There, at the source of the spring, was a two-inch-tall statue of a fairy, finely carved. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

Across the creek from Julia’s house, where the old washed-out road lay in crumbled chunks, stood a concrete abutment that once served as an overpass to the floodwaters of winter and spring. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

In the spring of 1933, as Hermann Muller began his work at the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute in Berlin, he watched Nazi “applied biology” swing into action. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

He’s still looking up at me, hands on his armrests, ready to spring. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

I remember one time Baba took me to the yearly Buzkashi tournament that took place on the first day of spring, New Year’s Day. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

The tonic was a clear yellow-green, with a gentle aroma of fresh flowers and grass, reminding Minli of a spring morning. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

Blackcliff looms before us as suddenly as if it has sprung fully formed from the earth. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

Then it was spring, then summer, and finally as summer turned to fall, I found I could read with focus. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Small communities of shacks—by comparison the houses in the Seam are upscale—spring up here and there, but they’re all deserted. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

They were just getting their clutches ready for the spring sitting, and they protested that to take the eggs away now was murder. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z

Because seasons are reversed in the Southern Hemisphere, spring was well under way as the coast of South America slipped away to the northwest. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

I should have been glad my father had a spring in his step and took his new shirts to the cleaners. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

I thought we were hung up for sure, but the bus sprang forward and jolted back onto the road. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

We know that the moment occurred in the spring of 1929, though the exact date is murky. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

There was a board over the spring and I lifted it and, knocking the corks firmly into the bottles, lowered them down into the water. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

Early every spring I took the canoe to the sandspit and spread fresh pitch in the cracks that needed it. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sam sprang over the body and went in; and then he peered about at a loss. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

Every spring the teachers organize an outdoor field trip for each class. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

During the spring, water flowed over his father’s waterwheel with such force that it excavated a pool nearly ten feet deep and twenty-five feet long. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Empty the fears that spring inside my head every time I think about leaving home. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

It is the late spring of 1979, a hot, sticky Saturday afternoon. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

But his adviser had arranged things so that he had the spring semester to himself. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

Upstairs, however, she could hear Mia in the kitchen: the rumble of a kettle coming to a boil, a whistle springing to life and then subsiding as someone lifted it from the stove. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

I can’t see his face in the gloom, but I can tell that he’s holding back some feelings by the lack of spring in his step. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

A party of foot soldiers sprang from the woods behind the companions. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z

A cat that had been sitting on the roof of a pickup truck across the street sprang onto the window ledge of our apartment and disappeared into the shadows. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

The spring was back in his movements, and his eyes twinkled as he grinned his toothy grin. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

And she pulls out of my grip and bounds after Rae with more spring in her step than I’ve ever seen. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z

In rural areas, schools closed in the spring and fall and ran all summer long, so that children could help out in the busy planting and harvesting seasons. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

The weather was kindly, and there was a real sense of spring being on the turn. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

Now that the lavender has been simmering, the whole house smells like spring. Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

His body was spread and his eyes bulged like a great toad, poised to spring. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

Each turn of the crank took a year of effort, summer, spring, fall and winter, and my tears splashed into the dust as the bucket climbed out of the earth. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You can visit every summer. And at Christmas. And spring break. And I will always be here for you, baby girl. Always.” Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

The winter cold had kept him indoors, but in the spring he was out on the streets all day. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

I wanted to meet next spring’s owl nestlings. Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Adam waited out the winter, wandering up the river to Sacramento, ranging in the valley of the San Joaquin, and when the spring came Adam had no money. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

The water there was much warmer than the cold spring water of the slough. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

So here she is on a late spring afternoon in her SUV running errands in the old neighborhood. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

The roan bull spilled right into the spring. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

The springs were worn out and the bus was old anyway. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

But each time he sprang, his jaws snapped around only air. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

After Stepney Green Kat stooped into a crouch, like a tiger about to spring, and dragged me into a stooping position too. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

He sees a box spring and mattress without a frame. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Pirates Island had thickets of honeysuckle and tall trees with trunks gnarled from the yearly spring floods. Turtles All the Way Down 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

“Not until spring, unfortunately. I kind of hoped they would have soccer in the fall.” Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

We wished we were back in the mountains but the spring weather lasted only a few days and then the cold rawness of the breaking-up of winter came again. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

As soon as the cows head out to pasture in the spring, several dozen pigs come in and hunt for the corn in the manure pile. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

The challenger ignored the peaceful greeting and sprang, hitting the old fox hard in the flank and pinning him down, then sank his teeth into Gray’s thin neck. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

“Try to get your folks to spring you by then. Okay?” The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

He twisted up in a lithe spring and grappled with Iofur, whose armor had been damaged by the collision and who couldn’t easily raise his head. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

I finally came across her, holed up in a dense thicket of bee myrtle close to a little seep spring. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

I stood on the two trap springs and released the jaws, and he pecked at my legs, slamming his beak against my thick winter pants. This Side of Wild 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

With no prompting at all the children sprang to their feet. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

From under her cap sprang white curls like sprigs of pale moss. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

The black cat sprang out of Belet's arms and onto the marble stairs to join his half a dozen or so companions on the landing. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

He caught sight of him, drinking from the far-famed spring of Corinth, Pirene; and he drew gently near. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Sir,” said I, “I am still apprehensive of my health, lest this new fever spring into the place vacated by the old.” The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

“Everyone knows Garrison Griswold. I even met him at his book carnival last spring.” Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

“That would be your mother, I believe...Medusa’s two children were trapped inside her, unable to be born. When the original Perseus cut off Medusa’s head—” “Two children sprang out,” Annabeth remembered. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

They spring off the ground and fly over the force field, setting an outdoor high jump record for dogs, just as Dr. Loofah's helicopter begins to lift off. Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

Last spring we drove over to Christopher’s house in Bridgeport. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

Or the college kid who deals drugs out of his dorm room so that he’ll have cash to finance his spring break? The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

The old road was disintegrating, split, weed- sprung. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

This was not the rain he and Josiah had prayed for, this was not the green foliage they sought out in sandy canyons as a sign of a spring. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

He could hear a blackbird, and sparrows, and a lark, for all the world as though it was already spring. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

He no longer looked buoyant and rosy-faced; there was no more spring in his step. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

Besides the bats and the dripping water, she imagines things on the ground, ready to spring at her ankles. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

Sierra was speechless for a second, then the two remaining phantoms sprung up toward her. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

The great mound of ashes in the barnlot was soon beaten into a hard-packed mass by driving rain and the heat of spring and early summer. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

As Harry closed the door behind them, the old-fashioned gas lamps sprang into life, casting flickering light along the length of the hallway. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

One spring morning, Barack and the girls and I were summoned downstairs from the residence to the South Lawn. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

The warm spring night has given way to a slight chill, but the heat radiates from Phil’s body into mine. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

Then, as a sweet rain will pass down a wind of spring and the sun will shine out the clearer, his tears ceased, and his laughter welled up, and laughing he sprang from his bed. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

“We used the spring snare to snag that chimera last month. I don’t really like repeating ourselves. Makes us look less innovative than—” He stopped himself. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

Freddie sprang over the rubble at the base of the cliff like a mountain goat. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

We went to a contest on the mainland the spring we were thirteen and might have won except that when the judges realized our chief soloist was not yet in high school, we were disqualified. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Bill the pony started in fear, and Sam sprang to his side and whispered softly to him. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

It looked like a party had somehow sprung up right in the middle of the hot concrete sidewalk. The Lemonade War 2007-04-23T00:00:00Z

There’s a wooden stage erected on the lawn, something like the one they used every spring, for commencement, in the time before. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

I spring away, startled, still half in the arena, I guess. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

Another bounced onto the hood of the car, then sprang away. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

Many were cast down in ruin, but many more replaced them, and Orcs sprang up them like apes in the dark forests of the South. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

As long as she lived, she would never forget Matthias’ face at that window, how cruel he’d seemed, or the doubt that had sprung up in her heart. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Then she sprang into the air, holding the branch in her left hand, as her dæmon skimmed down low over Malcolm and Asta in farewell; and then they were gone. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

And he climbed to it, and saw that out of the very edge of the snow there sprang a sapling tree no more than three foot high. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

He sprang over to my side before I could even smile. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

“The older one was only fourteen. The next spring the family came back again, and then they stayed. You can see that family name all over this country now, on dozens of mailboxes.” Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

The spring was out of his step, and suddenly the stitch seemed unbearable, and he could hear cars moving through the park. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

A remark of Gebu’s sprang into his mind: “...him and his paltry wineskins! There are far bigger birds in the air than Rekh the goldsmith.” The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

With a dazed smile Fadi thanked Ms. Bethune and headed home, a new spring in his step. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

Therese’s illness oppresses the convent like a heavy blanket laid over spring’s green floor. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

The existing clubs are still the preserves of the old wealth, but new clubs are springing up to welcome newcomers, as well as some longtime residents who grew impatient with waiting lists. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

Lupin sprang to his feet: His chair toppled over backward, and he glared at them so fiercely that Harry saw, for the first time ever, the shadow of the wolf upon his human face. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

The underwater lights, installed that spring, were still a novelty. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

In the spring of his youth, he had been squire to a king, so the black brothers still called him Squire Dalbridge. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

“Well, when they do, don’t forget I’ve always wanted to visit Paris. In the spring.” Shine! 2019-11-05T00:00:00Z

In seconds, it sprang open, and he shoved the bolt to the side. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

The white men’s ship did not return that spring or in the summer. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

We sprung to our feet and raced out of the living room. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

I didn’t think too much of fate or fortunes, but a dried-up spring sure didn’t seem like a great start. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

By spring the valley had begun to warm, the poplar trees had burst into bloom, and a tiny miracle in the campaign for education had taken place right in my own home. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

At last they came to a spring that bubbled out of a tiny little cleft in the rocky red hillside, and the Huntsman dismounted and knelt down to it, cupping up a handful of water. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

When Adam graduated from high school last spring and moved out of his parents’ place and into the House of Rock, I hadn’t expected much to change. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mrs. van D. sprang out of bed and went downstairs to Dussel’s room to seek the comfort she was unable to find with her spouse. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

Maybe it was her new, more powerful magic talking, but Seven had never remembered a more beautiful spring in Ravenskill. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

And now this lightness of heart, this spring in my step, this childish feeling that I wanted to run across the lawn, and roll down the bank. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

The next year saw even more fires spring up, mainly because the summer had been unusually dry. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z

In spring, ripened fruit littered the ground to make walking a hazardous, slippery adventure. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

To handle the growing traffic from Western climbers and trekkers, new lodges and teahouses are springing up across the Khumbu region, but the new construction is especially evident in Namche Bazaar. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

Tom sprang away, and breaking off a hanging branch smote the side of the willow with it. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

He sprang at another ghost, which swung its heavy arm and bashed the greyhound in his face. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

With my homeroom in the spring, I am stooping in the back. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

The mud dried and the spring flowers came out: yellow coltsfoot, and white wood anemones in profusion—and the wall being built around Asgard was a glorious, imposing thing. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

An awkwardness had sprung up after those few months, where before there would have been playful laughter and in-depth conversation and harmless bickering between us. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

One warm spring day in May of 2007, the Medicine Hat Tigers and the Vancouver Giants met for the Memorial Cup hockey championships in Vancouver, British Columbia. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

Out of the corner of his eye, Will saw the golden monkey crouching to spring, and set his hand on the knife; but Mrs. Coulter shook her head very slightly, and the monkey relaxed. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

The men sprang to their feet as Lady Constance approached. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

His lemur dæmon sprang to an empty chair next to him as he continued. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

He found himself stiffening, as if for a final spring; he no longer felt limp like a helpless prey. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

All spring the gossip had been about little Mirabelle McCullough—or, depending which side you were on, May Ling Chow—and now, at last, there was something new and sensational to discuss. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

In the spring they appear around the corner of the house in their baggy gardening pants, smudged with mud, to see me off. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

The sickness inside him grew, and at once, a whole slew of thoughts he’d been repressing sprang free. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

He sprang to his feet and leaped to the top of a large rock. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

She pulled something she called spring onions and a skinny lettuce plant. Girls Like Us 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Ice cold in runnels from a high rock ran the spring, and over it there stood an altar stone to the cool nymphs, where all men going by laid offerings. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Fifth graders were given a tour every spring. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

The white threads of his tzitzit entwine with the tiny shoots springing up from the base of a tree. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Her small face crumpled as I saw tears spring from her eyes. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

When the shouting had ended and the lesson resumed, Shirley found herself thinking how silly Emily looked in curls, rather like that batch of old springs Father kept in the basement. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z

A small brown cat nosed and sprang among the trashcans at the back of a building, and the light made even the garbage magical. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

“And then it just empties back into a spring?” he asked innocently. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

“I had forgotten, myself. There were birds on that island, singing so prettily, so loudly! Too small to eat. The little birds with white throats, those sweet spring cries. Eyah! My girl, you remember them.” The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

By the time the snow melted and the rains of spring swept in, every boy in Kabul bore telltale horizontal gashes on his fingers from a whole winter of fighting kites. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

‘What is it?’ he whispered, springing up and coming to Frodo. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

She dismounted and watched as her horse drank from the spring. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

In the spring of that year, the CIA was thrown back on its heels by the first of several shattering revelations about treachery in its ranks. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

I saw them one spring in Cannes and later in Deauville and then they came back to Chicago to settle down. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

‘Day is near,’ he whispered, as if Day was something that might overhear him and spring on him. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

In the spring she had made two trips to the Eastern Shore. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Seated beside Sherman at a small wooden table inside the farmhouse, he signed articles of surrender and then walked out of the dark room and into the brilliant sunlight of the North Carolina spring. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

One spring morning I was at work in my tent repairing equipment, patching my clothes, and studying maps when a voice said, “General, may I visit you in your tent, please?” The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

‘Curse the filth!’ he said, and sprang after them into the darkness. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

She was a horse galloping across a plain, she was a mountain spring, she was a shoot thrusting through the earth, a red flower in the barley. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

In the spring she usually filled it with flowers, but now it was all dirt, waiting for something new. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

The hollow drove its tongues into the ground and sprang upward. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

And when he confronted Lee in the spring of 1863, he was even more sure of himself. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

But when she was born, she sprang from me like a slippery fish, and has been swimming away ever since. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

She pushes through the doors, and outside it is spring again, and there is Grandpa and the RV, waiting in the lot. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

Indeed, at least two of the commercial expeditions on Everest in the spring of 1996 included Himalayan veterans who would be considered qualified by the most rigorous standards. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

They were all sitting there primly dressed in their spring Sunday best. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z

But I want to get the worst over first, so I’m going to start with what happened six months ago, in the spring. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

We pointed out other things—the spring, the cave, a gull flying, the sun and the sky, Rontu asleep—trading the names for them and laughing because they were so different. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Well, shuck thing wasn’t dead. Alby poked at it with his foot like an idiot and that bad boy suddenly sprang to life, spikes flaring, its fat body rollin’ all over him. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

Faber sprang up, as if he had been struck. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z

His mother is going to donate them all to the library where she works, for their annual book sale in the spring. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

It was a perfect spring day, and the air was alive with birdsong and bee hum. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

In spite of the severe repression, a number of new ANC branches sprang up in the Zeerust area, one of them having recruited about two thousand members. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I knew that the waters of El Rito flowed from springs in the dark hills. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

For example, lambs are born in the spring. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

My brain is awake and racing, the way it used to be before last spring. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Finally, the whole glittering thing was finished, some parts of it newly sprung to life, the first few lines already starting to fade as the sparklers exhausted themselves. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

“The color brings out your eyes. Not that they need it. They’re the greenest thing I’ve seen today. Like a piece of spring.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

A sunny spring day, people strolled seemingly carefree through the crowded streets. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

If you read Madisons speeches against assumption in the House during the spring of 1790, you get the impression that his core objections were economic. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

“Yep, spring's lovely all right. If you like mud. And summer’s even lovelier, long as you don’t mind the fires of Hades.” Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

I remember it was in the spring when the days was longest, for the light was coming through the window and there weren’t no lantern going. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The house, the dog, the pecan tree, the henhouse, and the chicken run had all sprung up or spread outward. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

Aunt Rachel sprang to her feet in alarm. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

When they came to the part that was now the wood, and turned from the trail to find a camping place, they happened on the spring. Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

We weren’t quite halfway up the wall when it reached the ground below us, looked up, and squatted like a spring about to uncoil. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

Mr. Loeffler said it was the latest spring he’d ever seen, but that probably meant it would be the warmest, and he was right. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

A light dust lkuku was blowing, in brown spirals like uncoiling springs, and I could taste the sand that settled on my lips. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

“I sprang from my horse,” he wrote proudly, and “rushed up to the roof.” Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

The weather has taken a nosedive, and all the tulips and irises that love the spring warmth are now probably huddling together, trying to keep warm. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

From the midpoint of the division, a flaming torch sprang up, spewing out fire, hot coals, and sparks. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

She springs up, but doesn’t seem as surprised to see me as I am to see her. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

Searchlight waited too—ears perked up, eyes alert, legs slightly bent, ready to spring forward. Stone Fox 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

But the spring came and left and the sea was empty. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

Half the time the spring didn't work at all. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

She’s got so many azalea bushes, her yard’s going to look like Gone With the Wind come spring. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Leaves blew in through the open door of Lucius Clarke’s shop, and rain, and the green outrageous hopeful light of spring. The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane 2006-03-30T00:00:00Z

The car sprang forward again, sending my heart up into my throat. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

“We need a loan as well. Gold enough to keep us fed till spring. To buy food and hire ships to bring it to us.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Documents showed that President Kennedy sent Special Forces troops to South Vietnam in the spring of 1961, putting Americans into combat in Vietnam for the first time. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

The boles of the trees glowed with a soft green like young grass: early spring or a fleeting vision of it was about them. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

“Well, I think we can spring for a round of Pepsis,” he said. Turtles All the Way Down 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

Sam sprang in, inside the arches of her legs, and with a quick upthrust of his other hand stabbed at the clustered eyes upon her lowered head. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

From his artist’s fingers sprang objects of such wonderful beauty—cups, bowls, boxes, necklaces, daggers, great golden collars, bracelets, exquisite amulets—that Pharaoh himself would be served by no other smith. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

In the car on the way home from Chief’s party, Kosi said, “Darling, you must be hungry. You ate only that spring roll?” Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

I took the subway to Astor Place on a late spring day and headed east. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

