“If the boys have got to be in it,” said Marian, “you had better explain from the beginning.” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

She felt herself beginning to believe it; but all the same, it was heartrending to see the poor little cold thing, so close and yet so out of reach. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

Like any minor scale, dorian minor may start on any note, but like dorian mode, it is often illustrated as natural notes beginning on d. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

It was a very small village that had had its beginnings years before in a gathering of outcasts. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

By the beginning of 2015, I knew the time was approaching, time for me focus 100 percent of my energy on Olympic qualification. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

The large woman was beginning to take the food from the fire. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

In the Big Woods the snow was beginning to thaw. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

“What”—Pixie was beginning to crumble—“does he think he’s doing?” Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

At the beginning of this universe, there were no galaxies, stars or planets, no life or civilizations, merely a uniform, radiant fireball filling all of space. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

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 am now at a new beginning, in a new phase of life. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

“I’m sorry I didn’t make that clear from the beginning.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

He was beginning to understand the appeal of money. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Even though there are a lot fewer trainees than we started with at the beginning of summer, the place is packed with tutors and coaches of all kinds. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

If it was beginning to sound like an interview, that’s because it was. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Then suddenly the grim face broke down into what might have been the beginnings of a smile. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

That was just the beginning of free treats. Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z

Rather, I write of my life, beginning with my earliest memories and including all events leading to my late woes. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

"You know the beginning of my story, but what about after? Did you ever wonder what happened to the snake that ate the flower of immortality?" City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

If I had my way, I would empty the buildings out right now and hurry up and knock all four of ’em down and start a new beginning. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Now, when I point to you, instead of beginning your dance move, what about if you just jump up on me and I’ll catch you?” When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

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

Apparently this is a “game” that’s been going on since the beginning of the year. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

Everyone had on goggles, and the girls had spent the beginning of class complaining that the elastic straps were messing up their hair. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

“May as well sit down. I’m going to begin at the beginning.” Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

“But you’ll forget things once you’ve done them. Now is when the lessons happen, in the beginning. This is my chance to see how it’s done.” Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

To bring in a new labor union, however small, in what he hoped would be his future constituency, would be an excellent beginning for a journey to the Legislative Assembly. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Not only did he feel safer there than in the middle of the room but also because the smell coming off the man was beginning to bother him. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

“A bundle of contradictions” was the end of my previous letter and is the beginning of this one. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

Piper was beginning to understand how the horn worked. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

He started from the very beginning, and they listened as they walked. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

I found myself reaching for Zu’s notebook and flipping it open to the beginning. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

These applicants will still be required to submit conviction-history information at the beginning of the hiring process. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

The expressions that have blended together since I came out of my coma are beginning to emerge into patterns. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

The first European settlements in the Americas, beginning with the one founded by Columbus in 1492, were in the West Indies. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

At the beginning of each week, we went to the commissary and brought home bags and bags of food. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Dad is there in the beginning—Dad with his funny jokes about socialists and dogs and the roof that keeps liberals from drowning. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

But I was beginning to see there were bigger things in life than proving up on a claim. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

She thought she was prospering finely, but unconsciously she was beginning to desecrate some of the womanliest attributes of a woman’s character. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s terrible, but I’m beginning to hate her! The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

She is supposed to be on the company health plan by now, but they claim to have lost her application form and to be beginning the paperwork all over again. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even those people who joy in numbers and are impressed with bigness are beginning to worry, gradually becoming aware that there must be a saturation point and the progress may be a progression toward strangulation. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

Cora told Caesar that on seeing the chains, she feared Fletcher had conspired with Terrance from the very beginning and that they had been conveyed to a chamber of horrors. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

"There is room in the beginning class for freshmen and sophomores," she's telling Sunny. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

He unfolds the shirt and starts folding it from the beginning again. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

"What a pleasure to formally meet you. I was beginning to worry that I'd never get the chance." Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

The room was beginning to darken and spin. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

He was beginning to regret calling Tom Hustings over, although Hustings was big and good for scaring people. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

At the beginning of the school year, I was the butt of Beatriz’s crack backs. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

"I already tried to tell you. Nothing will stop this. It's just the beginning. We have to go." The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

There is no such thing as an old Levittown family, with the town having sprung up in the 1950s, but Krause’s family was there from the beginning. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

It was already beginning to feel like his. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

Around this time—1834—the word scientist was first coined, beginning an era that gradually professionalized the study of the natural world, and began to divide it into ever more specialized fields. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

We seem to be starting at the beginning, from scratch. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

And that was the beginning of the end for me and Dad.” Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

It was an auspicious beginning to America’s military involvement in Vietnam. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

For he knew that he had failed, from the very beginning, to ingratiate himself with Edmund. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

“No cause for alarm, Brother Alf. Ambrose Spike is made of leather and needles. Tough as a boulder, this old ruffian is. Look, he’s beginning to come around already.” Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

“Sit down,” said Mother, “and start from the beginning.” The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

The air, as always at the beginning of the monsoon, lay like a blanket upon the earth, damp and suffocating, but when it blew the wind came through the rain wet and chill. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

Out of the window, over his head, she could see the trees where millions of tiny new buds were beginning. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

In the beginning there was nothing but ice and the sun. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

I was beginning to be afraid for Father when he tried to fly in it. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The pieces of the puzzle were beginning to fall into place at last,” said a relieved Leslie Groves. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

There is much less certainty regarding the beginning of the end of Jim Crow. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

“I do not believe that Snowball was a traitor at the beginning,” he said finally. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z

“Of course, keeping you safe is beginning to feel like a fulltime occupation that requires my constant presence.” Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

At the beginning of the fourth month, the first pair reproduces again, but the second pair is not mature enough: three pairs. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

Govinda realized from the first glance at his friend’s face that now it was beginning. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z

Really sucks since we knew each other before Hudson transferred to our school at the beginning of junior year. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

“Have you forgotten that I can hear men’s thoughts? Let go the boy. If you attempt treachery I will take such vengeance upon you as never was heard of in all worlds from the beginning.” The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z

If once he could tell it all to them, from the far-away beginning until this very night, the telling would ease the sharp ache in his heart. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

On the center of Aru’s palm, the number eight was already beginning to change form....She was running out of time. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

More than that, sharing information like this, she was beginning to win my trust. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

Maybe, in the beginning, he tried to help the tributes. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

He could already feel the place beginning to slip away from him. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

But it was necessary, because we all hoped that meeting would signal the beginning of the school officials’ willingness to do something about the incredible increase in attacks against us. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I step over a draped arm and a woman with her mouth hanging open, and hum the beginning of the next verse of the song under my breath. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

She’d caught a cold at the beginning of winter and it had gotten worse. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

The bacteria are beginning to have the aspect of social animals; they should provide nice models for the study of interactions between forms of life at all levels. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

This was the beginning of a major change in the way farmers operated and the way we get our food. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

“I have to go/” He was beginning to whine. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

As Tisquantum’s later history made clear, he regarded himself first and foremost as a citizen of Patuxet, a shoreline settlement halfway between what is now Boston and the beginning of Cape Cod. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

It owed its beginnings to a fine blend of Yankee ingenuity and huck-sterism, its selling the first primordial example of the Home Shopping Network. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had been employed at the beginning, before any records were kept, and actually functioned as an engineer though he drew a janitor's pay. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Eventually, thousands of years after the beginnings of animal domestication and food production, the animals also began to be used for milk, wool, plowing, and transport. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

The others were beginning to gather too, there w;as a little crowd. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

I felt the little bud of our friendship beginning to bloom, and I smiled to myself. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Now that I have decided, I am beginning to worry about something that I know is really foolish: how I look, how I’m dressed. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

I watch him as he pulls his headphones on, my heart beginning to beat faster. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

‘Elvish they are, somehow. And the Moon’s growing. We haven’t seen him for a night or two in this cloudy weather. He’s beginning to give quite a light.’ The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

He lived until the end of the second century AD, or possibly just into the beginning of the third century. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

The beginning is that my great-grandfather was a magician, and long, long ago he set into motion a most terrible curse. Louisiana's Way Home 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

I was afraid he’d see in my eyes what I was beginning to suspect—that his heart knew my heart. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

But then, beginning about 70,000 years ago, Homo sapiens started doing very special things. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Deeper and deeper the two friends went until the steps ended at the beginning of a downward-winding corridor. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

Does the universe in fact have a beginning or an end? A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

After about fifty meters, we reached a small stone cottage that looked as old as the land it grew on, as if it had been here since the beginning of time. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

Mason, along with Thomas Hastings, went on to establish the first public school music program in Boston, beginning with the Boston Singing School, which taught children singing under his methodology. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

Virgil didn’t consider himself much of a storyteller, but he gathered all the pieces of Paulito together in his head and began the best way he knew how—at the beginning. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

She was busy tending to the poor in a task that had neither beginning nor end. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Oh my God, that's the best beginning to a song ever." Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

According to the general theory of relativity, there must have been a state of infinite density in the past, the big bang, which would have been an effective beginning of time. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was beginning to hate her, in a way. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

But the boycott marked the beginning of a national campaign against the Jews. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

Yes, church was always, from the very beginning, the center of all of my life. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

A sentence beginning with It is or There is is often a candidate for liposuction: There is competition between groups for resources works just fine as Groups compete for resources. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

Now I'm beginning to understand why Mrs. Janssen came to me. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

It was their last victory over their east-side rival, the beginning of a winless drought that showed no signs of stopping. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

By the Fourth of July they were beginning to go brown, and Daddy warned Joe and Marly not to toss their sparkler wires too far with the wires hot. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

Still, she was more patient with them than she had ever been with poor Brigid at the beginning. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

If only Digory had remembered what he himself had said a few minutes ago, that this was an enchanted room, he might have guessed that the enchantment was beginning to work. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z

In the beginning, Feldman left behind an open basket for the cash, but too often the money vanished. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

The Liberal landowners, who had supported the revolution in the beginning, had made secret alliances with the Conservative landowners in order to stop the revision of property titles. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

In the years between the beginning and the middle of the 1990s, New York City did not get a population transplant. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Despite the beginning of the war, there was a festive mood in the air. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

In fact, I was beginning to like the little fellow. Bunnicula 1979-03-01T00:00:00Z

Now she was beginning to think that silence was Cecilia’s answer. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

She was fourteen and her breasts were beginning to show beneath her bathing suit. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

It was while we were eating breakfast that Houston told us the story of the Chinese rabbit that I mentioned at the beginning of this book. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Here are the same two people, with the same level of skill, playing exactly the same roles, and beginning almost exactly the same way. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

We got up when Mrs. Sidman peered into our classroom and told us that we had done quite well and that we were beginning to be prepared. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

“At the beginning of the funeral and again at the end. You are going to sing the same song both times.” Louisiana's Way Home 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

His private and public selves beginning to reconcile. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

This worked well enough in the beginning, but on the fourth day—it was now Thursday—he found me at my locker. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

It was one day early in a recent September that the Professor happened to be the only witness to the very beginning of the Egypt Game. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

Up and down, back and forth he went until the storm wore itself out, and Edward saw that he was beginning, again, his slow descent to the ocean floor. The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane 2006-03-30T00:00:00Z

That was the beginning of my acquaintance with the owl. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

“I was very lucky,” Bill Gates said at the beginning of our interview. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

He filled a burlap pouch with the potato cuttings and hoisted it expertly to his thin shoulder where a batch of new freckles was just beginning to appear. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

This was the beginning of the American Revolution, a war that before it was over would claim many lives and consume the entire American colony. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You don’t need a clock. Think. At the beginning of the book, that girl walks through the vegetable garden—” “Meg.” When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

It was clear from the beginning that he and Jomo would not get along, the cook and the gardener, each thinking himself better than the other. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

“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

They were just beginning to grasp the task that lay ahead: the task of believing that it had really happened, that the citadel had really tilted. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

They were risking their lives in a battle that was only just beginning, a battle that would be most dangerous for those who were its first soldiers. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was going across the country, beginning with Hang Wood. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

She was beginning to be a little big with the child and she did not want me to see her. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

I should not be helped so soon, but it smells most excellent, and I cannot help beginning.” Emma 1815-12-23T00:00:00Z

McKusick’s research on the Lacks family coincided with the beginning of a new era of genetic research, in which the concept of risk to patients would change completely. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

I think this is what the world is—stories on top of stories, all the way back to the beginning of time. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

The snow was beginning to get a crust on it; on clear downslopes we went like a dog-team, at a run. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

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

But he needed to get back to Nali’s, and the sun was beginning to break over the horizon. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

Just as almost no true sentence beginning with I could be spoken by Lindsey, Colin was watching all the things he'd thought were true about himself, all his I sentences, fall away. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z

Down by the river, the revels were only now beginning to dwindle and die. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

After school, the volunteer turnout for paper-chaining is the smallest it’s been since the beginning of the project. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

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

Now I know that—in the beginning at least—my mother never did anything seriously wrong. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

His thoughts flashed back to the beginnings of his journey, when his most pressing problem had been deciding which wine to drink with his midmoming snails. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

It was the beginning of what one observer would call a massacre and what the Chicago Tribune would term “a crusade of death.” 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

And thus becoming a permanent resident marked the beginning of our next chapter of waiting. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

“Over there. I think he’d been after her since the beginning. He had her against the wall.” The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

Gears were starting to shift into place inside Thomas’s head as well, almost as if a prior memory was beginning to break loose. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

The clouds were beginning to mass themselves together. And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z

A few people—like Jack and Summer and me—were nice to him from the beginning. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

Even worse, Booth saw the beginning of a change in how Abraham Lincoln was viewed by America. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

"The earth,” wrote the pioneering fire ecologist Edward V Komarek, "born in fire, baptized by lightning, since before life’s beginning has been and is, a fire planet.” 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

His father was beginning to raise his voice. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

I told him how I felt from the beginning, but I think he hoped I’d change my mind.” Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

“If the strike succeeds,” he proclaimed, “it might and probably would be the beginning of an upheaval which might bring on all of us grave and serious consequences.” 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

The sun was beginning to set, so we knew we didn’t have much time. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

“Let’s start more at the beginning,” I say. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

What you don’t know at the beginning, however, is that the red decks are a minefield. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

The Rebel shells were beginning to pass overhead. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was beginning to enjoy life in New York. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the beginning, Joe spent his time in prison much as he’d spent it in the military: in the hole for insubordination and fighting. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

From the very beginning, it felt wrong, and it only got worse. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

He let me fall, down and down toward a black sun and spiders, though he knew I was beginning to die. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the beginning was the word, the war, the way of all flesh. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

Silently she dressed, tied back her hair, and set herself to a succession of chores, beginning with tearing down the mosquito netting from all of our beds. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

It sounded like the beginning of a quarrel. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

I want to begin at the beginning, be cause that is what you deserve. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

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

Unconsciously, one hand crept down to her belly, where an ache was beginning to blossom. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Do you think it’d give ’em airs or the beginnings of self-respect? Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

I nod, sort of wanting to tell him that all beginnings are new. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

He stroked his fake, thin beard and sensed that it was beginning to develop a life of its own. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

Her body was hot and sticky, and she was beginning to feel hysterical. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Mandela, from the beginning, he not wanted to play soccer,” Beatrice recalled. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

But that was the end of the hay-making and the beginning of play. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

In order to talk about the nature of the universe and to discuss questions such as whether it has a beginning or an end, you have to be clear about what a scientific theory is. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Future engineers, physicists, doctors, all sat around me while we waited for the beginning of the annual “Beat Clinton” rally. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

But just as he planned his flight to Medina, the Hejira that would mark the be­ginning of Muslim time, I planned my escape and the beginning of a new time for me. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

Space-time would have a boundary—a beginning at the big bang. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

As I stand at the edge of it, at the walls that will squeeze my body between them, I feel the beginnings of panic again, the numb hands and the tight chest. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

She was beginning to think the weapons had a sense of humor. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

And then the long roar as of the whole vast rumbling earth beginning to open. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was then that I noticed something that a good detective would have noticed at the very beginning: the word “Black” was written on the back of the envelope. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

Academia was just beginning to sense the United States government’s potential heft as a patron of scientific research. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

At least I was beginning to see this, and to look for a new way to be. Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

In order to predict how the universe should have started off, one needs laws that hold at the beginning of time. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

He is beginning to realize that, he is beginning to think of a more easier way of supporting himself in line with my life. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

Beyond the gym and the fields began the woods, our, the Devon School’s woods, which in my imagination were the beginning of the great northern forests. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then shouting; and Chapter Eleven uttering two words to Milton, one beginning with f the other with y; and more shouting, and Chapter Eleven’s motorcycle roaring away, with Meg on the back. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

A stranger entered and gave him another poem, beginning with the words est et non, ‘it is and it is not.’ The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Previous systems had been—as they are today—a huge strain on taxpayers; from its beginning, Sing Sing had been conceived of as a moneymaking venture. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

But they just lay there, their blood beginning to stain the dust. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

The company had seated themselves again, and conver-sation was just beginning to resume, when there came an authoritative rapping of knuckles upon wood and M. Dupont had risen to his feet. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

I draw a girl in love with a snowman at the beginning of spring. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

My sleeping bag was beginning to feel a bit confining, sort of tight at the bottom, having worked itself around my legs. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

But toward the end of his voyage, and now back in England, as he looked at bird specimens from the Galapagos Islands, Charles had the beginnings of a new theory to explain transmutation. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was neither beginning nor end to this sorrow. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

The honeysuckle vines were taller than him now, and as he looked them over, he realized that one of the buds was beginning to open. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

