Ishmael knew his father had come to logging with a romantic’s sense of grandeur, viewing it at first as grandly heroic, in keeping with the spirit of manifest destiny. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

My mom would always say, “My job is to feed your body, feed your spirit, and feed your mind.” Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

In such places my spirit lifted to the sight of the drifts of white clover or the clouds of purple vetch with here and there the flaming cup of a wood lily. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

Hensleigh was not the only one in their circle captivated by spirits and ghosts. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

A man with these gifts was rich and was a great spirit who was admired in the same way that the gussaks admired a man with money and goods. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Such comfort as there is to be had must come from her own spirit.” Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

He ordered Tallmadge to set up a spy ring that would provide such important secrets as the size and location of British military supplies and “the health and spirits of the army, navy and City.” George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Not that pie in the sky stuff, not a preference for optimism over pessimism, but rather “an orientation of the spirit.” Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

In the pulse of her blood and spirit was a cadence of panic. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Ridgeway loved his father, but the man’s constant talk of spirits reminded him of his own lack of purpose. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

They gazed at him affectionately and it was plain to see that he was their great spirit, a royal leader who held his group together with love and wisdom. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

“And you have my same spirit, Ibtihaj. You just keep moving forward and don’t take any mess from anyone who tries to tell you different.” Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

If Levittown was the epicenter of postwar suburban optimism, my parents were exemplars and beneficiaries of its spirit. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

The peaceful scene was almost enough to lift Leo’s spirits. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

In spite of the feeling of dread that had just swept through him, his spirits could not help but lift at the sight of it. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

“Another reason I thought you were a wilderness spirit.” Paradise on Fire 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

If she attended to it closely, once it was gone she would know something a little extra, as though she’d overheard two spirits talking. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

They come from nowhere, made by the heat of hell, they carry with them the evil spirit of a devil, they lift sand and papers in their path. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

My mother used to tell me how hot things restore the spirit and health. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

His breath smelt strong of whisky and he was in tearing spirits, waving his shillelagh. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

All we people in there try to touch through the spirit One man I always see swinging machete is leading the service, singing with eyes dosed, calling down the spirit. Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

The old ones feared Ged not because they thought him a spirit, and not because he was a wizard, but only because he was a man. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

Her blood and spirit were coursing fast and her shoulder was hot as though from Lazlo’s real breath. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

“He tells people to wait, so his spies can find out their secrets. Then he pretends the spirits told him everything. It’s all lies.” A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

"And yes, the cake has spirits, but all the alcohol has burned off. I ordered it specially in honor of your fiery debut." The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

Sometimes, she would link fingers with a spirit to understand what it was that they needed, even if it was just for someone to remember who they had once been. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

“You have a powerful spirit protecting you. It’s always there watching. It takes care of you so that nothing bad can happen. You need not be afraid.” When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

Holmes and the Williams sisters waited hours for their turn to board one of the northbound trains, but the wait did nothing to dampen their spirits. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Not even the inevitable end to my ride—when I crashed to the pavement, gashing my forehead—dampened my spirits or my enthusiasm. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

It read: And destroy all the spirits of the reprobate and the children of the Watchers, because they have wronged mankind. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

I put fresh flowers in the vases and platters of fruit on all the tables, as Clara had in the days of the spirits, and the air filled with their fragrance. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was surrounded by the forces of night, heard but not seen: the gibbering of coyotes and the howling of wolves and the screaming of owls, which were said to carry an evil spirit. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

They had kept going forward until not just their bodies were worn out but their spirits. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

But her mama only stared at the fireplace, rocking slowly back and forth, her eyes blank and still as though her spirit had gone away and left the body there rocking on and on. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

But Mami was not one to take chances with our natural high spirits and tendency to ignore what she told us the minute she turned her back. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

And he had kept the letter of his promise: he had fed him and clothed him and taught him the Bible—but the spirit was not there. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

Indeed, his increased persistence of late may even be my employer's way of urging me all the more to respond in a like-minded spirit. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

Accept, therefore, Your Magnificence, this little gift in the spirit that I send it. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z

At last, my spirit was descending into flesh, and there was more, not less, of me to praise God. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

But none of her injuries compared with the wounds to her spirit. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

She was just about to gulp the spirit gratefully down when, suddenly, a warning note—like an alarm bell—sounded in her brain. And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z

The spirits’ song had become laughter, or some joyful hymn, and the shadows swooped and dove along beside her. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

I could already feel my spirits starting to rise. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

Sander's spirits were not dampened in the least. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

She had a gentle spirit that smiled at him and made him want to protect her from brutes like Jordan. Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Nothing in his past seemed to hint at a spirit of reform. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I thank Papa Legba, and Ezili-Danto, and God, and all my other spirit guides who have yet to reveal themselves to me, and I fall into a deep sleep. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

“Great spirit,” the chief of the priests wails, “ghostly Destroyer, defend the people of Scyld and kill their enemy, the terrible world-rim-walker!” Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

He shouted, waved his cap, encouraged their cheers, and fired his men with the kind of spirit that they showed here at Antietam. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

Another spirit, a woman with a large headwrap, leaned forward on her cane. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

To hell with my vanity, my spirit, my old age. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

She was not endowed with, or old enough to possess, such independence of spirit. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

“Today this place is full of noise and happiness. The guiding spirit of the General stands over us Like a great tree: let all who are afraid Take shelter under his mighty shadow!” The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

For all of them the days were filled with hard labor, with little enough to satisfy the hunger of their minds and spirits. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

‘Pride goeth before destruction, and an haughty spirit before a fall. ’ Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Francis Poulenc neatly summed up the prevailing French ambivalence towards Wagner by saying that, after listening to him, it was necessary to cleanse one’s spirit and ears by listening to Mozart. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

A shave was a wandering spirit who entered you and taught you a special skill. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

Surely his spirit was one of the many that had come. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

In traditional medicine ‘spirits’ did the work in the body that we would attribute to electrical impulses travelling along the nerves; these spirits were, we might say, barely material. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

The following morning they received honorary doctor of science degrees for their pioneering spirit. Women in Space 2014-02-01T00:00:00Z

“Smiles aren’t beautiful because of teeth. Smiles are beautiful because of a person’s spirit.” I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

That night they sang to keep their spirits up, and when they grew tired of harangues, discussions, and songs, they settled into little groups to get through the night as best they could. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“If we fail, think how great it will be for you, gloating over our spirits when we die in agony. You’ll get to say ‘I told you so’ for eternity.” The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

I go to confession and they hiss that I’m not in a proper spirit of repentance, that if I were I’d give up this hideous sin. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

Sure enough, every so often, out of the corner of her eye, Reyna would spot glowing white spirits in Roman clothes flitting among the ruins, frowning at the statue in consternation. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

“But Teccam claims that out of all the spirits, only wine is suited to reminiscence. He said a good wine allows clarity and focus, while still allowing a bit of comforting coloration of the memory.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Conditioned by the earlier hard days, refreshed by the days at the park, both their muscles and spirits were in good tone. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

These Orgota have not the wits nor size of spirit to fear what is truly and immensely strange. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

Gradually, one after the other, the spirits that attended the Masks took up residence. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

She would imagine the air in Herat crackling with merriness, and high- spirited, bright-eyed people showering each other with endearments and goodwill. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

“Everything they do is with one eye to the spirit. When they plant their yams and manioc, they’re praying. When they harvest, they’re praying. Even when they conceive their children, I think they’re praying.” The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

They could not climb the tree or pluck the fruit because it was taboo; udala belonged to the spirits. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

They began descending in a slow spin toward the shore, the shadow spirits forming a graceful entourage. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

A hundred demigods fanned out around her, with twice that many satyrs and nature spirits led by Grover Underwood. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

As the fish goes through, its spirit enters the gate and bursts out of one of the ornaments — changing the fish into the form of a flying dragon! Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

Herr Thiessen enjoys this immensely, being surrounded by kindred spirits from all over Europe, and occasionally even farther, who will discuss the circus endlessly. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

“An evil spirit could have slipped in through an open window!” The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

Maybe the roses were a token from the Virgencita, a small light in her otherwise gloomy existence, a gift to brighten her spirits. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

Hazel had seen her that way many times, pretending to talk to spirits for her clients—but not ever when she was by herself. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

They talked about weird Ultimate terminology, like “hammers” and “spirit of the game” and “flicks.” P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

I did this not in anger, but in the spirit of release. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

The spirit happily accepts the money and stuffs it into a jar. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

She was a part of the image somehow, and she knew that when it was finished, the bond between her and the colorful, towering figure would literally be sealed by spirit. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

She guessed she was hearing hundreds of years of parties and celebrations that had been held at this shrine in ancient times, as if the memories had been freed along with the spirits. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Those who harmed seagulls risked the wrath of ship ghosts, for gulls were inhabited by the spirits of men who had been lost at sea in accidents. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

More than merely tall, his tower was grace frozen in iron, as much an evocation of the spirit of the age as Chartres had been in its time. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Stockvels had such a spirit of community to them that they were always well attended. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

He clapped the other on top of it and then, holding both pieces together with the tongs, held the whole thing over the flame of the spirit lamp. Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

They say that the dream world is closest to the spirit world, that to know your dreams is to know the past, the present, and the future. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

“But a chalk spirit could never stand up to one of those demon haints, Sierra.” Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

Voices of spirits whispered in his ears: Help us. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

There was a smell of warm food and the liquid spirits Dustfinger used in his fiery games, but no black-clad man could be seen anywhere, except for the bored-looking waiter who was straightening the chairs. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

“The magic is stronger if you draw it yourself. Because you’re like, more connected to your own picture, and the spirits grow strong off that connection.” Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

Invisible wind spirits —aurae—waited on the campers and seemed to know exactly what everyone wanted. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

It be like their spirits are inside you, remaking you into something better and bolder every time you say their names, read their poems, learn their legacy. Watch Us Rise 2019-02-12T00:00:00Z

“What?” said Harry, feeling his spirits slip a further few notches. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

He felt as though his blood and spirit had both ceased to circulate, and the breath in his lungs, too. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

They had brought over the fritter and drink stands from the Street of the Turks and the people were in good spirits as they bore the tedium of waiting and the scorching sun. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

Ever the independent spirit, Mary eschewed the traditional all-white bridal gown for a shorter white dress with black sequins, topped off with black gloves, black pumps, and a red rose corsage. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

Being out of the hospital perked up Bobby’s spirits for a while, and he began to feel better, even going to a movie with Sverrisson’s twenty-year-old son, a professional soccer player. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

I still saw the print in my textbooks as a red blur, still saw my baby brothers spirit strung together by narrow lines of blood. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

She was like a captive spirit, peeking out. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Christmas spirit—generosity, forgiveness, goodwill toward men—ran pretty much counter to what we were supposed to be doing. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

For Ultima, even the plants had a spirit, and before I dug she made me speak to the plant and tell it why we pulled it from its home in the earth. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Don’t say such things or the spirits will hear,” Chou warns me. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

More broadly, she can “teach to the test,” basing her lesson plans on questions from past years’ exams, which isn’t considered cheating but may well violate the spirit of the test. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

“I made friends with him during our fight at the Wolf House. He’s a free spirit, literally, but once in a while he agrees to help me.” The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

“You, like Ema, have a pure spirit. You have blessed energy centers and true balance. You are a protector. You look out for others. You are their shelter.” Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

“You have to happen to it. Remember: The spirit grows sluggish when you neglect the passions.” Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

That night in my dreams, I again visited the heart of my huaca, my spirit rock. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

Her spirit, her passion, her youth, her courage, her willfulness — I felt all of these things the moment I first saw her. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was feeling a new heresy coming over him, possibly as a result of the spirits, and it had something to do with the celibacy of the clergy. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Sometimes spirit die,” Amari replied quietly while she stirred the pot on the fire. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

If the truth were to be known, anyone with a pot and a fire would try to make gold, drawing spirit from their veins, or stealing it from others. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Downstairs, I was permitted a brief good-bye to Winnie, and on this occasion she was not at all grim; she was in high spirits and shed no tears. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

And you know there are forces out there that want to crush your spirit even as it expands like a gas filling all available space. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

After delivering a spirited defense of her husband's right to make judicial appointments before he left office, Abigail launched a frontal attack on Jefferson’s character. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

“Telling you wouldn’t really be in the spirit of the exercise, Marlene,” he says coolly. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

She wasn’t sure what it meant, anyway; and everyone seemed in such better spirits this morning, she didn’t want to ruin the mood. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

He apparently reasoned that if you could make fine spirits from common corn and the lowly potato, why not the princely pecan? The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

When she and Robert stepped into Tonie’s boat, with the red lateen sail, misty spirit forms were prowling in the shadows and among the reeds, and upon the water were phantom ships, speeding to cover. The Awakening 1899-04-22T00:00:00Z

He was there many years, thinking, meditating, singing his strange songs, listening to the birds, learning from peasant women how to heal sickness with grasses and herbs, to write amulets, to drive out evil spirits. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

I was worried that her spirit was watching me every time I cried. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

The spirit and soul are the body and brain, which are destructible—that is precisely why they are so precious. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

“Get—” The spirits of the dead began shimmering dangerously bright, and Nico had to take up the chant again to keep them at bay. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

Sigurd grabbed the domovoi, his giant fist squeezing the house spirit hard enough for Anya to hear a squelch and a crunch. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

Even the endless rain that had replaced the snow couldn’t dampen his spirits. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

The warring love and hatred—love for his people and hatred for the oppressors of his people—that left him exhausted and sick in spirit. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

He was in high spirits as we carried the furniture out to our wagon. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Not that St. John harboured a spirit of unchristian vindictiveness—not that he would have injured a hair of my head, if it had been fully in his power to do so. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

I say with a coy little jerk and a leer, to keep my spirits up. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

She looked down at the tobacco, touched it lovingly, and asked the spirits for protection against the cold. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

His family was a part of him, not only in blood, but in spirit. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

In the spirit of mock inquisition, we called the subject the “victim.” Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

Since Dobrynya’s promise to bring Papa home, Mama had been in better spirits on most days. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

We called one of the boys Ateermadang, which is the name of a spirit that the boy said dwelt inside him. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was mournful, indeed, to witness the subjugation of that vigorous spirit to a corporeal infirmity. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

He realized he had to raise the young women’s spirits—he couldn’t let their grief affect their work. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

She lay on her bunk thinking of that savage mighty bear, and the careless way he drank his fiery spirit, and the loneliness of him in his dirty lean-to. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

It had been the school’s first, but this was its one hundred and sixty-third Winter Session, and the forces reassembled for it scattered the easygoing summer spirit like so many fallen leaves. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

During the ceremony, he would be possessed by Goré’s spirit and would list the things it required to leave Nhamo’s family in peace. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

I read, I saw, how the white man never has gone among the non-white peoples bearing the Cross in the true manner and spirit of Christ’s teachings—meek, humble, and Christ-like. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Someone dead whose spirit was trapped and couldn’t get away. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I didn’t really see a spirit leopard! It was a trick of the light.” A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

The spirit of the Defiance Campaign continued in the eastern Cape long after it vanished elsewhere, and ANC members there seized on the M-Plan as a way of continuing to defy the government. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He ceased, and I replied: ‘Unhappy spirit, I promise you the barrow and the burial.’ The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

"The king went to Baelor's to get the High Septon's blessing. Now he's walking the walls with the Hand, telling the men to be brave, lifting their spirits as it were." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

The spirit world would never speak to such an ugly girl, no matter how hard or long I listened. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

The sharpened cane I used when I thought an evil spirit was chasing me and Jay. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

“Haint” was the word Gran had used in her stories to mean ghosts, or spirits of people and things that hadn’t moved on. from our world to the next. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

She moved through the trees as quickly as a wood spirit. The Whipping Boy 1986-04-01T00:00:00Z

A few minor gods and nature spirits had tried to stop Kronos. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

She led Frank through a crowd of spirits to a grove of black poplar trees. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

And when she died, her remains were to be burnt in the prison yard, to prevent her spirit from wandering into any young innocent bodies. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

This one had a lot of men and some strange-sounding spirits and a female called Miranda, who I remembered Kat saying was a dishrag. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You should run for student council next year. I could use a tenacious spirit on my team.” The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

The blooming trees and flowers of spring lifted Garfield's spirits, and he enjoyed taking his horse on rides by the Potomac River. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

One day he would find his spirit, his father told him. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

It was the shortest night of the year, the only night when, for one breathless moment at dawn, the barriers between this world and the spirit world were bridged. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

With its soaring steeples, stained glass windows and chiming bells, it was a way more mainstream affair than the little white clapboard number that had spirited Stan away. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

“The spirit of Minos sits in judgment—” “I will take what comes,” he said. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

“Let him try and climb the Master Oak. The spirit of the Great Hunter will protect us.” Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

Reyna stared at the cairn of rocks, her eyes full of torment, as if more unwelcome spirits might emerge from the grave. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

By the evening a kind of holiday spirit prevailed. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

“May his spirit haunt you, Basta!” he said in a solemn voice. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

I knew that the ghetto people knew that I never left the ghetto in spirit, and I never left it physically any more than I had to. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Abbouds did not believe in the devil, except the devilish spirit inside people doing bad things. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

We many of us had escaped, and so, upon the town’s falling, we would be conveyed to our former masters—at which thought, my spirits froze, thinking upon Mr. Sharpe and his devices. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

Moving in this spirit body took time for me to get right, even though I was eager for this new freedom. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

Could it be that Robbie had escaped somehow and sent a spirit to help them? Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

Michael Varus had told him that the spirits here were sustained by their strongest desires. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

His spirited horse pranced nervously and tossed its head from side to side. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

He thought about what he believed and where he believed Cool Papa’s spirit went. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z

She was on friendly terms—so far—with the spirit world, but she found its presence frightening. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“But the spirits will get there first, to help them. Now, Sierra, m’ija, please. Let me see your hand.” Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

They were the true spirit mediums of the city. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

“At least he’ll bring a little order to matters of the spirit,” she said. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

His neck ballooned as the spirits of battle went down his throat. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

The air of the moors, the freedom of home, the dawn of prosperity, acted on Diana and Mary’s spirits like some life-giving elixir: they were gay from morning till noon, and from noon till night. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

The spirits swirled faster around them, flitted this way and that through the darkening sky. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

If her grandfather had been there, he might have told her that a peaceable spirit was the reward of charity. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

Big Ma thought Bible school was “working on” Fern and that Fern had caught the spirit. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

We had never worn the red panties that Ma had bought for us over the years to keep our dead father’s spirit away. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

My mother liked my father’s quiet sense of humor and that he had an entrepreneurial spirit. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

The great rolling wheel of Red’s life had swung upward again, and he could not suppress his high spirits. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Privately, however, the impending visit of this nobleman, upon which hung so many of the house’s fortunes, depressed 03-01’s spirits as much as it agitated his nerves. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

The spirits call me to come to them so they can take possession of my body. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Still, I remembered too well the strange green mist—the spirit of the Oracle—that lived inside the mummy. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

