Common folk stood froze at the sight of a king being pulled down by the strength of the men working together. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Florentines made Paulo Vitelli their captain, a very able man and one who rose from being a private citizen to achieve great prestige. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z

But the image of twenty thousand boxes of chocolates being delivered here to Trinity was ridiculous. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Like it had been when Peach was being born, like her body was working separately from her brain, and she closed her eyes and tried to breathe. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

“Aye, teach me that name!” he said, being clear over the fright the goats had given him, and puffed up with her praise of his cleverness. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

For them, being Jewish was not about what we believed, but about our so-called race. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

That’s what I think of when I hear the sound of a brand-new bottle of Coke being opened. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

The jarring percussion of drawers being opened and closed, dressers being shifted around, and beds being flipped over rattled through the quiet night and shook Mary’s nerves. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

The civility of this encounter belied a caustic battle being waged outside Jackson Park for the rights to illuminate the exposition. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Because we human beings are transitory, our lives as ephemeral as dreams, the tlamatinime suggested that immutable truth is by its nature beyond human experience. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Porscha Johnson has the reputation for being a little touched in the head. Bronx Masquerade 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was no exchange between us; Betty said nothing, being the caliber of wife that she is, with the depth of understanding that she has—but I could feel the envelopment of her comfort. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Nobody even thought about the next day being school again. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

I know when my voices get out of hand, it’s like being in the middle of the New York Stock Exchange. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

And sometimes, I thought, being a teenager was the worst thing that had ever happened to me. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

Thunder and heavy rain filled the air, punctuated by inhuman shrieks emanating from a recording of a grisly French melodrama being played for a French class on a nearby balcony. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

She’d have to live illegally in the United States, always fearful of being caught and deported. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

Perhaps the child would end up being a serial murderer, like those women on television crime documentaries, standing half-naked on dark roads to lure truck drivers and then strangle them. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

When he was finally able to concentrate on what he was reading, he liked the book better; the burial was on a snowy day, and he welcomed the feeling of being cold. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Like Malloy said, the streets had been talking, and the whole block knew, or at least thought they knew, about Needles being beaten up. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

It was like being battered with a hundred sledgehammers simultaneously. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

Nor is the vertue of the Loadstone, being lost, recovered by Goats blood. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

I wasn’t a lonely kid—I was good at being alone. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

It was unassuming to the point of being ugly, with a pink, unkempt exterior and a mass-manufactured mailbox with an eagle on top of it. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

“So I hope you’re right about being able to shut it down.” Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

And how did a simple tennis game lead to all those people being attacked and run out of Lambert? The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

“Where is the harm in being a little reckless?” Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z

On the shore, lorries were being lined up and lashed together to form a makeshift jetty. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

She blinked, dazed, as if struggling to go back to being her usual, logical self. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

All of Holland is being punished for the workers’ strikes. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

But still...a part of her squirmed, frustrated at being thwarted. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

He landed a glancing blow on the man's cheek, before finding himself facedown in the dirt, his face being slammed into the mud, with the wind knocked out of him. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

I could still feel where Yakov and I were fused, as though my consciousness was being stretched taut to the point of splitting. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

He would never be able to cope with being in the woods alone. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

A thousand times better than Winston, he knew what the world was really like, in what degradation the mass of human beings lived and by what lies and barbarities the Party kept them there. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

However, it occurs to me that perhaps what one takes objection to is, specifically, the outmoded understanding of what a 'distinguished household' is, rather than to the general principle being expressed. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

But the reality is, ladies and gentlemen, I am being merciful. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

A couple of softball games are being played behind the elementary school, but I don’t stop to watch. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

He had been given a quick and closely supervised tour of German athletic facilities and been assured by his Nazi handlers that Jewish athletes were being treated fairly. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Harper bitterly asked why a new parking lot was being built up the hill if “no funds were available,” then again brought himself angrily to his feet, or foot. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Grasses have evolved so that they can survive being eaten very well. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

“And part of being the producer is taking care of my director.” From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

I held a series of petty' jobs for short periods, quitting some to work elsewhere, being driven off others because of my attitude, my speech, the look in my eyes. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Not because he was so brilliant, but the government had just announced plans to send a satellite spinning around the earth, and most of his department seemed to be planning on being launched with it. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

I thought of jumping out in front of it, but I hesitated, inhibited, unsure that I was really being pursued, and then it was too late. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

Getting good grades and being accepted to a respectable four-year college topped my priority list. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

I don’t really like being inside the temple, and I especially don’t like being in the Kuhani's private study. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

Hoodlums hand out goodies, do their best to stay interesting, and since they are being watched for excitement, they pay attention to their clothes and the carving out of insults. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was a pretty full train and I kind of forgot about it when I saw goats being handed up to the roof and people coming on with their chickens. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I remembered being at Marcus’s party, sitting by the pool—then I was on the ship—but I had no idea how I’d ended up floating on a sea of sandspurs and goose grass. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

“Well yeah, if his essential agreements include dictating my life into being a copy of his. I don’t want to marry a Linda and live like a coconut. Brown on the outside, white inside.” Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

Even being Caesar’s daughter would not save her from some dreadful punishment if it was believed she criticized him, even in the privacy of her heart. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

It was a weakness in my game, not about being a hero. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

I thought there were supposed to be similarities beyond the design of one house and people with the same names being in both worlds. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

Declaration stood by the doors with Mr. Johnson, being useful. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Now the good man can no longer let us know what’s being said and done in the warehouse, which is a disaster for us. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

I figured she’d had enough of being apart from Fern and me and was now glad we were all together. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Strange stories, all the more wonderful to him for being told in the other words and so not fully understood. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The faction system that has long supported itself on the hacks of discarded human beings will be disbanded at once,” says Evelyn. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

And I plan on becoming a professional traveler after I’m done being a Broadway star. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

“You have to go with Joe Louis being the best fighter of all time,” Willie said. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was on board the ship, being repaired by Buford the Wonder Table. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

I could stop trying to be what everyone else is and accept being a freak. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I see,” said Dumbledore eventually, peering at Harry over the top of his half-moon spectacles and giving Harry the usual sensation that he was being X-rayed. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

Thinking that Peeta was in his possession and being tortured for rebel information was bad. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

The possibility wasn’t so far-fetched, him being the supervising engineer of the project—the top guy in charge. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Of the hundreds of black people lynched, nearly all were killed without being charged with a crime, let alone being legally convicted. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

I knew that being selected by my peers for this final Olympic assignment was the highest honor, but I was secretly worried that I’d embarrass my country. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Then I realized the video being shot of me would be scrutinized when this was all over. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

Fiver and Pipkin, limping behind the others, and conspicuously undersized and tired, were being attacked by the crow. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

I'm usually in the back, so just being up here makes the day feel different. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

I wondered why, and then realized that I had grown so accustomed to being a Negro, to being shown contempt, that I could not rid myself of the cautions. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Later Chamberlin would claim to be the first man in Chicago to suspect Holmes of being a criminal. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Both of us pretend we’re not petrified about being unable to swim. Paradise on Fire 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

Three days passed: after them, Ray Gusdorf quietly emerged from the Midnight Mountains a different human being—mature, introspective, curiously subdued. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The script being tested was about animal behavior. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was beginning to forget about being unhappy, and about loving Maxim. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

“One problem with being a leader,” Mr. Curtain was saying, “is that even among your friends you are alone, for it is you—and you alone—to whom the others look for final guidance.” The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

He tried not to think of the stories he had heard lately of mass killings; of men, women, and children being forced to dig their own graves and then being shot and thrown into them. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

Grandma insisted on being served properly at the table. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

T.R. had long since jumped down to chase something, and the mules were restless, but I liked being with Grandpa like this, just him and me. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

I was pretty proud of myself for saying, "You were being entertained." When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

This idea about learning was being used successfully by practically every teacher in America. The Landry News 1999-12-01T00:00:00Z

That’s when I realized I was being rude to someone who hadn’t given me a reason to be rude back. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

Our house is still drying out after being underwater for so long. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then, we get chapter and verse on being bad daughters. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

Soojin reminds me of Mustafa, when he was trying to convince Baba last year that being on the basketball team was important to show he was a well-rounded person on his college applications. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

Despite their having no real bodies, the American legal system treats corporations as legal persons, as if they were flesh-and-blood human beings. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

But there’s another way to judge too: does this music being played right here, right now, matter to someone? The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

“I took them out some milk, but I remember being particularly careful to close the door.” The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

But later he learned that they weren’t being killed. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

Carlos would say Bri was brave because she was the sister of a Marine, but Alex was learning there were a lot of different ways of being a fighter. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

Josn took a couple of steps back and gave a very good appearance of being at ease. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

No. If I were being honest, to protect myself. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

“Yes,” she said, “but feeling hurt and being hurt aren’t always the same thing.” Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

She wondered how much of being ugly was just an awkward age. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

No human being had ever pitched like that before, Turner decided. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

The smell of fresh bread being prepared in the bakery drifted to me. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I'm a kid. I'm thirteen. You said it's a miserable age, being thirteen, and you're right. If you don't fit in, they make your life a misery. Like Floyd Chaceley or Nicholas Briar.” Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

The song of Here still feels like it’s being sung, even if I can’t hear it, even if it’s miles away back on the plain. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

What will it be like, not being the word anymore? Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

Once Clarkson realized that every second of every day human lives were being destroyed and he was letting it happen, he changed the course of his life—risking everything to abolish this terrible practice. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

I have accused her of everything from being selfish to stubborn. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then a grunt came from the Special, and Tally felt herself being pulled up in a mighty heave. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

Robinson, at center, is being wrestled away from the registration desk by bystanders, while the woman at left tries to avoid the altercation and King ducks. Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

In foreground, on a mountain, is an exultant human being. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

We are the ones who earn their state grants; we are the ones who make this place a nationally recognized Blue Ribbon School— and we are the ones who are being alienated. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

As I turn to go, my heart feels like it’s splitting open and being mended back together at the very same time. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

Least, I didn't have a plan, and if T had one, he was being real bad about bringing it to happen. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

They were not much older than we were and although probably just recruits, they gave the impression of being an elite as they were carried past our drab ranks. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

In these cases, dropping the s results in a perfectly acceptable sentence: I was annoyed by the people behind me in line being served first. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

In stories about the Polenitsi, women warriors from the East, they were always described as being enormously tall and supernaturally strong. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

Finn glanced toward Chess again, hoping his older brother noticed how Finn had had that whole conversation with Natalie without falling apart at the thought of Mom being kidnapped. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

Especially when what I’m being told is so clearly wrong. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

Would she make it weird just by being herself? Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

Maybe one day we can try being a squad again. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

In only a few weeks he changed from knowing little enough about the political excitement, and caring less, to being an ardent Whig. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Imagine being a child and being whisked away from your home by violent strangers. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

Human beings who live with the bears do not wear bear skins. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

Not the men who were being flogged to death for petty reasons. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

“Perhaps it’s gotten better, with his being away from here.” Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

It’s like being surrounded by a thousand different Finches. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

It was instead that an ominous picture was congealing in his mind of patriot soldiers being fleeced by an army of speculators whose only loyalty was to their own profit margins. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

He didn’t move, fearing a sudden flash at the awkward moment he attempted to stand, and being stuck half bent over, staring at his shoelaces forever. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

Sergio felt his heart constrict with a terrible rage, a blackness that clogged his ears, like being underwater. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z

The soul, Descartes claimed, is unique to rational human beings; animals have no soul and no capacity to reason. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

It was being ridden by a hunched-up figure in gray leather with helmet and goggles. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

Sharp, ripping pain as though he is being pulled apart. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

It was like Id been unearthed from a coal mine after being trapped for days and days. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

She felt like she was being handed back a quiz that she’d definitely failed and was doing her best to turn over the paper as slowly as possible. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

I found myself thinking, What's so wonderful about being a little boy anyway? The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z

In the kitchen, being soaped head to toe by her mother, Nel ventured an observation. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

The sensation of being within the circus fades as soon as she has crossed the threshold, and she is suddenly acutely aware of everything in the adjoining room. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

After we had our fill of being on the other side, I told Miss Trotter, “I don’t understand why you can’t talk to your sister face-to-face, Miss Trotter.” Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

As Raymond pointed out to me, a lot of good it does being in the underworld. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z

From the first day I could remember being alive, he and I had brawled. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

“Maybe being a prefect seems a bit tame after that.” Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

“Course there is. There’re clubs for about anything. Fishing can be simple, but being really good is complicated,” she said. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

I expressed how much I hated being called the youngest in my family because it implied that Deborah never existed. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

All the beliefs, habits, tastes, emotions, mental attitudes that characterize our time are really designed to sustain the mystique of the Party and prevent the true nature of present- day society from being perceived. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

"Is this wealth shaming? If so, it won't work. I'm not embarrassed by being fabulously rich." City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

Sister did not approve of them being carried down the ward “like tennis rackets.” Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

But this will be like being on TV. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

“According to Miss Merriam Webster, solidarity means being of one mind.” P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

“I have always believed that raising kids means more than just being a good parent and trying to do the right things,” Papa went on, his voice beginning to wobble. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

To reach him I had to pass behind the others, being careful not to alarm them. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Yeah. I am. Besides, is it really mine if I’m not being myself?” On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

Captain Short found herself being hoisted aloft to face her old enemy. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

It's lonely being the only Indian woman around. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

I knew that my mom was a human being, frail and confused, but I’d always thought she was just a little less confused than everyone else. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

This is what you might expect because one could think of the new body A as being made of two bodies with the original mass. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

He described to the psychiatrist how two demon COs were using secret symbols to communicate with space beings who landed on the roof of A-block. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Is it being Divergent that makes me steady, or is it something else? Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

"And so much upset over not being the favorite anymore, Ambrosia?" The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

I asked like you’d ask about somebody’s grandmother, just being polite. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

The English were getting richer because Africans were being turned into property. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

He was a farmer’s son, and Anya liked to imagine that if Ilya could go from being a peasant to a knight, maybe she could too. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

It’s odd to hear; most of the Folk are musically gifted, but I like her tune better for being imperfect. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

And it wasn’t just that he took things so seriously when it came to being a good son or following the path his parents had so carefully laid down for him. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

That’s the only time I ever think about Ruth May being dead. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

If he had heard the sword being drawn, he didn’t seem concerned. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

Some of the most ridiculous-looking cars are being shown off in the parking lot. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

“I know. That’s why I’m being taken out of the rotation.” The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

Immediately upon it came the thunder: a high, tearing noise, as though some huge thing were being ripped to pieces close above, which deepened and turned to enormous blows of dissolution. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

When all the sexers came in to sleep, most of them looked at Sammy and me and smiled the way Lynn smiled at us when she thought we were being delightfully immature and young. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

It breathed itself into my being and held on to my heart with a simple, insistent force. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

I read in my room—alone—and grow conscious of being alone, sounding my voice, in search of another. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

And I like being associated with the Nielsens, who seem to be generally regarded as fine, upstanding citizens. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

He felt in control but not in control, the business being his but not his. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

A cart loaded with grain rumbled down the center of the road, and I jumped aside to avoid being struck by it. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

“Listen to the conviction in that voice,” Mrs. Levy said proudly as her round, furry figure was being hauled through the door. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

“If I could carve gems and do all those other things,” Taran remarked sympathetically to Doli, “I wouldn’t mind not being invisible. All I know is vegetables and horseshoes, and not too much about either.” The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z

If they win this game, they actually have a shot at being crowned champions. Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z

I have three minutes to get to Modern Social Thought and I am being pressed into the back corner of the library wing bathroom by a thousand Charlies. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

And while Philadelphia had approximately 3,000 free blacks, there were still over 200 blacks being kept as slaves. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

So who the hell was being impolite to who? The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Okay, so maybe being alone isn’t always the best. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

My mother didn’t judge me for being ponderous. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

“I’ve got you, eh? You’ve made quite a few telescopic observations since being put together, Cutie. Have you noticed that several of those specks of light outside become disks when so viewed?” I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

If Mummy’s ignoring my art made me feel invisible, Sahil’s recognition was like being surrounded by a million neon lights. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

I imagine my new life-to-be: being chosen, living at the palace, enjoying all the court has to offer, creating beautiful people. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

Oh the bliss and the wonder of being with the family once again after all those weeks of fierce discipline! Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

There wasn’t anything particularly Egyptian about it, but it did seem to go with being a general. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

The alchemist had become much more cautious, because they were approaching the area where the most violent battles were being waged. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Or, put slightly differently, until it is observed an electron must be regarded as being "at once everywhere and nowhere." A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

“I know you are, Joey. We all are. But we can stop being sorry now. It’s time to shift gears and make sure it doesn’t happen again. Okay?” Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

That their influence was felt powerfully for only two or three centuries is an irreparable loss for all those human beings who lived between the Ionian Awakening and the Italian Renaissance. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

What with him being the Father Knows Best of all times. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Smith said the trick was to be firm without being nasty or egotistical. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

They said she wanted everyone else to feel guilty for not being as nice and wonderful as she was. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

I was the oldest kid living at home by then, my other siblings being away at school. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

When she was being obstinate, I had to force the pills down her throat and hold her mouth closed until she swallowed. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

I dreaded the idea of being stuck in bed. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z

I wish I had been prepared when Roberta and I stopped being friends. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

And sometimes Maniac just sat at the front window, being on the inside. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

The same was true for many of my friends at Princeton, but I was also coming to understand that there were other versions of being black in America. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

The human being, even in the midst of people, spends nine-tenths of his time alone with the private voices of his own head. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

In fact, Bobby’s rent and other basic needs were being paid for by his mother’s Social Security checks. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Suddenly, I was being shoved backward, toward the corner, very hard. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I didn’t much like being in this boy’s room with the stupid bimbos on the wall and I know Piper wasn’t wild about it or being away from her brothers either. How I Live Now 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

