He was terrified again, and he began to scream out like a cornered animal. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

By the late afternoon the big burrow was beginning to take shape. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Kneeling, I began to salvage what I could from the pile. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

At the university, just a few miles from his back-alley boardinghouse on Invalidenstrasse, Mendel began to experience the intellectual baptism that he had so ardently sought in Brno. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

They stood at the western end of the valley, where the high road crested the last pass and began its winding descent to the bottomlands two miles below. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Then we began to help him, scrubbing pots and tying up bags of rice and lentils that Kazi would either pack for us or take with him to his cottage. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

The first few times she called, Amy discussed gallery business but, little by little, began complaining about her husband, a Westinghouse executive named Van. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

He waited a moment longer, hoping I'd begin a conversation, but I was too absorbed to be responsive, so he went unwillingly home. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

She was so jumpy that I began to feel uneasy too. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

Pressing the cold iron between their legs, they felt the massive surge of power as Iorek began to move. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

The Earth Men were so stunned that they rode the toppling shoulders for a full minute before they began to laugh and shout at each other: “Hey! This is more like it!” The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

A few days later, my feet began to itch. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

And when people begin filing out of the classroom, Fiona’s eyes ask me if it’s okay if she leaves with Mario, so I smile and nod, like, Go have fun! The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

We’d stayed still, just listening to the shake of a dry seed rattle, alert to danger, until the singing began. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

I slid over the stone wall and began to run crouched over toward the stone wall at the other side of the field which bordered the road. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

While she was doing so, rattling the grate bars and clattering the lids, Mrs Compson began to call her from the head of the stairs. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

He gradually began to talk, but he was mixed up about where he was and what had happened. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

Baby Hamlet now begins to fuss, and I pick him up and rock him back and forth. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

The soldiers had begun running their hands over the floor as if searching for a trapdoor. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

I stoop behind the car, and I begin to saw the tire. Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Apparently there was too much else for them to do, as wealthy visitors and foreign dignitaries began arriving in ever-greater numbers, shadowed by a swarm of pickpockets, thugs, and petty swindlers. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

“My darling daughters,” he began as if he were running for president. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

She began to treat the monstruo like a pinball—any direction it went, it was met with another hit. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

He says to start off with something small and not alive, so we begin with making an extra button on his shirt. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

Through all of it Fujiko maintained her dignity, though she’d felt herself beginning to crack while relieving herself in front of other women. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

By the next year I had a few beaux myself, and I began to play in tournaments, so I didn't see Daisy very often. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

After almost thirty minutes of pulling at his hair and chewing on the pencil, he began to compose a paragraph. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

He waited with new thirst like a hunter at a chasm where the life cycle ends, where there is an end to causes, where painless eternity begins. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z

An argument began, behind which he sensed more opposition than he had ever encountered before. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

On September 19 he hired a horse-drawn carriage and began visiting patients again. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

As they were playing they began to talk, and they realized they had many things in common and that playing Russian roulette to settle a beef between their gangs was stupid. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

As I stare out at the world, dusted in white, I feel like everything has begun again, and it will be better this time. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

Our days began before the sun came up and ended well after it retired. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

Aloe began to reach to pull her back, but Bitter stopped him. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

He began to say something, but his words broke into a rasping cough. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

Better times were a long way off, and the difficulties, it seemed, had just begun. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the beginning, the response was not positive. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

Ekman then began to layer one action unit on top of another, in order to compose the more complicated facial expressions that we generally recognize as emotions. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

I began to ask what, but he brushed me aside. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

After a pause in which she was evidently ordering her thoughts, she began:— Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

“Heavens have mercy on us!” she exclaimed as the bird began to investigate the striped stockings under her house dress. Mr. Popper's Penguins 1938-09-01T00:00:00Z

He left the room and called out to Brokk to begin pumping. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

They bounded over a bump, landing with such a jolt that the glove compartment door popped open; Helen screamed with fright, then began to cry. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

At first he begins touching my shoulder more often, and then lets his hand linger there, longer each time. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

I almost begin to believe that he is my father. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

I began teaching in New York Mosque Seven that a man’s accomplishments in his life outweighed his personal, human weaknesses. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

A picture began forming in Wash’s mind of what might have been going on in that house. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

“OUT OF MY WAY!” shouted Mrs. Weasley to the three girls, and with a swipe of her wand she began to duel. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

Joon immediately gets bored and begins to unravel the edge of the rug. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

And then to break her heart forever, the baby boy, who has begun to talk, starts to sing the Pepsi commercial he heard on T.V. The House on Mango Street 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

Protests were held throughout the country and the slogan began to appear scrawled on the sides of buildings. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Suddenly she threw her head back, rolled her tongue high up in her mouth, and began trilling wildly. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

I stepped to the lectern and began delivering the speech I had written in verse. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

I began to feel guilty for being selfish, for thinking too much of myself and tennis. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Most women think of nothing but clothes,” he said absently, and turning a corner we came to a cross-road, and the beginning of a high wall. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

“Wow, scary thought, the boy You-Know-Who,” said Ron quietly, as they took their places around one of the gnarled Snargaluff stumps that formed this term’s project, and began pulling on their protective gloves. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

His shoulder had begun to throb and smart from the goldsmith’s touch, like a sleeping devil roused to angry wakefulness, but the greatest pain was in his mind. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

It rolled away into the grass, leaving a flailing stump, which immediately stopped bleeding and began to swell like a balloon. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

I began to marvel at how smoothly the black boys acted out the roles that the white race had mapped out for them. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

In response to Clara’s imagination and the requirements of the moment, the noble, seignorial architecture began sprouting all sorts of extra little rooms, staircases, turrets, and terraces. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

That’s been put on him, for the trial, even though they gave up wearing those years ago, when the sect wars first began; cassocks made them too conspicuous. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

His arms ached, and his grip on the dog’s collar was beginning to feel clammy and wet. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

I took the application home and began filling it out at the kitchen table. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

“Let us begin, then. Let us commence. Let us undertake to establish what it is that you hope to achieve or acquire, what it is that I may provide to you for this yet-to-be-determined price.” Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Though the twins began a wrestling match, and their sister suspected the onset of a headache, somehow the rehearsal began. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

I pick up the weights and begin my squats. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

Then they stood up and began to walk quickly. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then she walked up to Brij and they began to talk, their heads close together. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

It seemed to him and his gyptian companions that the inundation had a stranger source than the weather because it had begun to cause curious illusions and to behave in unexpected ways. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

I pushed the workshop door open with my shoulder and began to fumble for the light switch when suddenly I saw something by the window that made me reel with shock. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

“You know how everyone enjoys different flavors?” he began. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

Boston looked so usual and so unconcerned, Johnny began to wonder if they all had not made mountains of molehills, imagined an expedition when none was intended. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Two ironmen began to beat Hodor with the butts of their spears. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

I hurried back to the well and began to pump. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

The ground began to slope downwards very slightly now, and although the clearings were much wider, the foliage got more tangled, in some places there were nettles and clinging ivy, as high as their knees. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

Grasping a hanging rope he began hauling himself up, claw over claw. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

I found the field cress and dandelions, and beyond, where the woods began, the poke, just out of the ground, young and edible. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

Students, so many that Richard wondered how they had congregated so quickly, began to chant. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

I began to shake and shiver, and I thought I would run someplace to get help, but then I realized there wasn’t any help. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was thinking about what could be bothering my mom when she interrupted my thoughts and slowly began to talk to me. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

“Yes, the king. Did you think you wouldn’t see him? The Crown Prince told you the competition was to start today—this meeting will mark the official beginning. The real work begins tomorrow.” Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

The light began to fade, and Dorothy called them in for more cake and lemonade, and then it was time to calm down the girls, who were cranky, say good-bye, and start back to Harlem. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

At noon the guests began to arrive by coach and horse, and the great adobe house filled with laughter and conversation. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Gradually his eyes began to see into the thick dark that lay beyond the pool of what had once been Grendel's Mother. Beowulf: A New Telling 1968-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then she sat down cross-legged between the fire and the altar and began to chant. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

Holding him tightly though his arms ached, he began to move cautiously toward the light. The Fighting Ground 1984-04-01T00:00:00Z

He sprang to his feet and began to dance. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

After twenty-five minutes, a drunk man sleeping on a bench woke up and began to sing loudly: Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

The second boy almost joyfully began to cry. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Then, stomach down on the bed, he began to draw. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z

He began to read from it, stopping at the end of each passage. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

They lined up to board the bus while the scene in my head began to go off on its own, to stop taking my directorial notes. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

With so much weight in the stem—Bull, Jasper Jr., plus the engine—the bow tilted upward and the johnboat began taking on water. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

“Good night, Mama,” Lillian’s children called as she went to her room and began removing hidden presents. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had begun to walk beside her and now they were approaching the bridge. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

As time passed, I began to perspire in that small hot room. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Then my parents and Aimee began turning the warehouse into a gym, painting all the walls and cleaning the place and bringing in top-of-the-line equipment. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Mom, Dad, Lily, and I officially moved in at the beginning of the summer, when Gram finally told us how sick she was. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

It was after midday when we began the walk back to the camp with a couple of rabbits and one patchy-furred squirrel for lunch before an afternoon march to the next bunking. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

The bear watched, his long white face lurid in the glare, and Will saw the surface of the metal begin to glow red and then yellow and then white. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

I throw my Styrofoam coffee cup in the bin with my sausage- roll wrapper and begin to walk away. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

“I know you said after Dumbledore’s funeral that you wanted to come with me,” Harry began. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

From somewhere outside, the bells of Black Protocol began to ring. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

He had begun to cough while eating, and chewing was a chore. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

I tumbled down into reality, hot-handed and self-conscious, with my face aflame, and began to stammer my apologies. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

Reverend Hunt begins to explain again, but Captain Smith finds us boys sitting idle and tells Reverend Hunt he needs us to come work in the gardens. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

“Take him away and secure him. At first light, the search will begin.” Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

Her heart had so much love, it began pouring forth. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

Mollie and others began to harbor suspicions about Anna’s ex-husband, Oda Brown, who called himself a businessman but spent most of his time carousing. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

The weather was just beginning to warm up, although the sea might still send a blast of chill through the corridors of the city. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

Are there too many but’s and and’s at the beginnings of sentences these days? Eats, Shoots & Leaves 2003-11-06T00:00:00Z

Everyone began referring to the space as the Warehouse, even the parents of the kids who trained there. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

She smiled at Sherm and began straightening the cards into a thin, tight pack. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

Meanwhile, Woods told me, the city began outstripping its water supply, a “somewhat wimpy” tributary called Canteen Creek. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

When breakfast was over, they were joined by the sisters; and Elizabeth began to like them herself, when she saw how much affection and solicitude they showed for Jane. Pride and Prejudice 1813-01-28T00:00:00Z

The barber came at once and began quickly to pour hot water, from a ketde on his pot of charcoal, into his brass basin. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

Other boys his age have begun to court girls already, asking them to go to the movies or the pizza parlor, but he cannot imagine saying, “Hi, it’s Gogol” under potentially romantic circumstances. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

He remembers that after Reverend Wells’s sermon, the congregation began a discussion on the remaining funds needed to complete various and largely unnecessary renovations to the building. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

As Thunder and Thistle began to dig, Woundwort crouched silently behind them, waiting. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Theresa had begun her internship; they had all studied up on the three branches of government, and so advanced from permanent residents to citizens. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was a pause; then the voice began again. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

Figure 1.59: If a piece begins with a pickup measure, the final measure of the piece is shortened by the length of the pickup measure. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

Vegetables became more abundant, and chunks of meat began to appear in our soups and stews. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Terrified blacks began to carry knives for self-protection. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

The crowd began to drift back to their stoops, to the drinks they had left on bars. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

Zeitoun began to explain his case, the mistakes that had brought him to prison, and asked for an immediate phone call to his wife. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

As snow blew in through cracks in the wall, Haugland tapped out a coded message: the team was intact and healthy, and would now begin scouting the target area and preparing the landing site. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

They began their search for the group of the day by looking in the usual places: Arms and Armor, the Costume Institute, and Egyptian Art. From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then I began to wonder if she was inside. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

Later on he went to Pilar Ternera with the hope that the cards would see more than the diggers, but she began by explaining that any attempt would be useless unless Úrsula cut the cards. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

The two men began to receive threatening phone calls; one of them told friends he was afraid he would be killed by the yakuza. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

And he's been pushing me from the beginning. Sunny 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

Why would a master of narrative stop his narrative dead before it has much chance to begin generating? The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

Only in the second half of the twentieth century, with the dismantling of legal barriers to opportunity, did the lines begin to blur. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

These, as they received their food, took it away into a corner, spread handkerchiefs over their striped trousers and began to eat. Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z

Even as he stared wordlessly at the place where he thought Dumbledore’s body must lie, however, he saw people beginning to move toward it. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

She laughed so hard she began to lose her balance, so she set the suitcase down and sat on it so she could laugh more safely. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

When we burst from the locker room and begin our halftime warm-up, I spot Erin staring at me with a very concerned expression on her face. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

As soon as the Bellinis went home, he hopped out of the matchbox and began to clean up. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

She pressed her swollen face against the shoulder of this man who had stood beside her through all the worst moments of her life, and she began to cry. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Because he began to talk about her age all the time, as if he didn’t want her to stay young while he grew old. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

“They help me figure things out,” began Calder. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

Just before dawn on Tuesday, April 16, after resting for two U days at Base Camp, we headed up into the Icefall to begin our second acclimatization excursion. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

The kids saw him first and began to scream even louder. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

On the pale screen the story had begun to unfold. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

A few days later he began working at the tannery, and before long Thambi, my second son, had joined him. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

He hopped a few steps in the air, skipped back to where he started, and then began again. The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z

You wore that thing all day long in the sun, you wouldn’t take it off, and those soft marshmallows began to melt on your hair. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

He drank the ale, and then more leisurely began on the pie. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

It didn’t help, though—soon the entire left wing was blazing and the plane began to fill with smoke. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

“It’s much too early to be awake. The day has barely begun, and it will be a lovely, lazy, sleepy day.” Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

Taran turned back to the cottage and began pounding on the door. The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z

I noticed more and more that Timothy always changed the subject when we began to talk about my eyes. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the beginning, Joaquin couldn’t even handle Mark being in the room with him after a nightmare. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

Once the room was moderately quiet I began to play. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

As the boys and Luma debated, Kanue took Luma’s cell phone and quietly began to scroll through her contacts list, writing down the phone numbers of his teammates and other kids whose names he recognized. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

“My father told me about Hasidism last night. He said it was a fine idea until some of the tzaddikim began to take advantage of their followers. He wasn’t very complimentary.” The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

Had old Fu Manchu known from the beginning that I was wearing, among other misleading attachments and effects, a nineteen-year-old boy’s moustache? Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

In the spring of 1933, as Hermann Muller began his work at the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute in Berlin, he watched Nazi “applied biology” swing into action. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

Of course, the geographical discoveries themselves were only the beginning. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

It’s just as legitimate to add ize to the end of a word as it is to add un or pre to the beginning. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was a series of clicks, and the tiles began folding up on themselves and retracting into the floor, opening up like an origami trapdoor. Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

But little things began to prickle his interest. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The South African government was under growing international pressure, as nations all across the globe began to impose economic sanctions on Pretoria. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

To begin with, the house was covered in peaks of hard green frosting. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

But no sooner had the preacher arrived than I began to resent him, for I learned at once that he, like my father, was used to having his own way. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was after the picnic that the town began to notice things and got mad. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

As hostility between the United States and the Soviet Union increased, it began to feel like a probability. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

“You could’ve told me the truth from the beginning and still counted on me.” Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

“I was so tired and confused, I actually began to wonder whether you knew where you were going. I could hear you in the heather, saying ‘Not far now’ and it was annoying me. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

I saw Father stand up, and I began running back across the road to the field. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Within minutes, the Armada had begun to split, with only the Prince’s giant ship sailing alone closest to the coastline, looking for a landing possibility. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

Some talk show begins and Dad snores through it all, right next to me. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I was beginning to feel like a traitor,” I said. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

Others had begun to gather, drawn, as most are, to the scent of conflict. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

In a few moments passengers began to wrap their minds around what the scythe had said. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

After I dusted, I cleaned the bathroom and began vacuuming. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

Babies take two months to reach maturity, and from then on they produce another pair of rabbits at the beginning of every month. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

In the back of the hall, petitioners began to slip away. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The mile-and-a-half-long parade was scheduled to begin at 3 p.m. and end at 5 p.m. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

Where Ophie and her mother huddled, the air was still clear and sweet, even as the acrid scent of burning wood began to taint it. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

They broke into song and began dancing as a group, to the surprise of their hosts. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

It began to dry the island, and toward noon, I heard the first cry of a bird. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Walk along the muddy shore until the ground begins to slope up and get firmer and drier beneath our feet. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z

The Daily’s next headline told the tale, or at least the beginning of it: “Sweepsters Turn Out with Icicles on Their Oars.” The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

But in the winter of her eighth year, to Marie-Laure’s surprise, she begins to get it right. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Celia understands now that a cycle between them had ended, and a new one had not yet begun. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Boots, who took one look over Gregor’s shoulder and began wailing at the top of her lungs. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

That year, and every year, it seemed, we began by studying the Revolutionary War. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

