By the time he recovered, he was in seventh, four lengths behind Aneroid and Indian Broom. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I worried that she wouldn’t. It meant leaving so much behind. But Matty convinced her. Good for him.” Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

As he had run forward, eager, rejoicing to be free, Shelob with hideous speed had come behind and with one swift stroke had stung him in the neck. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

“I don’t think there’s any need for language like that!” said Madam Malkin, scurrying out from behind the clothes rack holding a tape measure and a wand. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

The debils’ attacks were getting worse and worse, and we began to feel unsafe, even behind our gate. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then suddenly the trees came to an end and the mists were left behind. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

I closed my eyes and took long breaths, and as I listened I began to hear not just the cascade of words, but the pain behind them. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

I sat down and he looked at me, his eyes somber behind their steel-rimmed spectacles. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

My uncertainty about what to expect ended when the officer reached above my head and began to pull my left arm behind my back. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

That night they camped on a stony shelf with a rock-wall behind them, in which there was a shallow cave, a mere scoop in the cliff. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

He is smiling as he sings, the music getting louder behind him. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

The ones he left behind are far away, will wonder, shrug, remember. The House on Mango Street 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

She took small steps backward until she stood on tiptoe, the seat pressed against her behind. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z

I put my full weight behind the wrench, and the bolt begins to turn. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

The merchant spent the entire day mumbling behind the counter, telling the boy to be careful with the pieces and not to break anything. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Finally, a voice behind him asked Ben, “Who are you, son?” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

And a woman with a very edgy basket in her hands, who was just behind Shasta, pushed the basket hard against his shoulders, and said, "Now then! Who are you shoving!" The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z

After a while he stopped and pressed his hands against the bark of the cedar tree behind her so that his blunt muscled arms passed on either side of her head. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

It didn’t hurt at all, but I let out a gasp, and so did most of the girls behind me. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ivan was a step behind her, and then abreast, and then ahead, long legs pushing him faster. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

I wondered for a moment whether I should grab that waitress and kick her behind out to look at it, but I didn’t dare. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

His mother slid a padded floor chair behind Doha, but he could only lean on it sideways. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

Snow was smaller than Stone, a single fortified tower and a timber keep and stable hidden behind a low wall of unmortared rock. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

I heard a number of sounds layered behind him—drums, a keyboard playing cosmic notes, and something low, like a saxophone. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

A third fetterling had slithered through the leaves behind me and tripped me up. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

Bill has just counted off the eleventh lash when the crowd behind me begins murmuring. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

But he was spotted several times peeking out at the crowd from behind the drawn Venetian blinds on his office windows. Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

I realize Ford snuck out and is hiding behind the couch, watching. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

“Yeah, that’s Harry Potter,” said a growling voice from behind them. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

I've labeled her "Big Harm" behind her back—short for the harmonium she plays—and her husband is "Little Harm," because he's shorter, skinnier, and slightly less evil than his wife. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Uncle Vernon had to wrestle Dudley to the ground to get the letter from him, which was made difficult by the fact that Harry had grabbed Uncle Vernon around the neck from behind. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

There the black-and-white images came together, making a magnificent whole—all projected through the ray of light from above and behind. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

From Lookout Hill behind me, another rocket shot skyward, bleaching the night, and I saw the ship more clearly as the sea began to take it under. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

Now, the most interesting of these pictures is the pointy business behind that wall. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

The leaves caught and piled up against the soldiers’ tents left behind at the Battery campground. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even though she was a seventh grader, a year behind us, she was a neat kid. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

Instead they were drowned in the applause that greeted the players as they stepped out from behind the curtains. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

A sense of the girls and boys behind me filled me to the exclusion of everything. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

The girl behind the register tips her head back and laughs. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

“I’m coming, I’m coming,” Benny said as the door to the library closed behind him. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

The mallard and widgeon, coming in high with the gale behind, were gone before they had arrived. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

He comes a little closer as the sun falls on its hands and knees behind him. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

Lumpy was squeezed under Conner’s desk but came out to greet me when I stepped into the room with all my stuff and shut the door behind me. Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z

We spent the day protesting from behind our invisible barrier. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

He opens the door and shuts it behind him quietly before moving a portion of the privacy screens back. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

That look stung more than I thought it would; I shifted and hid behind the pyramid, my face burning. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

Only a garbage bag of old T-shirts stays behind. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

The one the little girl left behind when she came to see him. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

Tubes and wiring herniate from the opening, all leading to a series of dials and gauges, connected to three ruptured vats, and behind it, a series of arrested pistons. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

One day Etienne sits with Marie-Laure and reads to her in his feathery voice; the next he suffers from what he calls a headache and sequesters himself inside his study behind a locked door. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Ron was right behind her, looking unnerved as he pointed his wand into the corners of the chilly bathroom. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

I want her to be able to see behind this body, to see me inside here, to know that it’s the same person she spent an afternoon with on the beach. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

The other chickens hopped down too and hurried along behind. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

Baba shouts in panic, but we’re safe behind solid stone walls. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

After we got Jake, Mr. Dubonnet, and the machinists safe in the blockhouse or hiding behind their cars, Auk XIV erupted from the pad, spinning once around the rod before hurtling into the sky. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

Claire tried hard to make the face back to him, but it was difficult; she was breathing hard and could feel tears rising hotly behind her eyes. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

But the windows behind all the curtains are dark, and behind every curtain there's a horror story, a real one. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

No one passed the slow-moving pickup, and a long line of cars formed behind the battered truck. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

From behind an ornate Myrish screen carved with flowers and fancies and dreaming maidens, they peered unseen into a common room where an old man was playing a cheerful air on the pipes. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

“Veil your heads and cast behind you the bones of your mother.” Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

A stableboy stood behind her, a smirk on his face, his filthy white undertunic peeking out from beneath a soiled jerkin. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

“The easiest way is down behind the shed.” Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

What with the oxen balking so much we were two hours behind schedule. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I turned around to see, Abuela leaned down and whispered, “Face forward. You should never look behind you in church.” When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

He felt her presence, suddenly, and turned to see Kira standing behind him, looking out. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

Now he supported his half of Lazzaro with one hand while he closed the door behind himself with the other. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

I heard a Dutch voice, and an English one, and behind me came the most beautiful French voice I had ever heard, though I didn’t understand a word of his song. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

A truck pulled suddenly behind the station wagon filling the car with light. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

And behind them, almost lost in the sunset glare, the little dots of the zeppelins grew larger and firmer. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were only visible for a short while and would soon disappear behind the haze of heat and dirt. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

The fourteenth Augur follows her, managing, despite her seeming frailty, to pull a bound and gagged girl behind her. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

We raced across and as usual the brown, savage figure of the Kid left us behind. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then he sensed a movement behind him, quick and violent and too close, and before he could turn around, a paper hat had been pushed onto his head. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

I’m starting in on that theme when she suddenly dives behind the rack that separates the place where we’re standing, in the Jordache/No Boundaries section, from the Faded Glory region. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

One afternoon, as I was wiping the blackboard, Mr. Mikoyan stood close behind me and told me that he was returning to Russia. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

“That was one of my favorites,” said a deep voice behind him. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

She came to Ifemelu’s flat with her baby in one hand, her BlackBerry in the other, and a house help trailing behind, holding a canvas bag full of bottles and bibs. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Now, after thanking the men and shutting the door behind her, Mother was overcome by worry that quickly turned into rage. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z

He was standing in the 7-Eleven parking lot with the van behind him. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

I hadn’t noticed it before because he’d been behind the stove. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

“What in the world?” he said, turning to look behind him, then in confusion turning round again. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

And three blocks behind me, bobbing through the people on the sidewalk, is the police hat. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

They did not see the girl hidden behind it. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

The portrait swung closed behind Harry, but not before he had heard Dean make an angry retort... Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

The door shut behind them and I heard a key jiggle in the lock. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

Suddenly, she was back at the duel, prostrate on the ground, Cain laughing behind her, but all she could see, all she could hear, was Chaol as he knelt and reached for her. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

I was supposed to be with her that weekend in Arizona, but I was struggling so hard to breathe the night before our flight that I had to stay behind. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

She quickly leaned forward and grabbed her hands behind her knees. Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her rooms are modest in comparison to others hidden behind the circus tents, but they are filled with books and well-worn furniture. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

“Wearing the red thread of death” was a terrible phrase, but the mouse didn’t have long to consider its implications, because he was suddenly pushed from behind by the hooded mice. The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z

He could have just walked into class, poured himself a cup of coffee, and hidden behind his newspaper all afternoon. The Landry News 1999-12-01T00:00:00Z

He tightened the belt of his dressing gown, clasped his hands behind his back, and came slowly over to Meggie. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

At first I thought Grandpa didn’t know Uncle Camp was standing right behind him. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

For the rest of the year I stood directly behind her in class and mimicked every movement that she made. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then, smiling, she shut the door behind her and made her way past chattering students, here for various summer programs, down to the main lobby. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

Silver finally gave the signal to go, and led him and the others down the hill and out behind the pond. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

He’d mostly looked at academic papers, but maybe there were more encyclopedias behind the medical journals Brother Ifechi had asked him to shelve... Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

Actually, the bookies in the cigar shops in Poughkeepsie had Cal and Washington at even money, with Cornell lagging just behind at eight to five. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Briony suspected that behind her older cousin’s perfect manners was a destructive intent. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Then, when she said I would have to leave my schoolbooks behind, I nearly cried, too. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Paces behind the rest, Heather glides along, still looking up. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

I found the perfect hiding place, a small tool shed behind a clump of sagebrush that no one had hid in before. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

He was at the threshold of one of the English classrooms, his eyes wide with shock, and Kaisha stood behind his chair, a smile on her face. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

A little bell rang as she did so, and a gentleman who was seated on a high stool behind a slanting desktop looked up at her over his spectacles. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

Nina and Aleksandr had been taken prisoner behind enemy lines by the Germans: the Soviet soldier’s worst nightmare. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

Leon would pick Bailey: one of the weak kids, high honor student, but shy, introverted, always reading, his eyes red- rimmed behind the glasses. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

However, what made me smile as I stood in the doorway was that I saw he now had a small silver frame on the side table behind his desk. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

Why did white people sit in the front of city buses and black people sit in the back, behind the signs that said “coloreds”? I didn’t know. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

“Don’t you dare walk away on us,” Cordelia says behind me. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Schoening and Beidleman, barely able to speak, told the Russian where to find the five clients who’d remained behind out in the elements and then collapsed in their respective tents, utterly spent. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

The high chamber of the turret behind, where they had met again, seemed almost homely: they were out in the open again now, and terror ran along the walls. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

We enter the school together, ignoring Baba’s grunting behind us. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

Then Nathan walked as quietly and as invisibly as possible behind Uncle Jet. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

“Tss! Why you listen to her? Why you want to follow behind her, chasing her words? She is like this crab.” The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was walking up the bleachers with her mother behind her. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

But behind us the attack crashes ever nearer. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

Bull was following behind, cackling like a hyena. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

Briony turned to her crocodile, which had bunched up behind her. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Zero is behind all of the big puzzles in physics. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

Finally, keeping his hands carefully behind his back he made his way to the toilet bowl and peeped in. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

Getting left behind probably made his heart feel empty. Because of Winn-Dixie 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

Mamou kissed me on the cheek and then pulled away, disappearing into the bathroom with Mom right behind her. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

Then we climbed down from the tree and I walked behind him toward the car. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Their voices faded into the early darkness as they headed across the street, leaving the quiet of King Hall to resettle behind them. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

Barbara glanced quickly into the house, then finally stepped completely outside, closing the door behind her. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

Kaisa lifted her right hand to brush a strand of Ash’s hair behind her ear, and she cupped her cheek in her palm. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

A man and wife and two more children, and another two SS officers behind them. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

I could hear dress shoes clicking down the stairs behind us, the agents trying to keep up. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

“It’s quite safe, Hazel,” said Cowslip behind him in the hole. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

The man behind me tightened his grip on my neck and shook me hard, just once. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

She heard a thud just behind her, and out of the corner of her eye she saw Calder falling over the edge of the climbing equipment. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

The car doors slam behind me as my cousins join me. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

In May of that year, Osama bin Laden, the mastermind behind the 9/11 attacks, was killed in his hiding place in Abbottabad, just a stone’s throw away from our military academy. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Ida rose from behind her desk as Lucia showed Esther into the room. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

A dog barked from behind an iron gate. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

Birds do their dying off somewhere, behind things, under things, never on the wing. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

My hands are in the hot, soapy water when I hear a step behind me and feel thick, callused hands wrap around my skull. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Like our family, the soldiers also took the father, leaving behind the mother and their three young kids. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He came behind me into the reception room where the birds flamed in the cage, their squawks like screams in a nightmare. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

We had to leave my pet monkey, Kiki, behind, but I assumed I would be back soon. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

Chi-Boy pulled her out of the shadows and dropped her in front of the fire, a foot from where I stood with the dry stick raised behind my head. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

But everyone who stayed behind would have aged 46 years. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

The officer kept looking behind him, then up at the sky. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

I put on mine, too, and jumped on behind him. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

He said he did, pointed at the garbage can in the corner, and was already back behind his desk when something nasty, something totally nasty, started brewing inside me. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

Adam retired secretly and walked out of the house and into the woodlot to a sheltered place behind a stump that he knew well. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

The door is always going to be closing behind her, and I will always be here. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

I could still hear them chortling behind me. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

Oh they looked tough—unshaven and dirty, wearing swords and pistols, and muskets tucked in behind their saddles. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Greatly discomfited, the Helper turned to his partner, a wisp of a woman who seemed to be trying to hide behind her hair. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

He had come across an ocean to get left behind! A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

We made a wide turn and pulled in behind the other wagons that was up against the slope of a hillside. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I pull David up our porch steps and into the house, not stopping until the front door bangs closed behind me. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

Anyway, I stayed way behind the eighth-grade pack in practice these days. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

A skinny spirit wearing long dreadlocks sits cross-legged behind a black kettle. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

Rashid glanced at Frankie, then at Z. “Get out of here. I’ll be right behind you,” he said quietly, stepping forward yet again as Diana followed his movements with the gun. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

There he sat, cross-legged on the floor at the end of the couch, a near-sighted guru, blinking behind his glasses. The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z

“I’ll stay behind and sleep and you can tell me later what happened.” Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

He staggered down the street and into a neighbor’s house with Joe close behind, then collapsed facedown into a pool of his own blood, yelling, “Oh, I’m dying—call an ambulance! ” The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

“Ria!” the last girl said, almost skipping to her spot behind me. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

Keen for them all to be friends again, however, he agreed; but when Ron gave Hermione a tentative smile, she stalked off and vanished behind her book once more. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

Scuffles echo from behind me like an animal scurrying between the pods and stasis barrels. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

The church had a great old organ, with pipes that went from behind the organ to a point high overhead. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

There weren’t even any NPCs behind the front counter or the snack bar. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

“I have a job you might be able to handle. Go find Marlena. Make sure she doesn’t go behind the menagerie for a bit.” Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

When he looked back at her, the pain was tamped down into something hammered and hard, locked behind his eyes. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

“There’s an old bramble patch behind the inn.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

I was standing behind the Object, looking like Cousin It, when someone put his hands over my eyes. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

From behind the closed door of the next room she could hear the sound of voices, and she decided to go inside. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

I darted after them, still clutching the bottle, and I ran back against the wall and squeezed in behind one of the bedposts. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z

He stepped from behind a white birch tree and he had a dark rifle held up to his shoulder. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

He stood behind Basil, pantomiming the hare’s every movement, puffing up his tiny chest and strutting about importantly. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

I asked old Ali if I could take over for a little while, and after washing my hands, I got behind the grill. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

Upon returning to the construction site, Curly locked the gate behind him and high-stepped to the safety of the trailer. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

With five hundred meters to go, they were still nearly a full length behind Germany and Italy, over in lanes one and two. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

I was just turning into an alley to go to our first bar when I heard Kermit chattering behind me. Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z

We are at rest five miles behind the front. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

Worried that I may have offended her somehow, I follow right behind. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Eric was one of those tall guys who always walked with his shoulders about a foot behind his hips. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

One of those dots is the mother of public enemy number one, I think when I hear a faint wailing behind me. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then I followed behind her at a very creaky pace until we were in her parlor, the door of which was even older and mustier than she was. Confessions of a Murder Suspect 2012-09-24T00:00:00Z

Women belonged behind the scenes, not enthroned and in charge. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z

Someone has left behind their copy of the Times, so I read their report. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Me sitting on the go-kart, my feet on the bars, Hirohito behind me pushing, and Vonetta and Fern at the rear, parading up Magnolia Street. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was now more determined than ever to get justice for Javier, for Reg and Shawna, for every person who had been harmed by the monsters who worked in the building behind him. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Thus, she distributed behind her, rotating through the room, a record of her meals, a calendar in rinds and cores. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

Then my father smiled and winked at the crowd as if it were a huge joke that the agitator should be calling my father names while my father was right there behind him. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Out of the way,” a girl behind the woman said. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Everything he worked for over almost twenty years has been left behind: the school he started from nothing, the school that now has three buildings and eleven hundred students. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

It came from behind Moss, so he hiked up the chain a bit and tried to turn around. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

I could hear the kid’s mom saying softly behind us: “Okay, guys, I think it’s time to go,” and I turned around to look at them one more time. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

“It was so fast,” Ivy said, as her little farm disappeared behind a hill. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Ophie watched her mama go but remained behind to help Aunt Rose clean up the dishes. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

Along the corridors they raced, and one by one the Patronuses left them; Professor McGonagall’s tartan dressing gown rustled over the floor, and Harry and Luna jogged behind her under the Cloak. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