But somehow, after throwing a fit in the starting gate and being left flat-footed at the bell, the colt won his race that day. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was pretty much numb after being questioned. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

They all looked identical, so I couldn’t tell which one was being controlled by Sorrento. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

Then, a great surge of excitement came over him, he felt again the enormous importance of being who he was, and standing where he was, in the middle of the wood. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

“Virginia, listen, I’ll be straight with you. You have a good chance of being queen, but only if you improve your Quichua.” The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

It did no good being nice to that ungrateful child, never satisfied, always whining about something or other. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

Less than twenty miles away, in the town of Oranienburg, the first prisoners were being hauled into the Sachsen- hausen concentration camp. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z

Everything else resulted in a backhand lick, a warning, or being sent to my room. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

Here at the Port Authority, I’ve got the advantage of being the smallest person here and the least crazy. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

I received later a picture postcard, the picture in vivid colors being of a chimpanzee at the Monkey Jungle in Miami. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Since it’s his weapon and the rest of us have to defer to his knowledge so entirely, there’s the odd feeling of being let out of school early. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Since the first test was about something scary being harmless, it only makes sense that this test would be the opposite.” Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

“Do you know why human beings need to spit?” the man in the gray suit asked suddenly. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

The rain was now coming down so thick and fast that it was as though buckets of ice- cold water were being emptied repeatedly over their heads. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

The top-drawer business had preyed on his mind till he had determined to be un-gentlemanly in earnest, if everybody accused him of being so. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

I could tell that he doubted my thinking abilities, but without being disrespectful, I hoped to show him wrong. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

There would be no need for any of the animals to come in contact with human beings, which would clearly be most undesirable. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z

My job is to make sure the law works for you as well as against you, and to make you a human being in the eyes of the jury. Monster 1999-01-01T00:00:00Z

He died in his third year in high school and I was one of his pallbearers, and I think I was guilty of the sin of pride at being chosen. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

I felt myself being wheeled around again and the barber said, “Okay, that’s it.” Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Is it possible to be mad at someone for being sad? The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

A very unstable marriage, with four kids, David being the oldest and most sensitive. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

They want to see if there were any avoidable mistakes that led you to being stranded, lust a heads-up. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

At nine o’clock, Ben saw Mr. Dacus pulling up on Eliot Street with a boat and trailer being pulled behind his car. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Vonetta knew when she was being coached and ate it up. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

The next day, the land beings discovered that their islands had shrunk in half. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

And the Christmas dinner wasn’t the best that the O’Briens would ever have but it was far from being the worst. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

It smelled okay, but I was afraid of being poisoned. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It interferes with being nuts. Just concentrate on moving that Celestial bronze. Echo, you ready?” The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

I always looked at that time in the hospital as being my actual birth, because I remember nothing of my life from before those days. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

He did not regard me as a human being. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Whatever we’re doing, it must involve being high up for him to avoid it. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

And being the last one off a ship is suicide if you’s to ask me. The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z

My judgment about Washington being perfect was wrong. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

“It’s not important, believe me; the past has a way of being past.” The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

“But how? I’m so confused. How did he get this photo? That’s kind of creepy. Am I being stalked? Lured into a trap?” What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

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

I think if I had told Mrs. Baker, she would have said that it was a miracle, that all dawns were miracles—miracles being much on her mind lately, as you can understand. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

One very good one of a ship full of refugees being bombed somewhere in the Mediterranean. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

How could my own sisters go on and on about being flower girls, wearing pink satin dresses, and getting their hair pressed and curled for Papa’s wedding to another woman? P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

Now she knew why Maya never wrote emails or texts like a normal human being: her humor was too dark. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Larkin sat down, holding her tongue for the time being. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

Though the heron is merely being observed by an unidentified birdwatcher at this point in the passage, the passive voice keeps it in the reader’s spotlight of attention. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

And though it horrified her, it was another entry, a moment of coming into being, another first: to be hated by an adult. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

“So, you being with Warren is a waste of time?” Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

“Look at that thang,” Georgia Boy said, pointing at the truck that was one of the “new” vehicles being unloaded for our motor pool. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

All week, in every class she shared with Miranda, Naomi paid for being seen in Gilbert’s jacket. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

The immunity was immediate and irrevocable—so she could no longer entertain thoughts of being gleaned for a full year. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

He never stopped accusing various neighbours of being witches responsible for his arrest. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

But oh, when I slip back into being okay when I’m around food, watch out. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

Clark wrote that some of the tribes thought York was magic, thought he was some kind of supernatural being. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

I remember staring at the gun holstered at his hip and being terrified. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

Marcus looked at Dad and said, “Paul. Thank you for stepping in and being such a great father to Zoe when I couldn’t. I’m so grateful.” From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

“When did you stop being a nun?” said Lyra. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

And my element, quite obviously, is being alone and invisible. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

My father’s family name being Pirrip, and my Christian name Philip, my infant tongue could make of both names nothing longer or more explicit than Pip. Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z

The movie is still going well, but Maddie being the lead has only led to even more distance between us somehow. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Food would spoil from being left out too long. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

Before he passed from cholera he liked to share stories from the Bible, his former master being more liberal-minded when it came to slaves and religion. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

This was proof that he was dead, not being rescued. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

“It’s the wrong time of year, but what else would it be? A bear? I guess they’re just selling off what they can’t watch over properly, them being short- handed and all.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

In the distance I could see that one part of the grove was already being watered by them, from high above. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Nadia said, "Noah, is there any subject in this whole world that you do not know more about than every other being on this planet?" The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

Why was I so afraid of being left alone? Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Love is family being who you choose and who chooses you. Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

He had muscles I wasn’t sure human beings were supposed to have. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

A few years ago my mother had died and since then Ulape and I had tried to do the tasks she had done, Ulape even more than I, being older. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

In Płaszów, I would have been shot or at least lashed for such a blatant infraction, for being "a lazy and irresponsible" Jew. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

She soon learned, however, that the contrabands resented her being able to draw rations, as though she were an officer or a soldier. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

We were being interviewed on the rooftop of a hotel at night. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

“You say I’m a woman and colored. Ain’t that the same as being a man?” Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

But I feel good—necessary and tired and alive. julijonas Urbonas, the man who thought up the Euthanasia Coaster, claims it’s engineered to “humanely—with elegance and euphoria—take the life of a human being.” All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

A dude knows when he’s being checked out. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z

The new steam trains were being talked about everywhere. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

When he’d finished the hand, Inej had suggested they speak in one of the private gaming parlors to spare him the embarrassment of being fired in front of his friends, but Rojakke wasn’t having it. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

“I thought the great thing about being rich was that nobody could tell you what to do.” The Million Dollar Shot 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

I had the dubious honor of being its first inmate—got to see them build the Mess Hall brick by brick. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

The Roach orders me to practice moving through the crowds of courtiers without being noticed, to eavesdrop without seeming interested. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Even after being at camp for nine months, she still found it an impressive sight. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

Billy couldn’t tell for sure where Vegas was, only that he himself was being hit. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

‘Johnny,’ said Cilia crossly, ‘are you being sarcastic to baby?’ Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Not that I was expecting a repeat of the butt grabbing, but being in that hallway still gave me the jitters. Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Orlando West was a dusty, spartan area of boxy municipal houses that would later become part of Greater Soweto, Soweto being an acronym for South-Western Townships. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

For the time being the vote is ten to two. Twelve Angry Men 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

“A week ago they were being hunted with a rifle and were frightened out of their wits,” Penelope replied hotly. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

Paolo said, “It’s so funny, your being here right now. I feel like we nearly met a million times.” Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Leukemia may occur as a two-step process, the malignant change being initiated by X-radiation, the promoting action being supplied by a chemical, as, for example, urethane. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

“My father was a slave, and they sold him away from her. She said marrying a slave is almost bad as being a slave.” Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

The really amazing thing is, they are the most popular people in the school, while everybody thinks I'm a freak for being online and playing computer games. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I take a step away from him, but not fast enough to avoid being assailed with the smell of overripe fruit. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

“The lesions aren’t an accident, Tally. They’re part of the operation, just like all the bone sculpting and skin scraping. It’s part of the way being pretty changes you.” Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

While the giant engines at the Waterworks were being taken apart piece by piece and examined for damage, temporary sources of power were sought. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z

Because agents could not make arrests, they fanned out with U.S. marshals and other lawmen, including Sheriff Freas, who, after being expelled from office, had been reelected to the position. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

‘Not as certain as being left behind,’ said Sam. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

“Please. I am being honest with you. Have the courtesy to be honest with me. I have a Jew, Jan Dorlich, who would like to be hidden here.” The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

He seemed like a man who was in love with being alive. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

“I assume my legs are a little stiff from being chained, but other than that, yes.” The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

It means for a start that even if these beings know we are here and are somehow able to see us in their telescopes, they’re watching light that left Earth two hundred years ago. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

“Flux! Did I accidentally overhear you’re concerned about this being your last day of summer?” The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

The most difficult part of being in the forest was the loneliness. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

“Where’s your determination, your drive? You hit a little headwind and let it knock you flat? Hasn’t being on this team taught you that around the bend of every headwind comes a tailwind?” The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

Being a clone was bad no matter what you did, so why bother being good at all? The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m really sick of being in the middle.” Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

It turned out that Prometheus was punished for his theft by being chained forever to a rock where an eagle came to eat his liver, which grew back every day. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

The only regret I had about being student body president was having lunch with the Rotary Club at the Santa Maria Inn. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

The way I am, it's like being paralyzed or—or blind. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

She pointed out that if beings from outer space ever came, they would probably want to talk to us. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

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

The two of them had taken little notice of each other until now—their modes of being were so different—but they were of one mind about this, clearly. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

Suddenly all the other witches, more than eighty of them, were beginning to scream and jump up out of their seats as though spikes were being stuck into their bottoms. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z

The hardest thing for Rusakov to understand was why the new particle seemed to cluster where human beings were, as if it were attracted to us. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

So, for the time being, we waited to see if anyone would respond to the contest announcement. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

I knew I was being foolish; but I couldn’t help myself, and after a bit I said, “Mother, I’d better go out and see to the livestock.” My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Not wanting to replicate Xaviera Hollander’s “Call Me Madam” column in Penthouse, Hefner saw Luce’s contribution as being devoted to the scientific and historical side of sex. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

“Albert, please. Tonight’s about good memories, and being together.” The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

“After all, there’s a war on. It’s not much of a sacrifice, when you think of people starving and being bombed and all the other things.” A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

Holly and Blackavar reached the long shadow of the wood at top speed, as though they were being pursued. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

And it was not that Curt pretended that being black and being white were the same in America; he knew they were not. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

“You said that Washington, D.C., had changed when you went back last summer. You didn’t remember the subway being there.” The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

I know it’s just a stupid American saying, but I really don’t appreciate being called such an ugly animal. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

“You like being a famous singer?” he asked her. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

Grandfather and I were riding along with five fever orphans who were being sent to the orphan house. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“So much for being good at everything,” he sighed. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

And we could think about it properly, instead of just guessing and being afraid.” The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

Was it because he felt responsible for Lem’s being on the Astrea? Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

This being so, clubs, organizations, even individuals, bought them and dedicated them to the future. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

Despite its being unmasked by the Soviets, Operation Gold secured Harvey's reputation inside the CIA as one of its wiliest and smartest operatives. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

She was awful at dispensing romantic advice, being so inexperienced in the field herself. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

The being that had blown that, had sat waiting for them on the platform with the delicate thing balanced on his knees, was set apart. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

First came the sound of leaves and ice being crushed underfoot. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

Third, once she’s got them panicked, she tries to explain, being an analyst, why they shouldn’t be frightened, and after a good solid half-hour ego search with Helen, they’re really frightened. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

“So why don’t you just tell her that instead of being so nasty to her?” American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

As long as lists were being made, there was order in the world. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

Maybe I knew a thing or two about being unlovable myself. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

Without willing it, I had gone from being ignorant of being ignorant to being aware of being aware. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

And I had the odd impression of being watched by myself. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z

I don’t picture myself being driven away in the royal car, I’m more realistic than that. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

He may have thought that being put in charge of a women’s flight regiment was his punishment. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

That is why, on the face of it, it is rather odd that he ended up being the great scholar of rhetoric—and, for that matter, the great scholar of poetics too. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

When he first arrived and was being processed, he saw prisoners milling about freely in a grassy courtyard. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

So while she waited, she read her magazines in his vicinity, being very obvious, even to me. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

The guys were still being stupid, slapping books out of people’s hands and running through the halls dodging teachers. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

“That’s great, Mom,” I say, happy that my mother seems brighter than she has these past few weeks; it’s been so hard to see her spirit being stripped away. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

“And what was that he said, Kate? About his Whisperer being a sensitive machine?” The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

She wished that Odinchezo and Ekene would shout at her too, and question her for being alive, instead of dead like their sister and parents and brother-in-law. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Besides me being humiliated by it, my mother would whup my butt if she knew I had let some dudes swipe my shoes. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

Emmett struggled and complained at first, but R.C. tightened his grip around Emmett’s neck, and he quieted down, half scrambling, half being dragged behind R.C. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

Emily tried to study the pages with him but couldn’t shake that feeling of being watched. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

“You’ll be able to fix it,” I mumble, and then I hurry away from him, wondering if he’s being mean or if he just doesn’t know I’m not invited. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

Of course this was long before the compensations for being a girl were apparent to her. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

At the end of the dance, instead of being taken back down to the hold where they had been chained all night, the women were tied to the sides of the deck. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

They had been heaped together before being set on fire, so he dug through with his hands, to see if the flames had missed any underneath. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

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

If fine bodies and impressive physiques were essential to being a leader I saw that few among us would have qualified. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“People will just watch you being hacked to death and put to flames. Besides, you don’t have a permit to enter Alexandra.” Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

They conformed to nothing except what was essential to their being able to live in their world. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

He went in a rowboat with a couple of young fishermen of Low Torning, who wanted the honor of being his boatmen. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

No university would ask any student to devour literature as I did when this new world opened to me, of being able to read and understand. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

But for the time being, at the end of the nineteenth century, there was another great controversy on the horizon. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

After being shorn, we were led into two separate buildings, one for the boys and another for the girls. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

We sit as though in a boiler that is being belaboured from without on all sides. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

If he finds out about my being in the Free Lunch Program, I’ll never hear the end of it. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

As a young boy, my dad regularly witnessed his mom getting beaten, and the image of her being abused remains burned into his memory. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

The Congo River, being of a different temperament, drowned most of its conquerors outright. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were actually being shipped out during the course of the afternoon and night. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

“News flash: I stopped being his friend completely first!” Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

"But she's very dangerous. Being in this school is like being in a cage with a cobra. You have to be very fast on your feet." Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z

I almost felt like a sellout for not being madder. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

The earth was soft from the rain and, in places, from being recently turned up. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

Her father embraced her and she cried into his arms for being given the terrible proposition. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

So I'm pondering the reason why he insists on taking care of Haymitch and all of a sudden I think, It's because he's being kind. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

In the weeks that followed, she became more convinced of their being right for the job. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

“We couldn’t hurt living creatures, that’s quite true. But Asriel’s army is going to contend with other kinds of being as well.” The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

“I was being polite. We English are very polite, you know.” I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

I’ve seen it happen over and over again: a black person gets killed just for being black, and all hell breaks loose. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

That was impossible, he was told, as a scene that required the full stage was being performed and there was nowhere to hide from the audience by creeping behind the scenery. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were also encouraged not to settle for old-fashioned and “bourgeois” gender roles—“bourgeois” being a catchall term for the upper middle classes of Imperial Russia who’d aspired to wealth and luxury. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

The photo had creases in it from being folded. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

Like how you love a mistake that ends up not being so bad after all. Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Their feet were wet and cold and their shoes were being ruined. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

No, Sean would mutter something about their father being dead for years, about Finn being too young to remember, and what was the use of bringing it up? Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

Ann saw Fuller being hauled off and she followed on foot to the jail, just a few blocks away. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

And then, for the first time since being pregnant with Zoe and the last time before climbing in forever twenty-five years later, my grandmother took to her bed. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

I wonder what she would say if I told her that an hour ago I was being talked off the ledge of the bell tower. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Prince sees more Activity than the Rest of us, his Detail being frequently employed. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

In the end, Marcus’s conviction was overturned, and that other man ended up being found guilty of the crime. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

We have the Jezebel stereotype to thank for every scene that portrays black women only as objectified sexual beings for the pleasure of men. Watch Us Rise 2019-02-12T00:00:00Z

Turner wondered what Darwin would think of being covered by sermon notes. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

“I’m being ironic. Don’t interrupt a man in the midst of being ironic, it’s not polite. There!” The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

Maya suspected that if she had been dating a boy, there would have been a much bigger scene involving yelling and threats and being found dead in a ravine somewhere and teenage pregnancy statistics. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

Rather, the white man is himself in sore need of new standards, which will release him from his confusion and place him once again in fruitful communion with the depths of his own being. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z

It had always discomfited him, the pleasure she took in being mistaken for mixed-race. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

There is a curious inverse relationship in modern physics between the tininess of the thing being sought and the scale of facilities required to do the searching. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

Being an engineer, Mary Jackson would eventually learn, meant being the only black person, or the only woman, or both, at industry conferences for years. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

It felt like being in a rectangular lunch box floating on the ocean. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

“It means that it couldn’t be better .. “I don’t think I understand.” “. . . . without being worse. Now do you see ?” “Yes, now I see. But I still don’t think I understand.” Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

The marriage being an arranged match, romantic love was not part of it. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

But Jam was silent as she walked out, because the only thing in her chest was a low kind of bitterness, a sort of feeling trapped and not being heard. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

Was this how a prisoner slipped from being a person to a Muselmanner? Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

Mark Antony may have appreciated her insight and needed her support, but he probably did not like being upstaged by her as he followed her procession through the streets of Ephesus. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z

I’m not used to being around so many people. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

