son.” A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

“Now hold on there, son. There’s no need to be so standoffish. Smart young fellow like you wouldn’t drink that water if there was something wrong with it.” Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

He was the loser Indian father of a loser Indian son living in a world built for winners. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

Whatever the formal status, the marriage was a successful and seemingly happy one, producing four daughters and two sons who survived childhood, and two more babies who died in infancy. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

If an accomplished man had a son, Galton estimated, chances were one in twelve that the son would be eminent. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

Ben reads aloud the story of the great warrior king Gilgamesh, son of gods. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

“Well, son,” Mr. Burden told me, “it’s certainly a comfort to see another boy in this house.” Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Then let folks keep their quarrel with Bill. Matt has two or three sons in the Union Army. Why should he and his family suffer for Bill’s action?” Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

To his right, his son, Draco, who had been gazing up at the inert body overhead, glanced quickly at Voldemort and away again, terrified to make eye contact. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

Teenie cradled her son, whispering to him, singing to him, telling him stories. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then they see the angel, played by a farmer’s son in a tunic covered with goosefeathers. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

I saw Poppa, but no, not truly him; another son of Africa, brow furrowed, his voice deep and strong as a church bell. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

At the public baths, they would look for the beautiful girls and tell their sons to go calling at their houses. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

"Your son has won a few battles. I shall win the war. The Lannisters can wait my pleasure." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

But in reality he was the son of Zeus, who had visited Amphitryon’s wife Alcmena in the shape of her husband when the general was away fighting. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

"It is said that you hold Lord Tywin's dwarf son as captive. Have you brought him to us? I vow, we should make good use of such a hostage." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

It had been something of a scandal, for the new Queen was the same age as Prince Con, the King’s son from his first marriage. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Startled, Harry said nothing but took his son’s hand. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z