“It means meet me in the alley behind Velma T.’s tonight at midnight,” Jinx called over his shoulder as he let the screen door slam behind him. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

Before Minli could scream a warning, someone from behind her pulled her down and covered her mouth. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

Before Liberation only the wealthiest had lived here, in grand mansions set back from the street behind sturdy walls. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Yet planters returned to England as soon as they could afford to, leaving the Great Houses behind. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

Nicodemus closed the door behind her, then sat down on one of the benches, facing Mrs. Frisby; the others sat down, too, Mr. Ages stretching his splinted leg in front of him. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

Lord Roke moved to the farthest corner and stood behind one of the legs of the chair on which Mrs. Coulter had thrown her clothes. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

They formed a little procession, Rachel and Judith supporting the invalid at each elbow, and Kit following behind to hold up the trailing ends of the quilt from the sanded floor. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

Rahim Khan had warned me not to expect a warm welcome in Afghanistan from those who had stayed behind and fought the wars. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Her eyes automatically closed, and behind her eyelids she stared into a red-black nothingness. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

I trailed behind them at a slow but steady pace. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

I came up behind it and walked, slowly and quietly, listening, around to the front. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

As he closed the door behind him, I started to argue. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The glow of the fires and the moonlight reflected on the snow made it almost as bright as morning, and they ran behind one of the tents to stay hidden. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

Grace paid, stepped aside, and waited for the lady behind the deli counter to slice, butter, and wrap her roll. The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z

By shaving, Skahaz had put old Meereen behind him to accept the new, and his kin had done the same after his example. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The sea was calm behind the high cliffs. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

Despite our general weariness, Denna and I made good time and came to the top of the northern hill just as the sun was setting behind the mountains. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Their hands were handcuffed behind their backs, and their feet tied straight out in front of them with a length of bright yellow rope. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

Mr. Paul stepped back and sat on a stool behind the counter. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

There’s a body count behind you, because you do whatever’s required to stay alive—but it’s a day’s work, that’s all. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

The stranger was looking at Malcolm, and behind him his father was looking down with weary, helpless loathing. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

People popped out at him from trees and bushes, from ditches and tall weeds, from around the corners of tents and from behind the fenders of parked cars. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

Captain Hardcastle had leapt to his feet and was pointing at me and shouting, ‘You’re talking! I saw you talking! Don’t try to deny it! I distinctly saw you talking behind your hand!’ Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

Stanley got in line behind Magnet, ahead of Twitch. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

“With the two of them behind bars, what happens to us?” Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

Kit followed him into the swamp and stooped to gather great armfuls of the long grasses that fell behind his scythe. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

I spent the day thinking sullen thoughts, trying to ignore the sound of his voice and occasionally remembering the way Denna had looked last night with the moon reflecting off the water behind her. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Leaving his motor running, a policeman got out of the first car and walked to the car behind him. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

Anya took her bow from where it hung across her back and nocked an arrow into it, aiming at the boy, who walked a dozen or so paces behind them. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

Alaric pursed his lips and looked around before opening a drawer behind him with a skeleton key. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

He went behind the counter and took a little bell, no bigger than a honeybee, out of a drawer. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

Renzo led Scipio and Prosper to an arbor behind the house. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

The girl behind me taps me on the shoulder with her long black nails. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

He still had his back to me and I snuck up behind him slowly. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

And what if John’s partner hadn’t been behind the murder? The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I spotted Mtisha I came up behind her, put my arm around, and when she turned to see who it was I planted one right on her lips. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

For example, the Korean steel industry is equal in efficiency to ours, but all other Korean industries lag behind their American counterparts. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

The sun dropped behind a building, and a shadow fell across the treehouse. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

Ben could just sail away, and she’d be left behind, without the boat, without any control at all. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

A stained armchair and an old- fashioned desk peek from behind a collection of mops and brooms. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

Though Nan’s biker days were behind her, the look stuck. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

She planned it out herself, alone in Claire’s trailer at night, with the noise from the fairgrounds behind her. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

But even when I do my best to pay attention in class, I feel so far behind. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

“It wasn’t exactly a choice,” Mama said, but Cook ignored her and continued chattering on at Ophie as they walked down the narrow hallway to the servants’ quarters out behind the house. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

Taran hunched his shoulders and fled, while earthenware shattered behind him. The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z

He burst through the alley door, sucked his lungs full of fresh air, and slammed it shut behind him. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Harry leapt behind an enormous crate and waited for the footsteps to pass. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

Your questions concern both those who stayed behind and one nurse who made that long journey to this new home in the south. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

Other Jews were relocated behind thick walls and barbed wire in overcrowded city ghettos, created in large cities such as Warsaw and Lodz. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

A row of silver filing cabinets lined the wall behind it. Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

The recruits lifted Blakeley by the arms and legs and carried him rapidly to the Dempster-Dumpster which sat behind B barracks. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

These two deprivations, he maintained, along with a third one— that of “a good model of a decision maker to look up to” when they were growing up—were behind most of their criminal careers. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

"The same car that followed us up to Jerome's is behind us again. When we pulled into the gas station to meet Jerome yesterday, it pulled in behind us." Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

If Clara was sure she had been killed in the attic, then there might have been clues left behind. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

“Trouble,” I mused, bending down to scratch Mr. Whiskers behind the ears. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

Then she would pull the large map tripod up behind her chair. The Landry News 1999-12-01T00:00:00Z

“Can I help you?” asked the young man who stood behind it. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

A warm breeze wafts through the open windows behind my parents, shifting the white cotton curtains. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Layla came up behind Ivy and ran her hand down Ivy’s head, pulling gently on a lock of frizzy hair. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

"One by one they tiptoed out, leaving their wives behind," he remarked. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Off with her bow to market she goes and even to church, although on Sundays she must leave the arrows behind. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Snape!” he said, very loudly, and Fawkes gave a soft squawk behind them. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

Lori was behind the counter, carrying four beer steins in each hand, her hair in twin buns and speaking in a thick German accent because, she explained later, it increased tips. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

I ran up the stairs and grabbed Rosaleen from behind, stopping her with one foot poised in the air, searching for the next step. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

When Wash pulled the front door closed behind him, he kept the knob turned so the lock wouldn’t click too loudly. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

Her daughter, Victoria, is left behind, like me. The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z

She wished she had not heard that an Arab boy who was found kissing a girl in the alley behind her house got beaten up by the girl's brothers. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

I look up, and the opening in the door widens, Nuah’s face appearing behind Muhammad’s shoulder. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

He’ll be behind the counter, bored and dreamy and adorably disheveled. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

Each yank of a weed was like a jab in my heart as I thought about her leaving me behind. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

“It’s a raven,” a voice behind me says. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

Her “no” was already forming when she considered the fact that Henry hadn’t left behind any money for groceries. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

The crater it left behind was so colossal that if you stood on one edge you would only just be able to see the other side on a good day. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

Now they were abandoning it for good - and leaving Leo behind. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

The silly girl was running around behind the house to the place where the fire-eater had given his performance. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

A shuttle to the Hyatt was just closing its doors a few feet behind me. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

I take the wing off the second bomber, causing it to spin into the one behind it. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

Mr. Ray stepped to the side and yanked Quasimodo from behind him. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

She stood in the open doorway and watched them retreat down the long corridor, the man leading the way, Matt walking jauntily just behind him, and the dog at Matt’s heels. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Seeing her face crumple like that reminded me I wasn’t the only one who’d been left behind. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

His arms were twisted behind him and the tendons in his shoulder were on fire. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

There was Wishbone, wagging his tail as he trotted toward us, dragging his leash on the ground behind him. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

Indeed, at that very moment, Digory heard the sound of hoofs from behind; a second later the old cab-horse trotted past him and joined the other beasts. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z

But the king comes, with the queen on his arm, young Hrothulf walking four steps behind them, holding the hands of their children. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

He gestured with his hand and the soldiers behind him made the same movement with their guns. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Plus, understanding the mind of the guy behind a mystery puts you that much closer to solving it.” The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

He looked up momentarily at his comrade from behind a staggering mountain of scrumptious food, and pointed to his leg, which was swathed in a hugely exaggerated bandage. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

The trick was to recognize a good thing when you saw it, no matter how odd or worthless it might at first appear, no matter who else might just walk away and leave it behind. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

It sounds like the Fourth of July behind us; pop after pop after pop. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

He was so focused on looking down, surveying the ground with his eyes, that he barely noticed the ominous rustling sound behind him. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

I blink a few times when I see Soojin’s mom walk in, and right behind her is Mr. Park and Soojin. Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

“Chairman Jin was right behind me. I was scared out of my wits.” Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Evy came out of the bedroom, shutting the door behind her. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

But two big, burly soldiers right behind them grabbed Stringer’s arms before he could even react, and forced him to keep moving. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

They were almost at the river, with no sign of pursuit behind them. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

He turns around again, but there's no one behind him. Will Grayson, Will Grayson 2010-04-06T00:00:00Z

She would have walked right past and never guessed a swing set, toddler’s slide, and teepee play structure were hiding behind the wall of foliage. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

But the youthful faces in the photos remain, behind dark glasses, shadowy figures anticipating my mother and father. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Where there is cavalry there will be infantry close behind. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Because we’re not pressed into darkness behind Harpy’s or huddled together in the cab of his truck and because even though neither of us has ever said so, we are a secret. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

A woman on the road was dragging a stubborn goat and finally left it behind and hurried ahead. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

The nine pilots in their helicopters suddenly realized they were being left behind. The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Violating our family loyalty to Dr. Phil, they went behind his back and called in new physicians. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

The nine other warriors were close behind him, all of them with rifles in hand. In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z

The wind dragged her hair behind her, then whipped it forward across her face. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

And Violet Beauregarde, before tasting her blade of grass, took the piece of world-record-breaking chewing gum out of her mouth and stuck it carefully behind her ear. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 1964-09-12T00:00:00Z

Light Hair was careful to stay down behind the grasses. In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z

Another wave looms behind us—the crest full of red eyes like the leading edge of a lava flow. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

Mr. Becker was captivated by John Dean’s wife, Maureen, who sat behind her husband when he was testifying and wore elegant clothes and pulled her blond hair back in a tight bun. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Her blue sedan stops at the curb, and then two Chicago cop cars pull up behind her. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Peeing behind chinaberry bushes and wishing for the joy of toilet paper. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Tightening the irony into a knot was the knowledge that my parents were always behind me. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

I took another step sideways, and suddenly there was nothing behind me. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

“But I think Charlie — I mean my dad — must call me Isabella behind my back — that’s what everyone here seems to know me as,” I tried to explain, feeling like an utter moron. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

There was a great draught of warmer air behind them, and before them the darkness was cold on their faces. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

Sometimes Mameh and I would walk down those dirt roads behind the store and so many of those roads dead-ended into woods. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Richard felt transparent; she was looking at him but he felt as if she could see the wood carving that hung on the wall behind him. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

“We should call the Realtor. Tell him there’s all this nonsense left behind. Tell him to take it away.” Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

Every moment in the short time we’ve been behind this fence has been a revelation. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

The ground-level lobby was an open space with gray walls, stone floors, and a uniformed security guard standing behind a desk. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

I wanted to scarper away from the crime scene as quick as possible, but a slow queue of traffic'd built up behind a tractor, so we couldn't cross the crossroads yet. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

From my hiding place behind the curtains, I heard a rustling noise and then the sound of weeping. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

“This will only take a moment,” she said, standing up behind her desk. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

He closed the door behind him and went straight to the closet. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

He blinked at all of us, like he was trying to remember who we were, and then he focused on someone behind me. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

Why was Neewo taken to the next world and she left behind? The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

Each winter the waters withdrew, leaving behind a thick new layer of mud so black and fertile that two crops grew in Egypt while other lands eked out one. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

As the door swung shut behind her, the room seemed to grow a little dimmer. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Clarice stood behind my shoulder, I saw her round face beyond mine in the reflection of the looking-glass, her eyes shining, her mouth a little open. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

"I remember everything about you," says Peeta, tucking a loose strand of hair behind my ear. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

After locking the back door behind me, I sit on the curb next to our mailbox. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

Would the others go and Johnny be left behind? Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Marietta was behind her, looking up and down the hallway, wielding a charred table leg in both hands like a bat. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

I reached the end of the line and rather than start another one I stopped and looked up at the scriv behind the desk. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Mr. Whitby didn’t stir as I stepped behind him, his gaze locked on the inferno. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

Time is ended now, she thought, all that is gone and left behind, and that poor little lady, praying still, for me. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

I’m going to try, all the same, she thought as Fenoglio stretched out with a sigh on the narrow bed behind her. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

The stranger twisted about impatiently and, grasping the back of my tunic, hoisted me up behind him. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

He stepped on the sidewalk, circled behind my parked car, and came up behind me while the other officer continued to point the gun at me. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Ivy asked loudly, before using her free hand to pull her sister behind a half wall by the beds. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Harry received a heavy blow on the back of the legs: Another wizard had just flown out of the fireplace behind him. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

And in the next moment, he was out in the dark, quiet street, heaving his heavy trunk behind him, Hedwig’s cage under his arm. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

The visitors sat on a couch and chairs, and the general settled behind his desk. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Somewhere Alfred found a little extra strength, he reached all the way down for it, and the next time the red glove missed he threw his weight behind a short right uppercut. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sovoy walked behind me, clapped me on the shoulder, and muttered, “Luck.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

I decided to go exotic, with a flower-print sarong, black hair loose and a hibiscus flower behind my ear. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

She always went very quickly, so the door would not catch her tail when it fell shut behind her. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

A book about one of Lady Franklin’s rescue missions, The Voyage of the Fox, was among the nonessential stores and equipment left behind at Ocean Camp. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

“So, how many pages have you smoked so far?” his voice whispered behind me. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

The snakelike traffic pushes on with the strong able-bodied men forming the head, and the old, young, weak, and hungry trailing behind as the tail. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

In mid-morning the Model T truck rolled triumphantly home to Cannery Row and hopped the gutter and creaked up through the weeds to its place behind Lee Chong’s. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Towering behind one building was a gigantic three- story-high ribbed-metal pipe, like a caterpillar loosed from the mind of H. G. Wells. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

"I hope," says Louis, "that I see you again—in that land where I am not a king...and you are not a pain in my royal behind." The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

Blackberry, sheltering behind a parallel row, kept level with it. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

I never looked back, but that doesn’t make me any different from a million inmates who have left a prison behind them. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Did you hear him telling Seamus what he did to that witch who shouted ‘Boo’ behind him on April Fools’ Day? Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

I take off walking and he follows a pace or two behind. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

Here's me in the mall, mugging behind a security guard. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

“Well, I am sorry,” I say, once the door shuts behind them. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

He was looking left and right, though the collar around his neck prevented him from seeing the pole and Keepers behind him. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

The gate slams shut behind him, and he walks down the street without looking back. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

The sounds grew more and more distant behind her. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

When I thought they understood it all, I got out to walk around the car and Grandpa moved over to the right side behind the wheel. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

“No. He didn't want to put me in danger. He brought them to the furniture shop. He built the Roodveldts a secret room behind a false wall in the wood shop. I didn’t know.” Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

Dana Matherson still had him from behind, pushing his face against the window. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even though so many people think my sister and I are twins, I am the other Woodson, following behind her each year into the same classroom she had the year before. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

A moment later I could see her peering at me from behind the sheer white curtain of the door window, her eyes terrified. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

It was then, as he stood with his back to the room, that he heard a soft cough behind him. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

Hitching a ride, the gene descended a mountain and left a village behind. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

"Next time," he said, "I'll just say, 'Eleanor, duck behind these bushes with me, I'm going to lose my mind if I don't kiss you.'" Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

A small tree, something that looks native to the palm family, sprouts from behind the woman, distracting me further: Do palm trees grow in New York? Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

She does, and I shut the door behind her. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z

The monster stared down at the knife that had just run him through horn behind. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

But if we can move it a few feet—so that it lies buried behind the rock—in the lee—then she and her children can stay in it as long as they need to. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

A wall is only as strong as the men who stand behind it. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

I walk behind the father and his family. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I rest one hand against the locker behind her. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

The door shut behind her with a decisive click. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

I say, and put my weight behind the door to swing it open. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

He gives me an encouraging nod and steps to the side of the podium, allowing me to take my place behind it. Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

When she sat behind a table you could not see that she was pregnant at all. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Satisfied that he hadn’t left anything valuable behind, he turned to go. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

And then from behind the curtains came a figure looking like he wasn’t just sorry he was late but also as if he hadn’t done his homework. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

All at once I caught a glimpse of nonwhite faces—my people serving food behind the counter. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

They kissed until his brain spun, until her limbs fell loose and soft and open, until the moon hid its face behind a veil of clouds. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

The two men walked between the rows some more, made the crest of the rise, and turned west behind some raspberry canes. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

Then August picked up a jar of Black Madonna Honey from behind June’s chair, and what she did with it brought everybody back to earth. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were at the front door when there was a shout from behind them. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

We wait, then dash behind some Mercury Homes. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

A sauropod ferry passed, heading south toward the bay, crates trailing along on a barge behind it. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

“Don’t forget to lock the door behind you, Chris!” he yelled out a second later from down the hallway. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

Storm clouds rose up behind her, dark and threatening, but a powerful sun peeked through, sending coppery rays through the whole drawing. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

“That en’t a mosquito,” she said, sounding scornful, and she nodded at something behind him. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

Julie shouted, storming into the bedroom, slamming the door behind her. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

I got up, walked behind Gasemu, and locked his neck under my arms. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

I stayed behind the counter in case it broke out again. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Another mattress spring pops, and I feel Helena coming up behind me. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