He was nearly always able to throw himself back on his haunches, grasp the springing animals in his great arms and hug them to death one by one, keeping the others off with snapping teeth. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

The door swings all the way open, hitting the lockers, and Oliver springs from the room. Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

But beneath the dry scruff, spring is emerging. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

They had camped on the mesa, at the place and the spring they had used before. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

He and about thirty of his classmates were walking in early spring toward the train station, where their teacher had sent them to pick up coal that had spilled from railroad cars during loading. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

He was wound up as tight as a spring, and I thought that any second he might pounce on Dusty Muleman, who was smaller and flabbier. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

So they decided at last that the source of their changelessness was the spring. Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Plant some violets here in the spring,” she said. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

The other girls also looked like they were wearing their best spring dresses. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

His legs collapsed suddenly and he began to fall, and the two young lieutenants sprang forward and seized him under both arms to save him from slumping to the floor. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

Water dropped from the roof and the cave was cold without a fire, but here I stayed for six suns, until my leg was well, crawling out only once to fetch water from the spring. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had only meant to comfort him, but as I smelled his sweat and felt the spring of his beard against my cheek, an alarm began to clang inside my body. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

By the spring of 1920, thirty-five states had ratified the 19th Amendment, and eight states—Georgia, Alabama, South Carolina, Virginia, Maryland, Mississippi, Louisiana, and Delaware—had voted against ratification. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

Or the way the whole feeling of spring can be in one robin on a fence post. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

“I think something decisive will happen in the spring,” he said. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

For a moment Treebeard stood under the rain of the falling spring, and took a deep breath; then he laughed, and passed inside. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

But he had been successful in lobbying for federal aid for farmers so that they could buy spring seed. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

It was all as I had left it except that now it was spring. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

All spring and all summer and all fall he spent on the road with bicycle road-racers. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

I suppose all great inventions spring from some such experience. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

With the new spring he felt an undertone of trouble. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

I sensed their restlessness, and I began to understand why the blood of spring is called the bad blood. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

I ran in and put my foot on the trap spring, mashed it down, and released his foot. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Finally he got the last spring in place. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

While the two policemen argued, a group sprang to action, blacks and whites together, diving into the water to find Eugene. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

These lines helped me from getting lost in between the spring and my sleeping place. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

There was a short way to the spring, but it was over many rocks which I could not climb, so I had to take a longer way through the bush. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

Reckless they sprang into the pools and waded across, bellowing as they came. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

Harsh talk from one in whom the springs of tenderness gushed abundant, as I knew. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

The childish cry comes, and I spring to my feet. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

New lies sprung up about his free- mule doings. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

As soon as they were out of earshot of the President’s room, the Gallivespian sprang. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

Birds were singing that they usually didn’t hear until later in the spring. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

A live image sprang into life on the digital monitor. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

He bit back the retort that sprang to his lips, that she could take the blackthorn wand if she thought it made no difference, and he would have hers instead. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

There was a flare of livid lightnings: forks of blue flame springing up from the tower and from the encircling hills into the sullen clouds. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

He drilled the axeheads clean, sprang, and decanted arrows on the door sill, glared, and drew again. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then she thought about the previous spring, when Pearl had gotten a cough so bad Mia had finally taken her to the hospital, where they learned it had turned into pneumonia. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Over the course of the spring and summer of 1991, I put myself in front of anyone I thought might be able to give me advice. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

The 46th Guards Night Bomber Aviation Regiment, meanwhile, was also fighting fiercely in the spring of 1943. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

The night’s a cool one, typical of spring. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

The bird, the clear spring and voice within him was still alive—that was why he rejoiced, that was why he laughed, that was why his face was radiant under his gray hair. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z

Police officers stand in a line separating the protestors from the orange plastic barriers that sprang up outside overnight in front of the electrified fence. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

Two hands lifted her up, and four laid her on a cold, hard metal cot with springs that hurt her back, and bound her wrists and ankles with leather thongs. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Newspapers sprang into action, supplying readers with the information they craved. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

In late spring it briefly produces a delicate golden bloom, but for most of the year the plant huddles unadorned and unnoticed on the parched earth. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

But his parents refuse to give him the money to fly to England on his spring break. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Yes, just a little farther west than the spring.” Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

But instead she sprang away and took up Briony’s hairbrush and stood in front of the mirror vigorously brushing out her hair. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Idiptu sprang out and landed on the ground in front of me with a heavy thump. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

“Watch out for the seat springs up there,” I tell Lolo. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

Then, as they had no wine, they made libation with clear spring water, broiling the entrails first; and when the bones were burnt and tripes shared, they spitted the carved meat. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Makeshift stalls stocked with fireworks had sprung up along the sidewalks, and seeing them, I realized the Divali festival was coming up. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

She shifts, and the springs pop and settle. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

She thought of the collie next door, digging its hole in the backyard last spring. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

“I didn’t dream you could find one already. I’ve been wondering how they were coming along this spring.” Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

Terrified, he sprang into a dark pool, but the water suddenly turned to dry land. The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z

Reluctantly, Lyddie spent a dollar on a light summer work dress as her spring calico proved unbearable. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

You see, those poor dead creatures returned to the earth, their bodies nourished the soil, and they helped create the most dazzling spring bloom the island had ever known. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

The bad blood of spring filled us with strange yearnings and tumult, and the boys from Los Jaros split off from the boys from town and there were gang fights. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

She ran around in front of him and laid down in the trail, acting like a cat ready to spring. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Having finished with his coursework that spring, he was only scheduled for thesis hours in the fall anyway. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

I thought she would spring out a kick, but instead she wrapped her leg around Stubble Chin's throat, catching it in the crook of her knee. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

In her view most of the troubles in the country sprang from the pages of books. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

The nights that spring were unusually cold; this one was colder than most and the heat was on in the dormitories—steam heat, full blast, which made it unbearably stuffy even with the windows open. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

And then, because hot tears have sprung to my eyes, I give the twins’ water bucket a hard kick and march across the yard for home. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

I sprang up, grabbed it, and then, in a fumbling and perhaps grotesque offering to Phineas, I chinned myself. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

Alys tended her there, holding her head so that she could sip warm liquid made from chopped wild sunflower roots simmered in spring water. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

“It is not the same ship which was here last spring?” Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was near the spring and from it I could see the mouth of the cave. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the spring, the little flowers came out obethently in the meads, and the dew sparkled, and the birds sang. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dr. Seward was resting on the mattress, and, seeing me, he sprang to his feet. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

And the small, slight tail gunner was lying on the floor beside Snowden in a dead faint, his face as white as a handkerchief, so that Yossarian sprang forward with revulsion to help him first. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

It was late in the winter, almost spring, but the ground was still frozen, and the snow hadn’t melted. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

Matthias sprang up, roaring at the top of his voice, “Stop that rat! Stop that rat!” Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

If the universe could not spring forth from the void, then something had to be floating about before the birth of the universe; there had to be a universe before the universe was born. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

His red hair sprang up like a sponge on the top of his head and he stared at Jake with gray, flabby eyes. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

There was a coil of wire held together on die side by tape and it sprung into a three-foot-long antenna when he took the tape off. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then there would be no more stories by the fire at night, but all day long Laura and Mary would run and play among the trees, for it would be spring. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

Infected elm wood, after being cut and stored for firewood, will release a crop of fungus-carrying beetles unless burned before spring. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

The tears came, hot and bitter, flowing and flowing as if the very springs of sorrow had been touched in my body. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then he sprang ashore and climbed a few paces up the bank. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

Mr. Neely sprang a doozy on us today. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

The couch was softer than the one he slept on in the trailer, which was more springs than cushion at this point. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

Outside the window it was a lovely spring morning. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

As the “hunters,” totally unnerved and terrified, tried to flee, he sprang after them and soon two more were dragged down, though they still tried desperately to crawl away. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

Lady Constance sprang up from her seat and wiped her eyes as she paced around the room. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Olinski confessed that it was her favorite season and told Nadia that she sometimes felt guilty because she thought she ought to prefer spring, with its pledge to make the lilies bloom again. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

She twisted her whole body, from the hips to the waist to the shoulders, then unwound it like a spring, throwing her left foot around high and fast. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

The blind girl rolled onto her side, sat up, sprang to her feet, stretched. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“This is September. Harvesttime would be wrapping up soon and then there would be nothing till next spring. Most of the crop goes to the owner anyway.” Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“They say, Sparrowhawk, that a man favored by a wild beast is a man to whom the Old Powers of stone and spring will speak in human voice.” A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

It was handwritten on hot pink paper; it said the dance studio was closed for spring break. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

When she pulls away, she says, “No more winter at all. Finch, you brought me spring.” All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

I jumped over the double walls and landed with swords drawn and knees bent, ready to spring. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Pax reached the tree just as the coyote sprang again, this time finding enough purchase to hang from the branch. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

Bod watched as the man stopped in the air at the zenith of his spring, and hung there for a moment, before he was sucked through the ghoul-gate, down and down. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

It was the first time since she had come to Wethersfield in the spring that she had dared to miss a Thursday Lecture. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

It did not feel so strange after all, this animal beneath her, ready to spring through the forest. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Wherever a trickle of water came out of the ground a house sprang up and a family began to grow and multiply. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

He sprang back to his feet quickly, his staff ready to strike. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

The house, a one-story brick structure, stood in a grove of cottonwoods on a little eminence over a pool made by a dammed-up spring. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s hard to stay cheerful in the dark. Come spring you’ll be our resident saint once more.” Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

I had a spring cold and she made me some tea that had me on my feet quick as a wink. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

There’s the tiniest spring in my step as I slip the note into my pocket and head to the door. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

Listening to Ms. Freedman, the seventh-grade science teacher, describe the spring unit on the solar system reminded me that I was really going to be there for the entire school year. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

Big D’s spring break party is one of those places. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

She had one foot outside, the other inside, against the door, to prevent it from springing shut. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

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

Beringia, as this land is called, was surprisingly temperate, sometimes even warmer than it is today; masses of low flowers covered it every spring. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

His tall figure sprang erect again with a start: he said nothing. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

The Hitler Youth sprang into action, collecting money, winter coats, wool sweaters, gloves, hats, socks, and blankets. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

But with the coming of spring talk began to surge up out of their hearts and to make itself heard on their lips. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

I remember this one time after lunch, when Stan and I went to class and Mr. Thorp, our math teacher with the huge head, sprang this surprise quiz on us. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

Here’s more: “I feel a thousand capacities spring up in me. I am arch, gay, languid, melancholy by turns. I am rooted, but I flow. All gold, flowing...” All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

He kept springing this question on her, hoping to startle her into a response by asking it when she least expected it. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

Has a girl of fourteen a heart large enough, vigorous enough, to hold the swelling spring of pure, full, fervid eloquence? Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

I contemplated leaving Wilson after a teacher printed and then distributed a letter I’d written to Spielberg’s secretary thanking her for helping with my spring field trip to the Museum of Tolerance. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

They ride with springs on their cables, tampions out, as if prepared to open fire and level the town with broadsides. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

By the spring of 1936 he was clearly miserable, and it is hard to avoid the conclusion that his exhausting schedule was the cause. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

She held her hands at her side, ready to spring out and grab him. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

There were a couple of iron cots with bare springs, one against either wall, the mattress pads rolled up at the foot of them in army fashion. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

The people said that even in the driest years nobody could ever remember a time when the spring had dried up. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

There wasn’t much in the garden yet beyond spring onions and baby kale, but she still had some potatoes and carrots in the root cellar, and cooking had brought them back to life. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

I roll over and spring to my feet and then fire a throw to Ben-Ben at third. A High Five for Glenn Burke 2020-02-25T00:00:00Z

My buildings and city plans sprang out of my head. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

The bus was a sad carcass of rusted metal, shattered windows replaced with black garbage bags, balding tires, and upholstery shredded down to the springs. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

It does not matter if the destruction springs from a foolish policy. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

There where the wild mountain flowers would grow in the spring, I laid him away. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Here it became apparent that Mr. Pilkington was about to spring some carefully prepared witticism on the company, but for a moment he was too overcome by amusement to be able to utter it. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z

But as they went his soldiers blew their horns in signal long arranged; and even before they came to the gate Sauron sprang his trap. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

The question sprang up like a lone weed; ugly, and deeply rooted. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

Sometimes old copies of the Field come my way, and I am transported from this indifferent island to the realities of an English spring. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

I squealed and sprang up off the floor. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

Then I notice the shine in her eyes, the spring in her step. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

She made two trips a year into slave territory, one in the fall and another in the spring. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had such a wild hot fever that Mama nearly ran herself to death, packing fresh cold water from the spring, which she used to bathe me all over, trying to run my fever down. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

More beautiful than the sight of a spring field after three years of living in that pestilent cesspit of a city. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

In a split-second decision, whether for fight or flight, it sprang; and in the same instant the boy raised his rifle, sighted and fired, all in one quick motion. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

When spring comes to Arles, Vincent takes his easel and his paints outside. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

The bedsprings leak—a howling, desperate noise of falling down and springing up, even though they don’t want to. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

The group was already on the move, springing from their chairs and stumbling over each other to be the first ones to get up the aisle to the two intruders. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

Its sides sprang sheer out of the running water. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

Men from all over the county came to Matt Creighton’s aid that spring. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

It starts to rain suddenly, the way it does sometimes in the spring—kind of warm until it’s dark and cold and not warm at all anymore. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

It was spring, many months past Christmas, and yet black Santas lined the windowsills. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

Using one of my bobby pins, I popped the inside spring and the door sprang open. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

A well-dressed stable hand basically springs up out of the ground to whisk the horse away by the reins. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

But when her mom told them that Richie said she was as pretty as a spring day, they'd all sighed and asked her to tell them more. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

Most important, both featured Pocock’s trademark camber, the slight curvature that gave them compression, spring, and liveliness in the water. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

“Mr. Burton’s property includes a spring, which is considered a public resource, therefore it is required that the taxes on that land go to the nearest township. In this case, the township of Manifest.” Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

“Why do I have to have a new name?” he asks his parents, tears springing to his eyes. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Those are the humpbacks after herring. They’re following their instincts. Every spring they migrate up from calving grounds in Hawaii.” Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

She tensed as she stepped down, waiting for a single sound that would send her springing back to her rooms. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

“It’ll be full spring soon. Saw some green on the brown trees.” The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

Because the tarred roads spring potholes like surprise presents and the air smells of hills and history and the sunlight scatters the sand and turns it into gold dust. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

When i left my office that beautiful spring day, I had no idea what was in store for me. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Riding there from fall to spring every year, they defined themselves as athletes and as men. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Charley Bloom had once put it this way in a Voice of the People article: You walk along the narrow roads of Milagro in the spring and early summer sunshine. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Queen dried her tears and looked at him, smiling like a spring shower. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

He faked and crept closer, and just as he was about to take the shot, I sprang at him and took him out. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

The llano had come alive with spring, and it was comforting to walk in the hills and see the new birth take root and come-alive-green. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Claudius approached with my father, who protested, “I still believe his grief sprang from neglected love.” Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

She resembled nothing so much as a spring meadow in full bloom, depicted at nearly life-size. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

Along walls and on top of tables, jade trees, whose trunks were as thick as ankles, stood stoutly, green now and without the pink skin the sun gave them in the spring. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

I worked at the cafe all spring and in June I was called for temporary duty in the post office. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was a piercing squeal, an alarm, and from the ceiling the safety sprinklers sprung to life, showering water down the entire length of the floor. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

The smoke billowing out in a long plume on this cool spring morning. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Mark—sure he’d never seen anything like it—sprang into action, following Alec’s lead and grabbing a log out of the fire. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

Cooperatives sprang up to handle the farmwork and try to keep everyone fed. How I Live Now 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Medieval sites were often associated with holy springs or wells that had been considered sacred in pre-Christian times. Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!: Voices from a Medieval Village 2007-07-24T00:00:00Z

I felt it then—the way that the hold I had on her had suddenly sprung free. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

The sky was full then and the coming of spring was a religious event. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Gully prescribed a regime for Annie at home, with plans that she would come to Malvern in the spring if she hadn’t gotten better. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

And yet even so, holy and awesome though they were, they kept the mark of what they had sprung from. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

At one checkup in the spring of 2005, his blood pressure and his weight had been a little high. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

The rest of us went to bed on the box spring. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

Moving with an unnatural, sinuous speed, he drew one hand back to the side of his head and tensed himself to spring. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

My mother sprang out of bed in her nightgown and threw open the lock. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

The rolling cart rattled and banged and careened its way down the slope till it was right beside the spring. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

I breathed in a lungful of sweet spring air and felt my grin resurface. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Every spring, Culver Creek took one Friday afternoon off from classes, and all the students, faculty, and staff were required to go to the gym for Speaker Day. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

She cut her hand; she twisted her ankle; she knocked her skull against a low-hanging branch and burned her leg in a boiling spring. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

She glared at me and then began reading to herself as hastily as she could, searching, I suppose, for something she could fire at me and thus release her coiled spring. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then suddenly Sam gave a cry and sprang away. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

“Well, I guess I wish it was spring and I could start planting wheat.” Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

One faculty wife would always remember his exclamation when she encountered him on a wooded walkway as Berkeley was waking up to a chilly spring morning: he shouted at her, “I’m going to be famous!” Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

Before Hazel could spring back from the mouth of the hole, the mouse had dashed between his front paws and was pressed to the ground between his back legs. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

As the mage stood by the spring looking out over the falling lands and the harbor and the grey distances of the sea, wings beat above him. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

That spring, lying in bed with a hallucinatory fever, he stumbled upon the last missing piece of his theory. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

The earth covered them almost entirely; grass and meadow flowers had sprung up to obliterate them further and make them part of the mountain itself. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z

Often she poured the water off, and filled the tub again with buckets of water from the spring. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

But the most important fish harvest came in late spring, when the herring-like alewives swarmed the fast, shallow stream that cut through the village. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

He pointed his chin at the springs and around at the narrow canyon. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

An early spring sun hung in the Mexican sky on March 21,1934, when Ten Ton Irwin shimmied his 425 pounds through the giant rear door of his sedan and pushed off for Cheyenne. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Throughout the spring and summer they worked a sixty- hour week, and in August Napoleon announced that there would be work on Sunday afternoons as well. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z

Mom’s bedroom is empty except for the mattress and the box spring under it, and the metal frame under that. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

For example, if an oxygen tank sprang a leak, the oxygen pressure gauge in the simulator would decrease, giving you a clue as to what had gone wrong. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