After being forced to draw the commander, I drew whatever I saw or felt. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

Leo looked around to make sure they weren’t being watched. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

She used to tease Percy for being dumb, but in truth his instincts were usually right on target. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Except that underneath he loved her very much, loved her plump gentle flesh, her quiet way of sewing, cooking . . . of being true. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was like being on a peaceful island. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

It involved him being tied with all of his limbs, like his arms and his legs, onto the frame of his bed with the rubber tubing. Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

They had all heard stories of Japanese homes being attacked, of beatings in the streets of California towns. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Daddy joked about her being taken for a ride because that’s what those mobsters did in those days,” Barbara Friedman remembered. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

But between my daddy being gone and my grandma passing on, I can’t make myself. Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z

As I told Dad about being sent to the auditorium and about Selena making me feel like a freak, my insides clenched. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

I could see some people walking around the campus below, but most kids at that time of day were either back in their dorms or finishing up whatever team sports were being practiced in September. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

A progress meter appeared on my display, showing that my hard drive was now being zeroed out and wiped clean. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

“They did used to talk' at one time, about the Cornwall sisters being witches. Of course, the worst of them was Morgan le Fay. But that there Morgause ran her dose.” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

But I am also thinking how weird it is he is telling me all this, him being a grown-up man and all and me just a kid. The Misfits 2001-10-01T00:00:00Z

We sat in the living room and did what teenage boys and girls do when they’re being observed by one of their parents—fidgeted in awkward silence. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

I filled it full of hay so she wouldn’t have to climb the ladder to the loft Papa laid down the law to my sisters about being good and helping Mama while we were gone. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was nearly nine o’clock when Squealer made his appearance, walking slowly and dejectedly, his eyes dull, his tail hanging limply behind him, and with every appearance of being seriously ill. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z

Paul again, explaining: “They couldn’t have waited—it’s so late now it’ll be daylight by the time they get back to England. They couldn’t risk being caught over France in daylight.” Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

She looked around, sure she was being watched. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

Ten seconds seemed like the right amount of time for me to stop being crazy. Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

It was often difficult to visualize anything concrete that was not dulled by memories of Arize and Aunty Ifeka and Uncle Mbaezi, that did not feel like life being lived on suspended time. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

As Wes hit the final stair, he looked up and saw his brother lying facedown on the floor, a police officer’s knee in his back, handcuffs being tightened around his wrists. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

Rather than endure endless lectures about the necessity of being prepared for my future, I told anyone who asked that I wanted to go to Brown, but only because I’d heard Jesse mention it once. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

Our house is being chewed to bits. “...but tenting is so disruptive,” I hear my mom say. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

She was used to walking alone and to being considered “different.” A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

He did not move, so Frightful lost interest in my fellow being. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

I wasn’t thinking about running a record time or qualifying for the Olympics or being a spectacle. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

Keep your eye on the underlined words—those are the wolves being singled out of the pack: • Only the butler says he saw the murder. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Jemmy flattened himself against the grave-cold wall, but the prince seemed suddenly to rebel at being chased down like a sewer rat. The Whipping Boy 1986-04-01T00:00:00Z

“Apologies, I can’t always control the laugh. Anyhow, a naughty being sought me out at my designated time. I was required to help him.” The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

Dussel complained to Mother that he was being treated like a leper, that no one was friendly to him and that, after all, he hadn’t done anything to deserve it. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

He was afraid that I would interpret all the attention that Cubans gave him as his reward for being an unofficial spokesman of Castro’s socialist government. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

I was eight years old and that’s about when children started being just with their own color. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I think, through the lens of many years passed, that she had counted on the constant of always being able to love me. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

There seemed to be no cure for loneliness save only being alone. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

Hana made that comment about people saying I think I am too good for them, but as bad as I am at hurdles, that sure can’t be what’s keeping us from being friends. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

Randall retained the services of a witch to goofer his property so that no one with African blood could escape without being stricken with hideous palsy. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

“It matters, Nel, but only to you. Not to anybody else. Being good to somebody is just like being mean to somebody. Risky. You don’t get nothing for it.” Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

In early November, the first racetrack was being readied for the production phase. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

A video on “associate honesty” shows a cashier being caught on videotape as he pockets some bills from the cash register. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

The last thing he remembered before the wreck was being on the opposite side of the road. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

If Dudley was frightened enough to accept the Order’s help, his parents would accompany him: There could be no question of being separated from their Diddykins. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

When the secret ballots were counted, Emily won by a single vote, there being exactly one more girl than boy in the sixth grade. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z

That I never had a real interest in her until she died because I’m a horrible and selfish human being? I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

I thought I understood what’s happening to her, but this isn’t like being robbed a penny at a time. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

“Crispin, there’s an old soldier’s saying: ‘If you have to choose between alertness and worry, being alert will bring you more days of life.’ Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

Patients who had a hand or fingers, or a foot or toes, cut off had the best chance of survival—the percentage of deaths being 2.9 percent and 5.7 percent, respectively. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

“Oh my God—can you please stop being so weird?” Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

It occurred to me that perhaps he thought I could not face it, that being shy, as he knew only too well, I should find myself unable to cope. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

It wasn’t the human being whose dead face stared emptily back at her. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

It is most difficult always to remember that the increase of every living being is constantly being checked by unperceived injurious agencies.... The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

Blake's Soviet case officer went to extreme lengths to make sure that he was not being tailed by British and American agents. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

I try to avoid the drudgery of housekeeping chores, which is more up Rachel’s alley if she can stoop to being helpful on a given day. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was a great place to play without fear of being caught by Miss Willis. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

The press later described the killings as being as “dark and sordid as any murder story of the century” and the “bloodiest chapter in American crime history.” Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Beans seemed anxious at first, then frantic, as if not finding Farquar would condemn him to being nine forever. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

Ms. Connors did not win a lacrosse scholarship by being demure or hesitant. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

She was loud and loved being silly and having dance-offs in the basement. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

“Pardon me,” cut in Thyon, with the pinched look of someone who believes he’s being mocked. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Our doing is his Seeing: our being his Knowing. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

Even as the scene was being enacted I realized the imbalance in his values. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Would I have let myself open up to him, lulled by the security of money and food and the illusion of safety being a victor could bring under different circumstances? Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

I ask, my knees still a little wobbly from being transported. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

He did not know that trigger pulses were being sent through the air from across the Bonecruel Mountains. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

“She didn’t like being called out,” I say finally. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

Together we would not be ashamed of being bright or liking poetry. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

Hazel, still conscious of being in man country, was half expecting either a dog or a cat. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

It would be no less true to say that Estraven’s acts had risen out of pure personal loyalty, a sense of responsibility and friendship towards one single human being, myself. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

Though I could not deliver justice for the crimes of Claudius, nor rebuke Gertrude for being fickle, I did strike at their consciences. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

It hurt to know that for the past year, she'd made comments about being inexperienced for no one's benefit but my own. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

Tell her you saw me, that I’m at least away from T. Ray for the time being. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

And the air was full of the roar of traffic and the hum of human beings. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

She snaps pictures of me getting strapped in, my suitcase being loaded, and my brave and hopeful victory smile. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

But by being there beneath the plains of Weehawken for their interview, they managed to make a dramatic final statement about the time of their time. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

“He then started up and heckled me and accused me of being a murderer.” Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

The king writhed on the floor like he was being stung by a swarm of wasps. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

I steeled myself for what was going to happen next, hoping that maybe, just maybe, Auk IV had fallen somewhere where we could retrieve it without being seen. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

“Hello, Harry— Hello, Chester. So, the greetings being over, let us get on with the practicing.” The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

I ran with Burke and Clarence, and I forgot about Granny being toothless and diminished. Louisiana's Way Home 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

Some caterpillars masquerade as dead leaves, twigs, snakes, even bird droppings, to avoid being eaten. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

I nod, a real laugh spilling out, as a fresh wave of relief fills me at the news of Poe being here too. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

By then the house had been on the market and was being sold. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’m not sure I’ve ever really thought about Mom being my age, but if I had, I would definitely have imagined her as the most popular girl in school. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

“When fans taunt black athletes with monkey chants, those fans are being racist,” Coach Rockford says. A High Five for Glenn Burke 2020-02-25T00:00:00Z

What she really needs to be doing is getting down to the business of having kids and ‘being happy,’ as he put it. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

My thoughts have wandered toward him after being led to the river and the stones of home. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

Silence and some warmth that he didn’t understand, and he thought, or felt, that he was dead and that it wasn’t so bad being dead. The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

After this victory, Darius being dead, that state remained securely in Alexander’s hands for the reasons discussed above. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z

And up on top was one of the statues Lazlo couldn’t clearly make out, besides the fact of it being bestial—horned and winged. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Either I’m finally going senile, or else it’s my mind’s way of coping with being entirely unchallenged in the present. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

I cry so hard it feels like I’m being split in half. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z

There was silence and then the squeaking sound of the front door being opened and banged shut. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

The men in their cells were being taken out at night in small groups and killed. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

If they weren’t sure whether they were being watched, they had several strategies ready. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

When Ted said “rage,” I saw my father slamming into a wall, posters being ripped to shreds, Fang hunched up in the La-Z-Boy. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

All across southern England houses and villages were devastated, large buildings were swept away, farm animals were drowned, and as for people, the number of missing or dead was, for the time being, uncountable. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

But it was frightening; or, more exactly, it was like a foretaste of death, like being a little less alive. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

If you agree, then you know why we should care about the suffering of nonhuman beings. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

The towns where we preached were stripped bare of young men, with it still being wartime, and this fanned the fires of Nathan’s private torture. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

As I passed one green field after the next, I thought, I don’t remember the road into Clover being so long. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

“It’s just nice to come home after being around kids all day and have amenities like that,” she said. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

“White folks are being conscripted for the war against the slaver states and they don’t want to go. There was word there could be some backlash against black New Yorkers, but this...” Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

When he said that I got so happy and exited I jumpd up and shaked his hand for being so good to me. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

After that, we still had our problems, but being overly polite with each other wasn’t one of them. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Just because I'm playing for the other team doesn’t mean that I’m this pathetic human being who's begging to be loved. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

Even the 2,500-year-old Greek idea of an axiomatic geometry—a few self-evident axioms being assumed, and from them the theorems being derived by logic alone—is not being effectively taught in secondary school. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Its reputation for being loose and wild was ascendant. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Katherine and I have been butting heads since I showed up at Miss Preston’s School of Combat, and not just on account of her being so offensively pretty. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

She’d had no children, and that may have been why she was being sold. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

The feeling of being flung into that whirling world of water is one I fervently hope never to experience again. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m going to go to the police. I get the feeling my wife is being held against her will.” Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

“We were being chased,” I say, for lack of nothing else. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

I think about the transports from camp to camp, how I screamed inside as we passed village after village: Do you know there are human beings on this train? What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

“Sorry, Mom and Dad. You’re right. I was being stupid. I didn’t mean it.” Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

Seventeen thousand tons of concrete were in the process of being poured into those forms. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

We know the sacrifices you are being expected to make. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

We could never go back to being best friends, but maybe things didn’t have to be so bad between us anymore. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

He knew it would all get straightened out wherever they were being taken. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

She felt the pain in her cheek, like it was her own flesh being ripped to pieces. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

When my grandfather retired a few years ago, Papi, being the oldest, was put in charge. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

Several pieces of broken bricks, evidently broken after being thrown at the door, were lying about the door. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

I don’t know the right words to say to sound cool, because “being cool” does not fall within my skill set. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Mum warned me to stop being a Clever Little Schoolboy. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

But not once can I get near car 48 without being seen—and besides, I haven’t laid eyes on August since lunchtime, so it’s entirely possible that he’s in there. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

Most people released from prison after being proved innocent receive no money, no assistance, no counseling—nothing from the state that wrongly imprisoned them. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

My mother was midwife to whatever spewed forth, not being able to choose as with the old and sick. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had, yet again, the strange feeling that they were being watched. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

By Tuesday afternoon, the first loads of lumber were being delivered to the relief society. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z

They settled in, had a quick dinner, then sat around an empty spot in their tight quarters—no fire for fear of being seen. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

The apartment is blasting with a heat I’ve never known, the closest thing being when I was in Cuba vacationing with my family on Varadero Beach. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

My skin was wrinkled and swollen all over from being constantly wet. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

The Old Powers will not cross over the sea, being bound each to an isle, a certain place, cave or stone or welling spring. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

That was his deal with Brick, for the time being. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

It’s the difference between jumping and being pushed. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

"There's a difference," Gary points out, "between being in love and announcing it in precalc." Will Grayson, Will Grayson 2010-04-06T00:00:00Z

It made sense, Khalid being born right in the middle of all that celebration. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z

I’m afraid he’ll laugh at me, he’ll despise me for being a sissy about a bunch of girls, for making a fuss about nothing. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

She was a tall, elegant woman who had a way of talking to pupils that made you feel good about yourself even if you were being punished. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

“I know it probably doesn’t feel like it’s helping, but I’m sure it is. It’s keeping you from being far more depressed under the circumstances.” Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

It was as though a semi-transparent curtain had dropped between us, but through which they could see me—for they were applauding—without themselves being seen. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

And that kind of bugged me, that I was being misrepresented in that way.” The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

I was glad to know this fact because being from New York City where everyone’s born knowing uptown is north but not a whole lot else, I didn’t know anything about NNE vs. How I Live Now 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Aunty Uju laughed and in her laughter was a certain assent, because his words “Let me see if this is any good” were about her being a good cook, and therefore a good wife. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

He couldn’t imagine not being around them, not seeing the daily changes in their personalities. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

So I was happy, but also guilty for being happy. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

A guy could get hit, be inches from being killed or crippled for life, and make a joke of it. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

"I was quite sure by now that I was not being followed," Blake recalled. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

The contented rhinoceros is no less content for being among the last of its kind. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dreams of being on a bed surrounded by lots of people. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

I did not want to think about the consequences of being discovered by them. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

It took a great deal of energy to be a human being, and the more the wind blew and the sun moved southwest, the less energy Tayo had. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

Perhaps a Gethenian, being singularly complete, feels telepathic speech as a violation of completeness, a breach of integrity hard for him to tolerate. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

That didn’t bother me because I heard that being a manicurist in a barbershop was easy and the tips were good. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Like Tawantinsuyu, it was a patchwork of satrapies rather than a unified state; indeed, several large groups within the Alliance had managed to hang on to their independence despite being surrounded by hostile forces. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

As the days turn into weeks and weeks turn into months, the secret of me being in the pageant slowly grinds its teeth at me. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

Mary swiftly threw her bridle and stirrups over his back, excusing herself for being clumsy, and mounted at once. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

She was wearing a white dress and a blue cloak; I remember being struck by their pleats and folds. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

I didn’t plan on there being a next time. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

As we zoomed up, I could see through the back window that the fires in the town were being snuffed out by the sudden blast of cold. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

We spent yesterday staying in the back room being quiet, reading and drawing and hoping no one came to hurt us. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Waves, colored zigzags, a garble of sound: it’s the Montreal satellite station, being blocked. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

I suspected that we would see our mother but that we weren’t being told in case she did not show. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

‘Go to the Afric Queen and get my Goblin. Take him up here and turn him out to pasture with the Lyte horses. I guess he won’t mind being a Tory for a while.’ Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Rowan knew that as much as she hated the idea of being a scythe, she would jockey for position over him because that’s how she was hardwired. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

The occasional dissenter accuses me of betraying my fellow officers and being a rat, asserting that “what goes on in corrections should stay in corrections.” Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I wonder if he ever won a merit badge for being Most Annoying. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

One of the greatest indignities about being old is that people insist on helping you with things like bathing and going to the washroom. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

Lockhart gulped and dived under his own desk, narrowly avoiding being squashed by Neville, who fell a second later as the chandelier gave way. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

I much preferred being outside in nature, being able to see grass and trees, to observe birds flitting overhead, to feel the wind blowing in from the sea. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

How I wasted them, those rooms, that freedom from being seen. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Oh, how rude we’re being,” the Sicilian said then, turning to Buttercup. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

It was hard not being able to grip strongly with his right hand. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

Heaven only knew what new sin committed by the minister’s son was being announced over the phone. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

The actual affair may not have lasted as long as the opera itself, its incredible five- and-a-half-hour length being one of the many obstacles to its being mounted in its entirety during Berlioz’s lifetime. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

“Look at that, you so excited ’bout being in my movie that you jumping for joy! The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

The resulting, long final chord of The Song of the Earth - Western music’s symbolic ‘home’ of C major, naturally - was described by the mid-twentieth-century English composer Benjamin Britten as being ‘imprinted on the atmosphere’. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Was I getting so used to being submissive? Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

Like the person in a Greek myth who makes one of the gods stop caring about being a god. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

I was frightened by the thought of being away from home for the first time in my life, but I was also trying to find courage. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

They had nothing to compare it to, and in any case their attention was fully taken up with the novelty of being clothed. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

Because baking cupcakes and being on swim team is not enough for Sweet Stephanie. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

On June 10, 1943, exactly a year after they’d flown their first combat mission, there was a special ceremony to celebrate the honor of being named the 46th Guards earlier that year. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

Heavy, angry hands all over his body; loud, angry voices robbing him of his being, of being a human being. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z

I kept my clothes on to keep from being burned. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Okra has too much pride to do tricks for mere human beings,” Mary Anne stated officiously. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

But Mama being Mama—and possibly psychic?—she pulled it right outta me. Dear Martin 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

At any time of night and day, poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

And I began being very nice to him, just trying to keep things calm until I could get Tabitha and myself away from Kakuma. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was sure that I was about to die and that's why everyone was being so kind to me. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

Now, in addition to worrying about the Ku Klux Klan coming to get us in the night, I started to worry every moment about being bombed. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Countless other plants have fruits adapted to being eaten and dispersed by particular species of animals. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

