Usually, I spent that period passing notes with Lauren, my best friend, or staring out the window daydreaming about boys. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

The more time I spent at Zanmi Lasante, talking with Farmer as well as staff and patients, the better I understood the challenge of treating the world’s poor. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

He’d spent the last five years trying to find some kind of meaning, not just for his service, but for his whole life. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

“In a kind of way. I’ve been to the North several times. Last year I spent three months in Greenland making observations of the Aurora.” The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

When this devil race had spent two thousand years in the caves, Allah raised up Moses to civilize them, and bring them out of the caves. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Piper should have understood what was happening sooner, but she’d spent most of her life in Southern California with no major changes of season. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

August and Zach tended to the bees and the honey, but I spent most of my time down by the river, alone. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

After staring at it, Rick spent a few more minutes staring grimly at the price tag. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

He felt the hot hate of the years spent battling gangs. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

We spent weeks following up on the leads that Myers had provided. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

We spent the rest of the class running through “Seven Nation Army.” Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

He had spent three days sitting inside the bole of an artificial oak tree, three nights crawling on his belly through the heather, hiding microphones in gorse bushes, burying wires in the soft grey sand. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

We spent the day doing the usual: raking leaves, pruning bushes, watering flowers and weeding the lawn. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

And in any case he wanted to be in the house, on which he had spent untold thousands for improvements, to protect it in whatever way possible. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

He had never failed her, not even when she had married and they had spent a year apart. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’d spent years in Harlem and on the road around the most popular musicians, the “names,” even, who really were making big money for musicians—and they had nothing. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was twenty-five, a sometime law student who spent his summers working around Spokane. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

People will say, “Look at her, she spent a year in bed, and now she travels far and wide.” Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

The pages were glossy and soft, made softer by the hours I’d spent hauling scrap. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

The hour spent at Millcote was a somewhat harassing one to me. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

So, yeah, I spent a lot of my time at home studying math and memorizing French vocab, just like I had before Culver Creek. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

Tough Will spent most of his games sitting on the sidelines eating orange slices. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

I would have spent that life among the living. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

“I have spent four days in the same house with him, and I think him very disagreeable.” Pride and Prejudice 1813-01-28T00:00:00Z

On July 28, forty actors spent twelve grueling hours filming scenes in a burning wheat field. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

He spent his day shut within four walls behind a locked door, so that no one would happen to walk in to clean his room, and with the blinds lowered and the curtains drawn. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had spent most of his years alone and trapped by his flightless body. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

She’d spent years trying to forget the Freeing of the Lobsters. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

They spent months traveling with their small children, inspecting this town and that house. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

He spent six hours examining things, trying to find a difference from their appearance on the previous day in the hope of discovering in them some change that would reveal the passage of time. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

Laleh had spent most of the drive asleep against the humming window. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

These were technologies that had been part of a profound effort to make cars and roads safer— along with airbags and billions spent to widen and improve roads. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

Even though my cousin was bent on flaunting his age and height over me, I relished the time I spent with him apart from my sisters. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

Dad had spent the spring reading out loud from the camp’s literature, but the only thing I’d cared about was that I was going to camp with other classical musicians. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

They had a lot of books, which I spent about a half an hour asking them about. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

Ralph spent the better part of his drive home congratulating himself on his good fortune. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

He’d spent too many years full of hate for it to vanish overnight. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Look sister, we know the facts: you spent the first twenty-one years of your life in the lynching country, in a county whose population is two-thirds agricultural Negro. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

Hazel and his companions had spent the night doing everything that came unnaturally to them, and this for the first time. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Singers in training spent a lot of time learning to improvise with these syllables. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

I spent the intervening days catch- ing up on my sleep, working in Kilvin’s shop, and enjoying my new, luxurious accommodations at the Horse and Four. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

He spent the rest of his life in a chair. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

They looked, they walked, and they talked as if they had spent most of their lives out of doors. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Shadow spent the night half-awake, drifting in and out of sleep, listening to his new cellmate grunt and snore in the bunk below him. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

Genie and Grandpop spent a little time each day in the inside-outside room, where Grandpop would have his drink and his apple, always spitting the seeds in the small cup he kept under the table. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

If they reach town, it will be virtually impossible to find them, and the agents’ half day spent in the cactus and the searing heat will be wasted. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

While other kids spent their afternoons playing outside, I would be inside my house studying or reading a book. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

He didn’t know how many upper-middle-class kids spent hundreds of dollars on SAT courses to try to boost their scores. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

We spent all morning burning candles—well, and occasionally lighting cigarettes off the burning candles after we stuffed a towel into the crack at the bottom of her door. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

The worst days spent with her were better than the best days spent without her. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

I liked being high above the world, and I spent a lot of time either on the roof or sitting in a tree in the park. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

The Cahokians' solution to this problem was discovered mainly by Woods, the University of Kansas archaeologist and geographer, who has spent two decades excavating Monks Mound. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

I spent so many winter hours nestled under it, reading my books, drifting to sleep. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

At the moment my every waking hour is spent in helping some dedicated friends raise money for a bold and shattering movie that they are planning to film about an interracial marriage. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

He quit the bakery, bought the restaurant, fixed it up, and spent a few weeks learning how to cook. Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal 2001-01-17T00:00:00Z

I had plenty of friends in the village, and like me, they spent their days grazing the cattle. Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z

This was one of the few days she and I ever spent together, just the two of us, and it confirmed something I’d felt since early childhood. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

I spent the next three weeks in and out of the hospital. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

He has pot and he’s so much more laid back than you; you spent the last year studying for this test; he didn’t lift a finger for it. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

He thought it was too bad that people spent so much time and energy investigating the supernatural when there was so much to figure out about reality. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

She spent two and a half years awaiting the high court’s decision, which was that she had been right: the government cannot detain loyal citizens against their will. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ms. Harris, the principal who normally spent most of her time hiding from students in her office, offered to actually walk me to my locker. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

They spent their days hoping and yearning for someone who could see them, a connection to the world of the living, for it was rare that such folks came along anymore. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

We married in September and spent our honeymoon picking cotton for the war effort. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mr. Jackson spent the rest of our time in the auditorium trying to figure out ways each of us could fix our dress-code violations for the day. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

He had spent time with an alcoholic foster parent once. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

Instead, she spent the next year at home, playing piano for church socials. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

He spent the entire morning observing the infrequent comings and goings in the street. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

I would have spent the night there, but suddenly a boy appeared, crouching in the shadows. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

He knew Latin, too, often quoted the articles of Vatican I, and spent most of his time at St. Paul’s, where he had been the first catechist. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

He had gaps between his front teeth, and the squinty eyes of someone who had spent most of his life outdoors. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

But after we were taken, we spent the next few years learning in special schools, living somewhat normal lives until they were finally able to finance and build the Maze. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Franklin must not have called the police to report me, though I jumped at every sound and spent hours peeking out the windows, waiting for a patrol car to arrive. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

Not only was she the first woman in space, but her time in space exceeded the time spent by all of the US astronauts combined. Women in Space 2014-02-01T00:00:00Z

The more alfalfa he did not grow, the more money the government gave him, and he spent every penny he didn’t earn on new land to increase the amount of alfalfa he did not produce. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

Even though they spent more time together because of it, Patrice and I were still the closest. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

They spent afternoons together at home often, with Emma doing needlework in Charles’s study. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Who had spent hours running and playing with me. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

Cliff spent most of his time on his porch, sitting in a plaid recliner so worn down it was mostly just exposed foam and springs, waving at each car that passed. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

I knew a little about rootwork from all the time I spent with Gran and Doc after school. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

Burt and I spent four hours going through the lab section by section, as I tried to familiarize myself with the total picture. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

You have spent an enormous amount of money retooling your furniture factory, and still more making sure that, say, the mesh on the Aeron doesn’t pinch the behinds of people who sit in it. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

He had spent part of the day in the park and had missed some of the excitement. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

The morning was spent wandering across the steep hillside with our heads down, my gaze locked on a point about six steps in front of me. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

I spent the summer in Rochester with my parents. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

The sound of their conversation filled Moss with a familiarity; he remembered suddenly how much time Shamika had spent at the house after his father had died. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

I spent a minute calming myself down and then called the sergeant’s office. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He excelled at reading people perhaps because he spent so many years trying to make himself unreadable. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

We drove to San Jose and spent an afternoon in the shops downtown. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

She spent weeks in a hospital enduring painful skin grafts that left her terribly scarred. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

I spent most of today out at what's left of the communications array. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Four hundred? I spent a year on each one. I’m selling them to you, not pawning them,” Nali said, her voice loud enough that other people in the pawnshop looked over. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

Simpson had spent the entire practice laughing with his friends. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

I spent only a few days in the Fort’s hospital before being transferred to Pretoria. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Violet and Klaus spent several minutes opening and shutting Count Olaf’s kitchen cupboards, but there weren’t any cookbooks to be found. The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z

Hugh’s insects swarmed and stung people until they were banished from the house, after which Hugh spent all his time at the window, his bees screening the other side of the glass. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

We had a volunteer who taught us the basics, and then we spent another half hour playing in teams. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

Both had spent their time in prison camp thinking of ways the Atlantic might be crossed nonstop by air. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

After Emily and Matthew returned home, she spent over an hour trying to decode the odd little symbols on the flyer with no luck. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

Shin spent all five years of primary school in class with this same teacher, who was in his early thirties, wore a uniform, and carried a pistol in a holster on his hip. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

I chuckled; I had encountered so many such contradictions in the white world that I no longer spent sleepless nights trying to make sense of them. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

We spent much of our day without activity. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

Poor Cap spent two hours in there, until a custodian found him and set him free. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

On the day shift, an escort officer usually spent about half his day supervising in the mess hall, during breakfast and lunch. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

My family had already spent our safety net of gold coins, and my father's savings had disappeared. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

Will was never able afterwards to tell how long he spent with the Book of Gramarye. The Dark is Rising 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

Afternoons were her time with Mia, and she spent the last few periods of the day anticipating what Mia might be working on, thinking of things to share. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

He spent the night at his momma’s house. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

Sometimes, on hot days, all the time was spent in the water, and the boys raced Robin to the weir and back. The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z

Some creep had written do i make you wet on her geography book, so she spent a really long time covering it up with a black ink pen. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

However, when the other saboteurs heard the rumor that Burger had spent time in a concentration camp, no one trusted him. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

In fact, Cofield had served years in various prisons for fraud, much of it involving bad checks, and he’d spent his jail time taking law courses and launching what one judge called “frivolous” lawsuits. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

The children, who had spent the morning repeating the words that Penelope had tried to teach them, likewise covered their ears and howled, “Whatawooooo! Whatawoooo!” The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

Roz had spent the day collecting logs and branches and stacking them in a perfect, massive tower. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

The next morning it was necessary that there be more money for they spent the last copper coin upon the morning’s rice. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

He spent hours teaching Nate how to pour in the gunpowder. I Survived the American Revolution, 1776 2017-08-01T00:00:00Z

He spent most of one Sunday spraying the basement and all secluded areas. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

I spent all my time worrying about which faction I would choose and never considered what would happen if I chose Dauntless. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

He spent most of his time in Baltimore. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I spent most of my time licking the sticky residue on my elbows and between my fingers instead of eating it from the cone. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

I spent a long time thinking about it; it crowded my thoughts every night before I slept and clamored for attention every time I woke. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

She spent the whole morning looking for a memory of her son in the most hidden corners, but she could find none. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

Bri had spent the morning in the apartment without being able to use the electric heater or the electric blanket, stuck in the sleeping bag. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

Both he and the men in the store had spent the entire day hunting for Emma Lee’s assailant in the brush and swamplands of the beach. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sometimes they would go for a walk together or play chess—but more often they spent the day quietly in Singer’s room. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

A summer spent in her white bed, her hair fanned over the pillow. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

"You do not see the beauty, do you? You have spent too long basking in Ishtar's light." City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

That night she realized that she would not have a moment of rest until she showed Mauricio Babilonia the uselessness of his aspiration and she spent the week turning that anxiety about in her mind. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

He looked like he'd spent the night having a good time, not getting his butt kicked, then waiting up in some dark precinct until his brothers came to his rescue. Miracle's Boys 2000-04-23T00:00:00Z

Mother had spent a good bit of money buying us new outfits so that we would make a good impression in California, and she thought she ought to economize on train accommodations. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was bad enough not being able to afford E Motions, and barely any new clothes, and having to watch every penny we spent at the supermarket. Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

I had spent almost my entire life misjudging birds. This Side of Wild 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

I can still feel her fingers brushing the hack of my neck, so much like my mother’s fingers, the last morning I spent with her. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

We spent it in the hospital watching him choke on his food and water. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

Knowing this, even William, wildly in love, had spent a long time “wrestling with myself, and with my upbringing, and with my past and with the future” before he proposed. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Everyone had a breaking point, after all, and the fact that Joaquin had spent almost three years with Mark and Linda and he still hadn’t been able to find theirs made him nervous. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

Without Theresa and Ralph knowing, she spent large parts of her afternoons listening to the radio, or reading the magazines she kept under her mattress. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

Every penny I put on the numbers is a penny well spent; it buys me that moment to think: What if? X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

The majority of Langley’s female professionals had spent their time at the laboratory classified as computers. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

The time spent theorizing and debating over the fact that God himself had stifled the greatness of human potential. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

He took Clara on a second honeymoon to the same places where they had spent the first, and on weekend escapades to a hotel, but it was all useless. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was easier to do this at lunchtime, when children spent more time coming and going between the tables and the counter, where bland-looking adults served equally bland food. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

It was the fall of 1994 when we spent our days on the same campus for the first time since attending grade school together. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

Afterward, we ordered some Chinese food and spent the night, Aunt Tracy in the guest room, Carl on the couch, and me on a funky futon thing his grandfather had. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

Ever since the Prince had dragged her to her room she had spent the intervening hours thinking of ways to make Westley happy. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

I had spent the week exploring this city, walking through its vacant lots, watching the aimless boys, sitting in the pews of the striving churches, reeling before the street murals to the dead. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

The 586th spent the fall of 1943 defending Kursk and then the Ukrainian city of Kiev, newly liberated from German occupation. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

They’d spent the afternoon at the courthouse, working out the final settlement of the Coral Queen case. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

She spent a whole summer with the gray ball, the little ball of fur and string and hair always floating in the light near her but which she did not see because she never looked. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

We visited other unusual rock formations in Oregon, New Mexico, and Texas—and even spent one night at the bottom of the Grand Canyon. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Or I thought he spent whole days at the climbing wall. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

She spent every afternoon cleaning up the place and preparing some kind of evening meal for them. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The reformers, Gold writes: strove for ways to reduce time spent studying, because long periods of respite could save the mind from injury. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

Part of my salary was spent on an even more vital item — candles — for without them I could not study. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m not joking. They’re in schoolrooms and everywhere. I’ve spent so much time staring at globes I could probably make one.” The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was mimicking what she’d seen the gardeners do — after all, she’d spent more of her life with humans than with bonobos. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

Harry and Ron spent the rest of the ball discussing giants in their corner, neither of them having any inclination to dance. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

He spent almost all his time and a good part of his fortune on the political front. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mr. Bracket, the chickadee, spent most of his time chasing the young chickadees through the woods. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

I even worried about Caroline, though why should I bother when everyone else spent their lives fretting over her? Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

She’d finally gotten some alone time with Jason, and this was how they spent it. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

This is the second day Dad and I have spent here, and already strange things are happening. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

This was why Harry spent as much time as possible out of the house, wandering around and thinking about the end of the holidays, where he could see a tiny ray of hope. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

“Not like I just spent two days by your bedside singing you back to life or anything.” An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

We spent the rest of class trying to think of the worst possible combinations. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

It had taken two baths and an entire bar of soap to get the tar off her aching hands and feet, and Philippa had spent thirty minutes cleaning out and binding the wounds on each. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

We spent a third of the class time learning “aeiou’s,” a third learning how to count to twenty in Tsonga and a third how to sit and stand upon command. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

My boy Octavian, having spent some days abed, never having traveled upon the water before, so that his vitals were involved in uproar, now prowls about the decks impatient of our destination. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

Her son was a spoiled “billionaire brat” who’d spent a million on a concert that had lasted twenty minutes. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

I spent the next several hours going from business to business on Maxwell Street, inquiring about work. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

I spent some time—a lot of time—distracted by the fact that Colton had four brothers. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

Nhamo spent the rest of the day scouting around the area she had chosen for her camp. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Well, I guess they do. El and I always spent the night at each other’s houses, but we never called it a party.” Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

Howard and Smith spent the night on their knees in Seabiscuit’s stall, taking turns pouring ice water onto the horse’s leg. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Forget baseball or swimming at the public pool, which was just an excuse to stare at the college girls who spent their summers guarding from those tall towers. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

Since then, I’ve spent many hours looking at charts of the Caribbean. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

I spent hours sitting by the window, watching the world pass by as we went from the East Coast to Chicago, then across the Midwest and through the Southwest. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

She spent most nights curled up at the foot of my parents’ iron double bed. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Doctors had spent fourteen hours removing a tumor that weighed more than the small girl whose body it had been growing in. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Ajarry spent three months as the property of a Welshman who eventually lost her, three other slaves, and two hogs in a game of whist. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

They spent the next ten minutes trying to figure out what happened when. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

That weekend, my sister spent a lot of time with this boy. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

In the days that followed Edwin’s surprise visit, Cole spent long periods standing beside the totem log, staring down at the blank space still at the bottom. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

So most of our days are spent commuting to and from everywhere and stuck inside the small two-story house, minding our own business. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

As a professional athlete who spent the majority of her time in sweatpants and sneakers, I jumped at any opportunity to dress up. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

Most families spent all their time and money on the boys. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

I went past the Trophy Room, downstairs into the pungent air of the locker room, changed into gym pants, and spent an hour wrestling. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

And the fuselage—the cockpit where he and Toby had spent countless afternoons, pretending to fly and then, when they got too old for make-believe, planning to leave—was curled in on itself. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

I spent the day running full diagnostics on every system in the Hab. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

“As I remember it, you spent a lot of time in this bar when you were his age, and nobody said a word.” We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

“I spent eight months looking for what you could have told me in eight seconds!” Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

How many hours have I spent getting here? The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

She was going to be living at Daffodil Manor, all her days and nights spent in the big house. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

There were three wagons being packed with trade goods while the fourth was achingly familiar, one of the wheeled houses I had spent most of my early life riding. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

The rest of the day I spent hiding, not even daring—despite my hunger—to search for food. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

The women spent the whole day singing at the top of their lungs. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

I spent four hours stacking them this way and that. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

A year and a half before, Jamie had made a big purchase; he had spent his birthday money and part of his Christmas money on a transistor radio, made in Japan, purchased from Woolworth’s. From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

He spent his youth, however, in his mother’s home, a city in southern Greece. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

“They say red thread is special, sacred; though I, myself, after having spent so much time with it, know it for what it is. ” The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z

The whole day was spent drinking and eating. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now she understood why Mama had been so cautious, why she’d spent so much time talking about how kind and good the Carutherses were. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

He missed it because he’s in love with Hannah Winter, and instead of going to see the judge, he spent the afternoon at a hotel with her. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