I feel spring awakening, I feel it in my entire body and soul. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

On the afternoon of the first day of Passover, I walked beneath the early spring sycamores on my street, then turned into Lee Avenue. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

Seemed like it bent the spring underneath that the car bounces along on. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

In a moment she leapt up to the rocks, and the man sprang away from Mrs. Coulter, both of them moving as quickly as grasshoppers. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

Full-grown and in full armor, she sprang from his head. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

They yelled and one rose squatting and sprang among them. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

As I remember it, the dark side of my mother sprang from the basement in our old house in Oakland. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Leisurely, he gathered himself for a spring, then leaped effortlessly at the latch on the door. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Four arms spring from its summit: the nearest town to which these point is, according to the inscription, distant ten miles; the farthest, above twenty. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

In the spring the lower bank is underwater, but right now it’s August, when dehydration and sun sickness stalk the village. Red Queen 2015-02-10T00:00:00Z

If we don’t clean up and protect our earth, spring may grow as quiet as Juliet’s tomb.” Shine! 2019-11-05T00:00:00Z

With a burst of puppy rocket fuel, Tater sprang out of Abby’s arms and flew into the train. Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

By spring the smell would fade, but by then she’d have to pack it away again. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

Common sense and knowing the currents would tell you that the kayak had drifted downstream, especially with the fast-running spring tides. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

Harry hissed, springing up and pulling Dobby back onto the bed — Hedwig had woken up with a particularly loud screech and was beating her wings wildly against the bars of her cage. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

I won’t say I became obsessed by all this, but it did occupy my thoughts a great deal in the months while I waited for spring to come. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

They wandered in the valley forever; and they smote the rock, forever; and the waters sprang, perpetually, in the perpetual desert. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

What with all her baking and decorating and gift making, this was her favorite time of the year, next to spring planting. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then Shadowfax gathered himself together and sprang away, and the night flowed over him like a roaring wind. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

"I've got a man in England who buys me clothes. He sends over a selection of things at the beginning of each season, spring and fall." The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

It stung his face and got in his eyes so that the thing that sprang up in front of him was at first sight just a big, bristling blur. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

“Rachel always had trouble breathing in the spring.” The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

“How does New York sound for spring break? We haven’t taken a family trip in a while.” All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

While de Vries was still knee-deep in the study of plant hybrids in the spring of 1900, a friend sent him a copy of an old paper drudged up from the friend’s library. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

With a great macaw call of BRRRUAW, he sprang up and flapped off into the distance, so that I could no longer see him. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

As you see it it is, while the seeing lasts, dar\\ nightmare-history, timc-as-coffin; but where the water was rigid there will be fish, and men will survive on their flesh till spring. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sam was on him before he had gone two paces after his spring. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

Lady Isobel said they would return in the spring, so Ash packed her two books of fairy tales and all her winter dresses. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Oriana acts like you two being mortal is some kind of awful surprise that gets sprung on her all over again every morning,” she says. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

We cannot know how many secret meetings and political dinners occurred in New York during the late spring and early summer of 1790. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

She brought her family and the cow to start a farm, arriving in the spring. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

“Mr. Rochester, I will love you and live with you through life till death,” and a fount of rapture would spring to my lips. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

In that night’s drill, the dogs were supposed to spring at him and latch on to his limbs with their snarling teeth. Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

One of the views, from a faraway perspective, shows spring in Paris: full of light and color, a palette bright with green grass, blue sky, the French flag flying atop the mill. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

It had been a late spring and there were still masses of roses. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

In the spring of 1996, thirty distinct expeditions were on the flanks of Everest, at least ten of them organized as moneymaking ventures. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

He wondered if they would ever ** see a spring. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

I also gathered herbs from the hill above the spring in case I should need them. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now is the month of May, which marks the end of spring and promises a full and fruitful summer. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

The librarian sprang out from behind a bookcase and shushed me. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

Harry reacted instinctively; his wand was out of his pocket and the incantation sprang to mind without conscious thought: Levicorpus! Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

In the spring, it was dried in the open air before being transported to state farms. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

It reared up on its hind legs, whinnying and snorting, and one sharp, unshod hoof connected with the lion's shoulder, causing the lion to howl like a huge, scalded cat, and to spring backwards. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

‘And that will lie in the dust and rot to spring up again in times and places unlooked-for. The deeds of Men will outlast us, Gimli.’ The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

To carry water from a distant spring through the fortifications, he ordered a great tunnel built. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

I hope none of them ask about my spring break. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

They tried to help her with applications of spiderwebs and balls of ash, but it was like trying to hold back a spring with one's hands. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

Out of the silence, nearby saloons sprang to life, disgorging hundreds of strikers who blocked the roadway, overturning the cart and dragging the driver away. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

The Berg sprang to life— lights flickering overhead and engines and machinery revving. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

But suddenly there was a movement from inside the booth, and the sleeping old man sprang to life. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

It had seemed a quiet spring day when Alex left the Royal & General offices. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

“I’m su’prised you would be that silly, Jeth. With so much spring work to do, you don’t have the time to get sick over smokin’.” Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

This gave it a kind of liveliness, a tendency to spring forward on the catch of the oars in a way that no other design or material could duplicate. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

And he had not been in the house five minutes before he was aware that a change had occurred in the quality of her silence: in the silence something waited, ready to spring. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

The fresh spring world turned black before him, but even in this darkness he could still see Rab, chin up, shoulders squared—not afraid. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Well, it was spring break. That would make it April, May...” Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I wish Frightful would stop pulling her feathers in and drawing herself up like a spring. I keep thinking that she feels things. “Here comes Jessie C. James. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You just got sprung. You’ve got better things to do than be inside with me.” The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

One day in the spring of my sophomore year, I found a note in my box directing me to see my advisor. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The first time she wanted to come to the Smoke was back in spring. When Croy and the others came.” Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

There were tracks of the wild dogs around the spring, and among them I saw the large ones of Rontu. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

Immediately the idea sprang again in my bowels and began to climb. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then again, maybe turning my Olympic dream into a reality could be as simple as the advice my friend and teammate Aly Raisman gave me at Nationals Camp that spring. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

In the spring there would be pale blue violets and primroses, goldilocks, wood anemones, and white Stellaria. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Although we had fields full of wildflowers blooming in the spring, she never arranged those. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

Suddenly the king cried to Snowmane and the horse sprang away. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

In the spring of 1996, Quotesmith.com became the first of several websites that enabled a customer to compare, within seconds, the price of term life insurance sold by dozens of different companies. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

"The coming of the spring upon the boughs," was the last line. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

The following spring the migrating robins began to return to the campus as usual. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

I could see clearly in the clear spring waters, but I couldn’t see my dog anywhere. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

The BFG changed into his famous top gear and all at once he began to fly forward as though there were springs in his legs and rockets in his toes. The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was one of the first really good days of spring that year, and I’d been sitting on the grass talking with a couple of the older girls. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was cold in Troy even though it was the spring of the year. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

One bright and fragrant spring day—as if on a wild equinoctial whim—Holmes suggested that Minnie invite her sister to Chicago to see the world’s fair, at his expense. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

She sprang to her feet and searched the valley. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

Sure, a giant, gushing spring chose some guy to hunt innocent people down and murder them. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

The sun is warm for the last day of February, like the world is remembering spring, and when I get to the ghetto gate, it’s the Polish rather than the German police on patrol. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

And sure enough, they now saw a tiny fist on a long spring protruding from the end of the telescope. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

I felt my head continue to nod as if it was attached to heavy springs, but I couldn’t bring myself to tell him that I appreciated his words. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

Here the air was softer and warmer, and faintly scented, as if spring was already stirring and the sap was flowing again in herb and leaf. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

“Yes, child, it took a while, but spring has finally decided to grace us with its presence,” Clay replies. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

Late in the fourth quarter, on a third-and-ten from our own eleven yard line, we sprang a double reverse, and I took it all the way for an eighty-nine-yarder. Crash 1996-03-19T00:00:00Z

Charles looked for it all the following winter and well into the spring. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

And as I said those words my woman’s eyes sprang open. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

It may well be that the Magdalenians practiced their fertility magic in the bowels of the earth because they thought of the earth itself as a living thing from whose womb all other life springs. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ralph was so astounded he couldn’t talk, so astounded that in springing up to welcome her, he knocked her over, so that she fell to the sidewalk and sprained her ankle. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

And when spring comes to the City people notice one another in the road; notice the strangers with whom they share aisles and tables and the space where intimate garments are laundered. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

“No,” she said, her voice tight and ready, like a set spring. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

Through this work, Hooke came up with the idea of a new kind of pocket watch regulated by a balance spring. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

The next day Mack puffed up the hill carrying a rusty set of springs he had found on a scrap-iron dump. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

But the kingly man let fly an arrow at that instant, and the quivering feathered butt sprang to the nipple of his breast as the barb stuck in his liver. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

The warm southwest winds from the Gulf of Mexico were heavy with the smells of spring. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

Octavian Attacks Egypt In the spring of 30 BCE, Octavian attacked Egypt by sea on the west and by land on the east. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z

Behind him, the trees along the street were in full bloom, bursting with the colors of spring. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

The only reason he was able to follow Akhlys’s path was because poisonous plants sprang up wherever she walked. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Then it sprang up and hissed as a guy stuck his head up from inside the dumpster, waving a wedge of old pizza. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

In the spring, when Mr. Armstrong was interviewing a journalism school graduate for a job opening, a mouse ran over her foot, and she screamed. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

For the rest of his life he will remember that cold, overcast spring, digging in the dirt, collecting rocks, discovering black and yellow salamanders beneath an overturned slab of slate. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

On a brisk spring evening not long ago, two dozen men and women gathered in the back room of a Manhattan bar to engage in a peculiar ritual known as speed-dating. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

He sprang from his seat and raced to the gasping man, who couldn’t talk but was making squeaky noises. The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z

Ahead the water-course came to an end in broken steps of rock; for out from the main range there sprang a high barren spur, thrusting eastward like a wall. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

He looked around constantly: Every movement in the grass was a lion stalking, every stillness a lion waiting to spring. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

That winter seemed to stretch on interminably, but spring finally crept back to West Riding to suffuse the meadow in a glow of pale green. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

One by one white stars sprang forth as the sky faded. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

The air’s warm with hopeful hints of spring in it. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

During the spring of nineteen fifty-two I joyously wrote Elijah Muhammad and my family that the Massachusetts State Parole Board had voted that I should be released. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

One put his mouth to the spring and recoiled. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

She stirred and said something, and instantly the golden monkey sprang to his feet. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

“The spring dance was so much fun,” she said. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

The man coughed; then a little more life sprang into his voice. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

“There is a spring halfway down the slope,” said the angel, “just above those trees.” The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

Yet he remembered old Mr. Lapham, who had died that spring, with more affection than when he had been serving under him. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Tears spring to my eyes, but I manage to stop them from trickling down my cheeks. Dragons in a Bag 2018-10-23T00:00:00Z

The day before the spring sports awards, Tucker picked me up just as the shadows of the trees began slanting the other direction. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

His body was tensed as a strong leaf spring drawn to the breaking strain; his face was grave and gray, and his eyes were on the ground immediately ahead of him. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then once more, orc-fashion, he leapt aside, and as Sam sprang at him, using the heavy bundle as both shield and weapon, he thrust it hard into his enemy’s face. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

The dark orange sandstone formation held springs like this one, all along the base of the sandstone where wind and erosion had cut narrow canyons into the rock. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

He sensed Celestial bronze gears, magical levers, springs, and pistons. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Lily wore the tiny gold posts that Lydia had used when she'd pierced Lily's ears in her bathroom in the spring. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

Diana was helping the new girls settle in, teaching them just as she had taught Lyddie in the spring. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

Seasons passed, fall and winter and spring and summer. The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane 2006-03-30T00:00:00Z

It was a relief not to be writing out the she saids, or describing the weather or the onset of spring or her heroines face—beauty, she had discovered, occupied a narrow band. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

“Yellow flowers everywhere. And a spring yellow dress, like a normal wedding dress only yellow. And he would wear a yellow cummerbund.” We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

The hot spring that began in Orangeburg stretched into another hot summer, with angry protests flaring up both in the black community and before various city bodies. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

These doors were on hinges, with springs that held them shut, but they were easy to push open, and each door led into another room with three more doors like the first one. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

“Guess that means there’s no spring in Hope Springs.” Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

In the spring of 2005, The New York Times published a series of articles on class in America, a dimension of the national experience that tends to go unexamined, if acknowledged at all. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

It was in the spring, a very chilly spring, that Aunt Jimmy died of peach cobbler. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

Seeds that fall in autumn take root in spring underwater, and then the shoot grows above the surface. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

In front of him lights sprang out in the gloaming; dogs barked; feet came running. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

The town receded and a farm sprang up on either side of the tree- lined road, its fields fallow and bare. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

My mother used to gather them every spring, carrying a basket to put them in, and David, Joseph, and I used to go-with her—and Faro, of course. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

I expected it to be awkward, like our visit at Christmas, or tense, like over spring break when I had to watch every word. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

He bowed to the queen, but his hand touched his sword hilt as he made ready to spring at any sound or movement outside the cottage. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

If a death sentence was passed, we did not want to hamper the mass campaign that would surely spring up. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Using her cane to spring her forward, Xan sprinted through the green. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

She took off her faded brown dress and put on the new one, and it felt like wearing the weight of spring: soft and warm, with the breath of an evening breeze over her skin. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

The horse would take a step forward and then a step back, as if he could scent something enticing in the warm air of the spring evening but could not tell what the scent was. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

Eugene Williams's mother buried her son a few days later, some seventeen years after she had brought him into the world one spring day in Georgia. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

“Even though you are an island girl with one kind of season in your blood, you will make a wife for all seasons: spring, summer, autumn, and winter.” Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

The frigid winter slowly began to give way to the extremely cold spring. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

Then, in a moment, he was set free; his tears sprang as from a fountain; his heart, like a fountain of waters, burst. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

Did he not go continually to the holy springs with an insatiable thirst, to the sacrifices, to books, to the Brahmins’ discourses? Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z

A calf for the spring, and milk for the market: Paradise. Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!: Voices from a Medieval Village 2007-07-24T00:00:00Z

Two sentinel boulders, dripping wet, decorated with flowers, ferns, moss, weeds—everything that loved water—guarded a bathtub-sized spring. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

I gave a cry of dismay as the other thieves sprang forward. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

In the next few millennia the wheel and the metal tool sprang up in the same area. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Instead of taverns and lodges, a whole new type of establishment, called a saloon, sprang up in towns and cities throughout the nation. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

I feel so sick that I have to sit down on a couch, despite the exposed springs and stuffing. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

Crouching low, like a bobcat ready to spring, he grabbed Grandpa’s right knee, turned quick, and jerked him off the counter just as his partner raised a chair high and crashed it over Grandpa’s head. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

As Narcissa dragged Draco out of the way of further harm, Bellatrix sprang to her feet, her hair flying as she brandished the silver knife; but Narcissa had directed her wand at the doorway. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

By Euergetes’ time, the situation was embarrassing—a spring planting festival, for instance, would actually take place in spring only once every 1,460 years. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z

I’m wearing a light jacket, but it’s one of those rare warm February days that fools the hyacinths into thinking spring is here. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

During spring and summer—the most strenuous periods of foraging—a worker bee, as a rule, does not live more than four or five weeks . The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

He landed on his head, sprang to his feet, and looked at me in confusion. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

Frederick whispers that in the spring, he hopes to find skylark nests in the grasses outside the school walls. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

The dog lay hidden in the deep shade of the new spring leaves. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

And when the sea breeze sprang up again, it pulled him toward Malaga. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

I felt like the Red Cross springing to action to save the bee queendom. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

And he was always encouraging, especially when I thought I could not make it through the blizzards of winter to spring. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Working with crystals, Pauling had found that proteins frequently folded into an archetypal substructure—a single helix coiled like a spring. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

“Well, one night Ginnie and me ” A man named Schoenke got out his accordion and did a kicking dance, the dust springing up around him. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

How about springs stretched along the axles of his wagon to help him pull it up hills? All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Come visit the springs of Hot Springs, Arkansas. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

In the spring of 1993, on the fortieth anniversary of the first ascent, a record fifteen expeditions, comprising 294 climbers, attempted to scale the peak from the Nepalese side. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

The previous spring, I’d been at a particularly low point of feeling lousy. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

But all spring it didn’t come, so he thought she must have forgotten about it. Frindle 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

The tree which sprang from the Apple that Digory planted in the back garden, lived and grew into a fine tree. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z

He sprang up and was immediately swept with dizziness. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the spring I took the postal examination again. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I just remembered, I need to practice for the spring concert.” Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

He sprang to his feet and began to dance. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

Shawn talked about the horses, about their training, and about the colts he expected in the spring, and I remembered that he was always at his best when he was with his horses. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

In the spring and summer, the green ears of corn sit out in plain view with all the other fruits and vegetables. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

The morning after his return he rose late, and wanting a cup of rushwash tea he went out to fetch water from the spring that ran a little way down the hillside from his house. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

“And if they do, believe me, those factory cows don’t graze on grass that springs out of dirt. I’m not ignorant,” she said. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

Out from behind trees, springing off branches came the enemy, their leader looming like a genie out of the water gourd. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I sincerely hope you speak the truth, Elihu. These rebel committees are multiplying faster than rabbits in the spring. They’ve just about ground business to a halt.” ss “Have they interfered with you directly?” Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

The moss is the greenery that, in time, will spring even from a rock. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

When Congress began the debates over the Sedition Act in the spring of 1798, Jefferson’s first fear was that it was aimed pointedly at him. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

She said that, of all the villagers young Chaya had come to the camp with that spring, only two were alive at the end of the war. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

He took a deep breath and sprang upward. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

I took my baths in the spring again rather than in the turtle shell with warmed-over snow. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

It must have come out of some book: “Hemlocks usually grow around mountain streams and springs.” My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

But the tracker, springing behind a stone, put an arrow in his eye as he ran up, and he fell with a crash. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

Today, scholars agree that agriculture sprang up in other parts of the world not by the action of Middle Eastern farmers exporting their revolution but entirely independently. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

One spring day in April 1914, as nonunion workers neared the mine, a striker threw a punch, and everybody jumped in slugging. Fannie Never Flinched 2016-11-21T00:00:00Z

I knew only that I would grow heavy with the burden, and one day deathlike pains would grip me until the creature sprang from my loins and cried to be cared for. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