He glances nervously in the direction of the perimeter gate behind the trees. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

How to send flankers to the left and right, curling in a semicircle to hit the enemy from three sides and prevent him from sneaking behind you. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

The woman behind the counter didn’t seem to be paying me any attention and instead was flipping through the newspaper. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

No one speaks up until the last lady-of-honor pokes her head out from behind a high-backed chair. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

The word was passed out among the neighbors where they stood close packed in the little yard behind the brush fence. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the cool shade of the trees, I came up close behind the eighth-grade pack. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

By this time the kisses had migrated from behind my ear to my neck. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

Not when your arm is jerked behind you, or you’re lying on the floor with a knee in your back. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

She doesn’t need to tell me twice, and I march off with Isabella right behind me. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

The soccer field, she felt, should be a place where they could leave all that behind. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

After I changed my clothes, I helped him outside and into the truck and climbed behind the wheel. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

"No!" screamed Wasp from behind the wheel “No!” screamed Tempest from the middle. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

He was sitting with Claire on a bench in a secluded area behind the library. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Even so, Johnny was there and up behind me just as I caught him in my sight. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

As for going to the bathroom, the men had to find a convenient ice hummock to squat behind for privacy. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

She grabbed the empty flour sack from the counter and stuffed it in her pocket behind a horseshoe. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

The plan, as Nelson explained it, is they start a fire in a huge circle around the big hill behind the village. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

He told me those others, behind them, weren’t disciplined. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Marcus was waiting behind the auditorium, pacing in front of the back door. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

The man frowned and leaned over me, staring directly into my eyes as though he might be able to see the empty shelves behind them. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

Cement houses with wrought iron porch railings and flowery gardens were clustered behind the businesses. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

When no one answered his knock, Joe followed a brick path through some hydrangeas and around behind the house to try the back door. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

“Nine dollars and twenty cents,” said the girl behind the counter. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

“You’re to go first. Step through that door now and shut it behind you.” The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

When the moon emerged from behind thunderhead darkness the river gleamed. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The fire crackled and the cat appeared from behind the piano on the other side of the room. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

We light a little fire with wood we find behind the house, heat water for sweet tea and sit under the stars. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

Bigwig ran behind him and came out on the green path by the bank. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sahil closed the crooked door behind us and blinked in the dim light. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Alex hadn’t had any idea what he would find behind the metal door, but what he was seeing now was far beyond anything he could have imagined. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

As the man had reached the top step, Moxie had come silently out of the bedroom and stood with raised tail just behind the man’s legs, ready to rub herself against them. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

When the adults huddle around an unfolded map of the zoo, we leave them behind. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

And close behind came the young lord himself, a dashing figure on a black courser, with red- gold hair and a black satin cloak dusted with stars. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

He’s not there now, but he left behind his favorite toy—a stuffed Tweety Bird that he likes to carry around in his mouth. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

Lee could see the reactions flaring through Cal—the rage at insult, the belligerence, and the hurt feelings following behind and out of that—just the beginning of relief. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

That is, if I survive the attack of the murderous fiend who is lurking behind men’s dress shirts, sizes 15 1/2 to 17, to my right. The Misfits 2001-10-01T00:00:00Z

I’m aware he’s behind us, and I’m betting Imani is as well. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

My goal was to move from house to house and sneak up on the car from behind. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

Luna laughs, leaning back and lacing his hands together behind his head. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Three little girls dressed in identical black dresses and white scarves clung to the slight, bespectacled man behind the counter. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

He was walking behind them earning one of Miss Trixie’s bags of scraps. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

I leave behind gunfire and screams and stampeding crowds. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

The other girls hung back, but I pushed to the head of the fine, tugging a nervous Mabinty Suma behind me. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

I careened back behind the stage and around to the men’s dressing room. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

A moment later, I realize August is laughing uproariously behind me. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

He leaned back on his stool and grabbed a pair off a shelf behind him. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

She was Japanese, but there was a white man at a desk behind her. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

A car is idling at the curb, Raj’s brother behind the wheel. The Fourteenth Goldfish 2014-08-26T00:00:00Z

Actually, it made that house seem all the more scary, because behind its iron fence, it looked like some strange beast that had to be kept specially separate and fenced off from the others. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

It took the better part of the morning for them to fashion a sort of sled for Con, for he could not walk long distances, and Kaede refused to leave him behind. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

She grinned, but there was no joy behind it. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

“Let’s hear it,” she said as she sat behind the desk, her expression suddenly businesslike. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Edward went exploring, and I walked to the back of the ship with David trailing behind me. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Rows and rows of petri dishes line the walls behind him. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

I kicked the toe of my tennis shoe against the metal flush button sticking out from the tiles behind the toilet. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

A dim light was glowing behind him, and it wasn’t easy to make out his features; but they knew he wasn’t a ghost. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

With a snap, the man in the shadows closed the door behind them. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

He looked up when Harry slammed the door behind him. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

The foldaway bed he usually slept in was tucked behind the refrigerator. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

I squeezed inside and pulled the door shut behind me. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

Dicey turned to look behind them, where flat farmlands stretched off. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

I guess I should feel lucky she didn’t give me up for adoption or abort me at the clinic behind the bowling alley that no one thinks we know about. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

You shift, and the afternoons rays break through from behind your head. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Why did they hide behind their curtains instead of trying to stop them from deporting us? Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

I closed the door behind me, and patted my pocket. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

Seven made it to Valley’s front gate and hid behind a pillar as she texted her. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

They sat the chaplain in a hard, straight-backed chair that stood behind a small, bare table. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

“It isn’t Lavender!” said Hermione impatiently, as another couple of girls appeared in the courtyard and Ron dived behind her. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

Clarence had the other man with the pink arms, hands held behind his back, walking over to the group. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

“I want to leave something behind for people to remember me by. The way kings do. Or the cave painting people.” The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

He tore out, leaving behind the smell of burnt rubber and the squeal of his tires. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

And what was it that was so difficult to leave behind? Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

The door closed behind him, and she heard his feet echoing down the long hall, away. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

These were the friends who’d held me together, dropping off groceries when I was too busy to shop, picking up the girls for ballet when I was behind on work or just needing a break. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

The Shadbush County Sheriffs office is investigating, but still has no clear picture as to who might be behind the racist, anti-Semitic acts. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

It was a crowd speaking; a swirling mob that swept through and past and over him with a rapid, headlong motion, that left drifting tatters of words behind them. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

After a few minutes I become aware of a smacking sound behind me and turn to see Mags peeling the shell off one of the nuts and popping it in her already-full mouth. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

They ran until the Golden Glen was far behind them. Raymie Nightingale 2016-04-12T00:00:00Z

He peered behind the milk shake machine, down the narrow galley. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

Diamond Joe and I carry buckets of offal from behind the menagerie to the main train. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

“You need to talk it out—people have these feelings, you know. You need to talk it out and put it behind you so you can move forward.” Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

They hide behind the teachers’ cars in the parking lot to avoid the security guard and then go through the hole in the fence to the Dunkin’ Donuts down the street. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Now that their little group is calming their breathing a bit, Mark can hear faint sounds coming from behind their leader. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

Dozens of migrants, children among them, emerge from the bushes, from behind the ceiba trees, and from among the tombs. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

He did not step out on the porch, but stood in the dark behind the screen. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

With one sweep of my arm, I push her behind me. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

Snape had just emerged from the hidden staircase behind the stone gargoyle. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

I definitely want out of this town, but I don’t want to leave Pop and Dad behind. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

He pulled his sister behind the fronds, his heart pounding. Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z

Mosca swore that he hadn't stolen it from a gondola but had instead fished it from the canal behind the movie theater. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

The car sped away, leaving a trail of blaring music behind it. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

He caught a glimpse of hope on her face just as the door closed behind him. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

When Wes arrived in his room, he found Levy lying back on the bed, his feet crossed and hands behind his head with his fingers interlocked. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

“I don’t suppose you would consider peaceful surrender?” said a cold voice behind her. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

They are actors playing parts that are real only for us; they are the masks behind which we see our own faces. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

The girl takes a sharp turn behind one of the tents, down a passageway Bailey had not even noticed, and there is the fence again, and the field outside. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

I scampered across the street to a shed on the docks and ducked behind it to wait until he reappeared. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

Using my right hand, I pivot the recliner away from the door in time for me to run out behind the cottage to pee. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

We got into the big, empty tractor-trailer truck and sat down and watched as the dry desert land just rolled away behind us. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

The old man reached down and scratched Radar behind the ears, careful to avoid his bandage. Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z

He closed his eyes as though the details were never any farther than a stage behind his eyelids. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

Tears filled his eyes and he ran out of the kitchen door, letting it slam behind him. Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Snape could no longer contain himself, but had jumped out from behind the bushes. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

And she opened the door, stepped out, and slammed it behind her. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

I hold out my arms and he runs to me, grabs my skirts, and stares from behind them at this stranger. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

The last few miles, they felt, would soon be behind them. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

A man wearing a robe similar to the one Scythe Curie’s friend wore burst from the trees and into the road behind her. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

He watched her read the note and wondered what she kept behind the curtains. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

Lord Astiers sledge tracks were clear, however, and Iorek followed them swiftly, loping through the snow and kicking it high behind them as he ran. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

Somebody tugged at his sleeve, and when he looked over his shoulder, Hornet was standing behind him. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

She combed an unruly lock of hair back into place behind her ear. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

“Looks pretty dark,” my siblings would chirp from behind her. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

I don’t want to get left behind again. Dragons in a Bag 2018-10-23T00:00:00Z

Presently, the tears dried up, leaving a heavy residue of despair behind. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

Then she sprinted off down the lawn, her blond hair flying behind her. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

As we approached behind them, we could see only the clusters of white people that stretched for a distance of two blocks along the entire span of the school building. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Agreed,” she murmured, clasping her hands behind her back. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

They passed under where the water touched the ceiling, and then Ivan pulled threads to close the ditch of air behind them, forming an oblong bubble around them instead. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

It charged — my uncle lunged and I behind him — thrust! — felt the spear pierce. Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!: Voices from a Medieval Village 2007-07-24T00:00:00Z

“We started running at the same place, but you left me behind back by the jetty where it was like you pushed a turbo button or something. You run like a machine. It’s crazy.” Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

Many times she had seen him in the grocery store waiting his turn in line behind Negroes and God knows what. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

So Butler hunkered down, propped Juliet against a tapestry behind a suit of armor, and checked his safety catch. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

The rest of his family had gone to the Millsburg Plaza for last-minute shopping, but he stayed behind. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z

Bren’s ride to the airport shows up, and as I say good-bye, I get that sinking, empty feeling when someone leaves but you stay behind. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

Arthur’s were of the pitiful spectacle— the show of an earthly, sinful man, but the best of them, plodding along behind these three supernatural virgins; his doomed, courageous, vain toil. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Pong rolled his eyes and climbed into the shallow-bottom boat Ampai kept tied up in the canal behind the Mud House. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

A man pulled Poppy’s lovely green wheelbarrow behind him. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

From the threshold he shot Nicolas a furious departing look and walked out, shutting the door noiselessly behind him. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mama came flying out with my sisters right behind her. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

“In the dark,” she said, and closed the door behind her. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

Here there’d be no walls to climb, no houses to shelter in, no tomb lids to close behind us. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

Angela, Cherry and I met at Cherry’s Starbucks a little before three p.m., when Cherry relieved the person behind the counter. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

The people in the door pushed against those behind to let her through. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

I reach behind me to pull my shirt over my head and as I do I realize there’s no pain twixt my shoulder blades. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

He pulled into an empty alley behind a row of red brick town- houses and looked at me for the first time since we’d gotten in the car. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

The medicine man was running, and his assistants followed behind him. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

And the two women left, arm in arm, with the other soldier hesitating, glancing at the Elder, and then hurrying behind. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

Rows of oil lamps made the room bright, and each of the men had his personal torch behind him, illuminating stacked and scattered papers that lay on the table. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He closes the cellar door behind him and bars it and sits halfway down the wooden staircase with a damp look on his face, fear or grit, it’s hard to say. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

It was a blues, and I walked along behind him remembering the times that I had heard such singing at home. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

He looked so pathetic, crammed in behind the counter with the board of keys poking into his back, that for a second I actually felt for him. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

Harry looked behind him and saw a wrought-iron archway where the barrier had been, with the words Platform Nine and Three-Quarters on it. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

The voice came from behind him, and Moss discovered that in his position, he didn’t have enough leverage to turn around. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

At their first halt they looked back, and they could dimly perceive the roofs of the forest they had left behind, lying like a vast dense shadow, a darker night under the dark blank sky. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

As Sefia and Archer entered, their footsteps making soft depressions in a thick carpet of red and gold, a man in a dirty aubergine overcoat closed the door behind them. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

I had just gotten dressed, and I went up behind him and kicked him lightly. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

And, behind my shoulder, the innkeeper’s wife: “What do you think you’re doing here? Who are you?” The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

The padlock didn’t look very strong, and it was easy to thrust the end of a fence post behind it and pull down hard. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

I needed for him to explain the meaning behind it all, the pogroms, the massacres, the burnings that pursued us through the centuries like a dybbuk we’d never be able to tear ourselves free from. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

He dove even lower, arcing behind the ships and squinting through his gun sight. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

The door opened: He saw a glimpse of the lamplit square outside, and a cloaked figure edged into the hall and closed the door behind it. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

He rolls back to behind the desk, asking, “So what will you be singing for us today?” Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

Mama is standing behind us, looking highly interested. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

I don’t think I need to be in line behind them right now. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

Then suddenly but deliberately, as if he had all the time in the world, he put down the casket and wrapped his thin arms firmly around the Magpie from behind. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

Then the car was over the bridge and out of sight behind the trees and the abandoned vehicles on the road. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

A man behind him pushed past and jumped anyway. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

“We’re in trouble; they suspect,” said Harry as the door slammed behind them and he pulled off the Invisibility Cloak. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

But then Nathan's voice dropped out and he peered into the rearview mirror, checking something behind him. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

Women of Courage, Custer’s Last Stand—I could just hear her voice behind each book, linking the past to the present and the present to the future. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

I drag the shopping cart behind me, slowing my pace so I can walkalong with Mami, who is wearing her high heels. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

Inside, she found a counter with a chinless, tired girl behind it, and a man sitting at the end eating. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

She points to the display of cigarettes behind us. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

Just then, Sunnshyne and her mother showed, strolling up from behind me. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

He needs to be fed and blessed, to be given some gold and silver, to be patted on the back after feedings and held carefully behind the neck. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Did he have brothers or sisters whom he left behind? Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

A minute later I was hiding behind a bush maybe ten yards away from the black car with the tinted windows. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

Sometimes it shot ahead, sometimes it dropped behind. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

The United States is “not behind except in fame,” he groused to Beams. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

The old man chuckled softly and reached for the buckets of the girl standing behind me. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

A flying pizza smacked him in the head, and he disappeared behind a couch. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

“I am Señor Diaz. My cousin Tomás is the man you wish to see, not me. Lucky for you, he is here now behind my shop. Come along.” Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

Their workers were setting down tools and leaving work behind. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Neumann One stays behind the wheel, Werner in the truck shell. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Killconey lay watching the gate from behind a sycamore in the woods. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

Wes ran right by her, ignoring her threats as he slammed his front door behind him. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

Corner of my eye I see Matt and Lance run up behind Calvin. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

He said he knew the little guy liked to play behind the couch.” Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

A grandfather-grey man emerged from behind the curtain carrying a long piece of leather. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

She smiled, turned, and walked away, not as people in portraits usually did, out of the sides of their frames, but along what seemed to be a long tunnel painted behind her. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

“Too much time out west in the wide open. He thinks he's safer behind the walls in Baltimore than he is out here.” Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

Rummaging through his backpack, he discovered that he’d left behind the slip of paper containing the name of his interviewer and the company’s exact address. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Prosper scratched himself behind the ear, still looking embarrassed. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

They were quick at dodging and running, but once he caught them against the woodbox, behind the stove. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

A few minutes later, everyone was back on his feet, including three mashed-looking inmates, who were handcuffed behind their backs. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m not really here. You’re just dreaming,” she answered and stepped out from behind the covering of the plant. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

Dany could hear her handmaids arguing behind her, debating who was going to win the day’s final match. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Leave Minerva behind to be a martyr all by herself? In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ben didn’t notice her until she was standing right behind him. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

I hear his door slam shut behind me, loud and reverberating all around the hallway. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

Then she looked at me, her eyes bright behind narrowed lids and raised up and struck me where it hurt. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Thus they wandered for some five minutes, standing still, listening, clanking, crouching, creeping, peering, walking on tiptoe, and occasionally making a chance swipe behind their hacks. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

School, control, distrust, and doubt, they all get shoved behind the hurt on her face. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

All this went on secretly behind the shed, like a game of footsie. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

At last Prendergast could leave behind the cold mornings and filthy streets and the angry newsboys who disobeyed and taunted him. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

They went along to the car behind them. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

The window opened onto the world into which he had escaped with Baruch and Balthamos, and where he’d slept safely: the warm endless beach with the fernlike trees behind the dunes. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

At the far end of the beach we finally came to a little spring running down through the sand behind a large rock. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z

When he tried to move, he found his legs bent up behind him. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

His eyes never left Mr. Canton, but he took the backpack and he followed me out of the office — a half step behind. Orbiting Jupiter 2015-10-06T00:00:00Z

Out of the darkness behind Clyde, a voice growled, “Make that four.” Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

He whooshes from the room, leaving a dark, heavy cloud of the unspoken behind. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

And then, out of the corner of his eye, Luke caught a glimpse of something behind one window of the Sports Family’s house. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z