A geologist from the University of California named Stanley Margolis came to the museum and spent two days examining the surface of the statue with a high-resolution stereomicroscope. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

Robots and might as well have spent them at home with the Encyclopedia Tellurica. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

Jamie spent a night floating in the North Sea and afterward had to have four frozen fingers and all his toes amputated. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

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

By the fall of 1917, more than 500 suffragists had been arrested and 168 had spent time in jail, most for “obstructing sidewalk traffic.” Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

So Dad let me drag it home, and I spent the rest of the day fixing it up. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

But on this Sunday, the anger was spent. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

The time they had spent in the wood might never have been. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

Mom said it was too late for Quentin to hitch home, so he again spent the night with us. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

She had spent much of the afternoon on her hands and knees, scrubbing the cabin’s pinewood floor, and her back was throbbing with pain. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

But in fact, the King was barely hanging on, could only rarely tell day from night, and basically spent his time in muttering. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

We spent the days learning from our teachers. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

She'd already spent several fruitless days searching, but she wouldn't give up. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

Saturday night, February 6 Home for the weekend I’ve spent all day getting everything ready. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then Wang Lung forgot his son, for the harvests, except what the locusts had consumed, were fair enough and by now he had gained once more what he had spent on the woman Lotus. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

He specified that the only patients to be charged were those who could easily afford it, and that any money they brought in should then be spent treating those without money. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

She had spent the night planning and now that it was time, she hardly thought at all. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Then about ninety of us, our three sections of honors English students, spent a weekend with Volpe and a couple of other teachers at the American Shakespeare Festival Theater in Stratford, Connecticut. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

“Man, I told you we should have spent the night here,” X-Ray said. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

There’s an odor of witch about them, something mysterious and exotic; it remains despite the scrubbing and the welts on their feet and the time they’ve spent in Solitary. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had spent seventeen years trying to get someone to stick around for him, and now that they did, he just wanted them to go. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

So he appealed to them, one after another, going from left to right, with open palm, as though his life time had been spent in beggary. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

I stopped hiking after that and spent my free time inside, reading. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

This was the kid who had spent entire days at a time begging me to play Chutes and Ladders with him. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

We spent too much time laughing for any serious romance to develop, but it was fun. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

I spent my days studying or helping Mother. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

She had lived all her life in America, and then she had spent the last two weeks in a dizzying half-world between America and Japan. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

“We’ve spent years and years developing these skills,” she went on. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

It included English, where the class spent the first ten minutes going over the homework assignment for Monday and the next forty-five minutes doing the homework assignment for Monday. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

During the two decades I spent on Robben Island she was an indispensable pillar of support and comfort to myself personally. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

According to his diary, he spent the journey introducing himself to every pretty girl he saw, including a total of five between Chicago and Ohio. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z

We spent most of dinner imagining how, precisely, Daisy would retire from Chuck E. Cheese’s. Turtles All the Way Down 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

He and Gary spent an hour and a half discussing the Bloodfall series while Dill and Lydia sat outside and talked. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

Coach Hedge spent the first hour after curfew doing his nightly duty, walking up and down the passageway yelling, “Lights out! Settle down! Try to sneak out, and I’ll smack you back to Long Island!” The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

We spent the next day treating the wounded, which was almost everybody. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

Before long, my mother spent much time with the Adventists. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

We’d spent the day turning lobster red, drinking iced tea, and laughing. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

They spent several quiet minutes wandering around the room, taking in all the wacky games that people used to play. Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

Every minute she wasn’t at school she spent on the phone, or having tea, or just dropping in on neighbors we hadn’t talked to in years. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Why does the First Amendment end at the school door, when many lads, especially geeks, have spent much of their lives in the freest part of American culture— the Internet? Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

We add our own stories, each visitor, each visit, each night spent at the circus. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

He looked down at the large group with whom he had spent almost twenty-four hours a day for the last ten days, and almost as many hours each day for several weeks before that. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

“No. That’s a waste of money to just go sleep. We spent all of our cash on the new place anyway. Don’t be such a baby about tonight. It’s like camping.” Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

I spent the night sleeping outside the city limits of Imre in a soft bed of heather. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

The time we spent in church reminded me of how Cuba used to be, before the priests and nuns were kicked out. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

He spent the morning stacking firewood in exchange for two slices of venison-pickle jelly. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

Tall and lean with salt-and-pepper hair and a handlebar mustache, at first glance forty-eight-year-old Cherrie didn’t necessarily look like someone who had spent the last twenty-five years in the South American wilderness. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

She ate her dinner as quickly as she could, skipped all but her favorite shows on TV, and spent as much time in her room as possible. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z

She sat by the window—somebody had stuck a blob of chewed gum on the pane—and spent long minutes looking again at the Social Security card and driver’s license that belonged to Ngozi Okonkwo. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

The money I earned in Kilvin’s shop was spent on essentials: ink, soap, lute strings ... the only other thing I could afford was pride. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

He spent his days on the seashore, searching the horizon for a sail that never came, sick with longing to see even the smoke curling up from his house. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

We spent one summer with Cecile and all of a sudden Fern was too big for Miss Patty Cake, too big for the night-light, and too big for me to pick her up. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

I spent practically a whole afternoon collecting chestnuts and when I got back Piper looked at me with as close as she ever got to contempt and said Those are Horse Chestnuts and Inedible. How I Live Now 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Toddy didn’t go to school but instead spent his days in a corner of his room, clutching the ragged remnant of an old quilt and rocking himself without ceasing. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

Marvin Stepson had the judicious air of someone who had spent his whole career serving the law. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

It was going to be my last night of freedom for a long time—I should have gone out with my friends or spent time with Viviana—but I spent the whole night painting. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

But we made it safely across and spent the night on the riverbank there. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You could tell her you spent the night with a girl friend.” A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

And so he spent a lot of time alone. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

When she was not taking care of the house, she spent her time embroidering. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

I tried to ignore the possibility that Diego might be there, but when I realized I’d spent an hour obsessing over what to wear, I knew I was hoping to see him. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

He was fifty-two years old, a different generation, the last child of eight, who spent his first twelve years on an orchard farm where his family raised sheep and chickens. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

The police, in blue uniforms, are encircling them and thirty-odd additional migrants who have spent the night among the dead. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

Alex spent most of the school day trying to decide whether he should skip suppers on days when he had lunch in school. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

Though most of my writing time is spent on notes which I keep in a separate folder, from time to time I have to put down my moods and thoughts out of sheer habit. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

Pa spent more time with Miss Marva Hendrix than he spent at home. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

Ethyne had spent her entire childhood carrying the heavy weight of her mother’s stories about the Witch. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

“How did you convince the Golden Company to take up the cause of our sweet queen when they have spent so much of their history fighting against the Targaryens?” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Even so, most locals were oblivious to how they and their colleagues spent their days; and to be frank, they found them more than a little peculiar. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

The emissary addressed the question to Yee, the local government official at whose home he had spent the night. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

He spent a week painting dirty coins on the sidewalk, sweating to get them just right. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

He moved into the tree house when school ended and spent a lot of his time leafing through motorcycle magazines. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

He had spent five years with the company, rising from the ranks to a place of honor at Toyne’s right hand. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

They spent much of the morning putting up hundreds of yards of black bunting from house to house, along the route to the church. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

As each wave spent itself and a new one gathered, she trembled. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe it was the short time I had spent with Cecile and the Black Panthers last summer. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

I spent the rest of the working day and all the working portions of the next two days keeping myself feverishly busy. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

"You spent all your money on mix for your Lemonade-on-Wheels stand?" The Lemonade War 2007-04-23T00:00:00Z

Matt had spent years watching Felicia turn into a zombie. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

He tells her he spent the night safely sleeping in her car. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

The more time he spent with Mia and Pearl, the more fascinated he became with them. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

I didn’t know what had been going on with my own boyfriend, and we’d spent nearly every waking second together for more than a year. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

“Since I heard of her death, I have spent weeks staring at them.” The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

“I thought I hated you but I don’t now,” she said, “it seems to have spent itself, all the feeling I had.” Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

I know Mom spent a lot of money on these gifts—money she’s been nervous about ever since Dad left. Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

All the money Baba had spent, all those nights he’d sweated over the blueprints, all the visits to the construction site to make sure every brick, every beam, and every block was laid just right... The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

They peel back the covers and lie together, sticky and spent, in each other’s arms. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Ron spent evening after evening using his wand to beat out various rhythms on top of the wireless while the dials whirled. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

He believed that the less time he spent with Jews, the more Lutheran he became. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

He spent two hours sewing up the rip with fishing line. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I just spent a whole year inspecting the continent.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

We didn't really talk about too much before he took off, or have any sort of amazing father/son lightbulb moment, but the time we spent, to me, was quality. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

“I miss my playlists I spent two days making and posting to UConnect.” Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

This talk was madness and they waited until Wang’s anger was spent. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

Since Washington had spent eight years sending American soldiers to their death in battle against Great Britain, one might expect that he harbored even more hostile opinions toward his former adversary. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

They’d spent the first half of the meet-and-greet outside, while the other members were inside, and then inside, while the other members were outside. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

There was a guy who’d just spent six days in the hospital because the guy who’d been my personal hero for four years had put him there. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

I bet he’s spent the day breaking promises to his wife and children. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

She hadn’t spent eight years building a reputation and a year laboring in Endovier to be disregarded like this. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

I was the one who went to visit him during my initiation, and he spent the whole time wondering why I was there. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

These days, Mrs. Murdo spent a great deal of time sitting by their window rather than her own. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

He has spent his life traveling, making and then losing friends, and never calling one place home. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

She spent all day working on oil paintings, watercolors, charcoal drawings, pen-and-ink sketches, clay and wire sculptures, silk screens, and wood blocks. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Alvarez had spent nearly his entire professional career in Lawrence’s thrall, following his orders without question. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

She had never approved of his work with the Klan, not because of any moral problems with the organization, but simply because it took time that she felt C.P. should have spent with his family. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

I spent the night with strangers, curled up on the cold floor, terrified and very much alone, glad that I had not been shot. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

He was a short fat man with a sweat-stained T-shirt and a red beard, who looked as if he’d spent many fine evenings with his friends around the pool table at the Boulder Tap. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

The folding is familiar—I once spent two days learning to fold my notes just this way, instead of paying attention in math. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

Much of the time was spent in friendly barter. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

In the eat-in area of the kitchen, I spent over an hour constructing an elaborate obstacle course and placed Sir Fig Newton’s food dish at the end. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

It was Millard, back again after having spent the evening talking with the Gypsy boy. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

Pollard spent his days aboard Acey’s animals and his nights in a stall, sandwiched between two horses, subsisting on his books and irregular meals from the track kitchen. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Yvonne and Wesley must have spent more than an hour picking them from what was left in our garden. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Though he spent a lot of time on campus and led everyone to believe that he was a student, he was not. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z

“I spent all his poor Grammaw Reilly’s insurance money to keep him in college for eight years, and since then all lie’s done is lay around the house watching television.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Geisbert was a skilled fisherman and a crack shot with a rifle, and he spent a lot of time in the woods. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

There wasn’t much to be done about Mother, but I’ve spent a lot of time in charge of Ruth May and I think I should know by now what’s good for her. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

History, government, religion, politics, and current events became his greatest interests, and during the thirty-three-year interval from his first Reykjavik stay to his second he spent most of his spare time reading and amassing knowledge. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

I spent the day in complete silence, trying to emulate the grace of the older men through the woods. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

Momma spent many nights figuring on our tablets, slowly. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s pretty trippy, by the way, being on city streets again after you’ve spent so much time walking on the beach. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

Most of our time was spent putting the finishing touches on what Jupiter referred to as the Año Viejo doll. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z

We spent the rest of the afternoon taking turns delivering bowls with Frank offering suggestions for improvement. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

I spent the night in a motel and the next day hiked on to Cheshire. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

I know all this because I spent yesterday doing my research. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

I spent the first day staring at all of them when they weren’t looking—especially Ollie Mae—trying to find myself in the arch of her eyebrows, the shape of her nose. Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

This book is a record of all the afternoons the two of us spent in the glade together with the charmed folk. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

I spent the rest of the day checking out the girl. Crash 1996-03-19T00:00:00Z

Roz could sense that Brightbill was struggling, and so she spent a lot of time talking with him about families and geese and robots. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

Maybe they'd reappear years and years later—in front of some boy who had spent his whole life thinking otherwise. Miracle's Boys 2000-04-23T00:00:00Z

Most days at their restaurant, he had worn a simple shirt and slacks with an apron and spent all day in the kitchen. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

When they told Mama the lie about the flowers, she said, “Sissy, you shouldn’t have spent your money.” A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

On Christmas Eve, there’s abundant basting, boiling, browning, braising, and more baking, then the evening is spent at the Coopers’ drinking spiked eggnog and having a massive Uno tournament. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z

The baby had spent weeks with this man, but he already preferred to be with me. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

The years he had spent filing receipts had left him with purple crescents under his eyes. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

José Arcadio Buendía spent the long months of the rainy season shut up in a small room that he had built in the rear of the house so that no one would disturb his experiments. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

Roz spent the morning watching her son swim around and around the pond. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

The four of us leave at the end of the night with this look of wonder plastered to our faces, like we’ve spent the last few hours sitting too close to the TV. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

She wanted to seem casual, but not too casual, like she normally spent the weekend knocking on strangers’ doors and asking if they were her mom. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

Twig, Dari, and I spent the rest of the weekend discussing our egg drop plans—except Wednesday, which is now officially Doris Day, unfortunately. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

In the unmoving air of the room and the smell of medicine and skin salves I could feel the weight of the time she had spent in this bed waiting and hoping to die. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

This dynamic often comes as a surprise to those who have spent little time in ghettos. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

No matter how much time they spent together, it always felt like there was one more idea to talk about, one more joke to tell before they went their own ways. I Survived Hurricane Katrina, 2005 2011-04-01T00:00:00Z

She had already spent half the night curled up next to her sons. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

Having no alternative, Fiver accompanied Hazel and Bigwig to the burrow where Hazel had spent the previous night. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mona had spent her whole life, apparently, studying the medicinal properties of herbs. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

It was all right maybe for a man who became a captain—but what about men like Keeler and Jensen—who’d spent their lives in the fo’c’sle? Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

But he spent most of his time off lying on the bed in his tiny room, listening to classical music and thinking. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

After studying in the Soviet capital of Moscow, he spent much of the 1920s and 1930s traveling through Asia, organizing covert communist groups. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

There had been times when his heart spent hours telling of its sadness, and at other times it became so emotional over the desert sunrise that the boy had to hide his tears. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had an early interest in mathematics, and though he spent some time in the army, becoming a cavalry captain, he soon turned back to his true love of math. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

Some of the Pepettes spent as much as $100 of their own money to make an individual sign, decorating it with twinkling lights and other attention-getting devices. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

I spent a focused half hour on homework, but then I was through with that, too. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

Shin spent long hours by himself, feeling desperately lonely, in his one- room apartment. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

Since he was suspended from school for a week, Jake spent Monday morning alone in his room, studying the treasure map image on his phone, trying to learn Spanish from online videos. The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z

Most of my time since the secret hazmat operation has been spent vicariously absorbing Cabo through my class mates’ Instagram Stories. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

I spent most of my time at home watching SpongeBob reruns and playing Knights of the Old Republic. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

Now that I’d spent an afternoon with Nicole, had seen her up close, helped her out of that puddle on the side of the road, touched her, I felt involved. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

It had been a month since we had spent a whole afternoon together. Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

When Saturday came around, Turner spent the morning with Darwin. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

At the time, some of my comrades jested that I was a miner at heart, for I spent my days at the quarry and my free time digging in the courtyard. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

That it was probably true that Slim Jim Trotter spent more nights over the creek with Miss Trotter and her mother than here with Great-great-grandmother Livonia and Ma Charles when she was a little girl. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

Other than a hurried rush to Claire’s bathroom when I cut my knee, I have never spent any time in the rooms beyond the hallway. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

When she wasn’t in Clover, Henrietta spent her time cooking for Day, the children, and whichever cousins happened to be at her house. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

I’d spent most of the bus ride home thinking about jellyfish. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

If he has shopped alone, he will have spent too much. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

At midnight, the bonfire is ceremoniously lit, having spent the earlier part of the evening standing empty, appearing to be a simple sculpture of twisted iron. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

I love this game like the winter loves snow even though I spent the final quarter in foul trouble on the bench. The Crossover 2014-03-18T00:00:00Z

She must have been rich in cigarettes, and I wondered how she spent them. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Not having spent much time in the Court of Shadows, I don’t know its secrets. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

He ran for cover, dazed, and spent the night in a bamboo pig shed. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

He wrote letters to doctors in England, spent his evenings reading casebooks at the library, gave up eating meat on Fridays in order to appease his household god. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

While everyone spent the day frolicking in the sand and water, I stayed in the hotel room so I could soak in the silence. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

Weeks are spent on the design and mechanics. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

She was the nosiest woman in the world and spent most of her life spying on the boring, law-abiding neighbors. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

“Yes. It took all four boxes to get this color. I spent all day in the bathroom doing my hair.” Lawn Boy Returns 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

The next Tuesday, like always, I spent wandering around the zoo. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

After so many weeks of near starvation, his stomach rebelled mightily: He spent most of the night vomiting. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

The outlay for insecticides in Nova Scotia apple orchards is only from 10 to 20 per cent of the amount spent in most other apple-growing areas. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

It brought up things he spent a lot of time trying not to think about these days. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

She spent each contented night by the fire, learning from her gran to prepare and mix remedies. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

But sometimes Wang Lung saw him come creeping home at dawn, panting and spent, and his great knotty shoulders drooping. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

Host of that time was spent copying as much data as possible from the Sixer database to my stolen flash drive. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

I spent the year going to movies on Forty- second Street in Times Square with my friends. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

They’ve spent decades here prolonging the brief lives of the undernourished, accustomed completely to the tragedy playing out around us. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Barack had spent the previous four days campaigning in Missouri, Ohio, Colorado, and North Dakota. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

And, unlike uglies, who had only their dorm uniforms and other disposable possessions, the two had actually spent half a lifetime collecting things before escaping the city. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

The 125th M. M. Raskova Guards had spent the winter in a village practically destroyed by the Germans. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

Lawrence had spent a difficult year cadging money from philanthropists and foundations for a proton accelerator, the purpose of which had to be explained to them in the abstract terms of basic science. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

We spent the next eight months of the war at Schindler's munitions factory. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

So from the time I could babble and my brother could reason, we spent hours in daily study. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

I’d spent so many years intensely focused on gymnastics that it felt odd to talk to people about their perspectives on my life outside of the gym. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

I went to Salt Lake and spent the rest of the holidays with Drew. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

They spent another half an hour cleaning up all the mess, hanging up shirts and dresses, and refolding pants, and then they went down to make dinner together. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z

During the months I spent in the crater and afterward, on the Serengeti when Hugo was filming the wild dogs, there were other people at Gombe watching the chimpanzees. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

The more time they spent together, the more Moody began to feel he was in two places at once. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Her husband owned a newspaper, and she’d spent a lot of time helping the Little Rock Nine last year. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

After finishing the marketing, I read, practiced calligraphy, knitted, and spent a lot of time with An Yi. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