With a carefully tested combination of iron, potassium, and calcium, it will give you a new spring in your step and you’ll be able to accomplish the many tasks asked of you throughout the day. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

Every night Desdemona would disrobe down to her corset and Lefty would press its clasps and hooks, searching for the secret combination that sprung the locked garment open. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

The kids were tired, wired, just sprung from school. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

From the sunny cliffs, in crevices where no one would think any- thing could grow, sprang the little red and yellow fountains of the comul bush. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was a year like so many others, with its spring, its engagements, its weddings, and its births. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

But down in the black underworld Adonis could not hear them, nor see the crimson flower that sprang up where each drop of his blood had stained the earth. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

As his snout was about to smack into the wall, he sprang up, pushed off the ground, and soared like a furry rocket over the pointy tips of the stockade fence. Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

After graduating our first class of twenty-seven Allies in the spring, we welcomed a new set of forty in the fall and continued to grow from there. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

But the Nazi leaders achieved their goal: In the spring of 1943, the SS sent ten thousand young recruits to a training camp near Beverloo, Belgium. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

Finally, it was time for recess, and Hazel sprang out of her chair and gathered her things. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

We spring up and dress, throwing our blankets over our bald heads and shoving our feet into the wrong shoes. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

He dangled some wool before them and soon had them springing back and forth and tumbling on the carpet. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

The doctor's eyebrows spring upward and he lets out a good belly laugh. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

When I awoke, the first thing that sprang to my mind was not what you might expect. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Western civilization eventually had to make a choice between Aristotle and the Bible, which says that the finite universe sprang forth from the void and prophesies its ultimate destruction. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

Around it sprang up large, sloppy statues, easily modeled because of the snow’s dampness. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

They would soon have died without water, and there was none where they were; any spring that made its way into the air was soon swallowed again among the rocks. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

She said, “I went to the moon during spring break to see how people live. When you came along, I thought, ‘Now I’ll have a boyfriend, like people have boyfriends.’ Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

I fell to my knees, crunching into the early spring crust of leaves and dirt, laughing. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

Then it sprang high, over the heads of the gods, and it ran off into the cave-darkness and would not be seen in Asgard again, not until the end of everything. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

In the spring, he began to realize that he wasn’t going to make it. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z

High above the creek a spring seeps from the cliff face, irrigating a growth of moss and maidenhair fern that hangs from the rock in lush green mats. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Vetch furnishes essential spring forage for bees before the alfalfa is in bloom, tiding them over this early season so that they are ready to pollinate the alfalfa. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

As I say, that was about the only time Tommy and I touched directly on his theory that spring. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Did you speak from your own observation,” said she, “when you told him that my sister loved him, or merely from my information last spring?” Pride and Prejudice 1813-01-28T00:00:00Z

Because when spring comes, it melts the snow one flake at a time, and maybe I just witnessed the first flake melting. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Then rising swiftly up, far above the Towers of the Black Gate, high above the mountains, a vast soaring darkness sprang into the sky, flickering with fire. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

Waiting by the White House entrance was a large, heavy wagon equipped with a platform and bed springs to absorb the jolts as the wagon drove to the train station. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

They went first to the little spring, and then climbing warily up they came to the road at the point where it swung east towards the Isenmouthe twenty miles away. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

I decided to take a swim in the spring and work on the moccasins I had cut out several days ago. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

I reveled in the feel of the ground through my shoes, the taste of the air, the quiet hush of wind brushing through the spring wheat in the fields. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

They agreed to meet at a well-known place, the Tomb of Ninus, under a tree there, a tall mulberry full of snow-white berries, near which a cool spring bubbled up. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

Soon, spring plants would poke up through dead leaves. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

His arms and legs became as graceful as a gazelle’s, and his giant body sprang in the air like a flying grasshopper. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z

We were going down the walk now, through the spring air, and he stopped to look at me with exasperation, as though I'd suddenly told him black was white. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

I needed a place that was sheltered from the wind, not too far from Coral Cove, and close to a good spring. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

I liked to think that he dreamed of ducks and doves, waiting for hunting season, when he would spring into action and work hard for a couple of weeks like, well, a dog. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

When she received Tiller’s postcard about the first purple crocuses springing up beside the creek and new leaves dangling like emeralds, she packed her bags and moved back to Ruby Holler. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

It sort of popped when it finally sprang free. Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

They fell at once to swearing as I ordered, and when the round of oaths had ceased, we found a halfmoon bay to beach and moor the ship in, with a fresh spring nearby. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Bristle sprang back to nip at her brother. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

It’s sort of like when I put away my winter boots because it was spring again and I got to slip back into last year’s sneakers; I grew a little bit, but they still fit. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

The voice cuts through my burgeoning terror and sends me springing to my feet. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

We went back into the laboratory, and he put the weed in the middle of the counter, then sank into his armchair, the springs echoing in a way that normally would have made me giggle. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

It had been a warm winter and a balmy spring in Bone Gap, so everyone with a field and a taste for corn had plowed and planted earlier than they’d ever dared before. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

He sprang from his pony, and seeing the notice in the light of the lanterns, he tore it down and threw it over the gate. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

Those visiting the spring were mostly women and young girls like my mother and sisters. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z

He had a good spring to his jumping and he got it the first time. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

As soon as he had sprung to earth from heaven he laid aside everything that marked him as a god and approached Argus like a country fellow, playing very sweetly upon a pipe of reeds. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

Harry said his fence would take root in places, maybe, and get green leaves on it in the spring. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

Though frost blanketed the grass she cooled her feet in the spring. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Like the other villagers, she bundled herself against the increasing cold as each winter approached, and welcomed each new spring. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

He limped out of the hospital in early spring. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the spring and summer, vegetable gardens, cornfields, and fruit orchards were robbed. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

He did this every spring religiously, when the wild geese left him, and every autumn, when be saw the first returning gaggle. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dad said the nomadic Indians had watched for her appearance as a sign of spring, a signal the mountain was thawing, winter was over, and it was time to come home. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

The fight had probably started at the spring and they had stalked him to this place where he had chosen to fight. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

Three children, arrayed in size, stood on their stoop in the spring air, eating cakes. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

My father used to grow oats there, but luckily that last spring he had rotated it to fescue. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

It was early spring, and there had been good rains so the water was unusually deep. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

For when the maple sap began to run it meant that warmer days, pleasant sun, all the beauties of spring were close at hand. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

One spring day, Dr. Greenfield—the addict turned psychologist and addiction specialist—got a new patient in his Connecticut office. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

Something had sprung up behind Dr. Thorn—like a catapult, but more flexible . . . almost like a tail. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

While the Freedom Writers were standing on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C., in the spring of 1997, something magical occurred. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

In the spring of 1928, she made her first coast-to-coast trip, which allowed her to work directly with Prohibition and Coast Guard agents in California. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

“And it’s a good suggestion. Oftentimes people with decayed teeth have sound ideas. Central Park is a favorite place for birds in the spring.” Stuart Little 1945-10-17T00:00:00Z

He stooped to pick it up, and then the newly tapped spring of fabulous discoveries threw him another gift, and shock and wonder erupted inside him so that he shouted out. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

Then late that evening, just before supper, he called me off down to the spring, where we sat and he talked. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

The others sprang up, and almost at once they set off again. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

The Aleuts had not used the spring and did not know about it because there was another one closer to where they had camped. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

It had already caused new grass to spring up. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

It rained steadily and the army of the Bainsizza moved down off the plateau in the October rain and across the river where the great victories had commenced in the spring of that year. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

“The pain has gone and it is pleasant here, as warm as spring.” The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z

He called again, a low guttural command, and the dog raised her head, barked twice, sprang to her feet, and limped away. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

“The desert weed lives on, but the flower of spring blooms and wilts.’ The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Pa. When he thought of die old man he could see him suddenly in a field in the spring, trying to move a gray boulder. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Frankly, I just don’t see anything to celebrate, winter or spring or anything else.” A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

Their wings sprang from their shoulder blades, and their backs and chests were deeply muscled. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Whole bright days of spring and early summer they spent out in Roke Bay in light catboats, practicing steering by word, and stilling waves, and speaking to the world’s wind, and raising up the magewind. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

Early in the spring of 1943, the mine began to flood with water from subterranean springs. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

Then out into the spring fields, where a yellow trolley raced them for a minute with people in it who might once have seen the pale magic of her face along the casual street. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

The plaster ceiling was bellied in great swags and the yellowed dentil molding was bowed and sprung from the upper walls. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

Teeny hints of spring are trying to sprout up already in Dad’s yard. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

A couple of days after spring break ended, Mom found out that Via hadn’t told her about a school play that was happening at her high school the next week. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

Until the spring, improbable as ever, brought among its pretty new fashions, the greatest shock yet. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

“He has made me so happy,” said she, one evening, “by telling me that he was totally ignorant of my being in town last spring! I had not believed it possible.” Pride and Prejudice 1813-01-28T00:00:00Z

Then, just at dusk, the sky opened, and it began to rain—not li^it spring showers, but cold, soaking torrents of rain, streaming down her face, icicling rivulets down her chest and legs. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

Ropes sprang from the sides of the bed, lashing around Annabeth, holding her to the mattress. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

A short distance away, a clear spring trickled from a cleft rock, and the grass was full of game. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

New towns sprang up, new sections were opened and populated, for the company had to create customers to get custom. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

I tell Emery my new plans over the phone, and she tells me she wants to spend spring break on the beach with me. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Students went there a lot; every spring they had a Humphrey Bogart festival, with Lauren Bacall or Katharine Hepburn, women on their own, making up their minds. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

That was the mission of John Blackburn, Virginia’s easygoing admissions dean, when he rented a car and took to the road in the spring of 2005. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

The air was cool and soft, as if it were early spring, yet they felt about them the deep and thoughtful quiet of winter. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

I was hungry for green vegetables, and that night as I went off to sleep, I thought of the pokeweeds, the dandelions, the spring beauties that would soon be pressing up from the earth. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

They all kept flickering, changing, springing forward an hour, then falling back. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

We all knew that Bull couldn’t catch a pop fly if it landed in his lap, so we weren’t exactly surprised to see him bagging groceries that spring at the Winn-Dixie. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

Just as he reached it, the bear sprang up, clapped its expansive jaws around the front of Pitka’s head, as if giving him a big kiss, and with a single jerk tore off his face. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

The gargoyle sprang to life and jumped aside. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

“With my paint box at home, I can make every color imaginable. Pink. As pale as a baby’s skin. Or as deep as rhubarb. Green like spring grass. Blue that shimmers like ice on water.” Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

She sprang from the window, extending her arms as far as she could. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

Suddenly the passageway convulsed, the hidden roots of trees sprang up, the ground split beneath Taran, heaving and crumbling. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z

Penelope saw each member of the table react to the noise in his or her own fashion: Cassiopeia bared her upper teeth, and the boys grew alert and bright-eyed, ready to spring. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

And as Metatron raised the bloody stone high, a golden-furred shape sprang up like a flame leaping to a treetop, and the monkey sank his teeth into the angel’s hand. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

She knew moments of homesickness when she longed for the quarter, remembering the old familiar smoky smell of the cabin, the good smell of the earth when it was plowed in the spring. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

They sprang onto the field three at a time, one with a new, loaded box, the other two after downed pigeons. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

Everyone knew that with the coming of spring General Gage would leave the safety of Boston, strike out into the country as commanded by his King, and this time in considerable force. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

There's a stench in the air, which, from this distance underground, might be the smell either of death or of spring—I hope of spring. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

He wore a denture, made from one of his own teeth, a cow’s tooth, and hippopotamus ivory; metal springs held the denture in his mouth. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

I told her about our favorite bonfire at Lake Worth, where we go on spring and summer nights after Papi gets off work. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

After a while William went disconsolately back to the Bear Flag and through the window he saw the conversation spring up again and it saddened him. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

In spring and summer she will return to the Northeast, dividing her time among her son, her daughter, and her close Bengali friends. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Byrne pushes a button on the wall and the overhead light springs on as Mr. Byrne comes through the front door, having retrieved my bag from the truck. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

In the summer he usually raced at the cluster of tracks around Vancouver or at another western Canadian track called Glacier Park; in the fall and spring it was California’s Tanforan; in the winter, Tijuana. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’ve got more lines,” the boy announced, springing up to his feet. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

New and regal houses were springing up all over town, each following strict style regulations and a color code, and bound by a ninety-nine-year covenant forbidding resale to anyone not approved by the neighborhood. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

She watched him shake the snow off the saddle blanket and lead the mare to drink at the spring. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

By spring we have dug a well for clean, fresh water. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

She held up a small crystal phial: it glittered as she moved it, and rays of white light sprang from her hand. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

They gathered around the dining table, and Piper explained what had happened at Topeka 32—their conversation with Bacchus, the trap sprung by Gaea, the eidolons that had possessed the boys. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

The medals on his chest caught the light from the spring sun, sending undecipherable signals across the market to them. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Early that spring, a few days before the new school year started, Baba and I were planting tulips in the garden. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

“We have,” he said, “a stronger lineup than in the spring of 1935, and we figure to have three good fast boats in contention in January.” The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

“Tormund has given me his oath. He will serve with us until the spring. The Weeper and their other captains will swear the same or we will not let them pass.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Good feeling doesn’t last long, though: when I step off the field, there’s no sign of the powder-blue Cadillac convertible Daddy removes the cloth cover from and pulls out of the garage every spring. Fast Pitch 2021-08-31T00:00:00Z

One of the gasping joys of summer was my daily bath in the spring. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

But another version of the story springs up sometimes, one of him with pockets full of a few thousand dollars, gambling winnings he kept for himself, on his way to the Rocky Mountains. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

At the spring, he slipped the bits out of his horse’s mouth to let him drink, then turned to me. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

This is a paraphrase of Cowee’s story: Late one spring a large part of Tlingit ventured North to Yakutat to trade for copper. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was impatient to run, but he really didn’t mind having a chance to see how the others were doing since spring. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z

She was pale and as thin as she was when she’d left last spring. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

But it was maintained that rainfall alone could not explain the size of the rivers or the existence of springs emerging from underground; springs were fed directly, it was argued, from the ocean. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

An answer sprang to the tip of Meggie's tongue, but she swallowed it along with the last of her roll and took the book outside. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

She’d brought home Thai food takeout, and we both had plates with pad thai and spring rolls in front of us. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

He figured the news would “drop a bombshell on the gathering spring storm of antiwar protest.” Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

I was staring back at Alice’s headlights when the truck shuddered and a dark shadow sprung up outside the window. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

“Uh, I was just wondering ... if you would go to the spring dance with me?” Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

It took a while, but by the first Saturday of May, spring finally decided to stick around. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Then he began humming a commercial that he had heard during the baseball game on television last spring. From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

In spite of the tears, in spite of the fountain of feeling which had sprung between them once again, Lancelot persisted in remaining loyal to his Grail. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Everywhere, rulers and elites sprang up, living off the peasants’ surplus food and leaving them with only a bare subsistence. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

As if fresh from a night’s rest they sprang from stone to stone. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

I imagine the cottage feels haunted at night, but surrounded by trees in the spring sunlight, it is beautiful. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

It was sweet and fiery and seemed to settle in your stomach with a warm feeling: like spring was inside you. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

He just lifted the box and pulled the spring mechanism of the mousetrap back until it clicked into place again. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

She flicked her wrist and a ball of angry red flame sprang to life. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Richardson, doing some quick mental math, calculated that Mia—if this was even the same Mia—would not yet have been pregnant with Pearl that spring. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

One day long ago Snuffy was fishing toward the hot springs from downriver when he heard voices at the bigger pool. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

He flailed back against the evergreens, and the jugs appeared to spring out of the snow. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The thing is, this is going to be our last spring concert before the three of us graduate.” Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

Nothing prospered there in Hearth or tilth, all being blighted with illness, the spring seed frozen in the ground or the ripe grain rotten, and so it had been for many years. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

Earthworms are important among the various foods of the raccoon, and are eaten in the spring and fall by opossums. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

“I thought Catapult was a spring break city in Mexico.” Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

He thinks my hair smells like spring rain. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

Ralph leaped lightly from the top of the book, dashed across the floor, and sprang up on Brad’s jeans. Ralph S. Mouse 1992-08-01T00:00:00Z

By the middle of the afternoon, we stopped by an ojito, a spring bubbling out of a rock wall, and drank water straight out of the spouting hole. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

They sprang aside as earth showered down and daylight poured in. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

Once, back in the spring during his early days with Min, he had watched the potter place a plum branch in a finished vase to judge the effect. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

Violence was the very soil from which sugar sprang. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

Gandalf was thinking of a spring, nearly eighty years before, when Bilbo had run out of Bag End without a handkerchief. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

They rejoined the small footpath when the sun was near its peak in the sky and the woods was in full-on spring. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

“Thought you left the game a long time ago, Ma. You ain’t no spring chicken, you know!” Dragons in a Bag 2018-10-23T00:00:00Z

Pong stood in a half crouch, his knees bent, like an animal ready to spring at her. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

I must say here that I was beginning to wonder if I should not go home for the winter and come back again in the spring. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

It's the April rose that only grows in the early spring... October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

Although snow lay about and everyone was wrapped deep in their clothing, the appearance of the clouds made a body know deep down that spring was stirring. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

Prince Hamlet, who was then about fourteen, sprang about the hall with much silliness and some grace, his dark hair flying wildly about his head. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

Eager volunteers sprang into gear, getting the word out about the memorial and raising money. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

The string of cars trolled up Water Street through a bright spring day. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

“Delicious! We have a spring show coming up. I think I’m gonna get the lead! Will you come see me?” Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Everyone else was in a good mood because of it being Friday, and spring break was the following week. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

Until Frank opens his mouth, lets a long breath escape into the spring air. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Ophie had tried to open the curtains to let in the glorious spring morning sunshine and had gotten an earful, and that was only the beginning. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

Back in spring, when I was in the fifth grade, just months before he, like his brother, was assassinated, Big Ma put on a church outfit to hear the senator speak. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

“My son will run for the Elector’s position in late spring.” Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

Everywhere there was the smell of vitality in clothes, the vital something in wool and flannel and corduroy which spring releases. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

This road they followed but they did not ride upon it; for the ground beside it was firm and level, covered for many miles about with short springing turf. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

It travels by unseen waterways until here and there it comes to the surface as a spring, or perhaps it is tapped to feed a well. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