We looked at a few more plants before the silence just began to eat at me. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

I kept one eye on the bay, the other on the man’s face as he slowly began to collect himself and eventually said, “I’m Sloan. The gamekeeper.” Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

Multiply these daily frustrations by a few billion, and you begin to see that the curse of knowledge is a pervasive drag on the strivings of humanity, on a par with corruption, disease, and entropy. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

They began chatting about the alarming number of jockeys who had been wiped out by injuries, including Pollard. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Strong Belwas bellowed, “Locusts T as he seized the bowl and began to crunch them by the handful. “Those are very tasty,” advised Hizdahr. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

We sat talking on the wrecked ship until the moon got low and the water lapped at our throats and Emma began to shiver. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

I began my walk through the snow, five kilometers to the tree line. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

I press on it, even though it hurts, I press on it so hard a small bruise begins to form. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

The little girl with the dolly began to cry. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

But unlike Galton, Muller began to realize that positive eugenics was achievable only in a society that had already achieved radical equality. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

Unable to see his eyes, I began to drift. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

He even teased Old Tallow, but he loved giving her little gifts, too, and in the evenings he told stories until way after the owls began to call. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

They began to use razors to slice out whole paragraphs. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

They whimpered in the cold, and began to wake up. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

Soon afterward he began jotting notes and sketching features for a building he planned to erect on the lot. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

As he entered the village, the goldfish man again began to doubt if he was in the right place. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

As the birds began to sing I stopped and set down my bag. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

The child’s mother began to wail, but her husband slapped his hand across her mouth, whispering, “Hush, hush, hush.” The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

As it jumped from bed to bed, killing patients left and right, doctors began to notice signs of mental derangement, psychosis, depersonalization, zombie-like behavior. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

They knelt together, the three of them, and the abbot began to whisper. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

Then it began to shake, wobbling back and forth until it toppled onto its side. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

Instead, her subject's skin warms and their spine begins to protrude from their back, as if it might actually push through their skin. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

“That,” said Donovan, bitterly, “is news to me. I was just beginning to have a very swell time, when you told me.” I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

Then, without warning, he began to punch and kick King until he was pulled away, wrestled across the hotel lobby’s red carpet and dragged to a patrol car. Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

“What’s wrong with you, Valerian? If she dies, your little prank is over before it begins.” The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

He fished out a wad of paper that contained more black ash, which he began mixing with the other potion. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z

What if, from the beginning, she had soothed the fears of Weep instead of stoking them? Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

He began to say that he hoped he felt well enough to join the others, but Holly soon interrupted him with questions. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

But then the white haze over my vision begins to clear. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

Natural history thus slowly detached itself from the wider world of learning and began to form an enclave on its own. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Percy began to realize that every battle he’d ever won had only been a temporary victory. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Something dark and evil had happened here, she knew, something that she could not begin to understand. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

I had begun correspondence studies for my LL.B., a bachelor of laws degree allowing one to practice as an advocate. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The warmth from the stone was beginning to fade; his Levi jacket was thin, and he could feel the cold leaking through worn places at the elbows and under the arms. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

Their blood began to fill the room, its tide quickly rising. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

I began to sleep in the tree every night. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

Back in Chantal’s room, I light a tea candle and begin my prayers for my mother. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

It was beginning to get dark.I was convinced she was playing the same game with me that I was playing with her, but I wasn’t going to fall for it. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

So, I go all the way back to the beginning, back to August, and I read through everything. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

She dropped her bag on a folding table, and one of the cops immediately began to search through it. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

“We came about our cycles,” I began, searching the wall for the telltale little rod. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The thought of it terrified the giant, who began to shake like an enormous pudding. The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z

Much of the rest of it began to come to me in bursts of understanding, as if Patrice Lumumba were speaking in tongues and my ears had been blessed by the same stroke of grace. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

He did seem aware, though, if only just, that the heat of the water was beginning to have a dehydrating effect on him. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z

When I was barely able to touch the floor with my toes, Weylin ripped my clothes off and began to beat me. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

Then people began abandoning farming communities in California’s Central Valley, when it became the Pacific Dust Bowl, overcrowding the already overcrowded cities, like the big cats abandoning the dry hills. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

I began answering questions and listening to comments and testimonials about Walter, the town, race, the police, the trial, and the way the whole family was now being treated by people in the community. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

I began to think of them down at the church, going through that door and down the flight of stairs to the crypt. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

Quickly he began to play this drum, which made the strange animal stop looking for people to eat and begin to dance. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

Jen’s dad released him, flipped the paper over, and began writing furiously. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z

Monday, October 9,1933, began as a gray day in Seattle. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Gareth got up and began to go away into the heather. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

I feel as if it is the beginning of the end. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

Since staying at home meant hunger and chores, I began attaching myself to gangs of five-, six- and seven-year-old neighbourhood boys who daily roamed the filthy streets of Alexandra in search of food and adventure. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

But as the weeks had passed, I’d begun to have reservations. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Roy watched in wonderment as more and more kids slipped out of the crowd and began joining hands, forming a human barricade around Beatrice’s self-buried stepbrother. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was beginning to feel cold, and slow, as if he had been bitten in the heart by some arctic viper and it was starting to pump its icy venom through his body. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

A whistling had begun to sound in his ears, growing louder by the second. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

Edwin began leaning into Cole as they walked forward. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

As they stood together, she began to hear the steady rhythm of his heartbeat, and her breathing slowed to match his, until she felt as though they were nearly one being. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Why did she have to be so neurotic and perfectionistic that she was online the minute registration opened for students with last names beginning with A through C? A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

She became alert and businesslike, put her clothes on, knotted the scarlet sash about her waist, and began arranging the details of the journey home. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

I went to my room and began to pack. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

She began to jump up and down like a happy frog. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

She begins to walk, holding her sides as if she has a stitch in them, and I slow too. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

I shouted, and began to stagger as if I was wounded in action. Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Yes, Jo, I think your harvest will be a good one,” began Mrs. March, frightening away a big black cricket that was staring Teddy out of countenance. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the beginning, she’d been a bit of baggage from Estella’s first marriage, a shadow at the edges of his happiness. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

The service had already begun; fights spilled outward into the streets, music filled the air, and passers-by paused to listen and to peek in through the half-open doors. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

What had begun as a nearly indiscernible trail near the barn had broadened into a well-trodden path. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

All this is presently experimental but in the few years since work began on chemo- sterilants the project has grown enormously. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

An emerging technical civilization, after exploring its home planetary system and developing interstellar spaceflight, would slowly and tentatively begin exploring the nearby stars. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

And now the softer roar of musketry began opening up behind him; the popping wave of an infantry volley came down from above, from the other side of the hill. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

His mother’s days begin with the ritual of a Beny More song called “Rebel Heart.” Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ear folded his ears as a small boy began to throw a temper tantrum by the candy machine. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

Time was so short, the Executive Committee began planning exhibits and appointing world’s fair commissioners to secure them. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

A few people hurried away from the square, but most stayed and began to gather. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

Then he soared up into the cold air and glided out over the valley as Will began to search for a world where Lyra would be safe. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

As the era of cheap, abundant energy drew to a close, poverty and unrest began to spread like a virus. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

Whoever told Booth about the president’s plan to attend the play that night had unknowingly activated in his mind an imaginary clock that began ticking down, minute by minute. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

But after that money came, and my mother had paid out a lot of it for the funeral and expenses, she began going into town and returning very upset. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I was up early that day,” she always began, “because that naughty goat escaped again. I’d just reached the top of the hill when everything started to shake.” I Survived the Great Molasses Flood, 1919 2019-09-03T00:00:00Z

Chiron galloped over with his medical pouch and began working on the pegasus. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

The ship anchors, the longboat is lowered, and the first few passengers began to climb down the rope ladder. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

The men walked together to a spot beyond the second big tree and began clearing the land. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Into Lina’s mind floated the beginning of the worst question: What if the lights never . The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Eight or nine men dressed as hunters, armed with swords, staves, and spears, emerged from the side gates and began prowling through the greenery, as if searching for game. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

‘The practise of transcription in our dayes was no monster in theirs: Plagiarie had not its nativitie with printing,’ he concluded, ‘but began in times when thefts were difficult’ because books were in short supply. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Everyone, Jewish or not, began to worry about food shortages. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

Lent had just begun, and I was always in a state during those forty days of the passion of Christ. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Apa shifts in his seat and begins to mutter, This is going to take all day. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

Then the man in the straw hat began to laugh. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

When David finally knew that the tanker had not seen him—that the tanker had almost hit him and still nobody had seen him, nobody had seen his light—he began to hate. The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

At last she was beginning to give up hope. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Early human beings emerged from caves to become herdsmen and farmers, and, with a now secure food supply, they began crafting the first monumental “sculpture.” The Annotated Mona Lisa 1992-06-01T00:00:00Z

I couldn't begin to understand the injustice of it all. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

With the tribe’s approval, Florer and a wealthy banking partner obtained a lease to begin drilling on the reservation. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

His father, King Erechtheus of Athens, was usually said to be the king in whose reign Demeter came to Eleusis and agriculture began. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

Presently a new Middle group splits off from one of the other groups, or from both of them, and the struggle begins over again. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

He drew detailed pictures of all its parts, then he cleaned them and patiently began to put it all back together. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

They sat down in the pews, before Mr. Jacobs began to talk. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

They notified headquarters, and a wider search was begun. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then she began shouting, “Kill him, Ben. Keep your hands up.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Finally, they were too tired, and the sisters carried the little boys on their backs until the evening sun began to set and the girls were near collapse. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

Instead, at the beginning of the year, each student received a paper lunch bag to decorate with crayons and stickers and stamps. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

I know, because I see his eyes go wide with shock and his face begin to contort in utter, stomach-wrenching disgust—and then the flames leap to life all over his body. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

So they began picking out girls to treestump to and from school. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

It is the sort of day that seems to end minutes after it begins, defeating Ashima’s intentions to spend it fruitfully, the inevitability of nightfall distracting her. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

The place where she was to begin was no longer marked by a folded corner. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

Despite the bitter cold, I began to sweat. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

Fall was just beginning and the garden was changing from green to brown. Seedfolks 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I didn’t fling—” I began, then thought better of it. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

“Ye—” Olive began, but her sister interrupted firmly. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

She stared back, fascinated—she had never seen eyes of such deep blue—and just as she began to wonder why he was so interested in her, he turned away and moved on to Taisin. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Maybe I was the first jumper, but I suspect that’s where my Dauntless fame begins and ends. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

I did; whereupon began a heaving, stamping, clattering process, accompanied by a barking and baying which removed me effectually some yards’ distance; but I would not be driven quite away till I saw the event. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

The Gran gestured for the Spares to come forward, and as they stood there lined up, she made a giant X over their heads, magic to seal the contract until the impossible task began. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

At the Meeting on the following Sunday the question of whether or not to begin work on the windmill was to be put to the vote. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z

But then everything came unstuck and Emma wrenched her arms away and Golan began to totter backward, and he stumbled and sat heavily on the rail. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

“The competition actually begins tomorrow. And even if you’re as fantastic as you claim to be, you’re going to need every moment of sleep you can get.” Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

While Miranda was told the proper way to apply it, in swift upward strokes beginning at the base of her throat, he spun the lipstick carousel. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

Then Alex began talking about the rivalry between the Ministry of Health and the Ministry of Justice. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

As he stood there, mindlessly watching her, tulips began to grow out of the holes she had dug. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

As I settled down in my seat and began to unwrap the sandwich Grandma had made for me, I noticed a group of boys moving in close to me, much closer than usual. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Everywhere the crusted snow began to shine like Christmas cotton. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

Immediately the deep pain of separation began, and he heard a stifled moan from the canoe behind him. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

Up to the cliff top, right where the road begins. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

But as the days go by, my old life is beginning to look exceedingly strange. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

El Perico immediately threw a tantrum and began shrieking, louder than ever. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

The sound of chattering teenagers began to echo up and down the corridor. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

Ramon sat up suddenly in the bed, where he had lain ill for days, and felt the fever begin to seep from him. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

I bent to push him another box full, then straightened quickly as I began to feel dizzy, nauseated. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

I shut down the emulator and began to browse through my video files. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

Lately, I have begun to wonder how the famEy wiE gather even three times a year when she is not there with her phone to unite us. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even rooms like the living room and kitchen, which nobody but she went into, began to look as though they had been bombed. The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z

We began the lesson with my tortured scales, but he interrupted to put his arm around me, to demonstrate, he said, the proper position of my wrist. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

Perhaps, having begun this more modest, contemplative life, she considered destroying the messy pile of sketches. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

His chin begins to descend to his chest, one, two, three times. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

Gerard Manley Hopkins’s “Pied Beauty,” which begins, “Glory be to God for dappled things.” Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Fear spiked through her body as, one by one, she saw figures begin to emerge from the jungle’s darkness, all wearing a familiar shade of blue, a shade she recognized. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

The rumours began to be of Lancelot’s death. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

How did the fact of war begin in general? The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

When everyone was back at the table, Mrs. Richardson began the delicate work of turning the conversation by degrees. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

The nightmares he began to have....But he learned to find answers for himself. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

He pushed it against the mountainside and began to twist. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

As the parade music began, I hardly talked and no one seemed to notice. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

I paced up and back in front of the cafeteria until the policeman began to eye me suspiciously. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

Up ahead where the land began to drop there was a junction with a back road and some kind of commotion was taking place. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

“In the orphanages? The hospitals? They're such sad places. But maybe I don't need to begin there—the Hartliebs have probably done that already.” The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

They floated awhile, then they began to grow, tiny gulls becoming boats again, a white armada cruising toward us. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

For a while I just drove, not aiming at anything, then in the late morning I began looking for a place to lie low for a day or two. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

And if you began this story with the day they set sail for the wild blue west, you’d be inclined to agree. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

It was a cool, fresh light, fitted for beginnings. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

In addition, things were seriously beginning to fall apart at home. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

Tears begin to come, but I swallow them because I know I’ll be found soon. Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

He finally began saying he was greater than Allah. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

At about this time his cousin began to tire easily and to run a temperature. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

He and his ink laugh long and loud—then there’s silence...and then he begins pounding on the barrel of the cannon with an iron pole. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

And as he worked, James began thinking about all the other children in the world and what they might be doing at this moment. James and the Giant Peach 1961-11-01T00:00:00Z

“The party’s just begun. We haven’t even filled the bathtub with anything from the kitchen yet.” Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

They had decided to skip a scheduled four-hour nap and instead began exploring right away. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

At Wal-Mart, I get better at what I do, much better than I could ever have imagined at the beginning. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

A crack was beginning to form down the middle. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You look at the Pepsi Challenge, and you have to begin asking about taste.” Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

I wanted to pull the thread, unravel the scarf of my silence and start again from the beginning, but instead I said, “I.” Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

As he stepped ashore, suddenly the soldiers about the ferry slip began to cheer. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

The doctor says a lot of things could have gone wrong, beginning with the surgery. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

Intermixed with its notes, conversation and laughter begin again. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

It was hard to think of him as a person; the belief that he could talk and think began to slip away. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

Our day began with a breakfast by the “Dream Team Moms.” The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

We pull up to Greendale Middle School, which is no longer intimidating like the beginning of last year, when I worried about getting lost in the halls or forgetting my locker combination. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

I agree since it’s been three days since I’ve showered and I’m beginning to smell. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

After three years there, feeling he was going nowhere, he took a post at McGill University in Montreal, and there he began his long and steady rise to greatness. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

The beginning of the next day was spent in a brief, awkward courtship. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

The midsummer sky was already beginning to lighten in the east, and that was the way that Bod began to walk: down the hill, towards the living people, and the city, and the dawn. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

The flies began to torment them, and the air was full of clouds of tiny midges that crept up their sleeves and breeches and into their hair. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

As Ash began unwinding the ribbons from Ana’s hair, Ana asked, “Did you go with the servants tonight, Aisling? Mother said they normally have a bonfire in the City Square.” Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

She began to roll the flame between her hands like a toy. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

That was the time when they began to break me.” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Each shook hands solemnly with one of the Twins, who were so astonished that they began to cry. Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z

I skip in front of her and begin a slow U-turn. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

But after a year excitement begins to sour. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

I was so deeply in the music that I couldn’t have told you where it stopped and my blood began. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

They began moving their heads from side to side in jerks. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

These efforts certainly had a calming effect on the populace, and the worst of the panic began to ease. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

He said amen, and blessed them, and turned away, and immediately the congregation began to sing. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

The relentless beating heat was beginning to confuse me and I had a bad moment there before I realized that so far his suspicions hadn't alighted on Tom. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

He hadn’t noticed much of a change, but everyone agreed that he had begun to smile more. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

And then Henry would begin to say 'Thank God. Absalom, Absalom! 1936-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her body began to spasm and quiver uncontrollably, until she required a cane and then a wheelchair. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

“Ah,” she said, “there is too much to say. You do not know where to begin.” Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures 2013-09-24T00:00:00Z

Cole strained at the cuffs even though he had agreed to wear them until he was freed on the island to begin his banish- ment. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

Crouched in the luggage rack under his Cloak, Harry’s heart began to race. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

She drew a few thoughtful puffs, sending up wreaths of blue smoke, then began. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Hawkins began wiping Mama’s brow with cold compresses. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