Bobby saved the game with his fighting spirit, and his creative capacity was restored. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

The skin around the old spirit’s eyes creased as she blinked away sparkling tears. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

Some of the lake spirits thought the Roman guys were so hot that they, too, wanted to leave for Camp Jupiter. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

“That’s the spirit. You remember that house show we went to in July?” Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

“I don’t know if it was Beyond. But it was somewhere, somewhere different and filled with spirit.” The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

It was Schirach’s job to educate Hitler Youth in the spirit of National Socialism. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

Quiet as a shadow, she flitted across the middle bai-ley, around the Tower of Dread, and through the empty mews, where people said the spirits of dead falcons stirred the air with ghostly wings. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

The important thing is to let your spirit yell out. Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

My spirit was as beat as my body was tired. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

In the darkness, I see spirits shaking the trees, letting me know they are waiting for me. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Colonel Aureliano Buendía did not show any sign of anger, but his spirit only calmed down when his bodyguard had sacked the widow’s house and reduced it to ashes. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

If I can make it clear that I’m still defying the Capitol right up to the end, the Capitol will have killed me...but not my spirit. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

Her pulse was frantic, her breathing ragged, and it seemed impossible that people could live at all with such flimsy stuff as skin keeping blood, breath, and spirit safe inside their bodies. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Long nights staying up late figuring out new ways to channel spirits together. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

James was in high spirits after school on Monday as well. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

Stories about ancestral spirits and tribal totems were strong enough to enable 500 people to trade seashells, celebrate the odd festival, and join forces to wipe out a Neanderthal band, but no more than that. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

My spirits fall at the sickly sweet scent. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

His spirit rose flying and released him from fear and bitterness and rancid memories. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

At the thought of spirits, Nhamo lay down in the boat and covered herself with as much of the dress-cloth as possible. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

She sagged as if all her spirit had bled out, and Kasusu dropped from her limp fingers. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

“Why don’t we all try to make the spirit of Thanksgiving last year round?” my father suggests, retrieving his towel and shaking it out. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

She was close to the spirit world, and everyone respected her for it. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

To the west, the Demeter cabin and Grovers nature spirits had turned Sixth Avenue into a jungle that was hampering a squadron of Kronos s demigods. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

“He’s a spirit, and this is his home. You leave him alone.” Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

“My Aunt Rose says that the reason spirits don’t pass on to the afterlife is because they’ve got unfinished business. I think yours is finding out who killed you, and why.” Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

This was not boasting—it was a declaration of equality rooted not in better angels or the intangible spirit but in the sanctity of the black body. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

“If you spill salt, you have to throw some over your left shoulder to appease the evil spirits. No big deal.” A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

The spirit- ridden men writhed as though stricken with disease. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

Jagged torn place in their spirits that lets the small flying agonies pass in and out. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

It didn’t occur to me until later that dwelling in the realm of the spirits could bring danger, especially to an ugly girl in a time when the rains didn’t come. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

They enjoyed him very much for his charm and high spirits as well as for his forthrightness and openness. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Emma was not at this time in a state of spirits to care really about Mr. Frank Churchill’s not coming, except as a disappointment at Randalls. Emma 1815-12-23T00:00:00Z

If there was a spirit occupying the attic, it was cold and angry, and the incident with the haint on the trolley was still fresh in Ophie’s mind. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

I didn’t know that if a girl broke your heart, another girl, virtuous at least in spirit, could mend it on the same night. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

“A golden plover, the spirit of the birds? Where did you hear that?” Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her body became perfectly limp as the spirit of Goré left her. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

These eidolons acted a lot like the spirits in her dad’s stories. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

The Masks whirled in panic as their spirits abandoned them. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

Some of the marks were made by the spirits, some were made by humans; others were drawn by a giant race of people who had lived on earth in the old days and had disappeared. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

As has been widely noted, this spirit has consequences both positive and negative. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

She missed dinners in the mess hall, with wind spirits whisking platters through the air and legionnaires joking about the war games. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Once again, ma’am, I’m asking merely in a spirit of friendly enquiry.” The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

All her powers, all the frontier guards of her spirit, were being called in and concentrated at the citadel of her heart “This is Elaine.” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

We would be pitiable creatures indeed to be so weak, for is not a man’s spirit given to him to rise above his misfortunes? Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

“And because a mural is generally gonna be a higher quality of work. Gives the spirit more to play with.” Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

“No doubt of it; it is nothing serious; he is nervous, his spirits must be kept up. Come, set to work.” Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

The spirit has whispered to me the truth about my daughter, Mother wrote. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

But despite the cramp, its great charm, magnified by Odile’s decorative sense, gave it a cheerful, if not playful, spirit. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

Ama’s eyes glittered widely in the gloom, and her hands were moving together in a repetitive gesture of finger on thumb, finger on thumb, to ward off danger by confusing the evil spirits. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

Nhamo’s spirit had to be kept very busy to keep her from losing her temper. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

The spirit forgot the concept of time—I mean, the spirit hit Pastor Eldridge hard. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

Crowded with out-of-work fishermen, the dark, low-ceilinged room smelled of river water and spirits. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

“We actually don’t have one. A Story Box is an important icon of our history, and we haven’t yet hit on just the right combination of materials and spirit to build one with yet.” Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

For all Jason knew, he’d been slipping off to practice raising spirits with Diocletian’s scepter, then sparring with them. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

“He was a muramwiwa, a child whose mother had thrown him away. His ancestral spirits might have brought us trouble.” The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

This child carries the spirit of my mother, Amari realized suddenly, as well as the essence of her father, little Kwasi, the murdered people of her village, and the spirits of all of her ancestors. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

His students’ engagement in theater taps into their souls and spirits. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

White arranged for Agent Wren and another member of his team to spirit Burkhart out of the state and guard him until the trial. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

A slender spirit with a thick mustache waves us over to his table. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

The witch doctor offered the diagnosis: appeasement of the spirits through sacrificing a white chicken twice a year. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

The earliest theoretical attempts to describe and explain the universe involved the idea that events and natural phenomena were controlled by spirits with human emotions who acted in a very humanlike and unpredictable manner. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

They will, I know, accept it in the true and warmhearted spirit in which it is offered. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Indeed, it did seem as though the longer she lived in the city the more spirits she saw. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

Reverend Hunt is in good spirits for the wedding, but he has been feeling poorly off and on for months now. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

Everybody else learned it later, when Clara died and the house lost its flowers, its nomadic friends, and its playful spirits and entered into an era of decline. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

I should have taken my tobacco out right then and offered it up to the good spirits. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

So on that day, Wu Tsing, fearful of my mother’s vengeful spirit, wore the coarsest of white cotton mourning clothes. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

The ancestor balanced his weapon, feeling how it became part of his arm, and he touched the ndoro to send a prayer to the spirit world— “You fool!” roared the She Elephant down the tunnel. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

“My baby is facing the Robes. My son. And Ethyne—whom you cared for as a daughter! It will break her spirit.” The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

Even after the leaves were finished, the fiftieth the twin of the first, and all made with supreme and loving care, his spirits continued to soar. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

Even if she feared the worst, she stayed positive, lifting his spirits when they sagged. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

It was terrible indeed when the trench was dug and filled with blood and the spirits of the dead flocked to it. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

Work was heavy that fall with two hands short, and there was a heaviness, too, that weighed down upon the spirits of those who worked. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

His dream of Tyson had lifted his spirits. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

Spread to the horizon was an army of monsters—flocks of winged arai, tribes of lumbering Cyclopes, clusters of floating evil spirits. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

She hoped the water would lift her spirits, but it’s doing the opposite. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

We sang at the top of our lungs, and it kept our spirits high. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Again the owl sang; Ultima’s spirit bathed me with its strong resolution. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

The thought of seeing Denna was the only thing that had the potential to raise my spirits a little. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Looking over my shoulder to see Mr. Henderson wiping the latch with spirits before he closed the door. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

Because it’s on your head—the highest part of your body and closest to the skies—many Africans viewed it as a passageway for spirits to the soul, a way to interact with God. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

It is possible that in spite of Octavia’s generous and gentle spirit, Mark Antony had never stopped thinking about Cleopatra. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z

In fact, she thought as her spirits lifted, this year it might be rather nice. Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

“But this. This is a chance of a lifetime, guys. I don’t want your spirits to get all tamped down like...” I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

The filth, stink, and bleakness of the camp crushed his spirit. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

My charms crack not, my spirits obey, and Time Goes upright with his carriage. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

“I pray God to give us dry weather soon, for this is misery. I have never seen such depression of spirits as there is in the tent.” Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

But her spirit goes into the mirror, and the next time the pretty one is brushing her hair in front of that mirror, she looks up and there’s the burned one looking back at her. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Frodo’s spirits had risen for a while after his escape, and after food and a draught of the cordial; but now a deep uneasiness, growing to dread, crept over him again. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

“Three months and three days,” she says with a certainty that makes me wonder why she would know this, how she would know this, unless she was a regular visitor of the spirit world herself. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

“Doctors say they never heard of another case like Henrietta’s! I’m sure it was either man-made or spirit- made, one of the two.” The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

And even now, you are still afraid to dream because you know that you will never be able to do what they say, as they say it, the old spirits that live in your blood. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

Let me tell you, this did not put me in a happy holiday spirit. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

It comes for no reason or from a geography of the spirit that is an untracked and foreign land. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

He stood and I could see the travail of his spirit in how he took off his glasses and kept polishing them as if they’d never come clean. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“And, for thou wast a spirit too delicate/To act her earthy and abhorr’d commands ... /she did confine thee. . . into a cloven pine—” he whispered, and Meg recognized Mrs Who’s words to him. A Wrinkle in Time 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

And Adam, like anyone in the world, feared what whipping would do to his body and his spirit. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

They talk about her as though she is not even in the room, as if she is as insubstantial as their beloved spirits. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Sometimes these spirits have been more real to me than people, more real than God. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

Ambudrones began to descend from above, grasping his victims and spiriting them away to the nearest revival center. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

Normal people didn’t talk to water spirits, only ngangas did—or witches. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had high animal spirits, and a sort of natural self-consequence, which the attentions of the officers, to whom her uncle’s good dinners and her own easy manners recommended her, had increased into assurance. Pride and Prejudice 1813-01-28T00:00:00Z

“Can you call the spirits of the dead to come to you, too?” A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

For one thing, my moustache, however sparse, was all mine; it hadn’t been put on with spirit gum. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

Does this mean all that drivel about the Augurs being possessed by spirits of the dead is true? An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

The spirit winked before flipping their bright gold hair over one shoulder. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Others in the Oneida commune regarded him as moody, swinging from spirited to sullen within minutes. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

It was a huaca, a special stone that contained spirit powers. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

A group of babalawos tried apanaldo, an exorcism, and thought they had trapped an evil spirit in the rooster they buried in a knotted cloth. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was said to have the strongest of spirit powers. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

Jefferson would oversee and orchestrate this campaign and provide its rhetorical foundation, which enjoyed a privileged association with the spirit of ’76. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

He started chanting faster, and the spirits shifted restlessly. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

A fly outfit will put me in the birthday and pageant spirit. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

Unlike Grandfather’s stories, which quieted the warring spirits within her with the softness of moonlight or the lyric timbre of a lone flute, Mrs. Rappaport’s speech thrilled her like sunlight and trumpets. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z

I think a part of his spirit was left down in that cold, dark place. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

What bitterness was behind this I do not know, or what condemnation of his powerlessness to feed his children; but this I do know: his spirit was very strong, and he was an upright man. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

This was precisely the neutral foreign policy that both Washington and Adams had been urging for a decade and that Jefferson had condemned as a betrayal of the spirit of ’76. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

“I thought the glass of water was to keep evil spirits away,” I said. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

Though the fuss about Bunny had mostly blown over, the college had still not returned quite to normal—and not at all in the new “Dragnet” spirit of drug enforcement which had spread across campus. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Then she cried out with spirit, “A farmer’s wife am I not, be you what you like!” The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

From the minute they enter the house Pupo can tell by the way the old Haitian woman acts that this is a stronghold of something, call it arms, call it spirits, call it money. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

Perhaps not everyone is that way, but there is a widespread generosity of spirit. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

Possessed by the spirits of the girls, can you imagine! In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was, however, the property of the Portuguese spirit. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

But the prayer was mesmerizing; she had felt sure nobody’s spirit could possibly be broken now. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

It was a gift, to have the spirits speak with me in such a manner. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

Changing the venue was also an attempt to crush our spirits by separating us from our natural supporters. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Peace came to the mothers, with the knowledge that at last their children’s spirits were at rest. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

It made Nhamo’s spirit happy to see the old woman nod her head in time to the music. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

The transition from spirit to body and back to spirit again is merely a venture. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

I press through like I am battling a series of strong waves to where the breath is—without wondering how a hallucination/ghost/spirit/lost soul can even have breath. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

She couldn’t get but so close to most of them in spirit. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

“Just before he died, I promised Jim that, in his absence, I would do everything I could to protect the spirit and integrity of his contest. That’s why I’m here.” Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

How could he even see the house spirit? Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

In a spirit of contrition for multiple sins, I decide to devote the weekend to detox. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

I have found that one can bear the unbearable if one can keep one’s spirits strong even when one’s body is being tested. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I worked with heaviness inside, with my spirit emptied out. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

As Harry passed the library, Percy Weasley strolled out of it, looking in far better spirits than last time they’d met. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

She ran into the room next door to bring some spirits or other with which she could revive her mother from her fainting spell. The Metamorphosis 1915-01-01T00:00:00Z

Salt spirits or no salt spirits, I need all the luck I can get today. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

“His spirit name. It means Demon Vengeance in a European language.” Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

“The spirits of this world—they don’t stay dead for long.” King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z

It was good to see him in such high spirits again and to hear him hooting with laughter. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

But it was too late to stop the first spirit. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

This revolutionary spirit is even breaking out in social studies class. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

Caroline took some with a great deal of giggling about what would happen if anyone found out he had smuggled spirits onto our very dry little island. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

“One could not describe Obasanjo as a good man, but it must be conceded that he has done some good things in the country; there is a flourishing spirit of entrepreneurship,” he said. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Her “indomitable spirit helped me climb up out of a psychological morass that was pretty deep and distressing,” he later told their son. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

“When I wrote that letter,” replied Darcy, “I believed myself perfectly calm and cool, but I am since convinced that it was written in a dreadful bitterness of spirit.” Pride and Prejudice 1813-01-28T00:00:00Z

Even here, in the presence of his teacher's spirit, Pong felt those old words of the Governor hissing in his ear. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

“I didn’t start World War Three. I just got possessed by an evil spirit. That’s a relief!” The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

“I know most gunters cling to the absurd notion that IOI is evil. And that the Sixers are ruthless corporate drones with no honor and no respect for the ‘true spirit’ of the contest. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

He had that spirit of some kid in a movie who creates a master plan to get his parents to fall in love again. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

But, of course, it was my body, hungering, biding its time against the tyranny of my spirit. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sierra could hear the spirits still humming their sacred harmonies, calling out her brand-new name. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

That night for the first time in my life I realized that it is the physical presence of people and their spirits that gives a town life. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

“As though any man ever walked up to another and offered the spirit from his veins. But I couldn’t imagine what motive you could have, so I almost believed it.” Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

So we made a show of good spirits, and after carefully observing the town and the tents, we descended into the valley and entered Cajamarca. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

A few of the gentlemen, I noticed, were drinking spirits, and one or two, despite the presence of the two ladies, had started to smoke. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

Christmas spirit was definitely thin on the ground in the Gryffindor common room that morning. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

Both of us were spared, in body at least, by the stone walls of our different imprisonments, and altered in spirit, in ways we’re struggling to understand. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some of the students who had been around the school longer, and had caught the full spirit of the end-of-the-year festivities, hugged and kissed and shook hands with each other; some even cried. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

With a sickening twist in my stomach, I remembered what Annabeth had said about Cyclopes, They’re the children of nature spirits and gods . The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

“Do as you will, friend; do as you will. There can be no horror like this ever any more;” and he groaned in spirit. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

She ran toward the businessman but dissipated into sparkles before she reached him, and the older spirit didn’t seem to realize she had even been there. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

She attacks each chord with vigor, like the spirit done took over her whole body. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

The high spirits with which we left Pretoria had been snuffed out by its stern atmosphere; we were face to face with the realization that our life would be unredeemably grim. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

All these years, I had sat with her, the spirit that had changed me from Beautiful Round Face to the Ugly One. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

Or it may well be that they’re resting happily in China, their spirits dispersed among the real Chinese, and not nudging me at all with their poles. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

My friends and I were in high spirits because exams were finally over and our class was about to go on our first field trip in years. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

I don’t move to do either, for I have no spirit for the jobs. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

I could not shake the almost desperate sadness all this evoked, and I marveled that sounds could so degrade the spirit. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

When she’d tagged more than a dozen trunks, she doubled back, the spirits still storming along with her in long strides. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

They were trying to kill the mhondoro, the spirit of the land. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

James was in high spirits after school on Monday as well. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

They went abreast and in step, to keep up their spirits. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

And between, how many times, I thought, bleak of spirit, while her husband in his impotence and I in my innocence did nothing. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I shall honor the spirit of the moon with her own meal, since she will be keeping me company. It is only fair.” Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

“It is the body that is old. Sometimes I am afraid I will break off a finger as one breaks a stick of chalk. And the spirit is no older and not much wiser.” A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

The spirit mediums in the villages did that, although the ones in the city had dropped the custom. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

Despite the best efforts of grammatical exorcists, the ghosts of dead rules and the spirits of imaginary taboos are still rattling and thumping about the old place. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ophie could not imagine such a vibrant spirit wanting to remain in such a dreary old house otherwise. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

The band closed with spirited renditions of two colored songs Cora recognized, which proved the most popular of the night. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

“A toadstool in a dream is an important message from the spirits, New Voice. They are telling you that someone special to you will be making a sacred journey soon.” The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

“Is it spirits, Mother? Do you talk to spirits? Are you asking them in or asking them out?” The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“He was just exhausted, he was depressed, he was just in very poor spirits.” Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

Eventually you reach a height where you can see the tops of the topmost trees, with nothing but clear sky beyond, and your faltering spirit stirs—nearly there now!—but this is a pitiless deception. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

These midwestern programs have been conducted in a spirit of crisis, as though the advance of the beetle presented an extreme peril justifying any means to combat it. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

I knew that the spirit of the dead hovers about for a time, and the swooping dove seemed very like Hari. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

For better and worse, though, this spirit is widely identified as one of the Americas’ great gifts to the world. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

She whispered a spell to keep the milk from spoiling and tried to ignore the degree to which the spell drained her energies and spirits. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

Under the punishment inflicted by the Council his mercurial spirit had fallen low and he had become the apathetic wretch the sight of whom had so much shocked Bigwig. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Austin taught Fuller to take on the upper class in the black community with the same zeal and uncompromising spirit that he used in confronting the white power structure. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