Artemis changed her into a spring of water, and cleft the earth so that a tunnel was made under the sea from Greece to Sicily. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

Flowers were plentiful that spring because of the winter’s heavy rains. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had just been promised a teaching assistantship for the spring semester, and he had been in the mood for a celebration. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

Father agreed to finance me for a year and after various delays I came east, permanently, I thought, in the spring of twenty-two. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

Questions spring free in my mind, questions I thought I no longer cared about. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

Soon his floor was like the healthy banks of a pond in spring when the tadpoles, having just turned, sprang in the wet grass. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe if Lolo stops acting so weird I can try out for a spot on the softball team in the spring. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

Since flight and hiding were no longer possible, Frodo and Sam sprang to their feet, putting back to back and whipping out their small swords. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

She types in the code, and the door springs open. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

She wondered what he would do if he knew that she was planning to run away next spring. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

“It doesn’t flow as fast as the spring comes out, so it gathers in these pools...They’ve gone in there,” he whispered, indicating a little group of trees at the foot of the slope. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

What his sons and their contemporaries undertook, instead, was a massive spring clean of musical style and a project to celebrate not earnestness but wit, not inventiveness but elegance, not piety but beauty. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

At two minutes before four in the afternoon, his father sprang the trap. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

About another mile down the lane a metal fence sprang up. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

Some time when she was out looking for food she might wander by the spring and see that it was being used and find my steps leading to the cave. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the spring, she got so sick that she landed in the hospital, missing more than a month of work, as well as another coast-to-coast trip. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

The hobbits sprang to their feet in alarm, and ran to the western rim. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

One morning in the spring of 1981, an American spy went on a family picnic. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

At dusk I was coming back from the spring with a basket of water on my shoulder, walking along the cliff with Rontu-Aru. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

It fell on the gold ground, only to bound back up as if springing from a cushion. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

There was another heavy rustle and then the sound of lapping at the spring. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

It wasn’t how I remembered my lesson the previous spring in Coach Mustilli’s garage. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

By treating wheat strains with such “shock therapy,” Lysenko argued that he could make the plants flower more vigorously in the spring and yield higher bounties of grain through the summer. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

The slender bars crumpled and the door sprang open. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

The ship did not come and thus winter passed and the spring. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

The following spring, when antiwar protests broke out, she did not get in her car and drive to join them. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Six paces from him I spring to a stiff salute and maintain it until I am six paces beyond him. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

Pushing about a hundred yards north, Snuffy discovered the trail into the gorge he had known would be there, a narrow descent to the river bank where two small hot springs were located. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was early spring when at last the Master released him, sending him first to offer his fealty to the Archmage Gensher. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

With that Beregond sprang away and ran off into the gloom. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

Axel tries to think back to the days and weeks they visited this spring. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

He sprang up and turned; but all that he saw to his surprise was Boromir, and his face was smiling and kind. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

“Bring me your best and brightest bookworms, research hounds, and gamers. Our first Library Olympiad shall commence on March twentieth. The ancient Greeks had their summer games, so we’ll take the first day of spring.” Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z

“So,” Mike said, looking at the floor, “Jessica asked me to the spring dance.” Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

He turned toward the opening, ran forward, took the steps in one spring, and when he reached the outer portal, bounded through it. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

Her maids sluiced the blood off her face, scrubbed the dirt from her back, washed her hair and brushed it out until it sprang back in thick auburn curls. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

The chipmunk’s shrill voice cut through the silence, and its claws scrabbled up the dresser as the cat half sprang—but recollected himself in time and slipped but of the door after the grosbeak instead. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I’d visited the plant earlier that spring I watched steers being unloaded from trailers into corrals. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

“Will you ask me to the spring dance?” he continued. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

But then I sprang forward and surprised him. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

“The eighth graders have the spring dance,” Bridge said. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

He found the spring and drank deeply, filling his canteen. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

In my dream, spring came after summer, came after fall, came after winter, came after spring. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

Then like a coiled spring he jumped up, his pistol aimed straight up. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mala sprang at him, shrieking that he had no business with her property. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Do you hear that?” the man said, springing to his feet. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

By the time we got back from Richmond, it had stopped raining, and even though we’d only been gone for a day, it seemed as if spring had suddenly moved into Maryland. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

“It smells like spring,” Marly said, to help out. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

A hot spring sun beat down without relief. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

He wouldn’t be sixteen until spring, and he never asked Lexie or Trip to drive him anywhere if he could help it. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Comparing notes of their experiences at college so far, they discover that they had both taken Psychology 110 the previous spring. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Then I spring after it, yanking it from the water, tearing off the silver fabric to retrieve the vial. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

“You can’t spring something like that on me, and then expect me not to say anything,” I mumbled against his finger. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

She was already playing with the water jets dancing on springs from the ceiling. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

To find enough wood to make another would have taken me all the spring and summer. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

The question had sprung out of him, something he had not consciously put together in his mind until that moment. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Nameless and naked he walked into the cold springs of the Ar where it rises among rocks under the high cliffs. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

On a cool spring afternoon on a soccer field in northern Georgia, two teams of teenage boys were going through their pregame warm-ups. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

Across the room, Oriana springs to her feet with a gasp. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

On spring and summer days, she would sit on her perch outside and watch the birds, the butterflies, and busy Sam. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

“It was like that time I threw you into the sulfur spring to teach you to swim,” he said. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

I was thinking how much my mother complained, that perhaps all of her unhappiness sprang from her complaints. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

I stared at the horse who had just sprung from the wheelchair: a huge white stallion. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

Perhaps on his rare sojourns into civilization, Smith had passed the Howard Automobile Company dealerships springing up. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I brought you a feather with the spring wind in it, but since you were late . ..” she looked at me gravely, “you get a coin instead.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

They would have rolled him in the dust and torn him there by his own steading if the swineherd had not sprung up and flung his leather down, making a beeline for the open. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Falcons go in to score a few times and spring to a good lead. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

We’re quiet now, leaning our heads against the stones lining the spring and watching the hanging lanterns illuminate the water with gold. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

The spring weather was still sporadic—cold and dismal one day, perfectly warm the next. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

He was sitting up in bed, as though ready to spring out of it, totally and energetically awake. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

Kids who slide on icy patches in the winter and stomp in puddles in the spring. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

The bells of day had scarcely rung out again, a mockery in the unlightened dark, when far away he saw fires spring up, across in the dim spaces where the walls of the Pelennor stood. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

The huntress looked up at Ash with eyes the color of spring leaves and said, “You've found me.” Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was the first warm day of spring. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

They sprang out of the water like sleek mojarras—two slim, delicate fish flying out of the river. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

Once we reached the pond, Otto sprang from my arms and scampered to the edge, cupping water in his hand and gulping greedily. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

We have found no freshwater springs nearby, and so we are still dependent on the river for water. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

And another creature that looked as if it had been sprung from the limbs of an oak tree: wood nymph. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

The subject is still spring, and is singular. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

The warm and sunny memories of the summer will help push me through the cold to spring. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

Sitti said they would teach her how to sew and pick lentils and marinate olives and carry water from the spring on her head and speak Arabic. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

At that sound the bent shape of the king sprang suddenly erect. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

Blue as cornflowers, or dragonfly wings, or a spring—not summer—sky. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

I couldn’t resist the urge to scratch, and when I did the rash sprang back red. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

On Saturday morning I woke up before my alarm went off, and jumped out of bed like I had springs under my feet. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

I thanked him and we sprang up the mountain, cut across through the gorge and home. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

He walked with a spring in his step, as though he enjoyed being alive. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Thousands sprang up from the ground like leaves in a wind. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

I held the lighter at arm’s length for two who had rolled their own, ready to spring back at any second. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We will eat a little less then at the spring festival,” said Wang Lung. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

The snow still fell, a mild spring blizzard, much pleasanter than the relentless rain of the Thaw just past. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

This spring in particular has seen quite the baby boom. Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

They had stayed to themselves pretty much through the spring, settling into Mrs. Cobb’s house. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

Augustus pulled me out of the room and through the door to the late spring morning and the falling confetti of the elms. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

February in their small town of Darling, Georgia, was chilly, but the sun still rose every morning to remind everyone that spring was on its way. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

It is supposed to be a joke, as if Gram and Gramps were going away by themselves and might not reappear until the following spring when the tulips were in bloom. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

“And you know how every spring you complain because you have to wear a dress and go to the father-daughter dance? But you always have fun?” Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

The weather became quite warm and it was like spring. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

As for the monkey dæmon, he glared at Will without blinking, crouched ready to spring. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

She did indeed rise from the dead every spring, but she brought with her the memory of where she had come from; with all her bright beauty there was something strange and awesome about her. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

But then adds: "But I'm not going to join any kind of team in the spring. I made that part up. I'm just going to run for myself." Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

I had loved history until that spring when we began the study of slavery. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

But the instant was gone before she could grasp it, and the mocking light had sprung again into his eyes. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m lucky. We received a letter this morning that snows in the mountains prevented Hollin from coming home. He’s stuck at school until after his spring term, and he’s beside himself.” Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

He must have known all along that the scientific life was not for me, that the jaws of the domestic trap were well and truly sprung. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

It can make about fifteen or eighteen miles an hour—quite fast enough when you have no windshield and no springs. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

I wanted so badly to describe the prairie smell to him, the sweet promise of spring after a Chinook, the warm, edgy rub of sage, the rib-eye steak smell of my fields. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

As it’s spring, today it is all a new fresh green. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

Well, I’ve decided that the spring concert is going to be all Latin music, and that song is going to be the finale. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

I helped Grammy check each cottage refrigerator to make sure it was empty, unplugged, and left open so it doesn’t stink in the spring. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

The election came, Mr. Buchanan was elected, and the endorsement, such as it was, was secured At length, a squabble springs up...” Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

When he didn’t work, he and Mami rustled behind the flowered curtain, creaked the springs under their mattress, their voices a murmur that I strained to hear but couldn’t. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

And then as the winter rains gave way to spring, Uncle took the first step toward making peace. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

I sprang to my feet and turned about. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

There are no houses, no huts, just wise old trees in spring leaf, standing guard over the sandy shore. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

The cliffs loomed higher and ever higher overhead as he approached the mountain-root from which they sprang, and the lane of water grew narrower. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

With a suddenness that startled them all the wizard sprang to his feet. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

In spring 1938, Austria is reunited with Germany, and near the end of the school year, a Nazi official, an SS officer, accompanies Herr Vinke to class. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

The larger pieces—mattresses, box springs, broken pieces of furniture—he left outside, leaning against the storehouse. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

In the spring of 1975, near the time of Saigon’s final collapse, I received a long, disjointed letter in which Bowker described the problem of finding a meaningful use for his life after the war. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

If no monsters were visible, that just meant they were hiding, waiting to spring a trap. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

All the attendants and nobles sprang up in a flurry, rippling out like waves in the water. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

But before she could release it her husband sprang forward. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

Thus the high hopes that had given comfort to the North during the spring were almost crushed by early fall. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

Back in the kitchen she took off the apron and put it in the stove and poked the coals until a flame sprang up on the cloth. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

He sprang up and at the men as a dog springs at an enemy. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

Slowly I crawled on, stopping to listen, to glance back, to measure the distance between me and the spring. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the spring of 1951, the lab staged Project Greenhouse, a test of thermonuclear technology at the South Pacific coral atoll of Eniwetok. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

The gyptian families, who lived in canal boats, came and went with the spring and autumn fairs, and were always good for a fight. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

Tyson looked down at the pieces of metal he was assembling in his lap—springs and gears and tiny wires. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

I first noticed him in the spring when I took pictures of the track meet for the yearbook. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

So, in the spring of 1679, Halley set out to see if the incredible claims for accuracy that Hevelius, now aged 68, was making could be justified. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring; There shallow draughts intoxicate the brain, and drinking largely sobers us again.’ Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z

No-Longer-Small Bob sprang at Tartarus, sinking his claws into Tartarus’s thigh. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

It smells faintly of perfume, which is like a mix of fresh laundry, pear, and spring rain. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

I was reminded of this when I was visited by my mother in the spring of 1968.1 had not seen her since the end of the Rivonia Trial. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Davos could hear the rain lashing at the walls, and a steady dripping where the roof had sprung a leak. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The windows were broken and sagging and weeds were growing up between the floorboards, and even one old rusted cookstove had fireweed springing from the firebox. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

L. Einstein & Co. sold costume jewelry, and I worked there through the Christmas holidays and into the spring. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

Leo was too dazed to move, but Calypso sprang to her feet. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

“In the spring? What did they do that for?” Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

Everywhere he looked there were buckets of loose metal bits, tiny motors, gears, springs, nuts, bolts, and brightly colored tin. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

If thrown to the ground he sprang up with renewed strength from the contact. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

Wait for it to grow like leaves grow slowly on the branches of a spring oak tree. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

In the evening, spring or winter, summer or fall, Mig stood in the field as the sun set, hoping that the royal family would pass before her again. The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z

They can only be wondering what has happened, why the wire has gone slack or maybe even sprung back to the tree. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

The water changed to vapor and rose, became rain and came down again, became spring, brook and river, changed anew, flowed anew. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z

“And so, as long as you continue to meet the requirements, you have a guaranteed spot for next spring.” Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

The path was here rocky, there carpeted with pine needles, occasionally damp and mucky where tiny springs trickled across. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Seriously, though, in a few weeks spring will be here for real, and those daffs will be sitting pretty, just like your dad likes.” Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

“Well, of course, we didn’t realize about the spring while we was still on the farm,” said Miles. Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

It happened to be standing out in front of the house, right where the ground broke away in a sharp slant toward the spring and creek. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mean little buds resisting the touch, springing like rubber. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

Inside was a young man with red hair that sprang up all over his head in spurts. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

There are now only two or three dozen robins to be found each spring on the entire 185-acre campus of Michigan State University, compared with a conservatively estimated 370 adults in this area before spraying. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

“It works on a spring to hold the gas in. When I pull it down, some gas escapes outta the top, and we lose buoyancy and go down.” The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

I sprang up and stood beside him on the rock; he handed me his glasses and pointed. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

One side of the spring overlooks a mountain range, where the ridges are just now catching the last rays of the sun. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

As soon as Grandma made the proper cuts, the birchbark, filled water with spring water, nearly burst from the tree! The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

He watched me, his hand on the lever that would spring the doors shut. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

My mattress back in our tiny studio had been salvaged for free off the sidewalk, a ratty old spring pad that squeaked like hell every time I moved on it. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

In the spring of i960 a deluge of reports of dead birds reached British wildlife authorities, including the British Trust for Ornithology, the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds, and the Game Birds Association. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

It is our first class together, in the spring of 1976. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

There had been no fresh meat in the little house since spring, but now the fawns were grown up, and Pa would go hunting again. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

Samuel thinks it may be the water they use, which comes from a separate spring that runs dear even in the dry season. The Color Purple 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

It sprung open and as he looked down at his clothes and books in the snow, his glasses slid off his nose. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

The Birdbrain Family had set a row of thirty birdhouses along their backyard fence, even though Luke could have told them it was pointless to do that until spring. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Somewhere in all that chaos, it was only Harison who knew what to do. He sprang aloft, gatherin’ the sail with his long arms. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

The spring gurgled and trickled through mossy rocks, and she dipped her hands in it again and again, washing them clear of the mud and grime before lifting the water to her mouth. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

As for the Beans Boys, as they sometimes called themselves, by spring they had tired of tormenting Dorothy and pretty much ignored her. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

The key tightened a spring connected to a series of gears that extended down into the base of the figure. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

Then they came to the spring, where water gathered in a shining pool by the roadside. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

He asked Lazzaro if he planned to feed the Blue Fairy Godmother clock springs and steak. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

“On the way out to the hot springs, I started telling them about my friend Alex, and the adventure he’d set out to have in Alaska.’ Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

A spring had been tapped, far beyond the reach of authority or even physical intimidation. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

As she reaches the end of the bridge, her mech crouches down like a leopard ready to spring. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

That spring, we had felt a certain thawing on the part of the authorities, a relaxation of the iron-fisted discipline that had prevailed on the island. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’m past the shields that protect the surface level of Warcross and have dived into the sprawling, encrypted, anonymous underground world of virtual reality that has sprung up right under the Warcross platform. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

I jumped up, my bronze sword springing to life in my hands, and found myself facing a bunch of .. . dogs. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

“She sprung from the head of Zeus in full battle armor or something.” The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

Nor, thinking of the past, of the many summers and winters and springs that had gone, could I see each of them. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

Drought years shrank the hide tighter to the bones; ewes dropped weak lambs and cows had no calves in the spring. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

So, sometimes, especially when there were good spring rains, before practice we would be out there cutting the tall grass with a scythe. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the spring, the rains came, drenching the valley for days in sheets of falling water. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

But I’m going to stick with John at the spring concert. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

An enormous cyclonic windstorm—a storm that made the previous fall’s windstorm look almost like a spring breeze— slammed into Washington State. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

"I'm still on P.A.S. and I may yet lose a rib or two, but I'll be back at med school by next fall. A year from this spring at the latest..." The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

On the table were little blue cardboard cartons of blueberries, blackberries, and raspberries, and the tarts on the cover of Ruby Willow’s cookbook sprang into my mind. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

Bull went into the kitchen, listening for the sounds of the house springing to life. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

He taught her how to make numbers into something larger than themselves, applying them to larger concepts about motion and force, space and time, curves and circles and tightened springs. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

The hard labor of spring planting and fall harvesting is followed, like clockwork, by the slower pace of summer and winter. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

All four Tucks sprang to their feet at once, while Winnie, very frightened, shrank back in her chair. Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

Several red laser scanners sprang to life under the book drop slot. Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

Tears spring to my eyes, maybe because it’s the first time it actually feels like I really need divine intervention in my life. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

The next spring the town council voted to widen the road on each side of the railroad tracks, which meant the Cold Sassy tree had to go. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

Instantly they cooled; the relief was so great that tears sprang to Ranofer’s eyes. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

He’s got Renault there, pale and tense as if he’s facing a firing squad, and Janza, the animal, a chained animal waiting to spring loose. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Only the fifth grade wasn’t involved, because they needed to focus on the spring tests to make sure they graduated and moved on to middle school. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z

We had gone to gather roots that grow there in the spring. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

I remembered those springs when she would wear thin cotton dresses to class and make me moan and ache in Spanish Harlem. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

It was spring, late March, with alternately cold and wet weather—now and then a chance of light snow. This Side of Wild 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