“Are you sure that you’re feeling—” he began, but she surged forward and kissed him. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

That meant that, if I did not obey him, the name-calling would begin again. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

He’d been a young man in the 1940s when he first joined the African National Congress and began boldly challenging the all-white South African government and its entrenched racist policies. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Memories of previous encounters with the police began haunting me. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

She felt that he was taking huge risks to help the United States and that the stress of his secret life was beginning to show. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

She began to lie awake listening for the awful sound, until finally, she knew she must send the child away— anywhere, just so she was not breathing this poison air. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

Yo followed John into their bedroom, where he began to undress. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

Another: “When I get to this point, I begin to sing hallelujah.” Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

At the beginning of December 1939, the Nazis decreed Jews could no longer attend school. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

The next moment, there was a screaming of brakes, and the elevator began to slow down. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 1964-09-12T00:00:00Z

The cellos made the hills glow red, and the leaves and grass were tipped with a soft pale green as the violins began their song. The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z

She still believed the third clue was telling them to add something up—that the sum would lead to Parkers inheritance—but the idea was beginning to seem more and more unrealistic. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

He began to allude to what was happening, to that idea that something had happened. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

“Tell me from the beginning. What old man? What happened?” The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

He emptied another twelve- pack of soda and three more Happy Meals into the grave, then began chanting in Ancient Greek. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

She was talking aloud to herself when Yossarian entered and began moaning as soon as she saw him. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

The gods began to drag the net upstream, toward the place where the huge silver salmon was biding its time. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

About two decades later various other organic phosphates came into use as insecticides, as we have seen, and soon cases reminiscent of the ginger paralysis episode began to occur. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

The newspapers reported that the president was beginning his vacation the next morning, July 2. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

The moment she sits down, Mrs. van D. begins stating her wishes. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

But she and I are just at the beginning, and I just don’t want to have to deal with him right now. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

His face began to swell with fury and his cheeks blew out until they looked like two huge ripe tomatoes. The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the silence between us, he began to hear the world crying.” The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

“The dining halls can absolutely accommodate students with food allergies,” she begins. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

What were the “boundary conditions” at the beginning of time? A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

I turned away, and began combing my hair again before the looking-glass. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

She was frowning and wiping her hands on her apron, but by the time she and Wash made it to the edge of the garden, Beto thought he saw the beginning of a smile. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

He began to cut the celery on an old chopping board. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

There’s a rumbling sound that is low at first but begins to build in volume. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

The women of the village began to shout, and the men began to arm themselves. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

On the drive home, try as they might, her daughters could not engage their mother in conversation, for inspired by what she had just seen, Laura had begun inventing. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

She began to understand that her life might seem revolting to some educated people. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

I dug up all the confidence I had, placed my basketball on the ground, and began to walk toward them. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

Her heart began knocking at her chest like a fist at a door. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

“Good. Being a little bit thirsty will remind us why we need to ration,” he rebuts, his anger beginning to fill to the brim. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

“Rookwood?” said Mr. Crouch, nodding to a witch sitting in front of him, who began scribbling upon her piece of parchment. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

I ran to my room, got a battered suitcase, and began packing my ragged clothes. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The composition of the human species is infinitely more diverse than most humans suspect,” she began. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

The rabbi would begin the service in a strong, vibrant voice that soon blended in with the voices of the congregation. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

We began to develop a taste for the American teenage good life, and soon, Island was old hat, man. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

To see better, she began to unload a few things and place them on the tablecloth, just to the left of her untasted sandwich. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z

But the movement reacted quickly, and by the time my case began on Monday morning, the Old Synagogue was packed with supporters. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The sun begins to set, and the sky glows orange, pink, and blue. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

The Easter holidays came and went, and the Summer Term began at school. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z

Time had begun to dissolve into itself, as shapeless as the rain. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

Chamberlain sat for a while silently and then took out a copy of Harper’s Weekly he’d carried up with him and began to look through it. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

He walked over to where the guard had pointed and began the climb. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

His soldiers would attack just before dawn, but he ordered the artillery fire to begin immediately. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

I didn’t feel anything except that he was beginning to annoy me. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z

The few doubts being heard stemmed from rumors that the Nobel committee might suspend the prizes for the duration of the European war, which had begun with Germany’s invasion of Poland on September 1. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

As soon as we heard the music, we quieted down and began the procession. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

The one I’ve been trying to fend off since the beginning of the war. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

Then he sat before me, making a cage of his fingers and nodding for me to begin. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

He sat down on a chest in the hall and he and I began braiding up his queue. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

The frame began to expand on its own. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Soon I heard her quiet, even breathing, but I still couldn’t sleep, not until the sky began to lighten and I heard Pretty Boy stir under his cover. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

There being no immedi­ate threat, my breath slowed down, my heart stopped knocking about in my chest, and I began to regain my senses. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

He was also beginning to regret that he was going to have to sell the brooch, when he was done. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

As she followed the usher up the narrow stairs to the left boxes, Citra began to get scared. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

How often among the tykes fistfights and battles had begun from You said, I said, He said that you said, and the infinite variations. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The children began to twitter and I flushed hotly. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

I began my recitation with the high spots—Thimphu, the capital; Mongar, a town in the east— and finished the cities before naming the monasteries. Confessions of a Murder Suspect 2012-09-24T00:00:00Z

It took a long time for us to even become friends, to stop haggling over every trade and begin helping each other out. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

Our day at Hailsham always began with an assembly, which was usually pretty brief—a few announcements, maybe a poem read out by a student. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mexican crops finally began to reach the eastern United States by trade routes after A.D. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Heavy raindrops begin to pound on my head like drums, and when I look up, Bad Leg is gone. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

He described himself as the Devil and contended that his physical shape had begun to alter. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

“Lobby,” I said hoarsely, and the elevator began to descend. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

We began by driving through narrow, twisting lanes. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Getting toothpaste back into the tube doesn’t even begin to describe it. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

From the beginning, I felt it, snug inside my heart, the pearl of great price. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

As soon as Diego stopped speaking, Mom began to eat again. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

For example, Russia, once a small Slavic state centered on Moscow, did not even begin its expansion beyond the Ural Mountains until A.D. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

So his parents took him out of public school and, at the beginning of seventh grade, sent him to Lakeside, a private school that catered to Seattle’s elite families. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

Two other men flung an old man to the ground and began to punch him with their fists. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

Our little pile of things grew, and we began arguing over what was necessary. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I began to feel like things might be all right, that I might be able to handle it. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

As the cinder town began to deepen, cooling to mere scarlet, Ralph began to discern the familiar road again — to reassure himself that they were indeed on an ordinary highway with other cars. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

He began to cry; then he screamed as loud as he could. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

One or another of the worshippers would stand and begin the singing: A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Well,” Lucas began, “a couple of guys said they saw the Lazarus yesterday. Said it swooped down in front of their truck, right behind a diesel, over on Highway Nineteen. That absurd enough for you?” Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

But now I’d reached an age where certain childhood mysteries begin to make sense. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

We’ve covered about three more blocks via an overflow pipe and a section of neglected train track when the screams begin. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

Removing his boots, he began to inspect his great slabs of feet. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

But they work nearer and things begin to look bad. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

My textbooks began to make sense, and I found myself doing more than the required reading. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Gurgi, meantime, had returned with a huge armload of straw from the chicken roost, and the companions gratefully began heaping it on the clay floor. The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z

She swiped her fingers over an unwrapped slab of butter and began greasing the loaf pans Malachite was going to bake in. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

I quickened my steps: my stomach began heaving at the thought of food. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Memories play over and over, until I can’t tell whether or not they’ve started again from the beginning, and gradually, I drift off into sleep, surrounded by ghosts. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Without thinking where she was going, she began to walk: down the sidewalk and around the corner and out to the main road, paths she’d driven often but seldom walked before. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Boots lay down, but, feeling excited, he stood up again and began to prowl, round and round in his narrow prison. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

He was in a hurry to be off, to begin his long journey, but he had a feeling there was something that Leader wanted to tell him, something still unsaid. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

The cow tossed its head and began munching from the hayloft. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

When he hiked past Lowell Park, saw the men playing chess at the park benches, saw the complicated graffiti on the side of one of the apartment buildings, he began to relax. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

They still followed the hills along the Ystrad valley, but at midday the dwarf turned west and once more began to descend toward the plains. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z

When Titi left the others began to leave, too. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

No matter how many times he signed one, it always came back for still another signature, and he began to despair of ever being free of any of them. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

There were rules, many rules, about what you could and could not do, as Mia and Pearl began to learn as they settled into their new home. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“I don’t know,” said Ramona, and began to scratch herself again. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

In addition, her sister Tennessee began a romantic relationship with the wealthy widower. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

Emma tapped the sentence that began Tell them..., and Chess went silent. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

The cleric begins with a prayer in Urdu, translating everything into English for the many non-Urdu speakers. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

Merry and Pippin began a song, which they had apparently got ready for the occasion. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

Every meal began and ended with an offering to her. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

He hooked his bad leg in the rigging, ignoring the pain, checked the sight on his rifle, and began picking off anyone in range. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

It came in the form of a string of distressed-looking men who began appearing at his door. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was at about this time, too, I remember, that I began to be sick. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

The trees had begun to grow more dense, and the ground rose toward the comb of a hill. The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z

As I go over Keenan's instructions again in my head, the wagon begins to climb, moving achingly slow. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

At 3 p.m., the roll call vote began on the question of entering the war. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

I left the station on, and before long a preacher began a sermon. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

He was agitated by the noise and began swaying left and right. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

Before I could get too panicky, though, I began to glimpse some open spaces through the webbed branches. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

John Rolfe, a new colonist, began growing tobacco in James Town. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

If the universe is destined to go on expanding forever, the temperature of the microwave radiation will eventually decrease to less than that of such a black hole, which will then begin to lose mass. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

It sounded like the beginning of a pirate adventure he and Blink would have loved. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

She began to laugh, muffling it against Hannah’s back, a sound so close to sobbing that Hannah could not tell the difference. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then she began to pray aloud and Ben, her son, had an image of her prayers floating light as pollen into the ear of God. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

"I couldn't begin to tell you how crowded it was. It was more sardines in a can than you could shake sticks at." How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

The saloons began offering more and more services to their customers. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

“Galahad,” said Elaine, and she leaned over the wrappings, making the foolish gestures and meaningless sounds which mothers delight to use when their babies ate beginning to pay attention. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

He gave me a thumbs-up, and I began to move slowly until the rhythm took over. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

At first he thought that it was the trial that had begun, and he was prepared to sink back into his dream of nothingness. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

And that is precisely where Marc’s family story begins—with Nina’s grandfather, the serf who bought his freedom from figuring out how to color beet sugar. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

In the beginning, only he carried a rod and Joe tagged along, observing and learning. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

I began the slow, controlled fall back down. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

Jack began to clean his bloody hands on the rock. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

Most of those people lived in shoreline communities, where rising numbers were beginning to change agriculture from an option to a necessity. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

She said it was because the light troubled her eyes, and gradually began to believe the light did trouble her eyes. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Then the scythe said something that began a chain reaction in Citra’s mind that changed everything. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

The asthma was under control, but the doctor alerted me to something else—Malia’s body mass index, a measure of health that factors together height, weight, and age, was beginning to creep up. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

As soon as she was on the road she began to run. Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z

I turn around and find the redheaded Avox girl who tended to me last year until the Games began. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

Throughout Europe, Hitler was beginning his murderous holocaust of Jewish people and other ethnic groups—he wanted to wipe out the entire population of Poland to clear the land for German citizens. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

But for Laura and Mary and Ma, Butchering Time had only begun. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

Keenan doubted me from the beginning, and I am about to prove him right. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

Brief prayers were muttered for Martin’s soul, and then people began trading theories. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

In the beginning of his reign he attacked Granada, and that enterprise was the basis of his state. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z

After the ceremony was over, and the celebration began, there was no chance to see Hari. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

Deep in its tiny brain a coal of evil began to glow. Beowulf: A New Telling 1968-01-01T00:00:00Z

Their fears began to circle the abandoned car, then to pile into it, tense new passengers with theories in their laps. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Once more into the breach,” she said, and began to climb down. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

Only slowly, very slowly, did I begin to understand what he was saying. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

He thought about his people without sentimentality, with a strict closing of his accounts with life, beginning to understand how much he really loved the people he hated most. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

And after talking with her for so long that night, I assumed it was just the beginning. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

“He was already beginning to smell when they brought him here.” One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

Tomorrow he would begin building a shelter under the watchful eyes of Edwin and Garvey. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

It was not because this was where your life began. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

His hands, by themselves, like two men working together, began to rip the pages from the book. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z

In a moment, Sasha will wake inside a ball of flame and begin to scream. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

A door closed on the other side of the room and soon the machine that takes the pictures began to buzz, then slowly it passed over me. Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had begun to pack her things away. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

However, when the stonecutter began to carve, the head that formed was not a dragon's. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

The hairs on her arms stood at attention, and the small of her back began to sweat. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

Nailer began to imagine himself stuck like a cork in a bottle. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

I struck the beginning chord of Savien’s verse and I heard a piercing sound that pulled me out of the music like a fish dragged from deep water. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

One of her siblings climbed into her lap, and she began to rock him automatically. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

They were nearing the lines now; men began rising out of the ground, ragged apparitions. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Yuni’s lips tightened and she began to walk faster, dragging Doha along. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

The new millennium began with a whimper, not a bang. minuscule. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

As I was sitting and waiting for the next part of the ceremony to begin I closed my eyes and I was back on Bougainville. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

The newly formed US government began to move more aggressively to claim Indigenous lands and destroy Native nations. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

In two more they would begin to get weak. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

The headache’s coming on and my thoughts begin to tangle. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

The shooting would begin at seven and continue all day. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

The second bell rang for the beginning of the next period; by that time students were expected to be settled into their seats. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The leaves had begun to change color, turning the ride through West Newton into a portrait of gold and rust. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

When he was done, he would close his eyes and begin to snore softly and Dany would lie beside him, her body bruised and sore, hurting too much for sleep. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Construction began on the milking barn in Oneida. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

By mid-1780 the Cherokee resistance regained momentum when they began raiding squatters’ settlements within Cherokee territory. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

Lancelot’s eye caught fire, and he began to watch the other man attentively. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

When Dae Hyun was thirteen and still living in South Korea, his father began grooming him to take over the family’s meager crab fishing business. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

The air conditioner began to whine in protest. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

She grabbed the dough and began kneading it. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

After a time, the substance began to glow. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

“I have to go for prayers. If you need anything, ask your cousins,” he said, taking a kettle from the stoop and beginning to perform ablution. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

He kept his eyes on his plate and began to eat. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

And once they begin talking, they fill in each other’s sentences. Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

I struggled into the muddy water and began to kick toward the far side. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The world begins at the bottom of the stairs. Now I am free to discover life as I please.” Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

He was beginning to think that Pollard was right about the horse’s chances in the Santa Anita Handicap. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

After a while, when no one had heard anything from those first twenty-nine Navajos, people began making jokes about what must have happened to them. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Forgetting their fatigue and frustration, Ma and Ba began to run through the woods. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

The others all began to laugh then, even Call, who knew the joke was at his expense. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

I sigh big and feel my body swell with hope about this new beginning. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

The speech is so long and so unexciting that people in the audience begin shifting their feet and then lowering their heads and slipping away into the night, off to search for a real celebration. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

Roent began to argue with a clean-shaven man in a velvet hat before he had brought his wagon to a full stop. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

That was the child, who began to wail, clutching at his mother’s ragged cloak. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

She began to fasten the many locks and bolts, but Tendai had no eyes for this. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

"Sleep. I am much better rested since you began to visit us, my lord. And Marei is teaching us to read, perhaps soon I will be able to pass the time with a book." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

As I sat in this unmade room, Lonesome Harry began to take shape and dimension. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

They reached the track above the combe and began to make their way along it with some caution, since the sunset was in their eyes. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

At 9:15 a.m., the voice of NBC’s commentator, Bill Slater, began to crackle over KOMO’s airwaves in Seattle, relayed from Berlin. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

He immediately begins playing air guitar and singing a song that I don’t know. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

Slowly, the top hat, the tuxedo, the cane, and the man begin to disappear right before our eyes. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

"Thank you, sir," I said, beginning to enjoy the interview. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

With a slight splash, Matthew began scooping quartered slices of peaches into his mouth with such a zealous sucking and slurping that even his father paused to witness the divertissement. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

I roll the brown page into her typewriter, click the carriage over and begin hunting down letters with one finger. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now the Soviets began to prepare to take back the eastern region of Belorussia from German occupation. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

People began to form up in queues to say good-bye. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

An hour later, her stomach began to cramp so badly that she could not go on. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Sticky did so, and at once the light in the woods began flashing a response. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

“The rats have begun to battle one another for their throne.” Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

People, especially elderly ones, had died, particularly later on at the top of the hill when the torment began in earnest. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

“I like to think that my story has three parts,” I began. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

Dealers began to underprice one another; profits vanished. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

Nathan cleared his throat and began to sing the water monster lullaby. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

As we were walking toward Dante’s house, it began to rain. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

So he found a copy of Euclid’s Elements of Geometry, and began to read. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Each of these four phrases begins with one or two pickup notes. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