When the soil is too alkaline, which can be thought of as being too sweet, you need to add sulfur. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

Night had come, but being too tired to leave the sandspit, I crawled to a higher place where I would be safe from the tide, and again went to sleep. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

Matt knew he was being rude, but when had the Alacrans been anything else to him? The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

His rasping voice made Piper think of a straight razor being wiped across a strop - like in her grandfather’s barbershop back in Oklahoma. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

The elderly men whose voices hardly rose above a whisper, because they were so used to being listened to, were silenced completely in the ruckus. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

For the time being, however, the city still stood firmly on its wooden legs. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

Many of the national reviewers who wrote their opinions of Warriors Don’t Cry mentioned this paragraph as being significant, beautifully written, and haunting. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Before I went into the army I had thought about being a writer. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Maybe,” Mary Lou said to Phoebe, “your father is being too quick to judge people at work. He needs to walk in their moccasins first.” Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

Provided she could see them periodically, that would not be a bad life, being an only child in a fine, rich, childless American family. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

No more being stuck inside whitewashed buildings all over the world as doctors try drug after drug, treatment after treatment, none of them working. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

Another little boy, this time a king of four years old in Scotland, might be sadly issuing a royal mandate to his Nannie, which empowered her to spank him without being guilty of High Treason. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

My last few days of being sixteen, and living in this house. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

I forgot all the promises I had made—before being given the drum—to improve my character and wailed. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

It took a few years, but I stopped being mad at him. The Million Dollar Shot 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

Startled, Amari almost knocked the cup over as she felt her head being lifted. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

I often daydreamed about him being here, in my room. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

They suspected that whites were being diverted by federal prosecutors to the state system, where the penalties for crack offenses were far less severe. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

He told himself he was being stupid, but his heart was pounding fit to burst out of his chest. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

It had never occurred to us to wonder how we would feel, being seen like that, being the spiders. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was weather for being in love, and Wash was in love. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

And when I go to work the next day, my single-browed friend trailing faithfully behind me, I discover that I am being deported. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

He claimed that Charles said that human beings had developed from oysters. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Lady Salmakia said, “Rest. There is no disgrace in being weary.” The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

‘You can’t guess. It was his mother. The trick is that you don’t think about a Indian being a lady.’ The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

“Some fish get caught for biting and some fish just get caught for being in the wrong part of the pond.” Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

They had shared the bond of being the only two women aboard the Dolphin and the older woman had been sociable and kindly. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

I had no sense of being inferior or superior to the people about me; 1 merely felt that they had had no chance to learn to live differently. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Something about not being able to talk always gave someone the giggles, but tonight it’s not hard to stay quiet, and for sure I don’t feel like giggling. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

The back of my neck burns like a lighter is being held to it, then in an instant, the pain is gone. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

I had promised Joe, whose name and case were constantly being discussed on television, that I would visit him after the argument in the Supreme Court. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

"In the kitchen," I said, "while their food is being got ready." The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z

I’m planning on having Mom arrested for being a yellow sissy britches. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Hephaestus got a three and probably should’ve gotten lower, but with Beckendorf being gone and all, we cut them some slack. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

Her fingers wrinkled from being immersed in water and, perversely, her mouth dried up with thirst. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was a long way, then, from being able to do anything like it myself. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

He wondered how much they understood of what was being said. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

But here, the only people who could read her writing would be those who might punish her for being able to write. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

Her sacrifice would be both to the old gods and her secret new one—surely some powerful being would be won over by her deed! Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

Sometime between 1534 and 1549 Jean Taisnier, a musician and mathematician, remarked that Aristotle was sometimes mistaken; he was challenged by a representative of the pope to produce a convincing example of Aristotle being wrong. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

But when Mqhayi rose to speak, I confess to being disappointed. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I told him about the shark falling from the winch and possibly being whisked away to Guam in the rough seas. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

“Well, you two weren’t being good friends to me,” I say. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

The only way she gets out of being the bad guy for letting Uncle Max stay is if she makes me the bad guy instead. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

It was certainly beautiful, but Tendai felt a pang of regret at not being able to hear the real birds. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

Mama and Doc both worried about being able to take care of the family. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

It being near midday we sat down to rest by the roadside. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

Far from being ubiquitous, it could only be used simultaneously by no more than twenty people in a single city. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

The centrifuge, which was being pursued by Lawrence’s old friend Jesse Beams at the University of Virginia, persistently underperformed its expected enrichment yield; it would be the first method abandoned outright. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

It was, and would be throughout the entirety of my time in the White House, a balm for my spirit, a way to momentarily escape my First Lady worries, my self-consciousness about constantly being judged. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

I might never be a pretty sculpture, but I was done with being the doctors’ clay. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

Maya couldn’t stop being mad at her for not answering her texts the night that Maya’s dad moved out. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

It would be in the same room as Mama, but somehow being a few feet above her seemed like such a huge thing. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

Instead, by broadly condemning black nurses, Carey put the entire black community “in the hazardous state of being classed with those who are called the ‘vilest.’” An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

Now Roberto Vega was bouncing his head as if jazz were being played somewhere not far away and the congregation was coiling slowly like a snake, waiting for the Holy Spirit to strike. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

“For joining Erudite, for being loyal to them. I mean, if you were supposed to be one of them all along, then ‘faction before blood’ is an acceptable thing to believe, right?” Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

“I’m not...Sorry, forget it. I’m just creeped out from being in the Cursed Forest.” Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

That ain’t the way to get out of being common, old chap. Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z

Leroy laughed while Tayo tried to get the can to his mouth without spilling it or being thrown against the dashboard. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

Turning, he asked, “You must have a pretty good reason for being here at school today.” Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

One thing about being pretty, people put up with your annoying habits. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

If Gabriel was being very quiet, it meant that whatever he wanted to say, which would have been the truth, was inappropriate. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

Protest meetings and demonstrations were being held throughout South Africa; people carried signs declaring “We Stand by Our Leaders.” Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Like it’d rather be dead than stand being inside me another second.” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

The sound of wings, like a giant deck of cards being shuffled, filled the air. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

This treatment being administered, no other opposition followed, and we made off with two cows and a bull, ten swine, a quantity of flour, and a multitude of fowl. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

And what were the odds of being rescued for a second time by the same stranger? Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

“Did you have any fears about her being able to defend herself?” Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

I would stop thinking about being a vet. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

I started out the evening with every intention of being pleasant and making friends. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

The feeling was a whole lot worse than being hungry for any dinner, yet it was like that. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

But it turned out that Hanako’s grandparents had discovered this afternoon that the wheat was being attacked by insects, so they did not think they could go to Kobe. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Ann Atwater’s refusal to be silent when she felt black aspirations for equality were being mocked in her employer’s house fits this pattern. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

Two of the founders had very small ranges in the wild, chickpea being confined to southeastern Turkey and emmer wheat to the Fertile Crescent itself. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

In this case, they are mere prototype, a grand curiosity being worn by another local celeb, Philip Rosedale, the founder of Second Life. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

At first I didn’t mind being in mourning. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

He leaned in slightly, trying to hear more without being noticed. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

The absolute worst part of being depressed is the food. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

“He’s just bad for the sake of being bad. That’s the scariest kind of villain, you know?” Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

That being settled, why not do something about my parched throat? Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

Everyone we knew was planning on going to his funeral, which was being held in the town where he grew up, in the mountains a couple of hours’ drive away. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

A dozen or more loons from all the neighboring ponds fly in, and they all swim around together for a couple of hours for no discernible reason other than the pleasure of being together. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

These were the sounds that Taisin had made at night in her dreams: the eerie, half-senseless murmurings of beings trapped behind bars. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Joseph imagined being a stowaway and wished it was true. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

By the time Cinna shows up, I am irritable and exhausted from comforting the prep team, especially because their constant tears are reminding me of the ones undoubtedly being shed at home. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

It was a long walk to the old castle, but I wanted to make a wish, and I wanted to make it in the place where it would have the best chance of being granted. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

“So much for being able to read the future.” The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

“They bragging about pointing a gun in your baby’s face! They laughing about me being in here. I’m supposed to let that go?” On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

During their visit to Auschwitz, which is now a museum, Uncle Sigmund shared his memories of being assigned to repaint the gas chambers after each mass execution. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

The identities of the wounded are being withheld pending further investigation, but we've received reports that one of the teens was pronounced dead en route to the hospital, and the other is in critical condition. Dear Martin 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Jonas felt himself losing consciousness and with his whole being willed himself to stay upright atop the sled, clutching Gabriel, keeping him safe. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

He had lost his job at the glass factory, and he had lost something even more precious: his dignity as a human being. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

Old men and women, children, babes in arms, humans and other beings, too, more and more thickly they came out of the dark into the world of solid moonlight—and vanished. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

And sleep we did, the deep sleep of those who being tired have fed well and rested well. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

You never think about the mall being closed. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

She tries to manage him, by being nice but not too nice, present but not too present. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

Exasperated at being judged a psychological aberration, the apple descends into Flatland. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

His characteristic Cealdish dark hair and eyes made him seem older than Simmon and me, but he still had the slightly awkward look of a boy who wasn’t quite used to being man-sized yet. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

You hate yourself for not being as brave as the people you love to read about. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

“If they were still being harassed, why didn't they complain?” The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

And as to being common, I don’t make it out at all clear. Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z

We kept sleeping over, and it kept being fun. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

We can now see why Newton regarded this whole business with such irritation—he was far more worried about his future position in Cambridge than about being polite to Hooke. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

For an instant Matt thought she meant the passage, but then he heard the sound of chairs being moved and the whir of a machine. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

I became so used to being in the closet that I put snacks in there and a mini TV to watch. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

Then everything went amiss when he discovered that his memorabilia had been auctioned off; it was as if he’d lost not just old letters and score sheets, but a part of his inner being. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

And at a primal level it suggested the unconscious fear of being swallowed up by a larger creature, the terror of being completely consumed, eaten alive. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

“But right this minute there’re a lot of unhappy human beings.” Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

Mr. Travis, when he’s being our Sabbath school teacher, says the Lord rested on Sunday and commanded us to do the same. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

Yassen had brought the test tubes that were even now being inserted into the computers. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

Something true and living was being drained from him, and his dæmon fluttered weakly and called in a wild high call, but she was dying. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

For hundreds of thousands of years human beings have been burning and cutting down forests and encouraging domestic animals to graze on and destroy grasslands. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

But I think it was in the process of being carried out when we stopped the bus. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

The stage in Chicago even then was being set for Muslims to shift their focus off the epidemic—and onto me. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dr. Strauss feels that emotionally I’m still in that adolescent state where being close to a woman, or thinking of sex, sets off anxiety, panic, even hallucinations. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

Magdalys felt like her heart was being torn to pieces each time the moan sounded. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

It’s being handed everything you’ve ever longed for, only for it to slip through your fingers. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

“Then I’m going to focus it at whatever part of the mine is being worked, and I’m going to watch. That’s all.” I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

It was infuriating to discover the reason for all these terrible disasters and not to be able to tell the public, almost worse than it being the government’s fault after all. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

Being almost thirteen, I was too old to go trick-or-treating, but being almost thirteen, I also really loved candy, so I volunteered to take the little girl from down the street. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Papa’s strong shoulders weren’t just about him being able to pull wet ropes into his boat. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

The kids would make fun of us for being Jewish in school, but they wouldn’t make fun of Dee-Dee. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

He passed sections like his own where vehicles were being disabled and the wounded were being lifted into lorries. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

When she was satisfied that they weren’t being followed, Petra stopped. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

“Sir, it just isn’t right to make the men in this group fly eighty missions when the men in other groups are being sent home with fifty and fifty-five.” Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

I’m sick of being on pause, of being buried and hidden, of being petrified, in both senses of the word. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

I guess I was being pretty stubborn about wanting to go home. Doing Time Online 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were being forced to live in crowded ghettos, where many would die from disease and starvation. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

I thought being quiet—speaking only when I absolutely had to—would help defuse whatever tension existed between us, but it only seemed to make things more intense. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

Is normal never being sure of what normal really is? Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

Best to go on being the woman who dressed like a man. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

The most decent people are being sent to concentration camps, prisons and lonely cells, while the lowest of the low rule over young and old, rich and poor. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

Now a door was being opened quietly in the passage above; the hinges creaked. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

“But I am done with being weak. I am done with being good. I think I am going to be something else.” The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

It was as if they too feared being noticed. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

“Human beings are predatory by nature,” he began. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

I’m on the plane, flying or being flown, westward toward the watery coast, the postcard mountains. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

The pets scattered, except Franz, who didn’t flinch, despite now being covered in sheet music. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

“You run a grave risk, my boy," said the magician, “of being turned into a piece of bread, and toasted." The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was being disciplined, and I deserved it. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

I nodded yes, whereupon the conductor cheerfully punched my ticket and mumbled something about Jabavu being a fine man. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Also, if anyone has information regarding the whereabouts of the fireworks salesman, a five-dollar reward is being offered by the Daughters of the American Revolution. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

I wanted to join in, but I felt silly, being one of the older kids. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

It eventually occurred to me that even if I was being homeschooled, I could still see my friends in public school. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

I was on record as being opposed to affirmative action. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

This struggle against error brought into being the footnote: the mechanism for ensuring that every fact could be traced to an authorizing statement. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

“They’ve got millions, but they live like human beings. They don’t put on airs and strut. Mrs. Dalton believes that people should be that way.” Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

I thought of Gramps being swallowed by the water. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

I just wanted to be like my friends who could go to school and not have to worry about being harassed over their religion. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

This didn’t bother him too much actually, but when he heard Grover was being charged again, in a case with a different judge, he threatened to testify unless Grover bought the property back. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

I quit selecting certain of my New York brothers and giving them money to go and lay groundwork for new mosques in other cities—because slighting remarks were being made about “Malcolm’s ministers.” The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Because I was more worried about her being eaten by a bookcase! Harry Potter and the Cursed Child 2016-07-31T00:00:00Z

One benefit of being underfed is that you don’t weigh much. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

Each of us went about our business, with slow deliberateness, each being very careful not to stare at the other and at the same time sneaking glances, appraising, evaluating. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even though that meant that she might end up being a little late to my birthday party! Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

On the night that peace was being brokered, his first thought was for her. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

He’s not much of a talker, so it must be hard for him being ordered to chat with me now. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

I have recommended that no further tests be made on human beings until these things are clarified by additional research on animals. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

Despereaux's brothers and sisters soon abandoned the thankless task of trying to educate him in the ways of being a mouse. The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z

But his medical license had saved him from being sent back to Greece; America needed physicians. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

And there were 11 people in the carriage and I didn’t like being in a room with 11 people in a tunnel, so I concentrated on things in the carriage. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Trapper didn’t see the game as being a savior for these kids. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

And before Genie could even think on whether or not Grandpop being blind was, in fact, a sickness—especially since he said glaucoma was a disease—another question popped out. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

We heard that in the main section, prisoners were collapsing and being taken away in wheelbarrows. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Resistance to insecticides by mosquitoes of the anophelene group has surged upward at an astounding rate, being created by the thoroughness of the very house-spraying programs designed to eliminate malaria. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

There are strong indications that fields closer to our daily lives are being opened up. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

“We were targeted from both sides. The Capitol killed the victors they suspected of being rebels. The rebels killed those thought to be allied with the Capitol.” Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

It took half an hour, which meant he had gone from being rested to being cold, so I had to warm him up gently, slow walk to trot to canter. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

We just assumed it had something to do with being black. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

They were brothers to the coyote which, being wild, lives close to man and his chickenyards: they were near towns but not in them. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Making it all the way to the end of the movie wound up being a lot harder than I anticipated. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

She ended up being more than an hour late. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

I hadn’t thought at all about the literal act, the moment of asking, though of course the idea of being married to her was something I’d considered since the beginning. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some even accused those men of being fakers and cowards. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Methuselah feigned indifference, but his natural curiosity soon overcame any chagrin he felt at not being allowed to pass the doorway. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

It was why—despite being well established—she chose to teach the beginning students. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“I’m really sorry—” Before I could figure out how to apologize for being such an idiot, she tackled me with a hug, then pulled away just as quickly. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

Occasionally my wild pursuit of the celluloid backfired, the worst occasion being an evening set aside for Ecstasy. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

That there is nothing wrong with being a farmer. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

The goods— belonging to migrant workers living alone in the city—were being sent to wives back in the tribal reserve. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

I made my remarks brief—but I made them strong: “How can you condemn Portugal and South Africa while our black people in America are being bitten by dogs and beaten with clubs?” The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

On the walls were cheap religious pictures depicting the Devil being slain by the angel Michael. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

In one camp, instead of food being served in a central outside location, the soup was carried from barracks to barracks in a large kettle. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

He ought to care what she would feel, he had a sense of there being something wrong with him, because he did not care. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

After a second of assuring herself that she indeed was being called upon, she laid down her handbag and slowly folded her handkerchief. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

I could see that if this started out being fun for Sammy, it sure was turning into something else. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

He was mystified at not being able to find it. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Pausing, I looked about to make sure I was not being observed, then slipped within it. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

The story went on to say that Jan was being held for investigation at the Eleventh Street Police Station and that Mary had been missing from her home since eight o’clock Saturday night. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

Because at least he wasn’t stuck somewhere in Georgia, walking around playing at being alive. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

His vast fossil loot from South America was being unpacked, preserved, cataloged, and organized; whole museums could be built around it. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

It was a chilly day with a sharp, stinging wind—not the kind of weather for being outside. Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

The sentence didn’t strike her as being a cipher since it was made up of actual words, not a garbled mix of letters. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

It made her think about being a little girl in New Orleans, before her curse set in and her mom got so bitter. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

The kitchen in the pink house was painted a bright yellow, and being in that room with Betty Allen was like standing inside of the sun. Louisiana's Way Home 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

I couldn’t even complain to Mom because she’d tell me to use my imagination, or say that being bored was good for me. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