This last year Sergio had spent a lot of time at the firehouse, and Gideon had even come to visit them in Red Hook. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z

He had spent the night handcuffed to a radiator in a small dark room with a single barred window. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

But there was no air of spent revelry about him. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Seeing you with all those tubes in your body was probably the lowest moment of my life, Jus. To think I spent all that time being stupid, then almost lost you?” Dear Martin 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

I spent the hours gazing at the types of victims, all black, crawling in by the scores. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Nevertheless, that hour I spent standing there has stayed very vividly in my mind throughout the years. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

He spent a lot of time in neighborhood bars and he’d get into fistfights sometimes after a couple of drinks. Twelve Angry Men 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

I hadn’t spent much time in New Hampshire, but it didn’t strike me as a place that was ready to welcome me with open arms. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

Melisandre had spent the night in her chair by the fire, as she often did. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

So, we went to the eighth-grade dance as a couple, but my friends and I spent the whole night eating Fritos and spying on people from under the bleachers. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

Ash paused in the doorway, her back to her stepsister, and she wanted to tell her that she was not true; half her life was spent in secret. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

They spent evenings riding together on the smooth macadam of Yale and Harvard streets, the picture of a happy young couple blessed with looks and money. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Dudley had laughed himself silly at Harry, who spent a sleepless night imagining school the next day, where he was already laughed at for his baggy clothes and taped glasses. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

He spent most of his time shut up in his study and the few times that he went out he would return to recite the rosary with her. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

We found a shovel and pickax at an abandoned farm and spent just about every free minute digging a hole. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

“These are the only two things I’ve purchased in the whole month except gas and food. I’ve only spent about three hundred dollars.” Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

They spent one week each month at the Palomar Observatory in California looking for objects, asteroids primarily, whose trajectories carried them across Earth’s orbit. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

Most days, she spent more time with the dead than with the living. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

I had spent the entire competitive season with one goal in mind, to make the national team. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Besides, maybe if he spent more time close to the Athena Parthenos, he would eventually soak in its secrets. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Mere weeks ago, they’d stood on these very steps crowded among fourteen other Yaba boys who, like them, had spent their whole lives dreaming of becoming Sons of the Six. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

We would have spent the last ten days planning for the Third Trial instead of avoiding each other. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

The team had spent weeks preparing for their mission. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

In another pocket he carried a sketch of the island bridge, which Reynie had spent most of two class periods working on from memory. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

All in all, the sisters spent almost eight months in jail. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

The mulefa made many kinds of rope and cord, and Mary Malone spent a morning inspecting and testing the ones Atal’s family had in their stores before choosing what she wanted. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

Rajesh had arrived in Calcutta in 1946, just as the city was itself losing sanity—its nerves fraying; its love depleted; its patience spent. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

Because the terrain was so unfamiliar to the Americans, a large part of their time was spent training for jungle combat. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

“That you spent all his money for college?” A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

There doesn’t seem to be any doubt about the amount of money being spent, but it is less certain where it goes, and for what. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Jack had spent a lot of time on his eyes. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

Two of those hours were spent watching one of those corny, romantic, mushy-mushy movies with my mom. Ghost 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

Later, he and Gwydion spent several hours alone, for there were important matters Gwydion would reveal only to the old enchanter. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z

She found out about this place somehow, came here to gather her supplies, spent a night or two, and then hit the road. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

I was pretty convinced I already had learned piano, in fact, through straight-up osmosis—all those hours spent listening to other kids fumbling through their songs. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

She felt like she had spent her entire life watching out for Lauren, herding her from place to place, telling her to hurry up. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

Luma spent the evening and most of the next day in her apartment. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

Back in Tehran, my mom was only nineteen and had spent the last year begging her overbearing father to send her to university in London. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

Most of the money could only be spent for the betterment of the city—specifically the Vista Heights neighborhood. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

I spent the morning bathing him and combing him and picking burrs out of his tail and ticks off of his ears. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

They then spent the next two hours slowly paging through the Wallace yearbooks again, writing down the name of anyone that remotely resembled James Parker. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

He had spent hours on the details of the monkey’s features, inscribing them with progressively finer points. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

I thought of the hours spent in the woods with my father and I knew how we were going to survive. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

"No. Poor kid had enough beatings in his life. I spent the afternoon trying to explain to him why that knife isn't going to do him any good. It was like going ten rounds." The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

I haven’t started reading it because I am very behind in my other classes because I spent so much time with Patrick. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

Brightbill had spent his entire life by the pond, and he was becoming very curious about what lay beyond his neighborhood. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

Svetlana spent 3 hours and 58 minutes on the space walk. Women in Space 2014-02-01T00:00:00Z

She speaks with nostalgia of the years her family had spent in England, living at first in London, which she barely remembers, and then in a brick semidetached house in Croydon, with rosebushes in front. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

We spent three days cutting down our portions. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

I then spent about a fortnight on a sugar plantation in Natal living with a group of African laborers and their families in a small community called Tongaat, just up the coast from Durban. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

They spent some time on the college lawn, watching other people wander about. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

Singer spent all of his summer vacation in the town where Antonapoulos was being kept in the asylum. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

Most mornings were spent on the volleyball court. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

I spent all day Sunday in Dr. Roland’s office, from ten in the morning on. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Then, casually, “Where have you spent the most time? Where you were born, I imagine?” Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

It felt queer to look down on him this way, when he'd spent his whole life looking up at him, but when you sat on Hodor's back you looked down on everyone. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Dustfinger had expected Capricorn to leave him and Resa dangling in those dreadful nets until their execution, but they spent only a single if very long night there. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

How every birthday, she spent time with me, showering me with love. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

We spent an odd day, toiling in that railroad yard. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

Archie spent the whole session that way, nodding and smiling and raising his eyebrows. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

The time I’d spent on the roof of the post office had given me a pretty good sense of the city’s layout, so I kept along the roads I suspected would be easiest. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

I thought of them and of the happy times spent in my house on the headland, of my canoe lying unfinished beside the trail. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I have spent my whole life on this island.” The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

I knew that he consumed volumes of political philosophy as if it were beach reading, that he spent all his spare change on books. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

That is, until I spent a few months living in my little apartment with five other kids. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

That first night, when the baby had finally fallen asleep in their laps, Mr. and Mrs. McCullough spent two hours flipping through the name dictionary. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

She’d never felt more confused—and since she had spent her whole life confused, that was saying a lot. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

Nicolas spent a year as a beggar, following the path of the yogis, across the Himalayas, through Katmandu, along the Ganges, and on to Benares, all on foot. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

She spent the next two years as a courier, go-between, and manager of World Tourists, Inc., a travel business run by Golos that was actually a front operation for the Soviet Union. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

I spent the rest of the day in shock, reeling at the news that I’d been dethroned. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

I’ve spent the last four hours poring over this very fact. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Andrew had spent the night on the third floor losing video games to Charles. Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

As usual, my mother spent the morning with the curtains drawn. Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

I figure Rowdy and I have spent an average of eight hours a day together for the last fourteen years. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

I explain how Elena, Miles, Oliver, and I spent the week fixing it up. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

They spent an agonizing two months apart, writing each other letters to stay in touch. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

As soon as I spotted them, I kept my eyes averted and spent the rest of the time moving one foot back and forth and staring at a crack in the tile floor. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

Millie is that girl, the one I am ashamed to admit that I’ve spent my whole life looking at and thinking, Things could be worse. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

Once I spent an entire day on top of the Hospital Building, keeping an eye on a crew of roofers who were removing an old surface laden with asbestos and then laying a new one. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

She spent her last morning at the Bureau marking Help Wanted ads. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

They spent the first night either stunned into silence or sobbing. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

We had spent too long in South Dakota. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

It was estimated that Adam had spent a fortune on his idea, but how big a fortune no one knew. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Before my meeting with Walter, I spent time with other new clients on the row. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Now is my paying-back time—trying to repay the chimpanzees and the forest for all the wonderful time I have spent with them. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

The five or six spent vanilla air fresheners hanging from the rearview mirror. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

I sat down on the cot that was meant for my father’s wife, the cot where she must have spent many nights on both a vigil and a deathwatch. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

He hadn’t spent a birthday at home since he’d turned fourteen. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

This marked-up manuscript was then given to Laloo Chiba, who spent the next night transferring my writing to his own almost microscopic shorthand, reducing ten pages of foolscap to a single small piece of paper. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I wrote on the corner of my notebook: Compared to those freshmen, I spent the morning in a field of rainbows frolicking with puppies. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

I have spent much of my studies searching for the right question by which I might fully understand the breach between the world and me. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

And so he tells the reader not about the dreams, which were too private an experience, but about the day he spent in the stove-heated room, when his life as a philosopher began. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Its owner, Mr. Pilkington, was an easy-going gentleman farmer who spent most of his time in fishing or hunting according to the season. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z

Winston, in addition to his regular work, spent long periods every day in going through back files of the Times and altering and embellishing news items which were to be quoted in speeches. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

In fact, out of every dollar spent on food in this country, ninety-two cents goes to these non-farmers. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

In math I spent the entire time thinking about how Momly's arm was probably at an obtuse angle when it broke. Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z

I’d spent the last weeks wanting to retreat and be alone. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

Even though we all lived under the same roof, we treasured every minute spent with Papa. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

A summer spent on my red rug, sunshine on our faces. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

He spent nearly an hour and a half instructing the jurors about the decision they would be making. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

But the only remnant left was the burning ache in my throat and the stench of spent gunpowder and swampy water muddling in my nostrils. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

“I wonder where Jordan is,” muttered Monique, who spent more time watching the door than the stage. Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

No one noticed; they worked for a public radio station, in the fund-raising department, and were surrounded by people who spent all day on the phone, soliciting pledges. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

Peewee spent most of the time sitting down in a hut until Lieutenant Carroll made him walk around the village. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Meanwhile the federal government had spent about $375,000 for control work and additional thousands had been provided by the state. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

For me, it was reminiscent of the weekends I’d spent as a child trailing my dad as he climbed up all those porch steps, going about his duties as a precinct captain. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Esteban Trueba spent many hours with him, first in front of the crystal set, and then, with the battery-operated radio, awaiting the miracle of the distant, anonymous voice that gave them contact with civilization. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

I spent most mornings digging potatoes and carrying them back to the barn to store in the feed bins while Piper went off searching for natural morsels like watercress and sweet chestnuts and honey. How I Live Now 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had spent a lot of time in local communities, mostly in the favelas outside Sao Paulo, where I met hundreds of desperately poor people who were intensely interested in talking. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

This is equivalent to several million pounds in modern terms, and it is hard to see what he could have spent it on, so the number may be an exaggeration! The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

“It isn’t just Wally Campbell. I’m just picking on him because you mentioned him. And because he just looks like somebody that spent the summer in Italy or someplace.” Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z

Clara spent this time wrapped in her fantasies, accompanied by the spirits of the air, the water, and the earth. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“When is date number two?” he writes, and I smile, glancing to my notebook at what I’ve actually spent my day working on. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

Here are people who have spent their lives promoting youthful beauty, making everyone over the age of thirty feel like an open sore. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

It was the last afternoon Eliot spent with Mrs. Sen, or with any baby-sitter. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

Mom spent the whole show running her fingers through my hair. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

He had spent the better part of the morning wandering Brooklyn, far enough out of Red Hook not to be spotted by anyone he knew. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z

He remembered them dimly, because they were spent chiefly in sleep or stupor. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

Frogs spent much of their time searching for each other. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

She spent most of her time in her cabin, studying the bronze map she’d retrieved from Fort Sumter, or looking up information on Daedalus’s laptop. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

He had waited years to join the men and teenagers on the night boats, and he’d spent those years asking questions. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

He paused—thinking, I believed, about this handicap—and then said abruptly: “Tell me. You and Henry spent a lot of time together last month, huh?” The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

They spent the afternoon playing with Boots, trying to make each other eat and often, without any particular reason, reaching out to touch each other. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

“You are; you and your teaching. I’ve spent a long time at sea, but I’ve never had less trouble with a crew. So you’ll come? Supercargo—and all your time your own between ports?” Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

But even if I weren’t a stranger, even if we’d spent our entire lives together, I wouldn’t be able to stay in there with my father forever. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

It was a night of thin sleep and bad dreams, spent much as I’d spent the previous day: being chased by packs of nightmare dogs. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

Nellie loved to bake, and so she spent her day in the kitchen. The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane 2006-03-30T00:00:00Z

He had spent most of the day ambling around and sleeping, so that by now he seemed almost frisky and quite eager to walk a little. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

During these three years, the first spent in travel, the last two in Paris, Robert Cohn had two friends, Braddocks and myself. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

He spent his adolescence in the same Washington, D.C., suburbs as McCandless and found them every bit as stifling. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

She spent two hours with the legal officer from the air station straightening her affairs. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“If you had spent the night in your hotel room instead of with these immoral girls, you’d both feel as good as I do today.” Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

“You spent it at the store, didn’t you? All that penny candy.” The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

Because we spent our days doing nothing but listening to CDs and coming up with dance moves, our crew from the corner already knew all the songs, so they became our dancers. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

We spent hours every day shaving bamboo for the center and cross spars, cutting the thin tissue paper which made for easy dipping and recovery. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

We spent hours teaching them how to sing in Swahili. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

It took them the better part of an hour because the roads were curving two-lanes and they spent twenty minutes behind a light truck they couldn’t pull around. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sometimes she spent the whole morning in one house. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Babou spent a full ten minutes watering the canopy of his fig trees, strolling up and down the roof. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

The second month he moved to France and spent the rest of the year there. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

Cora spent most of the day in her bedroom with the latest almanac Royal had given her. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

They spent a night on a shaly beach, with no shelter and no fire. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

We spent hours putting together our contraptions and didn’t get home until late last night, but I insisted we get back to school bright and early this morning—despite it being a Saturday. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

After the appendicitis scare, the British Broadcasting Corporation invited him to London to appear on a show called Chess Treasury of the Air, and he spent about ten days in England. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

We sat close together with our knees pulled up, pleasantly tired after a day spent outdoors, eating our ice cream quickly and wordlessly, trying to stay ahead of the melt. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Many girls woke up early and spent hours applying hot combs to their hair, trying to straighten it to look, as some said, “almost white.” Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

Even though we only had a week before finals, I spent Monday afternoon reading “Song of Myself.” Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

I spent the entire day with Kapwepwe and heard from him the most astonishing tale. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Funny, because I spent all weekend working on that, too.” Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

Most days, I didn't resent the fact that my brother spent a lot of time in my care. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

Axel feels like the whole day so far has been spent walking this long hallway. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Dustfinger bent, picked up the spent matches, and put them back in the matchbox. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

I wondered why I’d spent a summer with her when I was only four. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

I told her about the weeks I spent in the enclosure, what Otto and I ate and drank, and then about the electricity going off. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

I spent a long time after that feeling like I didn’t care about anything. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

I neglected my business, spent more money than I earned, wrote bad checks, and in the end became a thief. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

Workers bustled about the area, looking as if they’d spent their whole lives on a farm. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

The months he’d spent there with Piper and Leo had felt more satisfying, more right than all his years at Camp Jupiter. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Giving himself repeated daily shots of canine insulin in the abdomen, arm, or leg, Woolf almost certainly spent his days boomeranging between insulin gluts and deficits. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Most of his material for his latest effort came from the evenings he spent with Odenigbo and Olanna and their friends. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Zeitoun had spent the better part of ten years on ships, carrying everything from fruit to oil. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

Maybe I’d have spent a little less time watching the action from the back of the auditorium. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

But he went anyway, and when he came back he spent half the morning throwing up. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z

After all, I spent the last day dreaming of him coming to me, and when he finally staggered into the ICU, if I had the strength, I would’ve run away. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

I spent a lot of time feeling guilty for living after I lost my family, but now I can’t beat this weird Decker guilt for dying, knowing I’m leaving this crew behind. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

It is over a thousand dollars each now, and we’ve spent it each month just to get our families food. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Your grandparents spent anxious minutes looking for me. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

It was a rill, a rivulet, a trickle, no wider than her arm ... and her arm had grown thinner every day she spent on Dragonstone. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“No, it wasn’t. But I brought you here because this is where Crazy Horse spent the last year of his life.” In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z

Jesse and I spent hours roaming the stacks, paging through books. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

It seems to her that she has spent her entire life waiting for others, for something or other to happen. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was the first Indian with whom I had spent much time, and I came to admire him. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

I'd spent a week back on Earth practicing emergency space suit drills. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I spent this whole day thinking about it, about why. I’ve been a total zombie since yesterday, trying to figure out who I am. Why I would do this.” Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

Talking softly so as to not wake the others, we sat close by the fire and spent the time watching very little but each other. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

I’ve spent a lot of time alone in the country over the course of my many visits and usually relish it. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

He spent a moment adjusting the microphone and smoothing his twisted speech, then he cleared his throat and looked around at everyone. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

At a subsequent hearing, even a judge who served as a guardian acknowledged that rich Indians spent their wealth no differently than white people with money did. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Returning to Qunu the next morning, I spent the day reminiscing with people, and walking the fields around the village. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Concerned that the neighbor had spent so much on our enterprise, they decided we should go and give half of it back. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

That really hurt Mama, and we spent hours thinking of recipes that included cheese and disguising it so Pap wouldn’t know he was eating it. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

He spent the next few days arranging the delivery of his remaining batches of documents. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

“Like she said, I remember a time when you spent a lot of time in this bar.” We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

If she was mad that I spent time with Conner, fine. Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z

The few days we spent here went by pleasantly enough, in relative calm. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

We spent a month getting to know each other again, and I discovered that I had a brother and a stepsister. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

I wanted Chloe to meet Mr. Reilly before school started, but he spent most of his days up in the air. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

But not before I spent dozens of hours crying and unhappy, surrounded by people who made me feel inferior and devalued. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

But Clara was so upset that she spent a week walking in her sleep and sucking her thumb. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Lost children filled every chair at the headquarters of the Columbian Guard; nineteen spent the night and were claimed by their parents the next day. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

We once spent the finest day of our army-life together—the day before we left for the front. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

Audrey spent the drive describing her mother’s next invention: an office chair that grew more uncomfortable the longer you sat in it. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

His days were spent drilling the guard and practicing his swordplay, making the yard ring with the sound of steel as Bran watched forlornly from his window. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Howard had already spent three years combing the Southwest for ancient bones, crawling into rattlesnake caves and taking a pickax to rock faces. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Dewey, for example, had spent two wearying and wasted days trying to trace that phantom pair, the Mexicans sworn by Paul Helm to have visited Mr. Clutter on the eve of the murders. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

The students spent the entire hour speaking in French about suntanning. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Moaning and yawning, Harry and Ron spent most of their free time in the library with her, trying to get through all their extra work. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

"Yeah, and spent it with your face covered by a keffiyeh. What was the part again? Terrorist Henchman?" City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

They had spent a year in France, for no particular reason, and then drifted here and there unrestfully wherever people played polo and were rich together. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

At long last Mr. Dussel's fury was spent, and he left the room with an expression of triumph mixed with wrath, his coat pockets bulging with food. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

He stayed out late nights and came home sober and nobody knew where he spent that time. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

I spent the mornings at my chores, one eye on the sea, and then, from the top of a drumlin, spent some time looking north, my old spyglass ready. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