And so the legend grew of a mysterious group of enchanters who spirited children away. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

I grew up on stories of holy men parting the river Bistrița, golems shaped from clay, and, of course, those possessive spirits called dybbukim. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

Illnesses, bad luck and unemployment were caused by witchcraft, and only the timely intervention by my ancestral spirits—through a powerful witch doctor as an intermediary—could relieve anyone of such suffering. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

He turned and absented himself from the chamber, his body betraying signs of considerable inward turmoil of spirits in his irregularity of movement. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

The proclamation also stated that the union leaders, with great patriotic spirit, had reduced their demands to two points: a reform of medical services and the building of latrines in the living quarters. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

The spirit was roused by the sight of his enemies. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

Her desolation was pathetic as she sat with her tempestuous, proud, lovely head bowed, her shoulders sagging, her spirit melting. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

It wasn’t that the dreams scared me, but failing the spirits yet again with my forgetfulness was unsettling. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

“He always had a dirty face and a mischievous spirit.” Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

“You are to study with the great Paqo? Such an honor! How did this happen? What spirits smile upon us to bring such good fortune?” The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

But I decide, in the spirit of caution and inquiry, to attend the Wal-Mart orientation anyway. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

“But if she’s a cloud spirit, couldn’t she just...you know, float away?” The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

And now here the spirit was, once more, just when Ophie was talking to the dead regularly. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

She seemed an occult figure, more spirit than human. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

What kicked off the Rum War was Prohibition, America’s ban on alcohol, which cut off the nation’s supply of wine, beer, and spirits. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Visitors keep one’s spirits up in prison, and the absence of them can be disheartening. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“So you see, your mother was able to protect you from the spirit leopard.” A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

I remembered all too well how bothersome bad spirits were, even dangerous. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

Now her brother’s friend, Paul Marshall, might believe that the flowers had simply been dropped in the vase in the same carefree spirit with which they had been picked. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

“From what Robbie said, the shadows are spirits wandering around, and then a shadowshaper comes and gives them a form, yeah?” Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

That the spirit of the Lord cannot dwell in an unclean vessel, and that no vessel is clean when it forsakes God and relies on man. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Then, like all dreamers, I was possessed of a sudden with supernatural powers and passed like a spirit through the barrier before me. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

“I give you a witch with hair like spider legs, and you give me a kindly spirit that helps you do hard things?” Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

I knew I had to act with her because she was attracting flies and I was keeping her spirit from moving on. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

Emma could not have desired a more spirited rejection of Mr. Martin’s prose. Emma 1815-12-23T00:00:00Z

It instilled a spirit of defiance and radicalism among the people, broke the fear of prison, and boosted the popularity and influence of the NIC and TIC. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Lyra could smell the tang of the raw spirits that splashed out. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

That was all very well, Grandmother said, but everyone knew the wife’s spirit wouldn’t be satisfied. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

You’d think there was nothing else but the private debates of my flesh and spirit going on, the way I’ve left out the rest of my life. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

This vindictiveness was urged on by men in high places who resented the President’s spirit of clemency as violently as they resented the tenacity of the South. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

That must have confused the spirits, because they momentarily stopped hacking at the bars. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Then he told me about spirits in Lacks Town that sometimes visited people’s houses and caused disease. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

Frightful sensed she was among people who shared Sam’s spirit. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

The sharp wind flowed under and around me in a glorious rush, blowing away all sorrows from my spirit. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

“Noah, the spirits aren’t going to come if you keep interrupting. I’m not going to say who. ” I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

The spirit world was thus a blurred zone between the material and the immaterial. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

“To the spirit of Christmas and to the glory of God.” Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

Usually cruelty inspired Ruth May no end, and I was just desperate to help her get her spirits back. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

If Robbie could make it to that window and have a few seconds of safety to touch the mural, he could ignite the whole thing with spirit. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

Ebullient spirits prevailed during the evening meal at the Green Door. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

He was not assuaged by the more charitable opinion of his superior, Rutherford, who was delighted with Lawrence’s spirit in defending his results. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

The Paqo slowly began teaching me the ways of the herbs and spirits to heal the people. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

“That’s what you get for not honoring the spirit of Buzz’s gift by working things out with each other,” Mom said. Liar, Liar 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ben asked, directing his attention away from his parents who were beginning to lose themselves in the spirit of their impromptu and somehow nakedly sensual dance. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the Dark Ages my parents would have sent for an exorcist, because I was clearly possessed by evil spirits, or maybe even the Devil himself. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

His eyes had a dull sheen—like his spirit was being slowly extinguished. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Nigerians, Ugandans, Kenyans, Ghanaians, South Africans, Tanzanians, Zimbabweans, one Congolese, and one Guinean sat around eating, talking, fueling spirits, and their different accents formed meshes of solacing sounds. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

The thing that worried Tendai most was the almost certain presence of dead spirits in the room. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

As she sat talking to her child’s spirit, someone else almost always came near, added their tobacco, said a few words of comfort, and passed on to their own grieving. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

Then, as Mother watched, his high spirits faded and he began to fall to pieces. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

In spirit, at the boundary wall between death and life, it had waited for him these long years. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

He was like me—a kindred spirit crazy enough to keep on trying. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

If she was locked in the Tower of the Hand, guarded by the dwarf's men, how would Ser Dontos ever spirit her away to freedom? A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

By making a picture of an animal they meant to bring the animal itself within their grasp, and in “killing” the image they thought they had killed the animal’s vital spirit. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

“But there’s food for the body and food for the spirit. And Shiloh sure enough feeds our spirit.” Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was something almost religious about that room, as though it contained a spirit that belonged only to Mr. Pignati, and it was best left alone. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

“Are there good ghosts, Aunt Rose? Are there haints and spirits that aren’t bad? Like how there are good and bad people?” Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

Harry’s spirits couldn’t help but lift slightly as he watched Fleur hurry back across the lawns to Madame Maxime, her silvery hair rippling in the sunlight. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

Somehow all the spirit in me has bin gone ever since. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

“This goes beyond the disappearance of your children. They are only the means by which alien spirits intend to conquer us. The Masks are involved and probably the Gondwannans, too.” The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

His rebellious spirit made him violate all the taboos and consequently he always oscillated between moods of intense elation and depression. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

“He thinks there’s a spirit in it, and he’s been a trying to conjure it out. But that’s where it is.” The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

“Is it true that you were also acquainted with a certain cat which the widow entertained as a familiar spirit?” The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

And this woman was the first spirit that was dressed up, wearing a fancy hat filled with feathers and sparkles and a dress that looked similar to Clara’s, a brilliant shade of peacock blue. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

In bed that evening, Miyax’s spirit was stirred by the seeding grass and the restless birds and she could not sleep. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Every cell of her body begged to let go, but the battle-hungry spirits inside of her were not about to quit. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

I could walk right up to her and ask if she really did—if she saw the spirit of that woman. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

"You have no soul. No poetry of the spirit." City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

If Clara’s spirit was trapped at Daffodil Manor, it made sense that she had been killed there, possibly by someone who lived there. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

His spirits and strength lifted with the momentary warmth and he stood. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

He wondered if spirits jumped from body to body because their old body was in the ground. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z

It is known that a spirit is poor at counting but loves to count anyhow. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

Above them, the spirits began pulsing gently as Sierra took a deep breath and closed her eyes. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

Lady Catherine observed, after dinner, that Miss Bennet seemed out of spirits, and immediately accounting for it herself, by supposing that she did not like to go home again so soon, she added: Pride and Prejudice 1813-01-28T00:00:00Z

For the most part, the Olympic spirit prevailed among them, and many new friendships had emerged during the three weeks that they had lived and competed in Germany. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

He retched again and again, until his stomach felt as empty as his spirit. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

“What I notice in a majority of these is a sense of easy camaraderie. As if your spirits are already friends.” When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

“Now the spirits can enter the bodies of the newborn seals and keep them safe until we harvest them again.” Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

The warmth and welcome resurrected her good spirits. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

The lightning steed had apparently returned to wherever storm spirits live on clear days. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

He told her coldly that he had always known how uncontrolled her spirit was. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

“But we don’t deprive you people of the ‘pleasures of the spirit,’ ” he said. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

The only sounds came from the band, not spirited or militaristic, but an almost mournful wail. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

After some spirited bargaining, I gave her the loden-stone and a single talent in order to wipe out my extremely short term loan of twenty talents. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

But I just kept thinking that my sister’s spirit hadn’t been killed. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

“The spirit of witchcraft is leaving me! Protect me! Don’t let it come back!” The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

He was indeed a lowly wolf—a poor spirit, with fears and without friends. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

The verdict returned by the jury would be taken in a spirit of justice, and, in any event, he would have the courtroom cleared at the slightest disturbance. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z

In that moment, my spirits rallied against him — stifled — agitated — vexed and bound—and I discovered dislike even for he who commanded so much of my reverence; I could not brook his slander upon learning. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

“Mr. Jackson, my hair is me showing school spirit. I thought that would be appreciated.” The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

And so we were bom in the spirit of the vengeful Lord, no longer His lambs. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

On my side of the room, two inmates caught the spirit of this incident and utterly ignored my warnings to take only the allowed amount of juice. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“There’s more than one kind of spirit,” said Lyra reprovingly. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

They too passed away, but, unlike the gold race, their spirits did not live on after them. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her spirits were not particularly lowered by these commonplace reflections. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Put your spirit inside here, he said, here quick, blow in this hole. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

He himself had, although he had always had the consoling spirit of his father, idealized, frozen in joyful childhood memories. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

In April, Theo acknowledges to another sister, Lies, that he’s been ill, “particularly in my spirit, and have had a great struggle with myself.” Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

“She is innocent, my Elizabeth,” said I, “and that shall be proved; fear nothing, but let your spirits be cheered by the assurance of her acquittal.” Frankenstein 1818-01-01T00:00:00Z

For friendships acquired by a price and not by greatness and nobility of spirit are purchased but are not owned, and at the proper time cannot be spent. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z

“And the shadow spirit goes through the shadowshaper into the form, yeah?” Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

The joy and freedom of the church Christmas doings kept my spirit up for the entire weekend. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

He skewered a fourth, then willed his javelin to shrink back to a sword and hacked through another group of spirits. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Normally, a visit of any kind lifted our spirits but the visit of Mr. Hynning was demoralizing. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I touch her to make sure she's real and not some dark spirit. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

Our spirits slowly went up, for if Pauling had found a really exciting answer the secret could not be kept long. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

Those small victories put the spirit back into the American fight. I Survived the American Revolution, 1776 2017-08-01T00:00:00Z

“The credit given to Mr. Adams for a spirit of conciliation towards France is wonderful,” Madison observed caustically, meaning that it was wholly undeserved. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

As I sat on my rock, the spirit within calmed me, told me all was well. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

Then he hooked his finger and yanked it down, and all the tools ripped off the walls and shot straight for the house spirit. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

As the days passed and the mice stayed healthy, our spirits rose, and finally, on August 10, 1969, the flight of Apollo 11 ended and we were released to the world. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

I met with student representatives to the delegate assembly and tried getting everyone involved in promoting school spirit. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

The mask rolled into space with the spirit snarling after it. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

The old men called this weather spirit summer, and said it meant the season was giving up its ghosts at last. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

“These people have come to me, a son of an nganga, and want to be told who killed their relatives. Was it a mudzimu, a family spirit?” he asked. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

But I came from a spirit even stronger, and L lived. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Lemures or Larvae were the spirits of the wicked dead and were greatly feared. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You could pass it on to someone, but doing that was like passing on evil, or bad luck, or a bad spirit—the transmission also reflected God's will.” 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

I studied Tica with my hands and my heart, listening to the spirits around us and the new life growing inside her. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

She took a deep breath, tried to picture a spirit moving through her, exhaled, and slapped her hand onto the chalk drawing. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

“He also gives us daily bread to nourish our bodies, that we may have strength for our work in the world,” I say, feeling a contentious spirit rise in me. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

High spirits came hard in the haze of the Butt Room. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

She liked to talk aloud when she was alone, just in case any spirits were listening. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

It is a curious contrast to the martial spirit of the Aeneid. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

Everybody liked her because she took care of her people and tried to keep their spirits up. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

“It is spirit of Japan. No, ‘spirit’ not right word. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

“We must cleanse our spirits for their coming. We must forgo shifgrethor, forbid all acts of vengeance, and unite together without envy as brothers of one Hearth.” The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

It was massive, bulkier than the spirits in the club, and its shimmering darkness seemed to churn endlessly like black lava. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

Happy, thoughtful times there in the old study which Jo called ‘the church of one member’, and from which she came with fresh courage, recovered cheerfulness, and a more submissive spirit. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Possible. The boy has some spirit. Indenture him to me for fifty years.” Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

The wandering boy’s spirits were already so low. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

Finally, the leader scratched his chin—so spirits itched?—and gestured at the diviner standing nearby. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

“But she died. I saw her spirit a few times in the Underworld, except that the last time I went down there...” The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

Martials believe that supernatural power comes from spirits of the dead and that only the Augurs are possessed by such spirits. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

“She’s the only one not looking at the camera—which gives you a sense that there’s something outside the frame. Is she a rebel? Or does this hint at the whole family’s spirit?” Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Come, holy spirit, Come, holy spirit, Lord bless us, Us, your children. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

When a wind spirit disintegrates, it creates a vacuum. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

“But also remember what I told you about the kiai: it’s a spirit yell, so actually, it can be any word. Try ‘hey.’ Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

There were few engagements with the enemy at that time—the rebels, we suspected, had little powder and less spirit—so the most numerous deaths were from distempers and disorders. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

It had some effect on Uncle Andrew, for Digory could hear him saying, “A spirited gel, sir. It’s a pity about her temper, but a dem fine woman all the same, a dem fine woman.” The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z

They understood things of the spirit in Japan. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

How can my spirits ever be down when I enjoy the fond attentions of such wonderful ladies. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

She still had no idea how to get Clara out of Penelope’s body, but maybe if she could solve Clara’s murder, then she could help the spirit pass on, releasing Penelope from the possession. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

One with a spirit lamp, the other with a flashlight. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was a simple problem with this strategy of establishing the existence of the spirit world by accumulating testimonies from reliable witnesses. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

But she seemed afflicted with the same malady that depressed Gertrude’s spirits. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

Ruby had once asked her in a spirit of commiseration. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

For the next sixty minutes, the two teams played spirited, aggressive hockey. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

“But let us not waste time while the spirits grow stronger. Gabriel, I want you to erect a platform here.” Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

We had somehow caught the spirit of the role of our sex and we flocked together for common moral schooling. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe it was the Halloween spirit, but the word had started spreading almost as soon as Zach and I had begun passing the flyers around the school. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

Papá’s slow, painful abandonment had wounded us deeply at first, but we had managed to get beyond it by telling ourselves we were free spirits and nothing could ever destroy us. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

My spirit plunged back into my body like jumping into a cold lake. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

“Be your real friend, not just a restless spirit. Take you to the movies and buy you ice cream.” Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

She had no idea what it was doing here, but Hermes delivered all sorts of useful stuff to gods, spirits, and even demigods. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Nothing grows or lives on the mountain; the land around it is hard and the water of the river is dark because Jade Dragons sad spirit is still there. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

While it was wonderfully satisfying to see a sturdy structure arise from the ashes, literally, what had lifted my spirits most was seeing all the Vida folks come out. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

The dance was a gavotte, too spirited for talk. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

As before, I felt excited that I would finally meet the spirit that dwelled within. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

Countless cheeses, breads, vegetables, sweets, waterfalls of wine, and streams of spirits that flicker with flames. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

“In spirit world. Maybe he in spirit world. Already I say too much. Say no more now.” The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was new to them, but they did not need to be told that it was good and it raised their spirits. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Fires in Karhide are to warm the spirit not the flesh. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

The Cantabrigians might have spent long hours carving wooden statues of their guardian spirits, whereas the Oxonians may have worshipped through dance. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were shimmering forms of spirits, too, as if the dead had risen from Hades to watch the batde. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

“You know yourself, Mrs. Dowdel, boys will be boys. They’s high- spirited. They’ll settle down in time and all be good Christian men. Their maw and I have set them a good example.” A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

As much as those shades wanted to keep Thanatos chained, they were Roman spirits. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

“I don’t believe in all that spirit talk,” Polly said quietly. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I don’t know what it means. I’d never try to harness the spirits of the dead. I’m no witch, Elias, I swear—” “I know that, Hel.” An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

President Harry S. Truman, Stimson observed with relief, accepted his new responsibility “with the same fine spirit that Senator Truman had shown before in accepting our refusal to inform him.” Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

Like an obelisk towards which the principal streets of a town converge, the strong will of a proud spirit stands prominent and commanding in the middle of the art of war. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

So, when she looks down the aisle during this part, it's because she wants to see me and Maddy catch the spirit. Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z

“What enormous arms you have,” remarked the Wart, watching him stir the spirits with a spoon. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You said some people believe that spirits can come back on Halloween, right?” How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

With a lack of team spirit, some Wolverettes maintained that I possessed no coordination whatsoever. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

I learn more than I would ever like to learn about ghosts and spirits and demons. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

But such a belief is contrary to the deepest conviction of the human spirit, that good is stronger than evil. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

Farid saw other ghosts and spirits, too, whole armies of them: malignant, all-powerful beings who tore the hearts out of poor mortal boys and ate them. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

Her great-aunt had already warned her away from interacting with the spirits, after all, and the incident on the trolley had been a harsh lesson besides. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

Liyana did not think her uncle’s spirit was angry with them for being on his hill. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

A taste for the miniature was one aspect of an orderly spirit. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

This is Christmas spirit in its purest form. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

The very basic core of a man's living spirit is his passion for adventure. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Like that Cherokee hunter who changed into a serpent, all demigods had their share of bad spirits inside. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

His spirits rose a bit at the hope that maybe something within those devices would shed some light on what they should do. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

Empty spirit jugs were half buried in the mud around her. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

The older girl entered so fully into the spirit of her own aloof compliance that she felt beyond reproach. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Other families from the massacre were on the plane with us, and people were in good spirits, if a little discombobulated. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

Moss laughed, and it filled his spirit with a joy he’d not felt in a long time. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

So what if the spirits hear us call their names? Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Suddenly the young people of South Africa were fired with the spirit of protest and rebellion. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Asked to state what he believed caused the strike, Mink “testified that the cause...was simple—-the infection of ‘the Bolshevik spirit’ among the ‘foreigners.’ 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

“Can you trust me with such flatterers?—Does my vain spirit ever tell me I am wrong?” Emma 1815-12-23T00:00:00Z

When we set up an ambush at the tipple gate, the miners going on shift got into the spirit of things, whooping and returning our imaginary fire. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

Connor dodged an ogre club and stabbed a grain spirit, which exploded in a cloud of wheat. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

She loved the spirited discussions and provocative debates. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