He wrote and wrote without stopping, filling sheet after sheet of paper, tearing up what he'd written, beginning again, putting one sheet aside and starting another, frowning, crumpling up the paper—and starting once more. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

The air was cooler and the sun was beginning once more to reach the north escarpment. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

He got accepted at Music and Art High School in Manhattan and had reached a point in his life where jazz was the beginning, the end, and the middle. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

White realized that his struggle to obtain justice was just beginning. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

That change marked the beginning of agriculture in the Fertile Crescent. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Around him were silence and night and snow falling, falling as though it had fallen from the beginning of time and would always fall till the end of the world. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

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

My fingertips are already beginning to blister with clutching the rock. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

She was not comfortable with him yet, and still she was beginning to feel that she would like to stand and talk to him all day. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

The sun was just beginning to drive its first splinters of light through the pines, bouncing against tree trunks and earth. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

If this story is to be something resembling my book of deeds, we must begin at the beginning. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

The idea for a spy plane that could strike deep into Soviet territory had captured the imaginations of CIA planners since the beginning of the Cold War. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

“Haven’t you just said it concerned me from beginning to end?” The Awakening 1899-04-22T00:00:00Z

Aureliano expressed it in poetry that had no beginning or end. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

The heat was working its nasty magic, and the inside of the body was beginning to swell even as the skin was drying out and shrinking. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

At the beginning, before I even arrived, I had to hide my true self. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

But the Theorem didn't go well; he was beginning to worry that he might lack the math expertise for the job when he glanced up to see the bedroom door opening. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z

After I figured out how punctuation worked, I read over all my old progress reports from the beginning. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

“But I want to eat,” I said, beginning to cry. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

“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 two months out, he turned it up another notch, beginning almost every sentence with, “When I get a dog....” Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z

One afternoon, at the beginning of his rule, Arcadio paid them a surprise visit. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

They had slowed down now and Ranofer’s breath was beginning to return. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

When I wake up, the sun has already set and is beginning to rise again. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

This was our idea, from the very beginning. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

At the beginning of last year she’d assigned an essay and an oral presentation on a novel we’d read over the summer. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

After seeing just how well- disciplined the Germans were, he was beginning to take them very seriously. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

After an eternity or so, she let me go and held out plastic fangs, the same ones I’d given to her at the beginning of summer. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

“Tempting. I've read that beginning your day by doing something absolutely terrifying is good for you, but I’m going to pass.” We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

Then, I guess the wind must have shifted and brought him the bull’s scent; and evidently that scent told him for certain what I was only beginning to suspect. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

By the beginning of September, he was able to write to Ky Ebright, down in Berkeley, in a tone markedly different from that of just a year before. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Her eyeballs were beginning to get hot, as though vast energy was building up somewhere inside them. Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z

Sure, they’ll try to stay in touch at the beginning, but it won’t be the same as seeing each other every day. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

“A pig?” inquired the King, who was beginning to feel they must be driving at something. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

The door was opened and then I saw a whole lot of feet and shoes beginning to enter the room. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z

However, from the beginning of their reign, the Ptolemies combined their Greek heritage with Egyptian customs that could be traced back thousands of years. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z

Girls were beginning to bob their hair and boys to lubricate theirs. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had been regaling his fiancee with the details of an all-you-can-eat dinner he was beginning to regret. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

From the beginning, settlers organized units of irregular fighters to terrorize and destroy Indigenous communities by killing unarmed women, children, and elders. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

Not even at the beginning when I would’ve loved two automatic friendships. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

Maybe he’d caught the disease from the Toad and was beginning to go crazy. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

“But where are—” Hazel was beginning, when Strawberry once more interrupted him. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

The guns on the high hill were beginning to fire. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was beginning to get really excited now. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z

It was inappropriate, at the beginning of the meal, for Marshall to turn away from his hostess and begin a private conversation. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

But even in the earliest Greek poem, the Iliad, this idea is beginning to give way to the idea of an Olympus in some mysterious region far above all the mountains of the earth. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

Already clumps of couch grass are beginning to thrust up. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

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

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

Her heart was beginning to thump at the thought of what they were about to do. The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

What if he hadn’t remembered what he was supposed to from the very beginning? The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

At the beginning, I had faithfully answered those letters each weekend. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’m reading the beginning of Plato’s Republic for humanities class. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

It was a few days after the beginning of vacation that April decided to go down and pay a visit to the Professor, or Dr. Huddleston, as people were beginning to call him. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

When we entered we saw with amazement that he had spread out his sugar as of old; the flies, lethargic with the autumn, were beginning to buzz into the room. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

At the beginning of seventh grade I got braces, a full set. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

At the beginning of the first physical science class of the new year, Mr. Ferris set Clarence on the front lab table and started him rocking. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

And if that was not enough, he was given a whole list of names, beginning with ‘Old Barliman here’, to whom he could go for further information. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

Just as the usual ribbons of gold were beginning to braid the sky, Jinny led her groggy Care up the path and into the prairie. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

Colonel Korn acted decisively to arrest what seemed to him to be the beginning of an unwholesome trend in Major Major’s squadron. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

The three of us sat out on the porch as the stars were beginning to twinkle up in the Carolina sky and ate blackberry cobbler before supper. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

The sky was blue and the wind was beginning to pick up. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

I said, my emotions beginning to turn to anger. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Since the fantasy, which W'as the beginning of it all, you have been undergoing a period of crisis which is culminating in overt sexual aberration. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s a glorious evening, warm but not too close, the sun starting its lazy descent, shadows lengthening and the light just beginning to burnish the trees with gold. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

He could feel a hollowness in his legs now; he could see the world beginning to pale. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

Though he shivered from illness and anguish, he could sense his blood beginning to warm and flow. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

They were awaiting the arrival of Adolf Hitler and the beginning of perhaps the most spectacular public ceremony the world had yet seen—the opening of the Eleventh Olympiad. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

He longs to be loved, and I can see he’s beginning to like me more with each passing day. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

For cryin’ out loud, his own lawyer knew he didn’t stand a chance right from the beginning. Twelve Angry Men 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It keeps them apart. If you’d put them together properly from the beginning, she would have broken him years ago.” The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

I feel a pang in my chest and remember a line from a poem I read a long time ago about terror being the beginning of beauty. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

It was beginning to reach him even before the door opened these days. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

These natural cancer-causing agents are still a factor in producing malignancy; however, they are few in number and they belong to that ancient array of forces to which life has been accustomed from the beginning. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

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

I can see Peeta’s face beginning to return to normal, his eyelid opening, the grimace leaving his mouth. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

“You see that there powder? That’s pure T-N-T. Mix that with a little potassium nitrate, sulfur, and charcoal and you got the beginnings of a first-class shell.” Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

This might be the beginning of incredible things. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

From these meager beginnings he built the giant Westing Paper Products Corporation and founded the city of Westingtown to house his thousands of workers and their families. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

A helpful way of beginning is to look up the word théorie in a series of French dictionaries. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

In the beginning, Hitler was vague about the Nazi Party's policies. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

"I made back my forty leas in the lottery now that you're here. I picked you from the beginning," another calls out. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

By the beginning of March, I had sunk into the state of mind you get into when you know you have to take castor oil and there’s no way out. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Chicago was just beginning to settle in for the night. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

Most, he was beginning to dread the curtain that might waver in his brain, blacking out the sense of danger, making a simpleton of him. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

What he had done in the past had only been a beginning, Kingshaw knew that much. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

I was beginning to realize that there was a difference between my mother’s public face and what she thought her world was and what was really going on. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

In the north the nights are cold and the leaves are beginning to turn, but the city is still hot, still damp. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

At the beginning, in fact, she didn’t even realize the bathrooms were segregated. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

I suppose having matriculated to my nineteenth year has provided me with a depth of insight which I am only beginning to excavate. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

Still he watched her, but a burning was beginning in his eyes. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

He walked out into the smoky brightness of River Street which was beginning to shake off the inertia of the dawn. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“My digestion has been destroyed. I think that I am beginning to bloat!” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We have the upper two floors. It’s a fine arrangement. Come on. They’re beginning to come in.” The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

Maybe they were finally beginning to realize she was her own person, with a divergent, more modern belief system that renounced the patriarchal dynamics of their time— When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

And like any good detective, I real-ized I had to start at the very beginning, which in this case meant a field of corn in Iowa. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

The top of a nodding snowball had snagged her sun- bonnet, but Miz Eubanks herself was down among the roots, beginning to crawl out from under the bushes that had broken her fall. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

Natasha and I don’t have much time left before her appointment, and I’m beginning to doubt that I can make her fall in love with me in the next couple of hours. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

They had been so difficult to control in the beginning; they had taken so much from Josiah. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

The horrible train ride was just the beginning. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

I know it may sound like it, but I wasn’t completely alone the beginning of my freshman year. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

Figure 1.83: The performance of an accent depends on the style of music, but in general, sforzando and fortepiano accents involve a loud beginning to a longer note. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

My clothes were wet and ice was beginning to form on the outside as the cold increased. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

He groaned, beginning to rouse, and when he broke the tenuous surface of consciousness, his first thought was of her. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

“Come,” she whispered, beginning to get out of the buggy. Absalom, Absalom! 1936-01-01T00:00:00Z

Chamberlain twitched around to see shells beginning to come over, falling first on the left, then almost instantly on the center, then to the right, then overhead, air bursts and ground bursts and solid shot. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

As early as the beginning of 1941 the staff had expanded to nearly one hundred. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

Okay, it’s all ridiculous and corny, because unfortunately and fortunately, some of life’s biggest moments get wrapped up in corny, Annabelle is beginning to understand. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

One morning I started my formal observations, beginning at 125th Street and the Hudson River. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

You spoke with Eduardo, who in the beginning spoke to John. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

The pawns are placed in their normal positions at the beginning of the game. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

He looked off to the east and west, at the Wall stretching before him, a vast white road with no beginning and no end and a dark abyss on either side. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Down on the hilltop, the dim shape was beginning to move into the circle of our firelight. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

So then last year was the beginning of sixth grade. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

I want to ask her if this is the way she felt about Dad at the beginning. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

I sat and recounted the story from beginning to end. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

The sun was all high up in the air now, and inside it was beginning to get dark. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was beginning to see that growing up knowing only one other person had some serious disadvantages. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

As it increases its pace, the sea itself seems to resonate with its movement, beginning to revolve in a slow eddy, but quickly picking up speed. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

It was like seeing the beginning of everything. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

I can see Johanna beginning to believe him, thinking of the small cluster of people she has gathered to the Allegiant cause. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

The front of the car tipped upward on the bare beginning of the long hill. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

“Today marks the beginning of a determined, organized, mobilized campaign to get the right to vote everywhere in Alabama,” he told the crowd. Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

They said he hadn't missed a train at the beginning of school in forty years, and that he could pick out a Southerner with one glance. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

Still, in the beginning the bigger birds would try the smaller cars, get trapped, and raise holy Hannah trying to get out before the tourists drove off with them trapped inside. This Side of Wild 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

“You needn’t worry about that,” said Favell, beginning to smile, “I’ll be sober all right. Sober as the judge will be when he sentences Max in three months’ time. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

In the beginning, she had haunted me, haunted my dreams, but even now, just weeks later, she was slipping away, falling apart in my memory and everyone else’s, dying again. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

Told you at the very beginning that I was in summer school with Hudson. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

So the beginning of this was a woman and she had come back from burying the dead. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

At the same time, I felt as if something had literally been placed on my head, heavier than I could ever imagine, and my neck was beginning to ache. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

My crotch is beginning to itch like crazy, too. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

There was not quite a year until the primary contests got started, beginning in Iowa. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

“I’ve known forever she wasn’t going to make it, almost from the beginning. She said she was getting better because that’s what I wanted to hear. And I believed her. Except I didn’t.” A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z

It is beginning to get dark, and the air is filled with the chirping of crickets and cicadas. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

The beginning of this struggle can be traced to the famous Seneca Falls Convention, which was held from July 19 to July 20, 1848, in Seneca Falls, New York. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

Not that I was keeping track, but it had been six weeks since Ben died, and I was beginning to feel things shift just a little for the better. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

In the beginning, I supervised a group of students who worked as window cleaners during our manual work time in the afternoon, and led them to different buildings each day. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

But this road had a name, Overview Circle, and a bunch of mailboxes clustered at its beginning. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

Archaeologists have traced the beginnings of theater back as far as 2500 BCE, to the ancient Egyptians and sacred plays involving the myth of the god Osiris and his wife Isis. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

They are beginning to suspect that perhaps there is something to it, but Lies and the rest of the family renounce their claims to Vincent's paintings. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

He was beginning to warm to it; the words were beginning to flow. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

And whatever it was that had been protecting them from the flames was beginning to break. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Do you recollect the magnificent lines at the beginning of "Paradise Lost"? The lecturer was lucid in his allusions. New Word-Analysis 1871-01-01T00:00:00Z

Howard was beginning to see these contraptions as the instrument of his ambition. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Was the ludicrous attempt to arrest him the beginning of a bad cycle? A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

From the beginning, the cornerstone was the guarantee of white supremacy. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

The sky was barely getting light and the birds just beginning to wake up and sing when I tiptoed downstairs in my Sunday suit and my new linen duster. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

Sam plainly was beginning to have doubts again about Strider; but while they were talking he returned, appearing suddenly out of the shadows. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

Even as archaeologists try to work out how the area’s first inhabitants reshaped their physical environment, other scientists are beginning to trace out their impacts in its genetic heritage. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

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

So focused was he on getting through the day, on finally beginning his life, that he would have swaddled his lower parts in a baby’s diaper if that were required. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

At late afternoon, when the sun was beginning to lower and the mosquitos were beginning to rise, the green pickup truck returned. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

This was the highest number of executions in a single year since the beginning of the modern death penalty era in 1976. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Inside, however, even he was beginning to feel a faint tremor of doubt. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

He tells me about the sustainable farms that are beginning to pop up in parts of the countryside. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

And we sang the whole song, from beginning to end, as quietly as if we were praying in church. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

The victory of the terraqueous globe theory following the discovery of America is the first great triumph of experience over philosophical deduction, and thus the beginning of a revolution. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

The grassland was lush with plants, in spite of it being only the beginning of the rainy season. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

The robot was beginning to understand the birds. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

Even in the South American binary counting schemes, linguists see the beginnings of a quinary system. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

Little did I know it was in fact just the beginning. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

The colors were beginning to fade on Walnut Hill. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

And I lay there, eyes kind of closed, my body slowly beginning the long flow back to strength. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

At the end of the room, the Oompa-Loompas around the giant camera were already beating their tiny drums and beginning to jog up and down to the rhythm. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 1964-09-12T00:00:00Z

I am feeling very sleepy; the cold is perhaps beginning to tell upon me, and nature must have rest some time. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

It was six o’clock—the church clock was just beginning to strike—when Fenoglio suddenly put down his pen and looked over what he had written with a satisfied expression. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

Things went from bad to worse at the beginning of the school year because my brother and sister were both in high school and I was stuck in that yawning chasm of nothingness, middle school. Liar, Liar 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Deborah, who became after the death of Esther more friendly with Esther’s people, reported to him from the very beginning how shamefully Royal was being spoiled. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

The sun was only beginning to go down past the horizon when they saw the edge of the peach forest. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

Write your clef symbol at the beginning of this line. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

From today's vantage it is difficult to imagine the impact maize must have had in southern Mexico at the beginning, but perhaps a comparison will help. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Siddhartha was going his own way; his destiny was beginning to unfold itself, and with his destiny, his own. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z

He wasn’t exactly excelling in the classroom, and his disenchantment with school was beginning to wear on him. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

Before he knew it, Bobby’s winnings from Reykjavik were beginning to diminish, and yet he saw that Rader and Armstrong were flying all over the world, entertaining lavishly, and proffering gifts to world leaders. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

The conversation was beginning to make me feel self-conscious. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

In fact, in the beginning, I was just as excited as my mother, maybe even more so. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

For a time, I drove in near-darkness between high hedges, then found the road beginning to climb steeply. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

I start with the last chapter and read backward until I get to the beginning. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

The scraps of cloth, he was beginning to think, may have been a child’s pajamas. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Probably better to establish money stuff from the beginning anyway. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

“We’ll meet every day after school except for Tuesday when there’s a faculty meeting. The tournament is at the beginning of March.” The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

It looked as if she was on some sort of drug, which was beginning to be a possibility, then. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

The fateful night that had seemed like the end of her problems was starting to look like the beginning. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

I felt myself beginning to rely on him, but I didn’t know what else to do. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

If Papa felt Jaja or me beginning to drift off at the thirteenth recitation of the Plea to St. Jude, he suggested we start all over. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

From the beginning, I would always become sick thinking he would someday climb on top of me and do his business. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

What particularly intrigued him, though, was that this tournament would be the qualifying tournament for the Interzonal, which was the beginning of the path to the World Championship. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

He knew everything about everybody back to the beginning of time. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

She stays there after she’s finished, starts reading the beginning again until he’s done. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

The sun was beginning to get down in the sky behind me. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

By 1934 the western schools were finally beginning to be taken seriously. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

As they drew closer, the black cloud, which surely came from a burning refinery in Dunkirk, was beginning to rule the northern sky. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

The waves were beginning to break over the barrier of the Great Tide Pool. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

This moment, this here, this right now is my teacher saying, You're a writer, as she holds the poem I am just beginning. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