"Doesn't matter, son. Point is, it reminded me of your recent run-in with Jared. I spent the rest of the day wondering if you being in that situation was my fault." Dear Martin 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

When Queenie turned up unexpectedly during a break in the Manchester Blitz, and they spent three wet and stormy days burning black market petrol up and down the Pennines on Maddie’s Silent Superb. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

She has spent part of the night in her kitchen, praying before a tall candle adorned with the image of San Judas Tadeo. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

He’d spent his childhood climbing and skiing in the nearby mountains. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It was written by a man named Montaigne, who was a soldier. But he grew tired of being a soldier and spent his time studying and writing. He also liked to walk on country roads.” Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

He spent that afternoon with his orphans, even took up sword and shield himself to provide a sterner test for a few of the older lads. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

"Your mother is quite glamorous. I don't know why she lets you parade around court looking a mess. Maybe all the family spintria are spent on her." The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

Bill Harvey spent the next three years in Berlin building BOB into a formidable base of operations for America's secret campaign against Russia. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

His dark beard was cropped close, and Moss often felt brief bursts of desire when he spent too long staring at the man’s face. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

I decide I’ve never had such a good time before in my life, but then I feel guilty for thinking something like that, after all of the good times I’d spent with my mother. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

They spent the winter of 33-32 BCE in the port city of Ephesus on the Aegean Sea. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z

The ferocity of their arguments only increased, as did the length of the cold silences that filled whatever other time they spent together. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Mom spent the week dragging me around the city to explore. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

I also spent a considerable amount of time on the road to Imre, usually under the excuse of visiting Threpe or enjoying the camaraderie of the other musicians at the Eolian. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

I also spent hours observing him because it was a distraction. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

She wanted to be a novelist, so she spent high school working to save enough money for a college with a good creative-writing program. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

In fact, when I was away in the Alps he had spent a week trying to prove experimentally that in water solutions there were attractive forces between adenine and thymine, and between guanine and cytosine. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

He had spent the whole day—the third to last day before school started—by himself. The Lemonade War 2007-04-23T00:00:00Z

He bought a violin and spent his evenings playing music in his apartment. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Godel got to know about general relativity when he and Einstein spent their later years at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

We spent that afternoon cutting out the triangles, planning each patch. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

As the weeks continued to pass, Art3mis and I spent more and more time together. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

He felt that his morning had been well spent; he had seen a lot of pictures and he had learned about pagan. From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

I spent one Sunday evening putting the scrapbook together. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

She spent many an afternoon staring blankly through the window while singing songs of sorrow to herself, as though she were going mad or something. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

David’s hoverboard had spent the night hidden in the cave, and hadn’t had any sunlight for a whole day now, but it had just enough charge to get them back up the mountain. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

They just ran, and then, as if he could guess when she was spent, he would stop, release her hand. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

How many Fridays had I spent in this house? Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

She spent many hours helping to get their papers and books in order, and her devotion to William’s memory impressed the community there. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

I spent the rest of my time reading one of the Phyllis Whitney paperbacks Ob got me. Missing May 1992-03-01T00:00:00Z

He felt himself falling, and he felt himself caught even as he fell; but his mind, utterly spent, slid away into the dark. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

Most of the day he spent out of the house, or up in the high tower, where the children were forbidden to go. The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z

He spent long periods bushwhacking over tangled mountains or following the wrong path when the trail forked. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

I spent a couple of days looking for him around The Wells to do an interview, but I couldn’t find him anywhere. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

I spent the rest of the afternoon hunting alone, walking the ridge, searching the shadows for signs of pig, looking and listening as hard as I could to will another animal out of the woods. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

Fd been trying hard not to think about them, but I spent a good chunk of that morning worrying about your notes. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

Every day she spent as much time as possible constructing a platform in the lucky-bean branches. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

But they found a good and proper group in the American wing where they spent a lovely and informative hour and a half learning about the arts and crafts of colonial days. From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

All told, I’d spent less than five minutes on the roof of the world. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

George and his eight-year-old sister, Phoebe, had spent two months in England with their aunt Daisy. I Survived the Sinking of the Titanic, 1912 2010-06-01T00:00:00Z

Then one day in late fall—the fall I spent undergoing tests for death-sentence illnesses—Mummy began to cry. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

Beckendorf had given him some tools and spare parts, and now Tyson spent every night tinkering, though I wasn’t sure how his huge hands could handle such delicate litde pieces. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

He pulled out the boxes and spent several nights going through the papers, looking for “Top Secret” stamps he’d missed the first time through. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

I spent all morning on hands and knees in a clover patch outside school, all for nothing—it was picked clean. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

Indeed, after talking with Beck I even took the time to find a spent oxygen canister that I’d stashed in the snow on the way up some ten hours earlier. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

That night, and the day that followed, and the night that followed, they spent in the hut in the forest by the frozen lake. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

Strictly speaking, fighting with two blades wasn’t very Roman, but Reyna had spent time with pirates. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Why are millions spent on the war each day, while not a penny is available for medical science, artists or the poor? The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

I had spent more time than the average child pondering unfortunate accidents of birth. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

After graduating from BYU law school, he worked in several county attorney’s offices in the state, spent a year as the Logan city prosecutor, and in 1997, he joined the Cache County office. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

It sickened Shukumar, knowing that she had spent these past evenings preparing for a life without him. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

She was just becoming friends with people Dimple had spent her entire life alternately avoiding and being made fun of by. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

It thought of food and water, but so many hours were spent just waiting, cushioning self against dread, that it no longer thought of much else. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Park had spent all day trying to think of how to get away from the new girl. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

I didn't want to be reminded of the day we spent in that pantry. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

And I definitely spent the last seven hours of my life as a normal person tucked underneath it. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The card said something pretty simple: “To be spent on printing Punk Rocky in color next time.” The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

The tantrums, the afternoons she spent locked in her room with the drapes shut, her severe manner with the children occurred less frequently. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

Soon after, Dad bought a machine to manufacture bullets from spent cartridges. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

One whole morning, as Leslie had related it at recess, she had spent imagining Mrs. Myers on one of those fat farms down in Arizona. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z

Everyone had spent hours looking for them with torches. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Tonight, his brother-in-law the priest, who spent his life in the fairy tale world of the Church, dressed up like Liberace, had figured things out for once. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

The young dog spent most of the day still occupied with his ceaseless foraging for food. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Over the summer months spent apart from each other, we drifted. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

“Me? Fine. 1 mean, yes it sucks, but you know. It’s not like I knew her. Collectively I spent maybe a couple of hours with her. Seriously, I’m cool.” Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

We spent every single day together and let ourselves obsess over how much fun prom would be once Evan agreed to be my date. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

That much water in the air can cause any amount of electrical problems, so I spent the next few hours doing full systems checks on everything. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

They met dawn in King Walker’s gas station for a rehash of the night they had spent. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

Kayode spent every vacation in his parents’ house in England, which looked large and forbidding in the photos Ifemelu had seen. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

I spent much of my time bending over and looking at my brothers and the playground upside down. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z

“We were going to let him finish dying in public, but he has no entertainment value. He’s spent days curled up sleeping. What sort of spectacle is that? Otis, tip over the jar.” The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Then, after lunch, I spent the rest of the day with Grub. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

The radio announcer spent fourteen of the fifteen minutes before the race talking about Seabiscuit. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I was trying to protect my people, people you’ve spent your life trying to exterminate.” Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

While I was learning to swim, Irene had spent her summers building fences, moving cattle, branding, and helping the neighbors who bordered her parents’ ranch, and their neighbors. The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z

He sat there dusty and spent and no one spoke to him. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

My siblings and I spent much of our time in line for water, standing with empty jugs to fill from a giant plastic tank in a blue tent. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

In all, Enrique has spent four months trying to find her. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

Every minute spent in Sophia’s company, my stock ticks up a couple notches. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

He asked me where I had spent the night. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Herbert Spencer—the philosopher who had coined the phrase survival of the fittest—had spent much of his life bedridden with various illnesses, struggling with his own fitness for survival. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

Finally, Mrs. Quinn appears, looking very tired and unshowered—probably because she spent the night at the hospital—and says, “I’m sorry, Finley, but Erin doesn’t want to see you today.” Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ophie had been hoping the opportunity to check the attic for clues would present itself, but the next week turned out to be the busiest she’d spent in the manor so far. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

I spent so much energy stewing over whether or not he’d make it home for dinner that dinners, with or without him, were no longer fun. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

The mulefa spent much of their time, to begin with, in maintaining their wheels. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

I had thought for months of going to Sacramento or somewhere else in California’s Central Valley not far from Berkeley, where I’d spent the spring. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

His arms were surprisingly taut with muscles, as if he’d spent the past week sword fighting. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Bobby and his guards were given a small cottage at Nagymaros, but he ate all of his meals and spent most of his time at the large family house. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

I spent weeks scouring old texts and pictures, looking for the clues I’d missed. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

I sat alone on the back steps, trembling, emotionally spent, crying to myself. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Tyson and I spent the afternoon catching up and just hanging out, which was nice after a morning of getting attacked by demon cheerleaders. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

If I spent my nights sobbing into my pillow, I would be a little embarrassed too. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

With that he sank back, spent and fading. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

He grabbed both my arms and looked at me hard and said, “You done spent more time with him than near ’bout anyone else. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

She spent a great part of her time with the mechanics of her church, which did not leave her time for either its background or its effects. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

I spent three solid days thinking about Him. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

The ball rises and almost seems to freeze in the exhausted air, spent by so much cheering and hitting and incomprehensible effort. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had spent as much time with him as I could, trying to motivate him to get well and eat his hay, even offering it to him with my feet. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

They’d spent the preseason slowly bringing his weight down, cutting pound by pound until he was light enough to be pushed around by even marginal 182-pounders. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

Some spent so long outside of their own heads that they couldn’t function right when they finally had to return their own. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

He let his hair grow, he spent his free time on deck, looking out, watching the water come at the ship and disappear behind it. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

Mr. Jay spent most of class talking about what to expect from the semester, including a final project involving ancient Rome or something. Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z

But even though they’d spent the last couple of days together and things had slowly returned to a familiar shape and size, he realized he fundamentally couldn’t trust Toby. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

My siblings and I spent hours playing tricks and teasing one another. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

She spoke as if she had spent her formative years in some boarding school, walking around with a big-lettered sweater tied around her shoulders. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

The rabbit spent the day hanging by his ears, baking in the hot sun, watching the old woman and Bryce weed and hoe the garden. The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane 2006-03-30T00:00:00Z

Shawn and I spent the better part of a week making purlins to finish the barn roof. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Healthy subjects spent the night in one tent with a swarm of infected mosquitoes hungry for a meal. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

We spent two days on the Amtrak train, heading west through hills, over rivers, past amber waves of grain. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

They spent a week looking at the data, but the outlier remained every time. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

The colt spent three years plunging around the track in devil-possessed rages and nurturing a vendetta against the hapless assistant starters assigned to hold his head in the doorless starting gate. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’d spent a lot of time with her the last three weeks, and this was the happiest I’d ever heard her. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

The emissary and his entourage spent the night at the home of the local government official. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

Harry, Hermione, and Ginny were sitting around him; they had spent all day waiting outside the double doors, trying to see inside whenever somebody went in or out. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

I spent all day sneaking around the halls and slipping into classrooms so Maurice wouldn’t find me. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Marc and Nadia have not spent much time together,” my father’s wife said. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

Mornings spent listless in silence and in fear of confronting the blank sheet of paper. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

He spent the Day by my Fire, reading Volumes. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

Her husband, an Aragonese merchant by whom she had two children, spent half the value of his store on medicines and pastimes in an attempt to alleviate her terror. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

She had spent her whole life in Shaker Heights, and it had infused her to the core. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

We spent the afternoon making decorations from colored paper and clamping tiny candles in tiny holders to the branches. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

If she had exploded, her anger would have been spent quickly, after a punch or two. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

I felt a horrible pang of envy then, a longing for Saturdays spent lying on the sofa with the newspapers and a hazy memory of leaving the club the night before. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Thereafter never a week went by but she brought news of this boy or that, and she and I and Nathan spent long hours trying to assess their relative merits. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

Charlie spent winter break working at the Mall Cinema, where he apparently let all the hot girls sneak in without paying. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Her mother spent several hours every day working—though at first Moody had not realized this was what she was doing. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

They spent the morning watching television, cartoons that kept the boys entertained. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

I’ve spent the entire week being mad at Mama for not taking me and my ideas seriously, so I’m not sure what Elizabeth’s talking about. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

We spent two weeks driving across the country, camping along the way. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I spent the rest of that night opening the doors of my mind. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

I think of Flaubert, who spent most of his adult life in the same French village, or Emily Dickinson, whose poems echoed the cadence of the local church bells. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

The strands started separately, and wove together, but as they spent time twined together, the dough merged. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

Other than helping Frank, Emma spent the years of her life after Charles’s death much as she had the years before she married him. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

The man identified himself as Archie, and as the two settled into a more peaceful conversation, he revealed to Bloom that he had spent a decade in London serving as a rich man’s bodyguard. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Five years of planning, millions of dollars spent developing the latest spy gear, and months of careful training went into making sure that the picnic went off without a hitch. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Dr. Grossman had warned me not to tire him, so I left as soon as I could, went home, ate, then spent the night studying. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

“I’ve spent the whole day reaching out to each family,” Volta said. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

The old gentlemen smiled and nodded and felt the years were well spent. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

He had spent the night before watching a tiny moon. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

Free time was spent scraping the fur off the deer hide to get it ready for tanning. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

Prim and I spent the rest of the night poring over those pages. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

We spent the rest of the night sleeping on benches in the airport. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Nobody is on the slopes where I spent the whole day with my family. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

“I spent two years in a juvenile detention center for breaking my father’s arm. Both arms, actually. And his nose. He also had a fractured skull, but that probably wasn’t entirely my fault.” We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

I spent a lot of time on Earth wishing I could be as classy as Vera. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

I had spent considerable time looking through school records, court records, and other documents with mixed results. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I can’t believe you, man. You probably spent the whole night in here scratching this all off.” Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

She went back into the kitchen and spent the night with her head on her arms on the table, waiting. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her mom was looking at Adelaide’s meaningfully, and Hazel knew that they had spent the last ten minutes talking about her. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

The exhausted army of his enemies, who had diced the night before, now spent the hours of darkness sleepless again, standing to arms or in their councils. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Because I spent the first six years of my life with Tribesmen who taught me mercy and compassion instead of brutality and hatred? An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

While the astronauts, heroes forever, spent mere hours on the moon, I have remained in this new world for nearly thirty years. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

I spent our year in Kilanga thinking of civilization as lying downstream from us, since that was the way the boats went to Banningville. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were probably freaking out, trying to think of a way to explain how they’d spent all that money my grandfather had left in the bank box. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

Regina yelled at Bobby, with the not-so-subtle implication that if he spent just a fraction of the time on his studies that he devoted to chess, he’d be a stellar student. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Under the sunlight in Willits, Agnes and Red Pollard spent their first married moments standing together, hearing the good wishes of their friends. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

I went straight to bed, while Abbey spent like ten minutes gargling and brushing her teeth. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

I felt real old when he said that, like I'd spent all my life standing in that doorway trying to get him to listen to me. Miracle's Boys 2000-04-23T00:00:00Z

She is exhausted and spent, in the same way she is after her day’s work is done, her sixteen miles on the road. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

I spent two years of childhood on this plantation in my old master’s family. Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass 1845-05-01T00:00:00Z

It was out of the question to disturb Hazel by digging, and they spent the night crouched beside him on the narrow floor. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

They had spent all day driving around looking for work. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

Freud by then was a fully adult male, but he still spent time with his family and often played gently with both of his small sisters.Young brothers or sisters can sometimes be very useful. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

In Huntington, where she spent her summers, she felt even worse. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Most of the day was spent sitting around. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

The sea—its deep warm blue—mornings spent lying out on the sands—Hugo—Hugo who had said he loved her.... And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z

Jeanne and Jacob and Michelangelo watched them go, shaking, sweating, spent already. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

I had already spent money for the train, but I figured I could always go a couple of days without eating, if I had to. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Tom, who’d spent much of his life in male company, was taken with her. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

“Suicide was not uncommon in the camp,” Kang Chol-hwan wrote in his memoir about the decade he spent inside Camp 15. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

This is not figural: Aristotle’s works spent a couple hundred years in a cellar in what’s now western Turkey before someone dug them out in the first century bc. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

Our days in Dubai were spent in the waiting rooms of the United Nations embassy, hoping they would see us, look through our mountains of paperwork, and help us find somewhere to go. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

"Eight dollars and eighty-five cents. Sixty-five cents. I spent some." The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

They squirmed, kicked, flailed their sharp little fists, and gnashed their teeth; Harry spent ten whole minutes trying to squash a particularly fat one into a pot. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

She was well acquainted with the dead, having spent much of her life in contact with them by means of her mother’s three-legged table. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

And some snakes weren’t venomous at all and spent their days eating crickets and mice and finding a nice sunny rock to lie on. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

He then spent three weeks in bed, made miserable by constant aching in limbs, insomnia, nervous tension, and feelings of acute anxiety. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

Hazel and Jack spent the rest of the day sitting in the second floor of their house talking about supervillains and the secrets in their villain-y hearts. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

Like Park had spent sixteen years acting weak and weird and girlie, and his dad had borne it on his massive shoulders. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

I’d spent so much time in Welch trying to make things a little bit better, but nothing had worked. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

In that hour, she spent ten minutes in the rice field and the rest of the time in the bushes. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Why? You aren’t trying to give him more detentions, Severus? The boy will soon have spent more time in detention than out.” Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

He had spent the last eleven of them on his feet, following the trail that the sergeant had set out for him on the map. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

He spent hours in the back room of his house drinking whiskey and calling former friends in the Klan, trying to explain his actions. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

She was a squadron commander and a veteran; she’d been shot down and wounded twice and had spent six months in the hospital. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

He pushed through the crowd of dead Romans, shooting down monsters until his arrows were spent, slowly making his way toward his friends. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Too terrified of crevasses to wander far from camp, I spent most of my time recumbent in the tent—the ceiling was too low to allow my sitting upright— fighting a rising chorus of doubts. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

The sorority had been a constant in her life since her days as a fifteen-year-old freshman at West Virginia State; she had spent more weekends than she could remember attending sorority activities or meetings. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

Then we spent large stretches of the journey watching the road together in silence. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Actually, they’d become close real-life friends after Lydia had spent two weeks that summer at Dahlia’s family’s beach house in Nantucket. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

“Anyway,” said Ben, “we’ve spent enough time on this already, and I need to make dinner. Please go rest and get better, okay?” Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

Sasha didn’t have the concentration to read or watch movies, so they spent their time dozing, scrolling idly through Tumblr, and calculating how long it would be until they got another dose of painkillers. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

The new system had been developed and implemented swiftly, and it was largely invisible, even to people, like me, who spent most of their waking hours fighting for justice. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

“How long do you think you spent in that hallucination, Tris?” Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

I felt isolated; I spent a lot of time alone. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

We spent the next week fishing, hunting, trapping, gathering greens and bulbs. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It her son we save that night. He spent long time in locker. We sleep right here whole time, like nothing different. He sneak out in middle of night.” A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