She pulled back her lips, showing off enormous canines, and began to roar. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

Beyond a crossroads in that wilderness they began to come upon the possessions of travelers abandoned in the road years ago. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

Several species of mites, for example, can begin life only within the fallen needles of a spruce tree. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

The decks began to buckle, and thick beams snapped like twigs. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

It took place in the spring when the vine begins to put forth its branches, and it lasted for five days. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then he crouches down behind it, motions for Tess and me to sit down, and begins unbuttoning his vest. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

He began snoring even as we tugged at him. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Judge de Wet looked to him to reply to Bram’s argument, and instead of offering particulars he began to give what the judge derided as “a political speech.” Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her hand is also a refusal, her only way of getting back at a husband who has begun to disappear on her. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Things began to come together, and I went from speaking like an evil baby to speaking like a hillbilly. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

People begin rioting against white-owned businesses, and I’m in the middle of it. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now that we were on shore, I again began to think about what had happened to my mother. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

The two warders then began a thorough search of my cell to see if they could turn up anything else. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

And our belts, newly laden with batons, had begun to spring key clips and latex-glove holders, though no one had told us to put them on yet. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was awakened when he bolted into a sitting position beside me and began to moan. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

How my rescue was arranged from the beginning? Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

“Pride in my work. Pride in finishing what I began.” The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

What I was waiting for was my new streak to begin. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

It looked like it went on forever; both the sky and the sea were so dark you couldn’t tell where one began and the other ended. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

With a sixteen-inch telescope, such as Evans uses, you begin to count not in stars but in galaxies. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

He waited—-it seemed to him for a long time—and then the clerks began to arrive, counting-house doors were unlocked, warehouses were unchained. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

I began gathering up my things slowly, trying to block the anger that filled me, for fear my eyes would tear up. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

Finally, as people began to use these Web pages for electronic commerce, SSL was created to provide security for Web-based transactions. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z

One of the articles began, “The Population Law is evil.” Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z

Then one day, sprung from who knows what taunts flung at him, his questionings, first of many, began. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

While she— She put her head down and began to cry. The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z

Ceremonies, discussions and arguments began to be carried on in normal or even louder than normal tones and no one stopped to worry about being overheard. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

When they emerged clanking and rumbling from the dust and began to pass us, I saw Horace gasp and Olive break into a smile. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

Finally, just as rain began to fall, the crowd launched into a chant demanding that Mayor Grabarek come out and receive a list of demands. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

At the end of the war, life returned to normal, and Shackleton began a world tour, speaking to audiences in big cities and outback villages about Endurance’s doomed voyage. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

She would trace us back to that beginning time like some evolutionist. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

The gourd head began to rot in the sun and collapse upon itself, oozing and purple like a bruise. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

The next day, at five minutes to six, Chester was about to begin the last public piece he would ever play in New York City. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

Just at this time, the young Andreas Vesalius was completing his medical education and beginning to make a name for himself. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

The tour began at once, but it was hardly an objective one. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Suddenly, as the heat rose from the logs, the sap in the pans began rising faster. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

Besides, it’s the girlfriend in the ICU that’s necessitating Adam’s ruse to begin with. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

As the Algerians left the ship, they began moving in all directions at once. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Despite my debilitating shyness, a spark of excitement began to fizz and pop inside me. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

“Your mother says you have a close relationship with a friend of yours,” Luce began again. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

And, in the midst of the grinding and sloppy making out, we begin to slow dance. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

She began to move away from me, visibly irritated, as if I were playing a prank. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

A bright spot in his social and physical development at Community Woodward occurred when he was chosen to be on the baseball team, and he began to emerge from his shell. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Almost every sentence included the word bomb, which began to worry Oppenheimer. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Both knights began waving their arms like windmills, anti-clockwise, in the vain effort to slow up. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

"She used to be able to understand. We'd sit for hours----" He broke off and began to walk up and down a desolate path of fruit rinds and discarded favors and crushed flowers. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

In the beginning these occasions hadn’t been quite so excruciating. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

He began to say something and his voice cracked. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

When people began chipping away at the Berlin Wall, more joined in—including the very East German border guards who were supposed to protect it. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

After he had laughed, cleared his throat, and cleaned his glasses one more time, Ogden Loring began the class. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then I pulled up the Tomb of Horrors module and began to read through it again, page by page. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

All we heard was the front door opening upstairs, then Mom and Dad’s voices and Erma beginning the long narrative of her grievances against us. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

They had lit a rush light so that she saw what had happened in a flash, and immediately she began screaming at the top of her voice. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Howard officials decided to challenge the DAR’s restrictive policy, beginning a crucial battle in the campaign to end Jim Crow social practices in the nation’s capital. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z

This was the beginning of a lifelong friendship. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was nearing along toward Christmas time and Bubber began to talk about the Little Lord Jesus and the red bicycle he wanted Santa Claus to bring him. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

“We have it all worked out—” Wash began. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

He obviously wasn’t a drinker, I mean a drinker in the way I’d seen real drinkers, which is to say the liquor was beginning to affect him in a manner I couldn’t predict or call. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then, when these disappeared, there was nothing left but the dust, and the cattle began to die. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

“My little brother—” he began, and then corrected himself. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

Until at last she realized that no matter how far she flipped, she never reached the beginning or the end. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

I set a good dinner out, but halfway through Peeta begins to nod off. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

She begins to push past me, but stops when Kalinda says yes. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

More to please her than anything else, I began to tithe. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

I stopped: the sound ceased, only for an instant; it began again, louder: for at first, though distinct, it was very low. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

Luke’s mother whispered, the tears beginning in her eyes. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z

But a few evenings later, when several of us were sitting around a fire in the farmhouse, Ruth began telling us about the sort of office she’d ideally work in, and I immediately recognised it. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

He began to gather the chessmen and set them back into their box. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

My own memory of Shawn begins in the kitchen, perhaps two months after the second accident. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

She clicked her tongue, and shook the reins, and the mules began to amble down the forest track. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

The flies settled all over the old man’s skin and began swelling up. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

He expected to see the horn emptied, but it was as full as when he had begun to drink, or nearly as full. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

Everything began to fade except the sound of the sixty. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then he looked back at me once more, and began. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

Everyone sat in rows, holding coupons they'd clipped since printing began. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

But, assigned to one of the vast eighty-eight-cell galleries for the first time, I found it hard to know where to begin. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

At the time there may have been no precise form of words; in fact, she may have experienced nothing more than impatience to begin writing again. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Ripper began to growl again as Harry sat down. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

The next time I saw him wasn’t until the beginning of July. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

Rosemary, and her laughter, had begun to seem real to him, and he pictured her looking up from the bed of memories, shocked. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

The Street of Steel began at the market square beside the River Gate, as it was named on maps, or the Mud Gate, as it was commonly called. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

For a while, he did much better in Monroeville, but then his condition began to deteriorate again. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

As they sang, the ground in the clearing began to undulate. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

I stood wringing water from my shirt and shaking out my hair, and when I was as dry as I was going to get—which was not very—I began to search. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

My exhaustion seemed to vanish as I began to navigate through the entertainment center operation menus from memory, the fingers of my right hand dancing rapidly across the touchscreen. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

Kuti, lying in a corner of the hut, began to moan. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

Holmes’s building and land were valuable to begin with, given Englewood’s continued growth, but now his property seemed the equivalent of a seam of gold ore. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

The sky darkened as night fell and the music began in earnest. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

They got their beginning as writers by going where the action was—to war—and I could, too. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

I began to piece two rows of five drabs each together to illustrate my point. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

The others piled forward in a helpless heap and began cursing him again. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

Viola mooed thunderously, apparently upset at having her milking abruptly halted right after it began. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

After a dozen or so trips to the white world, I began to feel somewhat comfortable amid the sea of white faces. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

I spent some time in the beginning sketching out the history of the ANC and then explaining our positions on the primary issues that divided the organization from the government. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

In a little while Colonel Cathcart’s arches began to ache from pacing back and forth so much. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

Surprised at seeing a strange man sitting on the floor, Captain Cook quietly walked over and began to peck him curiously. Mr. Popper's Penguins 1938-09-01T00:00:00Z

From its hiding-place he took out his mouse-nibbled volume, turned with religious care its stained and crumbled pages, and began to read Othello. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

At the time she began her insect studies, Maria’s “database” consisted of bookshops where she might browse any rare works about insects, or studio paintings like her stepfather’s that accurately depicted them. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

As I pondered this, the silhouette of the goddess began to change. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

“You’re smart as well as cute,” he said, and they began the ride down, back to a home with food. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

Using my gloves, I began to manipulate these windows, navigating my way through the database’s file structure. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

He starts the car and then begins banging his tetherball of a head against the car's horn rhythmically. Will Grayson, Will Grayson 2010-04-06T00:00:00Z

In the same way the war, beginning almost humorously with announcements about maids and days spent at apple- picking, commenced its invasion of the school. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

My stomach rumbles and my head begins to hurt, so I put the notebook away and head downstairs to find something to eat. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

The rain began to fall, big sloppy drops as if someone were shaking out a paint brush. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

Where the forest began, there was a lake. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

The people themselves, closer now, had begun to notice, too, and were pointing and holding one another’s arms for reassurance. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

Without having discussed it, we both had begun going on the assumption that he would recover. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

I began to sense that they had their own kind of Bigger Thomas behavioristic pattern which grew out of a more subtle and broader frustration. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

He began to pass empty houses, dark doors, dark windows. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

After that, the next chapter of his life would finally begin. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

“These men . Breuer began, “these pieces of, in your Jew language, drek tried to escape last night. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

At my words, the earring began to hum as it spun. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

Denna gave the remains of her apple a speculative look, then began to eat it from the bottom up. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

The house wasn’t so big to begin with, and Patty had four kids of her own. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

Once at the track, he jumped out and began rushing toward the jockeys’ room. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Other people began to notice too, and that put Janie more on a wonder. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

But the more I tried to distract myself, the more I began to convince myself that Mr. Pirzada’s family was in all likelihood dead. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

Then, on July 28, Joe Bates, an Osage man in his thirties, obtained from a stranger some whiskey, and after taking a sip, he began frothing at the mouth, before collapsing. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Robin began sawing into the shark’s side with a knife. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

I begin to panic as the smoke thickens. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

If he hadn’t looked so upset, I would have pinched him for ruining our moonlight bike rides when they’d barely begun. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

The store owner was a gruff white man who, like many of the whites in St. Albans, was on his way out as we blacks began to move in. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Slowly the bow of the Syracuse boat came into Joe’s field of view, just beginning to fall away behind him. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

I began to walk about the room, examining various indefinite objects in the half darkness. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

“That’s only the beginning. It seems that the local weekly was hard up for news. They heard about it and sent their reporter over.” Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

He walked over to the sink and began to put away the clean plates in the cupboard. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

She set her water container on the ground, pulled up some tubers, brushed the dirt away, and began to eat. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

At the beginning of the term, Teacher called the roll and asked each child her lineage. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

The baker caught her by her hair, and the midwife began shouting about how apprentices with nothing to do but spy needed a beating and more work. The Midwife's Apprentice 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ptolemy begins with P; the first symbol in the cartouche is a square. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

But when the soldier approaches, she reaches in the carriage and begins to open the bag. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

“Four pence,” said the barber, beginning to pass a black cloth in and out of the, hot water. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

Suddenly the candles on the tree begin to spark. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Jinny hadn’t thought about that before, and she was pondering it when Loo, beside her, began to bash his spoon against his metal plate for no apparent reason. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

After the first, touch-and-go year, my father’s chain of hot dog restaurants began to make him a comfortably wealthy man. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Alabama newspaper and television reporters began to telephone me, asking for interviews. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Seabiscuit began to rip over the track, cutting into Myrtlewood’s lead even as she flew through fractions faster than any ever run at the Detroit Fair Grounds. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

They are volunteers: last of the great volunteer armies, for the draft is beginning that summer in the North. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Peach grabbed the bushes for all he was worth and began to choke. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

A small bellows was built into the side of the machine, and it began to rise and fall, giving the impression that the device was breathing. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

Then the men jumped up and began running again. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

He puts his hand on my shoulder and I smell his smell of tar and outdoors dust and sunny skin, and I begin to cry. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

The Muslim program began with recognizing that color and addiction have a distinct connection. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

He walked over to Fred, pulled the letter out of his hands, and began attaching it to the leg of the nearest barn owl. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

I began to cut classes, to walk in Golden Gate Park or wander along the shiny counter of the Emporium Department Store. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

I sat down on the stairs, and we began to talk. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

To her this meant the temperature was zero, the point every year when she began to feel chilly. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

He felt his throat begin to constrict at the thought of another person gone from this world, forgotten, because he knew that was what Javier would eventually become. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

As Roosevelt drove, the two men began talking over the state of the war. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

I began leaving two white paper napkins by him every time I served him more coffee, and the rose worked when he sometimes scribbled on the napkins, which I retrieved when he left. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Marianas Islands were the next targets in our island- hopping campaign that had begun at Guadalcanal. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

And with that, she began to mutter to herself, mumbling words that Bod could not make out. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

Capricorn began drumming his fingers on the arms of his chair. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

I beat some dust off the comb and began to tease out the yellow mass of knots her hair had turned into. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

He rubbed his feet with his hands and then drew his knife from its sheath and began paring bits of skin from his toes. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then we turned and began to mount the staircase leading up to the house. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

He reached the back of the truck just as it began to move. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

Mummies were first discovered in the Atacama at the beginning of the twentieth century. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

‘How much longer before it begins to get light?’ The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Supporting him, one on each side, they began walking him back to the school building and the nurse’s office. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

People nearest the stage shout in alarm and begin shoving. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

He took it, tossed it up for a quick catch to see if it came apart, and then he began twisting and turning the colored cubes. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z

His wife noticed that a tree was beginning to grow out of his head. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

Then she pushed off from the floor with both feet and began to float upward, drifting toward the groove zone. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

Soon after Nasser’s interrogation began, his duffel bag created a stir. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

To forget it he began to run, almost colliding with a group of glassmakers as he turned into the main thoroughfare that paralleled the Nile. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

Here’s how it happens: abductions always begin with shadows. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

Alfred tried it, coming up slowly, inch by inch, fighting to keep his legs straight and his heels on the mat as his shoulders began to quiver and the muscles in his stomach tightened painfully. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

He began to teach her to use a rope, to knot it and twirl it and fling it so that it caught on a rock or a branch. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

The police did nothing to stop the criminals and nothing to find them; no arrests were made, no investigation begun. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

To his great astonishment and mortification, Sticky saw his parents begin trying less and less to find him, instead devoting their time and energy toward the proper disposal of their newfound riches. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

Also, by 2000, traders by the thousands had begun to move back and forth across the border supplying food and goods for markets that had all but replaced the government’s public distribution system. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

I know for some people, especially at the beginning of high school, where to sit and who you’ll sit with is a big deal. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

The sun had shifted lower on the horizon, and long shadows began to creep across the Snapfinger Cemetery. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

He hit the door audibly and began to cry. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

What the pioneering television researchers of the 1960s and 1970s — in particular, Daniel Anderson at the University of Massachusetts — began to realize, however, is that this isn’t how preschoolers watch TV at all. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I began to feel like an atheist praying. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

And whatever beast they had stumbled into was beginning to close its mouth. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

The silverware sparkles under the glow of the candles and the servers begin bringing out the first course. Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

No other children in all the world since the world began had had such an opportunity. From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

“But—I know and you know, dear Frank, that...the rats swarm back and begin to gnaw at the same old spot, the moment the dog’s back is turned.” The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Lee said, “You can begin at any time. But plan it well, plan it well. We stake everything on this.” The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

I can’t believe I didn’t just do this to begin with. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

He began setting up a spy network by turning to trusted friends. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had briefly gone to jail at the beginning of the Defiance Campaign. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her arms began to tremble from the weight. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You’ve become quite the celebrity these past few days,” he said as we began to descend. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

The battle had begun, and it wasn’t going well. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

Atal was excited by this idea, and they hauled in their net at once and began to gather what Mary needed. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

Suddenly both of her hands began to vibrate slightly. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

Then a part of me understands, even as I begin to argue against it, that my humiliation was the cause of that pleasure. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

A Pepette also had responsibility for making smaller posters, which went up in the school halls at the beginning of each week and were transferred to the gym for the mandatory Friday morning pep rally. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Before beginning the mission, Dasch had argued furiously with Kappe that the saboteurs were to spend a few months acclimating and blending in before blowing up any of their targets. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

I frowned—I hadn’t gotten a chance to look inside—but she ignored me and began shaping something in her hands, whispering strange words over them. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

If there should be life on the moon, we must begin by fearing it. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The climate was right to begin a program that would lead them to economic respectability. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Don’t take too many risks to begin with,” said Hazel. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Was West Indian Archie, I began to wonder, bluffing a hype on me? The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I won’t take but a minute of your time. Could you tell us where and when registration begins?” Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

He remembered the cheers of the Sons of the Six all around him, whooping and tossing their spears high as the first hints of true, unfiltered sunlight began to dapple the ground before them. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

The bullock cringed, but accepted the torment and as soon as the whip fell it began to pull again. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Hi, Daddy,” I say, beginning to gather my stuff. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z

From that beginning the armed forces of the Roman Empire began to be weakened, and all the virtue taken away from it was given over to the Goths. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z