“The tradition never would’ve survived. He grew so stubborn in his old age, your abuelo. So hardened. So I came here; the ocean is a sanctuary for all ancestral spirits.” Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

The Department for the Regulation and Control of Magical Creatures gives classifications to all known beasts, beings and spirits. Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dressed in a long billowing gown that accentuated her pregnancy and a white hooded shawl, she looked almost like a spirit to Amari. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

But after a time their hearts and spirit rose high again, and their voices rang out in mirth and laughter. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

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

“Those open paths had an old-fashioned elegance to them. It is part of an old and fading spirit of community. Blocking them off is an unfriendly and antipublic thing to do.” Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

Here and there they sat under the trees, lost in meditation or engaged in spirited talk. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z

Looking for a seat in a space as small as the church we go to, and with just as much noise, but none of the spirit. Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z

It was as though she were possessed by some evil spirit. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

The big mesa is to this day regarded as an apu, an ancient spirit transfigured into rock. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

“We don’t particularly relate to the spirits, if that’s what you mean.” Confessions of a Murder Suspect 2012-09-24T00:00:00Z

There is a sort of poverty of the spirit which stands in glaring contrast to our scientific and technological abundance. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Sigurd managed to keep his grip on Anya while he swung at the house spirit. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

“Mother, how will my spirit return to the village if my body is at the bottom of the lake?” she asked. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

This is not good: Dapir isn’t swift like my sister, though she has the same brave spirit. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

His spirits drooped suddenly a moment later, and he ran his hand nervously over his short, black, graying curls. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

Her spirits were greatly improved by the fact that all the hair had gone from her face and her eyes were turning slowly back to brown. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

He focuses on the exhibit of Vincent's work, which gives him purpose, keeps up his spirits. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Rare is the human spirit that remains buoyant in a holocaust. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

“You believe in spirits,” Miss Joe says, “but do you believe in guardian angels?” Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

“I’ll die out here. My spirit will be trapped forever with those ugly animals watching me. I wish I’d never left home!” A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

The child was still in high spirits, and blackbird Ben was helping Pantalaimon fly as high as he could, which was not quite high enough to reach the lowest branches of a light-bearing tree. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

I had no idea such school spirit could exist. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

I thought it would mean “spirited,” but in Italian it means “humorous or playful.” Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

“You probably liked letting me make a perfect idiot of myself,” she said with a flash of her old spirit. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

As we drive, the desolation around us makes it hard to keep spirits up. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

If you hump away at menial jobs 360-plus days a year, does some kind of repetitive injury of the spirit set in? Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Mummy Ola! Bingo can see spirits. When he barks at night it means he sees spirits.” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

I will use this sharp pain to penetrate my daughter’s tough skin and cut her tiger spirit loose. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

As they sailed, Frank kept her spirits up by telling her silly jokes— Why did the Minotaur cross the road? The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

We did not believe in voodoo spirits, and informed each other of that fact till we were blue in the face. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

One of those spirit babies, aleld, as the country people say. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

And so the spirits left Union Station as Ophie’s train left Washington, DC. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

“Back then, many superstitious people believed that you got sick because of evil spirits,” Grandpa says. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

Then there was Minerva with her restless mind and her rebellious spirit. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Each of the myriad swirling spirits inside her spoke the words too. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

She opened Popo’s mouth, already too tight from trying to keep her spirit in. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

He saw in Lanre a great darkness and a troubled spirit. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

No words can tell the agitation of my spirits occasioned by merely the thought of throwing open that portal and beholding the secrets of the gloomy closet within. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

It was as though the cholera had wrung everything out of the villagers’ bodies and found nothing left to attack except their spirits. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were three tortured spirits led by three women who drove them with whips. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had never beheld a plover so closely and now understood why Kapugen had called them “the spirit of the birds.” Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

The spirit of George Washington Carver hangs strongly over the campus—a quiet, almost hauntingly quiet area of trees and grass. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was a regular mortal teenager—not a demigod—but for reasons Jason never understood, the spirit of Delphi had chosen her as its host. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

“You have no power over me. I am the lord of spirits! The ghost king!” The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

Here he came against the outer edge of what Cecilia called his generous spirit. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

The shadowshapers’ mythology revolves around an archetypal spirit named Lucera, who apparently vanished mysteriously a few months back, not long after I entered the fold. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

“It is almost seventy years old and preserved in spirits of wine. I am afraid it will disintegrate if we remove it.” The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

The woman twirled like an air spirit and sat down at their table. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

“I must go to meet with the other shamans. It is time to find out what we have done to displease the spirits. The paqos must join powers to talk with the other world.” The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

She knew that a woman named Helena was there, watching the spirit leave her infant, who had been born too soon. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The spraying would continue until his spirit was broken. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

It echoed from all directions, as if Mo's spirit surrounded me. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

He’d tell his mother he was sick, but there was noise rising up into his room, noise that had nothing to do with his grandfather’s roaming spirit. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z

Later, Doc told me that Gran’s breathing into the doll gave it some of her spirit, and it would be a way she could be with me even after she was gone. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

I believe in the spirit world about as not at all as the next person. How I Live Now 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

The malevolent spirits of the unburied roamed at will seeking mischief they could do. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

Vera drank a little of the spirit The colour came back to her face. And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z

Evidently, you could shatter Annette’s arm, but you couldn’t break her spirit. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Directly in front of them, dressed in white jersies and forming a little protective phalanx, were the Pepettes, a select group of senior girls who made up the school spirit squad. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

“If the servants hear noise, they’ll think the ghosts are back,” Alba said, and she told him of the glorious past of visiting spirits and flying tables in the big house on the comer. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’d had no idea it took such effort being a spirit conjurer. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

“Tuiereol. I came by the spirit of my body, years ago.” The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

“No. Potamus. A river god. According to this, he’s the spirit of some river in Greece.” The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

When work ended for the day he wandered through the scorching streets, blind and deaf to the spirit of holiday already sweeping the crowds around him. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

She was a free spirit who would go on to spend years moving between Hawaii and Indonesia. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Father’s spirit medium needed a drum to go into a trance. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

Voices whispered all around me—spirits of the dead. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

He was made up of the dreams and memories of the Shona people, but he was also the spirit of Zimbabwe. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

When Sam thought of water even his hopeful spirit quailed. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

In the spirit of honesty, then, I must inform you that Mig was the tiniest bit lazy And, too, she was not the sharpest knife in the drawer. The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z

I willingly gave up my chi, the spirit that caused me so much pain. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

In a spirit of friendship he summoned all ‘beings’ to meet with the wizards at a summit to discuss new magical laws and found to his intense dismay that he had miscalculated. Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was no space and they had no spirit for it. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

Soon two hulking masses of spirit stood on either side of Wick. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

Those humble replicas of the revelry of former times served to show Aureliano Segundo himself how much his spirits had declined and to what a degree his skill as a masterful carouser had dried up. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

Anyway, she hadn’t seen a single shadow spirit since they’d entered the Tower, and what good were her ’shaping skills with nothing to ’shape? Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

When Arthur came to lunch he looked quite grieved when he saw me, and I hadn’t the spirit to try to be cheerful. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

“Mrs. Camels,” by which I presently understood he meant Camilla, “she have five pound fur to buy rushlights to put her in spirits when she wake up in the night.” Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z

I did not plan it in a spirit of recklessness nor because I have any love of violence. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

She took his cold hands in hers, and she insisted, “She cannot be. I have felt her spirit alive. I know I have.” Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was, he warned, “the first symptom of a spirit which must either be killed or will kill the constitution of the United States.” Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

Or perhaps she had already asked them of her cards or the spirits. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Banning not only confines one physically, it imprisons one’s spirit. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

In my mind, my spirit leaves my body and flies around the country, looking for Pa. I see a big group of people kneeling around a big hole. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Despite being low on funds, it didn't dampen their spirits. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

“The true Western spirit of hustle,” said Poirot with a smile. Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

Grandma says, “There is some nerve damage in the leg and that will need time to heal. It will be months before he is one hundred percent. But they said his spirits are good.” The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

Washington was a voluble politician with an exuberant spirit. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Then a silvery light flickered in the trees—a spirit that seemed brighter and stronger than the others. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

As we shall see, the practice of “pointing” our writing has always been offered in a spirit of helpfulness, to underline meaning and prevent awkward misunderstandings between writer and reader. Eats, Shoots & Leaves 2003-11-06T00:00:00Z

She realized that the tension in the air increased Clara’s mental powers and disturbed the spirits that were hovering around the child. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

These feelings are ever there, like a rat gnawing at the edges of my spirit. Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z

“As ready as we’ll ever be. If my nature spirits can stop them anywhere, this is the place.” The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

The preserved heads apparently were “spirit traps” designed to keep the spirit in its original dwelling place. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

My spirits became all lumpy and dropped to my toes. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Blackish-gray wisps of words and ideas and spirits, a burnt qurbani ascending to heaven for acceptance. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

Ben’s rage had fled and it angered Ben that he had no camel hump of spirit where rage could be stored, preserved, and called upon whenever it was needed. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

‘I saw them in Katoptris’s blade. And you heard what Hazel said. The biggest ’ ‘ “The biggest gathering of evil spirits I’ve ever sensed,” ’ Jason recalled. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Who would agree to have the Ugly One speak to the spirits for him? The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

The name the armed forces gave to that sickness of the mind and spirit was “battle fatigue.” Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Although battle was to be engaged on the question of the existence of spirits, the assumption was that it was really the existence of God that was at stake. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

She knew he was taking care of her spirit. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Emma’s spirits were mounted quite up to happiness; every thing wore a different air; James and his horses seemed not half so sluggish as before. Emma 1815-12-23T00:00:00Z

These things raised his spirits so much that he could almost ignore the pain in his palms and in his armpits, bleeding and raw. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

At the western end of each little house, they carefully framed a small windowlike opening, and built beneath it a shelf for spirit offerings. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

Some believed silver-haired yumboes from the depths of the Greater Jungle had spirited the old man away and still danced with him barefoot by moonlight. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

She was, in her own way, a product of the spirit of American self-construction. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

There was a spirit in there—some poor enslaved thing that Wick had summoned for the sole purpose of doing Sierra harm. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

The pitch-black room seemed alive with the voodoo spirits of my mother’s tales, ready to pounce upon me if I as much as took a step from where I was standing. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Lift your feet, young ladies. This is a spirited gavotte.” Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

We know through knocking with our neighbor cell that our “serenades” really help raise the men’s spirits. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

We stayed in the Fort for two weeks, and despite the hardships, our spirits remained extremely high. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He already smelled the incense drifting down the hall from Kaori’s room, which she called “the spirit chamber.” Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

I was back in the dark cavern, spirits of the dead drifting around me. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

She closed her eyes, bracing for the spirit to dive into her. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

The fact that he’s being a brat answers my question—he’s in good spirits. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

Then he told me that some Buddhists believe the spirit leaves the earth forty-nine days after the body dies. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

“She said he had a strong spirit,” I cried. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

We pushed through the crowd of waiting spirits, who started grabbing at our clothes like the wind, their voices whispering things I couldn’t make out. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

We followed the spirits up a well-worn path. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

“I don’t know. Could be it’s some kind of a oak- tree spirit. Better not to mess with it.” Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

Our spirits were so high with the good news we couldn’t wait for Thursday to tell the men. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The men need to see my signature to know this is truth. They have endured so much, Sal. Don’t deprive them of this chance to celebrate. It will strengthen their spirits.” Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

It had been established in 1946 with the blessing of General Groves and under the guiding scientific spirit of I. I. Rabi of Columbia. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

He was willing to tolerate what he considered high spirits as long as it was balanced by hard work. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

And Shadow matter is what we have called spirit? The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

I am stunned that such a one would drink spirits, but I keep this thought inside myself. Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z

She had asked Baba Joseph if angels were the same as ancestral spirits, and he had been vague about it. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

It wasn’t much consolation, but it was enough to keep her spirit from entirely fleeing her. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Once I saw Nereids, the glowing lady spirits of the sea. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

The pastor would grab their heads and violently shake them back and forth, shouting, “I cast out this spirit in the name of Jesus!” Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

I encountered my own spirit less and less. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Every time he did, he saw his mom’s spirit disintegrating. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

How his very bones froze as the perturbed spirit revealed that he, King Hamlet, had been murdered. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

“He has left a lot of energy here. He had a strong spirit.” Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

There was a carnival spirit in the room on the day of his visit. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

She would merely drown, and her spirit would wander without any hope of rejoining her relatives. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

These words settled themselves deep within my spirit, and they live there to this day. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Even two years later, he was still in good spirits. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

My spirits sank when Mr. Grassel lined up right behind me. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

“Like rainbow over all we spirit,” she says. Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

These spirits and unseen things, as Madrina calls them, don’t make sense to me. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

I saw her spirit in Barack in big and small ways. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Her first money will go to her family, she declares in her spirited way, her sparrowness. Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z

If this ritual of ornamentation didn’t occur, Mollie feared Anna’s spirit might be lost. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

The players scrambled for their instruments and struck up a wavering tune while Hamlet dashed among the crowd, trying in his manic way to restore their festive spirits. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

“If its spirit is strange,” Nehemia offered, “it would be a burden.” Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

The leshy, a forest spirit that looked like a man crossed with a tree, who would lead travelers astray until they died. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

She had to make a great effort not to throw at them their prissiness, their poverty of spirit, their delusions of grandeur. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

It was an attempt to crush our spirits. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He screamed as the spirits swarmed through him, burrowing into the most intimate reaches of his soul. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

“Sharper than a serpent’s tooth,” she said, “is a daughter’s ingratitude. Still, the proudest spirit can be broken, with love.” Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

It looks like a tomb made for djab—angry spirits that haunt the night. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Her spirit had reinforced the magic borders of the camp, protecting it from monsters. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

She was sacrificed from atop a mighty mountain, the highest place a human could reach, in the hopes that her pure and beautiful spirit would speak to Inti on behalf of the people. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

The spirit of Hope fluttered inside, trying to warm the cold container. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

He had too much spirit to obey orders, like my lady.” Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

It would have been a shorter trip to Athens over land, but after the crew’s experience with mountain spirits in Italy, they’d decided not to fly over Gaea’s territory any more than they had to. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

“Months. She keeps raving about water spirits and a dead boatman and a baboon she thinks was human.” A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her husband was just as welcoming, possessing a magnanimous Texas spirit that seemed to override any political hard feelings. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

“Haint blue is the color ghosts and spirits hate most,” Doc continued. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

They became intimate friends, and from that day on they met every Friday to summon spirits and exchange recipes and premonitions. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

She liked the beautiful logic of the circulatory system, the elegance of the neurological, and the fierce warrior spirit of the heart. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

I imagined I was entering a fairy-tale kingdom inhabited by tree spirits. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

Everything around him seemed solid and real, but he was a spirit. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

The spirit of the marriage left the bedroom and took to living in the parlor. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

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

I knew it was but the result of an overburdened spirit, but the following night I had the same dream. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

Naomi made her move the next night when Henry came home in high spirits. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

By Thursday, James had made a breakthrough with Maddie’s cipher and was back in high spirits. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

This I felt a sufficient proof of the continued activity of his vivid spirits. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

They tried to get everybody’s spirits up, but it wasn’t easy after that afternoon's bird attack. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

“The other Trojans upbraid me,” she said, “but always I had comfort from you through the gentleness of your spirit and your gentle words. You only were my friend.” Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

The red cloths were not as nice as the old signs, but their revolutionary spirit brought a new energy to the whole city. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

The terrifying incomprehensibilities which were worshiped elsewhere, and the fear some spirits with which earth, air and sea swarmed, were banned from Greece. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was, it seemed, more reason for merriment than the deception of malignant spirits: This day the women were rowed ashore from their ships, and have taken up residence with us. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

Ironically, as we discovered and distinguished ourselves, a new collective came into being—a vitality, a presence, a spirit that had not been there before. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

“There is a place where spirits go after death. But for now . . . until we know more ... I would urge you to put that out of your mind.” The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

Spirits are always high on Midwinter’s Day, and high spirits mean good begging. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

She hadn’t known about Hades’s curse preventing the spirit of Delphi from taking another host. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

Well, he might never have wings in his waking life, but he would hold Sarai—not her phantom and not her moth, but her, flesh and blood and spirit. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Just seeing her excitement lifts my own spirits. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

Those of us who came back to Dinetah from the war were all wounded, not just in our bodies, but in our minds and our spirits. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was like the spirit of Delphi had gone out of her way to exclude me. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

“My spirit is dead,” he said, his voice empty. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ophie couldn’t quite think of him as Aunt Rose’s husband; she’d never met the man when he was living, and his spirit seemed to be a person all its own. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

The Dunmore, rigged and coursed with smoke like some spirit vessel, cast volleys of flame through its entanglements of cloud, and all its gray was incarnadined with fire. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

Happy music sounds like the music they play at the beginning of baseball games, except sped up, and looped over and over and over again, until every lady in the church catches the spirit. Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z

But it raised my spirits so much, the generosity of these girls I once thought were below me. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He waited, but when everyone—including the elders, still sitting on their spirit stools—stared at him blankly, I sighed. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

Lucretia and others read these messages to the president to lift his spirits. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

There was pride in those rooms, a united spirit that went well past the color of anyone’s skin. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

There were none in sight, but the air of high spirits made it feel like a fair day. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

Davy let them shout and parade around in their native costume as they called on the spirit of Chief Osceola to help them regain their homeland. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

“Is it not very difficult, very dangerous, to summon a spirit?” A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

Martials believe that the Augurs’ “power” comes from being possessed by the spirits of the dead. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

His spirit was not in it, but the work routine helped his grief. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

He thought this—and mostly believed it—and felt his spirits boosted by the decision. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s wonderful that you brought this. You have no idea how it lifts my spirit. Please, keep it safe.” Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

But when he said, “We will now pray to the spirit in our own words, for the spirit intercedes for us in accordance with His will,” the silence was broken. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s very foolish to neglect the ancestral spirits,” said the gatekeeper. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

She was just trying to bolster my mood and keep my spirits up—and maybe my courage, too. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

“Florian, will you do something for me? Will you come say hello to Emilia? Please? It would really lift her spirits.” Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

"My great-grandfather married a Swedish girl, you know? So the family has light-colored blood, and that Sandi got it all. But imagine, spirit of contradiction, she wanted to be darker complected like her sisters." How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

Minya might as well have demanded Have you no blood? or Have you no spirit? because shame as good as ran in her veins. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

It was not: the rooms of the old house rang on winter nights with male cheer, and occasionally a shotgun would be let off, not in anger but in excessive high spirits. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

“Some holiday spirit! Let’s get a Christmas tree!” The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

Ndoros were still worn by spirit mediums, but they were made of porcelain. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

He went out of the compartment and returned a few moments later with a small spirit stove and a pair of curling tongs. Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

His insomnia and pain, the crushing workload, and his mounting frustration all tore at his spirit until by the end of March he felt himself on the verge of physical and emotional collapse. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

“She barely survived. She had the spirit of a true huntress. You will not last so long.” The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