She spent the entire lunch period staring at her lunch tray and listening to them snicker about Mrs. Fields, the kindergartners, and, of course, George. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z

Myron says he spent his life traveling around the country too busy to see it. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

The next afternoon Serena called me and said that a top group of radiologists, pediatricians, and cancer doctors had just spent an hour studying John’s X-rays, bone scans, and CT scans. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

She looked pained — she’d spent her life setting up this “creepy place,” after all. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

I spent hours talking with them in a big circle, munching popcorn and trading our thoughts about college applications, body image, and boys. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

After that, Ruth’s every waking moment was spent with Madam. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

We spent a lot of time together, but only at school. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

Usually he wore faded blue jeans with a flaming Hawaiian shirt, along with sandals and dweebish white socks, looking like he had just spent the night in a Mexican hotel. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

She spent the day telling stories to Mother and the njuzu girls. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

A great deal of money is spent on this. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

We spent that night underneath the eucalyptus trees. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

As the old man ended his story they reached the simple hut where he lived and there Aeneas spent the night on a couch of leaves with a bear’s skin to cover him. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

Lloyd spent a lot of time at Richard’s house, since his own mother was often out of town. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Because I spent so much time alone during our competitions, I dedicated far too many hours to trying to dissect what was happening with my team. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

I was eager to keep her in the house after I had spent days digging by myself. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

He had spent hours poring over those sleek predatory lines, studying the sails and hydrofoils, the smooth engineered surfaces so different from the rusting wrecks he worked every day. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

Her last days were spent in a nursing home near her son in New Jersey. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

I spent all my time in the library, reading the Jacobean dramatists. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

“That’s not it. Even if I spent ten hours on it, it wouldn’t be any better. Words and me don’t mix.” Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

She felt like she spent more time working now than ever before and got less sleep. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

I had spent several hours resting fitfully in Michael Reese Hospital’s lobby, stirred from uncertain dreams by the pealing ambulance bells and the groans of patients. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

After World War I, MID spent years building up a massive internal file on the “Jewish Question.” The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Duke was captured after the battle of Richmond and spent a few months as a prisoner before being released at war’s end. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

Because I'd spent more than two years and all of a war feeling that myself, certain that my actions had caused the death of someone important to me. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

She spent four months at our school and then moved on to another. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

I came home each evening, after my hours at the library, and spent a few minutes on the piano bench with Mrs. Croft. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

The next day they spent also in his company, but they did not go far from his ‘house’. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

I looked at Rosaleen as if to say, Well, great, we spent all that time cleaning honey off her, and here they go putting it back on. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Anthony borrowed money from friends and family, spent all of her savings, and raised subscription rates, but the newspaper still ended up $10,000 in debt, an amount equal to about $175,000 today. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

Most of the Institute students spent the hour before supper playing in the gym, or else watching television in their rooms, but the Mysterious Benedict Society had wanted a little time to themselves. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

He had sent Hippolytus away while still a young child to be brought up in the southern city where Theseus had spent his own youth. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

We spent the weekend spiritlessly sightseeing, assailed by unspoken anxieties. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

There was an unusually hot day that spring, and Luke and I spent it hauling purlins—the iron beams that run horizontally along the length of a roof. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

She spent her time trying not to remember delicious things to eat. From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

That’s why my father spent so many years in prison—he refused to turn in his friend—and I so many years without a father. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

He spent most of the first game biting his tongue. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z

Mom spent the whole day on her computer, applying for jobs. Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

The second hour was spent actually working with the farm animals— feeding, cleaning, fixing a fence, scraping up klunk. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

He’d not been able to give the marriage quite the attention he’d have liked, having spent so much time in the military, traveling, and otherwise in and out of the home. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

He spent the night a ways back, and therefore was the only one to see the approaching hunter. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

He would later give an interview to a local paper, estimating that during the six or so months he campaigned for Congress, he spent less than four full days at home with me and Malia. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

“This morning Zo and I went down to volunteer at the Red Cross,” wrote my mother, who had spent the entire day at the Fox Theater, eating nonpareils. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

She went to every rally after Morris died, organized as many of them as she could, spent hours on the phone trying to connect with as many people as possible. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

The year after my mom died, I spent a lot of time wallowing in self-pity and despair. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

As for me, after receiving the Rhodes Scholarship, I spent two and a half years completing my master’s in international relations at Oxford. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

It went there early in the morning to sleep after it had spent the night prowling. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

That’s the reason I spent so much time with Carl, because Dad had to work Fridays and Saturdays all winter on Mr. Fuller’s oyster boat, and Mr. Fuller wouldn’t allow kids on board. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

We still share the care and feeding of Camel, but the three of us no longer exchange stories during the long nights spent on the rails. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

How he spent each of those minutes and hours could, at least in theory, affect the eventual outcome. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

“He spent twenty-seven years in a South African prison. Twenty-seven years, Noah! A couple of weeks won’t hurt me.” Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

So I flew to Montana and spent a couple of days with him fishing for brown trout on the Bighorn River. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I spent a couple of hours visiting the seedier taverns around the University, making casual conversations, asking casual questions. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

The steady stream of words has ended, and she looks spent from the effort. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

But Sherrilyn spent most of the time watching Real Housewives of Atlanta. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

I sketched the details of my evening for the detective, telling him about my homework and the time I’d spent doing research on the effects of radiation on shellfish in the Pacific. Confessions of a Murder Suspect 2012-09-24T00:00:00Z

I have spent the remainder of the day, when unengaged, in complaint, each officer chiding me and sending me away. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

He spent the longest time at Kang’s stall, and the other potters gave up all pretense of indifference. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

It would be a far cry from the solemn and fearful birthdays I had spent in Pakistan not long ago. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

I spent hours trying to decipher the lines in the survival manual on navigation. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

He tried to curl his body up and away, but he was too weak after the hours spent struggling against the snare. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

These last few days of boyhood were spent with the other initiates, and I found the camaraderie enjoyable. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

From the beginning of December, Mami spent most of her time in the kitchen. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

I had spent a lot of guilt and grief over the death of those dratted cats. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

If you always spent money in that way, no one would blame you,” said Jo warmly. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

They had spent a good part of the previous day there. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

And when he spent twelve hours a day sitting at a desk, far from his guitar and the inspiration of the people, he had few opportunities to feel happy. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Robert Cohn spent the mornings studying Spanish or trying to get a shave at the barber-shop. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

Although she had no prior experience in the specialized field of high-altitude medicine, she had spent four months doing volunteer medical-relief work in the foothills of eastern Nepal. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

Toby scrambled between the two seats and spent a solid two minutes trying to find and buckle the seat belt before Lily reached across him to help. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

Reynie and Sticky spent the rest of the morning looking nervously over their shoulders. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

Instead, I spent some two hours a day in the translation of fragments from Greek and Latin; the texts being chosen for their convolution, recondite meaning, dryness, and insipidity. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

The boy spoke very little with the Englishman, who spent most of his time with his books. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

He sometimes fell asleep before he got drunk; sometimes spent whole days looking at the river and the sky; and more and more he relinquished the military habits of cleanliness in his shack. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

He’d spent most of his childhood inside, reading the eclectic books in his mother’s library. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Tony had now spent over a decade dealing drugs and knew how much money could be made in the game. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

My sister and I spent the rest of the two-hour catechism class sitting in my car in the parking lot. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

He spent four days rushing from one office to the next, in a series of desperate maneuvers that all ran up against the same wall of bureaucratic incomprehension. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

My mom spent a few hours lying on a cot they had brought in, but I really don’t think you could say she slept. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

So he spent four years proving her wrong. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

There Jaime and the others spent two days without food or water, rotting in their own excrement, blood, and fear, until they were all driven by truck to an area near the airport. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

I spent a few minutes considering, as I paced the length of my bedroom floor, how embarrassing that incident had been. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

He is clearly as spent as the woman, the circles under his eyes and the lines of his forehead speaking of days of no sleep. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

“But your genes—” “If genes are destiny, then Nailer should have sold you to your enemies and spent the bounty on red rippers and Black Ling whiskey.” Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

I spent as much time as I could alone in our room, trying to empty my mind of every thought, to forget where I was, even who I was. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then I spent the rest of the day glued to the newsfeeds. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

He saw her as he imagined her in all the idle hours he spent dreaming of her. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

I spent six months in hospital in Alexandria, and when I came out, I flew again. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

She ached for those evenings spent around the stove, Daddy carrying on while Mama laughed or groaned at his funny stories. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

With neither the time nor the resources to halt the challenge of nature, Santa Sofía de la Piedad spent the day in the bedrooms driving out the lizards who would return at night. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

I spent the better part of Thursday riding shotgun in Art’s panel truck. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

Yet he didn’t regret the time he’d spent at Camp Jupiter. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

This is the first night I’ve spent away from you and I can’t even conjure an image in my mind of where you must be. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

The titans of Wall Street, the world now realized, had spent years racking up profits on the backs of junk home loans. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

With the question still burning in his brain, Ellsberg spent the summer reading the Pentagon Papers. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Without knowing it he had walked back to the door of the restaurant where he had spent his time during the past two weeks. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

Some have nothing to do with Lincoln’s death, like James Pumphrey, the Confederate- sympathizing owner of a stable, who spent a month behind bars. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

On her first day at Langley, Dorothy Vaughan spent the morning in the personnel department filling out the requisite paperwork. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

Whole bright days of spring and early summer they spent out in Roke Bay in light catboats, practicing steering by word, and stilling waves, and speaking to the world’s wind, and raising up the magewind. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

I have not spent my time studying the problem of “race”—“race” itself is just a restatement and retrenchment of the problem. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

He spent free weekends instructing C.P.’s men in combat techniques and firearms training, strutting around in the woods outside of town, barking orders and wearing an 8 mm Mauser strapped on his hip. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

I had spent the day working as hard as I could. Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

Bouguer and La Condamine thus had spent nearly a decade working toward a result they didn’t wish to find only to learn now that they weren’t even the first to find it. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

He spent much of his time traveling and gathering material for his books, but always returned to the comfortable old stone house for the actual writing. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I was growing up, my mom spent a lot of time trying to teach me about women. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

She probably could have spent centuries like that, hibernating in total darkness. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Baker leaned back in her chain “It was for the women’s four-by-one hundred relay. Don’t look so surprised. You didn’t think I'd spent my whole life behind this desk, did you?” The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

Once in California, Mary had met a mathematician who spent every weekend climbing among the trees. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

“Why do you think your parents spent good money getting you braces?” Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

Despite his more frivolous side, Rostipov had caused an uproar in scientific circles because he spent his free time curing hysteria with magic wands and hypnotic trances. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then she spent about an hour making little snips here and there. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

And he went on and out to his fields and into the high sun of noon, and he was spent as with the labor of a whole day. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

He owned half- a-dozen Western suits, and I spent many an hour carefully making the crease in his trousers. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Marcos spent two weeks assembling the contents according to an instruction manual written in English, which he was able to decipher thanks to his invincible imagination and a small dictionary. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

He sent the deweys out for his liquor and spent most of his time in a heap on the floor or sitting in a chair staring at the wall. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

Simpson had spent eighteen years in the Senate, including ten as the Republican whip, the second-ranking senator in his party. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Dr. Finch spent a solitary hour in the livingroom until Atticus and Jem arrived; his niece locked herself in the bathroom and remained there scrubbing herself and dancing. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

Clearly they had spent the whole night out. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

She spent a year there, during which she engaged in a letter-writing campaign to the Chicago Tribune newspaper that so embarrassed Robert, he had her released. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

Penelope, who had spent many a useful hour assisting Dr. Westminster at Swanburne, was not in the least bit alarmed. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

When he was home, he spent the time lying on his bed fully clothed with his eyes shut. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

She’d spent so many years wondering what other people might want that she’d never bothered to figure it out for herself. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

"I move,” said Frank, "that not more than ninety-five dollars be spent.” Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

Papa spent some time describing hell, as if God did not know that the flames were eternal and raging and fierce. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

Goods from around the world would pile up on English docks, while the people of Europe spent their money on products theyd sell to one another. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

However, when she attempted to dismantle the old brown sofa she’d spent so many hours lounging on, Jinny found that even the cushions didn’t want to cooperate with her. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

He didn’t have to worry about a wife or her relatives dictating how his time should be spent. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was, for a time, a citywide integration movement to bus kids to new schools, but Bryn Mawr parents had successfully fought it off, arguing that the money was better spent improving the school itself. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

In an ideal world, I would have spent twenty-four hours a day conducting investigations. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

Otto and I spent one morning lounging on the bank of a pond outside the sanctuary’s administration building. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

He had spent his whole life working one job to the next, working construction, clerking, getting by, but what he really wanted to do was study. The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was sure everyone on the bus knew that we had spent the day in the welfare office and that Mami had just hit a social worker. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

He was fearful of other inmates, not of officers, and spent half his time looking over his shoulder for would-be attackers. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’ve spent my life wishing for long hair and this is what I get. Inside Out and Back Again 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

Carvajal wrote little about the peoples who spent so much time trying to kill him. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

I’d spent so much time at the hospital that up until I was about twelve, I had the largest single file of any patient at Mater Children’s Hospital. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

My father spent two months doing hard labour on a white man’s potato farm for his pass crimes. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

They’d spent many sleepless nights tending to me after the fire. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

I spent most of the day looking at the specs. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

I spent the night alone and miserable in my room. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

It was to be the last night spent in our house. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

The pennies in her pocket jingled to be spent. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z

He had spent the evening in such a state of emotion, he couldn’t seem to stop himself. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

Nhamo spent half of the next day recapturing the distance she had lost. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

In these days Napoleon rarely appeared in public, but spent all his time in the farmhouse, which was guarded at each door by fierce-looking dogs. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z

If I’d punched an Indian in the face, then he would have spent days plotting his revenge. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

Over time, many of the investigators came to believe that Hattie Whitehorn, who had quickly spent some of her husband’s fortune after his death, was also complicit. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

After hearing this, I’d spent a good amount of time trying to think up which month I would have liked to have been named for. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

And I was busy, much of my time spent practicing or playing in a string quartet or taking theory classes at the community college. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Min spent his time on the new set of vases, one or two of which would be selected to be taken to Songdo. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

I spent my time in the honey house with August while Rosaleen helped May around the house. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Jinny spent the next hour combing the beach, with Loo running ahead on the dunes. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

The more time I spent in the company of Miss Val’s team, the more I wanted to finish out my gymnastics career as part of UCLA’s program. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

The rest of the trip—mercifully short—was spent in a cloud of sour vomit. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The performance was uncompromisingly British, and I quietly concluded that the white-mustached figure of Bragg now spent most of its days sitting in London clubs like the Athenaeum. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

Their education complemented their uniquely American facility with machines and technology, for they had spent their boyhoods surrounded by mechanical gadgetry: farm machines, radios, and cars. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

“We’ve already spent too much time going overland. The earth is Gaea’s territory.” The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Perhaps because of the months he spent absorbed in working on the clock itself, the circus feels familiar, comfortable. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

He’d spent the whole night pacing the holds, touching each of the casks and crates one after another. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

“No, murena. I’m expecting soon, so I spent it all on the clinic people.” Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

You would think that after all the hours I’d spent with Gale—watching him talk and laugh and frown—that I would know all there was to know about his lips. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

Because he spent all of his free time there, he couldn’t quite manage to broaden his life. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

And so I spent my time in PE seated on the bleachers, attempting to focus on homework from another class, despite all the basketball dribbles and squeaking sneakers across the polished gym floor. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

We had spent the entire meal purposely making things miserable for her. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

I didn’t want to say goodbye to the junkyard or to my car, so I spent my last night at an all-night movie. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Lillian spent a full, enervating day on the telephone notifying a staggering number of relatives on both sides of the family. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some explained that they had absent or addicted parents; a couple had spent time in juvenile detention centers. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

I had spent the night in the waiting room. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

“He spent the money on some stupid video game,” Angel says, reading my mind. Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z

It seemed natural that they needed each other, as all good sister cities should, but instead they had spent most of their histories trying to prove just the opposite. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

At home in Berkeley, he spent a weekend scouting locations for a heavy-water reactor, convinced that he was on the verge of securing the project as an adjunct to the Rad Lab. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

“My entire morning is spent looking at the clock and waiting for this moment right here. This is my favorite part of the day.” Watch Us Rise 2019-02-12T00:00:00Z

Frankie had always spent his Saturday evenings taking the week’s earnings to various fences throughout Chicago. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

Let us pass over the time I spent alone in the woods that evening, playing games that children invent to amuse themselves. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

He spent the entire afternoon of the second day looking out over the desert, and listening to his heart. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

“He’s usually reading five books at once, and when he took a sabbatical leave when he was at Dartmouth, he spent the time writing a novel.” Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

She spent a couple of hours on the phone this morning, holding a yellow legal pad in her lap. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Since Roosevelt was unwell and often stuck indoors, he spent much of his time reading books. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

He talked about how he had spent his childhood bouncing around in foster homes, until he and Jason and Piper had been taken to Camp Half-Blood. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

And the four of us—horses, dog, and I—spent a wonderful summer exploring the wilderness areas of the Bighorn Mountains in Wyoming. This Side of Wild 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

When we first got El Perico, he spent most of the time in a makeshift wire cage Roberto, my older brother, built for him. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

I don’t think there’s anyone that I spent more time with, at least not since Dad died, unless you count Buckminster. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

She’d spent too much at Christmas, she knew, especially now that he did not let her buy the groceries. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

He stops chewing and stares at me silently with those eyes that have hardened a little every month he has spent here; now they look like the bark of a palm tree, unyielding. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

They looked very interesting, but to my embarrassment I found that I had spent so much time learning aeronautical jargon, I had not picked up on the everyday talk. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

The more time he spent with them, the more Jon despised them. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

She spent nights awake shaking with fever, fighting against delirium, waiting until the house shook with the return of José Arcadio at dawn. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

That was because the chickens had spent their lives outdoors on pastures rather than in a shed eating grain. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

And that means, “You’ve spent too much time attending to a guest I don’t like.” Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

Harry checked his watch, then remembered it hadn’t been working since it had spent over an hour in the lake. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

When we got home, we found out that Mom had spent the afternoon with Aimee at her house, the two of them talking in her living room. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

He attended all services in the Episcopal church, helped with the flowers and leaves at feast times, and spent many hours with the young and curly-haired clergyman, Mr. Rolf. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

They went home to a good Thanksgiving dinner of pot roast and home-made noodles and spent the afternoon listening to Papa reminisce how he had gone around Thanksgiving Day as a boy. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Yes, the confession you spent weeks practicing on Freddie Mercury and working up the courage to make just detonated on the tip of your tongue. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z

She was beautiful, delicate and feminine like Henrietta, who dressed her in homemade outfits with bows and spent hours braiding her long brown curls. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

The Senegalese are a handsome people and I enjoyed the brief time that Oliver and I spent in their country. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Next I spent some time turning over the phrase rearranging the finances. Confessions of a Murder Suspect 2012-09-24T00:00:00Z

My father had spent an hour searching through the truck for Bera-Bera and my sister’s sweater. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

He’d been born and raised in Honolulu but had spent four years of his childhood flying kites and catching crickets in Indonesia. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Margaret didn’t see clients on Saturday, but usually spent a half day in the office catching up on the paperwork. Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