“The Chief Elder told me, at the beginning, that the receiving of memory causes terrible pain. And you described for me that the failure of the last new Receiver released painful memories to the community. “ The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

We watched the beginning of the evening of the last night of the fiesta. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

Passengers are beginning to line up their bicycles to get off quickly. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

Continue, and this will only be the beginning. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

He was suddenly aware that it was getting very cold, and that up here a wind was beginning to blow, an icy wind. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

Ever since I had set off by car through the wide golden fields of Orgoreyn four days ago, beginning my successful progress towards the inner sanctums of Mishnory, I had been missing something. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

It's natural, in the end, to get nostalgic about the beginning. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

It was already nearly as hot as it had been the day before; but clouds were beginning to come up from the West. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

The crisp woolen uniform he now wears is beginning to look almost as natural on him as his pirate outfit had. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

He told Robin, too, of far countries: the Holy Land where crusaders had fought for the tomb of our Lord, and of Greece and Rome, whose ancient languages were the beginnings of many other tongues. The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z

With the benefit of hindsight it marks the beginning of the end of Western European musical aloofness and the emergence of Russia as a major cultural presence. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Several nosey neighbours were beginning to congregate by open windows and doors. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Nineteen sixty-three is not an end, but a beginning. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

It's only the beginning of a new chapter of torture. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

“You are beginning to fit things together,” remarked Archimedes. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

And now the deep grumbling was getting louder and beginning to overcome the drumbeat of the Jackboots. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

Its chain-reacting pile went live at the beginning of November and within six weeks was producing plutonium by the milligram, and soon by the gram. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

The acorns were losing their green color too, and the hulls were beginning to dry out. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

The coolness, at first so welcome, was beginning to get uncomfortable. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The church would cling to Aristotle for a few more centuries, but the fall of Aristotle and the rise of the void and the infinite were clearly beginning. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

He was beginning to feel very strange, stuffed and strange. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was beginning to realize that he loved the woman—to her misfortune. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

Ignoring the poor, Jim and Paul believed, was also morally indefensible, and the world was beginning to recognize that. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

“I was busy with the beginnings of my concert life,” she said later, “and I thought there was no great hurry.” The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z

Light is beginning to shine into the apartment. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Ifemelu disliked the question; she would have disliked it even if she did not feel, in addition to her depressed uncertainty, the beginning of a headache. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

“High school ain’t the end or the beginning. It ain’t even in the middle. You ’bout to do big things, whether they see it or not. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

She looked back but all she could see was black smoke just beginning to rise above the treetops. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

Mom and Dad took me on a ferry and we climbed up behind Liberty’s eyes and looked out over the river, the city, the beginning of things. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

The most elegant and sublime of these is a representation of the creation of the universe at the beginning of each cosmic cycle, a motif known as the cosmic dance of Shiva. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

And so The Baron and I met for the first time, and it was the beginning of a harassing but wonderful friendship. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

George Woolf, from the very beginning, stood a rung above Red Pollard. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was the beginning of what would come to be known as the Battle of Frobozz, and casualties were already mounting on both sides. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

To a drunk superstitious man, it could have seemed like the beginning of the end of the world. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Oh, you stupid, if there’s a right way and a wrong way, trust you to find the dumb way; fool, fool, back to the beginning was the rule.” The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

Soon he found he was beginning to enjoy the experience. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

Henry is beginning to smile when three things happen in rapid succession. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

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

A streak of tolerance was detectable; Finny decided that they were beginning to show commendable signs of maturity. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

He took off his boots to feel the sand against his feet, as if the world were a place he was only beginning to live in instead of somewhere he would soon be leaving. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Her parents were so proud of this life they’d created, but she didn’t get their enthusiasm for new beginnings. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

He is somewhat relieved she’s gone: her voiceless, colorless weeping, snuffly and monotonous, was beginning to get to him. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Mr. Kapasi was beginning to dread the thought of dropping them off. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

We are even beginning to argue about which futures we like and which we prefer to cancel. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Megan is not a mystery to be solved, she is not a figure who wanders into the tracking shot at the beginning of a film, beautiful, ethereal, insubstantial. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

The form and abundance of the galaxies have a story to tell us of ancient events on the largest possible scale, a story we are just beginning to read. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was a few years out of school and beginning to think I ought to do some graduate study, though in what I didn’t know. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

If not quite yet, then at least it was the beginning of the end. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Thank God it’s the beginning of the month. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

These words are Milton’s, but they express with precision what the Greeks thought lay back of the very first beginning of things. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was beginning to feel claustrophobic and he was relieved when they passed through a door and into a vast, cathedral-like room that was practically bare. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

“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

She couldn’t help herself thinking that my arrival was part of some settling of accounts, that Milton had been punished and that her punishment was just beginning. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

It was the beginning of tax season, when accountants get busier and busier leading up to April 15th. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

It floated off my tongue like the beginning of a fairy tale. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

But for every minute my BlackBerry lay dormant in my lap, I felt the walls starting to breach, the doubts beginning to rampage. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Normally, she would have been involved in these preparations, but they happened to coincide with her two-day writing bout and the beginnings of the front-of-house construction. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

The shambled outline of an ancient stadium showed beyond the spires of Orleans II, marking the beginning of the old city, the city proper for the drowned lands. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

“So are they all, at the beginning,” said the priest, “but you cannot know that she is lovely unless you have seen her with your own eyes, and you have none. Who are you, child?” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

And being at school was awful in the beginning. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

She thinks that the newcomers are beginning to influence the culture. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

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

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

And I will do my full share, beginning this very moment. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

In early February 1944, more news reached London and Washington: The Germans were beginning to empty the heavy water machines. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

And maybe that’s true of beginnings, but it’s not true of this, now. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

Here, at least at the beginning, I was “Malala, the girl who was shot by the Taliban.” Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

But from the beginning, the question of how to deal with heart attacks was front and center. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

And she was beginning to feel fear of this strange thing in Tea Cake’s body. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

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

Naturally, because of the differences in their ages, the children didn’t study the same things, but the warm-up at the beginning was for all. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

You may not trust it at the beginning, but then you do. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

“I don’t know if I can go in there,” Thorn said, beginning to cry. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

Bigger felt that even though her face was smaller and smoother than his mother’s, the beginning of the same tiredness was already there. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

I’m sorry that my attempt at a new beginning turned out to be the very worst kind of ending. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

It was very important that the beginning be sweet. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was just an idea that was already beginning to fade, to become part of the drunkenness in the woods of the night before. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

In the Frank family quarters, the first sleepy faces are beginning to emerge from their pillows. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

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

If a company habitually paid below 80 percent, Feldman might post a hectoring note, like this one: The cost of bagels has gone up dramatically since the beginning of the year. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

The light spiraled around her, dragging her farther and farther from her own body, until she could feel the edges of her consciousness beginning to unravel, dissolving into the endless sea of light. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

I slept dreamlessly that night, exhausted from beginning my day so early, and sleeping so poorly the night before. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

In the beginning, Uncle had not wanted me to go out with Father and Red Rabbit. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the beginning it was good to have repetitive tasks that didn't require speaking much English, but I knew I didn't want to spend the rest of my life doing this kind of work. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

“Tassels. I am beginning to fancy this house.” The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

Going over the whole business from the beginning, methodically, painstakingly, as he had been wont to do in his police officer days. And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z

Lydia and Dill sat in their corner of the cafeteria, which was abuzz with talk about prom in a week, at the beginning of May. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

Thomas was baffled by this girl—first the connection he’d felt to her from the very beginning, then the mind-speaking, now this. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

At the beginning, or as far back as they are traceable, they meant something like being. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

So Billy did a silly little dance with the fence, taking a step this way, then that way, then returning to the beginning again. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

The passage from the Chaos of the Big Bang to the Cosmos that we are beginning to know is the most awesome transformation of matter and energy that we have been privileged to glimpse. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I returned to Johannesburg at the beginning of 1943,1 enrolled at the University of the Witwatersrand for an LL.B., a bachelor of laws degree, the preparatory academic training for a lawyer. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was beginning to irritate Phoebe, you could tell. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

Dawn was beginning to break when they pulled up to a large farmhouse. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Fortunately, the weather is so hot that she cannot get cold; but still the anxiety and the perpetually being wakened is beginning to tell on me, and I am getting nervous and wakeful myself. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

“He says to tell you he will be in Vera Cruz the beginning of next month,”—clatter, clatter!—“and if you still have the intention of joining him”—bang! clatter, clatter, bang! The Awakening 1899-04-22T00:00:00Z

They were coming to a thicket of juniper and dog roses, tangled at ground level with nettles and trails of bryony on which the berries were now beginning to ripen and turn red. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I thank you for coming and suffering through my show. I’m surprised you even turned up, I was beginning to give up hope. I’ve had that box reserved for you the entire week.” The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

“All right, now, you start at the beginning. Okay? Just take your time and tell me what happened.” The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The dull tubes of them beginning to move sluggishly in the cold hard light. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

Physicists were just beginning to figure out what atoms look like, and how the tiny particles in- side them move and affect each other. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

I pretended he was Grandma, and I started at the very beginning. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

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

It was the beginning of the deadliest period of racial violence in Chicago history. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

Only the living remained, and they were beginning to make their way home—leaving the town square sleepily, stiffly, like people who had awakened from a deep sleep, walking without truly waking. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

The beginning and end in real time can be very different from each other. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I think I’m actually beginning to believe that,” Henry says. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

I’m beginning to realize that their respect isn’t as sim- pie as it seems. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

As this tumult was beginning, I flew to South Africa for a goodwill visit that had been planned months in advance. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

I imagined being Luke sitting at this table, eight or nine years old, and just beginning to realize that my mother wasn’t all there. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

I was beginning to have conflicts about eating animals. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

“Closing the tear in the sky, defeating these iron monsters—that is only the beginning.” Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

I remembered Uri’s story of my beginnings, of becoming a slave to farmers. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

Villagers from all round, like us, were converging towards the bonfire to be lit there; already smoke wisps were curling towards the clouds, torches were beginning to flare. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

Although I hadn’t thought so before, I was now beginning to believe that my mother was right. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Captain had put chairs on top of tables and was beginning to mop the floor with hot water and disinfectant. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

She could see too that people sitting on the edge of the aisle were beginning to notice, though they kept their eyes toward the stage. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Down on the street, ten flights below, the little toy trees are beginning to turn reddish, like someone is lighting a match to them. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

To Maddie it felt like the last day of school, like the summer holidays beginning. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

So there’s always a rough patch at the beginning of the year when I’m breaking them in. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

But the feeling was that the city was beginning to buckle under its burdens. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Somehow I couldn’t understand, the mystery was beginning to escape me! Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

She did not know if this had happened, or had merely become true from being told over and over again, a charmed tale of the beginning of their closeness. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

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

“I am beginning to understand why your mother calls you the inquisitor,” she said. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sasha was now about a year old, wobbling on two feet and beginning to say words and crack us up with her megawatt smiles. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Events that were purely accidental were beginning to feel like they fit together, but not in a way he understood or even knew how to think about. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

Somehow, from these beginnings, it transformed itself into one of the most powerful English expletives, meaning something like “Die before your time!” The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

His enquiry into the prehistory of the idea of the circulation of the blood was the beginning of the history of science as a learned enterprise. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

On Curriculum Night at the beginning of the school year, my mom signed up for each of my teachers’ newsletters. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

They want someone who has been here since the beginning, who knows about how to survive in Virginia. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

An hour later, Celaena was beginning to curse herself for being a fool. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Sometimes she felt she had been imprisoned since the beginning of the world. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

Polly was just beginning to cry, not with fear, and not even because he had hurt her wrist quite badly, but with furious anger. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z

Ignatius cried, noticing that a circle of interested shoppers was beginning to form. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Vizzini had strict instructions for occasions such as this, when a plan went wrong: Go back to the beginning. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

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

“All right. One gold piece. Leave that. But do not bother me with money when there is work that needs beginning.” The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

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

“The men are unhappy and morale is beginning to deteriorate. And it’s all your fault.” Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

She was just beginning to realize it then. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

The news was just beginning to spread at the high school as the last bell rang. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

In the beginning Rosaleen refused to join in, but soon she was going right along with the rest of us. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“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

“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

“But you use you for the beginning of a sentence.” The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

Rifle fire was beginning to pluck at the air around them. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s dangerous for her to speak that way. Her mind is beginning to wander.” Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The whoosh, the beat, the flow that punctuated my beginnings in another dark place. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

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

Bobby had always been short for his age, and still only stood five-four, but he was just beginning to stretch out of his clothes and sprout up. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

I didn't want to admit it, but the word demon was beginning to sound...right. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

It was only the beginning of her dark, strange ability. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

For example, Kseniia Sanchuk had been flying supply and medical missions on the front lines since the beginning of the war; she was insulted to be sent to Marina’s new group for “training” purposes. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

She would see him as she had in the beginning: as a genius. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z

I might take that wrong turn and be right back at the beginning again. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Whenever you’re ready to start,” I said, feeling my face beginning to get warm. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

That was what he wanted, right from the beginning. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

The house was beginning to show its usual signs of morning life. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

“No, child. This is just the beginning of many nights of horrible humiliation. I feel that this journey will be very long.” Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were many things I needed to think through on this particular issue, things that were only beginning to occur to me. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

The garden on the little island was beginning to wither. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Where are these famous pirates? I am beginning to think that you and Illyrio made them all up.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

I ask, and laugh, because I am beginning to sound like Djo already. Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

The cliff tops were beginning to come into view. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

“From the beginning. As far back as you can remember.” Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was a little nervous in the beginning. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

At last my drinks were beginning to work. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

A thin layer of water frost covers the ground at 44° North latitude on Mars, in October 1977, at the beginning of northern winter. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Why isn’t there a hyphen in “today”? Lawks-a- mussy, what sort of punctuation chickens are we at the beginning of the 21st century? Eats, Shoots & Leaves 2003-11-06T00:00:00Z

Now, when I am no longer young, when my hair is fast growing gray, when strength begins to diminish, now I am beginning again like a child. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z

His face is beginning to fade, possibly because it wasn’t always the same: his face had different expressions, his clothes did not. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m beginning to believe I am. I never knew my mother. She died when I was small.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

But I was beginning to understand something about normality. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

The pages turned crisply as she went back to the beginning of the story to start over. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

I like this part, the little rush at the beginning. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

Even Warbeak was beginning to feel the effects of prolonged low nighttime fluttering, through the woodlands, around trees, over bushes; it was not the same as a clear, clean flight through the upper atmosphere. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

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

“I was beginning to think that myself, for a while,” I says. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

The French arrive in Rhode Island, beginning a series of moves that will fool the British into expecting an American-French attack on New York. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

The curate began to groan, beginning to regain consciousness. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

“I was beginning to lose my faith, but your words last Sunday and the charity of this magnificent town have restored my belief that the Lord has a plan for me, and it is majestic.” Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

So, from the beginning they were putting a value on skin color, while Grandma was telling me it didn't matter. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Poppet said nothing is impossible, and he finds he is beginning to agree. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

As we shall see, the concept of time has no meaning before the beginning of the universe. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

I saw how my mother was already beginning to change, how dark and angry her face had become, looking out over the sea, thinking her own thoughts. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Still it was not those illnesses or even the ice that marked the beginning of the trouble, that self-fulfilled prophecy that Shadrack carried on his tongue. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

This means that the initial state of the universe must have been very carefully chosen indeed if the hot big bang model was correct right back to the beginning of time. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the beginning—and neither can this be overstated—a Negro just cannot believe that white people are treating him as they do; he does not know what he has done to merit it. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z

The rain had stopped by then and the thick masses of gray clouds were beginning to break apart. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

It would be the beginning of my escape fund. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

The network emphasized that four statements described the program as a drama—at the beginning, on either side of the station break, and at the end. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

It was clear from the beginning of the trial that the judicial system was on the Klansman’s side. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

All the same, he was not doing what he wanted to do; the son of a farmer, he had from the beginning aimed at operating a property of his own. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ruthie gives me a pitying look before taking off back down the hall, to a meal that I am beginning to fear I may never get to enjoy. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

Her parents were so proud of this life they’d created, but she didn’t get their enthusiasm for new beginnings. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

By the beginning of the twentieth century, rowing clubs flourished in the enclaves of the well-heeled. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

“You either see it or you don’t” The words were beginning to feel like a threat. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

As fires burned in Baltimore, a five-year-old black child worked with neighbors and volunteers, sweeping up the debris, a small beginning toward picking up the pieces of her community. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

At last, just as Dustfinger was beginning to feel he would be crouching behind this ruined wall for the rest of his life, the guard turned and strolled off. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

My mother was beginning to think it was high time to find an appropriate match for Hilda. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

But Aru was beginning to think that, maybe, being overlooked or considered different wasn’t always a bad thing. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

I asked, and I had a pained feeling I thought was the beginning of love. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

I started college at nearby UC Berkeley, where my life was a mixture of antiwar rallies and marches and beginning French and rhetoric classes. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

At the beginning of the second half he went up to Don and stared him in the face. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was beginning to trust this man and to like him. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Mr. Knightley seemed to be trying not to smile; and succeeded without difficulty, upon Mrs. Elton’s beginning to talk to him. Emma 1815-12-23T00:00:00Z

There was a note, too, that he’d left in their secret spot at the beginning of that year. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

You probably don’t have the faintest idea what I’m talking about, so let me “begin at the beginning.’ The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

It was clear from the beginning that the giant meatpacking companies were on the same page, filling almost every position with white workers. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