A few miles out of town, the bus began to list to one side as the slashed tires went flat. Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

After their move, Alma’s kidneys failed, and she began dialysis treatments three days a week. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

He went to ask Clara, but his mother also knew nothing of the girl and had begun to forget her. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

She touched it, pulled some away, and began to laugh. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Don’t be nutty, Brinker,” I turned back toward the desk and began moving books with rapid pointlessness, “what a crazy thing to say.” A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the last few days the poor beast had improved wonderfully; it already seemed fatter and stronger, and had begun to show an affection for its new masters, especially for Sam. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

Then she put a foot on a chunk of ceiling and began to climb. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

Not all negation words begin with n; many haye the concept of negation tucked inside them, such as few, little, least, seldom, though, rarely, instead, doubt, deny, refute, avoid, and ignore. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

The PTA began a paper drive and took a special interest in Christmas wrappings. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

Since then, her body had begun to make those strange changes to womanhood that exasperated her. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

Just when he had begun to feel that he was becoming part of something larger than himself, he was cast out again. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

She stopped talking long enough to say hello to Evaleen Murdo, who was sitting by the window with Poppy on her lap, and then she began again as Lina led her into her bedroom. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

After the women are gone, the crowd begins to buzz. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had begun it in the basement, but it was cold down there, and there was not much room, so he brought it out to the back porch. Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Late in the summer of 1952,just two weeks before Claudette was to begin her freshman year at Booker T. Washington High School, her sister Delphine came down with a fever Sunday just before church. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

For Wagner, nothing was allowed to distract from the unfolding musical story and he would happily intertwine chorus, solo, duets, instrumental interludes so that you could hardly tell when one ended and another began. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

They had been waiting on the steps for perhaps an hour, and were beginning to grumble about how hungry they were, when the front door opened, and Rhonda Kazembe appeared. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

Gradually the passageway began to widen, until it ended in a circular room with a large hole in the ceiling. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

With this cautionary tale in mind, let us begin by asking a question which seems too obvious to need asking but is in fact an essential preliminary: What is a machine? The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Soon her name began to appear on government buildings. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Then, very slowly, as I healed, it began to come back. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The flock dutifully began trudging back up the slopes toward the cave. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

Then more silence both of them knowing there's nothing left to say. each winter Each winter just as the first of the snow begins to fall, my mother goes home to South Carolina. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

I began to pick at fish heads rather than toss them to Richard Parker or use them as bait. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

He poured out a second class and drank it too; then he began to change his clothes. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z

He was just too stubborn, or too proud, to admit it I nodded and began feeling around the sand for a stick. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

So, when Mrs. Prejudiced Cantrell opened her door, Jennifer began her spiel about poor kids in China and her school's fundraiser. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

He and Tiffanie, the captain of the softball team, started dating at the beginning of the year and in a matter of weeks their lives had fused together like a set of suction cups. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

What I should have done was kick him out at the very beginning. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

He began to cough and mutter and I realized that he was either drunk or sick. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

None of us knew yet how many endings and beginnings one story could have. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

Janie soon began to feel the impact of awe and envy against her sensibilities. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

The reporter—Zeitoun could see now the crew was from Spain—conducted an interview with the prisoner, and then, after a few minutes, he approached Zeitoun with the microphone and began to ask a question. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

Dating the end of the Renaissance is no easier than dating the beginning—you could say that it is still going on. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

So they passed on, until the woodlands grew thinner and the land began to fall more steeply. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

I’m just not sure where or how to begin. Dragons in a Bag 2018-10-23T00:00:00Z

Denied admission to Harvard and Yale and the “right” beginning, he had become a self-conscious connoisseur of fine things. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

And that was the beginning of a day—Ernie’s birthday and the Fourth of July—where the only normal thing to happen the next twenty-four hours was that Ernie woke up with his sunglasses on. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

At this moment Frightful, who had been sitting quietly on her stump, began to preen. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was beginning to dawn on him how truly alone they were here. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

I couldn’t understand it, and it began to upset me. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

Because they were open-minded and liberal, Charles knew he could broach with them some of the radical scientific thoughts he was beginning to have. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

The world was beginning to grow dark again. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

Birds began building their nests in the mango trees. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

But even the deafest and most stay-at-home began to hear queer tales; and those whose business took them to the borders saw strange things. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

He rose and began to dance, shuffling across the carpet and waving his arms. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

We thought that we had been discovered, and that battle was going to begin. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

I nodded and began to spoon up my beans. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

I crack open David Copperfield and begin to read Chapter One, “I Am Born.” Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

The other thing—the bigger thing you pay attention to, in the beginning—is your teacher, especially if he’s new like Mr. Terupt. Because of Mr. Terupt 2010-10-11T00:00:00Z

Pictures began to appear—mostly calendars showing improbable luscious blondes holding bottles of Coca-Cola. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

I finished an article about a Torah dedication and began another about a play at the Maxwell Street theater. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

Each time the ring was true, and already the curve of the metal was beginning to assume the proper angle. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

I began hearing the sound of a mouth eating. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

To the defenders’ joy, their attackers began dying off. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

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

And I, slowly, delicately, went to work on Rufus, began to push him toward freeing a few more of them, perhaps several more of them—perhaps in his will, all of them. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

But no, this time it was wonderful news, the best we’ve had in months, maybe even since the war began. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

He didn’t realize the intensity of the fire in his throat until that soothing ice chip began to cool the flames. Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

All were eager to begin their search for a real durwan. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

The bells of Black Protocol had begun to sound. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

I began to see that by my astonishing growth I had made them shrink and emphasized their inadequacies. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

He begins to guzzle it, but I stop him on the third gulp. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

Tally saw the struts of the powerjack unfolding underneath the tie, gradually forcing it up, the rail above beginning to pull free of its moorings. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

After working as a proofreader in the seventh grade, I’d started laying out pages in the eighth grade, and in the ninth grade I began reporting and writing articles and taking photographs. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Hoping for a miracle, my mom began praying a novena, which is a series of prayers asking for special graces from God. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Near where I stood, a group of young black demonstrators began to gather. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Meanwhile, Seven began to formulate a plan of her own. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

The column had begun to move more rapidly and they quickened their steeds’ gaits. The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z

As she began to wrap the gifts, silent tears ran down her cheeks. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

In the house they simply thought that her mind was wandering, especially since the time she had begun walking about with her right arm raised like the Archangel Gabriel. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

They had designed all these in the laboratory and finished a single pilot model of each just before the war began. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

"I'm beginning to think you shouldn't have started reading comics with a book that completely deconstructs the last fifty years of the genre," he said. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

We even began to exchange theories and to discuss our interpretations of specific passages in the Almanac. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

Everyone leaned in as Suya opened the jar and the uncooked rice began to fall from it like beads from a broken necklace. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

“Well, Mr. President,” began Joint Chiefs Chairman Earle Wheeler, “we fully realize that what we’re going to present to you today requires a very difficult decision.” Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Gauguin, he tells Theo in November, “has proved to me a little that it was time for me to vary things a bit—I’m beginning to compose from memory.” Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

As with all the discs, Year Fourteen begins with my birthday. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

It was further confirmation of his guilt, and the beginning of his punishment. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

While I watched, she drew in her breath, opened her mouth, and began to scream. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

Then rumors began to spread: Lyra was ill. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

When he was breathing almost normally, he began to wonder what he was doing sitting in the middle of a woods in Blue Ridge country. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

He blew his nose, which had begun to feel seriously cold, and ordered another coffee from the waiter rushing past him. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

Just as Anya began to itch with the need to get out from under the water, the top of it breached the surface of the tunnel, and fresh, cold air cascaded over them. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

As soon as she arrived at the top of her ladder, Mrs. Corry dipped her brush into the glue and began slapping the sticky substance against the sky. Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z

The Boreads began to come out of their daze, looking disappointed. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

In the beginning I used a sawed-off broomstick with an old tennis ball stuck on one end. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was hot inside me, and I began again. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

From a glass canister he pulled a comb and scissors and he began combing and snipping. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

From time to time one or another would begin to scrape in the gravelly bank, or venture a little way in among the trees and nut bushes to scuffle in the leaf mold. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Such size differences in other plants go back to the very beginnings of agriculture, when cultivated peas evolved through human selection to be 10 times heavier than wild peas. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

We began to meet every night to initiate them. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Maybe that wasn’t too strong of a—” Aru stopped as the cauldron began to quiver more violently. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

She began to clap madly in rhythm until the tune came to an abrupt end. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Americans had outmaneuvered him this time, but on that August day in 1945, the Soviet leader began preparing for the next confrontation. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

And taking this as the okay, Calliope began the long trek across the bed. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

“Well,” she began, “there was once a prince of Denmark, named Hamlet....” Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z

A man had walked into the auditorium from the hallway, a quick flash of motion as he entered and began walking down the aisle toward the front. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

I had loved history until that spring when we began the study of slavery. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

He’s begun to close me out the way he closes out others. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

He began to walk rather quickly back, through the path in the com, looking ahead of him. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

She’d tried standing her ground in the beginning, but three against one was never a fair fight, and she’d quickly learned her lesson. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

He threw down the roll book and began to yell at us. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

I began to walk down the stairs, and she came with me, by my side, as though she were a warden, and I in custody. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

I’m smiling to myself as I start again from the beginning. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

The sun climbed through the sky, reached its zenith, began to come down. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

Fine steam began to rise up from the sodden ground, and the tree trunks, and the smell of it came thickly into Kingshaw's nostrils. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

We began to wonder whether it wouldn’t be better to let ourselves be chosen for the next transport. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

The solstice deadline would pass and war would begin. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

He would take lodgings in a strange town—and begin. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

“She is the one that paid my school fees from beginning to end. If not for her, I don’t know where I would be today.” Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Notice, however, that “a ra-fiq” begins on a pickup beat, which can be tricky for entrances. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

The man and woman exchanged a few words and began walking arm in arm down the lane. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

It is not a whole one; it is the beginning of one. From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

When morning came, Mama hardly had the fire going before they all began to pack. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

But still, for Twelves, though they had begun their adult training, there were the endless lists of rules to be memorized and the newest technology to be mastered. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

Hearing the word beat, Grandpa began to fidget. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Milton bellowed in the Cadillac as the car began, once again, to descend. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

I think in the beginning she called it that so I would not feel bad about having to take something to make me feel better. Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

His story always ended as a stowaway at the trainyard and began as a thief in the Levee. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

Melyngar began to swim, her strong legs keeping her afloat and in motion, but the current swung her around; she collided with Taran and forced him under the water. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z

I stuck the first pencil in the sharpener and began to turn the crank. Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

When the spring classes began, I resumed my commitment with formal education. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

The thought niggled at Ophie as she set down her bucket and began to wipe at the windows, the water sloshing a bit as she worked. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

She had, since she began to gaze at her past, imagined a relationship with him, but only in faded images and faint lines. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

When the complaints began to include a dry snapping sound, Aziz’s worry became desperate. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

Nina’s work, performed on the ship before that first extraordinary high had begun to wane, was nearly flawless. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

After all had been seated, toasts were made, thanks were given and returned, and then the feasting began. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

It began slowly and in a restricted geographical area. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

When he met Burger in his room for breakfast, he began another argument, protesting that their choice of a deluxe hotel would draw attention to them. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

In a way it was the beginning of the industrial food chain. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

Just after seven the rain began to fall. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

"Each one of you has a gift," he begins. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

Storage of the chlorinated hydrocarbons, as we have seen, is cumulative, beginning with the smallest intake. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

He aligned the crutch pieces, laid the bat over them, then began winding the tape. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

Lately the tenants had begun remarking on how grown up she looked. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z

It took me a minute of scattered concentration to begin. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

And the crowd laughed and groaned, then began to disperse. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

The sun was fully up now and the heat of the August day was beginning to assert itself with a blood-thickening power. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Walter, perhaps the greatest living historian of the ANC, began to tell them about the genesis of the organization and its early days. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

They began to prefer old music over new; this was, in many ways, not such a good thing. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Very slowly, Charlie’s fingers began to tear open one small corner of the wrapping paper. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 1964-09-12T00:00:00Z

Then the white kids began arriving for school. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

Meanwhile, I shall ask you to begin with this cocktail, composed—would you say ‘composed?’” with an appeal to Miss Mayblunt—“composed by my father in honor of Sister Janet’s wedding.” The Awakening 1899-04-22T00:00:00Z

They were driving past, so they couldn’t see him well, but right away they began to construct a system to explain his behavior. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

Sir Mador got up and began doing some wild swipes at the enemy with his sword. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

But after a few days, my grandmother began to invent gadgets for me in order to make life a bit easier. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z

Sis Heyster also writes that girls my age feel very insecure about themselves and are just beginning to discover that they’re individuals with their own ideas, thoughts and habits. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

As coveted as his shells were, Pocock had begun to find himself struggling to stay in business, reduced to writing plaintive letters to coaches around the country, pleading for orders. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

I was sorry now that I had begun but was in too deeply to retreat. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

The huge bell in the tower of the Council Edifice began to ring. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

A few began to shout and curse, but most lapsed into silence. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“As a matter of fact, ‘bright’ doesn’t begin to cover it, not by half.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

“Miss Turner—” the sheriff began, but Mama cut right on in. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

She made her way back to the place where she had begun, and she set down the iron bowl, pressing it into the ground. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

She sprang from the bed and began to put her clothes back on while Wes slowly sat up and wiped his eyes. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

Nation began her crusade at the age of fifty-three, when she loaded up a buggy with hammers and rocks and drove to Kiowa, Kansas, a town notorious for its wild behavior in its many saloons. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

He begins putting chicken wings into another white bag. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

I suppose it was inevitable that as my word-base broadened, I could for the first time pick up a book and read and now begin to understand what the book was saying. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

The reporters have begun clamoring for him, shouting their questions up to the third-floor window. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Bentley's journey to the FBI offices had begun almost ten years earlier. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

It was early afternoon, but already the daylight was beginning to fade. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

“This is the beginning of something too ugly to contemplate,” David said. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

By 3:30,1 began to get resdess, as we were already behind schedule. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I sat in my hard folding chair and began closing all the little windows. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

The strains of flu that circulate at the beginning of each winter’s flu epidemic are quite different from the strains of flu that circulate at the end. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

At any moment they might begin to torture him, and I was powerless to do anything about it. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

By the following morning its natural instincts to mix with a flock and to talk were beginning to return. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Friends began to bring her specimens to study. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

I began sliding backward along my belly to the frozen bank. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

The instant I saw the picture my mouth fell open and my pulse began to race. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

In Harlem especially, and also in some other U.S. cities, the 1964 long, hot summer’s predicted explosions had begun. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

And as I dug deeper into the Osage murder cases—into the murk of autopsies and witness testimony and probate records—I began to see certain holes in the bureau’s investigation. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

"It's my fault," she said to herself furiously as she jumped up and began rousing the others. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z

Ahead of them, over the mountains to the north, the pale arcs and loops of the Northern Lights began to glow and tremble. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

In some ticket booths the volume grew so great, so quickly, that silver coins began piling on the floors and burying the ticket-takers’ shoes. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

I had been so focused on what I was learning that I hadn't heard my mother come in and begin cooking. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

“Now—” the doctor began, and was stopped by a little giggling burst from Theodora. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

That frightened me, because for the first time I began to think about what God means. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

Libby’s research began in the global scientific race during the 1930s and 1940s to understand cosmic rays, the mysterious, ultrahigh- velocity subatomic particles that continually rain onto the earth from outer space. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

As the sermon began, I felt guilty that I didn’t have my mind on prayer. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

At first Sammy had searched for another couple parking along the beach, but this failing, he began the long run toward town, hoping to intercept a car on the highway. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

And now people began to arrive in droves. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

As they approached the halfway mark, the exhausted Japanese suddenly and predictably began to fade and fall away behind the field, along with the Czechs. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Drifts of snow had begun to creep across its icy surface. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Pinmei took a deep breath, and together they began to run. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

She began to mount the stairs, toiling heavily. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

He actually bared his teeth and began to make this low, scary growl in his throat. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

The appreciation of drawings as works of art dates from the Renaissance, when the artist’s creative genius first came to be valued and paper began to be made in quantity. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

The twins were slurping the last of the syrup from their bowls when Henry’s spoon began to clink against his dish. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

As they hesitated outside in the gloom, someone began singing a merry song inside, and many cheerful voices joined loudly in the chorus. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

Forced to concede that an atomic bomb had destroyed Hiroshima, the German scientists began trying to figure how the bomb had been made. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Still two miles out, the two crews began, on an impulse, to race for home. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Back in the house at last, there began a dreamlike time of grave arrivals, tears and subdued voices and urgent footsteps across the hallway, and her own vile excitement that kept her drowsiness at bay. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Lefty began to enjoy himself, and after winning a big pot cried, “Ouzo all around!” Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Finally leaving behind ancient Aristotelian beliefs, insect scholars had begun to agree with Goedart that direct observation was the only reliable approach to studying natural processes. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Galileo’s first telescope had a usable magnification of 8x; by the beginning of 1610 he had managed to produce one that had a magnification of 3 ox and he had begun to explore the heavens. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

They began to hide when they wanted to play. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Andrea got under the covers and began right away to shake her head from side to side on the pillow, which was the way she went to sleep. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