She slept most of the day, and spent her few waking hours sewing tiny articles of clothing for a complete pink wardrobe, for she was convinced that her baby would be a girl. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

They had nothing in common with the two energetic, lice-infested boys who spent their summers in the country. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

When Indian boys came of age, they spent an entire winter alone in the forest, equipped only with a bow, a hatchet, and a knife. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

I hadn’t spent ten minutes gluing his locker shut just to admit it to him. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

Vincent has spent so much of Theo’s money getting the house ready, he’s sure that no matter how well he and Gauguin work, they will never recoup the expenses. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Everyone knew the girls had spent hour after hour tracing, cutting, and stitching the costly velvet, and that Gerhardt’s Department Store would be quick to reject any that were soiled. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mabel hadn’t spent her freedom saving money to buy her daughter out of bondage, that was certain. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

It had taken almost a month to complete this journey; most of the time had been spent getting out of Maryland. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

His gold and his silver were precious to him once more, and at times he marvelled secretly at himself that he had ever spent so freely upon a woman. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

More like a young man who spent all his time in the library of the university, or the private archives of the local magistrate. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

Samantha Peck, my mother’s kind and beautiful live-in personal assistant, had spent the night in the apartment, behind our locked doors. Confessions of a Murder Suspect 2012-09-24T00:00:00Z

And after all those years we spent growing up together. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

He spent nine months in the service, most of it sitting in the hole, growing angrier and angrier. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

It’s thirty million dollars, Anatole told me recently, that the U.S. has now spent trying to bring down Angola’s sovereignty. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Still, Tally spent a lot of time wondering what Shay was going to look like pretty, her skin-and-bones body all filled out, her already full Ups perfected, and the ragged fingernails gone forever. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

He spent the next while riding up one street and down another, nodding politely to the few people he happened to encounter at that early hour. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

In other words, having spent five years reading history, I was now being asked to write it. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

She pulled off her hairnet and her hair spilled out to cover her and she closed her eyes, spent. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

We slept there and spent most of our waking hours elsewhere. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

I spent the next several weeks running the argument over and over in my mind, picturing a small dog chasing a puppet across the floor of an abandoned warehouse. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

Maria Isabel has spent most of her life deprived of decent clothing. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

For as long as I can remember, I spent late afternoons with Grandma India in her garden, tending her four o’clock plants. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Not the two weeks she spent guerrilla training in the mountains. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

“If you spent any time with him, you wouldn’t ask that question.” The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

Before I got vitiligo, I never understood how Mom and Lily spent so long looking at themselves in the mirror. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

He spent much of every day on the phone, calling police departments across the country. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

He should have realized that I could have spent the last few weeks spending time with her, but instead I had agreed to work with him. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

Those who had always won, accustomed to being in power since time immemorial even though their strength had greatly waned in recent years, spent the weeks before the elections preparing for their triumph. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Religion doesn’t come up much for Dr. Atchley, and when it does, he can call on the years he spent at a Jesuit high school. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

We sat for hours one afternoon in 2011 in Philadelphia’s Rittenhouse Square, the most time we had spent together in many years. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

He spent the whole day setting it up after I insisted he do that instead of take me to the hospital. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

But now its teeth were drawn, its spirit spent. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Yom Kippur was our Day of Atonement, spent in fasting and prayer. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

“Must be his daughter. Jennie Giancarlo, seventy-five bucks. Seven hundred will probably only get you halfway through Idaho, if we don’t count what you already spent, but we’ve barely started getting the word out.” A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

When my mother was three months pregnant with my younger sister, Caroline, she was arrested in a sweatshop raid and spent three days in an immigration jail. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

A natural-born engineer, Rob loved infrastructure, electronics, and gadgets of all kinds; he spent his spare time endlessly tinkering with the solar electrical system or reading back issues of Popular Science. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

He took a bus about 220 miles south to Jinan, a city of five million, and spent five days searching out more Korean churches. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

Some of them I recognize from across the factionless warehouse campfires, or from the time I spent at Evelyn’s side as a Dauntless leader. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

She spent her life weaving it, in comfortably deluding me, that I might wear the lie as proof against all injury. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

Still...Jason didn’t get why Nico pushed people away, why he never spent much time at either camp, why he preferred the dead to the living. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

I spent much of the time watching the traffic that thronged the streets. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

I visited a re-creation of the Revenge of the Nerds house on the planet Skolnick and spent a day searching it, but it proved to be a dead end. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

Shocked by the pain her “Mother-kins” had to endure, she spent “hours pacing back and forth,” trying and failing to ease her mother’s agony. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

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

When they did not come to get me the first day, I suspected, and spent the whole morning sleeping—just like a holiday. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

American women spent years persuading the government to let them deliver military planes, but only Soviet women could fight air battles in them. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

I sensed her weakness and spent most of class coming up with creative ways to burnish my status as class clown. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

I had spent the first week of my life at the threshold between two worlds, too sick to suckle, too weak to wail. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

I spent more than a hundred years trying to fade into anonymity, but even the youngest of children know of me. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

Zeitoun spent the day reliving his arrest and the weeks afterward. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

In how much time he spent alone in his study, and in how often he went out, how late he stayed? Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

I was staying with a family in Burundi, not going to school, and so I spent my time helping to babysit the kids in the family. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

The upheavals of the war deprived Kepler of much of his financial support, and the end of his life was spent fitfully, pleading for money and sponsors. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Reporter Joseph Chamberlin spent hours roaming the streets, often finding himself dodging showers of scorching sparks. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z

Although I wanted a miracle in school, and knew full well that the miracle should somehow involve academic study, in reality I spent my time reading. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

Whenever I would go see him, he spent most of the time asking me questions. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

“Funny, because I spent all weekend working on that, too.” Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

Booth needed rest and would happily have spent a month with the Garretts recovering from his injury and regaining his strength. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

The snow had stopped him from wheeling their household over to Mrs. Cobb’s, and so mostly Mrs. Buckminster spent her days sorting and looking things over. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

Meanwhile, Spurge and Werfel spent their time going back and forth, carrying messages between the nations. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

And now a man who has probably spent no more than a week in Jamaica is telling me that everything will be irie. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

And his efforts to ignore it, transcend it, seemed to work only when he spent his days looking for whatever was light-hearted and without grave consequences. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

I guess the both of us have spent these past few months acting like turtles, slowly revealing our own truths. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

It was perfectly happy cruising in second gear: he guessed it must have spent a lot of its time at that speed, holding up traffic. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

Some afternoons she spent time reorganizing the massive room so that she could find things more easily, although it was too cold to stay in there for long. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

He’d hurt too much to do anything after that, and had spent most of the day on a bench on the outskirts of the Deadheads, wallowing in despair. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

From that day he and Johnny spent hours together jumping or exercising horses. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

He never looked my way, but even so the seconds I spent waiting for the light to change seemed like hours. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were four proper beds, with sheets, and towels, a great luxury for men who had spent much of the last eighteen years sleeping on thin mats on a stone floor. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

So, to make sure that Lord Rowan could not forget her, Ana spent more and more nights in the City as a guest of her aunt. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

He hardly felt proud of them, nothing like the books his parents had chosen for him or the bizarre knitting he was sure Hyacinth had spent hours working on. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

The policeman spent the afternoon watching baseball on television, but both Florida teams got creamed—the Devil Rays lost by five, the Marlins hy seven. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Jason was tempted to remind the stupid wind god that he had spent hours outside every day waiting to be called, but he just bowed. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

He’d probably spent his entire life hearing stories about the Academy’s killer courses and crushing workload. Ungifted 2012-08-21T00:00:00Z

I usually spent long break reading in the library. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

Aunt Nancy spent most of the day working in the bakery. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

I spent the day before Christmas fighting a holly bush with a pair of scissors. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

She couldn't get over the fact that Park spent most of his time in this room horizontal. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

She spent more time than usual on her makeup, too—blending the foundation to a shade more pale than ghostly, going lighter on the kohl. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

But Aureliano spent the money on muriatic add to prepare some aqua regia and he beautified the keys by plating them with gold. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

For most of the year we spent our time studying each other. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

We spent the rest of that night in a long white room. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

But very little time was spent on theology, for one did not need to prove to a Harlem audience that all white men were devils. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z

He and other physicists had spent a few years studying fission. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s just, so many people I care for have spent so much time keeping me safe, teaching me, protecting me.” The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

To learn about the jungle, we spent nearly two weeks in Panama. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I don’t know,” said Bobby sullenly, when asked why he spent so much time playing chess and not on his schoolwork. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

See, the girl I’ve spent the most time with would cut me if I tried to open a door for her. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z

Most of a researchers waking hours are spent in the second world, and it’s easy for him to confuse the two. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

Some days, when my mother spent the day and night at the hospital, my father brought Sammy and me to the hatchery with him. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

My last year in prison was spent back in the Charlestown Prison. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were looking at a spread of pictures from a day spent in Estes Park in Colorado. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

Zeitoun discovered that one of his carpenters, James Crosso, was still in the city, so the two of them spent the day driving around, rigging the houses on the list. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

Ivy never heard this gossip, for she spent each happy day in her beloved forest, climbing trees and memorizing from above the location of every thicket and clearing and rock and burrow. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

Gat hasn’t spent the last two years in a shell of headache pain and self-pity. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

Apparently, he liked to tell stories in weird voices and spent years scratching out a replica of New York City’s skyline on the converted classroom’s blackboards. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

Because ratios were the keys to understanding nature, the Pythagoreans and later Greek mathematicians spent much of their energy investigating their properties. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

We had spent days, miles, rations in our long struggle to get up onto the Ice. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

The young woman spent her time studying with the nuns and went so far in her training that she asked to become a nun herself and remain in the convent. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

American agencies had spent about a billion dollars to stop a full-blown outbreak. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

“My parents are fighting again. My dad went and spent the night on Uncle Jared’s couch. He’s back. But I don’t know. This feels like it might be it.” Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

"The hours she spent trying to fix her beloveds stretched into eternity after eternity, until..." The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

There were no lessons in high summer—the time that Bod spent awake he spent in an endless warm twilight in which he would play or explore or climb. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

Lunch is usually served from a buffet and eaten standing up, perhaps so that one will not feel he has spent the entire day sitting at table. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

Ms. Morengo's law firm spent more than two months going through all the papers. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

I spent over an hour tweaking my avatar’s hair and trying on different skins to wear to the club. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

I’ve spent the past two hours drawing, trying to shake off my confrontation with my mom. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

She would take them until the rewards were not worth the energy spent to find and catch them. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

Now the old fears returned and threatened to strangle me, to sink me back in that horrible pit of depression I’d spent years struggling to climb out of. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

I had never spent a single night away from our large family before. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

I spent a lot of time with Tyson, playing with Mrs. O’Leary, but she would still howl at night when she got lonely for her old master. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

Dad spent most of the time on the phone with a worried crease between his eyes. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

At odds with his parents, he spent many nights on Reggie’s floor, sometimes passed out from too much drinking. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

“Perhaps you may now begin to regret that you spent one whole day, out of so few, in having your hair cut.” Emma 1815-12-23T00:00:00Z

He couldn’t get into the best schools, but spent so much time studying on his own at the public library in Moscow that he was given a job as a schoolteacher. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

They spent hours questioning Pearl Young, who had left the agency in the late 1940s for a job teaching physics at Penn State. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

Scoop on the Human Body, and spent most of the afternoon conducting background research on music. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

Clara spent the winters rapidly knitting all sorts of woolen clothes to keep him warm, but he wore them only until someone who needed them more than he did crossed his path. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Their parents, understanding the importance of a bachelor’s degree, spent hours reading to them, researching school districts, and making it clear to them that they simply must graduate from college. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

She had entered a convent in Mozambique, where she spent many happy hours listing people’s sins and praying for them. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

Half of Chicago’s 185 active firefighters had spent all of Saturday night fighting a major fire, and many had come away with blistered skin, swollen eyes, and smoke-congested lungs. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z

As for me, I spent the evening hours reassuring the parents and offspring who called me their home. Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

I spent most of the first twelve years of my life playing with Hassan. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

I thought I’d see her during the summers, but she spent them on the East Coast as a junior counselor at some hoity-toity camp. The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z

Then brothers John and William Garrett grabbed blankets and a pistol and spent the night in the corn house, watching the tobacco barn and waiting, listening for suspicious sounds in the night. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

She and the girls spent the rest of the hour fixing Quendy’s hair to like showcase the lesion. Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Horses usually sleep in numerous brief sessions scattered throughout the day and night; about 20 percent of their daytime is spent snoozing. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

The afternoons were spent at a gymnasium learning how to fence. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

It bummed Dallas out that Reggie spent less time with him than with this tall brunette, who Dallas thought was just okay, and reasonably pretty. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

She had spent years nursing the poor in the village. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

We spent the rest of the afternoon sorting through Cecile’s letters. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

I spent more time on the girls’ side, dancing one song after another. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

After church, Booth rode home with the doctor and spent the night at his farm. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

They frown on sentences like Both of the thieves spent all of the money, and would prefer Both the thieves spent all the money. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Those two weeks felt longer than the eight months I had spent at Benin Home. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

He spent the whole day on this strange farewell tour, until finally one of his cousins called him out. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

He spent his days muttering dyspeptically to himself and singing naughty sea chanteys, with the occasional random earsplitting screech thrown in just to make you jump. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

Then he finds a parking ticket in your coat, proving you spent two hours in the middle of the day parked somewhere in the center of town. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

“No, not really. I was just thinking. I spent a summer with her when I was little.” Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

I’d spent so much of my life running from her, trying to show her I didn’t need her as much as she thought. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

The grocery opened at dawn and did not close until the last wandering vagrant dime had been spent or retired for the night. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

But the old man came to the door and said volubly, “There is no end to the money spent in this house!” The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

It was as though I’d spent a year as an exchange student in some chaotic Third World backwater, I’d tell a friend later. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe Hudson and I wouldn’t have been inspired to give it a shot ourselves if we hadn’t been left with a lot of alone time while Dylan and Harriett spent their weekends together. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

I spent more and more time in my room between interviews and conferences with Mr. Levitan and our PR man, Benn Hall, while Mr. Levitan had a constant stream of visitors in his suite. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

So time from eight forty-five until some safe time after ten in the mornings was spent under various beds. From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

Our idea of a vacation was two days of car camping, or a night spent at the Napa Valley Embassy Suites so we could swim in their indoor pool. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

After Edwin left, Cole spent the rest of the after- noon carving. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

The game’s requirement of both analytical and people- reading skills made it a favorite of the engineers, and they spent many a lunch hour in fierce competition. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

Pesza also spent the night at her factory, which meant my mother and I were alone in our apartment. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

Those meals were so good and the time I spent with him was precious to me. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Slant’s childhood and youth were spent upon a tobacco plantation presided over by a benevolent widow by the name of Croak and her son, who was of Slant’s age. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

He’d spent the last ten years of his life here, this temple was like a home, but that only made it slightly easier to maneuver through in a crisis. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

“I could have spent every night on the island if I’d remembered about witch repellent sooner.” A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Something about living in a small town, like the ones where he’d spent his Fresh Air Fund summers. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

She had probably spent all day cleaning the place so it would look nice. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

“And I am sure. You know how many years we’ve spent preparing for this?” Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

We spent months experimenting with the methods the old masters used to create real gesso. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

I spent half my time wandering the halls, asking people directions to rooms they’d never heard of. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

All of August was spent running errands and watching Jason after his summer camp ended. Watch Us Rise 2019-02-12T00:00:00Z

Then nothing to do but wait for the rain to turn to snow and the mud to ice; not long, for I had spent over a month on my way from Mishnory to Turuf. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

The longer they spent together, the more Harry realized that he did not much like the goblin. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

I went straight home from school the next day and spent the afternoon and evening listening to my father read to me from my textbooks. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

I spent the first month in town with my mouth hanging open. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Others spent their days hunting seals and penguins, which had returned with the warmer weather. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

So I spent a lot of time along St Anna Bay, and at the Ruyterkade market talking to the blade people. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had heard a young girl speaking in an awed voice about a storyteller who spent all his time in a Dockside bar called the Half-Mast. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

“Where are you? You haven’t spent any money since the wedding.” Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

He spent all his wealth on vast supplies of food which never gave him a moment’s satisfaction. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

And the birds which spent the day in the brushland came at night to the little pools that were like steps in the mountain cleft. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

She spent her mornings teaching in the classroom and her afternoons in the Silk Room, where the uncut fabrics were stored. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

I wasn’t one of the girls who tortured her on purpose, but I had never lifted a finger to help her before, or even spent one minute being nice to her. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

I spent hours glued to our window, watching the goldfish glide in slow motion, stirring the jade green plants with its delicate fins. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

Once a year we spent two span at his manor, entertaining him and his household. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

The third day, they just spent the whole time talking. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z

Hot from the time I’d spent in the sun, I gulped it down, no longer thinking about the black men and their backbreaking work out in Grampa’s fields. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

He will teach and preach some, but much of his time will be spent running errands, collecting money from the students’ parents. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

The manager spent the afternoon leaning on the ring ropes, watching Jose and Angel spar. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the dark warmth of that house Ged spent the winter, hearing the rush of rain and wind outside or the silence of snowfall, learning to write and read the Six Hundred Runes of Hardic. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

“She lived right next door to us while I was growing up, so I spent a lot of time with her. She was quite a lady.” Doing Time Online 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

We always spent Passover at my mother's parents' house. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

The more time we spent at church, she reckoned, the more blessings we accrued, like a Starbucks Rewards Card. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

They spent the next three days sitting by the enormous curving pool, surrounded by umbrellas and turquoise lounge chairs. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

I slept for a few hours and then spent the morning poring over the travel guides I’d discovered the day before. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

“Your poet must have spent time in a village like mine,” he said. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

Matthew was getting very serious with his girlfriend, and spent every spare moment at her house. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Missing books? Silly dinosaur video games? Money wasted on talking statues and holograms and secret panels in bookcases that could’ve been more wisely spent on extra copies of popular children’s books?” Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z

He spent long hours lying on his side, half asleep, dreaming pleasant dreams. Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z

At that point, only about twenty-one minutes were spent using the computer for fun, and twenty minutes on video games. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

Mamani had gotten married at fifteen, became a widow at fifty-three, and spent the rest of her life on her own in an apartment in Mashhad, a city on the far eastern side of Iran. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

He’d spent all his Johnny Cakes money on ice cream from El Anon and had a bellyache. Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had driven 350 miles to get to Pennsylvania, had spent four long days in the state, and walked a net eleven miles of the Appalachian Trail. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

Because we had spent so much of our money on tin roofs and the voyage over, it had to be a poor man’s month in England. The Color Purple 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

I know she had the ring before Dad served a mission—which was expected of all faithful Mormon men—and spent two years proselytizing in Florida. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

And if you’ve spent quite a bit of time on a deserted island eating coconut and grubs, rum will get you drunk rather quickly and thoroughly. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

I had spent a third of my life traveling from the place of my birth to the North just to talk freely, to escape the pressure of fear. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

We had just moved Koocah’s cage from the living room to the kitchen, where the family spent most of our time. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