But he also wanted to give the reader the sense of being present at a real argument, one from which Copernicanism emerged as indisputably victorious. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

The reactions seemed to suggest that being an American was better than being anything else. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

It is in vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquillity: they must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

A false rumour that the whole household was being distributed free spread like wildfire; and before long the place was packed with people who had no business there, but could not be kept out. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

Just as well for sheep they can't work out why the farmer's being so nice to them. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

Peasants who have lived in the countryside since before the revolution are rewarded by being allowed to stay in their villages. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was good being back at school with friends and lots of work to occupy my mind. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

It didn’t take long before David was talking all about the high schools being closed. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

But sorry, he’s not good at being a best friend when he’s someone’s boyfriend. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

I honestly don’t know whether it would be better to forget or be able to remember, but it physically hurts being forced to watch Nana diminish. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

And since when is making you do your chores being a jerk? Booked 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

But when she saw him, his presence flooded into her; it was like ink being released into water, and it was a relief, for it was familiar. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

My muscles ache, probably from being clenched for however long Jeanine left me with that serum pulsing through me. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

Pollard had no business being out of bed at all, but he had talked his doctors into letting him attend the race on the condition that two of them, plus a nurse, go with him. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was speechless at the man’s attitude, and at my own physical feeling of no difference between us as human beings. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

None of the girls care that I’m in there, and it’s not even about me being gay. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

At this the grey-eyed goddess Athena smiled, and gave him a caress, her looks being changed now, so she seemed a woman, tall and beautiful and no doubt skilled at weaving splendid things. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Spiritual worry was alien to him; it was financial worry that rocked his being. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

I had to thank her, to apologize for being an idiot, Jilting her at the stables. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

“The air doesn’t move, and the carbon dioxide builds up. It’s like being in a mine.” The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

I regret not being reason enough to make them care more. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

“And all teenage boys are human beings. That is my minor premise, controversial though it may be. And if my major and minor premises are so, sir, what is your conclusion?” October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

I was an only child without actually being one. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

I quickly learn a hard lesson about being so well known. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

We still live with the consequences, and it seems likely that human beings always will. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Dicey thought that if she left the dinghy there it had a good chance of being claimed or returned. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It is so lonely being there forever without another Indian.” Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

He spoke mainly about suffering and being released from suffering. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z

She couldn’t blame them for being freaked out, really, but her parents still insisted they were proud. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

Finally, Haymitch is being forced into sobriety, with no secret stashes or home-brewed concoctions to ease his transition. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

It is disembowelled without the hide being taken off, and, since there can be no hide, there can be no quarry. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

For it was darkness itself that had awaited him, the unnamed thing, the being that did not belong in the world, the shadow he had loosed or made. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

“Connor thinks everything’s impossible for him, and he’s all mad about it, so he tried to act like everything’s impossible for me, too. He’s being a big baby and feeling sorry for himself.” Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

But as he was being shoved into the crate, he looked up at Charlotte and gave her a wink. Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z

So much pepper is being ground at the moment that we sneeze and cough with every breath we take. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

All these hemlocks, and all the hemlocks everywhere along the trail and far beyond, are being killed by an aphid introduced accidentally from Asia in 1924. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

There had been a moment—she was sure now—when she had ceased to exist as a living human being. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

He probably thought no black girl had the right to be that proud, but there she was, being Vonetta in a photo. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

That was what it was like: straining to hear, but with her whole being. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

It was rather as though, after being in makeshift wet dock for days, the Queen Mary had just sailed out of, say, Walden Pond, as suddenly and perversely as she had sailed in. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z

Aside from that we were both covered in bruises from sleeping on stones and being too exhausted to get up and rearrange things once we were lying down. How I Live Now 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Journalists inevitably asked Fischer about the risks associated with the kind of climbing he did and wondered how he reconciled it with being a husband and father. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

So well did I act my part that even my father, despite being schooled in deceit, did not perceive my mask. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

Sixty years, forty, even, is as much as anybody feels like being bothered with. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Reuters staff, he said, understand that this is being done so that the company can survive and then thrive again. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z

‘Moral certainty’ had been the language of theologians; in 1662 we find it being used by the first statisticians, Graunt and Petty. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

She saw the hyenas, bloody-mouthed, being driven back through the gate by a hoard of slaves armed with whips and spears. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

Noelle stands up and pulls her hair away from her cheeks, which are red in addition to being cut up. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

I figured maybe it was because Mtisha was crowding in on my mind, or maybe just that me and Ice were getting older and being close was harder than before. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

"Now, haul!" shouted several voices in unison, and Tristran felt them being hauled up several feet. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

For a moment, the rain became intense and the sound against the window grew loud, like pebbles being flung against the glass. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

I was the oldest kid living at home by then, my other siblings being away at school. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

From our very first conversation, he’d shown me that he wasn’t self-conscious about expressing fear or weakness and that he valued being truthful. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Back at the Academy, Sergeant Bloom had recommended that we all discuss with our families the possibility of being taken hostage. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was being transferred from a minimum-security prison for a court appearance. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

“We’ve been away long enough, and with time being different down here and everything, who knows what has happened up there?” When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

But Ruth May was not up to snuff, so she was being quiet, hanging on to Mother’s hand. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Nevertheless there was a sense of openness, a feel of a gentle breeze moving lightly about, that kept the darkness from being oppressive. A Wrinkle in Time 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

Juanita stepped forward to take a better look at the wooded area being illuminated. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

The thing about being barren is that you’re not allowed to get away from it. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sugar turned human beings into property, yet sugar led people to reject the idea that any person could be owned by another. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

“For the information about that car. For being alert enough to get the license plate. That was well done.” Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

But there’s something about it being a bed. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

It galloped past so close I leapt backward on tiptoe, flush with the canvas to avoid being impaled on one of its crooked horns. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

It shows a cavernous view of the mouth of a man being attended by his dentist. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

And when the human beings listened to it, they secretly trembled, hearing in it a prophecy of their future doom. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z

But convincing Chaol to let her see Nehemia was always a hassle—because he insisted on being there to keep watch. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Holly could hear computer keys being punched furiously. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

I think he’d had enough female emotion for the time being. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

In these classes I was praised for being smart and hardworking. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

Joana spoke often of medicine and her hopes of being a pediatrician. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

The old hole was now being cleared a little. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

Before they arrived at their Orange County destination to retrieve the money, they found themselves being followed—and then chased—by two Latino men in a gray van. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

“It is nice to have someone along who can unhitch a horse without being led by the hand.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Also it was different not having a father and mother, and Kay had taught him that being different was wrong. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Of baby Moses being rescued from the water. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

To sustain her being in love, she often worked at herself in the mirror, guessing at the colors and shapes that would interest him, changing them frequently in order to hit on the right combination. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Yet I felt that I had to go somewhere and do something to redeem my being alive. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were, instead, figuring out how to be good and obedient—what I saw as failing to even explore any chance that they might deserve being equal to the white people. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

He seldom lasted more than two weeks before running away or being expelled. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

I walked to the edge of the pile, and after a quick glance around to make sure I wasn’t being watched or followed, I turned sideways to squeeze through a gap between two crushed cars. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

About 13.5 billion years ago, matter, energy, time and space came into being in what is known as the Big Bang. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

The occasional stones which were being thrown at her by the Old Ones she dexterously caught and swallowed, in the maddening way which chickens have when you are trying to drive them off. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Last day of school, which means everybody’s being all nice and wanting to sign each other’s memory books. Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z

It wasn’t about being reunited with my mother anymore, but still I could not suppress an almost overwhelming sense of longing. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

But I knew I was being watched, and that every move I made was being scrutinized and logged. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

Oh, Mina dear, I can’t help crying: and you must excuse this letter being all blotted. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

Vincent writes another letter, again stating his case, saying he’s not being frivolous, not trying to live off Theo in an irresponsible way. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

All of my gear was being disassembled, inventoried, tagged, boxed, and prepared for auction. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

Matt had to scoot to the extreme edge of the bed to keep from being kicked. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Sometimes I miss you being a little kid, but then I remember Chuck E. Cheese.” Turtles All the Way Down 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

"Not sure yet. Bobby, have you noticed this blanket being hotter than normal?" Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The house was stuffy from being closed up all winter. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

The front hall and parlor were full of neighbor ladies, but instead of it being a gaggle of sound like at church meetings, the talk was all whispered. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

That the anti-tumor properties of any number of chemicals are being explored. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Mindful of being a teenaged upstart in the company of such seasoned track deities as Jesse Owens and Glenn Cunningham, Louie curbed his coltish impulses and began growing a mustache. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z

Today it’s easier being in Sarah’s room than anywhere else. Ghost Boys 2018-04-17T00:00:00Z

I was looking forward to being with my friends, with people I could talk to and laugh with, but Danny said we had been summoned to the vice- principal’s office. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Other than the musty air and it being a bit overcrowded, I don’t see any problems here,” Mr. Parker said. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

All my usual disconnected comforts are being taken away, now that I see the greater comfort of presence. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

She hated the thought of being separated from Dallas. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

The term used by linguists to describe what Klotz was engaging in in that moment is “mitigated speech,” which refers to any attempt to downplay or sugarcoat the meaning of what is being said. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

“Perhaps the smaller things—like human beings, for example—can also change and affect the bigger things in the universe.” Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

I both loved and hated being in the South, for the simple reason that it was so different from what I knew. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Even Voltaire, who avoided the dialogue between a philosopher and a lady, a form popularized by Fontenelle, liked to imagine his book being read by a sophisticated woman at her dressing table. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

On the other hand, people lacking such experience begin to have a feeling of uneasiness here, of danger, of being shut in, enclosed and over-whelmed. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

Started talking about one thing and another, told her about being a freedman and showed off his papers to her. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

Carl let his eyes flick over to Bernabe, who had dropped his eyes to where his boot tips—pointing outward from being on the wrong feet—were scuffing self-consciously in the dust. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Your senses are getting dull, Luke. Were being watched.” The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

How was it possible that men, women, and children were being burned and that the world kept silent? Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

At first and for a long time it seemed to Wang Lung that he wished to see no human being but only to be alone on his land. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

I understand something being important to you even when it doesn't fully make sense, even when others would think you were crazy. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

Demented and powerless, the aged being could only weep and mumble in fear and pain and misery, and he shrank away from what seemed like yet another threat. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

She could not make out the distinct syllables, but they made her heart ache, for they were all sounds of yearning—each being who cried out was crying out for freedom. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

I can’t say exactly why, except maybe Uncle was afraid of being laughed at by the others. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’m steering east and pretty much over being scared to death when the motor up and quits. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

The full moon made a halo around his head, and only the soft reflected glow from the ice kept his face from being lost in shadow. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

“Her condition, the trek, the language barrier, being separated from her...husband.” Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

I hated being in the middle of the unruly, angry crowds. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

There was a war going on in Afghanistan, a new color-coded threat advisory system being used in the United States, and Osama bin Laden was apparently hiding somewhere in a cave. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

He had no intention, under any circumstance, of being a liability—of winding up the unconscious guy on the floor. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

But rayon is both natural and artificial, being made from wood. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

“I wish Maria were here, I’d ask her how she dealt with having to lie about being a magician literally all the time.” Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

My father’s dead, my mother’s dying, my brother’s being flayed, and there’s naught that I can do about any of it. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

There were so many human beings that they couldn’t even see the newsstand. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

The threat of being outdoors surfaced frequently in those days. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

Something was being made, and even if it wasn't anything specific, it was something, and I thought that was pretty cool. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

“Why are you being such a terrible friend?” Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z

You can’t imagine what it’s like to have to stand on the sidelines and see how lonely he is, without being able to do anything. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

At first it was a little difficult to see how this fitted in with his being on Jones’s side. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z

I stop worrying about my computer being stolen or cooked, I sleep through the night, the sick little plucking habit loses its grip. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Twelve men, hastily thrown upon an ox sled, were being drawn to their single grave. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

And you know what I’m saying about “being” with me, right? We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

Going to a pep rally was rather like being thrown in with the lions to see how long we could survive. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Well, I really like the way you’ve framed the shot. You can see that the subjects don’t even know they’re being photographed.” Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

Wes wondered how it was that he was the one being arrested. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

“Come off it, George. You know we're entitled to search and seizure. We have reports of that computer being used for illegal purposes. Just a half an hour ago.” Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z

It reminds me of how I felt after being poisoned. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

I decide when I am a dad I will not even try being funny with my kids. The Misfits 2001-10-01T00:00:00Z

“He wanted to stay. I couldn’t tell him no, could I, after he was being so nice? Anyway we only had one program between us, so we had to share it.” It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

No one could imagine perfect Isa ever being the cause of getting kicked out of their home. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

Both of them were born sandwiched somewhere in the middle of large families, and were far from being their parents’ favorites. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

My vocabulary cannot describe the new mosque that was being built around the Ka’ba. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was trying to remain inconspicuous, but being so awkward and unhappy about it that he might as well have been waving a flag. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

Gregor was torn between being very proud and wanting to laugh his head off. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Chet would never tell anyone this in a million years, but despite being the bravest person he knew, he was afraid of dogs. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

Outside, a huge caravan was being prepared for a crossing of the Sahara, and was scheduled to pass through Al-Fayoum. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I don’t know. Maybe he’s tired of being ‘that poor sick kid,’” I said, throwing his words back at him. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

“Professor Trelawney said you didn’t have the right aura! You just don’t like being bad at something for a change!” Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

He spent many hours in the hot room watching how the hard sheets of metal, worked by the colonel with the inconceivable patience of disillusionment, were slowly being converted into golden scales. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

Like being president was part of registering and choosing electives. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

Ernestine was doing her homework, and had a spooky feeling she was being watched through the open window. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even human beings had not only an immaterial mind but a material sensitive soul, capable of a physical presence after death. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

All the time I’d spent being afraid, I never dreamed I could actually kill one! Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

Like the kids at Yancy Academy: rich brats playing at being bad boys. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

However, human beings who shared its habitat found it annoying because of its sheer numbers. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

It is a puzzling fact that chickens can run around in a frenzy for some seconds after being decapitated, but I do not think they do this for a whole hour. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her face was pale and as wrinkled as a dhobi’s thumb from being in water for too long. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

He said he’d allow Dad to stay, but Dad had to follow some rules, the first being that he stop drinking as long as he was there. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

We could still imagine that there is a set of laws that determine events completely for some supernatural being, who could observe the present state of the universe without disturbing it. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s a harrowing adrenaline blend, being fearless and afraid at the same time. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

“I wasn’t sure if I liked being compared to two dead female icons!” Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

Her mother’s parents were both dead—Grandpa from being run over by a tractor while he was drunk, and Grandma from drowning in a giant wave off the coast of Hawaii. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

It sucked being a target all the time. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

The sound of snapping branches and undergrowth being trampled grew nearer. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

Of course she would’ve taken Thomas’s old room, but it was weird being there without him. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

If she really has info about Moreau, even just about being a magician, this could be major. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

The proles, normally apathetic about the war, were being lashed into one of their periodical frenzies of patriotism. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

“I don’t truckle, and I hate being patronized as much as you do!” returned Amy indignantly, for the two still jangled when such questions arose. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

Helmuth doesn't know why being a Jew is a big deal. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

And so were the mulefa, and so were human beings in every world, and every kind of conscious creature, wherever they were. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

This being true, we had only to act in a stern manner to bring the Kaiser to heel. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

If you do things like this to a human being, he or she goes crazy. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

"Stars everywhere. It was like being at the science center or something," I explained. Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z

Alongside death and despair, this was also the period of astounding Gothic architecture, with the most extraordinary cathedrals, abbeys and churches being built all over Europe. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Poppy’s face dropped as she looked at Seven, all their plans of being coven sisters unraveling. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

I come to school sporting shades and a johnny- print across my left cheek, Johnny being the name of the idiot who smacked me last night. Bronx Masquerade 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Cluny that emerged from the ragged tent in the meadow was far from being sick in the head. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

Why was he being left out there like a piece of trash? The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even then his politics were being formed, his anti-communism, his distrust of the Russians. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

I made and tested two "power loggers" and confirmed that the images were being properly recorded. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You sound like my mother,” Paula said in the barbed tone of a private fight being continued, words meaning other things. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

A grinning kid named Billy Pogo’s knack for being in the right place, at the right time, becomes Unnatural Luck. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

With all the stories, it seemed that Rosie turned a blind eye to anything going on as long as cones were being filled and burgers were being flipped. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

Ben just walked and with all his powers of concentration rising to the surface of consciousness, of being alive, and of being son, Ben tried not to cry. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s like being inside a globe, because the round screen looks like the inside of an opened sky-blue parachute—making me feel as though I am somehow falling. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then he rushed to the door and barked as though I were being invaded. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was one of the reasons I, a lowly sophomore, was keeping my own game under wraps for the time being. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

But the dead Vietnamese soldier, his body sprawled out in the mud, was no longer a human being. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was still on probation, and I didn’t know what being arrested for beating up Marcus would mean for him. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

“Human beings used to be . . .” he hesitated; the blood rushed to his cheeks. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the evening, while he is being fed, the sister is called away, and leaves the plate with the fork on his table. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

I didn’t feel close to God at the Presbyterian church, but some Sundays I felt really close to my memories of being at church, at this place, with my parents. The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z

Her refusal wrought me up to a high pitch of nervousness and I cursed myself for being made to live a different and crazy life. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Lily leaves the room, and on Day Fifteen of being awake, I make my first independent decision. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

On the roller coaster, hoverboarding really was like being a bird. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

And how would I ex-plain to the police my being inside the house in the first place? Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

To her at the moment, another human being was but an inconsiderable item. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

“People in England were being mean to them because of their religion, so they sailed to America and landed at Plymouth Rock.” The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

Boots, who loved any kind of compliment, Instinctively knew she was being admired. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Never found out until, of course, being a young girl and very curious, I took my grandfather’s canoe out one day while he was sleeping. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