The village of Ghalas-at lay east of the hills on a small mesa, near Coral Cove and a good spring. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Maybe we’ll have better luck on the other side. Find a spring or something.” Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

It wasn’t spring—that was still weeks away, and the trees surrounding the house were still deeply asleep. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

That spring was a very wild time for our robot. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

In the spring of 1940, at the end of a busy school day, Katherine was surprised to find Dr. Davis, the president of her alma mater, waiting outside her classroom. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

There between the graves, a beautiful red fem had sprung up from the rich mountain soil. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Yossarian sprang forward to see where they were and remained in the same place. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

This was a dream I could never share, one I carried deep inside my heart, tucked so far down that I hadn’t even realized it was there until it sprang out of me, fully formed. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

These small details spring out from the thickest brush and shadows, but the larger pieces stay crouched in hiding, and the largest piece of all lurks in the deepest, darkest cave, pacing and putrid. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

I hear the breathing, the clearing of throats, the accidental springing up of a seat as the audience adjusts and the conductor lifts his baton to begin. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

The foremost fell with Legolas’ last arrow in his throat, but the rest sprang over him. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

“I could use a little spring in my step. Maybe a little Irish spring.” The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

Tears sprang to her eyes as she sheathed the knife. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

These tensions are rooted in the very same depths as those from which love springs, or murder. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z

I fix my eyes on a shell-hole; the moment the light dies I scurry over into it, grope farther, spring into the next, duck down, scramble onward. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were apart from one another, but as I watched two more sprang up. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

At the last possible second, Lefty would spring awake, taking the wheel and averting disaster. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

In the spring of 1953 a large British team, organized with the righteous zeal and overpowering resources of a military campaign, became the third expedition to attempt Everest from Nepal. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

Grover tried to get up, but ropes sprang from his black- satin bed, too, and lashed him down. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

Then they yelled and dozens of other goblins had sprung out of the trees. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

Something from Joseph Conrad sprang to my mind, although I cannot seem to remember what it was at the time. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Because,” I answer softly, “she can breed. I saw her flirt with a tercel last spring. She will have young. There will be wild peregrines on the cliffs again.” On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

They sprang up in fields along the railroad and were gone by next day. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

We first heard the bulls while we were eating our dinner of cornbread, roasted venison, and green watercress gathered from below the spring. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

The crow, terrified by the noise and dust and commotion, sprang skyward. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

Last spring, he remembered, Chris had asked if he wanted to double-date for the Holy Angels junior prom. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

I sprang off my heels, forward and to the left. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even from there, I could see that in a rainy spring, that old river would really choose its own direction. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

"I will be helping the Blue Dragon bring in spring. It is a great honor. But once I begin, I cannot be seen by mortal eyes. We will never meet again." When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

In PE, Coach Swieteck put Joseph in charge of his own squad of kids who wanted to go out for track and field in the spring. Orbiting Jupiter 2015-10-06T00:00:00Z

One Drum was this big outdoor event, held every spring in Rolland to raise money for local food banks. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

“This is my room,” Pearl said suddenly, and Moody sprang up again. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

The previous spring, I'd been on the back porch wondering if I could just move over to Uncle Earl’s when I graduated, when Mom called me into the house. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

Doors sprang tightly shut, but the windows were broken by the heat and the wind blew and sucked upon the fire. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

As the spring advanced they tracked it eastward, and the first frost drove them west and south. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

The Questing Beast and King Pellinore put their heads together and sent some of their most perfect fewmets, wrapped up in the green leaves of spring, in a golden horn with a red velvet baldrick. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Chiron gazed at the saltwater spring gurgling in the corner of the room. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

County officials say they eliminated the springs out of concern that bathers might become gravely ill from virulent microbes thought to flourish in the thermal pools. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I came here to change. Your lawyer hit man, Nazario, sprung me out of work and gave me no choice.” Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

Early spring was not a bit more amazing than early summer, because the big pushing went on and on. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

The afternoon was green and gold with spring. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

Jessica made me aware of another event looming on the horizon — she called the first Tuesday of March to ask my permission to invite Mike to the girls’ choice spring dance in two weeks. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

Like a demon, Booth emerged from the cloud of black powder and sprang at him. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Great shadows sprang up and fled, and for a second they saw a vast roof far above their heads upheld by many mighty pillars hewn of stone. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

The boats must be heading to Summerton, the small city that springs to life around the king’s summer residence. Red Queen 2015-02-10T00:00:00Z

Ida showed Hornet the school she and Prosper would be going to in the spring. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

My head practically hits the ceiling because someone’s retied the seat springs too tight. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

We located our first bunch of hogs at a seep spring at the head of a shallow dry wash that led back toward Birdsong Creek. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

Matthias’s chair clattered on its side as he sprang forward, breaking free from the restraining paws of the Abbot. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

The most famous flu epidemic of all — the pandemic of 1918 — was first spotted in the spring of that year and was, relatively speaking, quite tame. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Then the town will own the spring. You’ll all still have a chance to get out from under Burton and the mine,” Jinx urged. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

He looked at the picture of the cascading spring on the bottle. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

By the time they had thrashed this out, they were late for breakfast They dressed hurriedly and ran out into the spring. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

With a blood curdling scream he sprang from the tree with claws outspread and long, yellow fangs bared. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

I dart back across the diamond, spring off the balance ball, and land in front of the whiteboard. A High Five for Glenn Burke 2020-02-25T00:00:00Z

Exulting, the sailors sprang ashore and seized him. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had only joined a few months ago, at the beginning of the spring semester, but I was really into it. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

“Fletcher and I were up there last spring and we tried to get you day and night.” Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

Since it was only the first day of spring, the pool was still covered with a tarp, but the stainless steel gas grills on the concrete slab surrounding it had been shined and buffed. Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z

I finished my set, sprang to my feet, and felt the room spin. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

He sprang up with his fangs bared and his skeletal chest heaving. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

It smelled like the freshness of spring and all the joy that it could bring. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

The white fruit, an eye without an iris, ran juices like spring rivers inside my mother’s mouth. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ents and Huorns were digging great pits and trenches, and making great pools and dams, gathering all the waters of the Isen and every other spring and stream that they could find. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

He crouched, ready to spring at his tormentor. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

A fresh batch of tears sprang to my eyes. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

“The worst of winter, snowmelt, spring flood. Two moons, perhaps, and the bridge will welcome us back!” A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

In spring 1867, he published his study in a respected British medical journal. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

Harley’s burro went faster after they left the spring, and the gray mule had to walk faster to keep slack in the rope. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

In the spring semester he takes an introductory class in architecture. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

So in the spring of eighth grade I decided to quit. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Funny thing, from the dictionary first page right now, that “aardvark” springs to my mind. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

The last commencement I attended that spring was personal—Malia's graduation from Sidwell Friends, held on a warm day in June. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

The banging of hammers and chink of chisels filled the air, summer, autumn, winter, and spring. Beowulf: A New Telling 1968-01-01T00:00:00Z

No sooner am I on top than the dog is up again as lively as ever and springs at me. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

I sprang up, but Bloody Juan pushed me back down on the table. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Outside a light wind had sprung up and was whispering gently to the cherry-trees in the Lane. Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z

She sat up, yawned, stretched, shivered, and washed in the chilly spring before eating a couple of dried figs and taking stock of the place. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

I remember her going to India for spring break and returning with a bindi on her head and photos of her smiling Indian cousins. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

Then suddenly there was his youngest son standing before him, sprung out of the darkness of the court, and no one had seen him enter. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

He and Esther spoke in the yard again as spring was just beginning. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

‘This is where he struck the earth,’ Annabeth said, ‘where he made a saltwater spring appear when he had the contest with my mom to sponsor Athens.’ Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

I try to spring back to my feet, but someone knocks me down again, and a sharp pain makes my back twitch. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

The broad-leafed trees become smaller, there are more pines, the air cools, the sky turns an icier blue: we’re heading away from spring. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

After the Boston Tea Party, in 1773, when the anger of the American colonists against their British rulers began to spill over, dozens of committees and congresses of angry colonists sprang up around New England. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Faint to my ears came the gathered rumour of all lands: the springing and the dying, the song and the weeping, and the slow everlasting groan of overburdened stone. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

He decided that Adonis should spend half the year with each, the autumn and winter with the Queen of the Dead; the spring and summer with the Goddess of Love and Beauty. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

The days since spring, whenever I went to the reef to fish, he would not go with me unless I urged him to. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

The moonlight suddenly failed, as a great black cloud sailed across the sky; and when the gaslight sprang up under Quincey’s match, we saw nothing but a faint vapour. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

He simply wanted to enjoy: the bright spring day, the company of his friends. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

They both knew that the end was probably near as they sat and listened to the birds sing in the spring sunshine and admired the crocuses opening up. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Annoyed, unused to failure, he sprang again, this time making sure of success. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Or would I, like the pieces of Leo’s mandolin, lodge stubbornly in some quiet place behind a boulder and wait, my clothes washing about me, for spring? The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

In the spring of 1956, “clean” devices were placed on the program for Operation Redwing, a series of tests in the South Seas. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

When light suddenly burst into the car, Gabriel sprang up as one would do in the middle of a nightmare. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

He washed his hands in the cold spring water. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

They enter complaining of the cold that has persisted this far into spring, of the stinging, bothersome wind that tosses the treetops outside. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

A drama club field trip for three nights last spring. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Already it was getting cold and a bit of a chill wind was springing up. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

He keeps his wedding ring in a blue velvet box with tight springs. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

After being compressed, air would spring back, given an opportunity. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

By the spring of 1944, with the Nazis’ South American spy networks all but crushed, Elizebeth was eager for a new challenge. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

The seniors have a tradition of going out to breakfast en masse one morning in the spring. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

They talked about digging a well, fashioning traps, felling trees, warming orchards with fire when spring weather was bad, breaking young horses, training dogs. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

His dæmon, the snow leopard, sprang up to follow him, and he turned to adjust something beside her. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

She worked at this task all day, pausing only to wipe her forehead of the beads of moisture that sprang from the hard work she was doing. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

A spring of water flowed from a ravine nearby. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

I would have to spring far out or risk falling into the shallow water next to the bank. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

Someone practical like Perilee might tell me it was only the buffalo grass, warmed to sweetness by the spring sun. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

Aunt Addie was the only teacher and from the first day an acute, bitter antagonism sprang up between us. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

But the roots seem to suddenly be springing up everywhere. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

One night that spring, he came into the bedroom where I was up on my bunk studying. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

She had stood up right away, had waited, and had then sprung forward nimbly. The Metamorphosis 1915-01-01T00:00:00Z

He ran a stick across the bars of the cage, and the tiger glared and backed off, as if preparing to spring again. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

What I need is the dandelion in the spring. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

There they cut stones and tracery, carved capitals and sculptures in preparation for the return of the masons in the spring. Cathedral: The Story of Its Construction 1973-09-19T00:00:00Z

I should sleep, drop war till spring as I normally do. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now in the spring of 1842, the family made a trip to Maer, where Charles, freed from his coral reefs, started to think again about his species theory. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

He sprung one of his nails out of the pad of his right forepaw and lifted the latch of the gate to the cage. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

These she scattered on the grave, where they fell among the crevices and seemed to spring from the rocks themselves. The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z

But May 11, 1956, the day of the trial, was finally here, and it was a sparkling spring morning. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

It had been a mild, serene spring day—one of those days which, towards the end of March or the beginning of April, rise shining over the earth as heralds of summer. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

He had finished eating and was standing by the sink, trying to remember what his aunty had told him about opening it to have water gush out like a spring, when Master walked in. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Then suddenly, with a quick little movement she freed herself, sprang away from it and landed inside the shop. Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z

The huge salmon swam up the falls, springing up and defying gravity as if it had been thrown upward into the air. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

In the bedroom, three old mattresses without sheets are laid across the floor, a carpet of bony springs. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

There was an unusually hot day that spring, and Luke and I spent it hauling purlins—the iron beams that run horizontally along the length of a roof. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

She had the poise of a sword fighter—relaxed yet vigilant, as if ready to spring into action at any moment. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

Down the hillside the young Entwash, leaping from its springs high above, ran noisily from step to step to meet them. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

I see it turning green again in the spring. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

They saw instead a most lovely milk-white hind springing into the forest. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then March came, breaking the back of winter with warmth permeating the cold, and with the smell of spring drifting daily to tease hope and to give shy promise of a coming radiance. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

And yet the heat that springs from the constant danger, from a lifestyle of near-death experience, is thrilling. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

“From the spring just fifty yards west of here, isn’t that correct?” Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

All I had to do was to press my front paws on to a tiny wooden platform and hey presto, a spring would stretch and a weight would drop and the door would swing open. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z

“No animal likes to be cooped up too long. Your father and me are going back on the hill to clean the leaves out of the spring.” The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the spring the boy went to the fields to work. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Until that spring I believed that my life and my family were nearly perfect. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

By the spring of 1944, it was clear that the Nazis had lost their chance of taking the continent. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

I came to our spring that gushed clear cold water out of a split in a rock ledge. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then sprang, stretching out and out, feeling the air ruffle his belly fur. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

He tipped his bowler and sprang away, jumping from table to table. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

We'd been phone buddies the previous summer, and ten days of spring break would feel like an eternity away from him. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

He remembered the coldness of the mountain spring through which he had walked naked and unnamed. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

A hard winter had been followed by no sign of spring, and Maesie had delayed planting at first, hoping for sunshine and warmth before she subjected her seedlings to the cold earth. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

He didn’t know of any springs that big anywhere. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

But then all that changed last spring when some of the girls just stopped standing up when we picked teams. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

We planted potatoes for spring, even though no one wanted to believe we might still be in Siberia when the cold broke. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

Rab, for instance, all that spring had been going to Lexington once or twice a week to drill with his fellow townsmen. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

A little spring fell tumbling down and fed the grass. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

In the spring Maria turned thirteen, Jacob Marrel shut down his studio and left home with his two apprentices for an extended business trip. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

His secondaries sprouted along his forearms, and a charming little false primary sprang from the end of each thumb. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

A rusty iron pipe ran a thin stream of spring water into an old green tub. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

In dreamier moments, I’d thought I might use it to stake up some hollyhocks come spring. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

Thorn’s outfit had gloves with needlelike spikes that sprung up from the knuckles, and Seven’s had a small golden dagger that gleamed in the light. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

They toured the southern states early in the year, performed at cities in the Midwest and Northeast during the spring and summer, and also had invitations from Canada and the West Coast. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z

She comes in and sits down on the bed next to me, making the springs creak. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

It was now doubly dangerous for her to return to slave territory, yet in the spring of 18 51 she went back to Dorchester County. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Lycaon sprang through the air, his claws extended, his fangs bared. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

“What was that your dad said about springing immediately?” Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

Nothing grew; no seed sprang up; in vain the oxen drew the plowshare through the furrows. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

She could feel tears springing into the corners of her eyes. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z

The lid sprang open and Hagar saw a tiny part of her face reflected in the mirror. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the spring of 1967, it looked as if Durham was in for another “long, hot summer.” The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

Then I walk out of there, this time with a spring in my step. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

It was spring now, but Shirley, hunched in her coat, walked as if there were still snow on the ground. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z

But here now are pretty flowered spring dresses, tweed coats and trousers, crocheted sweaters on fat babies. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

But don't let me trick you, there is a death in the smell of spring and in the smell of thee as in the smell of me. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

His master’s voice acted on Buck like an electric shock, He sprang to his feet and ran up the bank ahead of the men to the point of his previous departure. The Call of the Wild 1903-01-01T00:00:00Z

Every day during those two springs and two summers I had gone to the headland and watched, always at dawn and again at dusk. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

As August passed in peace and quiet, spirits rose even higher: spring was on the way. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

A long whippy larch branch sprang forward suddenly. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

At this Snowball sprang to his feet, and shouting down the sheep, who had begun bleating again, broke into a passionate appeal in favour of the windmill. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z

I went off to the spring after a bucket of fresh water and wondered when Papa would come back. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

I walk to the new town market that has sprung up since the Youns came. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

No, he would have to remain there, alert for any trap the devilish creature might spring . A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

The little fox bounded back to the fallen oak, then sprang onto its trunk. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

He felt that he was lying in a soft slimy bog, and springing up he set his foot on the corner of a cold hard flagstone. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

Blue as cornflowers, or dragonfly wings, or a spring—not summer—sky. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

We hide amongst the banana trees that have sprung up all around his latrine, even while it gives us the creeps knowing all this lush growth is fertilized by such a disgusting man’s night soil. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Throughout the spring, the family worked through a process that was both bureaucratic and spiritual, aimed at getting Reggie back on track for a mission. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

Jim sprang after me, and I ran back to my room and locked the door behind me. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

The spring water was so cold that it stung his mouth and drove a shiver through him. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then a knock sounded at the door and I sprang up, my heart tense. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was shallow and warmer than the spring, as she discovered when she took off her shoes and waded into it. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

It was as though here were a palace long dead except that early lilies bloomed among the rocks of the gardens and the golden flowers of the early trees of spring blossomed upon bare branches. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

Breton spring, and a great onslaught of damp invades the coast. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

He’d steal the bait from the traps, spring the triggers, and sometimes even turn them over. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The wingsmiths,” he repeated, and somewhere within him, as though with a whirr of gears and a ping of sprung locks, a previously unsuspected vault of delight spilled open. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

So I wrote the unvanquished truth stuff down and then kept on going, for months and months, until it was spring again, and the world was really and truly green all over. Freak The Mighty 1993-10-01T00:00:00Z

I obeyed: joy made me agile: I sprang up before him. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

Arethusa plunged down and emerged in Ortygia, where the place in which her spring bubbles up is holy ground, sacred to Artemis. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

As spring came, children brought her early wildflowers in small wilting bouquets and they helped her weave the stems into the straw of the hat s brim. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

At last, in the spring of 1938, after five years of hard work and saving, he sent for us. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

The morning air pulsed with the noises of spring. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

Instantly, in total silence, both dæmons sprang around, becoming wolves: mad light eyes, bare white teeth, menace in every line. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

“Yes,” I replied, “I can hum. I hum a good deal, too, and even sing, especially when I get out of the spring in the morning. Then I really sing aloud.” My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was a matter of moments, then, for me to bend a wire so that I might motivate the tumblers of the lock and spring it open. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

I turned back toward the river, moved a few more steps along the limb, sprang far out and fell into the deep water. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was a Saturday in early spring, and the new Maplewood Recreation booklet had just arrived in our mailbox. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