Her master, who had been but a little behind her, saw on the long stretch of beach only the figure of a man busy with his fishing lines. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was already late, and as I hurried by the Presbyterian church, a girl’s voice called from behind a big beauty bush in full bloom. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

At first they tried to use the bodies as bait, chopping them up and trolling the pieces behind them. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

The dawn is angry crimson, and the sun—which has now risen enough to peer out from behind the mountains—is practically maroon, looking more like a blood moon than the sun. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

“Yes, you’d better. We must not allow Levy Pants to fall behind in the struggle for the survival of the fittest.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sales were definitely lagging behind last year and so was the money. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

So the trumpet case was hidden inside a huge urn and Jamie’s book bag was neatly tucked behind a drape that was behind a statue from the Middle Ages. From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

The re-maining guard flung himself behind an ornamental vase and fired at Eye. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

“In the dark,” she said, and closed the door behind her. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

They often lost their way to the Land of the Dead, or stayed behind with the living out of sheer stubbornness. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

The light came to rest directly on Despereaux’s big ears sticking up from behind the spool of thread. The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z

Turner’s mother sat in a chair by the window, her hands discreetly clasped in her lap; Reverend Buckminster sat behind his desk, his sermon notes discreetly covering Darwin. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

I noticed for the first time how the hydrangeas were coming into bloom, their blue heads thrusting themselves from the green foliage behind. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

Peewee and Monaco kept pumping rounds high into the village while Johnson sprayed the trail behind us. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Of course,” Assef said behind us, “I didn’t say you could take him for free.” The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

“Would you mind moving out of the way?” came Malfoy s cold drawl from behind them. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

Brian pushed over the spool table and we all crouched behind it. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

They approached, and behind them as the bears began to dismantle their fire thrower, the other two ships maneuvered their way to the quayside. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

I curled up behind the table and slept a little while until in the dim false dawn Charley looked into my face and said “Ftt.” Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

Suddenly from somewhere behind him there came a terrible sound. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z

The other two, who were behind me, raised no objection, and when I glanced over my shoulder, I saw Tommy was again holding Ruth by the arm. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Off to the right was a set of tracks with a big yellow electric locomotive sitting on it, some cars behind. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

Mr. Larson bent down to pick up his briefcase and his red thermos, and as he did, Dr. Barnes stepped out from behind his desk and pulled open the door to the hallway. The Landry News 1999-12-01T00:00:00Z

I could even catch a rich old woman whose tight strand of pearls pinched in the sags of her neck whispering to her friend right behind me, “Oriental Jews.” Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

We went behind the stores, to alleyways of trucks and trash bins and staring cats. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

The sun goes behind a cloud and I shiver. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

One evening, when I’m standing behind the bushes, the father comes over to me. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

She was leaning in my door, behind the cameraman. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

Four stands behind me with his gun slung across his back, just like mine. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

And Hilly’s is behind a podium telling sixty-five women that three cans apiece isn’t enough to feed all those PSCAs. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

I looked out through the windshield, to the electric fence and the dark, familiar forest behind it. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

He laced his fingers behind his head and stretched his legs out stiff. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Shirley followed a few steps behind her, pretending to kick a castaway can whenever the American turned to glance her way. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z

We walk a little way in silence, me in front, Tom a few paces behind. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had hopes of seeing the nurturer heading back to his dwelling for the evening meal, with little Abe riding behind him. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Worst of all, she told them, she was being evicted for falling a month behind on the rent and had nowhere else to go. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

Quickly Sam passed the door and hurried on to the second storey, dreading at any moment to be attacked and to feel throttling fingers seize his throat from behind. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

When she was ready, she stripped off Windy’s T-shirt and stepped into the warm water, pulling the curtain closed behind her. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

Soon he came out, a gangling, tall, reddish-brownskinned fellow, at that time thirty- five years old; when my purpose was made known, he brisded, his eyes skewering me from behind the hom-rimmed glasses. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

While she paid the bill with her credit card, Meggie and Mo examined all the delicacies behind the glass counter. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

I skip Grade Seven and go straight into Grade Eight, missing the Kings of England in chronological order, missing the circulatory system, leaving my boyfriend behind. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Will he make me get up and move to the back of the bus behind the “coloreds” signs? While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

A stranger was on the porch, and when Mary Alice and I crowded up behind Grandma to see, it was the reporter. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

The rider’s cloak streamed behind him, and his hood was thrown back; his golden hair flowed shimmering in the wind of his speed. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

The mirror showed the corridor behind her; that was only to be expected. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

I was surprised that my father actually left and shut the door behind him. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Piper says, and then I hear a stumbling sound behind me. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

One after another backs up to the cookhouse, and unbelievable amounts of food disappear behind it. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

“I see you’ve met the old man!” called a voice from behind me, and I turned to see the curator striding in my direction. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

There was a sound behind me and I turned in quick apprehension. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

I’m going to die, and I’m going to leave my father behind. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

I assumed Mom had stopped him, but it would not be the first time Stephen Kellner had accidentally left me behind. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

Then someone jostled me from behind, bringing me to my senses. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

The idea behind the gun was simple: if I held one trigger down, nitrogen gas would squirt out the two holes, or jets, in the crossbar. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

I get home and shower the grease off myself, and before I’m even dressed, I pull Charlie’s cigar box from behind the bed and open it. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

“Then your bloody wish is granted,” said a voice from the kitchen door behind him. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

His chest and stomach turned to molten metal and a redness glowed in his head behind his eyes. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

The light had been bright before, but now it only amplified the pounding behind my eyes. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

Barefoot boys bounced between travelers, their faces invisible behind their trays of chewing gum and cigarettes. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

They went out to the courts behind the nearby elementary school. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Percy poured on speed, but he could hear the gryphons closing behind them, and now the monsters were really angry. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

My heart in my mouth, I moved closer and sat behind her, wrapping my arms around her. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

The dirt road curved, and trees blocked the sight of the University’s buildings behind us. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

“Did you kiss her?” my mom asked from behind my dad. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

But there were more people behind us on the platform, trying to push into the car, and a few of the soldiers who’d been ringing us had to break away to stop them. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

Chamberlain looked, saw a dark slope before him, rock behind him, ridges of rock to both sides. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

It hung down from a glowering sky behind London’s tower blocks. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

She galloped into the fields so swiftly, she left Sammy behind. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

“No, no. Wait, I want to see what she’s up to. Why’s she in the marsh behind our house in the middle of the night?” Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

“Right,” he says, and stands in front of Werner’s table and laces his hands behind his back. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

They drove silently, the only sound coming when a sheriff's deputy pulled out of a gas station and Annie gasped, repeatedly checking the speedometer the entire mile he cruised behind them. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

I hear a floorboard squeak and see an older man in a brown cardigan shuffling into the room with his arms held behind his back. Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

She passed old vendors with leathery faces sitting under the shade of plane trees, gazing at her impassively behind pyramids of cherries and mounds of grapes. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

The greasy brown paper sack was stuck behind the bib of his overalls. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

He gently steered me behind a nearby shack. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

Axel throws back open the front door in time to see Dr. Martin’s truck stirring up dust when it pulls behind Frank’s in the driveway. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Documents in my handwriting showed that I had left the country illegally, had arranged for military training for our men, and had been behind the formation of Umkhonto we Sizwe. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He left feeling that if he had searched harder he might have found her--that he was leaving her behind. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

Immie walked ahead into the hotel lobby, pulling both her suitcases behind her. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

I look up and see part of the moon sticking out from behind a cloud. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Well, the next time I find you encouraging people like that and ruining my investment, I’m gonna kick you out on your behind. Is that clear?” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

We see dark-skinned people with headscarves and long robes, women with their faces covered and children trailing behind them. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

I reached out and petted my new puppy, scratched behind his ears and under his chin. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Grenn loomed over him, thick of neck and red of face, with three of his friends behind him. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

He let the younger man settle him behind his books and papers. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Sometimes she heard footsteps behind her, but she rarely saw where they came from. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Tobias pulls the dresser away from the wall with one hand and wedges the hard drive behind it with the other. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

The bell on the door jingled behind him. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

I opened the door and got out, closing it behind me. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

I left the books behind, planning to pick them up later. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Hazel looked back at the cottage, thought of Nina standing behind the gate, eyes full of pain and longing, a longing she could fill. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

He stood gazing up at the sundari trees, and Baba rose to greet him, with Neel following close behind. Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z

My vision blurred so badly I could not distinguish the gun or the face of the man behind it. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

“Thank you, sir,” she said, her face expressionless, and then she turned, and went out of the room, closing the door softly behind her. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

The glider shot upward, trailing the line behind it. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Hi,” I heard someone say from behind me. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

The morning, for all its shadowed moments, had promoted me to a new level of friendship, I did not lag so far behind as I had thought. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

I have to retrieve a box of shrimp from the walk-in, and I stop for a second once the door closes behind me, and I breathe. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

When I’ve managed to walk outside the building, I risk a look behind me. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

He was half hiding behind the officer’s tall body. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

Jules and her friend were walking so quickly, they disappeared behind the bend in the path back to campus. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

And he scurries off to “the back,” an alleyway behind our row of buildings where the boys chase each other for hours and hours. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

“It’s behind the house, madam; it’s terrible muddy back there. Your gown will be ruined.” The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

The boy grasped the barking animal, and Joseph pulled them both down behind the car just as the man shovelling snow turned around. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

John started shoveling in his food as soon as the door closed behind Pa. His plate clean in a flash, he stood, saying, “Thank you for the meal, ma’am.” Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z

Seeing her there is enough to keep my behind in my seat. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

I listen to the held breath, the almost inaudible gasps, the shaking going on behind my back. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

Granddad moves slowly and I am behind him. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

As she did, she heard the door click behind her. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

I hear the clumping of shoes, the thumping of backpacks on the floor, the screeching of chairs as the room starts to fill behind me. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z

The walls behind the counter were covered with wooden animal masks and bright tin suns, moons, and skeletons. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

It was only then that Harry realized what was standing behind Quirrell. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

He would think Riptide was still in the dirt behind him. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

Georgie and I came out of the woods behind the house. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

Sees, right behind his eyelids, like a movie, that kind of love. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Annabeth lunged behind him and sliced through the chains on the other side. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Leo resisted the urge to hide behind Frank and yell, Take the big Canadian dude! Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

The girls kept a safe distance, crouched low behind the cover of plants as they watched Taylor work. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

If you have indeed come from Moria, the peril cannot be far behind. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

All you had to do was denounce your people, denounce your history, and leave your darker-skinned friends and family behind. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

He really seemed to like being scratched behind his ears. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

But he kept telling her he didn’t feel good, that he just wanted to be alone and sleep in his spot behind the forest, maybe spend some time thinking. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

We couldn’t see his face, as his head was behind the leaves. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

And then it picked the rat up in its mouth and carried it off into the woods, behind a tree. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

She turned and ran off the blacktop, to a quiet spot behind the jungle gym. I Survived the Eruption of Mount St. Helens, 1980 2016-08-01T00:00:00Z

After Bud Searcy had eaten a hearty supper and talked awhile longer, he finally rode off home, with Lisbeth riding behind him. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

From the sidewalk it seems only a door, tucked between two downtown shops, but behind the door and up a musty-smelling staircase is a sign: ELLIOT’S ANTIQUES. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s weird—there’s no one behind the counter, no one ordering food, no one at all anywhere. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

Yanna almost shrieked, the words trailing behind her as she burst forward, running faster than a flying dragon, to meet the visitors. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

It was the truth, because Lily was suddenly standing in the doorway behind me holding up our mother's keys. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

From behind, they looked so similar, with their thin shoulders and long dark hair, and their same taste in clothes. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

I took it off and hung it on the hook by the sink and hobbled into the dining room hiding behind SanJuanna and the roast. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

Annie came up behind him, her face mirroring everything Luke was feeling. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

The original Watson and Crick model of DNA, with its hammered metal plates and rickety rods twisting precariously around a steel laboratory stand, is housed behind a glass case. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

The knight was a white steel shadow, his eyes shining darkly behind his helm. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

My eyes were blinded behind the curtain of tears and salt. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z

Dimple looked at him full on, her eyes searching behind her glasses even as she kept walking. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

I watch the artist as he goes from student to student, standing behind each one and peering down at their work with a cold hard stare. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

But a minute later, as she set the fish down on the table with a groan, Jinny heard familiar shrieking and squealing behind her. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

These harmless inanities, far preferable to silence, allowed Robbie to retreat behind a mask of amused attention. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

The girl stepped into the hall, closing the door behind her; arms folded self-consciously before her small high breasts, she faced him, eager to understand. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

I had hoped that the morning rain would make the courtroom more bearable, but the rain stopped early, and the humidity it left behind only made the air in Sumner hotter and heavier. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

He shut it hard behind me and turned the key. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

Thomas turned back to his new home and heard the latch close and the lock click behind him. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

She landed belly-down in the snow as the entire length of the bridge fell into the crevasse with a soft whoosh behind her. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

So for a second, when we were coming back on defense, I glanced over at the crowd behind that fence. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

I feel absolutely certain that I’m chasing a person who at least knows who’s behind all this. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

Once he’s limped back home behind her, she disappears to shower and he stems the bleeding with a Captain America Band-Aid from his bathroom cabinet. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Dr. Cajazeira, who had stayed behind to take care of him, noticed at 2:30 p.m. that the color suddenly drained from Roosevelt’s face. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

"Be quiet," she whispers, then looks behind her. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

The door that the old man closed behind him was of polished horn, through which the daylight shone dimly, and on its inner face was carved the Thousand-Leaved Tree. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

“Poor Don. He’s got to pay the doctor bills,” my dad said from behind the paper. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

Lightning flared behind him; he touched his cap. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

She folded her towel into a wet square and moved off behind the shed in the direction of a little white house on the next lot. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

Malaya stepped forward, with the whole village behind her. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

The convention was a success, yet I remained wary, as the prime mover behind it was the party. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were playing the riau-riau music, the pipes shrill and the drums pounding, and behind them came the men and boys dancing. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

She goes quiet for a while, the sound of her breathing the only clue she’s still behind me. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

Meanwhile, Becca pulled a chair from behind her door, another from the desk against the wall, and plopped down on her bed like none of this was a big deal. Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z

“They like to nest behind the shutters,” I said. Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z

I felt a pang of guilt for the bogus reason behind it. Ungifted 2012-08-21T00:00:00Z

So instead I rolled my eyes and craned my neck back, my eyes almost underwater, until I saw that the shore—not ten feet away—was directly behind my head. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

Wedding Call tracked them, just behind and outside of Seabiscuit as they pushed for the far turn. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Jack and I walked right behind a couple of sixth graders into the building, and then followed them to the auditorium. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

The woman behind her didn’t look like a chicken thief. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

“Charles,” she said, “Charles,” and she jumped up from her chair and started to the door; but no one had locked it behind us, and before she got there it flew open with a crash. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

My legs and arms tingle, I have a sharp pain behind my left eye, and my chest feels like it might explode. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

With a baby still tugging at my breast, a girl just filling out, and my young-man son behind bars, I wasn’t ready to enter His Kingdom. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I knew it,” Grandma had said, her voice, shaky, coming from behind the old wooden door. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

No one would ever find me there, either, behind all those roses, and just to make sure I would plant oleanders by the road. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

There was an orange moon behind her, and a melting castle. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

They were always half a month or so behind, and talked endlessly to him about paying ahead—after they had a preliminary discussion about what he was doing back so soon anyway. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

Richard Feynman had known the flash was coming, and that he was safe behind the truck windshield—but it was so sudden and so bright, he instinctively ducked behind the dashboard. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

But she couldn’t stop herself from screaming out as her arms were wrenched behind her back and tied. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

The front of Lincoln’s body shows no sign of physical violence, and the forward slumping indicates that the attack must have come from behind. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

The arm he’d been holding out behind me dropped, and his hand brushed down along my side. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

They walked behind Parks through my living room, drawing room, and library. From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her hair is tucked into a mauve kerchief tied behind her head. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

But all of a sudden, the Arabs, backing away, slipped behind the rock. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z

So we went in together and he got them from behind the door—you should have seen the orchids blooming with all that sunlight coming in—and we went down to the horseshoe pits. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

I come up behind her and take her shoulders in my hands. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

Suddenly a pale light appeared over the crown of Weathertop behind him. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

She tried to get comfortable, twisting and bending herself to fit the cramped space behind the mirror. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

He glanced behind him, thinking he could bolt back into the tunnel the way he had come, but the doorway had disappeared. James and the Giant Peach 1961-11-01T00:00:00Z

Even Aaron tried to get in on the act, but he mumbled the words a full beat behind. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

I caught a glimpse of Mrs. Martin, moving in behind us, her face puckered up like a prune. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

Silk wallpaper behind the lumpy bed where she sits. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Then there was a loud bang and Hermione vanished behind a puff of black smoke. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

“Just weighing my options,” I said as she bolted the door behind me. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

He released the door and I tore out of the closet, my brother David tumbling out behind me. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

His dog, Spiro, unleashed, heeled behind him and yelped once in pain as he lowered himself to the floor. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Booth closed the outer vestibule door behind him so quietly that no one heard anything. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Put the muck in a barrow and cart it out behind the barn. And then come on in for lunch when you’re done.” Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

Her eyes narrow as she walks closer, and then stops directly behind him. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

Snape bowed and set off back up the path, his black cloak billowing behind him. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

The gunman’s gun is pointed at the nose of some poor girl behind the counter. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

Stella and Jojo dressed quickly and dashed out into the night, Dusty padding close behind. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

She said, “I’m sure it wasn’t easy seeing your father behind bars.” Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

“Happened to you, country boy?” the boy in the desk behind me asks. Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z