School spirit keeps you warm no matter what the temperature is. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

In spite of her stiffness and sore hands, Lupita’s spirits lifted as the dawn approached. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

I’m in good spirits by the time I get back to the prep team, leaving Beetee and Gale behind. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

“Mom—my mom—she believes that butterflies are like little spirits. Who knows? Maybe even my sister’s,” I said, shrugging because I’d never been sure about that. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

When someone falls sick, a shaman can contact the spirit that caused the sickness and try to pacify it or scare it away. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

“They seemed in those early days to have one spirit and one brain,” a mutual friend said. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

There were plenty of spirits she could help in the big old house. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

I challenge anyone to understand Islam, its spirit, and not to love it. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

The rally ended as twenty-five thousand voices joined in singing “We Shall Overcome,” changing the words to express the triumphant spirit of the day: “We have overcome today.” Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

Father did everything he could to curb my rebellious spirit, but it was no use. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

She fished spirits from the air and bound them to her service. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

“At the last minute, the spirit told me to go,” he said. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

Catching the spirit is more like the spirit catching you. Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z

NOT until we were sailing through the Jersey countryside did my spirits begin to rise. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

I closed my eyes, for there is some subtle magnetism in the gaze that nudges the lambent spirit in those viewed and draws attention to those who watch concealed. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

He could have been anyone - just another nameless spirit among millions. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

He was so filled with awe, he almost forgot the desperate situation he was in, but the tribal spirit soon woke him up. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

I was pleased that I would finally meet the spirit that lived within. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

She reaches for my face, and I flinch from her, expecting the cold caress of a spirit. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

Each day, to bolster his spirits, his family reminded him of the future, the day he would stand unassisted, walk across the room. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

The ceremony itself was one which began in refinement, in a spirit of proper felicity. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Only a fool rushes first impressions with a spirited young Khershaen. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

The spirit took off the ndoro and placed it around Arm’s neck. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

Worst of all was the realization that she had been possessed by the spirit of a witch. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“He is die spirit of the birds. He is a golden plover.” Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

“That’s good. I’ve mobilized most of the nature spirits in the city—well, the ones that will listen to me, anyway.” The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

Seeing them assembled in Tartarus, Percy felt as hopeless as the spirits in the River Cocytus. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

But her name remains hallowed among union people in Western Pennsylvania, and her spirit lives on whenever someone stands up for the American ideals of equality and justice for all. Fannie Never Flinched 2016-11-21T00:00:00Z

Perched beside the stove, their family’s house spirit examined the mess of chopped herbs and leftover stems that littered the countertop. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

“Evil spirits, baby. Lord knows, plenty of those ramblin’ about, what with....Well, anyway, don’t you worry about it none,” Nana continued. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

With that new dawn, with my mind and my body, my spirit and my emotions in good balance, I was ready to begin my journey as a warrior for America. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

It is true of the spirit as it is true of battles—only the winners are remembered. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Even though he’d been leading up to this disclosure in the spirit of silliness, when he got to it, it didn’t feel silly. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

I screamed, feeling that if I went out of doors some evil spirit would whisk me away. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You remind me of her, you know. You have her spirit.” How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

Everyone’s eyes were on me— all the gods, the demigods, the Cyclopes, the spirits. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

His spirit was all over El Barrio, but I didn’t see Him living among us. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

They went to the one hundred fortieth floor, where the spirit medium’s secretary made them all comfortable with cups of tea. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

“Exactly. That’s what happens when people die. Their spirit flies up into the blue sky,” said Papa. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

Those of us who had come to work felt the party's spirit enter us. Seedfolks 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Emma’s smart and widely read brother attended seances, communed with spirit guides, and collected photographs that seemed to show ghosts and spirits. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

But what if their “work” relied on a steady supply of spirit, and their only source was their own body? Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Our spirits rose as we realized the soldiers would not follow us. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I wouldn’t care about my spirits,” said Bluebell, “if my legs weren’t so tired. Slugs are lucky not to have legs. I think I’ll be a slug.” Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was reflective of a larger spirit of self-sufficiency and pride I’d seen in all parts of the military. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

The beginning of catching the spirit and dancing in the aisle and "praying for peace in the eye of the storm." Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z

Ophie nodded, hoping there was something to be gained by getting the spirit out of the house. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

Glowing white spirits, vaguely human, drifted through the trees. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

After four sunsets and sunrises, the spirit, too, was gone. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

She occasionally breaks their valuables, placing the blame on restless spirits. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

We tried to raise his spirits, but he wouldn't listen to anything we said. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

But she was tough in spirit, she survived to enjoy her grandchildren and her new life. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Piper’s blade, Hazel’s magical senses and Annabeth’s instincts all agreed - the answer lay here in Ithaca, at the ancient palace of Odysseus, where a horde of evil spirits had gathered to await Gaia’s orders. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Winning the spirit of Anne Frank Award and seeing the Broadway play made me realize what Anne meant when she wrote in her diary: “I want to go on living even after my death.” The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

She would have been exorcised to cast out the evil spirit, and if after many trials that did not work, she would have been burned as a witch for the good of the community. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

She could not sense people's energies the way that a sage could, but this spirit or consciousness was so focused, so brilliant, that anyone would know it was there. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Nhamo had never been taken over by a spirit, so she didn’t know what it felt like. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“She said she had been possessed by a shave for stealing, but a spirit medium drove it out.” The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

Taisin said again, her voice harsh and deep, “Reveal your true spirit! I command you to come forth.” Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

He loves it so much, he always seems in good spirits lately. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

I might have lost everything, but my spirit burned bright. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

They fall in abundance, and the people dance and sing praises to the Marked Girl who spoke with the spirit world on their behalf and brought a time of abundance. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

Their spirits became ngo\\i, and they did terrible things to their hosts. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

He nods to himself, even though I’m already done talking, like he’s hearing a spirit whispering in his ear. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z

If the Ionian spirit had won, I think we—a different “we,” of course—might by now be venturing to the stars. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

The reprimand lifted my spirits some, made me feel more normal. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

He was gaunt with spirit loss, his color sickly. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

The Tiber didn’t look much cleaner than the East River back home, where he’d had too many encounters with grouchy river spirits. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

“He can’t miss what he’s never had! Why don’t we open it now and celebrate Mr. Weasley’s birthday? Nothing like a fine spirit to chase away the pangs of disappointed love...” Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

Though I knew Sass would never do such a thing, I believed she would surely kill my spirit with her spitefulness if I didn’t fight back. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

And longtime congressman John Lewis, a veteran civil rights activist and moving spirit of the 1965 march from Selma to Montgomery, denounced the ruling as a major blow to minorities in the United States. Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

Perhaps the woman was a spirit person and had come here to perform rituals with her fellow ogbanje. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

The spirit of her invincible heart guided her through the shadows. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

It is the difference between the leading spirit on a pickup basketball team and the officially selected captain of a college squad. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

And the gloom began to weigh on his spirits. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

It was then I understood that the days of Colonel Garcia and all those like him are numbered, because they have not been able to destroy the spirit of these women. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Nan said that fiery spirits still haunted the blackened towers. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

There are whispers that without Lucera, the murals that are touched with shadowshaper magic will eventually fade and the connection to the spirits will be obliterated. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

The only reason he refs the game is that he gets two free bottles of spirits we all chip in for. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

It was so bright and cheerful, it raised his spirits in spite of Rosa’s dire threats. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

He, in turn, responded by blaming their teenaged son, and after a spirited back-and-forth, two more actors rushed onstage, playing two different characters in the same narrative. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

“No, really. It may not look like it, but appearances can be deceiving. This dude is a fearless spirit. And with that fearless spirit, he signals bravery to those who require it.” Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

I watch her walk away, and my spirits sink with each step. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

Love ignites the spirit, brings teams together, he says. The Crossover 2014-03-18T00:00:00Z

Spirit, you couldn’t beat my lady for spirit. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

The spirits formed a whirlpool of shadows around her. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

In the silence all the flighty spirits of the morning ended between us. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

I don’t check the time because I don’t want anything to shatter my survivor spirit. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

‘The Grand Canyon . Jason recalled that day on the Skywalk, when one of his jerk classmates turned out to be a wind spirit. ‘ Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

She had no doubt that spirit hands had directed the boat when she was too weak to row. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was the first step outward to the universe—beyond the universe—because in it and with it we merged to recreate and perpetuate the human spirit. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

“Useless had learned how to be an nganga from the water spirit. He became a great chief, and his mother, who had been mistreated by everyone, was treated like a queen from then on.” A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

The action, sniffed the conservative Morning Herald, betrayed “an unbecoming and uncooperative spirit.” The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

“I have a new spirit helper,” he declared, his voice portentous. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

She would be overwhelmed when she realized that there was a kindred spirit in the audience. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

That was when everything changed: the rest of the family forgot about us, Pop Pop turned to booze, Daddy’s spirit up and died, and we moved to the projects of Grafton Hill. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

Around them, the air grew thicker with the billowing outrage of the spirits. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

Never to say bad things out loud just in case evil spirits might hear and make them come true. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

Such heaviness of spirit as there was, pressed not on her but on us, her parents, and of us Nathan was the most burdened. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

That might cause so many spirits to want to be close to the old woman. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

“I must think a moment. A spirit of contempt for the fawners and plotters.” Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z

They murmured that if he were a good shaman right and true, the spirits wouldn’t be punishing us. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

“It’s...it’s like, when someone dies, their body is an empty shell with no spirit, right?” Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

I can imagine Leo nodding, adding, “A wilderness spirit.” Paradise on Fire 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

Her plan was to stay on the platform until her spirit was driven away by thirst. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

New Agers make all sorts of existence assertions: that ESP exists, that there have been instances of spoon bending, that spirits abound, that there are aliens among us, etc. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

The idea that Frank should be able to control the spirits? The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Somehow I knew in my spirit that this was a man called of God and that God was ordering his steps. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Edna worked several hours with much spirit She saw no one but a picture dealer, who asked her if it were true that she was going abroad to study in Paris. The Awakening 1899-01-01T00:00:00Z

Still, when darkness fell, so did her spirit. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

My spirit cries and hovers down over him. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

But she’s always talking about how brain-dead our school is, and how we have zero spirit and never get involved the way other middle schools do. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

I knew then I had brought it up as a way of letting her know I was with her—if only in spirit. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

But they were allowed to keep it because the porcupine boosted everyone's spirits, uniting them. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

My skin crawls, and suddenly what was just a smooth hip-hop song now sounds like heavy conga drums—a downbeat rhythm, like for the Petwo Iwas, the fiery spirits signaling danger ahead. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

All of us have had our spirits picked up by being around somebody in a good mood. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Monday of the second week it seem like Judd’s out to break my back or my spirit or both. Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was the way, the custom, and it was the merciful thing, to give an unnamed, imperfect infant back to the earth before its spirit had filled it and made it human. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“What happens to the spirits waiting in the lobby?” The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

The twisting streets were full of demigods and nature spirits and minor godlings bustling about, riding chariots or sedan chairs carried by Cyclopes. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

She’d been thinking it through as the spirits swarmed in: Their mural on the outside of the Tower—the dragon and the elegant, guitar-playing skeleton—reached all the way to the fifth floor. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

I couldn’t help smiling and feeling that warm spirit building inside of me. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Nhamo knew that the spirit stayed close to one’s body, but Mambo’s poor wife had been burned. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Quincey Morris was phlegmatic in the way of a man who accepts all things, and accepts them in the spirit of cool bravery, with hazard of all he has to stake. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

It speaks to me in feelings, and it projects into me hopelessness of such immense weight, it could crush the very spirit of God. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

There are also immaterial entities—the spirits of the dead, and friendly and malevolent beings, the kind that we today call demons, fairies and angels. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was stellar, and I was quite moved by its contemplation of the human spirit. Booked 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

He had finally taken off his bandages, and celebrated having the full use of both arms again by doing spirited imitations of Harry falling off his broom. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

The loss of the raft was perhaps not fatal to my body, but it felt fatal to my spirits. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

I never saw Mommy “get happy” at Whosoever Baptist, meaning “get the spirit” and lose control—thank God. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Was this what it meant to help a spirit pass on? Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

“Okay, here goes. Do you believe in spirits? Or ghosts?” Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

I would be forever tied to stores for bullets, and the friendly spirit of my mountaintop would be violated. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

All around, the spirits hummed their harmonious spirituals and murmured quietly to one another, their glow pulsing in time with the shimmer growing in the dark waters. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

His was only the life sign, ankh, a green-glazed cross with a looped top, tied to his wrist with seven knots to bind his spirit to his body. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

Where I am lain, there is no light to read by, so I must add dullness of mind and fatigue of spirits to discomfort of body. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

I was just getting into the spirit of our game when someone hooted, “Look, Kumar! Those bridge boys are following that new girl!” The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

I had to wait around for at least a week or so until the spirit rally to know if I was the winner or not. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

Music, song, poetry, and literature also raised everybody’s spirits—and could be used to express determination and to show patriotism. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

“I genuinely believe that people who overcome these things have a special place, a core courage, a spirit of integrity that no one else can get to,” she observes. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

Why do we murder the spirits of our most gifted and talented young people? Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

At the spirit rally, I was a nervous wreck, but since I’m a smooth kind of gal, I didn’t let it show. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

She's a free spirit and the complete opposite of my mom. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

“You’re in the manager’s office. They’re all running around looking for spirits of ammonia and doctors and things to bring you to. They’d just run out of ammonia, apparently. How do you feel? No kidding.” Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z

By Thursday, James had made a breakthrough with Maddie’s cipher and was back in high spirits. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

Gray mist creatures churned all around me, whispering rags of smoke that I somehow knew were the spirits of the dead. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

Dr. Ezekowitz’s statement was typical of the small victories that kept Farmer’s spirits elevated and gave momentum to his mission. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

As Summer turned, the light seemed to change the spirit’s facial features from feminine to masculine and back again. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

They seemed to be carved out of huge blocks of stone, immovable, and yet they were aware: some dreadful spirit of evil vigilance abode in them. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

Tall, long-armed shadows sprinted alongside her in a thick, humming crowd—the same spirits from the park the night before. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

Our species is the only creative species, and it has only one creative instrument, the individual mind and spirit of a man. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

She and Wu Tsing had been joined in tyandi, heaven and earth, so theirs was a spiritual marriage arranged by a matchmaker, ordered by his parents, and protected by the spirits of their ancestors. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I do not know. Some things the spirits keep secret.” Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

And then that wild spirit yell at the end. Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Then everyone knew he was possessed by the spirit of the dead wife. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

It must be some kind of spirit day because they’re wearing their team shirts and have put on silly face paint. The Fourteenth Goldfish 2014-08-26T00:00:00Z

The spirits of the dead made way like the Celestial bronze was a blazing fire. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

“Your spirit indeed is strong, but your body wastes away. Why do you not eat?” Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

Then the truth hit her: a spirit in silver and black, who’d fulfilled her mother’s wishes and ruined her life. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

During the past month the black, terrible feelings had arisen again to wrestle with his spirit. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

As she watched the spirit of her mother drift away, she had seen the cindered fragments of her childhood life whirl into the sky as well. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Anyway, I know May herself believed in spirits from the next world. Missing May 1992-03-01T00:00:00Z

A few of them have real spirit, they are superb. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Come to me, spirits! Tonight we save the shadowshapers and begin anew.” Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

‘Jason . . . you’re a fighter. You’d never give up. When you faced your mother’s spirit - that was you being strong. Not me.’ Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

To make me soft and weak, to crush my spirit, to pound every last bit of vivisima spark out of me. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

It refers, I think, to the unified powers within the spirit of Lucera herself. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

And she also had those dizzy moments that, her grandma said, meant she was special to the spirits. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

Jaime had had the foresight to bring a canteen filled with brandy and we each took a swig to keep our spirits up. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“They talk about having spirit,” she says, referring to management, “but they don’t give us any reason to have any spirit.” Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

It had been sweetly done, almost in a spirit of philanthropy. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Not like a part of him is disappearing...going, going, his spirit sometimes gone. Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z

I led him back around to the locker room entrance and then down the stairs with the same sense of spirit I'd had knowing I had to get Aileen back home from Horn Rock. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

An odd confusion, half eagerness and half reluctance, tossed Kit’s spirits to and fro. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

As if his indomitable spirit had set its potency in motion, the glass blazed suddenly like a white torch in his hand. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

The spirit of the copper sun seemed to bleed for them as it glowed bright red against the deepening blue of the great water. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

Our house had burned, with the blame going either to Mother’s spirit or the mischief of village children, though Tata Boanda allowed it was probably Father trying to toast meat over a kerosene flame. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

A storm, attempted murders, witches, wizards, invisible spirits, revolutions, characters drinking until they’re dead drunk, an angry monster named Caliban—can you believe it? The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

He’d assumed that the cussed army spirit which whitewashed rocks in the face of annihilation would prevail. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

What would my mother have done? she thought frantically, and tried to call wisdom from the bit of her mother’s spirit that lived on in her now. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The bed number is looked up on a chart; a young man with his arm in a sling lies in it now, otherwise in good spirits, talking on the telephone. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

He hadn’t realized how much pain he had been in until the spirit left. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Pride goeth before destruction; and a haughty spirit before a fall. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

It’s like her whole spirit up and died. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

The spirit of mass action surged, but I remained skeptical of any action undertaken with the Communists and Indians. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

For a moment I consider leaving him out in the car, but Christmas spirit can even make its way to someone like me. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

Christmas is less than two weeks away, but Mr. Watson has been in the holiday spirit for months. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

In these young men we saw the angry revolutionary spirit of the times. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Piper didn’t see how a grain spirit could be so bad, but Hazel’s tone convinced her not to ask. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

He was growing old, and beginning to need rest and an unperturbed spirit. The Awakening 1899-01-01T00:00:00Z

We all expected a lecture on school spirit, how we should think about the football team all summer and be ready to cheer them on come fall. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

Every Roman family had a Lar, who was the spirit of an ancestor, and several Penates, gods of the hearth and guardians of the storehouse. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

When January 1 dawned like any other morning, it broke Dad’s spirit. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Seemed like Cinder's mind floated away with Miss Fran's spirit and voice. Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z

The spirits, the manitous who lived in all things, why had they ignored her prayers, her mother’s prayers, and the powerful prayers of Nokomis? The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

The other two heads trained their eyes on me, completely ignoring the spirits. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

He warmed to the spirit of the thing, saw no end to the possibilities of his going ahead, solving the problems as he came to them, no limit to what he might do. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

But although they heard owls more than once, no elil attacked them and by the morning they were in better spirits. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

The men were brutish, but the spirits that flitted about them were far worse. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

That idea of genius loci—the spirit of a place—comes as a happy accident. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

Tidbit chased the dog merrily, his high spirits returned, and they all seemed to relax as they made their way slowly through the cool, dark night. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s all part of God’s plan, Mexico. You just gotta have faith in the word and let the spirit take you somewhere.” We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

Like his spirit, Taran’s dreams were confused, filled with dismay and fear. The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z