Doctors at country clubs, doctors at the seaside, doctors with mistresses, doctors with wives, doctors in church, doctors in yachts, doctors everywhere resolutely being people, not doctors. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

“You can’t just go to the police. They may try to lock up Brady for being part of this.” Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

Jacob, real flat-like, replies, “Why would I lie about being Jewish?” The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

“Cassiopeia is tired from being kept too long out-of- doors in the cold weather. That is my fault.” The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

I hadn’t known this was possible—to reject people for being white. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Below the fold was a great snapshot of me being held up by my teammates after our win against Carter Prep. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

“Plus, Rosaleen and I got in trouble downtown, and I knew if I didn’t leave, T. Ray was gonna half kill me, and I was tired of being half killed.” The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

She who had always feared automobiles was being swallowed by the backseat. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

“We are being very, very manly,” Johnny calls back. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

I wouldn’t stay here one minute past what I was being forced to. The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z

"He took life very easily, it seemed to me; probably after being in prison for so long he didn't take it as seriously as someone else might have done." Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

During the scuffle in the rotunda, Inej had made sure that she was too focused on being choked to worry about being robbed. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

He had run away from Austria with his bride to avoid being conscripted into the army. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

It is the public that is being asked to assume the risks that the insect controllers calculate. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

But now that she was gone he rivaled me in being uncommunicative. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had had dreams like that before, wandering around in a strange place and not being able to find her way out. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

“It’s not good being out in the open like this,” I said to Emma. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

Furthermore, fats are very widely distributed in the organs and tissues of the whole body, even being constituents of cell membranes. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

We were tired, but being scared kept us wide awake. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was like I was being interrogated by a twelve-dollar toy from the bargain bin. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

Pride rose up in me for being the one that had brought him to her. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

And part of your job, aside from parsing abstract intellectual property issues for big corporations, is to help cultivate the next set of young lawyers being courted by the firm. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

“I don’t really like being around so many people. I find it kind of overwhelming,” I say truthfully. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Of all the categories of blacks, informers were the one group most likely to enjoy cordial relations with whites, the whites, of course, being the police. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Children, now attending the schools that their parents had been so excited about, were learning that many of their white teachers did not think they were capable of being educated. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Krawiecka says things like, “Great God,” and “Mother Mary!” and without being irreverent. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

They take a sip from a cup of each of the brands being tested and then make their choice. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

"Not even dying? Or being shot?" she whispers. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Even while the body’s internal organs are becoming plugged with coagulated blood, the blood that streams out of the body cannot clot; it resembles whey being squeezed out of curds. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Neither Boy21 nor I say a word, and I have to admit that it feels good not being the only rabbit in the building. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now that the Tap-Out is being taken seriously—now that all these resources are being mobilized—it will be okay. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

A fellow actor described his eyes as being “like living jewels.” Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

So Father saw this pageant as a splectacular mark of things being on the upswing. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

The other Chinese girls did not talk either, so I knew the silence had to do with being a Chinese girl. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

"I'll just be a minute," Paulie says, and so I lean against the wall, and I feel nervous enough about the ID to forget being nervous about my proximity to Jane. Will Grayson, Will Grayson 2010-04-06T00:00:00Z

Though I long to be with them, being with them brings back too many memories of my family, of Keav, of Pa. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Just heard about your mom being in hospital. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

She wondered if they hovered over the coffle of slaves being driven down one of the old overland routes to Natchez or New Orleans, whispering taunts, crying revenge, bloody revenge, revolt, bloody revolt. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

On another occasion, as Schindler strolled across the factory floor, he caught me away from my station, watching a complicated machine as it was being redesigned to perform a different task. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

But Maryland has been declared one of the safest states, on account of our work patrols and the very active militia, with Washington, DC, being nearby. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

My parents come to visit, separately, and then together again on a Wednesday afternoon, and they’re being, if not friendly, at least cordial to each other. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

It was wonderful being with all my relatives, and I was able to convince them not to talk about Central High. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

However, James reported being sick and had to miss the entire week. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z

Everyone in the kitchen turned to look at Anya being carried inside. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

But as I say, there was this one time he brought it up, about my not being a donor, that really riled me. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was far from dead, or of being ground to bits by New York. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Most of us walk unseeing through the world, unaware alike of its beauties, its wonders, and the strange and sometimes terrible intensity of the lives that are being lived about us. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

It even went on as the strokes were being administered. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

Without being asked, Margaret lifted the bottle, raised it to the rim of Vivian’s glass, and poured in a single motion. Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

It turned out we were not being overcharged. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

My uncle used to say being a parent meant long nights and short years. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

In wartime, being forced to wear men’s underwear drove them crazy. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

The old chair was comfortable, the view stupendous, the feeling of being left alone delicious. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

For that offense, our study privileges were being suspended indefinitely. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Of course Sophia’s now being married made us more cautious, too. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

If I am a weapon, then I’m being sharpened against a grindstone every day. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

People who are not like you admit to being useless and inferior. Eats, Shoots & Leaves 2003-11-06T00:00:00Z

Some part of her considered being scared, but the smoke was kind of beautiful, and besides, her mother had made it, so how could it hurt her? Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

If the barrio or ghetto child can retain his separateness even while being publicly educated, then it is almost possible to believe that there is no private cost to be paid for public success. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

The trick is that you take so long to hit the target, you forget about being hungry. Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

In nests and burrows for a long way around, and wherever any small night creature was hunting or grazing or scavenging, a new and unforgettable fear came into being. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

They stared at me as the fellows had done when I was being initiated into my college fraternity. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now, oddly enough, speaking Quichua is what I need most to have a chance at being queen. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

If I was being prayed for mightily at Wednesday night prayer meetings, I was not told of it. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

He learns how to receive a purely literate education, one using only a small part of the personality and challenging only a limited area of his being. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

It felt like coming up for air after being underwater. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

It is not merely the denial of the housing application but the shame of being a grown man who has to beg his grandmother for a place to sleep at night. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Every few months, Cole found himself being referred to someone else. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

We were being swallowed by the earth, and I hadn’t decided yet whether I liked that. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

As I was walking out with the major, we came upon a young prisoner being interviewed by a prison official. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

But the truth of the matter was that I really did not know what being “black” meant. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

If he was thinking about that, and if Edward would not consider it, if Edward was being selfish and foolish, then Edward was wrong. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

Cornflower and Silent Sam watched the fox being carried away. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

He liked the guys who went to his mosque, but they were more interested in playing soccer than in building robots or in the new comics being released. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

Even though it would be his choice, the thought of being just another statistic for the scythes’ records infuriated him. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

“Thank you for being honest with me,” I told her. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

Without even perfunctory regrets at the man’s passing, he accused Luthuli of being a patsy of the white man, mainly on the grounds that the chief had accepted the Nobel Peace Prize. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Elizabeth instantly read her feelings, and at that moment solicitude for Wickham, resentment against his enemies, and everything else, gave way before the hope of Jane’s being in the fairest way for happiness. Pride and Prejudice 1813-01-28T00:00:00Z

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

“Don’t think I’m going through all the ceremonies and speeches about being brave and invincible,” said Eilonwy. The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z

It was the most frustrating feeling in the world, second only to the inherent helplessness that came with being trapped in a camp, all of your decisions made for you. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

The young mouse stood in the gloom of the barn, knowing he was being watched. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

With four girls, Dad was reconciled to his fate of being the Last of the Gilbreths. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

She changed her mind in 1854 when she learned that Blackwell had boarded a train and rescued a runaway eight-year-old slave girl who was being forced to return to the South. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

And because we were only a team of four, being the one person left out when the other three gathered was all the more hurtful. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

Nathan knew that Uncle Jet’s negative emotions were being amplified by the Ash Being. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

Nhamo ate the yams with an uncomfortable feeling that she was being observed. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

And so much for not being a poor motherless girl in his eyes. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

Which was better: being safe or having freedom? A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

A horrified A. P. Hill realizes that his army is being crushed, and he jumps on his horse to try to stop the disaster in the making. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

I saw Sam beyond him being chained into line. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

It’s possible I could hoard my pills and then knock myself off with a lethal dose, except that I’m sure I’m being watched round the clock. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

“It’s a warm rain. I like being out in the weather.” Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

Without even being asked, Megan and Rand scooted apart and Ximena sat down between them, directly opposite Maya, me, and Summer. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

Ultimately, our omnivore’s dilemma is rooted in our nature as human beings—but we’ve made our choices much harder than they used to be. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

I felt myself being hauled up and out of my seat, and almost before I realized what was happening, I was slipping down the wet bus steps and tumbling into the pouring rain. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

I like being around different people even if I don’t want to talk to them. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

I’m so used to being the spastic one, the one who needs to take a deep breath. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

Some of them had dark feathers—charcoal—and as they exploded on the ground and in the air, Palmer thanked them for so clearly not being Nipper. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

Itchy, a short, middle-aged murderer, wasn’t used to my being party to his conversation and went silent. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Just as it had my mom, the thought of Gabriel not being on Earth anymore, and also of Oslo in heaven, started to upset me as I walked outside to take the trash out. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

For a long time, I just stand there reading, and then I write: Stop being afraid. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

I guess that’s what made her so strong—being able to just face reality straight up. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

The Aeneid was one thing—at least there were storms and ships being tossed and people being washed overboard. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

She, being the nearest woman relative, raised a formal lament for the dead of the family. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

For the time being, the knowledge helped keep the Irwin barn solvent. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I wouldn’t tell anybody else about being in Geneva Eggers’s house. She has sort of a business going there. Some of the bachelor miners—she’s sort of their girlfriend.” October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

Out of those mighty loins a race of conscious beings must one day come. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

In particular, two species of beetles in southern France, pea-sized and of metallic color, have their whole beings so adapted to the presence of the weed that they feed and reproduce only upon it. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

I opened my mouth to reassure Wil and Sim that I was fine, but just then I heard the hour being struck, and I only had time for a hurried good-bye. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

“And Joey, did you notice how Momma got kind of nervous and didn’t answer your question about not seeing people being frozed up on the street?” The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

“What are you even saying? You just made my brain die a little. You know, people, just being beautiful isn’t enough.” Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

Waves of bat sound rippled across the ceiling and echoed back and forth, a dry, squeaky sound, like many small doors being opened on dry hinges. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Why didn’t they try being “lucky” like Jeffrey for a few months? Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

They hate because they fear, and they fear because they feel that the deepest feelings of their lives are being assaulted and outraged. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

The room appeared to be in the process of being disassembled: Two long tables had been folded up and leaned vertically against one wall; several empty wooden crates were stacked against the other. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

Otherwise, the manual was a fascinating pamphlet on how to avoid being pickled in brine. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Now,'’ said Merlyn furiously, apparently to nobody, “do you think you are being funny? “Very well then, why do you db it? The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

I tried to run, because I thought he might wallop me for being in his room, but instead he took my hand and led me to the stack. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

On Tuesday afternoon I had Daddy and Betty Jean in my head telling me what a naughty girl I was for being friendly. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’d never considered myself ignorant to the hate that existed in the world—my father had spoken to us several times about the dangers we’d face for being Black and Muslim in America. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

Urban life tended to abrade tribal and ethnic distinctions, and instead of being Xhosas, or Sothos, or Zulus, or Shangaans, we were Alexandrians. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The blessing of giving love, of being loved. Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

High above them, floating along in midair, four struggling figures were being contorted into grotesque shapes. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

But we had to keep him out of direct contact with the other nursery bonobos until we knew for sure, so for the time being he and I were each other’s only company. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

She doesn't have to say it, but I know she hates being at home as much as I do. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

“Your hand is disgusting,” I said, feeling joy being able to tease my brother again. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Or in France where the people carried home bread from the store without its being wrapped. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

He had gone beyond where I—being just eighteen—could measure age. This Side of Wild 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Medgar Evers like a celebrity around here, being so high in the NAACP. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

‘It’s like being around my mom, except this place radiates fear, not love. That’s why you started feeling overwhelmed on the hill. Down here, it’s a thousand times stronger.’ Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

I think that I wouldn’t mind being more like everyone else. Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

I take back what I thought about Nuru being the nicer one of the two. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

One Mexican-American friend of my mother’s, who regarded it a special blessing that she had a measure of English blood, spoke disparagingly of her husband, a construction worker, for being so dark. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

And I made some notes on a sheet of yellow paper on the nature and quality of being alone. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

I lived then in a small brick house in Manhattan, and, being for the moment solvent, employed a Negro. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

No matter where he was, Matt couldn’t rid himself of the sensation he was being watched. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was the first time I remember ever being alone with my mother. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Innocent black children growing up, living out their lives, dying of old age—and all of their lives ashamed of being black. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

After graduating, he moved from Boston to Connecticut, to work for a firm near Hartford, and he had recently learned that he was being considered for the position of vice president. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

And the thing was that a lot of kids were talking about being down with gangs and trying to make themselves large by going to wack city and offing somebody. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

I look to Keenan, but he appears almost bored, and I'm shaken at how his eyes can go cold as quickly as a candle being blown out. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

Something weirder than my daddy not being here: my best friend is obsessed with my mama. Fast Pitch 2021-08-31T00:00:00Z

She hated it when people older than her looked at her like she was being dumb. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

They’re fearful about their own bodies, shy about what they say, afraid of being laughed at. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Before, scraping elbows together or grabbing her hand had seemed benign, just exciting enough without being serious or scary. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

I was cool with the pastor coming, but my mother being on board, that really got me. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Somehow, in spite of myself, I found I was coming to the building where the inquest was being held. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

As human beings, in other words, we can only handle so much information at once. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Just being out of the cold felt like paradise. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

He had been within a few weeks of his eighteenth birthday, and with it all chance of enlistment, of choosing a service rather than being drafted into one, would have disappeared. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

It is sometimes possible to add infinite terms together to get a finite result—but to do so, the terms being added together must approach zero. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

“He hurt the little girl in her. Too many times. You know about being hurt too many times.” Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z

Of course, he ends up by being executed or sentenced for life. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

The organism remains viable in the soil for years and therefore be comes to all intents and purposes permanently established, increasing in effectiveness, and being continuously spread by natural agencies. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

Perhaps there was something childish about all the paladins of Arthur’s story—if being simple b the same as childishness. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Giffen's was the polish ordered by all discerning butlers of the time, and if this product was used correctly, one had no fear of one's silver being second best to anybody's. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

If this occurs, it will be the second time that the dissemination of Mesoamerican agricultural techniques will have had an enormous cultural impact—the first time being, of course, when they originated. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

If he wound up being eliminated, where would they bring him? Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

I feel dizzy, like when I haven’t eaten in a while, and being woozy reminds me that I’m hungry. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

Make it so all these people are living and loving and being. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

After all the years of being visited by others, it was a curious sensation to be a visitor on Robben Island. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sure beats being one of those kids at school who don’t yet understand what “college loan” means. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

Like being a Rusty ghost watching as its city crumbled over the centuries. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

“What is this you keep talking about about not being here, and the tumulus and so on?” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Koil Street? Let me see.” he put up his hand to scratch his head, but, the burden being there, withdrew it. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

I don’t want to be in this suspended state where I can see what’s happening, where I’m aware of what I’m feeling without being able to actually feel it. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m done being who my dad wants me to be,” Miles says. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

We are in jeopardy of not being able to be a class next year. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

“You were great in the play yesterday. I know I acted surprised at first, but I’m really proud of you for being yourself. What did the kids at school say?” George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z

Suddenly, were surrounded by people, cheering and singing along to a song I’ve never heard before, about a girl being poison. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

They would have preferred to have gone with Robin, and thought that being put under Marian was like being trusted to a governess. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

The two-man Gemini spacecraft was being designed to find out as much as we could in earth orbit before trying to take an Apollo spacecraft all the way to the moon. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

They gave themselves more power than any single being has a right to possess. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

“Would you have left a guy being beat up to go find a teacher?” Orbiting Jupiter 2015-10-06T00:00:00Z

He didn’t like being snapped at, so he pulled back a little more, while pretending to be hurrying as fast as he could. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

I wasn’t above being a big, fat imposter if it diverted attention away from a potential drenching with the world’s foulest substance. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

It was being outfitted as a maternity ward. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

What if a worker had fallen in and was drowning, being smothered by the disgusting, bitter goo? I Survived the Great Molasses Flood, 1919 2019-09-03T00:00:00Z

After the apprentices were done being traumatized, the focus of the scythes began to wear down. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

The dress was snug across her waist and chest, but the slip kept anything too revealing from...being revealed. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

But who’s to say that his mother, before she was nabbed by Thirsty, hadn’t caught a human being? Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

It was also the first time I saw anyone cry—really cry—from being just plain happy. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

“Because of my nature, I may have to endure old age for decades longer than regular human beings. The humiliating finale to the mortal condition.” Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

Of course I’d long known that I was playing host to a massive collection of parasitic organisms, but I didn’t much like being reminded of it. Turtles All the Way Down 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

“Why are you being so ridiculous, Sophie? Of course he’s not out of town!” It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

Suddenly Petra remembered picking up a leaf on Harper Avenue that fall, and being struck by the thought that yellow was the color of surprise. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

It’s a remote stretch of road, and there was always the danger of being attacked and robbed. Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z

There being only one washstand, Grandpa and I had to stay in the little room with the door shut while Miss Love bathed. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

Chris was walking up the block toward me, his giant umbrella now being used as a cane to put some extra cool in his bop. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

But after a while you get tired of being worried about kids who aren’t even yours. The House on Mango Street 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

An Air Force major stood and announced that we had earned a first-prize certificate for being “Outstanding in the Field of Propulsion.” October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

I don’t know which is more horrifying—the thought of being here for another week, or the thought that maybe the medication that I so despise might actually be working. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

She was being mocked, or she was being punished—she did not know which was worse. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

There was one other problem I had with being a vegetarian. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