You must, then, understand how in recent times, when the Empire began to be driven out of Italy and the Pope began to win more prestige in temporal affairs, Italy was divided into many states. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z

More so, because despite its toxicity, the mutts begin to throw themselves into the foul sewer. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

“If you want to be in a really functional room,” I began with false heartiness, “you ought to spend your time in the bathroom then.” A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

The boyars began to lean close to one another, mumbling questions. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

Once it’s drained, they begin to cut it into pieces. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

When Grossman tried to interview the refugees, they would begin to cry when he asked them a question. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

The air had begun to look hazy from the smoke now that the sun was up to reveal it. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

Every afternoon just at the time school let out, she began pacing the floor of the little cottage. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

When class began, Pauline strode to the back of the room, flicked off the lights, and, without introducing herself, clicked on the slide projector. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Kaede began to creep down the slope, the rope snaking between them like an umbilical cord. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Slowly, very slowly, I began to feel my anger changing into something softer. Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

It seemed to be leaping by a hundred a day, and the search for bodies had only just begun. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

He sat down and began reading through a pile of papers. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Roy watched as a vein in Mr. Muckle’s neck swelled up and began to pulse like a garden hose. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Twinkle...,” he began, his voice heavy with what sounded a lot like disappointment and shock. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

This image is an illustration from the Persian epic poem The Shahnama, which begins in the mythic past but includes a sequence of real rulers. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

The hall immediately began to buzz excitedly; the Gryffindors were telling the rest of the school what had just happened. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

“Who can tell me what Shakespeare meant when he...,” she begins, finally getting a good look at our faces. The Skin I'm In 1998-10-16T00:00:00Z

He began to see that beaks adapted to the kinds of seeds available on the island. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Together we threw our streamers as the ship began to pull away from the dock. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

As we spoke, nurses began unwinding his soiled bandages, exposing a myriad of shallow slices all over his forehead and left cheek. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

And if you were a person like my father, you began to think about how you could escape such realities. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Slowly, I was beginning to know the island. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

For a moment, Briony and Fiona stopped and looked, and then, at the same moment, they began to run. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

It was like the sun started shining on me for the first time, and for the first time in my life I began to smile. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

A handful of women ululate as the proceedings begin. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

If you stretch out a bullet, it begins to look like a length of rope, and if you coil the rope into a loop, it becomes a ring, like Marburg. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

‘In disputes about natural phenomena,’ wrote Galileo, ‘one must not begin with the authority of scriptural passages, but with sensory experience and necessary demonstrations.’ The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

One by one, as the rain began, they drew her to them and kissed her. Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

A nationalistic approach also began informing his choice of subject matter, especially after the Germans defeated the French in the Franco-Prussian War of 1870-71. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Woolf knew he could easily beat the others, but he was beginning to worry that he couldn’t catch Specify. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

As she runs through the cool, dark woods, she begins to realize how alone she is. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

Ishmael’s heart began the fretful pounding he’d experienced of late in her presence. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

The Serenity Suite began to fill with our damp friends and neighbors—our Snapfinger family. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

What should children be able to do by the end of the lesson that they couldn’t do at the beginning? Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

Then, as they drew near the far bank, Dicey felt the twists and eddies begin again. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

I began working even harder at my game because a few youngsters in Alexandra saw me as someone worth emulating. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Joel began the meal by closing his eyes and saying his own version of grace. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

Nick began to bark, then Lottie, and the wagon clattered into the yard and stopped by the steps. Sarah, Plain and Tall 1985-04-25T00:00:00Z

He found an ash stick and began to beat the heads off the tall plants of cow parsley. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

Valley cracked open one of the books and began to read. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

As soon as they could afford it, they began to fill their houses with lovely paintings and fine furniture. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

Joel wouldn’t begin slaughtering cattle and turkeys till later in the summer. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

He pulled me away when I began to cry, leaving his lunch and curious stares from other customers behind. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

“I keep turning over new leaves, and spoiling them, as I used to spoil my copybooks, and I make so many beginnings there never will be an end,” he said dolefully. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

Animals will sometimes recover from swainsonine poisoning after they stop eating contaminated forage, but only if they are in fairly robust condition to begin with. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Your hands are bigger than mine, and you will stretch my glove dreadfully,” began Meg, whose gloves were a tender point with her. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

When he had walked nearly around the entire town without seeing anyone and was just beginning to grow desperate, he heard the hooves of a horse behind him. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Applying some of the vocabulary and concepts from above will help you begin to discern some of the inner workings of music. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

This freed the peach, which at once began sailing away from that terrible cloud. James and the Giant Peach 1961-11-01T00:00:00Z

Awake, he soon became bored, and had begun looking for a way out of his crib. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

He slammed the tiller over just as he felt the surf grab the boat and begin to carry them into the fatal run to shore. The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

His eyes began to glow and his voice took on the throatiness he used in sermons. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

And so, beginning in 1932, military training was built into the secondary education curriculum in the USSR. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

Indeed they thought not of him; for soon the fog begin to melt away, and all was clear again. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

No sooner had my head touched the pillow, I began to fade, exchanging conscious sounds of the television for those of my inner thoughts. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

With a fresh and minty mouth, I got on my knees and began my prayers. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

Melissa turned around and began to take off the purple skirt. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z

Now the crops begin, stretched out as far as the eye can see. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

Our initial collective pique melted away as the party began, and why not? The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

“And my father and . The rest of the words didn’t seem to come. Her head began to spin. “Never mind, little Chaya, never mind,” Gitl said. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I have always believed that raising kids means more than just being a good parent and trying to do the right things,” Papa went on, his voice beginning to wobble. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

At once the ship began to cleave straight to the east, and the ship’s master began to look cheerful again. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

Through their words we can finally begin to hear about sugar slavery from those who lived it. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

Hunts always began early in the morning; the men left the village before sunrise. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I turned around and began a clumsy run across the field in a line which avoided his house and aimed toward the road leading back into the town. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

He looked in the sky, where the stars were beginning to be covered by fast-moving clouds. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

Briony took her hand and thought she could see how one might begin to love Lola. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

The next morning the people waited outside his hut for the naming ceremony to begin and wondered why no sounds came from within. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

After that, Maman began to worry about me and made me go hide under her bed. Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was, in fact, beginning to shudder at the presence of this being, this Un-Dead, as Van Helsing called it, and to loathe it. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

The smell of azaleas and the creeping loneliness that climbed over me as I poked around Suffolk had begun to suffocate me. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

The tail began to wag, and the hide made little ripples back and forth over the ribs. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

We had barely crawled out of the potato cellar when the Polish girl began to cry. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

Then I feel the tips of my boots beginning to tilt ever so slightly. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

The exercise had begun at six o’clock in the morning after a gray-lit breakfast of sausages and beans. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

The workers, who had been content to wait until then, went into the woods with no other weapons but their working machetes and they began to sabotage the sabotage. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

He began: “I wrote this letter to those I have harmed.” A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

“Yes, yes, but—Well, you will see. Shall we begin? We’ll start with the Eastern Region.” I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

Yossarian hated stewed tomatoes and turned away dizzily and began to vomit, clutching his burning throat. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

She nods and begins a conversation with herself about me. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

She began to work, but her mind was elsewhere. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

On the bus ride back home, jokes began to circulate about what Moody and Pearl had been doing. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

But a few gunters were successful, and at the bottom of the Scoreboard, listed after the High Five and the dozens of IOI employee numbers, new avatar names began to appear. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

One of them began to swing wildly at the colonel, who stepped back and aimed a kick that landed solidly in the boy’s scrotum. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

She and Gold began dating, and Gold became more and more convinced that this was his shot at happiness. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

As soon as he’d recovered enough from his surgery to travel, Gey began contacting cancer researchers around the country, asking who was doing research on pancreatic cancer and needed a patient to experiment on. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

The beginning was a little slow but the ending was tight. Booked 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

“This is how it all starts. This is the beginning of the end.” Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

When they reached the outlying sheds beside the lane, Blackberry began to explain how he and Bigwig had gone back to search; but Fiver cut him short. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

All around us, avatars began to pair up. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

Dozens of figures began to appear among the gravestones: bluish, vaguely human shapes. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

The drugs from the previous nights, before we were brought to the city, had begun to subside in my system. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

She was ahead of me and beginning to run, barefoot, loosely, as in a dream. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Westley was beginning to swell slightly now from all the pumping. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

Running faster, I felt myself begin to wear out. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Come,” she whispered, beginning to get out of the buggy. Absalom, Absalom! 1936-01-01T00:00:00Z

He and the boy looked at each other and began to snicker. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

And once you have found America, if you were trying to get to Asia, then the search will begin for ways round it. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Matthias and Dunwing pushed hastily past the scrap of sacking that served as a door to the King’s chamber and began their search. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

I had begun to feel—feel, not think—that a great deal of time had passed for me too. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

My father took his stick and began writing an equation in the sand. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

He climbed into a launch and began to follow them. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

And the smaller oak and maple trees, which from Dr. Hyde’s classroom had been invisible beneath the more majestic pines, showed hints of an as- yet-thermally-unforeseeable fall: Their still-green leaves were beginning to droop. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

The King took a long breath, and began again more huskily. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dr. Jónsson began to get pressure from the hospital to release Bobby because of his refusal of proper treatment. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Perhaps that was why he and his companions lingered, waiting until the press had lessened before beginning to make their way toward the steps. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

My sister, who had begun to be alarmingly meditative, had to employ herself actively in getting the gin, the hot water, the sugar, and the lemon-peel, and mixing them. Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z

He arrived from Long Beach, California, at the beginning of January, in a country where cattle often freeze to death, and he was of course a prisoner of war. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

He began to realize that the C.D.C. was not in a good position to argue the matter. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Indeed, slaves in Jamaica were beginning to sing a new song while they worked: One, two, tree, All de same; Black, white, hrown, All de same; All de same. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

Where could I begin to look for a job? Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

“When I was in foster care, some of the people weren’t very nice,” I began tentatively. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

“A gesture that began with Glenn Burke, the man who invented the world’s most famous handshake.” A High Five for Glenn Burke 2020-02-25T00:00:00Z

He didn't have leafy trees to hide behind, but he began to feel safe, anyway, crawling through his and Jen’s backyards. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z

This narrowing, which was above all a stripping away of identity, began weeks before she had even heard of Sister Drummond. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Coach Mustilli began by telling me that fencing saber is all about speed and strategy. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

Joon still does not look up from the Legos but begins to complain, I hate going to Gomo’s house for lunch. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

At this the suitors, while they dressed their meat, began to exchange loud mocking talk about him. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

They began to walk through the long grass of the ditch. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

Mr. Chris wrote his first letter before the next big run began. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

Filming began the moment Bobby touched down in Copenhagen, with a camera in the sports vehicle that drove him, Miyoko, and Saemi to Sweden, en route to Iceland. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

But in the darkness, while my teeth were slowly coerced into straightness, the rest of my face had begun to give in to a stronger, genetic predisposition toward crookedness. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

The shock of Tsalig's arrest hadn't even begun to register when he was already gone. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

One day the group began walking in the late afternoon, with hopes of reaching a water hole before settling down for the night. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

The woman picked the bird out of Miss Mallory’s palm and, as she took it in, her face began to glow, just a titch. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

When she had put the newsstand in order, she pulled out her knitting and began to work furiously. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

The untended cows trampled into the palaces of the gods, and the gods themselves began to wear tattered robes because there was no cloth from which to make new ones. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

His voice sounded excited, and he began to explain that he had been at a church service in Sydney, a church that other Dinka people also attended. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

And he began to see that there might be some sense in that last line about getting your heart’s desire and getting despair along with it. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z

His fingers had begun to tap at the air, helping him along. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

He began fumbling with the laces, trying to get the helm off with clumsy fingers. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Faces watched from candlelit windows, and people began to emerge from alleys and doors, but no one moved to help. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

They resemble the arrivistes of the Gilded Age, which began in the 1880s when industrial capitalists amassed staggering fortunes, except that there are so many of them and they seem to be relatively anonymous. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

Somewhere between Martins Corner and Route 28, I begin to cry. Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z

My grip had slipped and I’d begun to slide when the spike finally ripped from me and fell away, smashing into the trailer with a tremendous crash. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

And that is where my problems truly began. Louisiana's Way Home 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

She has sat them down that clear, cool night before the future begins, Mama and Papa and their four pretty girls, no one added, no one taken away. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The pressure to win began to distract him. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

In the radical 1960s, the battle for black progress would come full circle to its beginnings at the turn of the century. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

One of them was playing the bagpipes, prompting the corporals to begin their own nasal whining parodies. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

All of them looked upward in time to see the crystal chandelier tremble; then, with a creak and an ominous jingling, it began to fall. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

It is here that the mainstream of physics ends and the fringe begins. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

She could still feel the cruel pinch of fingers on her wrist as she lost her balance and began to fall. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

His right leg was bleeding and had begun to swell. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

Had Goldstein settled for these weasel words, she would have undermined her analysis before it began. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

As a recording of “Here Comes the Bride” played over the loudspeaker in the Northeast Baltimore church, the rear doors opened and the veiled bride began her slow procession toward the altar. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

Mom began running her hands over their faces, as though she could identify them solely by touch. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

When he started another joke I looked at John’s face and began to realize it was he who had started me telling all these prevarications. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

Ron seized his knife, pulled Malfoy’s roots toward him, and began to chop them roughly, so that they were all different sizes. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

He placed newspaper advertisements for carpenters and laborers, and soon workers with teams of horses began excavating the land. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

At last the train begins pulling away and I dash for it. Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z

One day Amaranta's basket began to move by itself and made a complete turn about the room, to the consternation of Aureliano, who hurried to stop it. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

Hamilton had nearly perfect pitch for Washington’s language, having begun his public career drafting letters and memoranda for Washington’s signature as a staff officer during the war. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

She began to look healthier, even beautiful again, as the result of these quarrels. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was a soft and misty early spring morning; trees had only just begun to leaf out. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Joy Luck aunties begin to make small talk, not really listening to each other. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Gentlemen,” the president began, “we have reached the point where a decision is required: to bomb or not to bomb.” Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

The others whom he had not touched began to wander away. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z

Time and motion have almost, but not quite, come to a standstill as the nymph begins to change into a tree rather than succumb to the god’s amorous advances. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

I figured that nobody would pay attention to me; yet, the minute I began, there was a hush. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

As soon as she no longer touched the metal, the Iron Rod began to shrink. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

He knelt in the dry leaves and ash with the blanket wrapped about his shoulders and after a while the coughing began to subside. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

I’m beginning to think you should have hanged yourself rather than me. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

Instead, you have this headstrong child who’s determined to be alone...Dimple began to cry, her breath hitching, her nose plugged. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

As soon as Johnny began to cultivate Dove, he was surprised at the response. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

But one of the things Dr. Watson and others have begun to understand is that people whose performance suffers less—who are, in effect, better “multitaskers”—see a lower load on their attentional networks. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

Mia began searching for the right, delicate words to uproot this idea, but it was too late. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

He should look at this as the beginning of a process. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The others pretended not to recognize him, and he began to have fun. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

Once people began to produce food and become sedentary, they could shorten the birth spacing and produce still more people, requiring still more food. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

If one filters out banal and impersonal events, most of what’s left are astounding aberrations and coincidences, and one’s mind begins to resemble the headlines of supermarket tabloids. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

The pedestal with the Story Box began to sink into the floor, and a low rumble vibrated through the air. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

Soon he left Chicago and moved to Gilman, Illinois, where he met a young woman and began a formal courtship, which compelled him to visit Holmes’s building one more time, to seek a divorce decree. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

The journey had begun on August 7, when the Zeppelin had slipped its tethers in Lakehurst, New Jersey, lifted up with a long, slow sigh, and headed for Manhattan. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z

It all began a few weeks ago, when a map slipped through the vents of my locker. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

He began to speak again, slowly but evenly, as if reciting something. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

As soon as the door closed I began to rip open the Band-Aids right away. Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

The idea of dying, of ceasing to be, began to fascinate me. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

The hobbits began to tell him the story of their adventures ever since they left Hobbiton. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

On June 20, 1921, soon after she began her lessons, Marian graduated from the South Philadelphia High School for Girls. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z

“It was right before the water rushed in at that concourse. When we fought off those wannabe gangsters. I woke up just as the bad part began.” The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

At last, heavy as an ice- capped mountain, I rise and work my way to the inner wall, beginning of wolfslopes, the edge of my realm. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

She thought of that far-off day when John had come into the world—that moment, the beginning of her life and death. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

Jethro nodded and sat quietly staring into the fire for a long time, listening to the music of the strings until his eyes grew heavy and his shoulders began to droop. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

Naturally, I chose the latter, and began waiting outside doors of various neighbours, diving for crumbs to still my hunger. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

“He is that foolish, Principal,” my mother said as she and Granny began untying me. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

He pulled her into him, and when she began to cry, he could tell she’d kept herself together until this moment. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

I was slowly beginning to comprehend the meaning of my environment; a sense of direction was beginning to emerge from the conditions of my life. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

We arrived as the vendors were just beginning to put their food products out. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

But we are at the very beginning of our exploration. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

A neighbor dropped me off after school to wait for Grandma to come home from work, so my birthday celebration could begin. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Most of all, I pretend that this magic hour is the beginning of something, not the end. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