“Real potatoes are backward for him. Remember this is our newly middle-class world. We haven’t completed the first cycle of prosperity, before going back to the beginning again, to drink milk from the cow’s udder.” Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

But in fact, since the beginning of America, white people have been getting jobs because they are white. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

“This boy and his family are beginning to look like sore losers!” The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

Given the UN encampment was on the road to the airport, I knew I was beginning the journey north of Kinshasa, with half a mile of marsh separating me from the river. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

But that’s the beginning and end of my culinary contribution, because Oscar has walked into the kitchen in his black leather jacket, hair more unruly than usual, face full of weather. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

By and by, I noticed Wemmick’s arm beginning to disappear again, and gradually fading out of view. Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z

Already the sudden storm is passing, and its fierceness is abating; crowds are scattering homeward, and the sky is beginning to redden over the Yorkshire wolds. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

When I think Mom’s finally done, she goes back to the beginning and starts again. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

Although he did not yet realize it, Washington was beginning to act like an intelligence agent: He found people who either knew what he needed to know or could find out. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was the fall of 1953, and at sixteen I was beginning my senior year in a near panic. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

Since the beginning I was writing down everything and thus committing—if I so wished—all of our movements to an official and secret memory. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had a few friends at the beginning of his engineering career, but the more successful he became, the more fearful he grew of someone discovering his true identity and exposing him. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

‘Start at the beginning and let me get this straight.’ The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

Already the birds were beginning to stir and make bright sounds in the branches overhead. Stuart Little 1945-10-17T00:00:00Z

And she didn’t want to talk about it anymore because other kids were beginning to bunch up at the back door and stare at us. Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

The fourth dimension, time, is also finite in extent, but it is like a line with two ends or boundaries, a beginning and an end. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

I can’t stop the questions that come from my mouth—the questions that I’ve been wanting to ask for so long, questions that might as well have existed since the beginning of time. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

With the help of Old Yeller, I was taking care of things all right; but I was sure beginning to wish that he’d come back home. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

The new history of science, beginning with Kuhn, tried to ground these new ways of thinking in intellectual communities: the success of new ideas depended upon conflict and competition within and between communities of thinkers. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

In the beginning old Grandma and Robert stayed away from him, except to say “Good morning” or “Good night”; the sickness and his crying overwhelmed them. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

They also coordinated the beginning of the calendar with the pilgrimage of the Prophet Muhammad from Mecca to Medina in 622 CE. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

Don't just tune at the beginning of rehearsals and performances. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

I found out that my mom told the truth back at the beginning, because everything is mostly all right, and when she said “things like this just happen,” that was right too. The Landry News 1999-12-01T00:00:00Z

“What was I talking of?” said she, beginning again when they were all in the street. Emma 1815-12-23T00:00:00Z

When she was beginning her career in the 1920s, black artists in every field were excluded from the mainstream of American life. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z

I tried to remember the beginning of the school year. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

I was beginning to see that they had two sets of rules in our district—one for the brainiacs, and one for everybody else. Ungifted 2012-08-21T00:00:00Z

And I was beginning to wonder about something else. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

Even up here, I thought, beginning to hurry. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

And, if Anya wasn’t imagining things, even the beginnings of a tiny smile trying to unfurl on his lips. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

His finger rose six inches to the knobby beginning of a branch. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe back in October Alice was beginning to think so too. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Already I had killed five of the pack, but there were many left, more than in the beginning, for some had been born in the meantime. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

By the time the bus entered a tunnel, a smile was beginning to turn up the corners of her mouth. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

The roots of those mountains must be roots indeed; there must be great secrets buried there which have not been discovered since the beginning.” The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

The sun was beginning to bear down on the earth and it was getting hotter by the minute. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z

However, on reflection the balance was beginning to swing in his favor again. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

I was beginning to fill up with fear and wanted to put some distance between us. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

We are beginning to understand that the problems around the globe are linked. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

I’ll “rewind the movie in my mind,” as Zlata would say, and replay the summer from the beginning, pausing on some of the highlights. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

But since he had called our names at the beginning of the service we were mollified. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Since the beginning of time, everyone, especially the Irish, had loved and cared for the singer in their midst. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

She admits she is beginning to feel the strain of her vagabond life. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

This time a man went down and I saw a woman swinging a gleaming frying pan hard against the horse's rump and the horse neighing and beginning to plunge. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

How to classify Kenna is a difficult question, but, at least in the beginning, it wasn’t one that he thought about a great deal. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

It was spring, and everything was beginning to turn green. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Pleased that the recruits were beginning to recognize her authority, Marina let them go, and they ran for the mailbox holding hands, their long hair flying in the wind behind them. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

Their footsteps clomp overhead and I see their figures walk along the beginning of the pier. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

Write your clef symbol at the beginning of this line. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

In the beginning, on a dog-day Monday in the middle of August when the West Texas heat congealed in the sky, there were only the stirrings of dreams. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

Or maybe just once or twice, in the beginning, though he wasn’t trying to get me to talk. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

The sky is still dark, but it’s beginning to brighten. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

As Minnijean and I spent time together that evening, I could tell she was beginning to be deeply affected by what was being done to her at Central High. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He finished the day in a silence as sullen as that of the other apprentice, Nebre, whose stony indifference to men and work alike he was beginning to understand very well indeed. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

Vacuuming is the most disturbing video, actually a double feature beginning with an introduction to the special backpack vacuum we are to use. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

It felt like...it felt like the turn of a page, and a story just beginning. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

In the very beginning of mathematics, it seems that people could only distinguish between one and many. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

He felt the beginning of sleep, even among the pain, the quiet dark coming, the soft rolling dreamless rest. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

In that dark she created by keeping her eyes shut, she would pray, beginning with the names of her own sisters, for all those she wanted God to especially care for, here and back home. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

I keep a fast pace in the semidarkness, my breath coming out in a cloud, and when I find the turn off the main road, the sun is only just beginning to thaw the air. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

I open to the beginning of the notebook. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

I was beginning to realize that this was not an overnight camping trip, but a permanent arrangement. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was the beginning of a great day, one of the greatest days of my life. Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Right from the beginning, he couldn’t stand it. Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z

At the beginning they met with much stupidity and apathy. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z

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

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

But I was beginning to wonder if she was really searching for the perfect place...or just searching? Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

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

The most important thing that Palmer ever found out with the Distracter, though, came at the very beginning, before Sesame Street was even on the air. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He rode looking straight ahead, a crowd beginning to trail out after him like the tail of a comet. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

In Kobani, she sat on the sofa, watching the street, for an hour or two in the morning, sipping her sweet tea, before beginning her chores. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

The shah decided to change the starting point from Muhammad’s spiritual journey to the beginning of Cyrus the Great’s reign. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

In truth, no one knows how many people heard the broadcast from the beginning and how many switched to it partway through. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

“I’d be a match for all noodles and all rogues,” returned my sister, beginning to work herself into a mighty rage. Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z

The water has risen to the upper edge of the track’s groove and is beginning to spill onto the landing itself. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

However, the North and South Poles correspond to the beginning and end of the universe in imaginary time. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

The pilots had bought drinks from the bar and were beginning to warm up to the festivities. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

The instincts of the military wife were beginning to assert themselves, the old efficiency of stealing away from temporary homes and entering the bloodstream of highways heading to new quarters. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

But this proved to be only the beginning; I realized we had not thoroughly prepared for all that was about to happen. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Why hadn’t Mom taught Emma, Chess, and Finn everything they needed to know about the alternate world from the very beginning? The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

The fifteen-hour flight would be just the beginning of a much larger journey. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

Maybe all that had happened was beginning to work on the old man’s mind. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

I know all too well that she doesn’t think as badly of me as she did in the beginning. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

“Listen, Ky,” Bud began nervously as soon as they had ordered drinks, “things are beginning to get awfully uptight back home.” The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

At the beginning it's the nurse, my teachers, the guidance counselor, and the people who run the school. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was beginning to develop a figure, more or less. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m sure that from the beginning you planned for all exigencies. So what happens to me?” Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

The sky was beginning to turn into a mix of orange, pink, and gray, with clouds interrupting in patches all over the horizon. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

He used to say, “This was the beginning of my acquisition of great wealth.” Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

And though I wasn’t steering straight yet, I was beginning to get the feel of the thing. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

“I’ve given you more than enough chances to prove yourselves. Anyway, I’m beginning to enjoy killing you things. After what you did to my friends, I just can’t seem to get enough of it!” Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

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

We were seated around a table, Soraya and I dressed in green—the color of Islam, but also the color of spring and new beginnings. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Teresa had been right from the beginning—everything had changed. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

I also went and milked the cow; I am afraid of her going dry immediately if I neglect that much more, since the calf is beginning to graze. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

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

From the beginning, his mother and Pilate had fought for his life, and he had never so much as made either of them a cup of tea. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

“A needle and thread,” said Gregor, wondering if his dad’s mind was beginning to wander again. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

The strain of being at a distance from his dæmon was beginning to tell. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

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

The second man in the helicopter was beginning to lower a cage to him when Zeitoun thought to give the man a thumbs-up. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

Sierra felt its solidity beginning to give way between her fingers, felt the twisted sorcery that held it together loosen. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

Much of what Park talked about, especially at the beginning, was difficult for Shin to understand, believe, or care about. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

If so, then quantum sails are just the beginning; it would be possible to make engines that run solely on zero-point energy. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

Needless to say, I misunderstood in the beginning: I thought it an advantage. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

The snow is beginning to melt, and I think I can almost smell spring. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Did he mean that they were beginning to get worried about their fuel? Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

The mud shifted, the leaves stirred, the smell of overripe green things enveloped her and announced the beginnings of her very own howl. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

The distinctive Cuban dimension in Latin American music that so inspired Stevie Wonder and others had only really escaped from its island home at the beginning of the twentieth century. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

The void is beginning to take my body, and I know exactly what comes next. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

The victorious procession marched on toward the open ground, and after a while Harry could tell, by the lightening of the darkness through his closed eyelids, that the trees were beginning to thin. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

Right from the beginning, he was a poor, scrawny little blighter, always weeping during his first week in the dormitory because he wasn’t at home with his mommy and daddy anymore. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

She remembered them as a beginning, a start of something she looked to complete. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Each of them was a different word in a vast vocabulary I was just beginning to speak. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Rishi had watched dozens of his friends—of all ethnicities—fall in love at the beginning of the school year and become mortal enemies by the end. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

It was a welcome change from the chilliness of the attic, although Ophie was beginning to wonder if it was the weather or the many ghosts of Daffodil Manor that made the rooms so cold. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

Word was passed among us, and we resolved to initiate a sympathetic strike beginning with our next meal. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Amazing to think this room made up the whole bookstore in the beginning, isn’t it?” Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

I would have gone all the way back, all the way back to the beginning of—I wasn’t sure of what. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then I feel the tips of my boots beginning to tilt ever so slightly. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

I was beginning to learn that he had a way of being honest while still being dishonest. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even the Reverend Buckland, as pious a soul as the nineteenth century produced, noted that nowhere did the Bible suggest that God made Heaven and Earth on the first day, but merely "in the beginning." A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

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

He took the harmonica out of his pocket and played the beginning of a simple melody. The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane 2006-03-30T00:00:00Z

“I see,” Dedd said at last, already beginning to compromise with the man she was set to marry. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

My grandparents left for New York at the beginning of September. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

Delores only taught her about the different scales, the major and minor chords, the values of the notes, and such beginning rules as those. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

He means our country beginning to prosper, Free Zones going up everywhere, the coast a clutter of clubs and resorts. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Are you quite sure there isn't another one beginning like that?” he asked Flatnose angrily. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

“He suspected you from the beginning. But I told him every time, ‘No, Tally’s my friend. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

“I know, I know . . .” It was at the beginning of my seventh month at the rehabilitation center when Leslie came again to have a chat. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

‘My name begins with an M but sometimes I’m called a name beginning with D. In Italy. You can guess.’ The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

In the beginning, there was only Bog, and Bog, and Bog. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

By mid-1912 the two of them— just twenty and twenty-one—were beginning to feel that they had their feet under them. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

As unappealing as the idea of a finite universe was, physicists gradually accepted the big bang and agreed that the universe had a beginning. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

The end of the world lay in their eyes, and the beginning, and all the waste in between. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was nineteen years old, and my real life was just beginning. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

You could see he was now beginning to wonder what all this was leading up to. Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z

“I checked with Albany myself. The governor is relentless. Said the tourists were beginning to come to the Catskills, and he wants the work done on time.” Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

Winter was in the air, and the rains were just beginning. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Whites are just beginning to recognize that equality really means they won’t be on top anymore. There’s a deep ravine between our races,” he said. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

A photo in a magazine might remind her of Carolines high school graduation, the way she’d mugged for the camera like she just knew this was the beginning of a fabulous adventure. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

He could hear the grumbling fire beginning in the creature's belly. Beowulf: A New Telling 1968-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some of them had the beginnings of beards, straggly tufts of hair that stood in isolated clumps on their chins, jawbones, and upper lips. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

The sun was beginning to set, glittering red through the cracks between the ramshackle buildings. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

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

The Amsterdam News reported the planned meeting and many readers inferred that we were establishing our beginning mosque in the Theresa. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

‘Way is wide for four horses in Stonewain Valley yonder,’ he waved his hand southwards; ‘but narrow at beginning and at end. Wild Man could walk from here to Dîn between sunrise and noon.’ The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

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

The conviction marks the beginning of the second phase: the period of formal control. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

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

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

No one knows the total number of letters and telegrams sent to CBS, The Mercury Theatre on the Air, or Orson Welles, beginning on the night of the broadcast. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

The beginning of our relationship would play out like the end of every good teen movie where the popular guy falls for the nerdy girl. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

She smiled, her cheek grazing against his, and she felt the little beginnings of stubble, smelled sweat mixed with the musky scent he wore. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

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

She wanted to speak to me, I could tell, but my heart was already beginning to harden and I avoided her. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

While Mrs. Reilly arranged her cake boxes on the bar, Ignatius spread his expansive nostrils and said, “My God, Mother, it smells awful. My stomach is beginning to chum.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

The worst part of it was that food was already beginning to get short. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

It may have been the first touches of green along the French lanes and the haze of bluebells glimpsed through the woods that made him feel the need for reconciliation and fresh beginnings. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

John, drowsing in the sunlight, put the toes of his right foot into his mouth and ran them along the place where his teeth were just beginning to come through. Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z

Parker served a three-month term of enlistment in the Union army at the beginning of the war. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

It was even harder to think about telling him why Pet was there and that his house was the beginning, a monster’s lair, the starting den. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

The coffee and the biscuit accompanying it proved very acceptable to Edna, who had declined refreshment at Madame Lebrun’s and was now beginning to feel hungry. The Awakening 1899-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was beginning to see it was one of her talents, the imperious eyebrow. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

It feels like I’ve been angry since the beginning of time. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

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

By this stage, however, Owen’s transgressions were beginning to catch up with him. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

In the beginning, the return had been even worse than the exodus. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

I felt as if I understood why at the end of her life she had taken a “fiance,” why she had played at beginning again. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z

Or you’ve skipped ahead from someplace in the beginning and missed all the parts that explain me to you—from there to here. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

In the beginning, it seemed we had finally found safety at Yele. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

Write your clef symbol at the beginning of this line. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

“Took you what, almost three months? People were beginning to say that you had lost your touch.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

"Filling the pen is not what you do before you begin. It is the beginning," he said. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

Amari had understood none of it at the time, but now, perhaps, it was beginning to make just a little sense. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

But she was also beginning to understand the porcupines and the salamanders and the beetles. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

And yes, we are still at the very beginning economically. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

From the beginning of my freshman year up until this very day, I have had to be the center of attention. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

No one had moved since the beginning of his address, not even to pinch their noses to keep out the smell of Big Anthony’s roasting flesh. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

It turned out to be the beginning of a long and happy friendship. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

For the first time since she can remember, her life is beginning to make sense. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

And there, just there, just there in the fading light, is there a little beginning of a start of a smile? The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

“Why did you come here, in the beginning?” The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

No one died or was even injured in these escapades, but it was the beginning of the most crime-ridden period in American history. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

He started at the beginning—how Hera had been his babysitter and placed him in the flames; how his mother had died because of Gaea, who had identified Leo as a future enemy. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

"Of course. I write home now and then," I said, beginning to resent his method of questioning. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

“He leased ten acres of virgin woods and cleared it all,” said the men describing the beginning of Old Macon Dead’s farm. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

We had to throw our extra things in the sea because the water is beginning to creep in slowly. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

But with the competition beginning tomorrow, what else did she have to do? Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

He was beginning to close up shop, lowering the front wooden grate, when Hugo approached him from behind. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

Thus the informal Torricellian network marks the effective beginning of the institutionalization of science, driven by the conviction that collaboration and exchange would lead to more rapid progress. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

As I finally walked through those gates to enter a car on the other side, I felt — even at the age of seventy-one — that my life was beginning anew. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Everything that had happened inside the wood was beginning to seem unreal, the validity of it was being sapped away. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

As people were beginning to sit down a young fellow came in and spoke to the host, Yegey, who then turned to us. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

"Let's splurge on a few things hot and sweet, shall we, girls? We have time. It's a special day—Star's last first day of high school. A new beginning for both of you." You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“All right, again, and this time please be brief, from the beginning: the man in black. Did he get by you?” The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