I gave birth in the woods behind my house and put the infant up for adoption just as soon as I'd cleaned myself off. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

“Madame,” said Alfred to a tearful woman behind us. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

Then most of them threaded their way through the cattle and dashed on, leaving two behind. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Harry could not hear anything over the rattling of the cart on the tracks: His hair flew behind him as they swerved between stalactites, flying ever deeper into the earth, but he kept glancing back. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

We walk off the boat now, just behind Weasel and his guards. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

They rode out together as the stars came out, leaving the khalasai and the grass palaces behind. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Ms. Faraci sat behind her desk and caught me as I tried to sneak out. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

Our front door closed softly behind him, and as soon as it did, Mama spoke again. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

“Get these open as quick as you can,” he said, “and send two rabbits to find out what’s behind the tree roots beyond. If they’re attacked you’re to go and join in at once.” Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I don’t spot anything, I check behind the dumpster. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

Ron and Hermione, now talking softly behind him in the tent, could walk away if they wanted to: He could not. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

He stood behind me with his hands on my shoulders. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

The sky was blue behind the silhouette of his large, square frame. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

A man in his early forties, tall like nearly everyone on the boat ramp, he wore horn-rimmed spectacles behind which lurked sharp, penetrating eyes. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

“Well, Dandelion, Speedwell and Hawkbit, then,” said Bigwig, “and leave the others behind. Do you mean to go tonight, Hazel-rah?” Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m afraid it’s all my fault,” he said, going into the sitting-room, shutting the door behind him, and I heard her exclamation of surprise. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

He jumped in to push the fish from behind. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

His shirt is filthy and untucked, puffing out from behind his suspenders. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

The pain that exploded behind my eyes told me so. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

From behind him came footsteps, many and cautious. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

A glance back reveals Ruth and Gloria and the rest of the garden club sitting directly behind our pew, all of them wearing big black hats. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

“No, I asked first, and since you are literally chilling here behind these trees, and no one does that at Red Witch Bridge at night, your answer is infinitely more important than mine.” Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

So Audrey scooped up her grapes and stuff and moved away from me and Howard, leaving that piece of paper behind. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

Fly across the United States, and you will step from the plane a quinzillionth of a second, or something, younger than those you left behind. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

Håkon leaped out from behind a tree, arms out wide, and said, “Surprise!” Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

She tore herself from the museum display and hurried off, trying to shake the feeling that the dead Pompeians were whispering behind her back. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

However, as the earth orbits around the sun, different stars appear to pass behind the sun and have their light deflected. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

The running knot had pulled tight and was buried in the fur behind his ear. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

“There’s one behind the pond. We’ll start with that. We need to leave now so we don’t run into the high tide.” Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z

If there was ever a moment to declare you like someone, it was with a churro in your hand and a day of protesting a greedy land developer’s hostile takeover of your neighborhood behind you. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

When he heard the rough growl of a jeep, he ducked behind some brush until it passed. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

I stumble up the walk to my house behind the others, using my ears more than my eyes to guide me. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

The police had formed into narrow lines and ordered him through their loudspeaker to stop, lay his flag on the ground, and proceed with his hands behind his neck. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

How about: she hid the unconscious desire to expose herself to him behind a show of temper. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

We fall behind them, and she says, “It was nice meeting you. Come back any time you want.” Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

Sometimes these worlds lie behind an open door through which no writer has thought to pass for a while. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

A girl, pixie haired and smiling, was floating above the ocean, rays arrowing out from behind her, where a brilliant red-orange sun was rising. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

They walked behind the singing Louisiana and the stuttering cart through the strange darkness. Raymie Nightingale 2016-04-12T00:00:00Z

Percy Weasley was sitting in a chair behind Lee, but for once he didn’t seem keen to make his views heard. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

Mr. Charles came from behind the counter, propped himself up against the ice chest. Ghost 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

So Chip became the Colonel—the military-style planner of their pranks, and Alaska was ever Alaska, the larger-than-life creative force behind them. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

Together, they pulled him to the kitchen, where a large control panel sat behind a locked glass door. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

He had unraveled the truths behind important questions, but his studies had taken him to a point beyond which he could not seem to go. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

The major factor behind these shifts becomes obvious as soon as one compares the modern Fertile Crescent with ancient descriptions of it. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Pulling me closer, brushing the hair back behind my ears with her fingers. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

You can't miss the desperation in my voice as I shove Prim behind me, as if I'm afraid no one will hear and they'll take Prim away. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

It wasn’t clear, though, what happened to the children they left behind in the camp. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

The man peeped at us from behind a banana leaf. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

Mr. Kahn loved to take him deer-spotting in mid-autumn, let him shoot a BB gun at targets behind the house, and told him stories about the Great Hunter. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

I dropped down behind the stone wall and vomited all over myself. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

I knew that the devilfish would not be in the center of this cloud, that he had left it behind. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

We shook lots in a soldier’s dogskin cap and his came bounding out—valiant Eurylokhos!—So off he went, with twenty-two companions weeping, as mine wept, too, who stayed behind. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

W.E. ducked his head behind the cover of the couch arm. The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z

And then I see some teeny, tiny people, watching us from behind a bush. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

When everyone ran, he followed, churning along with jimmying elbows and dropping far behind. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z

But then someone tackled him from behind; he dropped the burning log and landed face- first in the dirt. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

In fact, the chauffeur was a diminutive fellow almost lost behind the front wheel. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

He turned and went out and closed the door behind him. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

What do you do if someone attacks you from behind? Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

The Story Box burned with light so bright it seared my vision and left behind floating dots of color. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

A slender figure darted from behind a set of crates, her long black hair tied back. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

Then, like ninjas, they moved through the house to the front door and ran outside, Genie first making sure the door didn’t slam behind them. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

I turned to look at the trail the animals and snowmobiles were blazing toward us, when something hard slammed into me from behind, throwing me into the thick snow. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

If you’re on the ocean side of the islands, it can sneak up on you from behind, which happens a lot to tourists. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

I don’t know what I expect to find, but it’s not the sight of my mother seated behind a card table with all of Aunt Lucy’s furniture pushed up against the walls. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

A pair of legionnaires march out from behind the belltower, dragging a small, limp form. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

Alex twisted around, expecting to see Mr. Grin, but it was Nadia Vole who hurried in, closing the door behind her. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

He floats on his back, arms folded behind his head. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

I hear her mom’s voice behind the door, and then Candy’s high one answering “Just Georges.” Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

And so saying, Mr. Wonka scuttled across to the far end of the Inventing Room and went out through a small secret door hidden behind a lot of pipes and stoves. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 1964-09-12T00:00:00Z

But before I could speak anything else, another girl’s voice said something from behind me. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

Pete studied the picture of Nicole, her mother and me in the diner parking lot, doing our best to hide behind Mrs. Castro’s umbrella and only half succeeding. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

Geography, I walk behind a group of girls in the hallway who are going on and on about it, no idea that I’m the one and only Theodore Finch. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Out of habit, she tried brushing the hair out of her face and behind her ears. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

“McCraig,” the Recruiter said to his partner, “do you see something odd behind the vent there?” The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

He left the door swinging open behind him as he walked out. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

I sat in the copse on the hill behind Red Witch Bridge that night, trying, for a little while, to forget what I’d learned in the library. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

As I turned, someone seized me from behind and thrust a damp rag over my nose and mouth. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

Inside the building Lyra found a wide desk at the foot of the stairs, with a porter behind it. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

I hear someone behind me step over the knee-high fence, but I can’t take my eyes from the light that wants to both pull me in and lock me out at the same time. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

“His reward for passing summer school is not getting left behind.” What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

She had grown up among piles of books, but even she couldn't imagine there were books behind all the windows of this huge house. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

He yelps and runs off behind the trailer, tail tucked down, belly to the ground. Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

In reality, the fair was far behind schedule, with worse delay forestalled only by the winter’s mildness. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Cray-Cray's shed was behind the stands, and it was more of a small garage than a shed. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

“The rest of this land used to be farms or grazing pasture,” he continued, gesturing back at the expanse of white behind them. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

The people in the line turn to each other, muttering behind their hands. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

If she stays here any longer she will freeze to death; she will be left behind, in the wrong time. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

He put the candles on the lid of the Limoges chest, so that they would be behind his back when he opened the door. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

He thanked them politely, took off his eyeshade, put the pen behind his ear, closed the book, arid went back to sleep. The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z

He crept a little closer, hiding behind a plant with leaves shaped like elephant ears. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

She wore no coat, no shoes, nothing but jeans, an old pair I’d left behind, and one of my worn T-shirts. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

And then a huge jolt sends me forward as we’re hit from behind and go spinning across the lanes like a top. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

Chaol watched the prince disappear, his red cape billowing behind him, and sighed. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

He spoke behind Cecilia and Robbie’s head to the young girl who stared at him as her eyes filled with tears. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Suddenly, for the first time since the Collier’s article in the fifties, the press was very interested in the woman behind those cells. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

To help the audience unlock the puzzle, Blue leaves behind a series of clues, which are objects tattooed with one of her paw prints. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The destruction of Britain’s forests has been suggested as the reason behind its early lead in developing coal technology, but why didn’t deforestation have the same effect in China? Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Sibongile was right behind him with a pot of boiling water, cursing at him and threatening to douse him with it. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

His eyes were wide and gloomy behind his owlish glasses. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

The sun came suddenly from behind a rain cloud, flooding the room with glorious light that wavered on the walls like water. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

First, we went behind the house and between two banks of azaleas we found Rattling Brook, gurgling and bouncing topsy-turvy over stones. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

I don’t know how long I ran before I stopped and looked behind. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

A white doctor came to the home-house with his derby and walking stick, wrote “stillborn” on Day’s birth certificate, then drove his horse-drawn buggy back to town, leaving a cloud of red dust behind. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

He therefore hurried behind her desk and began pulling open the drawers. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

The clock struck ten, loudly, and before the sound of the last stroke had died away Stuart saw two gleaming yellow eyes peering out from behind the sofa. Stuart Little 1945-10-17T00:00:00Z

The voices were still behind us, only now they were joined by another sound: dogs barking. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

I love the dusty particles a fresh colored pencil leaves behind with the first stroke, the sound it makes kissing the page when I’m done filling in voids. Monday's Not Coming 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

And then Ma and Ba went into their house, leaving the sea of shaking heads behind them. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

Mordred was slipping behind his back, with a band on his own dagger. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Germans were more than two years behind. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

I felt her knee in my back and something smooth, cold and heavy behind my ear. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

They were with Kyle’s mom and dad in the capacity crowd that was bunched behind velvet ropes for the final two events of the duodecimalthon. Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z

After months behind bars, it didn’t look as though Bobby could emotionally survive for much longer. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

“Even when you were a baby you had a hard time getting a square peg into a square hole,” she called out from behind me. Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then, toward the end of intermission, the answer stepped into the box behind them. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

Gradually the dog fell farther and farther behind. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Charlie watches her go and, as the door swings closed behind her, he turns back to me. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

As the sun drops behind the distant mountains, the light in the east takes on a blue haze. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

‘Not under the White Face, not yet. It will go behind the hills soon, yess. Rest a bit first, nice hobbits!’ The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

Lennie went behind the tree and brought out a litter of dried leaves and twigs. Of Mice and Men 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

He ran behind the car for as long as he could, until it hit the slope and began bumping down to the bottom. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

The new Unsullied threw down their spears and shields and ran, only to find the gates of Astapor shut behind them. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

She nodded at me, and I scanned the forest behind them. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

They had to drag their chunks of cement behind them. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

Nettle grabbed her brother by the scruff and pulled him outside as an avalanche of rock thundered behind them. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

My father, he wiped his hand across his face, and what was left behind was a smile. Orbiting Jupiter 2015-10-06T00:00:00Z

The wolf was in the shadows, too far behind the man for him to see. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

If he climbed up onto the roof, he could see it slink behind Marin and the Golden Gate Bridge in the next few minutes, but he had somewhere to be. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Then I spot the tip of a child's boot just peeking out from behind the trunk of a tree. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

The others would go home eventually, one by one, leaving Prosper and Bo behind. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

The cloud-shadows were very clear down there; they looked as if they were fleeing something frightful behind them, or hastening to embrace something wonderful ahead. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

I run up behind her, tap her on the shoulder. Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

Anyone knew they were one and the same: "Buckeye" when you were very young and hid yourself behind wide innocent eyes; "Brer," when you were older. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

If they could make it out of the Mansion of Night, maybe they could leave the dark brood of demons behind. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Everywhere 1 went those first few days after Mrs. Castro was identified as the person behind the attack, I had at least two reporters tailing me. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

I’d stumbled and fallen to my knees when I turned to run from Spot’s charge, and she was too close behind for me to be looking back and watching what Old Yeller was doing. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

She curled a loose strand of hair behind my ribboned braids. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

Part of me wants to run up and hug Dad from behind or cover his eyes with my hands, like I did when I was little. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

Roy broke into a brisk jog with Dana no more than twenty yards behind him, cursing and spluttering vile names. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

I told him to stay calm and remain inside, that others from the cars behind us would come to our rescue. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

There’s something behind our parents’ death, and I’m going to find out what it is. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

I was ten and I was hopeful that we might be able to leave all the old fears behind in Oakland. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

You go till the number is so big you can’t say it in your head in the space of a second, and so you fall behind. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

I follow him down, a stab of worry making me flinch when I hear the door close behind me. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

The pain behind my eyes shoots from one side to the other. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

The woman behind him, a tiny old lady who, to me, fit the description of the perfect grandmother—small, wrinkly, glasses, and feisty as hell—slapped him on the back of the head. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

She grabbed two heavy books from the table and stalked from the library, making sure to leave The Walking Dead far behind. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Then I heard noises behind me—voices approaching. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

Flowers were crammed into every available space behind the casket, on the casket, around the casket. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Six people can squeeze in behind my table, and they did. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

She limps from the big top and I rush out behind her. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

He was up at five o’clock the next morning, closing the boarding house door behind him, joining thousands of immigrant men and women making their way through the streets toward the Union Stock Yard. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Brother Elisha came in, slamming the door behind him and stamping his feet. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

Not until he moves two of the vertical planks, showing me the space behind. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

There was a mustiness in the air, a hint of damp cellar, a whiff of stale sweat left behind by a rowdy congregation. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

I have no idea what it was about, but it started right behind me. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

Instead, he dropped us off behind the 7-Eleven, next door to school. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

It is pitch black in the morning when I set off down the mountain for the school bus, leaving Ob behind, watching me out the picture window. Missing May 1992-03-01T00:00:00Z

The commanding officer then reached behind his desk and produced a sheaf of papers. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Shouts of agreement arose and I looked behind me, seeing the men who had followed me and thinking, What did he mean, destroyer? Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

I strained to look behind me, but my body was frozen. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

My voice caught in my throat, and tears weren’t far behind, but I didn’t care. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

Daffodils clustered like bugle bands in front yards as the Beans Boys left school behind on a sunny, cloudless day. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

Behind the Amity Harbor Elementary School, a girl of seven bending over to pack a snowball was rammed from behind by a boy skidding down a hill on a piece of cardboard box. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

I turned around, but there was no exit behind me. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

The lawmen surmised that Anna had been sitting on the rock, drinking, when someone came up behind her and shot her at close range, causing her to topple over. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Then he came out, closing the door behind him, and sat down. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Jack fought to hold his place as the prisoners behind him pushed and shoved. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

They cut and slashed at him from behind and both sides, yet he never was quite there. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Quiet,” says one of the Guardians behind the counter, and we hush like schoolgirls. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

She leaves and locks the door behind her. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

The captain stood behind her looking stiff and angry. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

They want the doctor to leave me behind. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

“And you, Jonah? Is your family behind you on this?” Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Marguerite, more comfortable behind Mother Ermentrude’s desk than in a messy kitchen, waits to be given a task. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

They moved quickly behind a wide oak trunk and peered out from either side. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

Mariam could see herself too, reflected in the brown of Jalil’s eyes: her hair billowing, her face blazing with excitement, the sky behind her. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

She relents, and I’m off down the hallway with her right behind me. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

Trial hadn’t even started, but the room felt like an oven, and as people came in behind us, they started fanning themselves right away. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

I opened my eyes and saw the dim blob of his face peering from behind the jamb of the kitchen door. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

I ducked inside and was surprised that Phoebe was not behind me. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

The man behind the door took the picture. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

The drums marched ahead, and there was music on the fifes, and behind the men who carried the coffin walked the wife and two children.... The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

Mama called out as the front door slammed behind me. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

If he was right, he’d be in exactly the right spot to reach through, cut through the glass in the cabinet, take out the alethiometer and close the window behind him. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was a good chance she’d have to leave all her friends behind. Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Ned mounted up and trotted behind him, down the trail and into the city. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

“There’s an old slack dump up behind the mine,” Sherman said. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

And besides, behind the force that Red and Samuel would lend me in a fight lay the powerful, unknown magic of Ultima. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Three coffees, two with milk, please,” said Francis to the fat woman behind the counter. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

A priest in a black robe entered behind the last altar boy. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

And then ‘Ke hind’—that must be ‘key behind,’ and then there’s the small steel pan. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

I kept my pace steady, the men behind me falling ever so slightly farther behind with every step. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

Miss Violet reached for Lloyd, but he ducked and disappeared behind one of the cardboard cows by the manger. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Here on the lower ground the buildings were nearly as imposing in size but housed a separate family behind each of their many grimy windows. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

I glanced behind me to see Mike’s back as he walked away. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

And the odd thing was the brown part of his skin was as wrinkled and creased and folded-up as a hunnert-year-old saddle, while the white part was smooth as a baby’s behind. The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z