He looks down on me and says, “To get credit for the report, you have to deliver it orally. Tomorrow. At the beginning of class.” Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

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

A few months earlier, when crisp leaves had begun slipping to the ground, signaling the end of summer, Dad had been in high spirits. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

“You hold your fingers and wrist stiff. All the movement comes from your arm. You begin by rotating the flesh on your arm so that your pen will form slanting circles.” Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

The friend under the blanket began to feel as if he were in an oven, and then, at last, he had to throw the blanket aside to let cool air in. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

What they told me of this world filled some gaps in the knowledge I’d acquired in mine, and I began to see the answer to many mysteries. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Instead, much to the initial embarrassment of his father and stepmother, he began to do the housework. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

They would begin to circle, a chain linked loosely, and over the next hour their numbers would grow. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

And then, as though to confirm her in all her dark imaginings, he began, as she reached the subway steps, to whimper, and moan, and cry. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Brolin began taking attendance and had already called out three or four names when she got to me. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

Presently her half-vision began to show her the pale forms that Mary was seeing in her dreams, and she adjusted her mind to resonate with them, as if she were tuning a string. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

Still, Chester kept eating, hoping that it would begin to taste better. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now, he began to take an interest in his son. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

Since so much of learning anything depends on the atmosphere in which it is taught, Finny and I, to our joint double amazement, began to make flashing progress where we had been bumblers before. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

He picked one of the limbs that seemed right and began chopping where the limb joined the tree. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

I flew first to Calcutta, to attend my wedding, and a week later I flew to Boston, to begin my new job. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

Media coverage of all the innocent people wrongly convicted had an effect on the death-sentencing rate in America, which began to decline in 1999. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

George cut the cards and began turning them over, looking at each one and throwing it down on a pile. Of Mice and Men 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

As the winds grew in ferocity and speed, the grains of sand began to sting like bites of mosquitoes and then like splinters. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

As the rooms, and the terraces, and the pool deck began to fill with partiers, Rowan began to rise from the funk he had been left in after his awful bout with Citra. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

It was something he had begun to sense in 1967, when he’d worked briefly on the study after returning from Vietnam. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Bailey begins spending a great deal of time outside of the house. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Just then, that loud familiar sound began to rumble the room. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

We began coming down, but it wasn’t easy: stepping around the bodies, turning away from the stench, from the reality of the death around us. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Most noticeable of all was the stripe of white down the monstruo’s left side, beginning at its ear and running all the way to its tail. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

I lowered my head down onto my knees, and as my body began to shake uncontrollably, I felt a warm arm wrap around my shoulders. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

Her eyes welled with tears that began streaming down her face, mixing with her makeup to make black streaks. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

With the assistance of two servants, Stanton devoted herself to raising her children and running the household while Henry began a career in antislavery politics. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

The tulips are red, a darker crimson towards the stem, as if they have been cut and are beginning to heal there. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

He handled the car expertly, picking up speed at the beginning of each block and slowing slighdy as he approached each street intersection. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

He’s only been gone a couple days, but he’d give anything to catch a whiff of the flowery perfume Shenice started wearing at the beginning of the year, or hear one of Drake’s corny jokes. Clean Getaway 2020-01-07T00:00:00Z

They sat down and slowly began to sway. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

With that in mind, Dr. Lamb began the autopsy by looking for the bullet in the lower abdomen. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

I slid the canopy shut and began to run through the familiar preflight checks. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

Some newspaper chains began to ran not one story, but a series of three, four, or five “exposures” of the Nation of Islam. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

He begins his great work by running through a set of conventional arguments drawn from Sacrobosco: the heavens are spherical; the earth is spherical; the waters are spherical. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Black and green mold had begun to cover one side of her face—no doubt the reason this statue had been relegated here—but the goddess didn’t seem to mind. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

Tomorrow Frederick’s wagons would arrive and begin carting it away. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z

It took several months before I began to relearn how to sleep without the aid of medicine. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

Olympic team to Germany, was barely past the Statue of Liberty before Louie began stealing things. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z

As we arrived home, the man on the radio explained federal judge Ronald Davies’s ruling, ordering integrated classes to begin on Wednesday. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

About 3,600 Sudanese passed the interviews and began being processed for relocation to America. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

And the scythes, Earth’s grand bringers of death, began to file out into the rotunda for donuts and coffee. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

As darkness began to fall at five thirty, the wind shifted once again and quickly blew up into a gale, tearing the tops off the waves. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

He was the one that she had known before Life began. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

In 1939 she was just beginning to use her “My Day” newspaper column as her own political forum, where she could express her personal ideas and convictions. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z

“I say . . .” he began; but the sentence ended prematurely in a squeal. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

A light snow began falling as the car wound its way up a narrow dirt road carved into the side of a mesa. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Amá says we should begin with the most disgusting parts of the house—the bathrooms, better to get them over with. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

As though a stranger that he’d sat down next to on a park bench had turned to him and begun to relate some intimacy. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

The mouse got to his feet and began the long climb down from the shelf. The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z

For the first time, Meggie saw something like fear on Capricorn's face, a nameless fear without beginning or end, and behind it hatred rose like a vast black shadow. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

He glances over the copy, but there’s too much to even begin to process. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

And the morning of the fifteenth, on the day of the wedding celebration, it began to rain, a very bad sign. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

That night in my rented room, while letting the hot water run over my can of pork and beans in the sink, I opened A Book of Prefaces and began to read. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

She stopped, held the radio like a microphone, and began to sing the words at the top of her lungs, moving around as if she was on a stage. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

Mark got off one more shot before he began to crawl backward up the stairs. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

Always, my lips began to form the same words: My name is Clancy Gray, and I am here to tell you how the camp rehabilitation program saved my life. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

To resupply themselves with labor, the Spaniards began importing slaves from Africa. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

“Being bombed at gave us the feeling we were like the soldiers fighting at the front,” said Irmgard Burmeister, eight years old when war began. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

He set it up and began to show her and she found herself glowing inside. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

“The joys come close upon the sorrows this time, and I rather think the changes have begun,” said Mrs. March. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

Lyddie packed her wonderings away in her head to think about some other time and began to watch where she was going. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

“I told you I have good suits, cotton ones,” I said, but he began to complain. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

Lena poured some milk into a pot on the stove and began adding ingredients. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

She only knew that the past ten days since the dame school had begun had been the pleasantest she had known in Connecticut. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

He dumps the counters out on the top of his desk and begins to turn them over. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

When a city begins to grow and spread outward, from the edges, the center which was once its glory is in a sense abandoned to time. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

The land changed to sandy fields and low scrub, and I began to despair about reaching the giants before the newlyweds celebrated their first anniversary. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

In a moment he would kneel and begin to steer with the paddle. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

She poured a capful of yellow liquid into the water, and bubbles began to fill the tub. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dad’s message is apt today: While sharing may seem limitless, it ends where privacy begins. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

People’s morale was not so bad: we were beginning to get used to the situation. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

It's late afternoon when I begin to hear the cannons. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

The crowd began to break apart and stream from the yard, queen’s men, king’s men, and free folk alike, all anxious to get out of the wind and the cold. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The next morning, just as Seabiscuit stepped on the track for his final blowout, it began to rain. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Night is when the cruise ships begin to leave. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Quickly Sam began to eat his stew before they had time to ask him more questions. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

I began taking a brown paper bag to the library to bring my books home in. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

The driver clucked once, and they began to roll slowly forward. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

“Katherine—” I begin, but I don’t get much more than her name out before she cuts me off. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

“Boy, this sure is overdue,” he said as he began to carefully clip the hooves and peel away the old layers. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Mother began to doubt whether she would ever midwife again, and while she was saddened by this, Dad was devastated. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

I began to comb my hair down over my face so Buddy couldn't see it. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

He moved quietly up to the edge of the hollow just as the doe began to speak. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had chosen drama simply because I liked Hamlet’s soliloquy beginning “To be, or not to be.” I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

We leaped out from underneath the stoop where we had taken cover and charged into the open yard, where we began to fight. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

“Right at the beginning Life said it would be that way. He said, ‘In war the dead pay the debts for the living.’ My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Newspapers and radio had been competing for audience and advertisers ever since radio's popularity began growing. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

She began searching behind the sofa and behind the curtains. Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z

After that, I began to watch my father more closely. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Has fear, since the beginning of time, driven men to such lengths of calculation? Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

As we sat waiting, Curt Lemon began to tense up. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then there’s Peeta, who will be my partner in this deception, but how do I begin that conversation? Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

The same streets she’d walked down when she began her first days at Carver High School. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

He begins to sketch again next to me. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

Lurching to the right, to the left, halting, leaning forward, taking a step, they began. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

He squatted down in the tall grass, remembered the meat that Sam had given him, and began to tear at it ravenously. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

The task of emptying three rooms, practically empty to begin with, leaves him exhausted. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

And soon, HeLa cells weren’t the only ones being bought and sold for research—with media and equipment standardization, culturing became easier, and researchers began growing cells of all kinds. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

When you begin probing into the origins of aids and Marburg, the light fails and things go dark, but you sense hidden connections. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The people in the green SUV—” I began, and would have finished, had the door not suddenly rolled open behind us. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

Sam began writing us letters every once in a while—every two or three months especially after he heard that Father was dead. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

He pressed it and the tiny powerful motor inside the yo-yo began to turn. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

“Nothing more exciting than a new beginning, don’t you think?” Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

Werner takes it without looking and begins to calculate the sines. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Suddenly she lifted her head and began to look all around the kitchen. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

Our family had begun to dwindle, along with the entire camp population. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her long braids fell down and began to blow in the night wind. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

I heard only silence for a moment; then Aech began to laugh. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

The redheaded boy began to unwrap his candy, then stopped. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z

We nodded to each other as I began the long trip up to my homeroom. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The story, spread over the four separate operas, begins with the theft of a precious Golden Ring from the depths of the River Rhine, which represents indomitable, deathless Germany. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

More engines began arriving at the scene, as did the department’s Chief Marshal Robert A. Williams. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z

Behind Hedge, the sea goddess began to move. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

At the twelfth I discovered that he had been counting to himself because he began to count aloud in a noncommittal, half-heard voice. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

“What are you doing here?” he asked the first soldier, a menacing, low roar beginning to sound in his throat. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

And if, in daylight, we improve our resolution so we can make out things that are a meter across, then we begin to detect for the first time individual organisms—whales, cows, flamingos, people. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

"He may as well begin here," Mr. Armin said, in a perfectly civil tone. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

But Finn, Emma, and Chess all plopped their backpacks down beside the huge table in the kitchen and began taking out folders and books. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

A small break in the skin began to bleed. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

We got excited and began to crowd around. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

Tears began forming in her big eyes, and slowly rolled down her cheeks, onto her nightgown. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had begun to wonder whether the Army should move in with a military biohazard swat team. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The men had already begun to move south along the Pennington Road. The Fighting Ground 1984-04-01T00:00:00Z

The man put his face close to Horan’s and began screaming angry questions at him. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

Iole watching her helplessly saw bark begin to grow upward covering her body. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

The European crowds who were watching preparations begin for the Candidates tournament liked Bobby too, but for different reasons: Americans weren’t supposed to play as well as he did. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Three weeks after the beginning of school, Bull arrived home from the squadron at the precise instant that Lillian was setting dinner on the table. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

He drops into the chair and begins cleaning his greaves. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

He ran all the way up the hill and hardly got his books down when he began to blow. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

The soldiers of Mordor lifted their heads and also began to put on speed. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

“From the beginning. As far back as you can remember.” Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her feet began to move again on the treadle. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

This was the beginning of the Reformation; intellectuals everywhere began to reject the authority of the pope. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

The tone rang much longer than such a thing should, then slowly began to fade. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

The poem ends, Soft as it began— I loved my friend. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

But when they began to fight on land, they abandoned this successful strategy and followed the usual practices of waging war in Italy. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z

My hands had begun to shake uncontrollably and my migraines had returned with a vengeance. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

Dad and the lanky man opened the back of the SUV and began removing suitcases and duffel bags. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

Without hesitating, they began to rub their faces vigorously, each after the other. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

Its term began after harvest and ended before planting time. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the course of the seventeenth century the Latin words experientia and experimentum and, with them, the English words ‘experience’ and ‘experiment’ began to diverge in meaning. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

He thinks the fortune-teller looks a bit sad as she begins to gather up the cards on the table, putting them back into a neat pile. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

She began to see things she had failed to see before. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z

Presently, the men began to wander aimlessly about the basement, looking into corners, examining the shovel, the garbage pail, and the trunk. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

When they saw Ghost, some of the dogs broke off and ran, while others began to bay and growl. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Mr. Popper had read that penguins are extremely curious, and he soon found that this was true, for stepping out, the visitor began to inspect the house. Mr. Popper's Penguins 1938-09-01T00:00:00Z

Fifth graders look like scared little mice at the beginning of the school year. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

Just where the steep ascent of the mountain began, he stopped. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

In June, when the berries ripened, they took their caddies into the fields and began the task of picking. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

‘He drew himself up then and began to declaim, as if he were making a speech long rehearsed. “ The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

Amy shook her head and opened her sketchbook with an air of resignation, but she had made up her mind to lecture ‘that boy’ and in a minute she began again. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

I could understand how I came to be sitting on this roof at the beginning and at the end of everything. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

I settled into my seat and waited for Miss Watson to begin her magic. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

I had begun to leam the prayers in Arabic; now, my biggest prayer difficulty was physical. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her vision began to clear, but the world still seemed bathed in that golden glow. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

Rigid, I began climbing the rungs, slightly reassured by having Finny right behind me. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

Practice for all the teams began with twenty-five minutes of running laps on the grass just inside the asphalt track. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

Custom demanded that the queen begin with the Astapori envoy, a former slave who called himself Lord Ghael, though no one seemed to know what he was lord of. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The ship began to circle the kelp bed and I thought surely that it was going to return to the shore. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then again began the struggling and fighting, backward and forward, jerking and falling, until he choked and lay quiet. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

To begin with, there are the demands on balance, coordination, and reflex. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Its basic importance did not seem sufficient cause by itself to lead him out of the protein field which he had worked in only two years and was just beginning to master intellectually. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

Richard said that he hated the South, and this was perhaps the reason it did not occur to either of them to begin their married life there. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

Twinkle grabbed the hem of her T-shirt and began wiping away the dirt staining the statue’s brow. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

My seizures always begin the same way: I smell flowers. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

“Fine,” he said softly, very softly, and began to sit up. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

The actual writing of the book began with the scene in the pool room. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

Soon, it became very cold and I began shivering. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Those present were Mr. Gitney, Dr. Trefusis — who sat against a wall, his chair tipped back on two legs — and Mr. Sharpe, who rose as I sat, ready to begin a lecture, I perceived. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

She began to run then, forcing herself onward even though fear pulsed inside her. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Babiki was so shy that she didn’t talk much to begin with, and I was so inept with women that I didn’t know how to talk to her. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

“Dixie Mafia”? I'd met Walter McMillian two weeks earlier, after spending a day on death row to begin work on five capital cases. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

She had not suffered enough for her sins, her penance was yet to begin. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

She considered—resolved—and, trying to smile, began— Emma 1815-12-23T00:00:00Z

Imagination, probably, or perhaps hard radiation beginning to tell even through the insosuit. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

The ambulance’s siren began to howl in the night. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Rex Rollins claps at us again, to quiet the rumble, and Monica and Garret begin at one end of the room, near the smaller numbers. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

That night, just as the church bells began to ring midnight at the First Baptist on Washington Street, Benton was walking up the stairwell of the bell tower. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

She poked at it with a finger, then began kneading it again. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

I began to leave more rice in my bowl. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

At the moment, I was unable to pursue the shameless thief, so I began to scream. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

She began to relax, listening to the sound- filled silence. Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

Before the race began, I tried to approach Annabeth and tell her about my dream. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

The hours and days, the weeks and months and even the years, grew legs and began to run like an antelope. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

With a sad twist of his head, Red Rabbit turned away from Father and began to clop along in his slow, methodical pace. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

Pinmei nodded, and they both began to run, going from tent to tent, deeper and deeper into the camp. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

He was not pleased with her purchases and began to tell her so. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

In a matter of months, however, Albus’s own fame had begun to eclipse that of his father. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

I stopped conversing with my dogs, and I believe that subtleties of feeling began to disappear until finally I was on a pleasure-pain basis. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

One day, when she was eleven months old, just before she began to walk, a woman stole her out of a supermarket cart. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

As it was in the beginning, is now and ever shall be, world without end, Amen, came the response. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

So the citizens of Oxford read the weather forecasts in the newspaper, and enjoyed the pale sun on their faces, and began to put their sandbags away. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

Mark began to hear the chaos after passing two more houses. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

The red warning light on his chest began to flash faster and faster until it finally went solid red. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

“She has more jewels in her hair,” Ana was saying, and her stepsister began to pull at the silver rope braided into her hair. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

When his father opens up one of the books to a random page, the print is far smaller than in the Hardy Boys series Gogol has begun recently to enjoy. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

The sun had begun its descent by the time I returned home. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

As soon as General Peckem had received his medal, he began asking for increased responsibility. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

One woman near the front began to convulse after a man’s name was called. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

But the posters were flapping and twisting around, and the brittle edges of the paper were beginning to split and tear. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