“Even if I have to start from the beginning in America, at least I know when I will graduate,” she said. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Then, just at the beginning of September, with school only a few days away, came that exciting day when the Egypt Game began. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

I could see that I was just beginning to scratch the surface of understanding race in America. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

And he knows it will continue to fade because it was already beginning to the afternoon he hunted Dorcas down. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Parts of Heaven were beginning to look like the ghetto. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

You can go right back to the very beginning of Christianity. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had been hit once in the left arm and the bleeding had stopped but the genuine pain was just beginning. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

At the beginning of the Renaissance, it was not obvious that zero would pose a threat to the church. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

That was the beginning of Chester’s formal musical education. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

The beginning of the end for Hulbert came on a night when, three hours before a scheduled 5 A.M. execution, two inmates es-caped from another part of the prison. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

When you mentioned Fiona’s hair, it was the clue that told me you were probably beginning to see the color red.” The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

It seems like this could be the beginning of a horror movie. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

During the war, he served as a regimental surgeon before beginning duties at the U.S. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

Her rash was very mild and the spots were already beginning to fade. Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Teachers need a simple way to teach them how to break sentences, so they tell them that sentences beginning with and and other conjunctions are ungrammatical. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

“From the beginning, the aesthetic scores lagged way behind the comfort scores,” said Bill Dowell, who was research lead on the Aeron. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

We then crossed Suey Road, which marked the end of the city limits and the beginning of hundreds of acres of recently planted lettuce and carrots. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

The rain had stopped, and the sky was just beginning to lighten. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

My father disapproved of him from the beginning. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

As irritated as I was by all this, deep down I was beginning to grasp what my parents already knew: no matter which path I chose, I'd be giving up something. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

I felt the tears beginning when Mother put her hand over mine. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Almost every visit began with an embrace, but some beginnings were shy or tentative. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Yesterday, Celia had told Dimple her theory: that the founders of Insomnia Con had been in Hari’s dad’s pocket from the beginning. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

Foremost among them are the subordinator that and relative pronouns like which and who, which can signal the beginning of a relative clause. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

She felt that the air between them was beginning to be charged, and she could find no name, or reason, for the secret excitement that moved in her. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

At the beginning of night, I saw owls coming from their hiding places, revolving their eyes, and stretching to become familiar with their surroundings and get ready for the night. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

When we trace food production back to its beginnings, the earliest sites provide another surprise. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

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

His trick was to sit with the horn in his lap for the first half of a piece, then start at the beginning and, tooting double time, hit the last note right with the others. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

Though he lacked height, he was beginning to fill out a little, around the shoulders. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

As for Despereaux, he was beginning to realize that he had made a very grave error. The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z

“Nonsense! You knew you were going to Abuja from the beginning so why let me waste my time preparing for you!” Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

There probably hasn’t been a bar mitzvah in this town since the beginning of time. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

The newchild was turning under his cover, flailing his arms, and beginning to whimper. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

He had built his hatreds little by little—beginning with a mother who neglected him, a father who alternately whipped and slobbered over him. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

The house is beginning to clear out a little, so I give up and find a spot on the couch. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

He felt there in the teachers’ room that it was the beginning of a new season in his life, and he chose deliberately to make it so. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z

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

“We must stay to watch the corruption. It’s already beginning to set in.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Nobody ever would have guessed that this morning marked the beginning of Cole’s yearlong banishment. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

His ribs were visible through his skin as he breathed, and yet he was beginning to develop a paunch. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

He overpronounces the beginnings of words and sounds like he’s smiling the whole time he's evangelizing. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

The thick scent of the tree blossoms was beginning to border on nauseating. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z

"Beautiful Belles, welcome to my court and the beginnings of your divine service to our world. Without you and the gods, we would be nothing." The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

The scheduled beginning of the speech had long passed. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

It seemed to me in the beginning that none of the white people around us had any desire or reason to change. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

"You got your small fire all right" Startled, Ralph realized that the boys were falling still and silent, feeling the beginnings of awe at the power set free below them. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

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

Grace was beginning to wonder if her sister was really a humorless robot, but she assumed that even robots knew how to send the winking emoji. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

Quincey wrote me a line too, and from him I hear that Arthur is beginning to recover something of his old buoyancy; so as to them all my mind is at rest. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

Or maybe it’s my new life just beginning to announce itself. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Before the beginning there was nothing—no earth, no heavens, no stars, no sky: only the mist world, formless and shapeless, and the fire world, always burning. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

“I feel that we must bear a good deal of responsibility for it, beginning with our cable of early August in which we suggested the coup.” Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

“No! Oh, you pack of ninnies! Great heroes! I knew I should have gone with you from the beginning.” The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z

The beginning was a little slow but the ending was tight. Booked 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

Anyway, it was beginning to get dark, and she knew she must return. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

“Now, this is the Confederate line, Jeth, beginning over here in eastern Kentucky.” Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

She thought she knew what it could be, and if she was right, then it could be the beginnings of a plan. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

“I’d already gone through most of the books in the public library near us and was beginning to want chess books of my own,” Bobby said later, reflecting back on the period. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

I can feel a headache beginning in my left temple. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

Caleb tries to match me, beginning with his feet and moving up with the rest of him. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

He was only just beginning to appreciate what had happened. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

They are beginning to attract stares from the crowd. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

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

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

But the sap was beginning to run freely in the willows. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

I’m beginning to wonder if he’s feeling all right. The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z

With the exception of Mr. Mayflower, I’m beginning to feel at home with this little group. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

She flipped through the junk at the beginning and came to the first poem. The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z

“Nothing more exciting than a new beginning, don’t you think?” Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

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

“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

Sometimes it really is better to pied-pipe a preposition to the beginning of a clause than to strand it at the end. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

Obie and the other guys were practically wiped out from all that jumping up and down, weary, out of breath, their legs beginning to ache. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

At the beginning of the war, women who successfully signed up with the Red Army were only sent to the front as nurses, or in communications or antiaircraft gunner units. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

Charles was beginning to think that people were more closely related to orangutans than to angels, if angels existed at all. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

I dreamed I was back at the beginning and they were starting on me all over again, a side effect of having to watch them work on someone else. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

The first scatters of rain were beginning to fall, pattering into the oak leaves and pricking the bare pink skin inside their ears. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

We lie there together, watching the lightning and listening to the thunder, and waiting for the beginning of a rainy dawn. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

Several other women were already rising to the beginning sounds of the drums. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

He had experienced the beginning of contempt, but now the childhood fear and respect and animosity came back to him, so that he seemed a little boy testing his father’s immediate mood to escape trouble. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

It was clearly beginning to happen more often. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

But when the light touched the sword there were no beginnings to be seen. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

She hadn’t known what to make of it in the beginning, for the Wood was full of energies she had never encountered before. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Though Jelly Roll called a lot of his numbers ‘Blues’, we now know this as the beginning of a distinct genre of its own: jazz. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

The room-sized machines were remaking the old models of aeronautical research; their ascendance marked the beginning of an era that promised to be even more momentous than the one ushered in by the flying machine. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

I missed you the most this morning, when Mom cooked the special blueberry pancakes she makes at the beginning of every school year. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

I felt the beginning of hot tears in the back of my throat. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

“Well, we were just different, Nate. Right from the beginning. She was older than me, and—gosh, we don’t have to talk about this.” Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

The hands start and people begin betting crazy, throwing in three or four buttons right at the beginning. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

A week ago, right at the beginning of the heat wave, the air conditioner in his mother’s attic office had broken. The Lemonade War 2007-04-23T00:00:00Z

The sun was beginning to lower in the west, but the lure of something new was too great to resist. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“In The Westing Game, most of the information you need to solve the puzzle is provided right at the beginning of the story, in the will,” he said. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

I suspect that in the beginning Maurice hoped that Rosy would calm down. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

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

That was the beginning of an argument that never had a satisfactory ending. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

It had been a long time coming, born in the city’s beginnings, written in the countless daily interactions of ordinary citizens and city leaders. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Cook seemed kind most of the time, but she was beginning to wonder if the older woman was what Daddy had referred to as Double-Talk Folk. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

She closed her eyes as the beginning pangs of her ordeal pounded at her temples. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

At the beginning he had no feeling except sheer incredulity. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

The other rabbits were beginning to reach the hedge as Bigwig hopped down the bank and crouched on the verge of the road. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

He felt a moment of curious suspension, as when you have been awake for a long time you have certain moments of unreality, of numbness, of the beginning of sleep. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

When the state finally concluded its case, there was a stillness in the courtroom in anticipation of the beginning of my defense. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

Mice were beginning to smile from sheer relief. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

"After," I say again, beginning to improvise an explanation. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

Rowan had played this day over in his mind many times from beginning to end. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

If you ask a group of people in any age category to sing a song, more often than not, children’s songs are the only songs everyone can sing in their entirety from beginning to end. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

Ifemelu liked the name of the town, Willow; it sounded to her like freshly squeezed beginnings. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Remember how I helped you in the beginning, when the receiving of memories was new to you?” The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

Already, we were beginning to experience the pressures of a national campaign. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

If that had been the case, the rise in income inequality beginning in the mid-1970s should not have been all that worrisome. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

I walked on, beginning to tire, beginning to worry that dawn was not far away. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

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

The Peteys seemed to recognize some grand new beginning in the disappearance of Mr. Flux. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

But for Elizabeth Bentley, the end of the war was the beginning of a terrifying, unknown stage in her life. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Everyone would be masked, at the beginning at least, although most would unmask quickly so he could admire their beauty. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

I breathe in the difference of being on this earth now and maybe not tomorrow, the precipitous edge of something new for me but as ancient as the beginning of time. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

The truth is, Henry and I have been together since the beginning of this year. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

That was the beginning of an outflow of talent from the Rad Lab. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

When he had sat there long enough to see that the tide was beginning to empty out of the New Meadows, he rose and followed the shore of Malaga Island back to the tender. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

She noticed Reyna looking back and forth between Jason and Piper, her brow creased, as if just beginning to realize the two of them were a couple. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

When we’d finished, I was beginning to stiffen up, so I got up to move around and looked in on one of the two dormitories. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

And what about Romero’s yellow bull, he could hear Josiah say, winking when he said that; but the speckled cows had not seen the yellow bull that way, at least not in the beginning. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

I started by sawing it, but like most beginnings, it’s not much. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

Folks are beginning to wonder just how much longer Uncle Sam is going to foot the bill for this misadventure. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

She said it’s only now, after over a month, only now those kids are beginning to quiet down. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

Wang Lung’s uncle began at this time to become the trouble which Wang Lung had surmised from the beginning that he might be. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

As the boys—now officially the U.S. eight-oared Olympic rowing team— settled in at Travers Island they were, largely unbeknownst to them, beginning to become national celebrities. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

I remembered beginning the loop around Sky Harbor International . . . but not ending it. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

This happened around 600 million years ago, at the beginning of the Paleozoic era, and accounts for the sudden abundance of marine fossils of all kinds in the record of this period. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The degree to which we are all involved in the control of the earth’s life is just beginning to dawn on most of us, and it means another revolution for human thought. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Under it all some part of his mind was beginning to stand aside; he was going behind his curtain, his wall, looking out with sullen stares of contempt. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Listen, start at the beginning. Who was the first woman you ever killed?” Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Here’s to new beginnings,” Stuart says and raises his bourbon. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

I stumbled a bit in the beginning, but even though my cheeks kept growing hot, I never froze once! Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

Tuesday night I set out to eliminate the weak maybes from my suspect list, beginning with Mr. Sabbatini, except I couldn’t eliminate him. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

He looked at me, his eyes sadly beginning to sink deeper into their sockets. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

This barrier was disappointing news to the physics world, but it was the beginning of a new branch of physics: thermodynamics. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

“The perfect question. In the beginning, that’s where they come in. They supplied the ingredients that became us, the primordial elements. We are star stuff, yes?” Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

In the beginning her texts were knives, slicing holes in the cocoon of motel must and diner coffee and the view of the street out my window. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

I open Kalinda’s letter and read it quickly first, eyes flashing over her jumble of words, before going back to the beginning once again. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

My hunt-goddess twin and I are now more distant kin than ever, I suppose, except in this one regard: she is beginning to be looked upon in our village as bizarre. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

The smells of the food, along with the swaying and jerks of the train, were beginning to make me sick. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

But it would be too easy to dismiss the dangers even of this familiar beginning place. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

If you didn’t understand something in class, just drop an anonymous note into the box anytime afterward, and Sabbatini would get to it at the beginning of the next class. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

“Let’s see that little pillow a minute,” said Stuart, whose curiosity was beginning to get the better of him. Stuart Little 1945-10-17T00:00:00Z

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

It was beginning to come together—even if I could not yet see what the “it” was. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

“Back up all the way to the beginning.” Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

His leg was beginning to pain him sorely. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

“It’s just the beginning,” I prefaced, handing her the sketch pad. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

She lifted her glass and wondered whether Levy Pants was beginning to reek a little of used pekoe. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

But this was just the beginning of many risky situations that were to come. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

It was the only compliment I ever gave him, because I disapproved of him from beginning to end. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

He’s been gradually moving in his things, beginning with the paints and canvas. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Now, he saw in his flashlight beam, his mother slept under eiderdown quilts that were just beginning to yellow. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

That was at the beginning of the sixth grade, last year. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

The day had a strange but comforting feel to it, like a rest between the end of one time and the beginning of another. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

“All í done was run away from Mrs. Coulter! That’s just a beginning. I want to go north!” The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

The bell rang to signal the beginning of the assembly. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

But even the discovery of Egypt didn’t stop the beginning of school from arriving with all its problems. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

At the beginning of December the long-awaited interview, which many had foreseen as an interminable argument, was resolved in less than an hour. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

Has fear, since the beginning of time, driven men to such lengths of calculation? Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

I was beginning to believe he was a lunatic. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

A chill goes through her, for she feels it in her bones, the future is now beginning. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

But for a poor white son of the South, it was a good beginning. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

Underneath their dresses flesh tightened and shivered in the high coolness, their small breasts just now beginning to create some pleasant discomfort when they were lying on their stomachs. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

The extra loudness of the note often requires a stronger, more definite attack at the beginning of the accented note, and it is emphasized by putting some space before and after the accented notes. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

Sam was beginning to lose his temper the way he did. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We were beginning to worry,” Con said, unable to hide his anxiety. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

“It feels like I am coming closer to the beginning.” Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the beginning, the photos were of a very pretty woman holding a pretty little baby, and later, a small boy and another, even prettier baby. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

Up to the beginning of this century people believed in an absolute time. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

One day towards the beginning of 1610 Johannes Kepler was walking across a bridge in Prague when a few snowflakes settled upon his coat. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

At the beginning there were many leaves covered with Bilbo’s thin wandering hand; but most of it was written in Frodo’s firm flowing script. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

At least they've invited me, one of us, in at the beginning of something big; and besides, if I refused to join them, where would I goto a job as porter at the railroad station? Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was simply following the rules I had laid down for myself at the beginning of the project and doing the best I could to hold each job. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

But a person doesn’t always know the difference between a new beginning and a forever sort of ending. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

"I've got a man in England who buys me clothes. He sends over a selection of things at the beginning of each season, spring and fall." The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

As you can probably tell, I’d spent so many years inside my protected gymnastics bubble, I was only just beginning to understand the benefits of turning pro. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

We can’t go back in time and diagnose him, but from here it looks like a form of epilepsy or, most likely, the beginnings of bipolar disorder, which is also known as manic depression. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Still, I felt as if it was the beginning of the end—no, not the end, but of a bad time, and all my plans of this morning seemed thoughtless and foolish. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

They considered the idea with a beginning of hope. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Yes. Just start at the beginning. Read careful. Take it slow.” Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

I studied him closely, since other Negroes were beginning to watch us. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

The strike was the beginning of my close relationship with Marks. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was still wearing the braids Cecile made and they were beginning to unravel, but she wouldn’t let anyone touch her head. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

“We have to write the script, invite people to be on the video, interview and film them, edit the videos, and prepare for the school event. Hmmm, how about the beginning of November?” Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

While the Under Fifteens were struggling to keep their team together, Qendrim and the Under Thirteens were beginning to gel. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

She was beginning to wonder whether humans were actually any better than giants. The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

The chicken was browning nicely, the skin beginning to crisp and take on the toasty tones of oiled wood. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

Then this one day, at the beginning of semester, I came in to find a note stuck to my locker. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

Telescopic astronomy was presented as a brand-new beginning—which indeed it was. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

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

Plus the beginnings of something else—a new heaviness, a dull sense of apprehension, a burden of doubt and fear pressing down on his small shoulders and his perpetually congested chest. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

The sun was getting hot and the flies were beginning to come out. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

Joe squatted, automatically picking up a twig and beginning to scratch in the dirt. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The sun was shining, and the ice was beginning to melt on the street. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

She told him how the strange animal had supplanted her and how nobody had been prepared to listen to her explanation at the beginning. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

He and Esther spoke in the yard again as spring was just beginning. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

“Because,” the emperor said with the beginning of an ominous roar, “I think you...” When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

And I was just beginning to get brave when he clamped his hands down on mine. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

I wound up concentrating my course work on international politics and development, and now I’ve graduated and am on an AirFrance plane beginning its descent into familiar old Kinshasa. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

They camped in the Green Hills, and on September the twenty-second they rode gently down into the beginning of the trees as afternoon was wearing away. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

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

He knew this from the beginning, had sensed it in their first conversation after a friend introduced them at a wedding. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

The sun was just beginning to peek out over the horizon. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