What time I didn’t spend studying or in the Archives I spent on the road to Imre, braving the coming winter wind, if not looking for its name. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

She’d spent the last four years looking out at New Pretty Town, wanting nothing more than to cross the river and not come back. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

If Christ spent an anguished night in prayer, if He burst out from the Cross, “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?” then surely we are also permitted doubt. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

They are very logical but you could never work out the rules, even if you spent all your time thinking about them. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Status among people in the top tier, he said, “is the time spent being waited on, being taken care of in nail salons, and how many people who work for them.” Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

After all we written and the hours we spent tired and worried, I ain’t seen the girl she still is in a long, long time. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Shorty had dropped out of first-year high school in Lansing, lived awhile with an uncle and aunt in Detroit, and had spent the last six years living with his cousin in Roxbury. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Most days, she was extremely uncomfortable, and spent her time knitting baby clothes down by the waterfront. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

So when he appraised Sister Loretta Marie it was with eyes that had spent a lifetime studying the habits and peccadilloes of nuns. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

With the twenty-five cents apiece that Dad gave Mary Alice and me, we could each buy five Nehis during our week, if we could slip off from Grandma long enough to get our allowances spent. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

We spent the night with Father’s friends, pasturing the cattle in one of their fields. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

But the engineers also spent time designing strategic rockets under defense contracts, something perhaps less politically correct to advertise: Trident missiles, ICBMs, Minutemen. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

When Grandpa was a younger man, he had spent a hot summer on the mountain, riding the white mare he used for cowboy work. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

I spent the day in turmoil, weighing my options. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

Not for nothing had Julius spent hours with Boots, learning his language, translating it for the princess. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

If she had been home, she might have spent the dark afternoons spinning or sewing, but the mistress bought her woolens and calicoes at the village stores. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

I have just spent most of an afternoon with him. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

Harry spent most of the afternoon in his bedroom; he couldn’t stand watching Aunt Petunia peer out through the net curtains every few seconds, as though there had been a warning about an escaped rhinoceros. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

General Fiallo now begins chatting about the days he spent posted in El Cibao, the beauty of that region, the lovely cathedral in the square. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Those guys might have spent their whole life going back and forth with messages on their heads, like a living piece of notebook paper,” James said. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

Will and Lyra spent every hour together, and for them the two weeks of the voyage passed like the blink of an eyelid. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

It was only an hour and a half from Brisbane, but for a boy whose time away from home had been spent mostly in a hospital, it felt like a whole other world. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

I spent the next day in our room, playing football on mute, at once unable to do nothing and unable to do anything much. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

We spent this day coming down from the basaltic spur that we spent yesterday climbing. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

After molding the bricks, my father spent days in the valley hacking the long-stemmed grasses to be used for roofing, then tied them into round bales. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z

And just after the war I spent two days with them in Chicago. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

She put her glasses on to look at it and spent a long time studying his face on the computer screen. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

She did not return to school that afternoon, but spent the afternoon on her bed crying with rage and trying to understand the terrible information she had received from Calpurnia. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

The rest of the evening was spent in conjecturing how soon he would return Mr. Bennet’s visit, and determining when they should ask him to dinner. Pride and Prejudice 1813-01-28T00:00:00Z

Because he has spent his life grasping at her and coming up with nothing. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

The clothes I’d spent so much time picking out were wrinkled and covered in dust, and strands of my hair had escaped my ponytail and curled out in a thin frizz halo. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

The two spent time together at conventions, but Stone remained unconvinced of a future together. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

Finally, on a whim, I went to the back door of the nearby inn and spent my final penny on a mug of strong beer. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

I huddled back against the chimney and spent the rest of the day drifting in and out of a restless, fevered sleep. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

It says to me that time spent elsewhere is more important than time spent talking to me. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

But I feel like I've spent most of my life wishing for someone else's approval, or relying on their reassurance that I'm living my life the right way. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Mark can do nothing, his strength spent, every part of his body aching and burning. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

“I spent the best part of a year here.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

I spent the rest of the game flipping my focus back and forth between my homework and Miles. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

The degree of difficulty had just gone up, but Shanti hadn’t spent two years under the tutelage of her handler, Mrs. Mirabov, for nothing. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

The room itself wasn’t much to look at, which was fine, because I spent as little time looking at it as possible. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

Nhamo climbed down the fig roots and spent the night in the boat. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

They spent their days in different parts of the manor, and Cook and Penelope did most of the talking at dinner. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

Lately, Rufus spent his time either straightening out his father’s affairs, or sleeping. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

How can you miss a place where you only spent a few days? Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

As it was, she spent the night in one of the guest rooms, paying full price, although Mistress Cutler pretended for a moment that she couldn’t possibly take payment from an old and valued employee. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

“Oh, down to the last copper. And he then went out and spent all of it. Over five hundred thousand gold coins. Gone in three hours.” Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Penelope knew this because she had spent the night in the nursery. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

Hence, he spent most of his time reading in his dismal room, wishing he could play his guitar, walking the three hundred yards to town for groceries—and somehow he just couldn’t begin. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Like I’d spent her recovery wallowing in a toxic waste dump. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

I spent my whole life thinking it ended that way, up until I did this abridgement. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

After lunch it was on to creative writing, where Boobie spent a few minutes playing with a purple plastic gargoyle-looking monster. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

The count spent most of the summer as a guest at Tres Marias. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

We had stayed in a small hotel by the beach and spent most of our time swimming in the ocean. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

Mia spent all afternoon there, until it was time for her shift at the bar. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

They spent the day there, sitting among the boxes and crates. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

My eyes scan this space that suddenly feels like it’s not my own, not the place I’ve spent every night for over a decade. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

I spent a lot of time with your parents. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Constance said, forgetting that Sticky had spent his entire day standing in filth, darkness, and bug swarms. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

Yesterday, we spent the morning and early afternoon in doctor’s offices. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

But I knew how ridiculous that was; three of us had spent the better part of a year accumulating the money. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

And as a shaman, I can discover things in the spirit where I cannot go in the body, and I spent much time in trance, exploring that world. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The rest of the afternoon we spent sight-seeing, riding up and down seesaw hills in cable cars, walking in and out of American stores. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Journeys end in lovers meeting; I have spent an all but sleepless night, I have told lies and made a fool of myself, and the very air tastes like wine. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

They spent the next two hours on the basic rides—the ones Benji would have preferred to skip. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

It seems like five days; it doesn’t seem too long or too short; it seems like I spent the time here that I really spent. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

I was given two weeks to prepare, a period I spent searching for a briefcase and standing before my full-length mirror, repeating the words "Hello, class, my name is Mr. Sedaris." Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

Cole returned to camp and spent the rest of the day carving. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

I spent the last 3 days removing Hull Panel 19 and the front window. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

I spent the entire walk trying to devise an excuse to escape family dinner so I could go to Diego’s barbecue. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

Nearly half the mealtime was spent simply going up and down the staircase, across the mill yard and bridge, down the row of houses—just getting to and from the meal. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

It seemed to him that he had spent his life in a worthless and senseless maimer; he retained nothing vital, nothing in any way precious or worth while. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z

Besides his Hollywood work, he spent time in New York City, teaching drama and producing plays. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

“Thet’s go’n look like Will Tweedy spent half the night on one cot and the rest of it on the other,” said Grandpa. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

The final Olympic trial was not scheduled to begin until 5:00 p.m., so the boys spent most of the day lounging in the Princeton shell house, trying to stay cool. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

During my conversation with Jan, she spent more time comforting me than vice versa. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

He let Harry keep a watch for the carriages, however, and spent the next few minutes craning his neck over the crowd to try and see what Krum and Hermione might be up to. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

Precisely what Booth told Cox on the front porch—and during the next few hours they spent together in the house—remains a mystery. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

We spent all of our time as Fivers together, and we fall instinctively back into the pattern of those days, with me taking point and Helene the rear guard. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

People were still occasionally staring, still wondering, but my rules about how we spent time together had kept things from getting out of hand. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

Then he swung around and, after a long while spent in maneuvering his extremities, managed to sit on the edge of the table. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

After forging the blade, she had spent another three months using Transformation to engrave the weapon, imbuing it with its magical properties. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

We spent the day wandering around the neighborhood, finding restaurants and cafes where we could eat for an affordable price. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

Since we spent so much of the day outside, we were covered in bug bites. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

Charles and I spent every evening together that week. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

An increasing number of people shunned church and went instead to the taverns, where they drank and gambled; too many others spent their free time in theaters which displayed “rope-dancing and other shows.” An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

Wood spent the whole of breakfast urging his team to eat, while touching nothing himself. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

Adam has spent the last ten hours trying to get in to see me, and now that he finally succeeded, he left ten minutes after arriving. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

We spent that week eating fried fish for breakfast and cake for dinner, leaving underwear on the counter, and blasting Ghostface Killah. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

By six o’clock she can no longer distract herself by sealing and stamping the envelopes she’s spent all day addressing. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Dad had found Gat both a decent chess opponent and a willing audience for his boring stories about military history, so they’d spent some time together. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

Remember that time we went to the zoo and you spent a whole hour staring at that special koala exhibit? P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

I’d spent an hour picking out my outfit and even straightened my hair. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

My opponent’s movements were relentless and precise, and I spent the first few waves just trying to evade him. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

It got so bad that I actually spent hours lying on the couch watching Grandma knit, plotting ways to sneak into the kitchen and steal some meat. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

That’s where I spent the day of my grandfather’s funeral, sitting on the dryer with my laptop, trying to lose myself in online games. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

He spent his money on herbs and plant roots and oils to make things like ointments for burns and cuts. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

They were all three of an age with Lord Hoster, men who had spent their lives in her father's service. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

I want her to be able to see behind this body, to see me inside here, to know that it’s the same person she spent an afternoon with on the beach. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

Pa told Big Ma Uncle D spent a lot of time in Fulton Park with the other soldiers who were home from Vietnam. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

He was not compensated in any way for the five months he spent at the maximum-security prison. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

He spent hours communing with them, preening their feathers with a stick while sitting in the dust and gobbling softly at them. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

I don’t know how I spent two hours, it was so awful and boring. Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Me and Dad spent most of our time with her, opening the get-well-soon cards and propping them up on the side table by her bed. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

His first month at camp was spent knocking over rows of weapons, breaking chariots, and tripping entire cohorts as they marched. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

Much of the last year had been spent out- of-doors and on horseback, and now he was always out in the sun and wind. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Since we came up out of the volcano-murk our spirit is not all spent in work and worry, and we talk again in the tent after our dinner. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

The ground is littered with torn food packages, babies’ diapers, empty water bottles and spent cigarettes, dirty tissues, plastic bags. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

What if we got deported and I spent most of my adolescence back in Tehran? Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

Her husband was a pious man who spent most of his days and nights in the house of study. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

It seems odd that women once spent such time and energy reading about such things, thinking about them, worrying about them, writing about them. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

But his face was a wasteland, as if his best years had been spent working in a coal mine. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

He spent more of his youth on horseback than on foot. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Mom, you spent the whole summer renewing your certificate.” The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Mason and Maskelyne formed a solid friendship and spent several happy, and possibly even mildly useful, weeks charting tidal flows. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

I spent the rest of the day vandalizing the interior of the rover. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

In consequence, as Smith later crowed, the hapless Mayflower spent several frigid weeks scouting around Cape Cod for a good place to land, during which time many colonists became sick and died. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

She spent long hours out in the country by herself, spoke little, withdrew completely into herself and went about her tasks with a chill hopelessness that daunted me. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

The men spent a lot of their other time working on their new identities and rehearsing their cover stories. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

Before I left Osage County to return home, I stopped to see Mary Jo Webb, a retired teacher who had spent decades investigating the suspicious death of her grandfather during the Reign of Terror. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

She’d spent a dreadful night in the bathroom making sounds like a sea lion, but now that she was feeling better she was coming to relieve Martina from guard duty. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

She spent the afternoon lounging in the shade of a tree. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

In third grade, he and I spent about a week convincing Alice Evans that velour was a kind of animal fur, and she refused to wear it for the rest of the year. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

He’d spent hours and hours on it, and now it didn’t work. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

They spent almost four dollars on supper at the mall, and none of them had dessert. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

He spent too much time mourning what could have been and questioning what should be. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Part of each day was spent with Adam the yeoman shooting at a mark. The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z

He was taken into custody shortly after Booth was killed and spent seven weeks in the Old Capitol Prison in were all given life sentences for their roles in the assassination conspiracy. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

I hadn't spent the morning preparing for witnesses as I had intended but had instead been drawn into this foolish mistreatment of McMillian's supporters. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

I felt bad that Bertha had spent money to buy another lunch box for me. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

He spent one whole morning . . . 10TH JUROR: He’s a fifteenth assistant, or something. Twelve Angry Men 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Since they were not reconciled, Shin spent just one night with him. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

How much time had he—or was it she?—spent here? Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

Had she spent all this time in the library just waiting for the older man? Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

We spent one Hunger Games watching the players freeze to death at night. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

But I really don’t see how anyone could put much stock in victory or glory after he had spent a winter on Winter, and seen the face of the Ice. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

“But she has spent twenty thousand pounds looking for you.” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

My brother Richard and I often spent whole days on the mountain, so it was likely no one would notice until sundown, when Richard came home for dinner and I didn’t. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

I spent the whole three hours of their last visit gripping my Colt .32 so tightly that four days later my hand is still stiff. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

Park spent most nights lying on his bed because it was the only place she'd never been. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

“Mama! The other goslings didn’t know that warm air rises. So I found an updraft and we spent the afternoon circling around and around and hardly flapped our wings at all!” The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

She flipped it open to the drawing she spent all afternoon working on. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Though I spent more time in A-block early on, I turned into a committed B-block person and eventually bid it myself. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then, his energy totally spent, Cole collapsed to the ground. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

I paused and spent a few moments rolling my tongue around my mouth, trying to bring life back to it. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

I interacted with people on only the most basic, perfunctory levels, and otherwise spent most of my time listening to music. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

They stopped at a house in Middletown and spent the night and part of the day. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was nothing new for my poor sneakers, which had spent the last weeks perpetually brown and moist. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

He tells me stories about the summer, during college, he spent working on the oil rigs in the Gulf of Mexico. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

“There might be some internal bleeding” was the diagnosis, and I spent another night in the hospital. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

They spent days searching the records of every hotel, boardinghouse, and real estate office they could find, “all,” Geyer said, “to no purpose.” The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Even though his mother made sure he spent one weekend out of the month with Mr. Miller, Ms. Byrd rarely spoke of him. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z

He had spent the years after college traveling around Asia, Latin America. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

That time, Dad spent only two nights in jail before he let my mom bail him out. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

Ms. Keen has spent a week teaching us the finer points of stamens and pistils, seedpods and flowers. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

“Well, Fabio, judges, I spent my day digging for grubs in the most disgusting mud you can possibly imagine. Then I helped build a desalination still. Oh, and my shoes are by Cheri of Paris.” Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

I’ve done the calculations and have figured out that from the ages of thirteen to fifteen, I’ve spent about forty-five percent of my life grounded. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

He’s always called me Mama, since he spent most of his first year strapped to my back with a shawl as I washed dishes and made meals and cleaned the apartment. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

We spent some time reminiscing about various persons from the past, or else exchanging any news we had concerning them, and this was, I must say, most enjoyable. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

And thus another hour was spent being measured and pinned, and sitting through a presentation of different fabrics and colors. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

I was shaken by what he had said and I spent a resdess night. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I'd spent the morning competing with the squirrels for nuts and the slightly warmer afternoon wading in shallow ponds harvesting katniss. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

About how, since we only had an apartment, he'd spent all his spare time working at the local community garden, and how it had been named after him. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

I spent the rest of the week between Christmas and New Year’s saying goodbye to all my friends at Westside. Shine! 2019-11-05T00:00:00Z

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

Because he himself was not there, not in the house where we spent our days, had not stopped there. Absalom, Absalom! 1936-01-01T00:00:00Z

Vegas, for his part, seemed not too anxious to mix it up with him and they spent most of the first round fighting at a distance. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

He also often spent up to twelve hours a day in his third-floor office constantly telephoning various parts of the town, county, state, and nation. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

He took his sweet time walking the cart back into the store, relishing the brief moment spent outside before returning to the air-conditioned cold and slight smell of rotting meat and spoiled vegetables of Floyd’s. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

Coach Gaines, who spent almost as much time dealing with parents as he did with the players, had never met her. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Ellsbergs spent long days alone, reading newspapers and watching television. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

I felt the calluses on her palm and fingers from all the time she'd spent weapons training with her mom. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

It was the most rational Thanksgiving he had ever spent, and he took a sacred oath to spend every future Thanksgiving Day in the cloistered shelter of a hospital. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

He visited Holland again in the autumn of 1628, spent the winter of 1628/9 in Paris, then returned to settle in Holland, where he stayed for the next twenty years. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

Harry went to get the Invisibility Cloak out of his trunk right after dinner, and spent the evening sitting on it, waiting for the room to clear. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

His plans, his hopes, everything he’d spent years working for was gone because of that wretched creature. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

“You spent half the money in our house!” Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

I spent a lifetime staring into the mirrors up there. Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z

Unfortunately for Butler, due to millennia spent butting each other, trolls have developed a thick ridge of bone covering their brows. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

He has spent all morning creating something that will be blown away or trampled by tomorrow. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

A woman whose wages she paid, whose rent she had subsidized, whose daughter spent hours and hours under this very roof every single day. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

I spent mine in the soundproof booths of the music wing. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Two days later, Dona Ester Trueba died in the bed of pain where she had spent the final years of her life. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

He spent every summer in Maycomb with his great-aunt, who lived next door to the Finches. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

It didn’t matter how many hours he spent with the hood up and his hands scarred up and blackened with oil. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

He spent his days in bed, gazing up at the stucco ceiling. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

“We spent two nights there, and the second night I kept thinking I could hear someone moving around in the dark and calling out!” Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

I was physically and emotionally wrecked after having just spent an hour scouring the South Col for Andy Harris; the search had left me convinced that he was dead. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

Most of my friends were in band, and most of my free time during school was spent within twenty feet of the band room. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

Virgil could never really tell when Gulliver was sleeping, since his eyes were always open and he spent a lot of time hiding in his plastic tree hut. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

I’d spent the last three days in close quarters with the guy, getting razzed by the other campers and embarrassed a million times a day, constantly reminded that I was related to him. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

He spent fourteen days in jail, was fined ten dollars, and departed from Worcester on another wet November afternoon. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

Raised as an aristocrat, he was dispatched to the academy in Athens at the age of seventeen to study philosophy under Plato and spent two decades there. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

He knew that Zeitoun and the others had spent time in jail. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

I was an almost in second grade after I spent a whole weekend practicing my sounding-out words so I could move up to the red reading group. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z

Those were the times when I got to go outside my neighborhood, outside the world where I spent most of my life. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Company spent that night in the great cavernous hall, huddled close together in a corner to escape the draught: there seemed to be a steady inflow of chill air through the eastern archway. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

“I only spent thirty days in jail. People ask: ‘Do you feel like that’s enough time—for what you did?’ A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

They are super romantic about it—how they spent the summer putting on theater productions in the woods—so I’m kind of not allowed to say how much I hated it. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