On the night of May 10, 1933, in many German cities, university students and Storm Troopers carried flaming torches and marched behind trucks and oxcarts filled with banned books. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

They simply swallowed everything, and what they swallowed did them no harm, because it left no residue behind, just as a grain of com will pass undigested through the body of a bird. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

A third cop gathered the stuff left behind and gestured for the cheerleader to enter the main office. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

When they heard a car behind them, they fell back into a single line until it passed. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z

Listening behind the summerhouse, Eleanor heard their laughter and the sound of their feet running down the path to the house.“ The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

There was no benign smile upon Dumbledore’s face, no twinkle in the eyes behind the spectacles. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

I look behind them, straining to see what follows. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

“I will save you,” she says, “if you promise to tell me all the things that go on behind my back.” Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

“For”—using you, lying to you by omission, flirting with him behind your back, thinking about him pretty much every second that I spend with you—“not being up-front about it.” Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z

In accordance with the latest fashion, my waist tapered to a narrow point, and my train trailed two feet behind me. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

She closed the door behind her and then leaned against it and shook her head. 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 open one of the doors slowly, so it doesn’t make any noise, and then close it slowly behind me. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

They decided to flank the Long Knives behind the rock. In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z

I hate the idea of everybody at school talking about me behind my back. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

The screen door banged behind them as they went in, and their laughter grew faint. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

“You are impossibly behind, with no chance of catching up this year. And Lord knows what your schooling was like in the slum.” Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

All I wanted at that moment was to be in the arms of my mother, who was on another tire behind me with my younger sister. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

Having anticipated this, he had placed a folded up shirt behind his head in the helmet. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

She gets into her beige bathtub, behind the crackled sliding glass doors. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s the last Twinkie, and you don’t get it,” Terryl said, laughing, as she reached behind her. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

I looked behind him and saw a small living room, with classroom desks farther back in another room. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

Here and there a light flickered under a snow-thick roof, and Lyra thought she saw pale faces behind some of the windowpanes, and imagined their astonishment to see a child riding a great white bear. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

But for now, they were lurking behind the curtains of every bathtub. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

Instead of the usual display of gold-embossed spellbooks the size of paving slabs, there was a large iron cage behind the glass that held about a hundred copies of The Monster Book of Monsters. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

That night I stand behind blowing blankets and pour fresh water all over my skin. Inside Out and Back Again 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

When I pushed open the door to the shop, a much smaller bell tinkled, and a woman looked up from her perch behind a counter. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

"And we're only getting over the last pandemic. You think he was behind that, too?" City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

Nok crossed her fingers behind her back as she watched her father clean his glasses for the hundredth time that morning. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

He was glad to hear the gate clang to behind them, as they rode forward. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

“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 door shut behind them and the siren howled away. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

Or the suburban high school student who has a drinking problem but keeps getting behind the wheel? The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

The sun was setting behind a cluster of small houses. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

They say I can use the computer for my homework, but then sit there behind me as I make up things to research. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

The men were still behind them, rounding past the bucket man. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

Get your furry goat behind out here and bring some heavily armed friends! The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

Behind the wheel sat a giant of a man and behind him, hardly recognizable under the shawl wrapped around her head, was Ida Spavento. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

The thinly disguised hopefulness in her voice when she suggests that I stay behind. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

I set a challenge to not only be early—or at least on time—but also having a perfect attendance so I wouldn’t ever feel left behind on material like before. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

He crawled slowly behind a lazy guard basking in the sunlight with his gun on his lap. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

Lara steps into my room and kicks the door shut behind her. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

Sonny and Henry speed down the stairs, and we are right behind them. Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

I stumble on, Manchee behind me, the flashlight not much good against every ruddy little branch and root and puddle in a great big swamp. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

Or how one of those students, Aristotle, had his students following behind him, walking through the Lyceum. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

His eyes were hidden behind enormous dark glasses. Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures 2013-09-24T00:00:00Z

Then he turned on his heel and left me behind without so much as a goodbye. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s not just that the room is bare— it’s that there’s a strange, dead stillness to the air, as if the room is an empty shell left behind by an animal. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

It was hard to see much in the dawn light—the sun was rising behind the house—but with the curtained windows glowing, it looked warm and cozy. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

Mr. Curtain had put down his journal and rolled out from behind his desk. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

Long enough to watch the city of my birth recede from view on the road behind us as we rolled through the sea of wind turbines that surrounded it. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

The Masks leave Elias on the stage and take up positions behind it. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

I see the warm, honey glow behind your bedroom curtain, your shadow dancing on the wall as you gently fold your red sweater and bend to lacquer the small nails on your toes. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

I mounted the steps; and Trefusis having shut the door behind us and rapped upon it, we set out. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

A squad of Specials was headed toward her across the compound, an open door behind them at ground level. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

Gradually, as most of the other girls in my grade began to undergo their own transformations, I began to worry less about possible accidents and more about being left behind, left out. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Passing the checkpoint safely, we walk a few hours more until the sun goes to sleep behind the mountains and the world becomes a place of shadows and shapes once again. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

So most of the time, I hide behind a mask. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

When Ash went downstairs, Beatrice was not in her quarters behind the kitchen. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

A woman sat behind a desk, which had a computer and several piles of paper. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

“Trick or treat!” says Mitch over the sound of a small dog yelping behind the man. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

There were windows, with glass, and through them she could see the tops of trees; the room faced the forest behind the building. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

They stayed devoted to their Sunday night mixed doubles bowling league and were deeply involved in local politics—which were no less grubby than the politics they left behind in the city. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

The woman who'd let us in was mixing drinks behind a handsome free-form bar which was large enough to have graced a night club. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Kropp seizes him just in time, twists the hand sharply behind his back and holds it fast. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

Out the window, a puff of blue, transparent exhaust wavered behind the Sunbird. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

But before he could say anything, another voice sounded behind them! When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

Mattie and Chase followed behind like calves, distracted by this butterfly or that bug or newly bloomed lily. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

She only walks with such a focused look on her face that I think she’ll just leave me behind if I don’t keep up. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

And behind the cabin was his lioness, feasting on a freshly caught antelope! My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

Charles, despite having one arm pinned behind him, was trying to elbow Henry in the stomach with the other. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Because if she went, she must leave Poppy behind, mustn’t she? The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

She wished she had something to throw, something to ricochet off buildings with the kind of force that she felt building up behind her heart. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

Layla and Dad were right behind her, a baby boy strapped on each chest. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

A strong arm wrapped around my neck from behind. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

Immediately Mr. Curtain whizzed over to sit behind him, fitted his head inside the red helmet, and barked, “Ledroptha Curtain!” The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

The carnival booths fell behind, the smell of fried meat and beer died away, and they came to the base of a hill. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

We are on a side rail behind the Flying Squadron, which has obviously been here a few hours. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

“Eighteenth place is fine. At least Nox placed behind you.” Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

She tried to stop the desk guard but was dragged back by the soldier behind her. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

The Cardinal strain was kept in a different area of the building, behind several walls of biocontainment, a long distance from the monkey flasks. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I saw them on the landings, or sometimes, when I went down to the kitchen, behind the counters. Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

He started up his car and swung it back out onto the highway, leaving behind a blue-black cloud of smoke that drifted over the protesters. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

I stepped out onto the porch and closed the door behind me. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

A loud squeak behind me makes me jump and turn around. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

He leans back against the headboard, adjusting a pillow behind his back. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Then several of the others broke off their conversation and faced us, as the applause muffled down behind the closing door. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

I stood behind the others, hoping no one would notice my trembling legs. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

His arms stretch the width of the wall, and there are puffy white clouds behind him. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

To Shay, her new attitude was simply the result of growing up, moving on, leaving all the overheated emotions of ugliness behind. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

"Now, would I be behind you, or in front?" A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

“Everything okay, Ezra?” says Camel, coming up behind me. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

I stationed myself behind the tallest manservant, but Char and the knights walked among us. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

He turned the steering wheel and yelled out as the Jeep spun across the runway, behind the plane. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

X-Ray looked at him with half-opened eyes behind his dirty glasses. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

Somewhere behind David’s exhausted, haggard expression is something harder, stronger. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

Even in that confined space, it was pacing—like a menagerie ravid, she thought—with just a whisper of her awareness left behind to guide it. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

The quiet one hurried along behind, dragging the wagon. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

He was kidding, but I could hear the hurt behind the offhand question. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

While we were standing up behind our chairs listening to the welcome speech, I had bowed my head and secretly eyed the position of the bowls of caviar. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

"Take these two around behind the house," he told Basta, who was still standing there holding the empty bag. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

When the sun falls behind the hut it is time for me to leave. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Leale’s fingers probed for the source of the blood and found it behind the left ear: a neat, round hole, about the diameter of a man’s fingertip, clotted with a plug of coagulated blood. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

We end up jumbled in the back behind a group of Cloud Knight players and Team Andromeda, while ahead of us, Max and Tremaine shake Hideo’s hand in turn. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

The quiet, laughing response came from behind me. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

“The theory behind the camps was to cleanse unto three generations the families of incorrect thinkers. So it was inconsistent to allow another generation to be born.” Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

No sooner had Bull reached behind Jasper Jr. to cut the fishing line than the motor gurgled to a dead stop. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

After many days, we left all the villages behind and walked through an area covered in low forests for a while. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

We haul it down the driveway and around the corner as the old man’s heckling laugh echoes behind us. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

By coincidence or out of some malignant expression of humor, the house was located right behind the city morgue, a few blocks north of City Hall. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Plump, translucent lizards lived behind old pictures, and waxy, crumbling ancestors with tough toe-nails and breath that smelled of yellow maps gossiped in sibilant, papery whispers. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

As Radar and I walk briskly past the white man behind the counter, Radar stops when he notices the guy is staring. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

When we reached the waterfront, I saw the old dockmaster coming along toward us, the smoke from his pipe trailing behind him like a dirty veil, and I hurried ahead to meet him. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

Whenever Bull left a room it was a natural reflex for him to leave an order behind him. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

So I’m standing at the refrigerator staring through the glass, when I hear a voice coming from behind me. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

She told us we would be back in a few days and convinced me to leave behind my dolls and dresses. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

Then at a stop, a group of whites walked to the front and behind them a sedately dressed Negro woman in her fifties. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Cambridge, England, was behind Cambridge, Massachusetts: at Harvard, George Sarton gave his first lecture course in the history of science in 1917 and became professor of the history of science in 1940. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Being behind the tree, I didn’t see it if Miss Love slapped Grandpa or pushed him away. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

I spit it out when Amanda turns around to yell at John Chuchurelli, who is making kissing noises behind her back. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

The scrawny one with the spiky hair, the one who walked right behind the leader—looked familiar. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

The two of us sat in that fashion, with Justice directly behind the woman. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I'm two blocks behind him, and I speed up a bit. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

I thank her when she’s done, and she leaves with a small smile, closing the door behind her. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

Martin and Wanda followed behind him, and when she got back into the passenger seat, she reached back and held his hand the entire way home. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

The blue door behind the desk'd swung open, showing a tiny bog. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

One of the first times I visited Mr. Muhammad there, I stepped off a plane into flashing and whirring cameras until I wondered who was behind me. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Constance and the beaver positioned themselves behind these, tipstaves at the ready. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

She wiped them away and fell back behind her family so no one would see. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

He slipped the boy’s knapsack straps loose and set the pack on the floor behind him and he put his thumbnail under the aluminum clip on the top of the can and opened it. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

Grandpa settled in behind his large desk, Dale and Maddox claimed the oversized armchairs, Lena leaned against the windowsill, and Kendra and Seth found seats on the floor. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

As they ran they heard the beat and echo of many hurrying feet behind. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

Four unfamiliar Masks and a squad of legionnaires stand behind him. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

Mama laid her head back on Ophie’s shoulder and fell back asleep, but Ophie whipped her head around, and sure enough, standing behind her was Aunt Rose. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

That was all he could remember of the pledge Luxa had told him, but she was right behind him, feeding him the words in a whisper. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Very well, off we go south,” was all he said as he got behind the steering wheel. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

The last Bran saw of them was the direwolf's tail as it vanished behind the broken tower. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

A woman behind Mariam was yelling that her girl had broken her elbow falling from a tree. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

But when the camera zoomed out there were ten women standing behind us, wearing the same white dress. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

I stayed behind with my mom, my dad, Uncle Frank, and Carmen to lock up. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

Before he could kiss her again and me have to wait it out behind the tree, I yelled, “I got the grits!” and hurried towards them. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

The direwolf returned reluctantly to his side, tail held stiffly behind him. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

August comes out from behind the green curtain, wearing white tie. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

Teenagers stood on the steps and watched, some lighting cigarettes, others slipping fingers behind their sunglasses to wipe hidden tears. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Near the Edifice steps, a crowd had gathered to watch a pig-slaughter behind the butchers. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Before I left the abbey with the king, I instructed one of the monks to listen behind a door at the side of the refectory, in case Michelangelo and the children revealed some treachery. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

Her children poured out behind her and rushed the door of their house. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He took his hat from a nail behind the door and jammed it on his head. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

I hope that the next time I see you, you will be a new man with a vast array of new adventures and experiences behind you. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Just behind them a large branch fell from an old overhanging tree with a crash into the path. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

I closed the door behind me and stopped. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Someone asked me an interesting question yesterday,” Morrie said now, looking over my shoulder at the wallhanging behind me, a quilt of hopeful messages that friends had stitched for him on his seventieth birthday. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

My stomach plummets like I forgot it two hundred meters behind us. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

“So long as nobody bulldozes it down!” cried Mrs. Gause, whose flickering image was still being projected behind the circulation desk. Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z

“Hi,” he said, ushering me quickly inside and locking the door behind me again. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

We started walking together on the path that circles the island, Gat in front and me behind. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

They went through the opening behind the bushes, and back, down the stairs and passages, into the cave. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

“Need to patch up a few spots over behind the barn next,” called Mr. Babkow, fastening the fencing to its post. Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

The other boys in uniform snickered behind their hands. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

“Back in line!” the soldier behind me shouted, and I realized that it was me he was talking to—that in my fevered state I’d strayed too far from the center of the road. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

The Girl's face hardens—but behind that I can see something waver, if only for a moment, and she looks like the girl I'd met on the streets. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

The morning light shone through the high lace curtains and caught her chestnut hair from behind, framing her face in gold. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

I have this vision of me working behind the counter and you taking care of the baby in the back. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

The sun had already slipped behind the palisades, on the west side of the river. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

They were also the first humans to leave behind strong evidence of burying their dead and caring for their sick. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

I pulled the door closed behind me and locked it again. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

The guy sitting behind me groans and mutters about how much he hates writing and thought this was history class, but Mr. Griffiths ignores him and keeps speaking. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

J. B. Stryker’s was a square of wasteland behind the railway tracks running out of Waterloo Station. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

“Percy and I will sneak around the two Titans and cut the chains from behind.” The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

He didn’t let her see his sympathy, of course, but hid it behind a mask of mockery and indifference, just as she hid her despair behind rage. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

Davey Cantor, one of the boys who acted as a replacement if a first-stringer had to leave the game, was standing near the wire screen behind home plate. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

But we turned a corner and the ocean disappeared behind the hills. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

I twist my wrist from Haymitch’s grasp and head down to my old bedroom, locking the door behind me. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

They rode off along a path that wound away from behind the house, and went slanting up towards the north end of the hill-brow under which it sheltered. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

A train of mules trailed behind them, carrying chests and ~ casks and barrels, and hampers of delectables to keep the lord of cheese from growing peckish. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

She sat rigid in the principal’s chair, and a younger woman hovered behind her. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

Her mind was all on him, and she didn’t see the confusion behind her, the fear and the anger that rose up safely when he was gone. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

She wants to talk about Finch, but I tell her I’m trying to put him behind me. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

The sun was not up past the rim of the canyon behind our house, but it was already sweltering hot. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

He slowed to a walk now, the welcoming party and newcomers falling in behind. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

Werfel was glad they had the two guards pacing behind them. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

When he reached Dorothy’s, he sprang into action while the others hid behind a car several houses away. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

She cleared her throat before coming out from behind her locker door. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

I had become a public symbol of rebellion and struggle; Walter operated behind the scenes. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Where you going?" she shouted when she was right behind him. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

I actually ducked behind Aly, hiding because I suddenly felt so shy. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Had death come creeping on him from behind, or faced him like a man? Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

It originated from a point right behind her forehead no larger than a grain of sand. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

He stepped back, and stepped right on the lady's foot behind him. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

Nan came and stood behind me, reading over my shoulder. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

Anything that could close behind me, or trap me, I never liked. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Although it was surely an illusion, the city, with Table Mountain looming behind it, looked agonizingly close, as if one could almost reach out and grasp it. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Marie-Laure hears the gate clang shut, then the woman latching the door behind them. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

He had just noticed the woman who had entered the room behind Hagrid. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

The pilot continued to work the controls, ignoring the chaotic scene behind her. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

“There's men removing the old garments behind the pork, Prince O. Why don’t you repair there and change and I'll engage this fine lady til you return so she don’t become listless a-waiting.” The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

The silk ripples out behind her in waves, and jewels crawl in a pattern up her arms like snakes. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

But still the hatred of the Watcher lurked behind them, blind for a while, perhaps, but undefeated, still bent on death. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

But there was a real authority about the way Ruth had spoken, and the three of us knew each other well enough to know there had to be something behind her words. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Henry paid the check while Bunny hung behind him like a bad child. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

A moment later it clanged shut behind him. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

The men had shone a flashlight right on his behind. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

Robert appeared and shut the windows of the drawing-room behind me. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