It’s just the beginning, though, because upon closer examination, cultural legacies turn out to be even stranger and more powerful than that. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

More composed, I went back to the beginning, to the first dizziness, and remembered it all for him—relived it all in detail. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

Instead, he said that time was a property of the universe that God created, and that time did not exist before the beginning of the universe. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was a modest beginning: he opened for another band and played for thirty-five minutes. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

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

The crowd was beginning to press in around his horse, shouting congratulations. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

Happy music sounds like the music they play at the beginning of baseball games, except sped up, and looped over and over and over again, until every lady in the church catches the spirit. Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z

He began to hate that horse, and he was also beginning to feel very hungry. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z

But girls at my new school are very kind to me, and I am beginning to make friends. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Marian stayed on at Marianna for Marian Anderson received some fifty honorary degrees, beginning with her doctorate of music from Howard University in 1938. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z

In the beginning it had been a sensible, often moving affair, a coming together of soldiers and gentlemen to toast and praise a warrior departing their ranks. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

At the beginning of the year Mr. Greene went through a whole day talking about how we could use math. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

I was beginning to have no doubt that she heard things. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

Meanwhile, Jinny’s ankles, in their awkward crouch by the water, were beginning to ache. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

The lessons had been designed by Mr. Curtain himself, and when all of them had been gotten through, they were repeated from the beginning. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

I’d been wondering whether something was wrong with me since the beginning of the semester, when I’d attended my first lecture on world affairs. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

His hand in mine is warm, and for a moment, I feel brand-new, as if like my cousin Primadonna, I am beginning to live up to this new name—Fabulous. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Denna was beginning to nod where she sat, her head slowly sinking to her chest, then bobbing back up. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Darlene Wood was beginning to get miffed because all the brothers had gotten rid of their slave names but Minister Fard hadn’t gotten around to the girls yet, so here she was, still Darlene Wood. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

From the beginning, most prints have been made, at least in part, by artisans whose technical skill is necessary to ensure the outcome. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

The amount of the work was beginning to overwhelm us. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was still fog when they came into the open, but it had begun to drift and there was a gray dawn just beginning to break. The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z

Shadow’s feet were beginning to hurt, and he found this sentiment to be extremely unlikely. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

It was before the beginning of history, so paleontologists have had to piece together the tale of the birth of mathematics from bits of stone and bone. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

The sword shone with the knowledge that dawn was a small beginning compared to the ending of a season: the ending of a year. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

In the beginning I ate the crustless sandwiches and opened a can of Coke, then excused myself to my bedroom to do homework or to listen to my iPod. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

It felt like the end of something or, maybe, the beginning. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

I was beginning to picture myself travelling first-class all over the globe with my Famous White Mouse Circus, and performing before all the crowned heads of Europe. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z

“That is affirmative, Captain. That is affirmative. We’ll go up at the beginning of next week to see if you’re as good with a jet as you are with your mouth.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

He seemed to enjoy fooling the British, right from the beginning. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

I asked before beginning my newest story—one I hadn’t gotten to try out yet. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

The right side of her face was swollen and beginning to ache, but she knew Joffrey would want her to be beautiful. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

The cheap binding, with its dry glue, was beginning to detach from the pages. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

I said again and beginning to get a little nervous. Missing May 1992-03-01T00:00:00Z

He was beginning to feel his paws numbed by the jarring blows of the hefty iron railing against the sword blade. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

Many people do not like the idea that time has a beginning, probably because it smacks of divine intervention. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

What I’m experiencing here is a good beginning to an interesting life, and that’s the reason—the only reason—why I have to laugh at the humorous side of the most dangerous moments. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

I sensed that something terrible was beginning to happen in the world, but I tried to shut it out of my mind by reading and writing. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Will paid for both of them to get in, and bought hot dogs and popcorn and Coke, and they carried the food inside and sat down just as the film was beginning. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

It sounded like the beginning of a deep and long sleep, and a warning that, after all, we were to spend the night in the car, in Mexico. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were clad in red shoes—red like the winter berries beginning to pop out on the bushes. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

I say yes, even though I do all my homework in the time at the beginning of class while the teacher takes attendance and tries to get everyone to be quiet. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

This poem was just the beginning, of course. Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures 2013-09-24T00:00:00Z

If the government failed to call such a convention, we would call a countrywide three-day stay-away beginning on May 29 to coincide with the declaration of South Africa as a republic. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I look up as her mom crosses the room, her eyes beginning to water as she looks at me. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

In real time, the universe has a beginning and an end at singularities that form a boundary to space-time and at which the laws of science break down. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

This was the beginning of an American innovation, the penitentiary. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Write your clef symbol at the beginning of this line. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

He was beginning to turn the page when Reynie said, “What exactly is that book, sir?” The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

As I was writing my response to Oliver, I was also beginning to draft my memorandum to P. W. Botha. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then I returned to my shelf in the barracks for a few hours of restless sleep before beginning the ordeal all over again the next morning. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

She would sometimes reassign me from easy jobs that Holmes had given me to hard ones, and in the beginning, especially, she had a low opinion of me. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

To return to the agricultural past, as some thinkers about the beginning of the twentieth century dreamed of doing, was not a practical solution. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

Slowly he felt the edge beginning to dull. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

It was the beginning of a whirlwind tour and another in the series of awards we received for “bravery and significant contributions to democracy.” Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The officers made a series of critical misjudgments, beginning with the assumption that a man getting a breath of fresh air outside his own home was a potential criminal. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

Tía tried to convince me to thin mine out at the beginning of the summer. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

“The Prince and I have never from the beginning lied to each other. He knows I do not love him.” The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

These already show an assurance and refinement far removed from any humble beginnings. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

Moss did his best to pay attention, but the beginning of a migraine raged in his head, making it hard to keep his eyes open in the bright classroom. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

It’s a crisp, cool day, exactly as it should be for the beginning of October. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

We had just stopped at a traffic sign, and the usual crowd was beginning to collect. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

Perhaps that was why for the first time after that cold day in France he was beginning to miss the presence of other people. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

The beginning of Hobbits lies far back in the Elder Days that are now lost and forgotten. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

I was dimly aware that this beginning was somehow indicative of the rest of my life. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Some logs had hoofs or claws, tails or horns; some had the beginnings of a face, a mouth or an eye; some had hands with fingernails. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

Her skin was already beginning to react to the grass cuttings stuck to the ball, whose sogginess was suddenly explained by the overweight Labrador who now limped into view. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

I lie on a small cot, and once I get comfortable, tía Fermina makes little crosses all over my body with an egg, beginning with my head and working her way down to my feet. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

I wasn’t overly concerned in the beginning—nor were Dennis and Jack, for that matter—that I was employing my own life as material for my alter identity. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Big flakes of snow were beginning to fall. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

If they can bring themselves to write a proper apology to you, then perhaps we may have the beginning of a new start. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

So the feast was beginning and the watchman had been given his portion. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

I stare at the droplets of rain beginning to fall against the window. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Right from the beginning, would she start with her grandpa and grandma and tell all the family stories? Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

Despite the warmth of the night, Lola was beginning to shiver and Briony longed for something she could take off and place round her shoulders. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

At the beginning of the epidemic, Rush used mild purges and moderate bleedings and urged patients to sit in cool air, take cold baths, and eat light meals. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

Because it was a beginning course, the characters on our tape generally steered clear of slang and controversy. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

Very much like magic, in fact—and that’s the way the Egypt Game was, from the very beginning. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

He wants to work again on the human body and asks Theo to send him a book so he can copy the sheets of nude figures, as he had done back in the beginning. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

From the beginning, Hall had planned that May 10 would be our summit day. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

I cut the final scene and went back to worry about the beginning. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

The strain of concentration was beginning to tell on them, and it was not made any better by the fact that they had not understood one single word. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Inside the furnace he saw the coal beginning to smoke; there were faint wisps of white smoke at first, then the smoke drew dark, bulging out. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

It is now generally regarded as a much more important marker of the beginning of modern astronomy than the publication of Copernicus’s On the Revolutions. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

This was the beginning of all things, the death that made all life possible. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

Alma Ember was beginning to become less of a welcome distraction and more of an inconvenience to me. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

Which means from the very beginning I was a substitute and so was he. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was beginning to believe that someone I cared about was in real danger, but I still didn’t know who it was, and I still didn’t know how to help. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

The wind blew a low, plaintive moan, the beginning note of a lamenting song. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

“You’re beginning to remind me of my father, and what could be more depressing than that?” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

I inhale deeply, tracing the hard lines of his jaw with the tips of my fingers, pondering the winding paths that life presents—ends leading to beginnings and back again. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

His argument for the thesis was that if the universe did not have a beginning, there would be an infinite period of time before any event, which he considered absurd. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’ve really got to stop reading these horror stories late at night, he thought, it’s beginning to affect my mind. Bunnicula 1979-03-01T00:00:00Z

I feel like I am witnessing the beginning of something, but I’m not sure what it will be. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

In the beginning, I didn’t get why he was so obsessed with this stuff. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

I warned him that if he failed to call the con-vention we would stage the country’s most massive three-day strike ever, beginning on May 29. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were getting increasingly vicious, and they were beginning to target Americans. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Though the sun is beginning to set, its warmth is still palpable, the air lazy and mild. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Harley’s words were becoming disjointed and he was accenting the words at the beginning and swallowing the ending sounds until it didn’t sound like English any more. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

In fact, they named a great many of them, beginning with Azareen’s grandmother. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

As Grandma India said, turning the other cheek could be difficult, but for me, it was also beginning to be a lot of fun. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Link warned me that with the beginning of April, segregationists would feel compelled to speed up their efforts, in order to get us out of Central before we could complete a full school year. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

At the beginning of the year, the first thing you pay attention to is the classroom. Because of Mr. Terupt 2010-10-11T00:00:00Z

All of the travel for competitions was beginning to weigh on me. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

In fact, he insisted on taking me to Italy, France, Germany, Spain, and Scotland—a ten-week trip beginning in mid-June, which meant I wouldn’t go to Beechwood at all, summer sixteen. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

The electric lantern was already beginning to dim and he looked through the stores until he found some cases of white gas in gallon cans. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

From the beginning Papa knew his own answer would be YES YES. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

But I knew this was just the beginning. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

In place of the old system, Wanner said, have arisen “new ways of transmitting advantage that are beginning to assert themselves.” Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

He gazed at them unseeingly, fighting against his conscience, against beginning to see the justice in what Aurelia had said. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

"The Young Wolf has sent us terms, you see. Unacceptable terms, to be sure, but still, a beginning. Would you care to see them?" A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Finally, in the beginning of December, Úrsula burst into the workshop all upset. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

Flipping back to the beginning of the test, Reynie read the very first question again: “The territories of the Naxcivan Autonomous Republic and the Nagorno-Karabakh region are disputed by what two countries?” The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

McNeish, who was more than fifty, was beginning to break down. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

Roger Penrose and I showed that Einstein’s general theory of relativity implied that the universe must have a beginning and, possibly, an end. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had a point: from the very beginning, jazz as a style thwarted definition, so various were its manifestations in different places. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Keep moving, and then he was on the boardwalk, and he slowed down, the ankle beginning to throb, and he let himself be carried along in the flowing crowd. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

But since a woman combing her hair hexes beginnings, my aunt rarely found an occasion to look her best. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Among the phrases he minted were “blood, toil, tears, and sweat,” “their finest hour,” “the few,” “the end of the beginning,” “business as usual, ” “iron curtain, ” “summit meeting, ’’ and “peaceful coexistence. ” Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

In the beginning I was almost like an automaton, thought- lessly performing the actions that would keep me alive. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Gagging sporadically, the volunteer patiently scraped out the corpses, cooked up another sugar solution, and rehung the feeder, although already he was beginning to despair of ever attracting a hummingbird to his humble, accursed digs. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

These woods seemed as if they must have been there since the beginning of time. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

The beam of light, which has until now been heading straight up into the sky, is beginning to bend. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was no new life, just the end of false beginnings. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

I was beginning to find everything connected with Reb Saunders and Hasidism distasteful. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

Ms. Lanford told us at the very beginning that there would be one grade given, so everybody had to do a fair share. Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z

For them, the day was beginning in earnest. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

As Darwin was beginning to write his opus on evolution in the spring of 1856, Gregor Mendel decided to return to Vienna to retake the teacher’s exam that he had failed in 1850. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

The red of the smile is the same as the red of the tulips in Serena Joy’s garden, towards the base of the flowers where they are beginning to heal. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

“That the University is for continuing one’s education. Not beginning it?” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

She thought she would start with the corporals legs in order to be out of the way of the nurse who was beginning to search his blackened arm, looking for a vein. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

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

Encrusted in dried saltwater and sand, he's panting and beginning to swoon. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

This year was beginning to feel either like something was very right or very wrong—it was hard to tell which. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

I used the time to talk to the people in my life I trusted most, beginning with my parents. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

But Shawn’s lazy eye has reached its limit, dropping entirely to the bottom of his socket, and he nods off for a second and then pops his head up, disoriented, beginning the whole trick again. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

"Of course. I write home now and then," I said, beginning to resent his method of questioning. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

But he was able to understand one thing: making a decision was only the beginning of things. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sean got home just as the water was beginning to boil. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

It was nearly the beginning of May, but still the icy water pierced Cole’s skin like millions of tiny needles. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

In the fourth game Karpov moved his knight on his twenty-first move, which Bobby insisted was the “proof” of the beginning of the staged sequence. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

The effect was to strip German Jews of their citizenship and all associated rights beginning in January of 1936. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Eventually he had to give up, as his eyes were beginning to water and he was getting a crick in his neck. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

The roosters had been crowing for some time, and the early pigs were already beginning their ceaseless turning of twigs and bits of wood to see whether anything to eat had been overlooked. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

This was a bad beginning, but hell, I was being hired by Brother Jack, if he still wanted me, not this Emma woman. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some of these youths were beginning to infiltrate back into the country in sorties, armed with submachine guns, bombs and other sophisticated weapons. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Near the beginning of World War I, the Williamses discovered, from returning neighbors and kin, the possibility of living better in another place. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

We’re standing at the beginning of a tunnel with one wall made of rock and another made of pure falling water, roaring past white and clean and so fast it looks almost solid. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

There were women in the car now, with market baskets, and men in work-clothes were beginning to outnumber the shined shoes and collars. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

Of course no mother could want her, not after such a beginning. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

The experiment he describes cannot be performed in Cambridge at the beginning of the year: it requires the sun to reach an elevation of 40 degrees above the horizon. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

I looked at Lucas, whose anger had turned to remorse as he witnessed Fulton Dumas beginning to cry with his head buried into my shoulder blade. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

At the beginning of August, while Galileo was still in Venice, he heard that a Dutchman had arrived in Padua with one of the new instruments. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

Mr. Wopsle was beginning, “I can only say—” when the stranger stopped him. Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z

He was sweating into his wet shirt and just beginning to feel the result of sharp stones on his feet. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

I practically see his mind spinning, his thoughts beginning to derail. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

She was in the wood at the end of the world, or perhaps at the beginning. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

Face pale and eyes beginning to brim with tears, she gritted up a mouthful and took a drink of water to wash it down, grimacing. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Newborns were beginning to arrive to start the year’s population. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

My story has a strange shape: a stunted beginning, an endless middle. The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z

And then he remembered his own voice speaking words that at the time he did not understand himself, at the beginning of their journey: I have something to do before the end. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

I looked into their smoke-washed faces; not since the beginning had I faced such serious doubts. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

At five years old, I am beginning to know what loneliness feels like, silent and alone and suspecting that everyone wants to hurt me. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

As I look around, the cars are beginning to grow a fine layer of gray dust. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

People are beginning to shout at the squad cars, drum on the window glass and the trunks. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the fifth century the sack of Rome marked the end of one world and the beginning of another; so did the railway in the nineteenth century. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Even toward the beginning she must have noted my silences, my bitten fingers, the dark scabs on my lips where I’d pulled off patches of the skin. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

They were beginning what would be a three-day drive, minimum—more likely four or five. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

“Like a zigzag with a parting at the side right here, but you don’t add the hair at the beginning, you add it when you get to the ponytail,” she said, speaking slowly, overenunciating. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Later on, she suggested a possible date for the beginning of this action —the Fourth of July. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her smell, the smell of his girls, was faint now, replaced by rain and the beginnings of mildew. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

The sermon might be covering for something and I’m beginning to wonder if I know what that something is. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

For better or worse, it also signaled the beginning of the end of computing as womens work. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

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

And this was the beginning of his life as a man. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

I am terrified, especially at the beginning, of being recognized by some friendly business owner or erstwhile neighbor and having to stammer out some explanation of my project. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some very unpleasant memories were beginning to come back to me. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

My father was beginning to recover when the second semester began, but he was a shell of a man. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

By the beginning of 1968, another larger ANC detachment had entered Rhodesia and fought not only the Rhodesian army but South African policemen who had been posted to Rhodesia. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was beginning to understand almost all of Karl’s conversation, with its mix of German and English. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

“Or a little hospital,” added Jaime, who was beginning to cherish the idea of bringing his poor patients to the High District. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

"Let me begin at the beginning," she began. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

If anything, the ggeh was his one enduring vanity, a system paternal, how in the beginning people would come right to the house and ask for some money and his blessing. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

The relationship between music and reading in beginning readers. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

I condemn myself in so many ways that I’m beginning to realize the truth of Father’s adage: “Every child has to raise itself.” The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