At nine hundred pieces of silver, the bidding began to slow. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

While her classmates began murmuring happily, Stella couldn’t shake a sudden feeling of foreboding. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

She was just beginning her long struggle with Alzheimer's disease, and each time I entered the room, I felt the need to reintroduce myself and set her at ease. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

But cool didn’t begin to describe what was going through my head. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

As he continued to close in on us, the Mechagodzilla’s eyes began to glow a bright blue. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

The supercontinent began to break apart, however, and by 60 million years ago, Antarctica had migrated south to its present location over the Pole. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

“I feel we are moving away from the subject of the conversation—” Gherland began. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

Then the dark began to go in smooth, bright shapes, like it always does, even when Caddy says that I have been asleep. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s only later—years later—that you begin to wonder what might’ve happened if you hadn’t. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

A roar went up as the crowd began to discern the state of play. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Ba seemed to drop his gray and work weariness — his black eyes sparkled like raindrops in the sun when he began a story. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

In another fifteen minutes he was approaching the end of the valley, and the beginning of the deadness beyond. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

Cures had begun to be attributed to Patria; Maria Teresa was great on love woes; and as for Minerva, she was competing with the Virgencita as Patroness of Impossible Causes. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He began to push his way slowly through the damp undergrowth. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

In die afternoon, toward evening, with his face smoke smeared and his sldn red from die heat, he finally began to think ahead to what he needed to do. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

On the other hand, we couldn’t afford to put them off, because the cars were beginning to sell. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

He lifted his stubby number-2 yellow pencil and began to trace the route to a damsel imprisoned in a castle cell in the puzzle’s center. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

And that is, funnily enough, exactly where this story begins: two and a half thousand years ago. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

I began to feel my ribs when I touched my sides. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

Every muscle in her body began to relax. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

I began to believe that he had chosen Margaret not because she would make him speak but because she would make me understand. Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He began, for terror, to weep and moan—and this sound was swallowed up, and yet was magnified by the echoes that filled the darkness. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

We began homeschooling when Papa started working for a Japanese company. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

So I can finish this diary; and God only knows if I shall ever begin another. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

My political views were beginning to take shape, and the more I learned about America, the more liberal I became. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

I had begun coping with the white world too late. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

He took it, said only, “Keep them dry, boys,” and began to row away. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

Red eyes—he began to wonder if he had mar laria. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Scotch terrier came in from the garden and began sniffing at my heels. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

“Don’t be disgusting,” he said, and began to pack his slides and specimen box. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

The humans extended their swords straight out to the sides, and the formation began to move through the air like a buzz saw. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

In places the staff coating already had begun to crack and chip. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

“I think,” begins Mama, spreading butter on slices of bread, “I think I’m ready to go back to work.” Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z

Then they walked “all the remaining Part of the Night without making any Stop,” hoping that the Indians would not begin pursuit until daylight. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

The emergence of each new system of control may seem sudden, but history shows that the seeds are planted long before each new institution begins to grow. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

My letter began with the words, "Dear Monsieur Sedaris, We regret to inform you..." Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

And my heart in my rib cage was a bird that suddenly began to sing. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Kaelish rolled over on his side, curled up on the bench, and began to weep. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

I began to make some money, but I could never bring myself to leave someone in charge of the shop; the crystals are delicate things. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Cheers began to rise from the semicircle of boats ahead, from the beaches, from the observation train working its way along the shore, and—loudest of all—from the ferryboat chock-full of students. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Something dark and heavy began to squirm just under her diaphragm. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

On the third Saturday after school began, Julian and his father appeared at market. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

It began as an exhilarating display of pure speed. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

I nodded my head and began to run toward her, my self running ahead. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

The woman became so angry, she began screaming at the top of her lungs. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

"I begin to comprehend why the queen fears you so much. Oh, yes I do." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Later he began to miss days at work and frequently did not have his rent money. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

“Then, you think—if I moved about a bit——?” the Red Cow began, a happy eager look coming into her eyes. Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z

And then, very slowly, her gown begins to change. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

A scintilla of doubt had begun to insinuate itself. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

In a small desperate voice he began: Ho! The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

Beneath the dark canopy of leaves and smoke the fire laid hold on the forest and began to gnaw. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

Still only eighteen years old, he worked mornings as a mason and ironsmith, afternoons as a fisherman, and at night he began to train for the next years race. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

And now the difference between a luxury automobile and a newfangled cartoon car began to show itself. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

If there are no beginning repeat dots, you should go all the way back to the beginning of the music and repeat from there. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

More than that, sharing information like this, she was beginning to win my trust. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

Myron Cloon slumped down in a chair by the window, chewed off a fingernail, and began playing with it in his teeth. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

As the days crept by, more and more people shook off their despondency and began to rebuild their homes and businesses. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z

When the mourners began to throw handfuls of earth onto the body, Ash had to look away. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

I guess you can’t get out of breath if you don’t have any to begin with. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

The bagels had begun as a casual gesture: a boss treating his employees whenever they won a research contract. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

I must have slept because when I looked out the window again, we were passing the New Paltz exit and the sun was beginning to rise over the mountains. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

The J-3 was sitting at the beginning of the runway and was polished, painted, and poised to fly. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

The names of the stations begin to take on meaning and my heart trembles. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

The last thing I remember before losing consciousness was flying, flying so high Zeus would never have forgiven me, and then beginning to fall, smoke and fire and water streaming from me. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

After a while, I began to suspect that his sluggishness might be from a too-liberal dose of painkiller. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Unable to free myself from my terror, I began to long for home. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was so much more I wanted to say, but I didn’t know where to begin. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

As if the mere thought of him had set it off, she felt the ring begin to pulse like a living thing. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Tonight they would all begin eagerly to memorize the rules for their adult Assignments. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

People began to peel off in groups, making their way home. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

I began to feel that something more than a national trophy case was needed if I was to be truly free, and for that I have the history department of Howard University to thank. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

Hurrying to camp, she got out her man’s knife and began to dig. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

He swung his right arm upward to shake Harry’s hand, but at the last moment seemed unable to face it, and merely closed his fist and began swinging it backward and forward like a metronome. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

Alex watched in surprise as tears began to roll down the old man’s face. Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z

At that point, the bell rings, and we all begin to shuffle off to lockers and homerooms. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

Kurtsinger began shouting at his horse, his voice whipped away behind him. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Jack ignored him, lifted his spear and began to shout. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

When someone pointed out that the game could easily last until two in the morning, it was rescheduled to begin at 1:30 p.m. the next day, Sunday afternoon. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Bombs began smacking the water, smashing into ships, blasting planes parked on the ground, igniting fires everywhere. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now that white flight had begun, the Point System was more important than ever. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

A moment later the gates began to stir, creaking, dripping, and slowly, slowly opening against the current, making the water seethe and churn. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

If you are treated as an untrustworthy person—a potential slacker, drug addict, or thief—you may begin to feel less trustworthy yourself. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

The people in the tavern began to leave. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

I would always begin by assuming the worst: my appeal was denied. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z

You could see he was now beginning to wonder what all this was leading up to. Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z

Then she put her lips together and blew, making a noise that began as a whistling, and then sounded like a distant wind. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

The outline of the palace shines in the distance, stretching out in so many directions it has no beginning or end. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

I discarded my high-necked blouses and began to wear more fashionable cuts—fitted, often sleeveless, with less restrictive necklines. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

I began to think about things and to write stories, finally coming to the conclusion that the others no longer had anything to do with me. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

As the road began to widen, it became more and more crowded. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

One night, as we sat outside on the mattresses, it began to rain. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

“For Avignon?” die chaplain’s heart missed a beat, and all his flesh began to prickle and creep. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

She coasted for a bit and then began to pump her legs, rising higher and higher. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z

They had slowed down now and Ranofer’s breath was beginning to return. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

I thought of my “head for the hills” bag, waiting in my bed, and of the rifle hidden near the railcar, and began to worry about the bullet-making machine. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

When it seemed there was no more air, no more hope, the animals began to run out through the fire into the open, where spears and arrows waited. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

I took out my tablet and began my letter. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

And after seeing my mother’s disappointed face once again, something inside of me began to die. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Grandma had already begun shopping, hiding gifts, and testing the Christmas lights so she could replace bumt-out bulbs. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

So much hovered over me that, by the time we got to Griggs’ Rigs Racing, I was almost sorry I’d ever thought up the rally to begin with. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

Chess shifted the weight of Finn’s drowsy body to the side and hesitantly began: ‘“I don’t...’” The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

She wrote to Obinze about the books she read, careful, sumptuous letters that opened, between them, a new intimacy; she had begun, finally, to grasp the power books had over him. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

“Whenever you’re ready to start,” I said, feeling my face beginning to get warm. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

I leaped over the wall and began running on as fast as I could, but I knew it was hopeless. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

And in imagination she saw the judge's old hands put the black cap on his head and begin to pronounce sentence…. And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z

On the ships, something else began to form: a new sense of family. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

But when Mr. Muhammad’s teachings reversed my attitude toward my black brothers, in my guilt and shame I began to catch every chance I could to recruit for Mr. Muhammad. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

I pulled off my gloves and rubbed my hands in front of the filaments as they began to glow bright orange. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

Like the Eurasian centers of civilization, Mesoamerica and the Andes were places where complex, long-lasting cultural traditions began. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

He began to believe that his presence was indeed keeping intruders away from the construction site. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Once released, the wheel and arms began to turn. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z

However, as her X-ray images improved, she gradually began to envision the helix with the phosphates on the outside, as indicated by her notes. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

Then he began to walk toward a large plank of wood that had been covered with a tarp. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

“I didn’t find that letter in any old box,” she began. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

But as I walk toward the door of the study, a door I have never even seen closed until :this moment, I can feel my mind begin to race. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

But that was only the beginning of the sign from Allah. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

“No student is permitted to leave his seat for any reason other than a dramatic health concern once a section of the achievement tests has begun. There are no exceptions.” The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

He felt ill at ease, speaking as if he himself were a war-leader in a council hall, but soon the words began to come easier. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z

I was beginning to hate her, in a way. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

Eventually, seeing the unwavering faith of my parents, I began to open myself up to the idea of God’s help. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

She shivered, delighted, as the words began to form images in the mist. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

The snake began to coil itself around her forearm. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z

I positioned an article on the tray in front of me and began typing, falling into a steady rhythm. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

The viruses, instead of being single-minded agents of disease and death, now begin to look more like mobile genes. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Akira began screaming at Papa for some reason, so Mama rushed out. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

The horse was visible outside in the drizzle at the door, my breakfast was put on the table, Drummle’s was cleared away, the waiter invited me to begin, I nodded, we both stood our ground. Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z

The band begins an upbeat song, and the choir marches down the aisles, swaying their arms and clapping to the beat. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

He began dropping in several times a week, staying longer, watching with a more critical eye. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

Several days after the convention began, prominent abolitionist William Lloyd Garrison arrived. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

More and more competitors were arriving, and soon the clock would strike nine—the time when the Test would begin. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

“How is it,” his father began, “that you plan on ever making any money, Cabot?” Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

Wisps of smoke were beginning to rise from the chimneys of several small log lean-tos along the roadway. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

The guard, the father and one or two small children began the herculean job of waking Dad. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

As we walked on together, I began to feel better, knowing that Donald felt the same way as I did. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

At the beginning of February, Mrs. Baker had assigned me Romeo and Juliet. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

“Some of our lot are suggesting a story from somebody. We’re hoping one of your people would like to tell one, but we can begin ourselves, if you’d prefer.” Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had the beginnings of a home, but not a bite to eat, and I had worked so hard that I could hardly move forward to find that bite. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

She began to cry softly into her pillow, not knowing why or for whom. The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z

She began to pack her things, stuffing them unfolded into the tiny gunnysack that had been her only luggage when she came. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

As the fever subsided, I began to feel better, but Grandma said I should stay home a few more days to make sure I was completely well. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Gradually, a specialization process began to occur and music became a regular subject with its own certification, an educational tradition that continues to this day. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

With a shred of Kleenex, he began with loving care to polish away the boys’ fingerprints. Ralph S. Mouse 1992-08-01T00:00:00Z

She got up and began to pace the room to dispel some of the anger before Rishi and Ashish came back. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

They both began to look forward to the calm, quiet life that the country would bring them. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

She picked up her notebook and her pen and began to write. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

They had begun to walk down the lane. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

Elizebeth was still wary of entanglement, but sparks began to fly between them—a “Flame which we kindled together.” The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Mary Poppins, slipping one of the flannel nightgowns over her head, began to undress underneath it as though it were a tent. Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z

No real explanations for their presence had been given yet, but with the exchange of gifts, the feeling of unease began to lessen and everyone knew that the dancing and drumming would soon begin. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

The doors shut us in and we begin the descent. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Mr. Warren tells us to take out our MacBooks and begins the lesson on British literature. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

Finally, Justice Strauss began speaking, and Klaus saw that she was reading directly from the legal book. The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z

By the end of the month, April and Melanie were beginning work on their own alphabet of hieroglyphics for writing secret messages, and at the library they were beginning to be called the Egypt Girls. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

One day a short time before her delivery date, Clara came down from her Brahmanic refuge without warning and began to speak again. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Everyone was settled and the playwright was about to begin her little speech summarizing the plot and evoking the excitement of performing before an adult audience tomorrow evening in the library. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Mama laid her hand on the new woman’s arm, leaned toward her, and began talking. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

“Can I just—?” I began, but the conversation rolled right over me. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

“You may or may not be aware of the events that occurred in the parking lot yesterday afternoon...” begins Mr. Bontaff, who then proceeds to tell us even less than we already know. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

Her fingers began to pluck at the fabric. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

He began to limp noticeably, and several of his colleagues urged him to see a doctor, a dreaded experience that Bobby would only agree to if he were in enormous pain. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

I begin to walk away, to create a little distance between me and Elizabeth’s friends. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

And just as I began to smile thinking about Laura Fish running naked into the river, a truck came speeding up beside me and stopped. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

But then, I suppose, when with the benefit of hindsight one begins to search one's past for such 'turning points', one is apt to start seeing them everywhere. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

Then the azaleas began to bloom, a garish display of pink, the rainy days leaving the flowers littering the ground. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

The instant I crawled outside, a messages waiting indicator began to flash on my display. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

He put his feet into his army boots and began lacing them up. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Tats, being my friend of many years, gets my drift and begins walking. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

Because after just a few words they would begin to look at us strangely, and edge away. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

Before she realized what was happening, the lane began to curve at the bottom of the slope. Rickshaw Girl 2007-02-01T00:00:00Z

She went to the steps and began to climb slowly. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

As a result, the Chicago Public School system began to fire its cheating teachers. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

Gregor began to doubt he would be able to pull out of it. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

I’ve been getting ten out of ten on my Bible quizzes and my memory work, but I’m beginning to falter. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

He watched as the scenery began to change, and the rolling steppe gave way to low grassy hills and then to higher land, with the occasional gorge or cataract; and still the boat steamed south. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

“We were only talking. Mr. Brooke came for his umbrella,” began Meg, wishing that Mr. Brooke and the umbrella were safely out of the house. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

The manicured trees quickly turned wild, and within an hour of leaving Taninli and its pocket of summer behind, the air began to carry the bite of cold. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

I shouted out “Marc” hoping it would force my father to come out and greet me, but even my own voice was beginning to sound foreign to me. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

The morning of our first official game begins with Asher ramming his wheelchair repeatedly against my door. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

He dropped dry twigs from the bird's nest onto the little fire, which crackled in the night and began to blossom and grow. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

Yishan, however, pretended not to notice, and was just about to suggest changing direction when an outpouring of people began to cluster into view. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

They began to throw bits and pieces of garbage at me. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

Malcolm X promptly did begin to pay me two- and three-hour visits, parking his blue Oldsmobile outside the working studio I then had in Greenwich Village. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Cases of cholera had begun to appear in the city. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

I concentrated and felt a chill begin to bleed up my arm. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Work had already begun for the day, work that would continue without her when she left them all to this miserable fate. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

It presupposed a high level of military discipline and an awesome degree of obedience by subordinates to their lawful superiors It assumed that wars had a beginning and an end. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

She pulls out tiny paper bags and begins to pass them out to everyone. Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

Suddenly, for no reason on earth that Marly knew, she ran to him and threw her arms around him, hard, and began to cry. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

It began to wind down so steeply that she had to dig her staff into the ground to keep from skidding. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

He began to walk slowly to his sleeping room. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

Young students and beginning musicians should go through it with a teacher, in either a classroom or lesson setting. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

Gitl began reciting the Kaddish, rocking back and forth on the sleeping shelf with the sonorous words, and the prayer was like the tolling of a death bell. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Immediately Ben began to whimper again, and for a while all of them looked up the drive at the square, paintless house with its rotting portico. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

This was the beginning of my bed that I was planning to work on after supper every night. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

They have sent me as their emissary, because we cannot begin the Forum until all are present and accounted for. The Misfits 2001-10-01T00:00:00Z

I began to lift, but he moaned and went rigid, so I stopped. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

And suddenly, to his surprise, he began to enjoy himself. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Immediately it began to sail from the shore. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

As we watch people line up and begin to mount the steps to the stage, I feel like one of the cows in the agricultural show my granddad took me to in Kinvara. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z