Probably one or two moments in your whole life you will hear a dark whispering spirit, a voice coming from the center of things. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was then, in the presence of that personality which was offensive to her, that the woman, by her divine art, seemed to reach Edna’s spirit and set it free. The Awakening 1899-01-01T00:00:00Z

He said he was not afraid because years before a witch doctor gave him a charm against evil spirits. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

Amazed, bumbled by the beauty and devotion of this community to its local spirits. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

But we were able to bring his ashes to the Ganges and so we know his spirit is at rest. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

Julie repeated the Eskimo word for the house of the spirits. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s the spirit of the thing that counts. ” The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z

Despite the proselytizing of the Mbekela brothers, my father remained aloof from Christianity and instead reserved his own faith for the great spirit of the Xhosas, Qamata, the God of his fathers. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Every gust of wind through Death Valley sounded like a spirit of the dead. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

It still bothered him that he couldn’t sense any spirits. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

I’d heard Nereids and other water spirits speak to me underwater before, but it never occurred to me Tyson was a son of Poseidon. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

They strengthened throughout the night, literally dampening the spirits of the mob, putting an end to the Washington Riots of 1919. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

On guard before the gate sits Cerberus, the three headed, dragon-tailed dog, who permits all spirits to enter, but none to return. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

And he is spirited, and that is a great part of his value. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Ah, my dear...the legends are true, you know. The spirits, the water cannibals.” The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

“We’re lucky to have him with us. It raises your spirits just to hear him.” Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Arm could sense the spirit: an old, corrupt warthog grown fat on the flesh of its young. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

One night Hanako had actually knelt with her father and dozens of other strikers while they prayed that their spirits would not be broken. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Still, water spirits no doubt inhabited the place, as they did any body of water. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Kaori smoothed the front of her own pajamas—coal black, with red trim—and said, “Okay, then. I’ll just prepare the spirit stones alone.” Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

They found the boys faithful, obedient, and with just the right fighting spirit and willingness to sacrifice that each group wanted in its future soldiers. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

He had it in mind, though, to dig out the letter Hatsue had written him from Manzanar and read it again after all these years in the spirit of an indulgence. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

He had died long ago in Virginia, but his bondage had carried on into his death, so that his spirit was forced to follow the mistress of the manor when she moved north. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

We are here to share our feelings and discuss a memorial to Cassie’s memory, “so her spirit will live on”. Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z

I had walked past her church before and heard music spilling from the falling-down clapboard building; the spirited singing and proclamations of joy emerging from it beat the other churches all hollow, to my mind. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

This time it was a subtle promise, a tantalizing hint of beauty still withheld, a beckoning to her spirit to follow she knew not where. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

No matter how gloomy Nhamo felt, her spirit lifted when she watched Tag. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The vital spirit originates here, in-the heart, and is perfected by the lungs, which inspire the blood with air,” Hamlet explained. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

The scene reminded Leo of the invisible wind spirits that had served him lunch at Camp Jupiter. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

I almost tell her Kalinda’s warning—that the spirits will hear her calling their name—but I stop myself. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

“School spirit and all that,” I tell her as we make our way through the crowd and into the school. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

The spirit of musical invention heralded by Monteverdi was enthusiastically taken up by his successors over the following century. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

But First Wife turned out to be a living ghost, no threat to Second Wife, who had her strong spirit intact. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

See the concrete bam where workers live, the small church with tall voodoo drums for calling spirit, the wash flapping, women roasting peanuts, men slapping dominoes, pigs running here and there. Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

If it weren’t for the fact that the island of MidPass, hundreds of Midfolk, and the spirit of my dead best friend depended on me, I would’ve called it a night. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

“Somebody will yet break your spirit,” he said. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Jesus Christ died on the cross because the Pharisees of His day were upholding their law, not the spirit. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

‘Newer recruits for Gaia, I guess. Some must’ve come back to life before we closed the Doors of Death. Some are just spirits.’ Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Nor did the free wild geese, his sometime followers, ever again settle on the other island—previously a haunt of theirs—from which their captain had been spirited away. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

The spirits were still all around them, glaring toward Wick and his burgeoning army. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

I feel like I died a hundred yards downhill, and now my spirit is trapped here, doomed to haunt this place, reliving the climb, and the thirst, and the flames for all eternity. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

The seven silhouettes seemed to float across the surface of the earth, like spirits, vaporous and unreal. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Or that he wanted to perfect his pecan spirits? The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

By making a circle of themselves that separated the human spirits within from the degradation without. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

“Here is to your health, ministrant spirit!” he said. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

A big settlement lay ahead, the man said, with a reputation for a rambunctious spirit. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

“It’s not her health that troubles me now, it’s her spirits. I’m sure there is something on her mind, and I want you to discover what it is.” Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Somehow, I don’t think Mr. Thirsty has quite captured the spirit of Christmas,” remarked Ear. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

She was able to produce a credible smile, and pretend—she hoped—that she was fine, while inside her very spirit hissed with outrage, and with shock that Minya would go so far. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Or something worse—whatever tidal wave of spirits she’d felt coming. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

She knew her sister's character, the haughtiness of her spirit, and she was frightened by the virulence of her anger. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

I guess to put you more in the Christmas spirit. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

“My spirit will intercede for you, so that Chukwu will send a good man to take care of you and the children.” Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

Yet, my spirit knows...going to court isn’t going to make it any better. Black Brother, Black Brother 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

There was no room for chance in this world; all occurrences were preordained, and were caused either by the ancestral or evil spirits. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Omakayas knew that Nokomis wanted her to search for and find a spirit helper, someone great in the spirit world who would help her to recover her will to live. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

“Our people are in danger. Alien spirits invade. They come, hiding their true nature, but their purpose is to eat us.” The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

I was sensible of a growing revolt of the spirit that suffused the whole of my frame, which would no longer be stifled or mollified. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

As they heard him preparing to go first into the depths of the enemy warren as calmly as though he were looking for dandelions, his officers’ spirits rose. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

He also has mentioned to Terryl in email that he had a heart attack in 2005 and that it caused his spirit to leave his body, and travel and get wisdom. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

Men chase women down corridors, and laughter and spirited chaos ensue. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

Perhaps the girl’s spirit still wandered, looking for her people. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Matt’s spirits rose still higher as he thought about traveling through those gray-brown mountains. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her spirits bobbed like the whitecaps in the harbor as the boat pulled away from the black hull of the Dolphin. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

But like Emma, Newman believed that you could get to heaven only through accepting Jesus’s teachings, by achieving a full sympathy of spirit with God’s spirit. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

The people loved peace and quiet and, because of this, they were pleased by decent princes, while the soldiers loved a prince with military spirit who was cruel, arrogant, and rapacious. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z

Strange was just Strange, and he’d offered up his spirit with no strings attached. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

The residue of the human spirit smeared on inanimate objects was all he could withstand of humanity. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I think the spirit of it applicable to every man concerned in the administration of the finances of a Country.” Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

And the person binding can see and speak through the spirit and its form. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

All spoke to the spirits with their joyous movements. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I don’t know. I’m just...me. I’m a spirit with a body. Does that make sense?” Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

We couldn’t see her, but she was there, gaining in size and spirit as fall became winter and then became spring. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

For some reason I felt exactly like May’s spirit was hovering in a corner of the ceiling hearing every word, even though I wasn’t speaking out loud. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

A fissure opened in the stone floor of the workshop, and Minos and all his spirits were sucked into the void with a horrible wail. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

I was thankful there was this spirit of amity; we were neither of us anxious to engage in futile disputes. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

Romans lounged in groups of ten or twenty, talking and laughing while wind spirits—aurae—swirled overhead, bringing an endless assortment of pizzas, sandwiches, chips, cold drinks, and fresh-baked cookies. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

“Matters of the spirit are not decided at the marketplace,” he shouted sternly. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

She even told good scary stories, about haints and spirits, creatures that she said roamed around the South Carolina marshes where we lived. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

“Almost half my kinsmen. River spirits drowned the giants in the end, but...” The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

It burned holes in the fog cover and wilted the girls’ spirits. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

Nhamo labored for several days, but one morning the lonely-sickness struck her with such force, her spirit felt like it was being circled by hyenas. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

He flashed back to the last time he’d plunged into a mob of evil spirits, in the House of Hades. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

The other keeps, long deserted, were lonely, haunted places, where cold winds whistled through black windows and the spirits of the dead manned the parapets. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

I told her, “Dad didn’t have a spirit! He had cells!” Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

The one in the book—a small ape with a beard—looked nothing like her own house spirit. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

Harry threw himself into a chair beside Ron, his high spirits ebbing away. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

She was now, on being settled at home, at leisure to observe the real state of her sister’s spirits. Pride and Prejudice 1813-01-28T00:00:00Z

Even in bronze, he had a whimsical look, and I thought this friend had sculpted a little spirit as well. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

By hiring an army of contract egg hunters, IOI was perverting the entire spirit of the contest. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

The sign out front had a single red rose painted on it, and the words reviving the spirit to recapture the vision, proverbs 29:18. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

Having the couch all to himself was wonderful, but the disappearance of Miss Trixie was not enough to brighten his spirits. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Save your spirit—you will have need of it where we are going. Ride you with me, Gregor,” said Vikus, extending a hand. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

It was in the lowest spirits that he taxied across to his work at the Conditioning Centre. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

Though they didn’t carry the same weight as a coach in the coach’s box, they soothed my soul and buoyed my spirits to no end. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

More often than not, spirits of any kind didn’t like metal. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

“But it’s possible to get there without the spirits taking you?” Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

She thought that kindness might lift Jeyne's spirits, but the other girl just looked at her with red, swollen eyes and began to cry all the harder. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

The tradition had carried on to the Caribbean—the Haitians would march in wild circles with the coffin so that the spirit wouldn’t be able to find its way back home to bother everybody. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

There were a couple long seconds of silence, then, “In the name of Jesus, I remove you evil spirit of rage and send you to the Cross.” Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

“You guys help Leo. I’ll hold off the water spirits as long as I can.” The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

The reek of vomit and raw spirits almost brings my dinner up. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

Still, Dr. King walked out of the meeting feeling “hopeful,” and Jo Ann Robinson also felt her spirits lifting as she stepped outside. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

Tamer of horses, the Trojans always called him, and he drove his car through the Greek ranks as if the same spirit animated steeds and driver. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

Students need to be uplifted and spirited to add to the quality of their successful program. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

Odysseus then must go down and find the spirit of the prophet Teiresias who had been the holy man of Thebes. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her skin dry, her eyes shadowed, her spirit bleached of color. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

“It sends the blood flying through thy veins to warm thee. Besides, it strengthens thy body and, best of all, it strengthens thy spirit to do a hard thing.” The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z

“The eager beavers, the brown nosers are out selling chocolates like mad-men. So are Leon’s pets, his special boys. So are the kids who still believe in school spirit.” The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

A roar went up from the woods on both sides as every tree, rode, and bush seemed to sprout a spirit. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

“And in that spirit,” he goes on, “be at the temple by nine a.m. Saturday and we’ll do this right.” Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

“The spirit told me how my uncle poured juice of henbane into his ears, curdling his blood and cutting off his life.” Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

She is the one spirit you are forbidden to see. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

“Years ago, I was brought here myself when my spirit got lost. This is a good place to find yourself.” Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

What the devil was he doing here if, as Fela argued later, she was working only with good spirits? In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

"The usual. Run-in with a demon. That's bad enough"—my chin trembled as I spoke—"but she's also lost her fighting spirit." City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

The physical act of strutting lifted his spirits. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I think it means that the key to azoth is spirit. Spirit of the body.” Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

“But it is Wood really, like the Wood that he is the spirit of.” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Why would a spirit need to come through a window?” The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

Other times she would have to send away a particularly bothersome spirit with the threat of iron and salt, but those times were rare. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

This Christian spirit, however, was far from being shared. Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

So, in the spirit of three-year-old boys everywhere who’ve run out of better ideas, I decided to punch her. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

At last, the spirits of the Soviet people began to lift a little. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

Revere was spirited across Boston Harbor to the ferry landing at Charlestown. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He clenched his fists as the spirit masses congealed and then took shape. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

The plane had to be light, so no matter how tired she felt, she dared not rest her spirit on a wing but continuously and gently pushed up on the plane’s belly. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

She isn’t trapped in the spirit world, and I won’t have to travel through the eclipse to become stuck there for the rest of my life too. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

The story of how I went twelve rounds with an evil spirit and won. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

I’ve encountered people I find to be shallow and hypocritical and others—teachers and military spouses and so many more—whose spirits are so deep and strong it’s astonishing. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

The only sustaining support possible for the human spirit, the one pure unsullied good men can hope to attain, is heroism; and heroism depends on lost causes. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sierra opened her eyes reluctantly, releasing the soothing ebb and flow of the spirit world. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

The two dogs were in very low spirits when they continued their journey without the cat. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

He took her by the arm and led her away from the wheelhouse, and Sanaa's spirits took flight. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

A man is in his spirit and he has that in full no matter what part of his body dies, or all of it. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Proud of bearing so beautiful a gift the aged creature carried it to Procne, who was still wearing deep mourning for her sister and whose spirit was as mournful as her garments. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We only severed the connection the spirit had upon Nathan. Right now, it is finding its way back to his uncle. It will be very angry.” Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

The maids said she got mounted by spirits. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

“Reverend,” she said, looking at him with the daring defiance of a threatened child, “I does my best. I really does. Ain’t everybody got to have the same spirit.” Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

“It goes for three days, but it starts on All Hallows Eve, when the spirits of the dead can come back to visit the people they’ve left behind.” How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

The old man shouted challenges at the pagan spirit world. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

But just as quickly as Clara had gone purple she was back to her usual self, no outline at all, looking more like a real person than a spirit. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

“Once they take you, they don’t let go. You’ll be trapped in the spirit world if you go there to find her.” Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

The spirits were calling her—a harmonious battle cry. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

Their soft spirit footsteps, so vague I could mistake them for my own breathing. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Yes. That’s the spirit. Exactly. A Maoist embrace of capitalism was essential for the party to keep control.” Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

The air shimmered where the spirit had been; she squinted her eyes. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

She sang to the spirit of Amaroq in her best English: The seals are scarce and the whales are almost gone. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You are the guardian of the human spirit. You shall see yourself as you are. Take off your clothes.” 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

“Plus, if I’m running for class president, I have to prove that I have school spirit, and I can’t do that if I don’t show up,” Soojin adds. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

It hacks at my spirit and brings it to its knees, next to me. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

He said hornets better represent the Merryweather spirit than foreign marsupials, plus the Wombat mascot costume was going to suck money from the prom committee’s budget. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

There was a hearty debate in the village over the spirit of the goofer. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

The older boy was glowing with good health, good spirits. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

The first time had been in the dusty attic of the Big House, where the spirit of Delphi slept inside the body of a mummified hippie lady. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

A skinny spirit wearing long dreadlocks sits cross-legged behind a black kettle. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

The brooding spirit of the trees surrounded him like the coils of an electric dynamo. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

My progress was steady and my spirits got better every day. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

When Uncle Al discovers that city officials have yet to itemize the Fox Brothers baggage stock, a handful of nondescript horses get spirited from one stable tent to another. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

But it did exemplify how Terryl, in her eagerness to be supportive and fun, to encourage a spirit of adventure, could push things to the edge. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

Seconds later, three venti appeared—dark air spirits swirling like miniature tornadoes laced with lightning. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

“I’ve got to go,” says the spirit, and the weather grows heavy all around him. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Now Mrs. Frisby’s spirits fell again, and she said, almost bitterly: “You are joking, sir; you are not serious. No rat could move my house. It is far too heavy, much too big.” Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

Did police put their fists in women’s faces so the husbands’ spirits would break along with the women’s jaws? Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

“This will prove a spirited beginning of your winter engagements, sir. Something new for your coachman and horses to be making their way through a storm of snow.” Emma 1815-12-23T00:00:00Z

“We are poor folk,” she said, “but poverty isn’t so bad when you’re willing to own up to it, and a contented spirit is a great help, too.” Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

Besides, while I made dinner, I’d developed a plan to have Mamá “be home” that night, if not in body, then in spirit. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

Either that, or the spirits that possessed the boys had also made them extra resilient. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Long streaks of sun crossed through the window, like spirits through walls. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

And those visits dampened his spirits, for a while at least. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Let us see if today the spirits are willing to speak.” Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

“Can you tell me what it’s like to, um, be a spirit?” Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

He did not vocally respond, a sign with him that he was in low spirits. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

In fact, George and Florah became so terrified they could not sleep, and my mother had to reassure them by saying that our ancestral spirits would protect us against any evil. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

You didn’t have a choice about who possessed you: when a spirit wanted you, he or she generally got his or her way. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe there is something real in these spirits. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

“I like your spirit, Mr. Watson. I like it very much indeed. As much as I officially disapprove of it.” Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

“They were financed by a multimillionaire and backed by many influential politicians. It was a compelling idea, to return to the past. It also appealed to a desire to preserve the spirit of Africa.” The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

In the mid-nineteenth century, many people were interested in communicating with the “spirit world.” Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

“So much spirit. I can see why Luke wanted to spare you. Unfortunately, that won’t be possible.” The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

But the thing that was lowering Harry’s spirits most of all was the prospect of returning to the Dursleys. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

Hurricane just tore me from the spirit world and spat me out into this one instead. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

She wondered what other spirits watched over her. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

They couldn’t help finding these pictures funny—but still, as Burt caught the spirit and made amusing comments on the films, I was overcome with a sense of mischief. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

Her bones and her skin and her eyes and her spirit. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

She grew tired, took out Amaroq’s totem, and thought about his life and brave spirit. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

How quickly we forgot that in that winter Ludendorff could not be beaten and that many people were preparing in their minds and spirits for a lost war. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

As usual, something about her presence brightened the room and lightened Ophie’s spirits a touch. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

It is believed that evil spirits easily get jealous when they hear a child being complimented, and they may come and take away the child to the other world. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Prison is designed to break one’s spirit and destroy one’s resolve. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Lazlo did hold Sarai in his arms that night, and she was real and flesh, blood and spirit, but not laughter. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

"Lucky there's a good supply of spirits in the house. Thoughtful of U. N. Owen." And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z

Night after night the spirits spoke with me, and morning after morning I lay there frustrated, unable to recall their message. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

My grandmother always complained that no good Methodist would ever put spirits into food. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

They spun in slow orbits around the two women, singing their spirit songs and watching, always watching. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

They had been carried, body and spirit, into the secret killing ground of the Masks in Mufakose. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

“Yes,” said Elisha, “you keep that spirit, and I know the Lord’s going to see to it that you get home all right.” Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

We kept after him, trying to keep him in sight as he zipped between the legs of spirits who chattered at him in annoyance. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

If there was no vessel for her to transmit spirit into, she would be the vessel. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

She prayed to every spirit she could think of, even her great-grandfather whom she had never seen. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

They returned to the house in high spirits, with tingling red cheeks and snow-frosted eyelashes. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