Its crisscrossed grid was a huge silver tapestry in the gray spring light. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

Then came a rasping sound as those bright doors the key had sprung gave way— a bellow like a bull’s vaunt in a meadow— followed by her light footfall entering over the plank floor. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the spring of 1838, as Darwin tore into a new journal—the maroon C notebook—he had more thoughts on the nature of this driving force. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

But by the spring of his second year, he had to drop out to earn money to continue. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

“Yeah, well, you might’ve noticed I’m not good at following rules. I’m coming back here with my dragon, and we’ll spring you. Take you wherever you want to go. It’s only fair.” The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Like-minded organizations—some with the help of PIH—have sprung up in Asia and other parts of the world. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

Maybe it was some kind of scam to spring him a few days early. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

It was a soft and misty early spring morning; trees had only just begun to leaf out. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“No. I’m still skipping that. This will be for the spring talent show.” Shine! 2019-11-05T00:00:00Z

The ground was damp from the spring rains. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

He put an iron pan on the stove, added butter and spring onions, and, after a bit, tossed in the bass cheeks. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

We are so caught in the myths of the best and the brightest and the self-made that we think outliers spring naturally from the earth. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

Tears spring from my eyes like a sudden shower and fall upon my sleeping child, whom I hold tight to my breast. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

It was the last day before spring break and he had been absent from school and after-school all week. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

In the spring he went to Venice alone for a week, the trip he’d planned for the two of them, saturating himself in its ancient, melancholy beauty. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

I would have accepted without question the information that Gatsby sprang from the swamps of Louisiana or from the lower East Side of New York. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

I got down into my goalie crouch, a coiled spring ready to release. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

But as spring blooms, the atmosphere in the apartment does warm. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

He lit a cigarette and unlocked the garage; the door swung in and again he was surprised and pleased to see the lights spring on automatically. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

With the finest ink and paper, he painted a mountain of gold, but only a pile of dirty stones sprang from the page. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

Bristle sprang out from a den beside him, stopped only to order her brother to stay behind, then trotted off to hunt also. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

In the mild air of spring they were singing cheerfully, sweetly, as though to keep her company on the first morning of her life that she, Omakayas, knew the truth of her past. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

The windmill near the sheep camp had gone dry, so the gray mules pulled the wagon from the springs, moving slowly so that the water would not splash over the rims. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

Travis says a bad word, pulls over, and grabs a silver spring and a piece of wet rope from the glove compartment. Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

The Princess was always brightest in spring, just after the conifers emerged from the snow, their deep green needles seeming almost black against the tawny browns of soil and bark. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

His only furniture was a box spring, a mattress, a chair, and two crates for a table. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Finn had thick, unruly hair with odd cowlicks that sprang up no matter how much Mom smoothed them down. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

Cooke now crouched and sprang forward with the knife. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

She has noticed and sits up straighter like she is ready to spring. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

In the window of the red cab the driver’s head was bouncing like the head of a doll on a spring. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

This he accomplished by running far up on the side of a tree and using his stout legs for leverage, springing twenty or thirty feet away before touching the ground. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

All subsequent crimes against the Party, all treacheries, acts of sabotage, heresies, deviations, sprang directly out of his teaching. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

“Reparo,” he said hastily, poking the pieces with his wand, and the bowl sprang back together again. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

On the side would be steamed asparagus and a spring mix salad from Earthbound Farm. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

Sana guides me forward, and a burst of cool air washes over me, fresh as spring after the stench of the catacombs. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

Every spring a waterman starts out with brand clean crab pots. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

He lived a tidy few summers—as they say in that part of the world—and learned to know well the changes of the downs to spring, to winter and to spring again. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

From a certain angle, the spring seems so calm: warm, tender, each night redolent and composed. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

The strap’s design was simple, unusual, and consisted of blue curls that Ten Snow bashfully explained were the uncoiled heads of new spring ferns, her husband’s favorite food. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

Seth sprang forward, throwing a handful of dust over Grandma and the imps. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

The mandarin sprung to attention, his hands stiff to his sides. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

Ten times the robots sprang forward and stopped, as the man remained safely seated. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

Every spring brings new residents, old friends, and more chances for compromise. Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

The demon landed in a crouch and sprang at her, painted claws reaching out. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

A light rain begins to fall, not much more than mist, but several umbrellas spring up amongst the crowd. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

And the next time your pipes spring a leak and a panel truck marked ''Licensed” Plumber pulls up to your door, don’t say I didn’t warn you. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Most of her newly shorn curls were piled on top of her head in a messy bun; a few escaped and sat on her forehead like springs. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

Bouncing on the wagon springs, she smelled the damp earth and the heaving trees. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

‘They call it Pylosian mint. Apparently the plant sprang from the blood of a nymph who died on a mountain near here, back in ancient times. I didn’t ask for details.’ Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

My companion followed me quickly, and cautiously drew the door to, after carefully ascertaining that the lock was a falling, and not a spring, one. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

It had drawn nearer just like this, quivering with eagerness at the food Mercy set out, yet tensed to spring at the slightest warning. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

Then the loud cry that crouched in Mrs. Morales throat, ready to spring when she heard the expected news, died where it lay. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Alice did find one productive tree, and we have enough to last until spring. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were surrounded by folding chairs, music stands, and painted scenery from last year’s spring play. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

You are a coiled steel spring, ready to dart out at the sound of the gun. Crash 1996-03-19T00:00:00Z

Because, to me, Malik and Millie are homecoming/winter formal/spring fling/prom king and queen combined into one. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

The Beauty Minister snaps her fingers at a servant, and the woman springs into action. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

Even the tanks that stayed put sprung vacuum leaks, microscopic holes that had to be hunted down one by one and sealed by hand. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

Once Mom started teaching, I thought maybe we’d be able to buy new clothes, eat cafeteria lunches, and even spring for nifty extras like the class pictures the school took every year. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

So it was spring of the Year One in Erhenrang, capital city of Karhide, and I was in peril of my life, and did not know it. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

I was thinking of the cool spring behind the rock. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z

“However,” said Mr. Popper, “now that spring is here, a lot of people will be wanting their houses painted, so we’d better be getting back.” Mr. Popper's Penguins 1938-09-01T00:00:00Z

The Questing Beast recoiled with the tears springing to its eyes, and the portcullis crashed between them. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

The boys commandeered them at once, a new idea springing fully armed from their heads as soon as they had seen the animals. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ahead of them was a train station, its windows sparkling in the bright spring sun. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

The hair was too dark, especially compared to the few silver hairs springing from her chin. Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z

Miles pushed the rowboat off and sprang in, and soon they were gliding up toward the near end of the pond, where the water came in from the stream. Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

It is early spring when my grandmother sends for us. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

“The time will never be right,” she said out loud, then heaved the mattress and box spring off the bed. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

One moment Glorfindel turned and listened, then he sprang forward with a loud cry. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

Every so often I would spring a Mrs. Dodds reference on somebody, just to see if I could trip them up, but they would stare at me like I was psycho. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

—Cassius Dio In the spring of 34 BCE, Mark Antony again set out from Syria on a journey to conquer the east. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z

The wolf snarled and sprang towards them with a great leap. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

Just as quickly as the pain came, it was gone, but fresh tears still sprang to Ekon’s eyes. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

It had even been rumored for a while last spring that she had a secret boyfriend who was extraordinarily handsome, somebody she visited in Anacortes, but that rumor gradually evaporated. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

He tightened his grip on the fighting stick; Sophie readied herself to spring. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

As the spring waned, they decided to take the show on the road. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

The water felt good, warm and good, and when Laura came close I could smell clean sheets or spring flowers or something that fresh. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

I glanced into each alley we passed, half expecting to spy a cloaked figure waiting to spring on me. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

Even when dressed in a stiff suit, like a door-to-door salesman, he seemed to have sprung from a mythic age. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

“I don’t know what kind of magic created it. Burial will only allow it to take root and spring up again.” Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

They might push and pull his mother and put her in the back of a spring wagon and take her away too. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

It smelled of land and of the sea, but most of all it smelled of spring. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Two men sprang to their feet, their hands reaching for their rapiers, but a third man stepped between them. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

Wilfrido’s security reached out for me, but before they could grab me, I swung the sign like a weapon and sprang back. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

The leafy branches behind Ma start to wave and then snap as the creature prepares to spring from the shadows. Dragons in a Bag 2018-10-23T00:00:00Z

The land was tilled and the first crop planted in time for the pale light of spring. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

Too much standing water in the spring had caused them to grow too quickly. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

By August not one of the young salmon that had emerged from the gravel beds that spring remained. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

Tyrion plucked at one of the twisted blades that sprang from the arm of the throne. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

He rubbed them bright and greased the hinges of the jaws and the springs of the pans with a feather dipped in bear’s grease. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

She continued to live in this fashion, spending the winter in Canada, and the spring and summer working in Cape May, New Jersey, or in Philadelphia. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

The catapult arm sprang upward faster than Nico’s eye could follow, launching Octavian along with the ammunition. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

He could smell her before he could even see her; the perfume smelled like the ivory locust blossoms that hung down from the trees in the spring. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

The lime-green of spring came one night and touched the river trees. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was to have gone to Europe with the marching band that spring, and she'd apparently loved her visit to Washington. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

But Matt sprang up to rescue the book before it was entirely ruined. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Before I spring, instead I am sprung upon. Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z

A little spring mud remains under the pine trees near the fence. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

Bushes had sprung up everywhere; small huts were completely swallowed in browned grass. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

The truth is, no one quite knows what to do with me now that the war’s over, although if another one should spring up, Plutarch’s sure they could find a role for me. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

He walked out of the circle of light but returned soon leading a horse hitched to a spring wagon. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sometimes it was in the midst of the spring rains, other times after harvest. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

The other thing that sprang to mind was that the moon was beautiful at night from a distance, but it surely was a lonely place up close. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

From this meager beginning had sprung the ineffectual squadron commander who was now spending the better part of each working day in Pianosa forging Washington Irving’s name to official documents. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

On a cold spring afternoon, while walking home from school, I detoured through the playground at the end of our alley. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

His legs were too short to even think about springing off the floor. Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

Congress had moved gradual emancipation off its political agenda; its decision in the spring of 1790 became a precedent with the force of common law. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

My eye still roved over the sullen swell and along the moor-edge, vanishing amidst the wildest scenery, when at one dim point, far in among the marshes and the ridges, a light sprang up. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

He wondered more and more as the spring progressed and nothing changed in his life except that Gebu was sometimes in a good mood and sometimes in a bad. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

Then suddenly, without warning, Uglúk sprang forwards, and with two swift strokes swept the heads off two of his opponents. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

Graves sprang up in front yards, complete with scattered bones, headstones, and shovels. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

Last spring, two catchers appeared with a warrant to search every house on the farm. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

“We usually do a completely classical program for the spring concert.” Shine! 2019-11-05T00:00:00Z

And our belts, newly laden with batons, had begun to spring key clips and latex-glove holders, though no one had told us to put them on yet. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Early spring is a poor season for fishing. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

One of the most famous battles of the American Civil War took place in the spring of 1863 in the northern Virginia town of Chancellorsville. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

By this time, the spring of 1971, Milton was busy with a new “business venture.” Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

“There’s Julio,” the little girl said, and then I saw his Italian face and his eyes as he sprang upon me. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

His delight in discovering dirt the spring he was two. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z

Then one afternoon in the spring, they were out, by chance, at dusk. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

Out of the mood of renunciation there sprang up in him again the will to kill. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

Fed by neither streams nor springs, the lake was often filthy and algaed, relying on fickle prairie rains for replenishment. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

They met the girl’s eyes as she stared out the window at them, they felt her gaze like sunshine on a spring day, warm and comforting, and for a moment they were seen. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

Instead, I’d been busy working on my fourth initiative as First Lady, called Let Girls Learn, which Barack and I had launched together back in the spring. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Smiling, I recall how Alice and I made a compass like this last spring. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Fleeing the Nazi conquest of Europe, the writer Vladimir Nabokov and his family took a ship to the United States in the spring of 1940. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

When the sky was as light as it ever got during that fog, I ventured to look out, and I saw a great figure lying wounded by the spring. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Pantalaimon, as a miniature lion, sprang into her arms and growled. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

And maybe now all your certainty returns, because yes, truly, it’s spring and once again you’ve made the choice to stay. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

The next morning, my father told us that from now until spring, we were going to be taking the bus to school—no arguments. Orbiting Jupiter 2015-10-06T00:00:00Z

In the spring the smell of white blossoms made Mama smile, and on a hot Alabama day you could almost hide from the sun under its branches. Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z

Daddy always has the air conditioning on high in the spring and summer, turning the house into a meat locker. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

A minute later the door opens, and before I can get in, Zack suddenly springs to life and beats me to it. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

On a clear morning later that spring, a small military plane cruised low over the Plain of Reeds, a contested area near Saigon. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

The doctors and nurses sprang to his defense, and the court-martial was dropped. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

Preparations for Hardtack proceeded in a frenzy made more difficult by the unpredictable spring weather at Eniwetok. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

The young dog braced himself for the inevitable attack; a few yards away the collie crouched low, lips drawn back, then sprang for the vulnerable throat before him. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

I would simply add spring water to the flour and bake this on a piece of tin. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

Each spring there were new little spiders hatching out to take the place of the old. Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z

The spring flowers in a wet year were unbelievable. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

The original name was Salt Spring, and it’s famous for its casino, fancy spa and resort, basketball player Larry Bird, and healing springs. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

My fellowship at Harvard finished in the spring. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

But he and Baachan performed their own small ceremony every spring before the transplanting. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

“Well, it’s spring right now, and we’ve, like, stolen this place for ourselves.” Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

Tears sprang to Palmer’s eyes, smearing the grins of Beans and Mutto. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

On the Monday after spring vacation, Emily sighed, rested her chin on the lunchroom table, and said, “Can sets have rules?” Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

A spark flashed blue- white as steel met steel with a rending crash, and Brienne sprang to her feet, the body of the dead king thrust rudely aside. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Suddenly there sprang into his mind, readymade as it were, the image of a certain Comrade Ogilvy, who had recently died in battle, in heroic circumstances. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

"The story was short and sweet: He wrote to her every day. Then she went to see him last Christmas, then he proposed, and they married this spring, and here they are, parents!" How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

All through the spring, while the heat swelled and the river shrank, Ranofer and Heqet met as often as they were able, at midday or in the evening after their day's work was done. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

She sprang outside, wielding a giant knife, a panga. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

He sprang to his feet and, half naked as he was, ran out of the house. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had tied rags around her shoulders to keep out the spring chill and was picking through the trash while her dog, a black-and-white terrier mix, played at her feet. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Then one day Pa said that spring was coming. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I wanted a verdict,” she says, tears springing to her eyes again. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Dozer and Petunia spring off the factory floor and grab on to the swinging steel arms. Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

A shadowy form that had been crouching silently below in the darkness made a spring and landed right next to Tucker and Chester. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

What I find remarkable in hindsight is how, over the course of that winter and spring, I just did my job. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

The tip of it juts out and up like an ugly thumb and the serrashuns along one side spring up like gnashing teeth and the blade edge pulses like a vein full of blood. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

Gardens had sprung up everywhere, in the firebreaks, between the rows of barracks—rock gardens, vegetable gardens, cactus and flower gardens. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I heard you tossing and turning all night, Mr. I’m- not-nervous. And I heard how early you got up this morning, even before the rooster crowed. Even before the spring sun.” The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s seasonal,” Nina said, “on the spring equinox.” Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

The water is curiously warm, too warm for spring. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

She’s surrounded by the same bunch of girls she’s been hanging around with all spring and so far this summer instead of me. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

Instead he bought a spring in the town of Big Bend, twelve miles south of Waukesha, just inside the Waukesha County line. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

“I am sorry,” I say, feeling tears spring to my eyes. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

My shoulder had given out on me at Nationals Camp that spring. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Perhaps mulling over his spring class syllabus, or his plans for New York Fashion Week. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Joseph moved his bulk back onto the seat and the springs creaked as he sat down. Lawn Boy 2007-06-12T00:00:00Z

Amaya looked up and leapt out of the way, landing with an impressive forward roll and springing back up. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

But with the further coming of spring the city became filled with the unrest of fear. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

He swung and dropped, landing in a grove of painted plywood trees that sprang up from nowhere. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

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

Inside each are gears, lenses, fuses, springs, shackles, and resistors. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

We couldn’t see her, but she was there, gaining in size and spirit as fall became winter and then became spring. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

A tear sprang in her eye and fell down her cheek, like a glistening rain-drop. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

The fires of spring had come to Ravenel in a rush, in a blaze of color and odor, and spring could be tasted everywhere in the bee-emblazoned gardens and the seed-gifted winds. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Water came from the earth and stories sprang from the stones. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

Every spring, a few weeks before graduation, the senior class heads to the American Adventure amusement park. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

Riders spring for the arched exits, gasping for clean air. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

He groaned and tried to curl into a ball, twisting his foot so hard that it sprang free from his captor’s grip. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

They stepped over the threshold, and immediately a fire sprang up behind them in the doorway. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

The following spring I got a job with the Roark Motor Company. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

She leapt off the bed like she had springs. Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z

Harry Cat sprang up and landed on the shelf. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

The cat was sleeping, but she roused when they entered and sprang into the middle of the room. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

On my way, I came to a spring that ran from under a gigantic rock. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

As in Phnom Penh, people sit in alleys and side streets slurping noodle soups, biting into crispy fried spring rolls and egg rolls wrapped in lettuce. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Yet once the sixty-inch shook off its quirks in the spring of 1939, it began to perform as spectacularly as its designers expected. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

Wilbur was what farmers call a spring pig, which simply means that he was born in springtime. Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z

Then she uttered a charm and in a moment out from the water sprang a lamb and ran frisking away. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

Another link led me to an image of a contraption made of springs that looked like a torture device. Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z

I spring onto the bed next to him and think about how crazy all this would sound if I told anyone. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

The porcupine turned at the instant of his spring, aware of the danger, and with incredible swiftness for such a clumsy-looking animal, spun round, whipping its terrible tail in the dog’s face. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

So it was on a Saturday afternoon, in the thin light of spring, he staggered home reeling drunk and saw his daughter in the kitchen. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

A mattress so thin he could feel the springs in his back, like lying on a bed of fists. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

They were the color of the moss near the spring, and their backs were spotted the color of wet sand. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