Emma was more used to being around people whose clothes talked in a normal voice and didn’t say anything but, “Enh, look at me, don’t look at me, who cares?” The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

Besides, there was something about being in those ruins in the Mexican countryside that made anything possible, because that night I believed in us—cinco hermanitas, five little sisters, together forever. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

Neither of us liked being on a road all exposed so anyone could drive up behind us at any time be-cause there was no place to hide without scrambling up a ten-foot slope. How I Live Now 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

If you analyze the odds of being given away at birth and then losing another full set of legal guardians 147 months and 7 days later, I'm right on the edge of the graph. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

Alexandra continued being the decaying shantytown it was before I was born. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

I didn’t know anything about being in love, so none of them felt like the right song. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

I let myself imagine that that might end up being me and Lovey one day. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Others at once took up the cry, and the phrase w'as repeated, parrot-fashion, again and again, with an ever-growing volume of sound, until, by the seventh or eighth reiteration, no other word was being spoken. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

Before being led away in irons to the state penitentiary, Burkhart turned and smiled wanly at Mollie. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

“Glen said about five more guys came to the gym today and asked about being on the team,” Ducky said. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

We were actually being denied the right to participate in the field trip because we were not wearing ties by that same teacher that had talked to us a day earlier. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

The idea opened up a new field of possibilities, Frank Crawley being so shy, so dull. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

Truth is, I’ve had enough of this talk about me being sick. The Crossover 2014-03-18T00:00:00Z

It didn’t quite work, on account of him being taller than me. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

He discovered that being rich was terribly annoying because it was so easy to make money and so difficult to find an incentive for spending it. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

But with millions of puzzle pieces being tossed up into the air, it really did stand to reason that the occasional one would come down in the right place. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

For a moment, I didn't know how being good worked. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

“Do you see that, Ellie? Growing old is a terrible disease. Things you take for granted, you lose. Your ability to walk. Your vision. Your hearing. Even being able to go to the bathroom.” The Fourteenth Goldfish 2014-08-26T00:00:00Z

And greater than her friendship was this new feeling of being needed by someone who saw her singly. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

I peek out nervously, certain I'm going to watch Max get caught where she has no business being. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

For another fraction of a second, the Husky Clipper sagged slightly under the boys as nearly a ton of deadweight resisted being put into motion. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

I don’t feel I’m being disloyal to Ben, only loyal to something else; which predates him, which has nothing to do with him. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

He loved being able to knock into the smaller characters and send them flying. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z

In his mind he processed human beings and objects in the same way. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

She remained, even clearer than before, with a glistening black braid down her back, simply playing, not running or hiding, just being. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

“Keep the zipper locked or you’ll wake up being spooned by a bum.” We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

Never said all that about you being the one. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

He didn’t say anything more until the train got underway and they could talk without being heard throughout the car. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

Daddy found out and fussed nearly all day ’bout being wasteful. Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z

There’d be no chances taken of being discovered so close to the Berg’s headquarters. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

I know Pi isn’t being adopted—or given free to a good home. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

What use would a trial be with no one to speak in her defence but a foolish girl who was suspected of being a witch herself? The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

It’s like being told I have cancer and might need a part of me removed—the part called starting point guard. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was going to yell at her for being shallow. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

Day after day passed, and Edward was aware of time passing only because every morning he could hear Ernest performing his dawn ritual, cackling and crowing about being king of the world. The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane 2006-03-30T00:00:00Z

Bod was relieved that the man was finally being friendly. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

It meant being free from the control of big corporations. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

These braids are small, and I don’t feel like being up all night, doing my hair. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

As a journalist, she was no stranger to being hung up on, but this time irritated her more than most. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Already the pink had faded; it was being replaced by delicate mauve interlaced with cottony cloud wisps. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Such a course of action was necessary, and since princes cannot avoid being hated by somebody, they must first seek not to be hated by the largest group. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z

“There’s been a lot of rumors that all government workers and their families are being arrested.” Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

He surrendered without a fight, not even asking why he was being taken. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was being quiet, in case she was asleep. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

But he had heard it only once, while on a working visit to the Mysore Zoo, in their animal hospital, from a young male being treated for pneumonia. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

I felt best when I was on the move, going someplace rather than being there. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

It was like being in a house of mirrors at the county fair. Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

And here’s the final thing I have to say about being friends with Branwell. Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

What was more difficult was being sure about one’s self. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Marigold didn’t like the feeling that had developed in her stomach—the feeling like she was being more of a mother than her mother was. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

Two of the evangelists, a man and a woman, held hands and seesawed from side to side like babies being rocked to sleep, singing and humming excerpts from some cryptic hymns. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

“By the way, would you know of any herbs for men? For men who have problems with...with being with a woman?” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Imagine not being able to figure out later if the thought in your head is really yours or an unintentional keepsake from someone else’s mind. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

There were lights flashing on the wall and doctors being paged over an intercom. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

Part of it is losing your tribe and being homeless. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

Dad walked away cursing, exasperated, but probably thinking that Shawn would get tired and go back to being foreman before supper. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

On the way up the mountain, I stared out the window while Howard told me about Burl buying a motorcycle and his mama being mad as all get-out. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

He and Voldemort were both being raised into the air, their wands still connected by that thread of shimmering golden light. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

Only later, inspecting the bill, would we realize that some of these items were being flown in at great expense from overseas. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

The fifty-six four-spindle chucking and turning machines were being manipulated by fifty-six aquiline and ginger Gammas. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

The doctor recorded his regiment and company and dressed his wounds, but without much hope of success; the loss of blood being great, it was supposed he would soon give up the ghost. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

I lingered some minutes, being unaccustomed to retiring from a chamber without permission or direction; but our hostess having disappeared, I passed above-stairs to see what strife had occasioned such an outburst. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

But now that it was deprived of the late owner’s dedicated attention, the first threads of decay’s cobweb were being spun. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

Everything and all of them were being rattled around like peas inside an enormous rattle that was being rattled by a mad giant who refused to stop. James and the Giant Peach 1961-11-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m being your friend right now, okay? Something is not normal with you.” Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

“Whatever. That what you came here for? To whine about me being mean to you?” The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

It was not the same as being the respected craftsman he had been before the war, but he did the best he could and continued to feel optimistic. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

I went away from him not wanting to hear any more about running away—and being caught. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

Already I had enough scary thoughts to worry me about my brain being messed up so I tried to think of something good like Mom told me to do. Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Since Mustafa got the permission he needed to try out and made the team, he’s been extra good about getting his homework done and taking out the trash and recycling without being nagged. Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

“So, as long as I’m being . . . not smart, we’ll try to be friends?” Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

It’s just fallen asleep after being in the cast for so long. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

“That makes sense, with Mr. Griswold being a publisher and all.” Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

The hearing ended the next day with no action being taken. Women in Space 2014-02-01T00:00:00Z

I hated being waited on all the time. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

“Aren’t you afraid of being seen talking to Space Boy, or are you going to throw more nickels at me?” We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

They would have forgotten about being mad by the time school was out—and besides, they’d really asked for it. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

And this one, he was certain, would result in the capture of thousands, not hundreds, of those he suspected of being Reds. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

And not until he heard it from the mouth of the princess did Roscuro realize that he did not like being a rat, that he did not want to be a rat. The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z

But she learned nothing from it being but two years old at the time. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

And here was I, with no real notion of being a player until a few weeks before, having the part handed to me. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

It felt like I was being squeezed from three dimensions into two. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I had done that, being in that city where the Herald Dispatch was, I went visiting and I worked in their office; they let me observe how a newspaper was put together. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

And still I heard my name being called. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Soon afterward, Roy heard voices from behind the double doors that led to the area where Mullet Fingers was being treated. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

I kicked off my shoes and felt the cool floorboards shift and groan beneath my feet as if the room was adjusting to sudden occupation after being long empty. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

He was being polite, the day was late, but this was going to be a fight. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

It was like being aboard a ship, thought Joseph. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

Lucy Raleigh liked being the one in the know and I couldn’t pretend I didn’t care. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

Shortly after lunch, I spot the first nursing home resident being wheeled up the street by relatives. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

It is not what he expected, being liberated from the world and reinstated in a confined location. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Both of these flies waren’t accustom to being wet and started whirring and splashing and skimming ’cross the top of the lake. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

He was unaffiliated with any street gang, and we are confident he was unarmed and innocent of the charges being leveled against him. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

“If circumstances were different, we’d welcome you with open arms. But as it stands, our entire civilization and way of life are in danger of being snuffed out. So it’s rather bad timing, you see.” Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

How could I be grateful for being at Central High? Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Rachel was being so aggressive, I thought perhaps the coach should have me fence someone else to start with, considering this weapon was so new to me. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

“About a Hindu saint being able to slay a thousand on the battlefield and it not being a sin unless he felt remorse.” The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

She could write the scene three times over, from three points of view; her excitement was in the prospect of freedom, of being delivered from the cumbrous struggle between good and bad, heroes and villains. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Dasch felt nervous excitement at the thought of being considered for such an important mission. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

Connie was a little cheesed off that I’d lied to her about being into government, but then I handed her a file folder. Liar, Liar 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Whoosh—air’s being sucked out of the universe, making a vacuum. Paradise on Fire 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

Now, whenever they were stopped at the interrogation stations, they had a good excuse for being on the road. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

After two weeks of being stuck at home, we’d begged our parents to let us take the bus. Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z

They know they’re being laughed at and come to the door to shoo us away. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

And it turns out that being patient is important, as we sit for over an hour with no nibble from anything. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

Or for being isolated or lacking school spirit. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He says a few more words to Father Rico and goes back the way he came, and I am immediately angry with myself for being so quick to please Lily and Mother. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

I feel awful being mad at you now, but I am. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

“I literally cannot get her to move. It drives me crazy, but it works. So if you’re being physically attacked, try making yourself low to the ground. Flat and heavy.” Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

I thought of her as being coarse, but Bailey said she was cute and that he wanted to play house with her. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Not just ’cause that’s where not a whole lot of bouncing goes on, but also ’cause it’s a good place to be if you’re interested in being right in the middle of some good eavesdropping. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

It was the desolation of having found the place that fits, the one true place, and experiencing the first heady sigh of rightness before being torn away and cast back into random, lonely scatter. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Sam, not used to being waited on, looked with some surprise at the tall man who bowed, holding a basin of water before him. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

I think Pa knew his brother was being changed by the war when I showed him that letter back then. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

“I mean, part of it was me being silly,” I admit. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

He was like a little kid being set free in a candy store. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

‘To keep you out of mischief; and if you do not like being here, you can remember that you brought it on yourself.’ The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

The only bad thing is that with the equator being above us the change of seasons comes backwards, which does take some getting used to. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

His dad was always bragging about being in the best shape of his life. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

We were all shaken up from the run-in with Mikayla, but Dari was seriously out of whack if he was apologizing for being hit on the head. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

So I guess that being a soldier probably didn’t have much glory to it, either, that it was mostly just a lot of hard work. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The intensity of his stare increases with these eyes; looking at him now she can see deeper, without being distracted by the color. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Egypt was an important model for us, for we could witness firsthand the program of socialist economic reforms being launched by President Nasser. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

In general, she noticed that Pel didn’t like making mistakes or being wrong. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

They had been here over a week, he was tired of hanging about the house, being spied upon by Hooper. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

I walked all around the space, being careful not to knock anything over. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

But this particular girl gave him the impression of being more dangerous than most. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

I’m hoping she’s gone back to being dead, resting in peace or whatever. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

Even at 9 A.M. on a Saturday, New York City is just as loud and jam-packed as it’s famous for being. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

Throughout our meeting her manner had been guarded, as if we were being watched as well as bugged. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Show me the light so I can be saved from being such a horrible brother? Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

The ancient, giant mahogany trees, all the trees, the game, everything of the forest was being destroyed, and the land was forced to lie flat, he said, and bare as the palm of his hand. The Color Purple 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was being dragged downward, the roaring growing louder... Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

“As it happens, I don’t mind being alone with you.” Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

The tortoise said the Lord meant to punish the people of Southern Sudan for being unfaithful, and it gave the man three choices. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was new, this sudden unexpected sensation of being important, of having Giles, and Beatrice, and Frank and Maxim all looking at me and talking about my dress. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

He was still involved with the legal system and was always under the threat of being institutionalized again if somebody bothered to check on him. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

“My days of being a pinchpenny might be coming to an end.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

I must have fallen asleep because I remember being startled awake by the sound of loud cracking thunder. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Leary was being mobbed by people who didn’t look like cops, but I couldn’t have cared less. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

It strikes me then that I’m being an idiot. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

He studies me, knowing I won’t tell about his brother being dead. Paradise on Fire 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

It’s hard to picture your ma being gave to a little white girl to play with like a pet, but that’s what happened. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

To this day I call them Mom and Pop and visit to bask in their love and enjoy the privilege of being treated as though I am their daughter. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I didn’t say so, but I had my doubts about any lady being able to crank an engine or change a tire. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

Sometimes it’s just the way I say one word that gets her going, and she’s so quick with her hand it’s hard to think of her being gentle to sick people. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

I hate being encased in stone this way. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

I’m too used to him not being around. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

How far could I go without being overwhelmed by symptoms of panic? Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

The summary should be self-contained, almost as if the material being summarized had never existed. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

There was no clutter and contortion, no sense of always being under the shadow of something high and gloomy, as in Erhenrang; everything was simple, grandly conceived, and orderly. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Sure. When girls dress up, they wear skirts. I have a lot to teach you about being a girl, Geor—Oh.” George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z

He seemed to know what had happened without a word being spoken. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

After being pushed aside for weeks, he knew he was done pretending everything was just fine. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

It stops being about the color of your skin after a while and starts being about how you comport yourself. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

No matter what, all of it comes back to death, which comes back to Lolo being sick, and that makes me so sad that all I want to do is stare out the window. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

So pretty much my whole life is going back and forth from being super visible to invisible. Watch Us Rise 2019-02-12T00:00:00Z

I did not talk to Ada Taylor for three days after being practically thrown out of her house. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

When I got to the line that asked for the place of birth, I suddenly felt the same suffocating fear I had felt for many years of being caught by la migra. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

“Stop being a useless idiot for once,” Felix said through a clenched jaw. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

They broke apart, and several of the girls slipped behind the curtains as if being sucked from the plane. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

“He broke the milk bottles. Maybe this is his way of still being mad.” Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

“Nothing’s going to be worse than being apart.” The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

Another thing about the Academy—being gifted rarely extended to social skills. Ungifted 2012-08-21T00:00:00Z

It was a gloomy place, and the cat appeared uneasy, frequently glancing behind him as if he thought he were being followed. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Renewable resources, subsurface dwellings, artificial islands, and all without there ever being any less green or a sense of overcrowding. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

Fie was only being polite, but I did not see it that way. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had scolded Ifemelu as a child for being recalcitrant, mutinous, intransigent, words that made her little actions seem epic and almost prideworthy. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Behind me there was shouting and running and the sound of a horse being wheeled around. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Well, there’s also that matter of getting some reward from Allah for being nice to your brother.” Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

Similarly, funding that had once been used for public housing was being redirected to prison construction. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Lyra and Will each awoke with a heavy dread: it was like being a condemned prisoner on the morning fixed for the execution. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

The need to make music, and to listen to it, is universally expressed by human beings. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’m continually being scolded for my incessant chatter when I’m upstairs. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

By the mid-1990s, no serious alternatives to the War on Drugs and “get-tough” movement were being entertained in mainstream political discourse. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

The middle star in the sword is not actually a star but a great cloud of gas called the Orion Nebula, in which stars are being born. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

People who taught me that no accident of birth—not being black or relatively poor, being from Baltimore or the Bronx or fatherless—would ever define or limit me. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

Or even, if I was being 110 percent honest, I’m a little scared of how I’m changing. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

“Got the lot here — another young man being fitted up just now, in fact.” Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

“Is it lame to say I think I’m stuck in a nightmare? I always thought everyone was being so dramatic when they said that: ‘This feels like a nightmare.’ They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Some crunched-up ones were being pushed in wheelchairs by nurses in nurse uniforms. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

“I can’t believe you care more about a stupid game than being a good friend.” Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

There was a great thud: a hatch being closed on top of them, and then they were alone. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

“Yes, and being powerless to bring him to justice, I had no choice but to flee Elsinore myself.” Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

Emily wondered if they were being impertinent, for each twin seemed to behave as though his social obligations were halved. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

He had continuing problems with Catholic censorship, for a time being banned from publishing. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Without being invited, Kaz sat down on the plush settee and stretched out his bad leg. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

“Right. And then he could apologize for being a jerk. And then we’ll hold hands and skip over the rainbow.” Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z

“I don’t remember, but I think it was considered a random street crime, a horrible case of being in the wrong place at the wrong time. They never arrested anyone.” Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

And so he fought to keep from being entranced. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

If the dates are correct, are they really associated with human products, rather than just being a 15,000-year-old lump of charcoal lying next to a stone tool actually made 9,000 years ago? Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Everybody ignored us, but we knew we were annoying them big time just by being colored and living so close. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

It had felt, then, like being hunted by all the terrors she had collected over the years—her entire arsenal, turned against her. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

“I thought Mr. Whitby had invited him there, being his business associate and all.” The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

“And if I wasn’t I would be now. You’re not very good at being quiet.” The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

“No one can tell the difference between a clone and a human.That’s because there isn’t any difference. The idea of clones being inferior is a filthy he.” The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

He started making noise the moment he perceived that the cats were being fed. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

She even tried to get on various radio and television quiz shows herself, hoping to bring home some money for being a successful contestant. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

The guard had never heard of Hogwarts and when Harry couldn’t even tell him what part of the country it was in, he started to get annoyed, as though Harry was being stupid on purpose. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

“It’s not being a burden. Let me do something nice. What’s the big deal?” Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Though his long strides kept him beyond my reach, I could follow without being observed. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