I cut the kelp that held it and took it to a tide pool behind the reef, which was sheltered from the waves. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s high time somebody did something, said the woman behind the counter, at the store where I usually bought my cigarettes. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

I quickly hid the wrappers on the windowsill behind the curtain, pulled my shirt down over my belly, and took my seat. Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were at an odd angle and all I could see was the shoulder of a black coat, with a silk scarf blown out in the wind behind it. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

And then, behind the litter, there came another one. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

She stood at the threshold until Misha chuckled from behind her. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

When I walked behind August in my bee veil, I felt like a moon floating behind a night cloud. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

But at least I got to see the White House in person, even though it was from behind the front gate. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

I found a vantage point behind a bush, set down my milk, crouched, and waited. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

“I have to help my brother skin the minks at his mink farm this afternoon and I may fall behind a bit.” Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Holding my nose, I shut the door behind me, and raced away. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

His grimness forbade any comment as he stalked across the yard behind the coffin. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

So we’d be leaving half, at least half, behind to rot. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

I was behind Alhaji, who parted the bushes like a diver heading to the surface for air. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

Pantalaimon, on the other hand, leaped into the air with a loud caw of delight, and wheeled and skimmed and darted now ahead of the boat, now behind the stem. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

A small stone breakwater had been thrown out across the cove for shelter, and behind it the bay formed a tiny natural harbour. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

Ana slammed the door behind her, and the force of it shook the house. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

The children could still make out the wavery image of the news reporter gesturing toward the crowd behind her, but her voice faded away, replaced by that of a child. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

Nyame stood in front of me, hands clasped behind his back, as he stared at the sun setting over the city. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

One in front, one behind, they escort me down the stairs. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

Going behind the desk was, of course, strictly off- limits, so I confess that I got a thrill when we did just that. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

She may be Dauntless now, but if there’s one thing I’ve learned through all this, it’s that we never leave our old factions behind. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

The door latches behind me with a clunk', my sheepskin slippers flop over as I step free of them. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

The thick ugly odors of unwashed bodies and rotting flesh from the shallow graves behind the buildings grew stronger. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

I run into it before anyone sees me, shooting into a stall and locking it behind me. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

I felt behind me, found the stone boat, and sat against it. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

“Could be a few dead ones lying behind the ale barrels and no one would even know!” Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

At first Caleb tries to stand behind us, but Tobias pushes him forward, right up to the edge of the car. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

We bought tickets and got through the turnstiles, looking behind us for any signs of pursuit. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

Charlie put one arm behind my back, not quite touching me, and led me to the glass doors of the exit. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

I was dragged the entire length of the block, bouncing along behind the cab, past the sewers, past parked cars, and all the way to the corner, where the cab was stopped by a light. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

Ghosts behind you and in front of you and inside you. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Men left behind could be picked off at leisure. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

He saw them behind him, quickly backing away. The Fighting Ground 1984-04-01T00:00:00Z

Without a glance behind him, Lucky put the car into gear and rapidly turned it around in the yard. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

Then the sun went behind a cloud, and it was gone. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

The praetor turned and walked across the ramparts, her greyhounds behind her. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Hatsue, carrying a garden shovel and a metal pail rusted through in its bottom, dripped water behind her as she walked the tide flats; she was fourteen and wore a black bathing suit. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

I hurried behind him, seeing him stop when he reached the man and the children. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Coming up behind them, barely two blocks away, was a police cruiser. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Hazel wondered if actual bodies were buried behind them. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

He snorted, hunching his neck into ruffles and folding his wings behind him. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

Gale peeked out from behind Hazel’s feet and started chattering. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Princess Vasilisa swept down hallway after hallway, saying nothing but leaving a trail of sizzling wrath in the air behind her. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

It chimed when he pushed it open and stepped into the smoky building, John John, Trista, and Francy following close behind. Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z

He impatiently waved at his companion, who had been hidden behind the mast all this time. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

Then he turned to scowl at a white couple right behind them. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

What if a family with just one kid moved in behind them, and he sneaked into their house and pretended to be their second child? Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z

The girl keeps up, never falling behind but never getting too close neither. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

“Your mum’s waiting,” she said, pulling the front door shut behind her. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z

He reached behind him for the big black telephone. Ghost 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

It was always in the way, and he could see nothing behind it. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

Thousands and thousands of them, multiplied over and over as far as the eye could see in the dim world behind the sun. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

The Big Friendly Giant followed behind them, but he had an awful job getting through the door. The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Several days a week, Madame brings food to Crazy Hubert Bazin, a veteran of the Great War who sleeps in an alcove behind the library in sun or snow. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

She hid her book bag behind a tapestry screen in the rooms of French furniture. From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s what everyone had said, when she’d struggled in school or asked questions that made people laugh behind their hands: “Don’t worry about it. You’re a pretty girl. You’ll be fine.” Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

A second hansom dashed up close behind the first: out of it there jumped a fat man in a frock-coat and a policeman. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z

She closed the door behind her and took the silverware from me. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

He spoke from behind the clothes that flapped on the line. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

“Stop right along there. Ain’t no nice people on this street for you to hide behind, Baldy.” Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Save your own life,” someone whispered behind him. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

About five minutes before the plane landed, I became aware of people talking in the seat behind me. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z

The moon from earlier has gone behind thick clouds. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

She walked into a dark room, peeked out from behind a shade, and saw the sheik high up in the cherry tree silhouetted against the moon. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

He held her comfortingly against his cheek with one hand while he picked up the skirts of his robes with the other, running as quickly as he could behind the Foreign Secretary. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

“We’re going to be trapped. Embers behind and ahead are burning up the trail.” Paradise on Fire 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

As he lay down, behind him was a circle of fire, and before him lay shadow like a mantle, gathered. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

When the door had shut behind him, she turned to Rishi, her lips twitching. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

They left Murano—the glassmakers’ island—behind them and cruised on, deeper into the maze of islands and grassy islets. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

She could hear the boys screaming behind her, but she was too fast for them. The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z

After a few minutes I heard a noise behind me and turned. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was a whistle behind them; nearly everyone had boarded the train and the doors were closing. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

They came on tip-toe, closing the door behind them, and stood at the foot of the bed, looking on. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

Dad closed the door behind him, and the Dancing Fan chose that moment to fall over. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

They downplayed the event to such a degree that the day carried on as usual, though Lazlo felt as though he’d left “usual” behind forever. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

A vague memory started tugging at her—the way Reyna brushed her hair behind her ear, the silver ring she wore with the torch and sword design. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

And when they reached the palace, even before he had stepped out from behind the curtains of the sedan, the ruler was already calling out orders. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

At the back of the store, behind a counter with an old-fashioned cash register, stood a middle-aged woman with olive skin, long black hair, rimless glasses, and a T-shirt that read: The Goddess Is Alive! The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

TOC caught her in his arms from behind, and she wrestled to get free of him. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z

That night, we camped out behind a pawn shop that had a pair of old chairs and a ripped-up couch lying in its alley. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

He turned and saw the Station Inspector coming closer, with the two policemen right behind him. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

We stumble behind a large oak tree that’s big enough to hide us both. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

Then she drops the blinds and marches from the room, letting the door shut behind her. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

The big girls giggled behind their hands most of the time and whispered among themselves a great deal, but Jean Louise considered them useful when choosing sides for a volleyball match. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

We kind of made fun of it behind her back. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

Gripping his wand more tightly, he dashed out from behind the angel — “Impedimenta!” he bellowed, pointing his wand wildly over his shoulder at the Death Eaters running at him. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

“What, you want me to give you a philosophy bingo card for your trip? Like: When you smell honey in the woods, run because the bear can’t be far behind.” Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

The scar left by the bonfire was still visible on the lawn behind the house, where Capricorn’s men had piled up the books and burned them. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

“I cannot yet. Remember, I left my dress behind in Colton.” Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

The doctor’s wife, his beautiful wife, was there, smiling worriedly from behind a chair, the only one pulled away from a long wooden table that ran the length of the room. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

She almost called out their names, thought better of it, and turned to look behind her. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Powell groaned heavily behind a noticeably insincere smile. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

When that little brat stole my pocketbook and hid it in the oven, I didn’t whoop her on the behind. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

"My father maybe dying behind the walls of River-run. My brother is surrounded by foes. I must go to them." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

I cringe and look behind me to make sure no one heard it. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

Lazily he placed his forepaws behind his head and crossed his knees, in an attitude of complete relaxation. Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z

Ralph remained behind at the inn, where he rides around every night in his sports car, generously giving rides to his relatives and enjoying their company now that they have benefited from his education. Ralph S. Mouse 1992-08-01T00:00:00Z

Though I didn’t like it, my friends called her “Aunt Scallion,” and made faces behind her back. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now there were more people and they were much more friendly and the band behind struck up “Yankee Doodle.” The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

She invited Dumbledore to sit on a rickety chair and seated herself behind a cluttered desk, eyeing him nervously. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

The sun nearly blinded her, and she heard him whisper behind her: “So long, baby. Be good.” Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

My mind wanders, and I picture Will’s reflection in the glass of the NICU, standing just behind me with a daring smile on his face. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

‘We have walked long and far. Shall we look for some place in the woods behind where we can lie hidden?’ The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

Arthur began to laugh more than was seemly, and his foster-brother, Sir Kay, and his old guardian, Sir Ector, came out from behind the throne, where they had been hiding. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

For all we know, the person behind this isn’t even a true racist, just a joker with a sick sense of humor. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

I call to him several times, but he refuses to walk any closer, so I’m forced to follow Commander Jameson and leave him behind. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

“Well, I gotta get back to monitoring this,” he said, gesturing behind him to the rally. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

He let the door close softly behind him and stood gazing about, as if to see whether anything had changed in his absence. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

He moved forward into the room, allowing the door to swing shut behind him. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

I put down the hat and opened up the wallet, then reached behind the hidden ten-dollar bill for the picture of Amanda. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

Trevor and I stood behind them, waiting for them to be done. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

Her eyes shone behind her glasses, brilliant, fiery. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

“Your Baconian cipher would have been broken anyway,” Emily said as James held the stack of papers behind him, hovering over his wide-open backpack. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

It walked behind a tree, but didn’t come out the other side. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

With a soft grunt, Mr. Griswold collapsed against the slick granite wall behind him. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

Her gaze bounced around the room before finally landing in the corner behind me. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

I may be hiding my spots beneath my makeup, but Edie could be hiding anything behind that smile. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

“My pupils,” said Madame Maxime, waving one of her enormous hands carelessly behind her. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

Two shiny black rickshaws had arrived and behind them a large black motorcar. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Come in, quick. And close the door behind you,” Nora says. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

We got up from the table--they had never brought us a drink--and started across the street toward the Select, where Cohn sat smiling at us from behind the marble-topped table. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

His eyes were wide and startled, and it took a while for him to even look behind the knocking. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

She could hear the bukavac’s steps behind her, the scuttling rapid-fire of six feet punching the ground as it chased her. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

Brian and I would hide behind the sagebrush across the highway, trying to peer inside the front door when someone went in or out, but we could never see what was going on. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

G’ma’s fingers do a tap dance on the steering wheel, pulling him back into the present, and he takes a deep breath and lets his eyes continue to roam around the open space behind him. Clean Getaway 2020-01-07T00:00:00Z

Her feet made soft clangs on each stair, and soon the answering clangs of her friends’ footfalls rose behind her. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

This morning and last night, dummies made of straw and rubber were dropped from the air behind German lines, and they exploded the minute they hit the ground. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

Hanako heard noise from inside, and she quickly stepped behind her father as the door slid open. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

He fidgets in the lap of his honorary uncle, who sits on a bedcover on the floor, surrounded by guests in front and behind and beside him. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

I get out the books again and read the good words Decca left behind, but they blur on the page so that they don’t make sense. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Todd was struggling to stay upright against the opposing center, who kept shoving him from behind. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

“Just put that behind you. If you worry about it, it’s gonna screw you up. It’s history.” Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Finished at the latrine, they hurried toward the open square in the middle of camp and then into a row behind the fat kapo. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

Far away and behind them, the call of a hunting horn echoed against the mountains. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

He took his foot down, pointed behind us, and swept his finger back and forth. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

That almost-empty Baggy of grass behind the bureau never crossed our minds. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

“They love that new blood, that undiscovered talent, so you’ve always got to watch your back for what’s coming up behind you.” Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

Begin when all the rest who left behind them headlong death in battle or at sea had long ago returned, while he alone still hungered for home and wife. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had a brightness behind his eyes that struck me as unusual. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

“Then get back to them before I march you home and shame you in front of your father. You and that cowardly boy behind you.” Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

Holding the baby against my chest, I rise unsteadily from my seat and sway behind her up the aisle. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

Her father had immigrated to America first with his oldest son, leaving his wife and other children behind until he found work. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

His eyes were magnified and wicked behind his pince-nez. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Clancy’s posture relaxed, and when he touched me again, flicking my braid back over my shoulder, there was no ill will behind it. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

They also left behind us, Homo sapiens, the last human species. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

He hadn’t heard her sneak up behind him. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

I went to hide behind a tree, but I was not alone. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

And I would have to say the main factor behind that for me was Mama Cradle. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The sun fell behind the sandstone rocks and the shadows grew darker. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

Instead, I took a step back and away, so I was no longer standing directly behind him, but off to the side. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

Temp and one other roach named Tick had stayed behind. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

In the alleyway behind the store a few shopping carts, all badly rusted. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

But there are almost no pictures of his father alone, his father who was forever behind the lens. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Courtier girls are watching him; some giggle behind their gloved hands and painted fans, and others ask him questions he leaves unacknowledged. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

He nodded at the couch behind him, then went back to paring the stalks of fresh cilantro from the colander next to him. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

“Yeah, you know how Mom complains about the way Daddy looks for stuff? Like in the kitchen cabinet—he never moves anything, never looks behind the cans and jars and boxes of pasta.” It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

Zbyszek stood next to his father, hands behind his back, studying the ceiling, and I could see that Mrs. Diamant and Izio had both sidled nearer, listening while pretending not to. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

“Come see for yourself. It’s on a trailer behind our house.” Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

As she bent to pick them up she was certain that a shadowy figure slipped behind a tree. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

Then I grab the leather journal and slip out the door, Boomer tip-tapping close behind me. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

I could feel him standing on the shower ledge, right behind my chair, taking a look to see if Stradlater was around. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

Only thing I can think to do is drag the fish behind the skiff, tail first. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

“Do what?” he says as Henry shuts the door behind them. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

If he could convict Mhlaba on all four counts with litde evidence, could the death sentence be far behind for those of us against whom the evidence was overwhelming? Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The girl opens a door to a bedroom suite, and I slip in behind her. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

There’s scuffling, and then Kareem’s muffled voice says, “Give me five minutes. I’ll be right behind you,” and then I hear something like a kiss. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

There was a guard of orcs crouching in the shadows behind the great door-posts towering on either side, but the gates were shattered and cast down. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

We make our way to the bookshelves behind us. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

“He told me he had the stuff right behind that big red book.” The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z

Smiling with his hand tucked behind him, he looks just like he did when he stole my Easter candy from my basket and thought I didn’t know exactly where it was. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

Sitting in his designer chair, with tomes and journals rising behind him, Dr. Luce appeared serious, full of expertise, as was his speech. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

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

Lord Jason's men waited to receive them behind rocks and grass and hillocks. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

They fell in line behind Cap and the coaches, like mourners in a funeral procession. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

“And this is Anthony Foster,” Beckany says, and when I turn to thank her, she slams the door shut and the lights waver and somebody coughs from behind the desk. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

As she closed Dill’s front door behind her, it felt like rolling a stone over the entrance of a tomb. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

He points to a row of a couple dozen people seated behind him. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

I remembered a cat playing with a rubber ball somewhere...a kitten a girl friend had gotten for her birthday...and it was hiding behind a chair leg eyeing the ball...stalking it. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

Bobby Moch charged in right behind him, going not for the Yugoslavian coxswain but for the biggest man on the crew. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

The Professor and I crouched down behind our rock, and held our weapons ready; I could see that he was determined that they should not pass. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

Two other bruisers were lined up a few feet behind him and even on my best day, I couldn’t take out all three. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

He half expected Wylan wouldn’t follow, but he could hear the merchling behind him, breathing hard, a low whistle in his lungs as they pounded toward the next stack of barrels. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Out of nowhere, a girl appeared from behind the gate. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

And she starts walking back up the hill, in the direction of Paris, sand dripping in a trail behind her. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

Every night the hens climb the little ramp into the safety of the coop and Joel latches the door behind them. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

Two came flying at him rattling their wings, but the big one came circling from behind, very swift, to burn him and his boat with its breath of fire. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

Those left behind on the dock were frantic to come on board. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

He and the cameraman didn’t notice the white vehicles parked behind the building, or if they noticed them, it didn’t seem interesting. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

But I can feel that he’s just a step behind me. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

While I was dressing, the other woman put her hands behind her back and waited as Dr. Begbie wrapped them together with thick silver duct tape. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

Luke stopped in the middle of pulling the attic door shut behind him. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z

Widget slides the door closed behind them and latches it. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

They left the boat tied up behind Mark’s restaurant and made for the back entrance to the Mud House. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

“Oh, yes. Aha. Well, I think those days are behind us, fortunately.” The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

I hear him trying to sneak up behind me. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

“Excuse me,” the girl behind the counter called. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

Roger lay behind him and Jack's mouth was at his ear. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

The Doors of Death stood right behind them—their exit from this nightmarish world. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

And behind our teacher’s back, in our desks, we are flying through time. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

I watched the car tilt under Omar’s weight as he somehow managed to slide in behind the wheel. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

He held it above his head to block the sun, which had darted out from behind a cloud to further bake the cracked orange dirt. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z