Ron had spent all evening giving him advice such as “If he tries to curse you, you’d better dodge it, because I can’t remember how to block them.” Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

The rest of that day they spent scrambling over rocky ground. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

Mr. da Silva had spent a summer in Greece six years before. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

And like in the photo from our day spent at the Kennedy Space Center, my family, including Sir Fig Newton, would be happy again. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

Another day and a night he spent trying to work his way back to the cave and avoid the hunters if they were still about. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

During the Vietnam War, John and Marti Peterson spent three perilous years together in neighboring Laos, where John trained and advised a guerrilla army to fight the communist insurgency there. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

On Christmas, Farmer spent part of the day visiting patients outside the hospital. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

A punishment tour for Clevinger was fifty minutes of a weekend hour spent pacing back and forth before the provost marshal’s building with a ton of an unloaded rifle on his shoulder. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

Ms. Sandnes found hand- me-downs for the other kids and spent most of her budget on me since she knew I wanted the costume so badly. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

So Hunt and his associate spent the night in the liquor cabinet. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Papa and Jonas had gone to a soccer match, and Mother and I had spent the morning shopping. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

After their grease- monkey morning, they spent the better part of an hour sprucing up in the lavatory of the garage. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

Selden supported female suffrage and never charged Anthony for the time he spent working on her case. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

At home in the evenings, my father spent much of his time watching basketball and hockey games on TV, appearing weak and exhausted in his chair. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

She spent that whole summer in Haiti with him. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

Everyone agreed that the pennies were too beautiful to be spent. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

I can’t walk these hallways without remembering the days I spent as a prisoner here, barefoot, pain pulsing inside me every time I moved. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

Dad spent considerable time with us, joining in the songs and all the games except pillow fights, which were illegal. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

That summer was the most time we ever spent together voluntarily. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

I think he felt guilty for leaving me home alone on the weekends, but he’d spent too many years building his habits to break them now. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

They’d spent virtually all their nineteen years on the periphery of various things—families, teams, churches, school cliques—and had developed a profound suspicion of hierarchies, authorities, institutions, bureaucracies, and anything connected with them. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I spent those days making more arrows, and on the third day, with these arrows and my spear, I went out along the trail the wild dogs had made to and from my house. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

He spent afternoons working in the store or reading aloud to Abuelito. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

He had spent the previous eight weeks confined to his room close to twenty-four hours a day and had been denied mental health services despite his repeated requests. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

“He isn’t one of them. He spent all morning crying. I doubt he’ll be after you.” I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

The boys spent a long time putting on the jib. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

But he did start recording every pound he spent in a pocket account book and would continue that practice for the rest of his life. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’ve spent my life observing the universe, mostly in my mind's eye. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

We spent all our spare time with one another. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

They spent the rest of the afternoon playing old video games like Donkey Kong and feeling nostalgic, which as a general statement, I found sad and sweet. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

I find a swing set, which reminds me of my grandpa, and how we spent hours on them at the park. Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

She spent most of her free time with Lenny Shepherd now. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

When one is spent, the other takes up the fight. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

Carrie spent several weeks looking smug and mysterious, rubbing her hand on her belly, before Mr. Avengard, the vice principal, called an assembly to address the entire grade. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

From that day on, I spent more time struggling through Dr. Doolittle. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

Knox was turned away from Manhattan and wound up in Elizabethtown, New Jersey, where he spent two weeks in quarantine. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

Now, she hated everything about it, except the unicorn; and, saddle sore and uncomfortable, she would have even happily spent time away from the unicorn. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

I had spent too many days making it too easy for him. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

I spent that first class trying to concentrate on the lessons, wondering whom I should ask for the best notes to catch up for all the lectures I had missed. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

Ernest had spent weeks stoking himself up to a high level of optimism. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

On top of all that Carl broke his leg in ’36 and spent his time hobbling up and down the rows, chasing after posts or buckets he couldn’t carry on account of his homemade crutches. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

He had not seen them bringing the girl in, but then he hadn't spent the whole day watching that accursed village. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

I spent a while chatting with the Keeper of Documents. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

We basically spent our six months in that apartment ducking under the five clotheslines that crisscrossed the main room and smelling like we lived in a swamp. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

The last time Victarion had spent a night ashore, his dreams had been dark and disturbing and when he woke his mouth was lull of blood. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

I spent a lot of time in the garden. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

The next few days were spent with my parents filling me in on what had happened in the sixteen days between the shooting and our reunion. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

It is the strongest of dwarf urges, a genetic memory born from millennia spent tunneling. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

That was how she spent her first two weeks in the house—exploring the garden and the grounds. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

Composers spent half their lives walking across Germany to work for different archbishops and archdukes. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

Holding to the memory of every touch of his skin against hers, every moment she has spent with him. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

The Howards spent their time sorting through myriad sympathy notes from fans, some of whom enclosed bottles of remedies for the horse. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

I spent the next few months studying the module and memorizing all of its maps and room descriptions, in anticipation of the day I would finally figure out where it was located. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

He was no older than twelve, and his scraped knees, tattered shoes, and windblown hair spoke of a life spent dodging wagons. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

I think she and Patrick spent a lot of time here when Bob was still in high school. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

I spent the whole night shivering with cold. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

I worked the printing presses at the Idisher Kuryer, which rarely delved into politics and spent its page space kvetching about community controversies. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

“If the state spent more time finding new sources of water, instead of fining us for filling our swimming pools,” one woman says, “we wouldn’t be in this position.” Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

“I look at people and I don’t know them. Yesterday, I spent twenty minutes trying to figure out who the grumpy woman sitting beside me was before I realized it was your mother.” We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

“The part I learned from the Torah—that’s only good for today. If we postpone till next Saturday, that means I spent all this time studying the wrong thing!” Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

King Loft men, who also knew tile odds, spent the night dancing, drinking, dicing and telling each other dirty stories. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

He spent hours applying pomantum wax, padding, and lengths of brick- colored hair to fashion a high roll on Madam’s head. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’ve spent all my life defending this family, but nobody ever stops to think what the people will say or that Father Kenneth will call me aside after mass to speak with me.” Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

Franz, a devout Christian, had spent most of his adult life in the army, stationed in Shanghai and Okinawa. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Since we’d been to Penikese, I hadn’t looked to the sea for clues about my past, but on most evenings I still spent an hour atop one hill or another, watching the day go down. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

I spent an entire week bedridden, unable to sit up or sleep. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

They’d spent most of the afternoon gathering supplies for the hunt—water, dried foods, whetting stones for their weapons. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

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

Or husbands who spent all their earnings in toddy bars. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

His parents were both at work, and his little sister, Lily, was at the Childcare Center where she spent her after-school hours. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

Her pain had gotten worse, too, so she spent most of the time either asleep or not making a lot of sense because of the painkillers. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z

The less he worked, the more discouraged he got, and the more discouraged he got, the more time he spent in the bar. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

The boy had spent his short life calling his father “Master.” Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

She could feel it in the heaviness of her limbs and eyelids: The lull had not yet spent its thick gray spell. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

She spent her afternoons with the lion tamers and clowns. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

During the Kansas campaign, Stanton and Anthony spent weeks with Train, and at one point, Train asked Stanton why she and the other suffragists didn’t have a newspaper of their own. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

My father had spent his life working for the Abeona Shelter. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

Or like last year when Dr. King spent a few months in town “stirring up trouble,” as the white folks liked to say. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

This day spent in the construction of earthworks. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

Marvin Stepson, who had spent years researching what had happened to his grandparents, told me, “Kelsie murdered them both, and left my father an orphan.” Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

But mostly, we spent our time in the Spinney or down by the river, where Gram told me fairy tales while she painted. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

We ended each session panting and spent with rage. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

I let go of the door and sink to the floor, spent. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

Finally Lucky said, “So I guess the car’s all right for a while. I just put sixty dollars’ worth of equipment in her and spent all of last Sunday working on her.” Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

We spent the first night of our trek in the hamlet of Phakding, a collection of a half dozen homes and lodges crowded onto a shelf of level ground on a slope above the river. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

Most afternoons were spent making up routines to songs we’d listen to over and over until I could hear every beat in my head like a pulse. Monday's Not Coming 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

They spent the night facing they knew not what and feeling that there was no help for them anywhere except in their own valor. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

That evening we spent most of our run speculating about what Myers would tell us. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

I thought of the money we’d spent trying to make our tent cozy. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

The voting was absolutely free, as Aureliano himself was able to attest since he spent almost the entire day with his father-in-law seeing that no one voted more than once. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

I spent about a fortnight drafting my address, working mainly in my cell in the evenings. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He spent his time reading Jaime’s books, which Blanca brought him on the sly, and listening to the street sounds and to the whisper of the radio, which he kept at the lowest volume. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Take the candle and check the stairwell. Maybe Bri got home last night after the electricity went off and spent the night in the stairwell.” The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

He had leathery skin, curly white hair, and gnarled hands, like he’d spent a lifetime working in a machine shop. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

She’s overdressed for a day spent with toddlers, maybe a bit too professional-looking in her pale yellow skirt and white cotton blouse, her thick, dark brown hair twisted into a low bun. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

It was not easy to gain Americans’ sympathy when you’d spent years cutting off their liquor supply, but articles about a tiny woman bringing gangsters to justice made their departments look like the good guys. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

“Did I ever tell you that I was almost an English teacher? I spent a year studying medieval literature.” We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

He spent some time talking to the sentries and learning how they were organized. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Every minute you spent in the queue was working against your break timé. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

When I woke in the morning, I had spent so much time with Bear’s strange ideas I was in a cross mood, not wishing to deal with him. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

The school had let my third-grade class decorate the book’s front cover that year, and I’d spent the entire past week painstakingly drawing in the elaborate swirls on the cover’s corners. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“Veer, there’s got to be some explanation. He spent a fortune on those. It doesn’t make sense.” Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

Most of his time was spent trying to find ways to amuse himself. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

So many weeks we spent cutting trees, splitting clapboard, tying thatch, making wattle and daub. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

Valentina spent three days in space, making 48 orbits around the Earth. Women in Space 2014-02-01T00:00:00Z

As Louie bent, gasping, over his spent legs, he marveled at the kick that he had forced from his body. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z

I spent my summers at prestigious basketball camps like 5-Star Basketball and Eastern Invitational, camps where college coaches prowl, looking for fresh prospects. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

We spent some hours together, walking on the veld outside town, talking and playing. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I spent all my time there wishing I was here. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

Now that the Cranes had spent years bouncing from state to state, their family adventures were starting to feel...Emily wasn’t sure what the word was to describe it. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

“Some of it, anyway. But that was mostly just because Deen and I spent so much time together. I just happened to be there a lot. It wasn’t extra work for him.” Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

The latest one, come down from Ohio, had spent the better part of a month in Jake’s room before she got the ax. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

“Kristen and I spent the night at Tiffany’s house last night.” Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

After it was determined the stems and seeds were a bust, I spent the rest of my time wondering just how long I had to hang around before politely leaving. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

He took pleasure in recalling with him the most hidden corners of his country, which Aureliano knew as if he had spent much time there. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

“Béene, I spent many years working for the Belgians in the rubber plantation at Coquilhatville, and I saw rich men there. They were always unhappy and had very few children.” The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Is it not Christmas that we are celebrating, eh? The children have never really spent time with one another. Imakwa, my little one, Chima, does not even know Kambili s name.” Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

They were passing a bottle around and their voices sounded spent of strong emotion. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the last chapter, I described how archaeologists have spent the last century pushing back their estimates of when Indians were first present in the Americas. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

He spent a good deal of time alone in his room reading Jules Verne and Edgar Allan Poe and inventing things. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Here I’ve spent the whole summer moping around and missing Georgia, but it’s like someone just flipped a light switch inside of me. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

She’d spent half a day watching Pelor—and while she only pretended to be mediocre, he truly could use the training. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

After that night spent in the hotel, Malcolm X was police-escorted back to O’Hare where he caught a plane to New York City’s Kennedy Airport. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

“See? You know I'm right. Your poor father probably spent the morning chasing chickens and apologizing to neighbors.” Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

They spent so much time together that they did not do their work. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

That afternoon she spent a tedious hour assisting Ana in dressing for dinner, and that evening the house was full of ladies in rich satin gowns and gentlemen wearing plush velvet and shining boots. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

She spent interminable hours staring at the pallid landscape that stretched out before her window. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

He spent a great deal of time making sure that he was smartly dressed for the meal so that his friend would be proud of him. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

Thanks to my time spent with Merriam Webster, I had a few words in mind. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

But Rev. John Luckey, a Protestant minister who spent at least fourteen years as Sing Sing’s second chaplain, saw how it was eclipsed in importance by the character of the guards. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

They managed to make it to Addan, and there they spent a month repairing the hull. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

That night Nat spent with his family, watching the fireworks at the courthouse. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

All summer I have spent every free evening at home, holed up in my room with my laptop and my summer reading looming on my shelves. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

We’d spent six months in Peshawar waiting for the INS to issue our visas. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

My big sister, whom I’ve spent the past fifteen days constantly shoving out of my consciousness like a game of cognitive Whack-A-Mole. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z

The dance we spent the most time working on was the shingaling. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

We spent our four days at camp doing camp things. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

I spent most of the voyage bent double over a puke bucket, bringing up every scrap of food and swallow of brackish water I choked down. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

After the forges, we spent some time at the canoe lake with Annabeth. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

But as soon as Jeremiah took control, he spent most of the season’s profits in the bars of Lilongwe and Kasungu. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z

As a teenager, I spent summer nights coasting around on my bicycle with friends, often well past midnight, miles in every direction. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

“I spent the day dealing with accident reports and insurance forms, rental cars, going back and forth to the hospital....” Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

The three of them got split up coming in and Faith had spent most of the concert looking for the other two. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

He was spent; he had done all he could. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

He spent nearly four months in the bush all told, and during that period he didn’t encounter another living soul. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then I paused and spent a moment staring at my immersion rig. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

I no longer spent all my time playing soccer or fighting in gangs or hunting for money to go to the Bioscope. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Retired, they spent a lot of time with the Vanderbeekers, and Mama and Papa helped them with grocery shopping and keeping track of their doctors’ appointments and medicines. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

She spent the rest of that day scrubbing steps inside the Wailing Tower. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

I'd spent my life trying to avoid trouble, staying away from confrontation, but he was threatening my parents. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

I spent the whole week thinking about Maylene, wanting to make her Valentine’s Day as memorable as I could. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

“That man kept me prisoner while he spent a lot of time and effort digging up that island. What for, otherwise?” Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

Magdalys had spent the first twenty minutes of the play trying to get rid of the creepy sensation that Magistrate Riker was still glaring at her from somewhere in the shadows. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

Boys spent slightly more time than girls, and minorities slightly more than whites. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

She spent all day long sitting in the river splashing down the summer rain. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

And he spent the rest of his money on paper and ink so he could take notes on what worked and what didn’t. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

I spent the little free time I had reading Walt Whitman’s Leaves of Grass and memorizing a poem for English and keeping up with current events by reading the daily newspaper for my history class. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

That’s how we spent our day preparing for the New York State Standardized Achievement Tests. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

Surgery and hospitalization account for six months of that year; the remainder he spent recuperating in the forest home, near Bellingham, of a young Indian logger and fisherman. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then Ivy and Taryn spent the evening eating thick broccoli and cheddar soup out of Mr. Bishop’s homemade sourdough bread bowls and trying on dresses for the Spring Dance in Taryn’s huge room. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

He had wanted to be buried at Down, too, in the village where he had spent most of his life. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

“He spent a lifetime at hard work and never could make enough money to even send my sister and me through college. He’s dead now, so you might as well keep it.” Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

He had told us that he spent time in a detention center in Reno for shoplifting and vandalizing cars. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Henry wasn’t around much, because he spent most of his time working and trying to launch a political career. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

We had spent two weeks in Cange, and in the midst of them had taken a quick trip to visit the church group in South Carolina that funded Père Lafontant’s projects. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

Most of his time had been spent with a ragtag band of dirty-faced boys who carried out whatever schemes they could to survive. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

Repeated appeals to the church authorities failed to resolve the situation, but took up time that Kepler might have spent on his planetary work. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

Also, I saw only one pair of trousers actually completed during the time that I spent there, although the factory workers were shambling about clutching all sorts of scraps of cloth. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sometimes, if we’d spent the whole day flying about the valley, delivering herbs and doing prenatal exams, Mother would use that money to take me and Audrey out to eat. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

I spent three days in that valley and I saw a lot of chimps. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

He spent a lot of time with the Haudenosaunee, whose insistence on personal liberty fascinated him. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Joseph and Rose Kennedy spent their 1914 honeymoon in room 145 of the hotel. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

When Joe tired of this, Harry spent a long evening in the company shop constructing a go-cart. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Matt, who spent much time by El Patron’s bed these days, said, “They’re very beautiful.” The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

We’d pulled over beside a big empty field, so we jumped over the ditch and spent a few minutes rubbing our hands together and watching our breaths rise. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had spent a long time the night before trying to find what the keys lit. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

But, as she had told Feral, she’d spent her vengeance years ago. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

I thought about all the people I knew who spent many of their waking hours feeling sorry for themselves. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

I have spent so many hours of my life trying to brush out tangles. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

He laughs at all the King Arturo jokes I spent extra time getting right for him. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

Then Jaime helped her to her feet, put her coat around her shoulders, and led her by the arm to the waiting room, where Nicolas had spent the night sleeping in a chair. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

The hour or so after I woke up was my least favorite part of each day, because I spent it in the real world. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

Showers after gym had been mandatory in middle school, and I’d spent years perfecting how to be naked for the least amount of time. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

My uncle Velile, my mom’s younger brother, lived with my grandmother, but he spent most of his time at the local tavern getting into fights. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Never mind that we spent entire winters flying kites, running kites. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

And Cassie, who spent the day at her temple filling up water bottles for the elderly. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

Bigwig spent most of the hours of daylight watching for Kehaar’s return. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Though we had already spent most of the day snacking, it was still a pretty awesome announcement, and we all were shocked by it. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

Without even waiting to see if he’d hit the man, though certain he had not, the agent triggered open the chamber, bapped out the spent shells, and quietly, almost calmly, reloaded the gun. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

We don’t talk much after what happened the first Christmas we spent in apartment 404. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

We spent a large part of Christmas Eve day making sure that everyone was well scrubbed—no small undertaking, as it meant heating a huge amount of water. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

The Wife in my posting before this had spent most of her time in her bedroom; the Marthas said she drank. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

Irked at me, he jumped up and down a couple of times, ran a lap around the open space, and finally, spent, plopped down beside me. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

Once they arrived, they spent several weeks sightseeing before they were joined by some of the others in the American delegation to the World Anti-Slavery Convention. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

The extra day is spent in interviews and grueling dress rehearsals. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

For an outlaw who spent his time pillaging merchant ships and taking the survivors as galley slaves, he was impossibly clean. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

Barred by her gender from joining William in France, she instead had spent her time dealing with Fabyan and then her father. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

They had spent most of it out on the ice, shivering beside a pair of holes they’d cut in the smaller of the frozen lakes, with fishing lines clutched in mitten-clumsy hands. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The sheep spent the whole day there browsing at the leaves under Squealer’s supervision. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z

Kojo was a science geek who spent a lot of time streaming detective shows. The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z