It was not very suitable to a place which felt as if nothing had ever grown there since the beginning of time, but it was the one he could remember best. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z

Quiet stretches out and I’m beginning to think it will never end, when Leevy speaks up. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

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

At the beginning, it sounds like a guy is trying to get his girlfriend to secretly meet up with him at midnight. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

"But I mean that," he said, pointing, his eyes beginning to blaze, "that there." Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her eyes were beginning to get used to the darkness. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

But at the beginning of October it became apparent that Venus was changing shape: slowly, it was moving towards being a half-circle. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

“Why don’t you start at the beginning . . . you said you didn’t come up with this on your own.” Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

This could be die beginning of an emotional and financial dependency, which Sammy knew how to develop until she was his virtual slave. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Absorbed in her thoughts, Francie missed the beginning of the mass. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

With the beginning of twilight darkening the falls, I splash up to Alice’s camp. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

I know I had mixed feelings about the project at the beginning. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

Abra looked at his sunny hair, tight-curled now, and at his eyes that seemed near to tears, and she felt the longing and the itching burn in her chest that is the beginning of love. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

In the beginning there were thirty-six of them, thirty-six droplets of life so tiny that Eduardo could see them only under a microscope. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Do not, dear reader, let the pleasure of your eyes be spoiled; judge not too quickly, but read me from beginning to end.” The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Still, that afternoon, that moment, when that first molecule pierced her skin, was the beginning of our connection, one that led me into a darkness that was as twisted as it was sublime. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

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

My idol wished always to be first in the telling, to regale others with the story in its fullness, from beginning to end, from miller’s hut to crown and castle. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

But she powered through and finished the job, and was soon beginning work on a fourth lodge. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

“Now I’m beginning to understand. I didn’t steal that plum tomato, sir. Colonel Cathcart gave it to me. You can even ask him if you don’t believe me.” Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

He leaves money at the baker’s at the beginning of the month so that he can still eat at the end of the month. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

By now smoke was seeping from the ground all over town, and people were beginning to grow nauseated and faint from the increased levels of carbon dioxide in their homes. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

One or two of them had the beginnings of beards. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

It had been the hardest winter since records began; the Red Army was stretched even thinner than it had been at the beginning of the war. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

“Yes. It’s what Serenity and I have wanted from the beginning.” I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

“Start from the beginning.” she said, and the piano-playing critique resumed. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

So now they were going to miss the beginning of the picture. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

It looked smaller and shabbier by daylight, but it was the same place, with the zinc-topped bar, the espresso machine, and the half-finished plate of risotto, now beginning to smell bad in the warm air. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

He led them over a rise in the snow to a spot where bears were beginning to build a wall of ice blocks. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

At the beginning of my junior year, I went to see my counselor, Mr. Kinkade, to go over my class schedule. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

I know, from having run the course in training, that the first two miles are slightly downhill, which makes the beginning of the run really enjoyable. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

Cullen stands up, backs away from the table, and realizes that everyone around him is beginning to look very strange. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

The beginnings of an idea—a tiny, hopeful fire—started forming in my mind. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

This, of course, is a real false start, a fake beginning to a conversation, only because Ma and Momly speak like six thousand times a week. Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z

Their goal at the beginning of the fall had been to make the State Cup—a tournament for the area’s best teams. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

“In the beginning, there was the Bog. And the Bog covered the world and the Bog was the world and the world was the Bog.” The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

He had been asking about school since the beginning of September. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

“Now, Hazel, tell me your life story, from the beginning until you met me.” Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

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

It was like the beginning of a summer holiday. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

When I heard this, I was beginning to feel a strange chill and failing at the heart. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

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

In the beginning of this record I tried to explore the nature of journeys, how they are things in themselves, each one an individual and no two alike. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was beginning to wonder if he was starving himself. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

By the time they reached Chungam Bridge their eyes were beginning to close. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’m beginning to think I must trust words when they come to me. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

Did the gift promise anew beginning of love, as the month of January heralds the beginning of a new year? Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

“Son, can you at least just tell her the story, beginning to end?” my mother requested. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

I felt the beginnings of great loneliness, not because I was a Negro but because the man I had been, the self I knew, was hidden in the flesh of another. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

My story, on the other hand, is just beginning, and I have no idea how it’s going to end. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

Wilbur’s appetite had increased; he was beginning to eat scraps of food in addition to milk. Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z

The university seemed to offer a new beginning, and I intended to take it. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

The Ladd Devine Company had started drawing up plans for the recreation development about the same time people were losing their water rights and beginning a wholesale exodus from the hapless west side. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Volpe began to dabble in somewhat edgier fare, beginning with Pippin, a dark and existential musical inspired by the story of Charlemagne’s rebellious son. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

That was during the time that Meme was beginning to frequent Mr. Brown's house and it was still considered improper for a lady to drive a car. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

Worse than stuck, he would be back at the beginning. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

The beginnings of an idea scratched at the back of his skull, an itch, the barest inkling. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Figure 1.49: The time signature appears at the beginning of the piece of music, right after the clef symbol and key signature. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

He usually preferred to start a new passage—or inyan, as it is called—at the beginning of a shiur, so as to give the class time to get into it. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

The wave of discontent that was stirring the people was beginning to strike at the heart of that oligarchic society. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

This was only the beginning of Billy’s miseries in the metaphor. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Most of all, I pretend that this magic hour is the beginning of something, not the end. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

I looked at the side of his face: petulant, irritable, glasses low on the tip of his sharp little nose and the beginnings of jowls at his jawline. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

His voice trailed off, and she thought, Either he is beginning to tell me something extremely important, or he is killing time until this conversation can gracefully be ended. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

It wasn’t the beginning or end of any story, but the middle of—what felt rich. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

Although the wild dangler may lurk almost anywhere in a sentence, the seasoned hunter will look in the most obvious place, right at the beginning of the sentence. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Home, it was beginning to seem, was something you couldn’t necessarily count on. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

The last Fanta I had was two Christmases ago—at the beginning of the economic troubled time. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

Perhaps I was chosen from the beginning of time to live there with Agwe at the bottom of the sea. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

At the beginning of her second week she began pestering Mark Fossie to take her down to the village at the foot of the hill. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

‘We are beginning the story in the middle. I should like a tale in the right order, starting with that strange day when our fellowship was broken.’ The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

It was kind of cool in the beginning, being famous and all that. The Million Dollar Shot 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

I could see he was beginning to get excited now, too, so to change the subject quickly, I told him Reb Saunders had sent his regards. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

Mr. Landau, seventh-grade science teacher, has unrolled a beaten-up poster of the ignorant tongue map, and he’s explaining about how people have misunderstood the science of taste since the beginning of time. Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Something in his chest hitched, a seedling of doubt that was rapidly beginning to grow into a proper tree. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

“Where would I start? Right at the beginning?” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

In an unchanging universe a beginning in time is something that has to be imposed by some being outside the universe; there is no physical necessity for a beginning. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

That event marked the beginnings of King’s commitment to nonviolent direct action. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

Others have turned to winning the support of those who were suspect at the beginning of their rule. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z

He was tinning his whole attention to physical activity so that he might not notice the nagging uneasiness beginning to force its way into the conscious part of his mind. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

Nevertheless, the nova marks, quite precisely, the beginning of the Revolution, as the death of the archduke marks the beginning of the war. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Now she was beginning to doubt her own sanity. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

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

I scroll through the photos I took from the beginning of the day, skipping over the ones from my time before meeting Mateo and starting with my first color photo. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Scott paid no attention to me in the beginning, but soon enough, as my body began to change and I grew into womanhood, he took another look. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

The third, called relocation, was just opening up: interned citizens who could find a job and a sponsor somewhere inland, away from the west coast, were beginning to trickle out of camp. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the beginning, he traversed the world for opposition. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

He felt weak and shivery, as though he were recovering from a bad bout of flu; he also felt the beginnings of shame. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

I thought my failure at the 2011 Nationals was an ending, but it was really a beginning—a turning point on a journey I still can’t believe I’m taking. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

More and more now, he was beginning to know what was what. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was still practicing law, but the specificity of the work and the change of scenery distracted me just enough from the bigger questions beginning to bubble up in my mind. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

I thought I could peg him easily; were I an actor, I would have all the material I required for my beginning method. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

But in the beginning, Marina felt she had to play strictly by the book. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

One day he was invited to appear on a radio program, which was the beginning of a giddy popularity he had never expected. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Yet he suspected this was just the beginning of a much larger trial by fire. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

The next thing I felt was my skin beginning to tighten. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z

He was beginning to feel like some escaped convict hiding out from the cops. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

New York and California are just beginning to give first-time drug offenders treatment instead of prison sentences, and that’s a positive development. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her muscles ached, and she felt as if she had the beginnings of a fever. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Slowly her tongue was beginning to thaw; her words were less blurred. A Wrinkle in Time 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was beginning to get worried about Mother. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The polar night would last until the beginning of March. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

Bobby, in contrast, was nervous and volatile, the chess arriviste of Brooklyn, a colt of a player, and as it was beginning to develop, the spearhead of the coming generation of American players. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

The sun was beginning to come up over the hills as I turned onto East Main Street and headed toward Santa Maria to catch highway 101. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

She looks sympathetic, but I’m beginning to wonder. Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

He was beginning to believe that after all he might have been rash. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

It had been a mild, serene spring day—one of those days which, towards the end of March or the beginning of April, rise shining over the earth as heralds of summer. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

They are only at the beginning of some words. Mockingbird 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Church bells were beginning to ring all over town. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

As I look up at the canopy of elms, the sky is just beginning to grow light. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Norton clarified, his eyes beginning to get mean and sneaky like an alley cat about to jump on a bird. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

When their breakfast was over, and their packs all trussed up again, it was after ten o’clock, and the day was beginning to turn fine and hot. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

I knew enough Jewish history, he said, not to make him have to start at the beginning. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

I felt a cramp beginning in my stomach, held it with an effort that turned me giddy; when it had passed, the familiar symptoms of nausea began. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

Quickly, she finished hitching up her silly tights, then swished her hands under the faucet, beginning to dry them on her dress, but remembering after an initial swipe, the towels. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

You would never know they had such meager beginnings, these veils, bow ties, even wedding rings braided from machine wire. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

The thought never occurred to me that my own appearance was noticed, since my hair was beginning to lose its American identity. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

It was beginning to be light enough so I could see the bushes along the shore-line. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

He pulls out the empty chair to her left and stands up on it, beginning to tune his guitar. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

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

It was so dreadful a beginning that Ignatius almost knocked over the table. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s the beginning of your college fund, Joseph,” said my mother. Orbiting Jupiter 2015-10-06T00:00:00Z

His hairline was receding rapidly; his face was beginning to resemble an ancient topographical map of Africa. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

As the swelling throng marched singing into Montgomery, the Voting Rights Act was beginning its own contested journey through the political thickets of Congress. Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

For women like me, it seems, it’s not ours to take charge of beginnings and endings. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

It has been this way since the beginning of the great peace, when the factions were formed. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

The sun was just beginning its long summer afternoon journey toward the Manhattan building tops. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

“Last time I was here was the beginning of the end of a journey, but this time feels like the end of the beginning. You know what I mean?” Clean Getaway 2020-01-07T00:00:00Z

Finally, with the sun beginning to decline behind the Olympic flame, a choir of thousands dressed in white rose en masse and began to sing the “Hallelujah Chorus” from Handel’s Messiah. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

“Quinn Marshall Collins. You tell me the truth this minute and you start from the very beginning.” All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Hagrid yelled from out of the darkness, but Harry could feel the sidecar beginning to sink again: Crouching as low as he could, he pointed at the middle of the oncoming figures and yelled, “Impedimenta!” Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

I have cried so hard over this that I am beginning to feel stupid. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

What seemed a tragedy in the beginning of the year was now a blessing. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

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

He was strong enough to perch there now and was beginning to show signs that he would live up to his name, Handsome One. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

She knew from the beginning that the money wasn’t any place she knew of if it wasn’t in that litde pocket book pinned to her pink silk vest. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

She remained standing in place, beginning to feel a little foolish, reluctant to go outside. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

In the meantime, in the afternoons and on weekends, the Egypt Game was really beginning to take shape. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Of course you did, and spoiled your story by beginning at the wrong end. Now, start right, and tell me how it all happened. I’m pining to know.” Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was a long pause, and I was beginning to think she’d fallen asleep when she spoke up again. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

There had been very little hope from the beginning, but on seeing the hollow I gave up. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

At the beginning, we would talk about what music we liked and then it became all things Hudson. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

I am beginning to trust that I can find the words when it matters. The Misfits 2001-10-01T00:00:00Z

They were mistaken; the upstart’s experiments succeeded—partly because, in the beginning years, he labored eighteen hours a day. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was beginning to worry that the meeting had gone really, really badly when she pulled back, her eyes wet, a small smile playing at her lips. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

He was growing old, and beginning to need rest and an unperturbed spirit. The Awakening 1899-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was just beginning to learn about the generosity of our tribe. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

But just when I was beginning to feel at ease, the most startling thing happened. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

If you are concerned about this score, we suggest you seek professional help regarding that ax issue and perhaps develop your level of responsibility, beginning with a single bean plant. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

“See, I told you sunrise shapes are best of all. But wait. Just wait a minute. This is only the beginning. We’re in time for everything. Hang on....” Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

And now we had to turn our attention to the fall and new beginnings and the mystery of what was to come. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

At first, having found his way to Village, he had thought his own brutal beginnings—a fatherless hovel for a home; a grim, defeated mother who beat him and his brother bloody—were unusual. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

From the very beginning, Mrs. Valencia gave me no sympathy. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

From the beginning Selvam had accepted the child’s albinism: accepted it and thought no more of it. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

Young Walter Taylor was up, annoyed, prissy, defending General Lee’s night’s rest even against Longstreet, who glowed once with the beginning of rage, and sent Taylor off to get the old man out of bed. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Here’s the beginning of love at the end of our travail. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

"Very good, ladies. Now, I want you to take one step back. Hold your pose, but separate yourself from your partner," Coach Whit instructed, the song now fading out, a new one beginning. Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z

The dynamic forces behind this era of globalization were breakthroughs in hardware—from steamships and railroads in the beginning to telephones and mainframe computers toward the end. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z

In that light, I could see every bruise and cut on his face, some just beginning to heal, and others that had long since scarred. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

This was beginning to sound a trifle grave. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

Ahead of them the sky was beginning to clear a little and glowed like a promise. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Instead he calls Maxine, describing the details of his day, amazed to think she’d been with him at the beginning of it, that it was in her arms, in her bed, that he’d woken. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Well, at least we know he’s alive. We haven’t heard from him in so long, I was beginning to wonder.” Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

In the 19 3 os, track experts were beginning to toss around the idea of a four-minute mile. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z

It was the beginning of something—but what that something was was not yet clear. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

Presently its sound reached her ears and the throb of the engines reminded her that this was the beginning of the season when bush pilots took the gussaks out to hunt. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

“You can unlike him now. He’s non-Muslim. I told you from the beginning to drop it.” Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

Who could get points on the board at the beginning of the game, and at the end of the game, when his legs were jelly and his lungs a fire collapsing. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Reading went well, and he was beginning to make fair characters in writing with the quill. The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z

At the beginning of the session, he and I publicly shook hands and said we would work together. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

But that was only the beginning, biding time, it couldn't last. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

The chickens have kept on laying, and there are two more now than there were at the beginning. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

At the very beginning, after the title Meet the Kasteevs, they showed Erlan’s parents, really big on the screen, then all the kids, one by one. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z

There is a dreary chain of causality: The Germans were working on the bomb at the beginning of World War II; so the Americans had to make one first. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

As I walked along, the sun was shining and I could feel a little of that sunshine beginning to warm my heart. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

One may say that time had a beginning at the big bang, in the sense that earlier times simply would not be defined. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

That, too, would be self-defeating because the armed struggle, at least in the beginning, would not be the centerpiece of the movement. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Already, our teams were beginning to prepare briefing books and contact lists for their successors. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

She had to narrow her eyes because the sun was shining in her face so brightly, and before beginning to read she looked over her shoulder to make quite sure Mo hadn’t followed her down. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

I was beginning to feel scared again and very uncomfortable. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

The Cotswold is beginning to look more like a house and less like a ruin. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

In the morning, as they were beginning to pack their slender goods, Elves that could speak their tongue came to them and brought them many gifts of food and clothing for the journey. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

McKissick announced that beginning the next day, the city would see thirty straight days of similar demonstrations. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

Like yesterday, he says my name at the beginning of class, but this time adds, “I’ll see you tonight.” Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

“I’ve been watching your career ever since the beginning, when you first hit it big. This is a huge honor.” Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

In the wake of the reapers’ scythes the black land showed again through the stubble, no longer moist and rich but bone-hard, desiccated, and beginning to crack in all directions under the burning sun. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

Now his hand was really beginning to hurt. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The decision bore the hallmarks of his overarching ambition: a top-down approach, beginning with the most complex and variant traits conceivable—intelligence, temperament, physical prowess, height. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

The sun was beginning to set when we got into the car. Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

It’s possible that Bobby was just giving up, letting go of his life, beginning a slow form of suicide. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

The cool pulse of dawn was beginning to give way to the beating heat of midmorning when the two curacas arrived, as expected. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

Just as Seven was beginning to worry Thorn wasn’t coming back, she emerged from the Spector Lagoon, with a stream of ghosts behind her. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

Everybody was beginning slowly and painfully to disentangle himself from everybody else. James and the Giant Peach 1961-11-01T00:00:00Z