And in their final report to the government, Tocqueville and Beaumont wrote, One cannot see the prison of Sing-Sing and the system of labour which is there established without being struck by astonishment and fear. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were made in varying sizes, and the Prince’s looked to be one of the largest, being wrist thick where it joined the handle. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

Despite being Iraqi like me, Belet spoke in a snooty British accent. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

Then, for the first time ever in any class I’d ever been in with him, Tooms spoke up without being called on. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

I realized then that I wasn’t being followed. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

And just being there is ninety-nine percent of what matters when your world falls apart. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

As I read about each of the seven who died, I thought of Otto Frank not being a father anymore, left with a diary instead of a wife and two daughters. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

Holding his things makes me ache with the missing of him—and I understand what she meant about being sad when she sees them. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

Arguing wouldn’t help; she could tell that his anger was mostly about being embarrassed that she’d managed to slip out of her rooms in the first place. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

“Let’s get this done and over with, Mr. Van Ness. Stop being so unreasonable.” Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

Fear is part of being a soldier, something that you live with and battle as long as you’re fighting. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

He turned to Puli, who had bought some marbles which he was tossing up and down in his begging bowl, being unable to use them in any other way. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were warnings, rules against using the energies to harm any living being. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

“I like that most of all, being rain.” Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

I felt as if I were being consumed by flames. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

Could they handle themselves while undergoing violent vibrations or being exposed to extreme forces ten times that of gravity? Women in Space 2014-02-01T00:00:00Z

Seeing her on the screen was like being with her in a dream and wanting the dream to last for hours. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

I think it was about me not being smart. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

As we continued to circle the bay above the Golden Gate Bridge, I felt like I was being teased for the simple act of wanting. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

I think of all the vows I made to Dain, including the one I never spoke out loud: Instead of being afraid, I will become something to fear. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

SCORPIUS: Thank you for being my light in the darkness. Harry Potter and the Cursed Child 2016-07-31T00:00:00Z

Up in the black, were there roads through the stars, traveled by impossible beings? Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

At the very being of who he is! A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

He knew he was being stupid, knew that the Nimbus was beyond repair, but Harry couldn’t help it; he felt as though he’d lost one of his best friends. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

They complain about being tired from work and from school, but they don’t complain about being bored. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

A trocar being a sheathed sort of ice pick instrument you stab into the bellies of foundering ruminants to let out the deadly gases. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

She couldn’t help it if she’d been assigned to the goateed boy any more than Dimple could help being assigned to Rishi. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

It was based on him not knowing and not being taught how to deal with his feelings. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The only reason they need the drugs is because they are being raised on factory farms and fed corn. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

He hoped that they never smelled of sea salt, that they never heard the urgings of the ocean, that they were so lonely that being a stranger in them hardly mattered. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

When I come to, Ma tells me that Kim and Chou were also sick and had the same nightmares of being tracked down and killed by monsters. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I slipped through a crowd of tourists strolling along the walkway, narrowly avoiding being impaled by the metal tip of a lady’s parasol as she bobbed it merrily about. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

Anderson was being unfair to Compton, who wisely postponed signing Oppenheimer’s statement until he could read the bill, and refused to support it once he had. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

Indeed, some of the supermarket apple varieties now being munched by readers of this chapter have been developed recently by crossing Eurasian apples with wild North American apples. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

She could tell that her communiques were being distorted by influences beyond her control and that the message received never resembled the one she had sent. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

He told us about being pressured by the sheriff and the ABI and threatened with the death penalty if he didn't testify against McMillian. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Pa then brings Keav’s body home to be buried, to be forever with us, instead of being lost. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

At the sound of the first droning of the shells we rush back, in one part of our being, a thousand years. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

These days most of the lots remain vacant and are gradually being reclaimed by the desert. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

When Billy joined the regiment, it was in the process of being destroyed by the Germans in the famous Battle of the Bulge. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Gerald was showing her all of the secrets of his backyard, while she obliged him by being genuinely impressed with his rock collection, his “fighting sticks,” and even his treasure box. Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

We are still making small changes when Oak runs in, being chased by Gnarbone. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

‘Actually, Jason Grace,’ Kym said, studying her fingernails, ‘now that you mention it, I do enjoy being feared by mortals. I am not feared enough.’ Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

It was a much better life than being a bouncer. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

He didn’t like being the center of all this fuss. Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z

But if there was one benefit to being unemployed, it was that she had all the time in the world to spend with her favorite person. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

“He ain't angry, but he don’t like you being alone in that house. He ax me if maybe him and me shouldn’t come over there and stay with you.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

But the thought tickling in the back of my mind says that she’s not interested in being reminded of this body I wear. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

But then, in the final days before the competition, Dill stopped being afraid and started being excited. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

When you aren’t being listened to, why wouldn’t you get louder? Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

But that was not for being number one in the class. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

She wanted to marry Aron and bear any number of his children, but for the time being she did not speak of it. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

The girls that Billy had seen naked were all being killed, too, in a much shallower shelter in another part of the stockyards. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

At first, when I was so ill in the hospital, I could forgo being imprinted. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

I appreciated her for being nice about the whole basketball idea, but the diagram looked pretty ridiculous, to be honest. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Just something to take the sting out of me being so broke. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

To tell the truth, I was feeling kinda nervous about being in that neighborhood, and was more wanting to find the store than try to bag girls. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

He's never married and is always getting ragged about being homosexual. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

They walked through the Smoke, past cook fires being extinguished with shovelfuls of dirt; windows coming alight with candles and electric bulbs; and a handful of young uglies pursuing an escaped chicken. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

While the giants were being captured, a tremendous bustle and hustle was going on back home in England. The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

The newsmen packed up their gear, relieving Molly, who had cringed at the thought of being photographed in her laden condition and having to brace up for a royal reception in Sweden. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

Why wouldn’t he tell me about being on scholarship? Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

“I like the way you read. It’s almost like being there watching everything happen.” Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

As if such a state of being ever existed, anywhere, for anyone. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

“To production, I mean. Two weeks sitting around your house doing nothing just means two weeks of being hungry for most people.” Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe it isn’t a good idea to tell a newly arrived human being that he’s been born into a world of chaos, pain, and poverty just in time to watch everything fall to pieces. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

At first I took her as being exceedingly proper, but I soon realized that she was simply executing the language. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

She didn't remember getting hurt, but she did remember being tended to afterward. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

I still felt kind of sick when I thought about being naked again, but the worst had already happened, and I knew Sohrab would stick up for me if it came to it. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

It is undeniably Fall when I find myself being assigned, day after day, to Holly’s team. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Where the cliff was being this girl’s mortal enemy. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Mr. Daniels has written in green and he apologizes for not being able to read my writing. Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

It opened its dark eyes, as if it knew it was being spoken about, and watched them. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

One sign from Hazel, and Percy was ready to bust out Riptide and see how Octavian liked being at the other end of a blade. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

And she wonders why I think she has ulterior motives when she's being nice. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Not being the Margo I thought I had finally imagined correctly. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

But travel consumed time, ships and horses being what they were, and the time away from Florin was worrying. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

Already, I am being named for this place. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

What life was about for me in those early years was being with the woman I was learning to call Mama. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

Maybe she was light-headed from hunger; her brain cells were being robbed of vitally needed oxygen for good growth and, and...yawn. From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

Just like that, the moment is gone, and I’m hearing, Let's go back to being friends. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z

And the night, far from being frightful, was lovely beyond thought, for the stars were close, and although there was no moon the starlight made a silver glow in the sky. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

They are synthesized by human beings and in most cases promptly fall to pieces. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

And that worked out fine, though it ended up being only Wednesday nights because Saturdays I had too much going on. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

Amari had no idea where they were being taken or why. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

Their faces were pinched, their expressions indrawn as though they felt themselves being dragged down the jail stairway, felt their own heads bumping against the steps, experiencing the terror . Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even though I know the story isn’t real, something about Popoca being so dedicated to Izta that he’d spend his life high atop a mountain, waiting with her, always gives me comfort. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

The poetry had come from Browning as well as being written by her. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

Gogol was aware of an obligation being fulfilled; that it was, above all else, a sense of duty that drew his parents back. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

And I watch a mind movie of me being the only girl without flowers marching in to see all the parents. Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

“Why,” said Michael, opening his mouth very wide, “they’re full of human beings!” Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z

Ruth was always her most embarrassing when she was being her nicest. The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z

I did not think any less of my aunt for being single. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

It is hard to imagine Tom Smith surrounded by the artificialities of show business, standing in a glitzy showring, loosing horses to run in chaotic sprints, and not think that something precious was being squandered. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

You also admitted to taking the cigarettes, and you admitted to being there when Mr. Nesbitt was lying on the floor of the store he had worked so hard for. Monster 1999-01-01T00:00:00Z

The chance of her name being drawn is very slim compared to those of us who live in the Seam. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

We assume that most of them are being murdered. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

“Sure,” I said, being completely agreeable because I figured he was ready to pack it in. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

Liyana was being kissed by so many people whose exact identity was unknown to her, though Poppy tried to clarify names of aunts, cousins, and wives of cousins, to help his family out. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

When Johnny saw a dish being prepared in the kitchen for some diner in the other room, he would call for ‘some of that,’ and she giggled again and fetched it for him. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had never in my life wanted so desperately to kill another human being. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

I remembered all that and everybody in St. Nick being so sad about it, that woman killing herself like that right in our home. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

Tom K. handed it to me, shooting me a look that said he didn’t appreciate being our postman. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Thomas hated that his link to Ben was being made public—hated the responsibility he felt. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

"Why are you all so committed to these children being saints?" The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

‘I don’t like being different. I don’t like being in my brain. Sometimes it’s like a big empty space where I’m all on my own. And there’s nothing else, just me.’ The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

That is, domestication involves wild animals’ being transformed into something more useful to humans. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

The English SOE agent who was being dropped off that night was disapproving. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

Then, scoffing at herself for being such an old-fashioned Eskimo, she sharpened her man’s knife on a stone and set to work. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Fawkes went whooshing past Harry’s ear and settled on Dumbledore’s shoulder, just as Harry found himself and Ron being swept into Mrs. Weasley’s tight embrace. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

Following this, we retired to the wedding feast, which, there being no meat for the Ethiopian Regiment for two days, consisted of pork bones boiled in water. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

“Positronic brains were constructed that contained the positive aspect only of the Law, which in them reads: ‘No robot may harm a human being.' I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

I did not like the idea of being apart. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

The bus was being pelted by what sounded like splattering rain. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

This is Matt Drinker being scared to be alone. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

Mr. Kapasi led them next to one of the wheels of the chariot, higher than any human being, nine feet in diameter. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

From what I can tell, that’s the whole point of New York: being cool. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

Cell phone industry officials said that the fact traffic deaths hadn’t soared meant that distraction from electronic gadgets was being overblown as a threat. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

Combing cotton hour after hour was wearing, and being young I would get tired. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Agents in the past had sensed that they were being followed, and White gave his men advice in case their cover was blown: “Keep your balance, avoid any rough stuff if possible.” Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

“Have you ever heard the expression ‘being made’?” asked Scythe Goddard. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

I keep my head buried in Dad’s shirt as the clicks of Javier’s pod being latched echo in the room. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

I bet her outfit cost more than our car, but I don’t think she’s the kind of person to show off about her money or make you feel bad for being poor. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Marched off the porch, right out into the dead of night, where supposedly the animals were wide awake and walking around like human beings. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had been lured into the open, and trapped, twice trapped; trapped by being in jail for murder, and again trapped by being stripped of emotional resources to go to his death. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

Fern knew when she was being outfoxed and wouldn’t stand for it. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

After the race, Howard learned that members of the Riddle barn were publicly mocking him for being afraid of War Admiral. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

A funeral for one of the victims of their last attack was being held in a nearby building. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

However, any human beings who were observing the cups would be living in a universe in which disorder decreased with time. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

He put the DS down, and being careful not to make a sound, lifted the canvas off the wall. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

Momma pulled herself back from being ten feet tall with eight-foot arms and said, “You’re welcome for nothing, you varlet, I wouldn’t waste a killing on the likes of you. ” I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

He thought of being with her in college, having the freedom to sleep over whenever they wanted, both of them at Northwestern together. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z

Dede could feel herself being swayed by the passion of her sisters. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

His excuse to us, when we complained we were being neglected, was that he had to get acquainted with his new daughter. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

Could they be hungry again so soon after being fed? The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

He’s back out in the garage being diligent again. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

Then in 1918, when colored men were being drafted, a few gave their address at the recruitment office as Doctor Street. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

At the same time I was promoted from being a senile old peasant to being a revered elder. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was aware that, being silent habitually, I was expected to be silent now. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

In an unchanging universe a beginning in time is something that has to be imposed by some being outside the universe; there is no physical necessity for a beginning. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

He wondered if the little man were being foolish, or imagining things. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

Anyway, this cat was always being fed—and at the time, we were hungry a lot, so I was always kind of mad at this cat. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

I want to learn the beauty of being poised. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

I feel very sorry for him and hate not being able to go out; otherwise, I’d visit him as often as I could and help take his mind off matters. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

A witness had overheard Hale talking to Grammer before the murders, murmuring something about being ready for “that Indian deal.” Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Besides, I was fairly sure this was all part of being a director. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

The dwarf heard the sound of a keyboard being manipulated, and suddenly his right eye zoomed like a camera lens. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

If it is not overstepping myself, I would greatly appreciate your telling me if you find being a nun very satisfactory, in a spiritual way, of course. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

Then Nat heard the scrape of a chair and the thud of a log being pitched on the fire. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

I really wasn’t looking forward to being somewhere this crazy. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

“Are there any adders around the Mossflower region, Basil? I mean, if there were, then you’d be the very creature to know about them, being an expert and all that.” Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

Somehow, in its silent, dormant stage, this living being was slowly and miraculously turning itself into a butterfly, though she had yet to figure out the exact moment of transformation. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

And I remembered being in this street when I went shopping with Mother. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

“Um, I don’t go to church. I don’t see what that has to do with being my friend.” Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

Bees do that, and so do human beings. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

Being alone inside was very different from being alone outside. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

"There are only two beings in Creation that I fear," he said. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

He thought of it calmly, as if the decision were being handed down to him by some logic not his own, over which he had no control, but which he had to obey. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

He stays behind the flock, letting the most nimble go out ahead, whereupon the others follow, not realizing that all along they are being directed from behind. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Perhaps I was not being fair to my family, especially Trampita. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

Thomas could tell the boy was being less than honest but decided not to press him. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

She hated that, of course, so she screamed like she was being tortured by enemy spies. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

He’d expected to see something whose workings he could understand—a wheel turning, a spark being struck, some wires that led from one point to another. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Of course being a city boy, I didn’t know what a mile was, but it felt like a mile. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

Sometimes the loneliness of being the odd man out in these conversations got to me but most of the time I just ignored it. How I Live Now 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Please don’t lie to me. I felt it...my whole body. God, it was like being turned to stone. You were scared—I felt it, you were scared!” The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

Prisoners didn't like the thought of being behind bars while their mothers, wives, girlfriends, or children were preyed upon. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

Since being tapped by Arthur Compton in June to supervise the theoretical work on bomb design, Oppie had been working out of his Berkeley office with a small group of trusted colleagues. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

“And how can you even say something like that, being married to Mama?” The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

He would not take his hand away from his mouth, and it was as though his lips were some very secret part of himself which was being exposed. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

Could he continue to walk the earth, going where he pleased, having a say, being part of a community? Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

We kept sleeping over, and it kept being fun. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Is it like being sleep, but awake, like sleepwalking? As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

And most of the money he raised from his supporters was being used not to promote any white supremacist cause but rather to satisfy Duke’s gambling habit. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

She didn’t mind being jostled, even when she was pregnant. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

Catching them was difficult, despite their being fat and slow. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

“No, Madame. I think you heard the man pass through—but unconsciously; later you had a nightmare of a man being in your compartment and woke up with a start and rang for the conductor.” Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

When the lawyer deserted the East Coast after that divorce he was a stunned human being, a twenty-nine-year-old man on the block and ready to give up. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Moreover, it was no less dangerous for being dull. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

I could tell she was upset, but someone who didn’t know her well might well have supposed she was being thoughtful. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

But I am a Freedom Writer and being one is an escape from the rest of my life. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

I noticed my own arm was being held on to tight and looked to see who’d grabbed me. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

"Maybe I wouldn't have liked being a Cub Scout." Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

Gosh, that was a wonderful feeling—being colored and liking to fight. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

In the quiet that follows, I try to imagine not being able to tell illusion from reality. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

At first, she’d play at being angry—“I told you we were taking the weekend.” We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

“You think I’m being cruel, but I’m not. I’m telling the truth. That’s what you want, isn’t it, Anna? You asked me not to lie.” The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

This had led, in turn, to the accident of his being named Gogol, defining and distressing him for so many years. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

I did stop, out of shame mostly, because the hunted wireless girl was being so stoic about it. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

If we are caught being part of the operation as either an abettor or a refugee, the Vietnamese government could take our gold and throw us in jail for five years. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He enjoyed being outside so early, because there were more birds on the grass to try to catch. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

He copied Shaw’s exuberant, off-balance stance, as if being blown backward by the force of his own playing. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Molly leaned over Ernest as he was being wheeled into the operating room and whispered, “I’ll be here when you wake up.” Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

He saw Faber stop up his own breath for fear of drawing that ghost into his own body, perhaps, being contaminated with the phantom exhalations and odours of a running man. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were so many things Rowan missed about being Faraday’s apprentice. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

For better or worse, I’d fallen in love with a man with a vision who was optimistic without being naive, undaunted by conflict, and intrigued by how complicated the world was. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

He walked back to the sofa and thought about making a list, putting in a neat format the arguments for and against his mother still being alive. . ijtj . The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

“Fate” being the writer’s coy allusion to marriage. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z