My beauty caisse is set up behind me, fanned open so the medley of instruments inside twinkle in the subtle light. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

Grabbing it, she strode out into the hallway, shutting the door quietly behind her. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

They have him in the bricked alley behind the building, the shots dark and grainy. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

I didn’t like being the leader of our caravan, but Papa said that was safer than me following behind. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

When he was done with that end, he climbed on top, straddling her, his rattling chain settling behind him like a great tail. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

Frank took cover behind the Cadillac and started firing at the ogres. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

His glazed eyes were focused on the window behind her. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

She threw open the air-lock door and stepped inside and slammed the door behind her. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

George could feel the cat right behind him; he could smell its breath, like rotting meat. I Survived the Sinking of the Titanic, 1912 2010-06-01T00:00:00Z

A shape moves along the sidewalk behind us, slippery in my periphery. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

I watched him closely, but he’d barely even skimmed the thing when the door behind him swung open and a tough, skinny old bag in a Red Carpet uniform stepped in beside him. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

“Excuse me. Are you okay?” the woman behind the register narrowed her eyes as she peered at me. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

He kicked his horse back into motion and galloped up over the barrow, raining earth down behind him. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

A tap on his shoulder jarred him from his thoughts; he looked up to see Alby standing behind him, arms folded. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

I remember looking behind me, to see where “the leper” was, and seeing only Miss Maggie, who grew taller right before my eyes. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

Jason poked his head out from behind his improvised bomb shelter of a plastic horse. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

I lock the door behind me and turn on the bath tap. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

The shades were drawn, so I couldn’t see in, but there was enough light emanating from behind the shades that I could tell he wasn’t asleep. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

As she folded back the leather wrapping, the chief mate grunted behind her, like he’d been punched in the stomach. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

If the tube lady wakes up, she'll be able to imagine the boy she hears behind the curtain. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

From behind the boulder, a monstrous voice yelled, “Honeypie! Are you done yet?” The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

As soon as the first snake disappears from our view, another one comes winding along for those left behind to join. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then another girl’s crusty voice comes out from the shadows behind the morgue. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

And often it cannot be done at all: I was annoyed by the people behind me in line’s being served first. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

But he’s not nodding his head or pushing my hair behind my ear and his grandmother’s ring is sitting on Mother’s velvet sofa like some ridiculous metaphor. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

But as she said that, she tried to hide behind my legs. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

Everyone was angry now and I wasn’t about to be left behind. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

I shake my fists at heaven and God, and when I finally subside into uncontrolled sobbing Queenie creeps out from behind the trunks and slides into my lap. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

“And there was duch a line of traffic on the bridge!” she says over Jason’s head to Mrs. Morehouse, behind her. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then he steps on the gas, crosses the street behind me, and keeps going. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

My father lands on his stomach, pulling his legs in behind him. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

His head spun for a second or two, he heard a snipping behind him, and then his hands were free. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

I took the stairs two at a time, trying to be quiet, and flew into my room, closing the door tightly behind me. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

“Yes, I think your days of pink lipstick and ribbons are behind you,” says Cinna. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

It was a white figure, a man, with long wings behind him. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

Sprawled on his belly, a cut on one hand, dirt in his mouth, he heard something rustling through the foliage behind him, and a strange sound that was either laughter or running water. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

There’s a long pause, and Alex is thinking about Henry in his palace, Henry and the years behind him, how he got here. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

She never finishes her sentence; instead she looks from the parents, to the pack behind her, to George and Emmett’s house, then to the nest. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

He walked over behind the candy counter and shook out one of the quarter sacks. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

I could hear her laughing behind me as the blood swept back across my cheeks and all the way to my ears, like rain streaking over a windshield. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Bitter dropped a kiss on Jam’s forehead and slid the mirror aside to show the shelves behind. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

The voice from behind her was becoming more and more familiar. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

“Then the lad here was right. Came to me just now and said he’d seen the fire-eater up there behind a column.” Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

“Not that she’s not independent overall, but she doesn’t have a record label behind her.” On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

The spy tucked himself behind a boulder and began counting flags. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

I walked across the grassy area behind the building until I reached the Army’s insertion point, a glass door. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

While in Johannesburg, her house in Brandfort and the clinic behind it were firebombed and destroyed. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

We were mostly quiet on the walk back to the waterfront, the jail and Mr. Kendall behind us, receding. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

She had legs, she had arms, she had a swan neck dangling uselessly behind her. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

Of course, my treacherous tears arrived as soon as the heavy door closed behind me. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

But the woman behind the counter obviously doesn't think so. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

I was about to sprint out, about to make a move, when the door behind me, the one I had just gone through, began to open. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

The goldfish man looked at her; the sun setting behind him made him glow bright red and yellow. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

One takes my arm and pulls me to standing and cuffs my hands behind my back. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

Bod pushed open the mausoleum door, and then locked it again behind them. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

Before we left, I built a stone person, a qantara, behind our house and told Dad that it was to remind him that I loved him each time he saw it. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z

Some of the other cupbearers stood behind them, watching. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Sure enough, the track soon opened up at the copse, and Dumbledore and Harry came to a halt behind Ogden, who had stopped and drawn his wand. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

I trail close behind a pair of old men who take no notice of me. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

I left through the window, leaving my cloak behind so as not to get any blood on it. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

An older model white Nissan Maxima slowed and pulled up behind Travis’s pickup. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

I glance over at the old ladies and see one of them reappearing from behind a napkin. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

I turn off the lights and walk past Rufus, and he closes the door behind me. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

They all looked up at Harry as he appeared in the doorway, but he merely nodded to them and continued into the garden, Ron and Hermione behind him. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

Until when another ball was thrown out from behind the backstop, Deacon Hurd called back, “How many more you got in there?” Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

One cat, with all my weight behind it He could give her a quick clean death, at least. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

He peeked out at the audience from behind the big velvet curtain. Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

A pale face peeks out from behind a curtain. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

Dill stepped behind Lydia and peered at the photos. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

He ignored Natalie and began pushing clothes from one side of the closet to the other, even though he didn’t really believe he would find a laptop behind or underneath them. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

Her face was hidden behind a large book. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

The sun, already hidden by the clouds, finally set behind the western mountains. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

When I look at my face in the photo I see nothing but the pocked mask I was hiding behind. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

How else could she explain sitting silently on the seat of a stolen police boat while other police boats chased right behind? A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

The snow has begun to stick and I leave a trail of footprints behind me. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

“No. We ain’t hiding this behind no closed doors. I want this thing out in the open. Right is right, so let’s handle our business here,” Juju says. The Skin I'm In 1998-10-16T00:00:00Z

Roger passes me on his way to the office, and the trail of red he leaves behind is so thick I feel as though I should be able to touch it. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

“Here, Diana, we also found a couple more small extension cords,” Rashid said behind him. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

They emerge from behind the stable tent and menagerie, sleepy, with straw in their hair. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

I nodded and put my hands behind my back. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

I don't want my mother to spot her standing behind me and figure out I took a detour on my way to pick up the mail. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Matthias’s belt was the same as the sword case behind his own chair! Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

He looks at us as though trying to decide who should be left behind. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

They hover behind the bench before drawing back to their chairs. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

I had to really think about how to get the colors just right, so I didn’t notice the shadow creeping up behind me. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

“What do you think happened to the Gladers who stayed behind?” The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

Up in the sky, behind the rest of the perched, cackling lechuzas, there was a tinge of pink on the purple face of night. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

Hiding ten boys in the bushes was not easy, but somehow Fadi and the others hunkered down behind the leafy branches while Ravi stood near the designated meeting spot. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

As for the terrors ahead—for he did not fool himself that they were all behind him—well, you just have to stand up to your fear and not let it squeeze you white. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z

She ducked under my arm and through and I jumped out right behind her. Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

That is a good thing, now, for a man to leave a son behind him, like the son who punished Aigisthos for the murder of his great father. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was a small barred window beside the front door, the only one not hidden behind green shutters. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

Standing in the shadows, with the bright window behind him, he blazed with sunburned health. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

Whenever I got behind a little he’d shake his head and sigh, toss down his pick and grab a second shovel. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

I left everything behind to come in here when no one else wanted to. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

One time Li’l Man come up from behind and touch me on the leg and I near bout jump out a my work shoes. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Open cars of flowers—like convertibles in some nightmare Rose Parade—crept behind the curtained hearse. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

I put my hands behind my back and stare into the distance. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

Along the wall behind the lanes, I catch sight of exercise equipment and the rectangles of turquoise blue from individual lap pools. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

I was almost to the garage when I realized someone was walking right behind me. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

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

Portraits of all the mayors of the city since the beginning of time hung on the walls, staring solemnly from behind pieces of old window glass. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

As she closed the door of the blue room behind her Eleanor thought wearily that it might be the darkness and oppression of Hill House that tired her so, and then it no longer mattered. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

House after house ignited and burned to the ground, leaving behind blackened foundations and charred heaps of wood. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z

She left a riveting bitter blob of cucumber froth behind. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

"True," he acknowledges, clasping his hands behind his back. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

She was too busy cowering behind her cash register. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

He pulled a chain behind the toilet, and I watched, wide-eyed, as the water drained and the bowl refilled. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

He was supposed to pay for Andrew’s school fees and groceries, but he started falling behind even on that, and soon my mom was paying for everything. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

A yellow crescent moon peeked out from behind the clouds, and the mosquitoes weren’t too bad. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

They knew she was behind it, though, because of the brightness that shone about its thick dark edge. Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z

I went in close, checking that he was still busy behind the screen first. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

Or is there another August he sees, someone in his dreams behind the misshapen head and face? Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

I expect him to attack Hel, but he rolls away and flees into the night, still grinning, Zak close behind. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

I stayed well behind, just close enough to see where he was going. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

They searched the house and found evidence: photographs of Confederate generals, one of Confederate President Jefferson Davis, some ammunition, and a photo of John Wilkes Booth, hidden behind a picture frame. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

She blabbed hysterically about Billy and the airplane crash, and then she put her car in gear and crossed the median divider, leaving her exhaust system behind. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

He crouched low down behind the holly bush. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

“I don’t want to find myself left behind in an attic or something,” Eleanor added uncomfortably. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

She ducked behind a particularly wide one, and slowly peeked around to see who else was in the woods. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

As he shut the door behind him, his hand went unconsciously to the hilt of his sword to keep it from striking the wall or the desk. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

He looked at her, his eyes slowly clearing, and at Osh who stood behind us, and then at me. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

Stuck behind your ear is a good hiding place if you want to use your gum again. Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

She’s going back the way we came, down across the little field and disappearing into the trees, but I’m right behind her, Manchee after me. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

Dressed like a gentleman, with a face of older years, he wore a hood attached to a flowing cape that hung down behind his legs. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

I would pace, waiting for him, turn the television on and then off, dab behind my ears with perfume, Opium it was. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

She pulls a framed photograph from behind her back. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

The choir filed into their two special rows behind the pulpit, gold robes rustling reverently against the dark wood pews. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

I started walking and he followed along behind me as I went out of the produce department and down the cereal aisle and past all the cashiers and out the door. Because of Winn-Dixie 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

In the seat behind him, Sherman, a compact, muscular kid with a wide, intelligent face, was also sleeping. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

I crossed the grass quickly, placed my person behind the bush, and before long heard Mr Cardinal's footsteps approaching. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

“We were behind the glass saying, ‘There isn’t going to be an aesthetically refined prototype!’” Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

The three knights who had brought them here to bear witness stood behind them. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

She turned and ran, the doors closing behind her. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

Winky was sitting on the same stool as last time, but she had allowed herself to become so filthy that she was not immediately distinguishable from the smoke-blackened brick behind her. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

Slowly, Will made his way back to the twelfth floor and squeezed out from behind the wardrobe in Marigold’s bedroom. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

A boy about my age waved good-bye to a couple sitting behind us. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

I walk backward to watch behind us, but I don’t see anyone. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

With his hands placed behind his back, Bull paced in front of them, clearing his throat and gathering his thoughts for the traditional moving day speech. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

She dismissed me with a wave and locked the door behind her. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

My dad and I were seated together in a convertible in the front of the parade and my mom and sisters were in a car right behind us. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

We have a hint of this relentless life in the words left behind by former slaves. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

With a determined motion he marched away to bed, heaving the brachet along behind him. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

From behind him came a wail of terror in the voice of Sister Katarina. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

He steps behind her and thwacks her in the back of the leg. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

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

Then, closing her fingers around the flower, she slipped out of the conference room, shutting the door quietly behind her. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

When the man and his escorts finally disappear behind a redbrick building they start to dribble away, but continue to glance hopefully over their shoulders, afraid they’ll miss something. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

"Boy, you betta get your behind on up to that school." Dear Martin 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Max made a pouty face and spun around to face the shifting digital wallpaper behind him—currently a pattern of multicolored vector lines. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

What was behind those scary green mountains to the west? The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Tree-ear would stay behind to attend to the draining, resigned and envious in the knowledge that Min was taking the clay to the wheel. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

Going to the Academy alone when she was eleven, leaving her family behind, had terrified her. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

He didn’t even see the other policeman come around behind him, that’s how hard he watched her. Orbiting Jupiter 2015-10-06T00:00:00Z

As soon as high school was over, Chris declared, he was going to get behind the wheel of his new car and spend the summer driving across the country. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

The comfort of his bottles and books was erased in a second, leaving nothing behind his eyes but emptiness and ache. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

He went to the curtain and called behind it. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

A part of me, I left behind in the Holy City of Mecca. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

My first day out, Sister came to see me—Eddie right behind her. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

"While I was lying on the table, Wernecke stood behind a door and made faces and motions to indicate to me that I should hold my breath and beat my chest," Haupt said. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

Somebody screamed behind me, and I winced but didn’t stop. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

Harry stood, irresolute, trying to catch the voice again, but people were now emerging from the Great Hall behind him, talking loudly, exiting through the front doors on their way to the Quidditch pitch. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

Pong pulled Somkit by the arm out of the stall and swung the door shut behind them. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

We fell into line, waddling behind her through the tunneled ice like a train of ducklings after their mother, feet shuffling and arms held out in awkward balance poses to keep from slipping. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

Taylor and Abby burst through behind them, and there’s this huge commotion of yelling and footsteps. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

Lelia especially liked the tiny secret room that was tucked behind a false panel in the closet. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

With no further advice or instruction she walks off down a black-and-white striped path, a thin curl of smoke trailing behind her, leaving Bailey alone in the courtyard. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

He tucked an errant curl behind her ear. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

He pulls out a bunch of comics, each in a plastic sleeve with a piece of cardboard behind it, to protect it I guess. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

Chronicler shook his head numbly and Bast waved as he stepped the rest of the way out the window, closing it gently behind him. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Even still, Chaol had to push his way through a crowd of gathered guards and servants, Celaena keeping close behind him. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

He pulled the book from behind his back. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

At Arnold’s we parked behind Joey’s station wagon just as he was stepping out of the driver’s side. Lawn Boy 2007-06-12T00:00:00Z

Three of the Death Eaters swerved and avoided it, but the fourth was not so lucky: He vanished from view and then dropped like a boulder from behind it, his broomstick broken into pieces. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

I wanted to see that world myself, to see the doors and everything behind them. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

While the knives sliced away behind her, her somewhat irritable expression softened. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

All but twelve ships had finally regrouped behind the sheltering spine of Massey's Hook, in the calmer waters of Blackwater Bay, but not before they had lost considerable time. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Calder walked quickly behind their teacher, his eyes on the counter. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

The guard stuck his head behind the curtain. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

The man answered and Poirot drew back his head and, turning, almost collided with Mary Debenham who was standing just behind him. Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

Finally, I turn into the alley and steer around the potholes until we get behind Tiny's coach house. Will Grayson, Will Grayson 2010-04-06T00:00:00Z

I turn around and find Michael Clark watching me from behind the chain-link fence at home plate. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

I would go to my bedroom window and stare at my reflection in the glass and the trees behind it and just listen to the song for hours. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

According to his steady girlfriend, who accompanied him home, Farmer was sitting behind the steering wheel, holding a letter that his father wrote to him when he started medical school. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

“Like I told Wilfredo Reyes, I had to get something I left behind.” Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

I skirted down Limanowskiego Street, ready to duck behind a busted-up piece of furniture or hide in a pile of old rags if I heard the Nazis coming. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

Eventually, Dad gave up trying to include me and left me behind. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

I learned from these former secretaries of Mr. Muhammad that while he was praising me to my face, he was tearing me apart behind my back. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

He knew by this that he was in disgrace, and he purposely neglected to wash behind his ears. Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z

I sat in one of the benchy chairs and was relieved when ’stead of sitting next to me, the cap’n got in the chair right behind mine. The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z

I lock the door behind her and sit at the table. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

A little later the last bit of wire disappeared behind them like a thin black snake, and Mrs. Frisby climbed down from the asparagus bush. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

Despite the dark, I recognized his shape, and when the light from a lamp behind him illuminated the hideous scar on the side of his face, I knew for certain that it was Edmund. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

I glanced behind me at the statue’s feet. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

A good deal of the time they just roamed around the streets—with her pulling Ralph’s wagon and Bubber following along behind. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

Even his eyes, which stared from behind the silver rims of his spectacles, did not change their fixed, somber gaze. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

The little town behind me was quiet, and there were no other cars on the road. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

There was a tiny head shop directly across the street—bongs, tapestries, canisters of Rush, and all sorts of herbs and incense behind the counter. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Mr. Whiskers padded up behind me, rubbing against my legs. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

When General Gates had asked the committee to send him someone who would go behind British lines, Bryan had been picked as “the best qualified to undertake the hazardous enterprise.” George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z