I knew this was only the beginning of the mother questions. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

And as physicists and mathematicians all over the world were beginning to use calculus to explain nature, cries of protest emanated from the church. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

Once there was a rabbit who danced in a garden in springtime with the daughter of the woman who had loved him at the beginning of his journey. The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane 2006-03-30T00:00:00Z

His outline was beginning to blur at the edges, eyes growing redder. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

It was already beginning to take on the attributes of a relic. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Suddenly she was aware that each life had a beginning and an end. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

“What better and more . . . appropriate way to start off. . . the semester than by beginning . . . with the highest point?” All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

I start at the beginning, and we play the song together. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z

At the beginning of the year he finally took up the appointment, and at the age of 29, Hooke also published his greatest work, Micrographia. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

He could feel himself beginning to panic, and he suppressed it, pushing the worry back down inside him. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

“Mom told us the code key from the very beginning!” The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

The days were long, beginning before dawn when the sea was purple black, ending with the sunset when the sea was burning red. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

“We can’t take chances, you know, any chances. I am only beginning to perceive what a terrible risk I was asking of you all. Now...” The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

He looked out at the burial parties and the lights beginning to come on across die field like clusters of carrion fireflies. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

By the summer of 1958, Governor Faubus, who had been vehemently against integration from the beginning, closed all the high schools in Little Rock for the following school year. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

If this invisible guy was Love, Jason was beginning to think Love was overrated. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

It’s beginning to feel as if I’m speaking to stagnant air—the spirits are just standing there without delivering my message to God. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Out of that beginning, then, had come the shame and the baby. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

His vocabulary turned me off even as I was beginning to acknowledge my body's pleasure. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

Now that he had had time to think, he was beginning to doubt the wisdom of this course, or perhaps he felt strongly his responsibility. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

For example, even a beginning piano player can play the highest and lowest keys; and even the best player cannot play beyond these. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

They were so worn from countless washings that the threads were beginning to separate. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

The grain was just beginning to ripen and the fields were full of poppies. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

Geography had been remade at the beginning of the sixteenth century by mariners; the philosophy of nature was remade in the seventeenth by the ‘mathematicians and engineers’. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Officer Delinko wasn’t the sharpest knife in the drawer, but he was beginning to suspect that this wasn’t the random work of juvenile pranksters. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

“Ifem, he was looking at you from the beginning,” Ginika said, and then, to show that she was fine with it all, she teased Ifemelu about stealing her guy without even trying. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Even so, Stanton saw the resolution as an important beginning. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

“Let me start from the beginning,” Professor Thomas said. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

She almost wishes her father were there, as she is beginning to understand why he had always been so adamant about building up her strength and control. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

I am beginning to understand why my mother joined Abnegation when she was supposed to join Erudite. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

Well, except for the beginning of your pregnancy, when you were barfing all the time. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

This is beginning to look like a plan: from maids’ service to something better, with the nursing home tiding me over during the transition. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

She stared at her son, who was beginning to rasp one paw against the other. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

The sky was a royal purple and dotted with fading stars, the light of day just beginning to break through. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

A certain light was beginning to dawn dimly within her—the light which, showing the way, forbids it. The Awakening 1899-01-01T00:00:00Z

Raymie knew the girl’s name and what her father did because Beverly had made an announcement at the beginning of the lesson. Raymie Nightingale 2016-04-12T00:00:00Z

And it is true that there were some people who, when their sorrow was beginning to lose its savor, gently edged it toward pride and felt increasingly important because of their loss. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Haydn was so adept at sculpting a tune from small beginnings that the younger Mozart and Beethoven simply copied the technique in their own way. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

The gods started from one end of the pool, beginning immediately underneath the falls and wading until they reached the other side. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

At the beginning of February, Mrs. Baker had assigned me Romeo and Juliet. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

For the first time since the beginning of the war, the building that Lincoln considers the most important in Washington glows. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

In some ways, beginning a song is similar. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

I don't know if their torrid beginnings cast a dark shadow on them, but my grandparents' marriage was laced with hardship and tragedy. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

He caught his breath at sight of Bill’s face, which was swollen and beginning to grow discolored from a deep cut and many bruises. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

None of us knew yet how many endings and beginnings one story could have. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

In the beginning, their activities were said to be harmless midnight pranks—for instance, riding horses through the countryside while draped in white sheets and pillowcase hoods. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

I saw the drugstore and began to walk faster, for I was beginning to sense that I was not exactly what everybody saw every day. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

At the beginning she fought the white children who insulted her. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

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

Still, the speech was the beginning of something new, not just for him, but for us, our whole family. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

The sun was beginning to set when Hazel woke to see Acorn listening and sniffing in the silence, between two white-skinned flints. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

By the time the three girls and Marshall squeezed through the fence to Egypt, where Ken and Toby were already waiting, a great deal of the necessary background material was already beginning to take shape. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

From the very beginning, the two men wrote in 2004, the city was partly in ruins—intentionally so, because the fallen walls bequeathed on Tiwanaku the authority of the past. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Hazel followed; and together they slipped away, running easily down through the wood, where the first primroses were beginning to bloom. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

I'm beginning to think she truly doesn't care for me. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

“Your father’s not mad at him, really. He’s mad at the situation, and I think that in the beginning Kyro got the brunt of that.” The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

In each dwelling tonight they would be studying the instructions for the beginning of their training. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

So about the beginning of November Father began keeping a sharp eye out on the weather. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Note—ex- is used before a root beginning with a vowel. New Word-Analysis 1871-01-01T00:00:00Z

An eternity later—or maybe it had been only ten minutes—the air bubble around them was beginning to feel stale and stifling. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

The intestinal muscles are beginning to die, and the intestines are starting to go slack. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I learned this at the very beginning of my stint as a waitress, when I was warned that my purse could be searched by management at any time. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

When it was beginning to be daylight we were quite close to the shore. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

It was the beginning of a ferocious and bloody battle that would last nearly six months and cost two million people their lives. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

I was beginning to get the message: Standing at attention was very important. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

Or, at the beginning of vacation, “School will be starting up before you know it.” A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

This was the beginning of what Weber called ‘the disenchantment of the world’. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

I saw a shiny film across her eyes—the beginning of tears. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The lore-master protests, beginning to hyperventilate at the suggestion, then the parrot flaps out of nowhere to the captain’s shoulder. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

It marked the beginning of the end and made everything else seem rapid, the months rushing past, time hurtling forward. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Things had been falling down since the beginning of time. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Possibly nobody ever talked like that in real life, it was all a fabrication from the beginning. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Pappa gained a real family, which is what he’d wanted. They stood by him from the beginning. He and Ma have this fairy-tale marriage.” When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

It’s almost dawn, the light outside is just beginning to tinge grey, and the rain of the last several days is still battering against the window. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

The beginning had seemed so tender and so right. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now that my adrenaline is fading, I’m beginning to realize how badly I’m hurt. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

And not just at the beginning of their marriage, but all throughout. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

He accordingly set the phonograph at a slow pace, and I began to typewrite from the beginning of the seventh cylinder. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

My palette is thawing, and the bleakness of the earliest beginnings has gone. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

He saw the line falter, the men beginning to clump together. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Timothy said he saw an arc of very black clouds to the west They looked as though they were beginning to join the higher clouds. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Scholars have long debated the beginning and end of Reconstruction, as well as exactly when Jim Crow ended and the Civil Rights Movement or “Second Reconstruction” began. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

The most important symbols on the staff, the clef symbol, key signature and time signature, appear at the beginning of the staff. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

I hope that we can finally get this magnificent project on film soon because Leola, the unbelievable girl from Harlem, is beginning to bug us about salary. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

After the briefest of mentions right at the beginning, 'Our Lady’ makes way for the true purpose of the carol: a Tudor booze-up. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Princes, especially those that are new, have discovered more loyalty and more utility in those men who, at the beginning of their rule, were considered suspect than in those who were trusted at first. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z

At first I see nothing but a stretch of farmland, a strip of empty ground, the fence, and the fields and beginnings of buildings that lie beyond it. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

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

Hair was beginning to appear in the required places. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

It was a dark November evening, and the base was beginning to quiet down for the night. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The blue was gathered in her hand, and she could feel it quiver, as if it had been given breath and was beginning to live. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I greet Rose, the receptionist who’s been with my parents’ practice since the beginning. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

She had said, "You must think of those six steps not as preparation for the beginning but as the beginning itself." The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

If it’s going to be Daniel and Natasha, then dealing with my dad’s racism is only the beginning. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

A squirrel looks up at you from the lawn, seems to shake its head, and then scampers away, and yes, you’re beginning to feel a little pathetic. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z

Wilbur and Charlotte were at the fair, and Charlotte was beginning to show her age. The Lemonade War 2007-04-23T00:00:00Z

In those days Greek immigrants were beginning to use funeral parlors, but Sourmelina insisted that the viewing be held at home. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Now, she saw, there were beans at the end of the row and tomatoes at the beginning. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

I was beginning to suspect it had all been in my head, a product of stress and exhaustion. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

But maybe she is like she was at the beginning, and I just didn’t realize it. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

Castle Black was already beginning to stir as men in black cloaks made their way across the yard to break their fast with bowls of porridge before they relieved their brothers atop the Wall. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Having spent that much, Lyddie squandered fifty pence more to get the child a beginning reader and a small paper volume of verses that the bookseller recommended. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

I paint a glass coffee percolator, with bubbles gathering in the clear water; one drop of dark coffee has fallen, and is beginning to spread. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

A few tried it in the very beginning—all of them showed up dead. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

He also sent me $30.00 a month while in Korea war while he was there from beginning until the end and was dischard in Seattle, Wash. Honorable as far as I know. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

Let’s begin with a journey from the perspective of the child—a very young child at the beginning of life. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

This is the beginning of the new me. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z

On the ground beside him lay two small rabbits, which he was beginning to eye greedily. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

The icy thatched roof made a sizzling sound, and she realized it was already beginning to flame. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

Will’s stomach was beginning to fill out richly. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

There was barely time between the end of a shift and the beginning of a class to get back to the dormitory to collect papers and textbooks. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

I ran out of there and did my best to forget the conversation, but it nagged at me all the way to the river like a tooth beginning to go bad. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

He was beginning to think that death was finally upon them and that they should find some place to hide where they would not be found. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

They moved down here right at the beginning of the “Big Bail,” which is what they called the mass exodus from the Central Valley’s farming communities. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

That is, until he left for college at the beginning of the summer. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

It got so quiet, I could hear the crickets outside, beginning their nighttime song. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

“I think it’s the beginning of July sometime.” Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

“But to me, I’m afraid, you will always be Tom Riddle. It is one of the irritating things about old teachers. I am afraid that they never quite forget their charges’ youthful beginnings.” Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

His bad eyes notwithstanding, he was climbing well and feeling stronger than he had since the beginning of the expedition, and, he explained, “I didn’t want to bail out prematurely.” Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

Not only is the cast getting moldy from my sweat, but it’s beginning to cut into my flesh and leave ugly welts on my skin. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

In the beginning my sisters bustled indoors, playing the role of mother’s helper with more enthusiasm than they’d ever shown for housework in all their born days. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was near the beginning of the second lunch period, a time when the cafeteria was most crowded. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He’s offered since the beginning to take turns pushing the wheelchair, but I made a deal with Mrs. Brazzi, and besides, this is something I want to do for Rosa. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

"The bottom truth. I've read many a book from beginning to end." The Whipping Boy 1986-04-01T00:00:00Z

I still didn’t know what was going on, but I was beginning to get angry, anxious. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

Mom restarted the video from the beginning, but somehow that yellow brick road had lost some of its magic glow. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

“What did you think? They all have to grow in the beginning.” A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Lenina suddenly felt all the sensations normally experienced at the beginning of a Violent Passion Surrogate treatment—a sense of dreadful emptiness, a breathless apprehension, a nausea. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

A few drops were beginning to fall, making black spots on the stones where they landed. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

Gus whistled while he hoed around the tiny tomato plants, stepping carefully between the pole beans and zucchini that were just beginning to poke through the warm spring dirt. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

Fatigue is beginning to settle on me, but it's not the usual tiredness that follows a long hike. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

A shout, beginning among the factionless and spreading to the Dauntless, rises up from the crowd like we are all parts of one organism, following the commands of a single brain. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe this is the beginning of us growing apart, Rishi thought, and his heart hurt. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

I knew from the beginning our new home would not be an ordinary house. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

The library was a square building, all brick and stone, dating back to the beginning of the last century. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

But I could see the light was fading, the shadows of the forest beginning to touch us, and I sighed. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

“Oh,” said the Professor, “then you are nearer the beginning, both of you, than friend John here, who has to go a long way back before he can even get so far as to begin.” Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

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

It was a report about a group and a man just beginning to get some attention in the white world. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was early afternoon, but already the daylight was beginning to fade. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

Before long, though, there was no light left, and they were crawling upwards in total darkness, and Malcolm found himself beginning to get badly frightened. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

“Well...why, yes he does,” Taran said, with some confusion, beginning to wonder if the enchantresses did not know more about Dallben than he did. The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z

He realized he was beginning to sound like a jerk. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Just a little,” he says, licking the nib and beginning to write again. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

“Fm beginning to see something,” he said with his eyes closed, “yes. Something very important.” Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

Grand capitals, in bright red ink, announce the beginning of each new chapter. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

The conference unanimously voted to initiate a massive countrywide antipass campaign beginning March 31 and climaxing on June 26 with a great bonfire of passes. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

"And so to sea," cried Tumnus, leaping up and beginning to dance. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z

Harriet’s staying away so long was beginning to make her uneasy. Emma 1815-12-23T00:00:00Z

“Isn’t it true that at the beginning of your story, you stated that you and Emmanuel Rivers were ‘just driving around?” Dear Martin 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

From beginning to end the great age of the resort hotels in the White Mountains lasted just fifty years. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

The creek itself was viscous as phlegm, but its indentation marked the beginning of the brass curtain that separated the officers and their families from the enlisted men and their families. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

To catch the fleeting grace of a new season, a lovely beginning, before it was trampled and corrupted? A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

His skin is paler, and there’s a rash on his arms that’s beginning to peel. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

Number one down was a word for beggar, beginning with m and nine letters long. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

But I had misgivings, I was beginning to learn that things wouldn’t always be the same. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

On the left side of the East Door, deep holes several inches in diameter and spaced a foot apart were bored into the rock, beginning near the ground and continuing all the way up. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

In fact, I was beginning to believe that walking away from Ocean now, at a time like this, would be the greatest act of cowardice. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

“Thank God my moustache filters out some of the stench. My olfactories are already beginning to send out distress signals.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m beginning to think you’re a twisted human—or no human at all.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

One sensed that he was almost beginning to enjoy himself. Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z

Also, I’m sorry you were inconvenienced by my gluing your locker shut at the beginning of this year. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

Beyond that is flat Lake Ontario, a zero at the beginning and a zero at the end, slate-gray and brimming with venoms. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

And when Boyle coined the phrase experimentum crucis to honour the Puy-de-Dôme experiment he was marking the beginning of a new era in which philosophical disputes would be resolved by experimentation. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

I was having an impact and beginning to enjoy myself at the same time, feeling more and more open and optimistic. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Since the beginning of the year Ms. G has been talking about how to get into college and what different colleges are like. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

Before the night was over, Ms. Gruwell told us that this was just the beginning and there’s more to come. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

Nick and I were a couple from the beginning. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

She backed away too far, and Dunbar, who had watched from the beginning, sprang forward on his bed without warning and flung both arms around her bosom from behind. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

Since coming to power in 1933, Hitler and the Nazis wasted no time in consolidating control, silencing their opponents, and beginning the campaign to reestablish Germany as a dominant world power. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

At The Maids, a housecleaning service, I am given something called the “Accutrac personality test,” which warns at the beginning that “Accutrac has multiple measures which detect attempts to distort or ‘psych out’ the questionnaire.” Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

I then summarized our complaints, beginning with the central and most important one, that we were political prisoners, not criminals, and that we should be treated as such. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

And the brushing little worm of a notion was beginning to tickle him now. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

There are now many book/CD combinations available to help the beginning improviser in many different genres and on many different instruments. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

All the timbers of La Belle Sauvage were sound, though the paint was beginning to peel, and Malcolm thought he might scrape off the old name and go over it again, better. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

About halfway down, we hear the clicking beginning to rise, indicating it’s after eleven. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

Red was holding a .38 revolver in his hand as he emerged from the shadows of the huge oaks that masked the beginning of the clearing. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the beginning he had tried to count the days by making note of when he woke and slept, but down here sleeping and waking had a way of melting into one another. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

In fact she is beginning to sound a little like her old man, but without all the heady blow and bellow. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

The next morning w as the beginning of a better day. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Neither boy had drawn a breath and the red rings were beginning to flare in back of their eyes from holding their breath. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Gene signified beginning, giving birth, while bbeu indicated existence and growth. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

From the beginning of my journey, I had avoided the great highspeed slashes of concrete and tar called “thruways,” or “superhighways.” Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

“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

At the beginning of the year, Mr. Browne had told all of us that he wanted us to send him one of our own precepts over the summer. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

Matt was beginning to lose patience with Maria. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

Dusk was beginning to fall as we wandered out into the narrow street. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

After the death, he argued that Garfield had a chance of recovering if his wound had been cleaned correctly in the beginning. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

I answered honestly, and then, for the first time since the beginning of the school year, my students came together as one. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z