But now, instead of seizing my hand and rubbing it against his whiskers until I screamed, Milton no longer had the high spirits to torment me. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

My comrades and I were enormously cheered; the spirit of mass protest that had seemed dormant through the 1960s was erupting in the 1970s. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Many people still believed in spirits that lived in animals and plants, and these spirits spoke to them about the coming of a very bad time. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

They prayed for the person who died and they prayed for their spirit. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

There was none of the rowdiness and high spirits from before. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

“This is a woman spirit, and the women mmuo are harmless. They do not even go near the big ones at the festival.” Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

And over and over again: they were spirits, it was bad luck to talk to them, they came from the fairy world. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

How can I leave this world without leaving her my spirit? The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

That afternoon, Nhamo sacrificed her best calabash to the water spirits. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

A moment later, Ophie watched as the old woman’s spirit appeared over her body, her expression slack and confused. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

I wanted Americans to understand that words matter—that the hateful language they heard coming from their TVs did not reflect the true spirit of our country and that we could vote against it. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

The Appalachian Trail Conference doesn’t recognize speed records, on the grounds that that isn’t in the spirit of the enterprise, but that doesn’t stop people from trying. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

It is the least obvious but most heinous of all race crimes, for it kills the spirit and the will to live. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Not your vain spirit, but your serious spirit.—If one leads you wrong, I am sure the other tells you of it.” Emma 1815-12-23T00:00:00Z

Being denied its “freedom” for too long, the animal becomes a shadow of itself, its spirit broken. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

Again, when, after the battle of Mohács, we threw off the Hungarian yoke, we of the Dracula blood were amongst their leaders, for our spirit would not brook that we were not free. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

I fear not spirits, ghosts, of which I am one,—that my body might,—but I fear bodies, I tremble to meet them. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

The spirit clung to her, shaking his head,and she said, “Don’t worry. I have a plan. We’ll be okay.” Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

But it is a spirited country, is pollution-free, and has no urban slums and virtually no crime. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

The spirits’ hymn grew louder and louder, erupted from inside her, but somewhere beneath it all she heard a voice singing softly. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

She struggled against him, until they got tired of beating her and gave her a short break, which she used to invoke the understanding spirits of her grandmother, so that they would help her die. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We’ve had a lot of visits from leopards recently: first the spirit animal by the stream, and then the one in the banana grove.” A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

These reminders of the yellow fever did not shake the spirit of optimism that gripped the city. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

“Only Argus and the nature spirits. Peleus the dragon is still guarding the tree.” The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

I had begun this experiment in a spirit of scientific detachment. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Just because I like the smell and the feel and the spirit of her doesn't mean I have the right to hold her like this. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

“It will be resolved by the spirits of the dead.” Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Jason thought back to Ithaca, when he was despairing over the visit from his mom’s spirit. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

My midterm grades went down and so did my spirit. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

“How dare you attack the spirit of the noble Mrs. Levy,” Ignatius thundered. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Only one spirit remained inside when Pandora opened it.” The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

She didn’t understand how such a lonely, depressed spirit could produce a horn of plenty that shot out pineapples and birthday cakes. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

“You are lucky the spirits have touched you so. Every girl here wishes she were the one to have been marked in such a sacred manner.” The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

Recognizing the presence of great power, she asked the spirit of the white crane if it would teach her to fight. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

She wasn’t sure what had been scarier: the strangers trying to spirit her away or the fact that she wasn’t sure she wanted them to fail. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

“Yeah . . . spirits are never good advisers. They’ve got their own agendas. Old grudges. And they resent the living.” The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

I admired her spirit; but more, I wanted to help her see the value of her adventure. From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sierra strode out into the field toward the darkness, watching the bursts of light as her spirit soldiers converged on Robbie. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

Everyone was subdued by what had occurred, but by afternoon the work of the harvest raised our spirits. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

People easily understand that ‘primitives’ cement their social order by believing in ghosts and spirits, and gathering each full moon to dance together around the campfire. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

“This is really lifting my spirits,” I grumble. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

I wanted everything to stay exactly where it was, so I’d be able to find her spirit whenever I wanted to. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Perhaps, in remembering, her spirit let go of the unhappiness. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Oh, for some good spirit to suggest a judicious and satisfactory response! Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

He saw right away that she had true spirit. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

They thought she needed help, not just in raising the kids but in raising her spirits. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

Hamlet paused before coming to his point “I wish to discover whether a surgeon, by cutting out the cankered spot, could restore the vital spirit to perfection.” Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

Chucha always had a voodoo job going, some spell she was casting or spirit she was courting or enemy she was punishing. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

And dropping a small, gilded bottle at the witch’s feet, the spirit vanished. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

I lay in bed after Mama left and let my mind rake through the past, through the years when Jaja and Mama and I spoke more with our spirits than with our lips. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

It would be our messenger to the spirit world. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

As I entered the community center, sorority women, showing off their high fashion and high spirits, greeted us as though we were very important. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

But there were a few irreplaceable items that buoyed my spirit and fight for life. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

After a few months Blanca realized that she could not hold him prisoner indefinitely and gave up her plans to reduce his spirit in order to make him her permanent lover. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ophie’s mouth went dry, but the spirit didn’t wait for an answer. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

He probed me with these eyes, searching my thoughts, my spirit. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

“They don’t do that anymore, do they?” she asked Mother, but Mother’s spirit had stolen away, and the hut was silent. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

The air was filled with the whispers and echoes of ancient spirits, and on the rock wall I could see a faint carving of my brother Hatun’s face. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

Indeed, as we shall shortly see, every note of music subsequently written and played would be shaped by the spirit of the age. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Actually, the whole school was in a happy holiday spirit, even before Mrs. Sidman’s letter. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

They had a spirit and skill that hadn’t yet been accounted for in the polls. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

So rare is it to encounter a young man willing to put aside his ego when in need of help, your spirits actually lift a bit as you push the button to comply. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z

“Takes a lot of energy for a spirit to communicate.” Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

Then Sauron was vanquished and his spirit fled and was hidden for long years, until his shadow took shape again in Mirkwood. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

Aurelia glanced unseeingly at the huge shambling animal, but she didn’t wait to see it go through its weary tricks, restoring the old carefree spirit to the great audience. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

In a low voice, he said, “Nobody tells me nothing, but I figure it’s spirits.” Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mr. Pocket was in good spirits, when a housemaid came in, and said, “If you please, sir, I should wish to speak to you.” Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z

His father spirited Krishna away, not stopping until he arrived at a river swollen in flood. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

I saw the people around me, calm, happy, excited in the way of people open to the spirit. Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Impulsively, she paid tribute to the spirit of the caribou by lifting her arms to the sun. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

I knew he loved the part about our being evil spirits. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

She slid her spirit vision along the streets till she found hers, watched in horror as María Santiago and Uncle Neville came tearing out of the brownstone and ran down the dark sidewalk. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

Treat him like a spirit worthy of my attention, and maybe he would start behaving himself. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then after a long empty time he said, “Take it slow. Just go wherever the spirit takes you.” The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

But it was the strength of her character, her undaunted spirit and unshakable dignity, that transformed her from a singer to an international symbol of progress in the advancement of human rights. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z

I didn’t think that was something Doc could actually do, but a few days ago I didn’t believe spirits could come back from the beyond and talk to us, so what did I really know? Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

Did they believe that walnut trees were inhabited by spirits? Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Yet now that the command was his, the fulfillment of an old and troubled dream, he suffered a hollowness of spirit that had the unmistakable dimension of anticlimax. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

These are all offerings to the spirits, and in return, they will help me. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Hari went on, “If I am very lucky, I will die in Varanasi so that my ashes will be scattered over the holy Ganges River; then my spirit will be free.” Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

They often approached visitors as if they might be deities, possibly calculating, in the spirit of Pascal's wager, that the downside of an erroneous attribution of celestial power was minimal. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Dill was in good spirits as he clocked out of work, took off his green apron, folded it, and put it in his backpack. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

At the National Political Training Institute, or Napola, the boys received additional military training, with an emphasis on the spirit, duty, and discipline of the soldier. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

His spirit had entered the painting and was taking control. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

Their first object was her sister; and she was more grieved than astonished to hear, in reply to her minute enquiries, that though Jane always struggled to support her spirits, there were periods of dejection. Pride and Prejudice 1813-01-28T00:00:00Z

This amiable spirit was felt at once, and both aunts ‘my deared’ her affectionately, looking what they afterward said emphatically, “That child improves every day.” Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Man, don’t tell me spirits are like cops...” Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

“This took us all by surprise, Hiram. I hope you understand that only Gramma’s body is dead. Her spirit still lives, and we’ll be with her again one day.” Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

Omakayas wished that she had something to give them—she had run away from camp with nothing more than a handful of spirit tobacco in her pocket. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

“What happened to the spirit that tried to get in there?” Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

She lashed out with her right hand, focusing all of the raging spirits inside her, and caught the demon haint full across the face as it rose toward her. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

He proceeded to ask whether the trouble was caused by a shave, a wandering spirit. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

The embroidery on her close-fitting dress gleamed and she looked, for a moment, like a shapely spirit who had emerged from the sea. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

I move slightly so I can see the other half of the room—and my spirits sink. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ti Jean says you might be talking to a demon who will steal your spirit. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

He said think of that place every day and night so my spirit will know the way. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was as if someone had died, and they turned their gaze from the spirit that walked the earth. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Unless—unless somehow Oak could be crowned and spirited away from Faerie. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

He piled large rocks around his mother’s house to keep the dead spirit in the ground. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

He delighted in her intelligence, in her spirit. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Sierra didn’t know which thoughts were hers and which were the spirits’. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

Nico tried to sense any restless spirits in the area, but he felt nothing. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

“That’s the spirit! This beauty is from one of the hardest trees I ever chewed. I just need to make a few modifications.” The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

But in fact I remained a country boy at heart, and there was nothing that lifted my spirits as much as blue skies, the open veld, and green grass. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

By late October, as one by one applications were sent in, a spirit of celebration set in among the seniors. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

The house spirit turned his glare to Anya, and she shook her head. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

It was when he said that the owl was the spirit of Ultima that everything I had ever known about Ultima and her bird seemed to make sense. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

His tormentors seemed to be losing most of their fighting spirit. Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

She spreads her arms and asks the spirits again, then puts her hands on the pointer. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

“The sticks disagree. These deaths were not caused by a family spirit.” A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

And to have that rubbed in my face by my one kindred spirit, the only person around who was more of an outsider than I was—it was the ultimate insult. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

The spirits would deliver us the message of no rain right and true. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

She had trafficked with spirits, and it showed. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It would have to be given by a worker...or spirit.” Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

“I’m not allowed to say something nice to Mia in the spirit of Thanksgiving?” A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

Not a word did she say, however, till her mother found her in tears one day, and insisted on knowing what the matter was, for Meg’s drooping spirits had not escaped her observation. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

Night and day, one or the other sat with him and did not let go of his hand for fear he would run to the land of the spirits. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

“You don’t have the strength to keep your spirits up.” My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Emerging from his goblet, coughing, sopping wet but still grinning, he saw something calculated to raise his spirits even higher: Draco Malfoy being dragged by the ear toward them by Argus Filch. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

It’s where she draws her strength from, her fighting spirit. Black Brother, Black Brother 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

Our manifesto stated: “We believe that the national liberation of Africans will be achieved by Africans themselves. . . . The Congress Youth League must be the brains-trust and power-station of the spirit of African nationalism.” Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The feel of neglect is somehow truer to the spirit of Sing Sing. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her hand landed on the linen as the rusalka’s hand did the same, and the water spirit’s cold fingers touched Anya’s as they both grasped the cloth. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

Other spirits rushed forward, but Annabeth and I kept them back. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Hawkins led them through a dozen verses, each one faster and more spirited than the first. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

They’ve took others we miss more, but there’s no denying she showed more spirit than most.’ The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

She had moved on, just like Daddy and so many other spirits. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

Every time the sow belched, Grover's nature spirits yelped and faded back into their trees. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

And if this spirit of liberty got out of hand, that could be really dangerous. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

Sam embraced her with his usual enthusiasm, his shirt damp and reeking with spirits. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

“In spite of our troubles and losing sleep the whole party was in good spirits, for, at last, we had exchanged inaction for action,” Worsley remembered. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

Joy filled the city, joy in the battle-array, the shining armor and spirited chargers and proud standards, joy at facing a war to the death. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

Gray from the beginning, its end was announced by a deepening gray, of sky, snow, faces, spirits. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

As for actually knitting—my spirit is willing, but my fingers don't seem to cooperate. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

“Dad had a spirit,” she said, like she was rewinding a bit in our conversation. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

All told, I felt like Duke had given me an excellent education in mind, body, and spirit. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

They tell us Pol Pot makes us work hard because he wants to purify our spirit and help us achieve beyond our potential as farmers. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some defiant spark, the same rebellious spirit he has now. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

It moaned like a lost spirit in the bones and turned surprisingly cold. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

I said, “Yes, ma’am, my spirit’s a lot stronger than it looks too, most folks are really surprised by that.” Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

Pain sucking so hard at their spirits that they could not imagine a tomorrow. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

From then on, I couldn’t picture Charlie sitting there contemplating the spirit of the Great Hunter. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

That credit card preapproval, with her name correctly spelled and elegantly italicized, had roused her spirits, made her a little less invisible, a little more present. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

I did not offer to share the peanuts with Granny, because I was not, in any way, feeling generous of spirit. Louisiana's Way Home 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

I wondered if the spirit of Delphi was roasting marshmallows up there or something. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

There was, at the mention of her name, a silence among us; none wished to speak, as would further words disturb her lingering spirit. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

The community was highly spirited and resilient, despite the storm damage. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

“West is where the spirits of the dead walk. If the whites keep chasing us west, we’ll end up in the land of the spirits.” The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

‘He believed in the holiness of the human spirit.’ The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

For Noah, it signifies one thing: death of the spirit. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

The chief elder turned to the other spirits of the Ridgefolk and conferred. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

Their different treads, as if even as spirits they retained their personalities, Patria’s sure and measured step, Minerva’s quicksilver impatience, Mate’s playful little skip. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

By 10:00 P.M. the water seemed relatively clear of ice, and their spirits rose: so far, so good. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

But while the Bottle Trees were guards, making sure evil spirits like Uncle C didn’t escape, the Tree of Power seemed like it wanted to protect you. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

I climbed back to the stone wall in great spirits. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was difficult to separate out this presence from the others, but she was increasingly convinced that this spirit—if that is what it was—had a goal. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

So the spirit of La Siren came in the form of a big boat, with strong arms to pull us up and over the side of the metal railing. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

She forgot the names of the servants and even of her own children, yet she always managed to be present, like a cheerful, beneficent spirit, at whose slightest footfall clocks began to wind themselves. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

And owls call out to the bikinda, spirits of the dead. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

But he did not have enough spirit to respond positively to the idea of self-destruction. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

Milton, the child apostate, would have been confirmed in his skepticism, because his spirit never returned that day, trying to get past me. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

But Coach Hedge promised he could guard Reyna for a little longer and, on the off chance the spirit had something useful to say, Nico decided it was worth the risk. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

The world of Greek mythology was not a place of terror for the human spirit. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

The spirits made muffled hisses as they dissipated, like the air let out of tires. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

“That is the true spirit, comrade!” cried Squealer, but it was noticed he cast a very ugly look at Boxer with his little twinkling eyes. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z

She had broken the spirits of three husbands, more driving and dynamic than all of them combined. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

The story always lifted my spirits and gave strength to my arms. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I believed, and still do, that our bodies are our selves, that my soul is the voltage conducted through neurons and nerves, and that my spirit is my flesh. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

It was difficult to see because the roiling surface had yet to recover its tranquillity, and the turbulence was driven by the lingering spirit of her fury. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

She loved him, and the spirited easy life he gave her, and yet she often fought the urge to create rough edges, to squash his sunniness, even if just a little. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

It swiped at the ancestral spirits, trying to claw their shimmering forms. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

“Yes, it is. And my mother burns sandalwood incense. She says it’s good for meditation and the spirits like it too.” Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

That’s something we should never forget; while others display their heroism in battle or against the Germans, our helpers prove theirs every day by their good spirits and affection. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

For some people, however, the spirit would leave the body forever, and they would die in their sleep. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was kindness in his eyes and kindness in his spirit. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

A grant of parole, the arrival of a hoped-for letter, a visit from a long-absent family member would lift everyone's spirits. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Although a capital trial can be quite grim, our spirits were generally high. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I never partake of strong spirits, but it might help, however, in this insect-infested country.” Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was so spontaneous, so emancipated, with such a free and modern spirit, that Aureliano did not know what to do with his body when he saw her arrive. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

It lifted my spirit to see his joy despite his tragic story. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

She’d explained cell phones and the internet to the spirits, so they were all up to speed, but you never know. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

Not too far along I found a pleasant resting place where I could sit and munch and contemplate and stare out over the stately brown, slow-moving Father of Waters as my spirit required. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

I shot my little sister a spirit yell from the eyes. Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Somebody would inevitably high-kick when it was time for spirit fingers, the timing was off on the contagion, and the whole thing was such a disaster that Petra pronounced it “so dinner theater on Mars.” Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

Summoning his power all at once and with no thought for himself, he sent his spirit out after the child’s spirit, to bring it back home. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

While the pot simmered and the steam hung above it like a gray spirit, she took out a needle and thread and mended a hole in her old mitten. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

I couldn’t help looking for familiar faces among the spirits of Asphodel, but the dead are hard to look at Their faces shimmer. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

He was seventy years old, but had the body and spirit of a man half that age. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Karpoi grain spirits—those horrible little piranha Cupids—were rushing through the tall grass abducting campers at random, pulling them away from the line. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

They were the very spirit of insurrection and glee. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

Annabeth frowned Last summer, before my quest, I’d visited the.strange spirit that lived in the Big House attic and it had given me a prophecy that came true in ways I’d never expected. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

She crept through the underbrush, finished off her chalk on a nearby tree trunk, and shaped four more spirits into the jagged lines. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

I don’t move because my cowardice tramples me, even as I try to lift my spirit from its knees. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

Luckily, my spirit willed my body to keep on going. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

Tall and bony, with hair the same chilly gray as her eyes, she hovered over the class like a vengeful spirit. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

He saw her as the passionate spirit of innocent youth, now beleaguered by the trick which is played on youth—the trick of treachery in the body, which turns flesh into green bones. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I am mudiimu. A dirty spirit has invaded this clan, and we must seek it out.” The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

This noble war in the sky elevated my spirits; I clasped my hands, and exclaimed aloud, “William, dear angel! this is thy funeral, this thy dirge!” Frankenstein 1818-01-01T00:00:00Z

Miguel thought it was a poltergeist, a sort of mischievous spirit that liked to play tricks on the living. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

“It was not. They were proper spirits all right, and you know it. But whatever spirits’s moving this blooming needle en’t that sort of spirit.” The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

The frank laughter of the gigantic Jesuit lifted Pedro Tercero’s spirits and brought a smile to his lips for the first time in three weeks. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Now,” he says, “to get you into the spirit of the place, how about a little drink?” The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

The spirits, for reasons still unclear to me, shun my every attempt to channel them into my unfortunate sketches. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

“Once, long ago, Zimbabwe was attacked by spirits from Mozambique,” Mother explained. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

In the stillness, for a second, I thought he might be stalking a spirit or an angel. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

But first I have to think of that place every day, so my spirit will know where to run away to, when it’s time. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

When they were just dating, my mother was still the free spirit, doing what she wanted, going where she wanted. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

“Because it was only my spirit swimming in the ocean, and not really me.” Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

We thought a kitten might lift our mother's spirits, but she declined all offers. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

He began by throwing out the rubble his father’s men had left and cleaning up his premises, breathing rhythmically to empty his insides of any trace of anger and to purify his spirit. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

You can raise the money, Carolyn, God said to my spirit. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Marshall Square was squalid, dark, and dingy, but we were all together and so impassioned and spirited that I barely noticed my surroundings. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Washington Daily reported that “despite the intense cold, the shell house radiated more fire and spirit last night than has been the case for many a year.” The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

His ailments, his frustration, and the mounting intensity of the work taxed his spirits and caused him to feel older than his age. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Too many farmers had assumed, without due enquiry, that on such a farm a spirit of licence and indiscipline would prevail. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z

“So long as no one makes any puns about spirits and spirits,” Theodora said, holding out her glass to Luke to be filled. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s in Hebrews. It says, ‘Are they not all ministering spirits sent out to serve for the sake of those who are to inherit salvation?” Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

There were twenty or more of them with teams and loads of logs, with saws and axes, and a barrel of cider to give their work a spark of holiday spirit. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

The spirits were leaving him now, shadows flickering off into the thick warehouse air. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

"Pain you will have, but you must keep your body strong to fight the poison spirits." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Pleased to have lifted Perilee’s spirits, I shaped the dough into two loaves and a dozen rolls. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

At another time Emma might have been amused, but she was too much astonished now at Mr. Elton’s spirits for other feelings. Emma 1815-12-23T00:00:00Z

She carried herself with what I think of as a Caribbean breeziness, a lightness of spirit that caused her to stand out among Princeton’s studious masses. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

At first Fred talked, as before, about music and art, his spirit knotted up with the need to impress. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

There’s something about team competition that brings out one’s competitive spirit—especially when you are fighting for your country. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

“He might even be a spirit medium when he gets older,” said the first young man. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

“I don’t want to think about spirits or ghosts at all. I just want to know where my mother is.” Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

The broken body of the old man withered more and more, but when the smell of harvest and the hunt came with October, his spirit seemed to quicken his dragging step. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Jackson rose to thank Ames and his northern colleagues for seeing the light and recovering the old conciliatory spirit that had once permitted northern and southern interests to cooperate. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

Before the mother went back into the classroom, she stood there and cursed for a while, muttering that those spirits that had sent the child to break her few plates would not succeed. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

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

“Likely as not it was Sunday,” she laughed; “and I was running away from prayers, from the Presbyterian service, read in a spirit of gloom by my father that chills me yet to think of.” The Awakening 1899-01-01T00:00:00Z

Taking a firm grip on the mitten, he flattened his ears in spirited fellowship, dashed down the slope and up to his den. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Well, Rukmani, since we have done business for a long time, and because you are a woman of spirit whom I have long admired, I will give you thirty rupees. Nobody could be fairer.” Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

Outgoing and extremely personable when the spirit moved him, he charmed a lot of folks. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

She concentrated for a half second, and then simply allowed all the spirits churning inside her to surge forward into Wick. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

The wings that could spirit us away were hidden in the master’s desk. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were shot, hanged, maimed, lynched, and generally hounded until they were either dead or their spirits broken. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

He says the mind and spirit are useful, too. Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Nico stared at the canals, as if wondering what new and interesting forms of evil spirits might be lurking there. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

I tried to model good behavior and keep spirits up. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

After many years even a good boat gets cracks, Crocodile Guts had said the first time she met his spirit. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You can’t keep drawing your own spirit. It might not kill you,” he said, because spirit wasn’t like blood, and somehow people went on living without it, if you could call it living. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

That spirit alarmed and discomfited many Europeans, toff and peasant alike. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Measures like these added precision to the understanding of how long it takes the brain to react, findings that were very much in the spirit of Helmholtz and mental chronometry, the study of brain structures. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

But now its teeth were drawn, its spirit spent. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

On the other hand, her spirits rose with news that would have been insignificant for other people, such as the fact that her son had seen the Pope. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

Charon grabbed two spirits who were trying to get on with us and pushed them back into the lobby. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

“She wouldn’t know me, even if I could find her. These spirits... it’s like an eternal dream for them, an endless trance. This is the best I could do for her.” The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

But he wasn’t certain about his grandfather’s spirit and where it went. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z

Nhamo had never been taught hunting, but her restless spirit had seized upon any information she overheard at the men’s dare. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Frank wished he could do more to lift Hedge’s spirits, but this talk was making him worry about everyone he’d left behind. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

I could tell the spirit was on Loomis to help us out, but he knew white folks’ funerals aren’t like colored funerals. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

A few spirits that could handle those demons while she...Of course! Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

Anyone who took the time to think about things would realize that things like the prom, school spirit, and who won the football game are utterly insignificant in the larger scheme of things. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Deadly dangerous; while the spirit’s in it, it won’t never stop, and when you let the spirit flee, it’s so monstrous angry it’ll kill the first thing it gets at.” The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

As I drift to sleep, I think of Pa. I know his spirit can travel over land to be with me but worry if he can cross the ocean to America. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Inside my head, I heard a voice, slithering into one ear and coiling around my brain: I am the spirit of Delphi, speaker of the prophecies of Phoebus Apollo, slayer of the mighty Python. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe it was the Christmas spirit in the air, or the thought of a two-week vacation, but everyone seemed a lot more lighthearted, in spite of finals. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

The reports he was receiving from mutual friends emphasized Jefferson’s generosity of spirit in defeat. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

The owls still croon and croon, and the air is thick with spirits. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Lots of death. Restless spirits. If I go, I may be able to keep them at bay. Besides, as you noticed, I speak Italian.” The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

The old woman’s spirit, she realized, would still be in her body. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

She looks like a spirit; her snowy nightdress is the same shade as her skin and hair. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

I don’t know what I have to prepare for in the spirit world, but I already know I’m ready. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

“Come inside before night falls. Your mother’s spirit will be safe with your father watching over her.” Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

She assumed Mother’s spirit hovered near her grave, as the other ancestors did, but what if her body had been carried off by a leopard? A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

The chair, the bed, the mirror, picking up glints of moonlight, seem to move, shuddering, trembling with spirits making them jerk, come alive. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

The tiny boy was a spirit, so far, who had come to live here and was deciding whether or not to stay. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

Twig sleeps over on Friday, and Dad drops us off at school in the morning so we can “go to the game and show school spirit,” etc., etc. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Thornton’s doubt was strong in his face, but his fighting spirit was aroused—the fighting spirit that soars above odds, fails to recognize the impossible, and is deaf to all save the clamor for battle. The Call of the Wild 1903-01-01T00:00:00Z

Felicia’s spirits soar as the coconut ice cream diminishes. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

An education taught by life, challenge, difficulty and will, born of my own spirit, and the spirit of the world in which I live and that I treasure. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

We decided that we would each speak the following day in a spirit of constructive compromise. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

‘The lack of ghosts is eerie. Back in ancient times, Delos was sacred ground. No mortal was allowed to be born here or die here. There are literally no mortal spirits on this whole island.’ Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

I had never seen him in such high spirits. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

“There. Under there. She never comes out. Even to buy rice spirits she sends a runner. Now, can I go?” Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

The sober young divinity student seemed an odd match for Judith’s high spirits. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

A shave was a friendly spirit with a skill to bestow. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

The boys were greatly awed by Tendai’s storytelling ability as well as the possibility that he might be a spirit medium someday. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

It’s a fascinating study of the degeneration of the human spirit. Tears of a Tiger 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Are you suggesting I commit an act of war because this man has a hot line to the spirit world?” The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

It was, and would be throughout the entirety of my time in the White House, a balm for my spirit, a way to momentarily escape my First Lady worries, my self-consciousness about constantly being judged. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

But running wasn’t exclusively an affair of the spirit; it was a competitive undertaking as well. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

I raised dust swirls sweeping around and under the FOB’s chair—very bad luck because spirits live inside the broom. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

So basically, our school spirit disguises weren’t great. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

That spirit of social initiative disappeared in a short time, pulled away by the fever of the magnets, the astronomical calculations, the dreams of transmutation, and the urge to discover the wonders of the world. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

As far as Charlie was concerned, the Great Hunter was an Indian spirit who lived in our woods. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Jackson, as I called her, had an expansive spirit and a big laugh. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

He felt it most in his hands, but it was spreading: a pulse of blood and spirit and...power. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

He was in such good spirits that he was even willing to respond to letters from Fabyan. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

He alluded to last night only by asking how Phineas was; I said he seemed to be in good spirits. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

It insured that wandering spirits stayed where they belonged. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

A hedge wizard had told him there would be a bountiful spirit summer before the cold set in, he claimed. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

The bad spirit stayed in the world for four years. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

The very notion of a republican king was a repudiation of the spirit of’76 and a contradiction in terms. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

“Come on, spirits. I know you out here.” Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

The lift in spirit that such an accomplishment produced in her quickly disappeared when the train finally pulled into New Orleans. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

It was in the context of this spirit of activism by Indians, Coloureds, and Africans that Walter Sisulu first broached the idea to a small group of us of a national civil disobedience campaign. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Yeah, some of ’em are the ancestors of us shadowshapers, some are just other folks that passed on and then became spirits. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

Like the spirit of the city itself, it would take more than a few bombs to topple St. Paul’s. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

The four younger hobbits were, however, in high spirits, and the party soon became very cheerful in spite of Gandalf’s absence. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

The stable hands got into the spirit of things. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

The freshman boys, in particular, were in high spirits. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

“His spirit wanders. He has become an ngozi without a resting place, without heirs. He seeks revenge. He is the one who slew your relatives—and that one’s father is responsible!” A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

News that Martin Luther King, Jr., would visit Durham on Thursday, April 4, 1968, boosted the spirits of a beleaguered black population in the Bull City. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

The spirit horse charged into the sunflowers and dissipated into vapor. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

“I am considered something of a Potter authority; it is widely known that we are friendly. I have assured the spirit community that I will not pester you for information, however. ‘ Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

From these qualities, a prince must guard himself as if from a reef, and he must strive to make everyone recognize in his actions greatness, spirit, dignity, and strength. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z

If you resisted, the spirit made you sick. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

“Either the spirit takes hold, or it doesn’t.” The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

And yet, when I ask Lázaro about filling the void that this overbearing spirit woman left behind, all I get in response are murmurs and shrug offs. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

She was certain it was a trick of the light, but everyone else took the appearance of a spirit leopard seriously. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

He despised her spirit of sacrifice, her severity, her vocation for poverty, and her unshakable chastity, which he felt as a reproach toward his own egotistical, sensual, power- hungry nature. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

The garden was white with sea-fog; it might have been an assembly of spirits: Mama and Jimmy and Fern. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

More important, the spirit to rebuild was strong. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z

Ged went a few paces up the slope away from the others and turning said in a clear voice, “Jasper! Whose spirit shall I call?” A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

Singing softly in Eskimo, she told him she had no bladder for his spirit to dwell in, but that she had his totem. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Winning the Cracker Barrel peg game is not pathetic. It’s a triumph of the human spirit. Come on. You invented this idea.” The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

The paths of the body were long, but the paths of the spirit were short, and the vadzimu had gathered to witness her gift, and to protect their wandering child. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

For almost a generation, psychologists around the world have been engaged in a spirited debate over a question that most of us would consider to have been settled years ago. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

A couple of black-robbed ghouls had pulled aside one spirit and were frisking him at the security desk. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

Although I can guess, she said as the small spirit that had shared my body came over next to me. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

He had answers to none of these questions and no spirit left to force himself to think about them. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

He asked them to honor the memory of their fallen comrades by maintaining their spirit of camaraderie during captivity and during the rebuilding of Germany. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

I raised the glass in a toast, but only pretended to drink; such spirits are too strong for me. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You took that from Sirius’s house,” said Harry, who was almost nose to nose with Mundungus and was breathing in an unpleasant smell of old tobacco and spirits. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

It is entirely against the spirit of the AT to have restaurant breaks along the trail, but I never met a hiker who didn’t appreciate it to bits. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

Kirke, then: of her deceits and magic, then of his voyage to the wide underworld of dark, the house of Death, and questioning Teiresias, Theban spirit. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

This is what he liked—to be in command and everything going smoothly, the students responding to their names smartly, accepting the chocolates, showing school spirit. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was all right to dream of spirits. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“This is not the Miss Teen Dream spirit, ladies.” Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

Alicia nods, and I can tell from her face that she's into the spirit of the hunt, tilting her head to listen as Dad starts rooting through the kitchen junk drawer. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now it was Schirach’s job to educate all German youth in the spirit of National Socialism. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

She didn’t seem to have much fighting spirit left at all. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

Then each member of the crew, with a mother on one arm, a father or sister on the other, was spirited off down the street into little cottages or big mansions. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You have some, too,” she told the Portuguese spirit as she gave him an extra helping. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

As I got closer my spirits started lifting. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

You see, Hannelore, I am generous with my spirit, not only my broom. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

It was more than the sparkling September air that accounted for her high spirits. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

Tam Lin loved a good argument, the more spirited the better. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“None could find you . . . the guards had not seen you and we feared . . .” “You feared the King of the City of Bright Moonlight had been spirited away?” Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

These things were you, now there is no connection whatever; the sorrow within me is not for this body which has suffered and in suffering has let slip the spirit, but for you, my son. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

She is one of Prospero’s attendant spirits in The Tempest, and has to wear a body stocking, with a gauzy costume over top, sprinkled with dried leaves and spangles. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

They say that when his spirit crossed the river that encircles the world of the dead, it leaned over the boat to catch a final glimpse of itself in the water. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

A fierce murmur swam through the remaining crowd of spirits as they flooded onto the fifth floor ahead of Wick and his throng haints. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

It meant dying in such pain that one’s spirit was charged with dreadful energy. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

My two gourdes in change had to be thrown overboard as an offering to Agwe, the spirit of the water. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

As for MacGregor, he was in fine spirits. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was still a spirit of revolt among the pupils. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had lost his airplane and had to return on foot, but he had not broken any bones and his adventurous spirit was intact. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

And yet, this was a place of spirit and magic. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

“That’s the spirit I like!” cried the Director, and clapped Mr. Foster on the shoulder. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

The goddess’s two horses nipped at each other, as if getting into the spirit. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

“I’m not alive, but my spirit doesn’t haunt this place.” Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

According to a second theory, the children had been identified at birth as the incarnations of some long-dead spirits. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her mother had been dead now for four days, and Kira could tell that the last of the spirit was drifting away. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You know, bring him a little Christmas spirit.” The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

They were not fit to cover the distance by nightfall: and before long they had worse to face than their own fatigue and low spirits. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then there she was, gliding along three feet above the ocean, spirits all around her. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

Someday, when the spirit of Zimbabwe stumbled and the mhondoro grew faint, the gate would open again and remind the rest of the world of what it once had been. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

His mother consorts with spirits and daemons, one of whom eventually provides the means to travel to the moon. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Whatever accounted for the results of his experiments, it wasn’t mystical, and neither was mesarthium itself, and neither was spirit. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

And when Sarai saw herself in the mirror again before sending out her moths, she thought that she looked more like a wild forest spirit than the goddess of despair. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

“I will help you release your spirit. But Bianca has passed. She must stay where she is.” The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

And through us, through our memories, their spirits will live. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

When the grave covered them they became pure spirits, beneficent, the guardians of mankind. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her lips moved in silent appeal to whatever ancestral spirits might still live on in this place. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

The black brothers had left Castle Black in good spirits, joking and trading tales, but of late the brooding silence of the wood seemed to have sombered them all. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Only the strangeness of it, to me a Terran, and the strangeness of seeing the flash of my friend’s spirit in this grim, fierce, provincial boy, made me dumb for a while. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

Vodyaniye, the sinister river-grass spirits who lived in bodies of water and would regularly capsize fishing boats and drown the fishermen. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

“Babulya also told me about an evil possessing spirit! She called it ru’ach tezazit. It’s a bad spirit that gets inside someone and makes them say or do things they would never do.” Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

‘A tragedy like that creates a lot of angry spirits.’ Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

“Because Luigi’s smart. He figured out that one of you library-loving kids was helping me hoard every single copy of that terrible book. It broke his heart. Crushed his spirit.” Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z

Infected by her spirit Nailer started to laugh, too. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

He remembered an island, a cave lit with soft glowing crystals, a dinner table on the beach tended by invisible air spirits. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

All these spirits, she claimed, lived in the coal shed. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

It—for the spirit was both male and female—stretched back to the first human who raised his—or her—shaggy head from the immediate business of finding food. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

One day I had come to my studies in lower spirits than usual; the ebb was occasioned by a poignantly felt disappointment. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

Smuggled out by certain friendly spirits, they miraculously escaped the infamous pyre in which so many other family papers perished. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

He stood at the mouth of the alley, all reedy pulse and ravaged spirit, wondering what it all meant. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Afi had constantly talked about her bright spirit and her future. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

She made a mental note to educate Ivan about the true nature of some of his entries, and also to ask about the emotional state of his house spirit. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

“And higher yet is the upper world, the future, home of the sky spirits, the rainbow, lightning, stars, sun, moon, and condor.” The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

“Find him. There’s a war coming. Grover was preparing the nature spirits.” The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

“How do I get to the spirit world?” Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

There were whispers of spirits and haints, and even the conjure woman called in to cleanse the place said that there was nothing to be done. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

The Master lit the spirit lamp under the little silver chafing dish and heated some butter before cutting half a dozen poppy heads open and tossing them in. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

I looked up and another spirit formed in front of me. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

He wrestled in his spirit and fought down the evil blackness. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

David Alexander spent time with him and found him in jovial spirits. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Say, my spirit, How fares the king and ’s followers? The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

“Other opinions suggest it’s an angry spirit. They say it tortures animals, especially cats. That’s the sound the students hear, late at night: tortured cat’s guts. Quite a terrifying sound, I understand.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

In her animal spirits there was an affluence of life and certainty of flow, such as excited my wonder, while it baffled my comprehension. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

“No. You destroyed the body. His spirit’s long gone. You know that. Come on, Juan.” Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

Briony indulged herself by looking through the window in a spirit of farewell. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Sasha and Malia came to love the convivial spirit of the kitchen, slipping in to make smoothies or pop popcorn after school. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z