They traversed the slope of the ridge till it dipped into the head of the valley, and there, sure enough, among ferns and reeds, a spring bubbled out of the rock. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

“Can you smell the spring in the air? The winter is just melting away.” Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

The woods were silent because spring had not yet come. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

She sat paralyzed on the bed for fifteen minutes before springing up, suddenly decisive. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

A boy and a girl sprang out of the dust cloud and raced through a forest of inky-black trees. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

A thought sprang into Thomas’s mind, giving him hope. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

“Only spring and it’s warm already,” she said. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

For, why he did not know, his thought sprang back suddenly to the Elves in the Shire, and the song that drove away the Black Rider in the trees. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

A whirl of activity sprang up as soon as the wagons rolled to a stop. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

They sprang to his own, his mind filling in the blanks. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

On the last day of school before spring vacation, she spotted a new student entering another classroom, an older Chinese girl with pigtails just like herself. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z

She turned her attention toward the Boss, and her posture suddenly transformed into something animal, crouched and coiled like a cat ready to spring. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

In the spring the robins return to provide another link in the cycle. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

Only one of her suitcases had been sprung open so far. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

The leaves on the trees, spring new and kelly green, hung limp. The Fighting Ground 1984-04-01T00:00:00Z

But he was awfully busy in the spring. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

Suddenly, I sprang up and peeped under both doors, the one I’d entered and another that probably was a closet. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Two mannequins sprang to illuminated life, both of them dressed in traditional Thanksgiving pilgrim costumes. Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

In the spring of 1852, she went back to Cape May, New Jersey. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

My mother lifted off her seat, ready to spring into mommy mode. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Ernest and his crews tinkered with the setup through the spring and into the summer while Conant and Bush pressed for faster progress. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

He’s already renting an outside studio to work in; he has been since the previous spring. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

She wore it well, springing lightly along like a huge, tattered bear. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

Then she says something, and her hands spring open, and she steps back from Uriah’s body. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

I’m going to be the star of my spring concert. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

These urbanites were to be permanent reinforcements for “rice-planting combat,” the annual campaign that sends office workers, students, and soldiers to the countryside for two months in the spring and two weeks in the fall. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

In the spring the tall grass grew along its sides— wild oats and mallow weeds and yellow mustard mixed in. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Suddenly he tightened up and ran a few steps and sprang for a leaf about four feet above his head. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

But why did this lead Holmes to assume that Indians must have migrated to the Americas in the recent past, a view springing from biblical chronology? 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Donovan’s muttered curses rose into intelligibility as he sprang to his feet, rusty eyebrows drawn low. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

Julio broke from the men and sprang at me again, but the marshal met him and they struggled until the other two pinioned his arms again. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

Suddenly wound tight as a tensioned spring I turned almost lethargically. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sand kicked up behind him as he sprang forward, knife extended. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

Then, surprisingly boyish and quick, he sprang forward and seized Francis’s hand. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Along this they went westward, with the city ever climbing up like a green cloud upon their left; and as the night deepened more lights sprang forth, until all the hill seemed afire with stars. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

Abby was so excited, she sprang off her stool and bounced up on the balls of her feet. Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

He looks down at the spring, then up the road and back toward the bam. As I Lay Dying 1930-10-06T00:00:00Z

“Mayhap in spring we can toughen her up. The sun, and air. That'll be good for strength.” Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Last spring Miss Celia was always nagging at me to take those flowers home. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Tom Owens stumbled up a companionway yelling, “We’ve sprung a leak!” Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Stores that sold kettles, yeasts, grains, and other supplies that permitted a person to distill his own liquor or brew his own beer sprang up in every town and city. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

Dell went to his office with a spring in his step. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

At the spring concert, he came over, asked if I needed assistance setting up my camera. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

Persephone sprang into her arms and was held fast there. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

I stretched out beneath the covers, hearing the springs groan beneath me. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

I spent the evening whittling and thinking about the owl high in the forest with the first new life of the spring.” My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

He swore that he had never seen her until just now when she had sprung forth, newborn, from the earth. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

The lead rat sprang forward and crushed Tick’s head in its jaws. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

At the same time, the drumbeat of ominous headlines emanating from Europe had begun to grow steadily louder and more insistent that spring. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

It’s spring in New Jersey, a warm clear day with open sky all around us. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

“No,” I said after I landed on all fours then sprang back up. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

She, the lone survivor, will start a small paper nest in the spring, lay a few eggs in its cells, and carefully rear a small force of workers. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

These moments sprang from the others like frogs from children’s pockets. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

Also, the carcass lay too close to the spring. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

So I crawl away to the farthest corner and stay there, my eyes glued on him, my hand grasping the knife—ready, if he stirs, to spring at him again. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s in your grasp if you spring immediately. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

Before Maria could learn much from her talented father, he died while visiting a mineral spring to “take the waters” for his health. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

The previous Thursday, the first day of spring, had been the Afghan New Year’s Day—the Sawl-e-Nau—and Afghans in the Bay Area had planned celebrations throughout the East Bay and the peninsula. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Much later, my mother would tell me that every year when spring came and the air warmed up in Chicago, she entertained thoughts about leaving my father. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

“Our mother loved spring and summer,” May said. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

She sprang forward and ripped the stack from his hands, her expression so triumphant that not even Finn could mistake it. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

The CD that Tony put on was filled with the music of the previous spring, songs that made Alex feel young again. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

It was a fish of great beauty, silver like the moon and as lively as a butterfly in spring. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

In Ortygia, an island which formed part of Syracuse, the greatest city of Sicily, there is a sacred spring called Arethusa. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

She continued to practice regularly with the hope that spring would mark the end of a successful oyster season and give us the margin we needed to continue her trips to Salisbury. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

At 1:45, the bus arrived from Temple Beth-El to spring half of my class. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

In winter here no heart could mourn for summer or for spring. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

It’s been an unusually warm spring, especially for Springfield, she thinks. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

First, however, Cadmus had to fight and kill a terrible dragon which guarded a spring nearby and slew all his companions when they went to get water. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was a hint of spring in her sloe green eyes, something summery in her complexion, and a rich autumn ripeness in her walk. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Gallivespians wanted to look at it, and were astounded to see how it was just not there from the back, and how it only sprang into being when you came round from the side. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

Beginning in the spring of 1919, the insect known as the boll weevil had destroyed entire cotton crops, throwing thousands of black agricultural workers out of work. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

My first thought when I saw him was to wonder how in the world it was possible to get such a tan in the spring. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

So when I came back from spring break two weeks late, with a Yazdi tan, the rumors were already swirling. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

This was in the spring of 1940—the war was still in Europe. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

The doors sprang open, and Alex popped out like a cork shot out of a bottle. Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z

I don’t see them, but I see that half the kids have tans from spring break. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

He was so close to me I could have touched him—he was beautiful in the flesh, hollowed out and coiled like a spring, nervous energy radiating off him. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

When the spring was released, the fist shot out at a hapless puppet. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

Congratulations on this honor, and we look forward to hosting you this spring. Booked 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

The grass did grow and the green leaves appeared on the trees and filled the avenues with shadow and shade as sure as the millionaires descended from the North on Founders' Day each spring. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

After the third asking Tehlu sprang across the line and he struck each of them a great blow, driving them to the ground. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Earlier in the spring I had found a lush patch of miner’s lettuce and wild rapini in the Berkeley Hills, but by June the greens had begun to yellow. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

Last spring Isa had had a solo violin part in the school concert. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

Tam Lin settled into Celia’s chair; Matt could hear the springs groan with his weight. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

But they’d camped there at the spring; and the bee myrtle had been blooming white that day, and seemed like in every bush there was a mockingbird, singing his fool head off. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

He dropped to the ground at once and sprang through the dashing sleet toward the sergeant, who had lurched forward to try and catch the falling floodlight. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

Usually in the spring, each family took it upon themselves to scrub the exterior of their house with hoses and brushes. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

And on the rare nights when he could arrange his body around the springs, he still woke up sore and twisted. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

April was in full bloom, and they were young enough to accept the sunlight and color of a new spring as omens of good fortune. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s no crime to be in the woods on a spring afternoon,” Henry said. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

A breeze had sprung, which caused the flames to dance. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

Without realizing what he was doing, Harry sprang to his feet; the telescope and trainers in his lap rolled across the floor. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

Certain common ideas become inexpressible; other, previously undreamt-of ones spring to life, finding miraculous new articulation. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

The bolts and springs were in a pile on the table. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

“We can only play one song at the spring concert, and we want it to be ‘Seven Nation Army.’ Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

The winters were bitter cold, the springs stingy and slow in coming. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

As floes pressed against her, leaks sprang in the hold. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

If I didn’t do this, I don’t think I’d have any toes left come spring. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

The living room has two big windows with heavy curtains that shut out the spring sunshine. Dragons in a Bag 2018-10-23T00:00:00Z

I told him that we would see each other in a couple of years, when the war of winter turned to spring. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

It was only spring and the day was cool. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

“Summer,” Mr. Chris said that night after the fireworks were over and they were all having homemade ice cream on his front porch, “is fruit time mostly, just the way spring is mostly flower time.” Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

As spring approached and the day of Lori’s graduation drew closer, I lay awake at night, thinking about her life in New York City. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

It made him unhappy when he thought about her lately, and he had passed a lot of time, all spring long, mulling how to tell her about his unhappiness. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

What would the spring be like, or Christmas, or rain? East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

It was one of the first nice days in March, when you finally get a hint of spring after the long, crazy cold winter. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

French fries spring loose in the bag, and it shakes around like a maraca. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

If I stayed in the after-school rock band, it’d just be me and John playing “The Final Countdown” at the spring concert, with Mr. B playing drums, and we’d look like the world’s biggest dweebs. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

The cat springs free and disappears under a bush. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

Sometimes it was stuff like a young bird that had fallen out of its nest before it could fly, or a green-speckled spring frog or a striped water snake. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

Casting his shirt aside, Seth sprang into the water. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

The armed forces were there to uphold the democratic process, and all was peaceful on a spring day more sprightly and sunny than usual. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

At first, whenever I went to the spring or to the beach, I left Rontu behind to chase them off, but he did not like this and howled all the time I was gone. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

Hands stinging, knee throbbing, she sprang back up again. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

Deemer looked like his limbs were made of springs that sent him lurching ahead in a series of herky-jerky leaps and bounds. Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z

When a column of riders appeared from the west, the guardsmen sprang into action, shouting commands and moving the carts and foot traffic aside to let the knight enter with his escort. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Then like a field of thorns springing up from one root and spreading here and there, there was yet more to trouble Wang Lung. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

He obeyed with no idea what was to happen, and to his terror saw armed men spring up from the furrows. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Maybe yes, maybe no. He could survive. It’s spring. Plenty of food, I’d think.” Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

And then she considered his plans for the water in the spring, and Tuck’s voice saying, “They’d all come running like pigs to slops.” Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

Today’s trip was the middle of the week because we were on spring break. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

And, with his help, by spring I have a 112-page thesis, researched, footnoted, documented, and neatly bound in black leather. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The weather had taken a change for the worse; a south-westerly wind had sprung up, the sky was cloudy. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was spring when I arrived in the valley. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

My body tenses at the edge in his voice, so I am coiled as tight as a spring, and I forget to breathe. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

Houses built in the benign spring and early summer took waves in their second- story windows. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

He recognized the song that sprang forth - the same wistful melody Calypso sang for him on Ogygia about homesickness and longing. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

By the middle of March I could have told you it was spring without looking. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

He sprang up and pushed aside the curtains of his bed. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

Her head was laid back and her eyes turned to Lizzie, and she was listening to her sweet high voice as if it were the first spring day. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

The lengthening hours of daylight worked their spring magic on the birds. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

Knights with wings on their helmets sprang out around the two. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

Vincent has been drawing, staying up late at night “to have some keepsakes and to strengthen thoughts that automatically spring to mind upon seeing the things.” Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

A huge, black bird springs out; it perches on her bureau, looking just like the etching of the raven in Yo's first English poetry book. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

He was snarling as he came, and Mama just barely had time to come to her feet and grab up a dead chinaberry pole before he sprang. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

Louie had always shaken this off, but in the spring of ’38, he reconsidered. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z

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

Papi is nodding little nods like those dogs with springs in their necks that people put in the back windows of their cars. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

“You’re sounding absolutely awesome. Killer bass, Elijah. But everyone’s got to be able to play the song for the spring concert, right? These two dudes need a chance to learn the song, too.” Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

Ferrets had cornered a band of shrews and were threatening to massacre them when a column of otters sprang to the rescue. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

Mo sprang up and dug binoculars from his satchel. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

Healed by him, Arabella chooses judiciously this time, and is rewarded by reconciliation with her family and a wedding with the medical prince on “a windy sunlit day in spring.” Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Folks had been taking pieces of that old place since the Clarkes left the territory the spring before. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z

When he lets go, the spring yanks them back down, slapping the bottom of the window. Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

In the spring he had longed to plant begonias and zinnias in a narrow bed around his tent but had been deterred by his fear of Corporal Whitcomb’s rancor. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

For instance, if you have a ball in free fall, it moves in a parabola, while a frictionless spring wobbles back and forth forever, and a spring with friction slowly comes to rest. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

In late spring, when the page proofs for the second volume had been finished, Stanton and her daughter went to Europe for an extended stay. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

As their faces drew closer he was uncertain enough to think she might spring away, or hit him, movie-style, across the cheek with her open hand. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

All we got to see that evening was a hot spring. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

The moon grew fat and thin, there were solstices, first frosts, and spring rains. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

He sprang away down hill, whistling and calling. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

They checked on the speckled cattle once a week to see if they had left the canyons around the springs; but the cattle seemed content to stay there, at least for the winter. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

Was that why Shady had bid on the spring? Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

“We hunt loads of wild turkeys in the spring,” Henry says sagely. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

And he’ll probably ask me not to go to the dance school auditions this spring. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

Farmer began to study Creole before he went to Haiti in the spring of 1981. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

That spring and summer, once again the pattern of conflict spilled over into the parks and beaches. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

A poll taken in the spring of 1971 revealed that 71 percent of Americans believed that U.S. intervention in Vietnam had been a mistake. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Even as they looked out in dismay towards the setting sun, it sank before their eyes into a white sea, and a cold grey shadow sprang up in the East behind. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

Searchlight sprang forward with such force that little Willy couldn’t hang on. Stone Fox 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

The wide schoolyard, enclosed by a trimmed whistling pine hedge, was cluttered with long buildings as if they had all sprung up at will, unplanned. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

By Pearl Harbor Day there were eight hundred and forty-three people of Japanese descent living there, including twelve seniors at Amity Harbor High School who did not graduate that spring. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

Ma said, springing from her hiding spot, her short auburn hair still in pin curls. Monday's Not Coming 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Mr. Singh had opened the windows along the side wall, and a breeze from the lake breathed sweet spring air into the room. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

Summertime riots had become an annual event in America’s inner cities, starting with the Los Angeles Watts conflagration in 1965, and the climate in Durham that spring was particularly volatile. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

There aren’t any chicks right now because it isn’t the time of year when they get them, but Jane, who works at the paint counter, says they get hundreds every spring, and sometimes ducklings too. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

‘Then it belongs to you, and not to me at all!’ cried Frodo in amazement, springing to his feet, as if he expected the Ring to be demanded at once. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

This was a garden, a wonderful thing to look at in the spring. The House on Mango Street 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

She found room for the last little goat’s cheese wrapped in its vine leaf, smiled and bowed again, and took a last drink from the spring that bubbled up among the gray rocks. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

“We’re thinking we want to play ‘Seven Nation Army’ for the spring concert on Wednesday.” Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

Across the godswood, beneath the windows of the Guest House, an underground hot spring fed three small ponds. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

He sprang up, opened it and looked out. Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

He dragged a hand across the floor before the darkness, and greenish lights sprung up from where his fingers passed before being sucked into the void like wraiths on the wind. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

The heat rose in the clear spring sky, and all was silent. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It means you can scarcely step foot out the door again till spring.” The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

They found a steaming hot spring, and once they had tested it to be sure it wasn’t more quicksand, they eased themselves in. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

"Stay where you are!" said Mr. Brown, gesturing with the staff, as if Tristran were a wild beast that might spring at him at any moment. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

The spring of 1996 marked his first visit to the mountain as the leader of a commercial expedition; like Hall, Fischer had eight clients in his group. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

And there is no sea, no running of river or spring, in the dark land where once Ged had gone. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

The wing sprang back softly from his mouth as he gazed transfixed at the scene before him. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Powell was too far off to tell, of course, but already even he could have sworn the crack-brained Speedy was setting himself for a spring. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

I couldn’t shake the feeling that if some perceived danger set him off, he was ready to spring. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

My mother doesn’t linger over housework, she’d rather be outside raking up leaves in the fall, shoveling snow in the winter, pulling weeds in the spring. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

We stared at each other and I contemplated the distance that had sprung up between us—how natural those words sounded to his ears, how grating to mine. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Last spring, one of Otto and Sheed’s classmates, Wallace, age eleven, fell in the creek, and was swept south by the current. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

She sprung to the door and flung it wide. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

“Band was fine. We’re playing ‘Seven Nation Army’ for the spring concert on Wednesday. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

When spring arrived with soft breezes and meadows grown green, the villagers began sowing early peas and barley, followed by the village boys who threw stones at the hungry birds trying to eat the seed. The Midwife's Apprentice 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

The water surged forward, powerful as spring rapids. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

An increase in plankton in the water drawn from the boreholes around the ship—a sure sign of approaching spring—didn’t ward off the suspense that all the men now felt. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

She backed away too far, and Dunbar, who had watched from the beginning, sprang forward on his bed without warning and flung both arms around her bosom from behind. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

Angry, Father reminded me of a carnival toy, a leather fist attached to a coiled spring used in puppet shows. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

By next spring, his garden would be producing enough to make him independent of the outside world. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

Happiness sprang up in her, and happiness always made her want to run. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

And so in the spring of 1956, when we were in the fourth grade, I took her out on the first real date of my life—a double date, actually, with my mother and father. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Farmhouses in the fields scoured of their paint and the clapboards spooned and sprung from the wall-studs. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

You ate apples in the fall and leafy greens in the spring. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

That I might be okay to participate in at least one or two auditions this spring. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

At the semester break every spring when Oppenheimer decamped for Caltech, the entourage followed him south in a caravan of rickety vehicles. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

Later that spring, Marx flew to California to interview Governor Ronald Reagan for her radio show. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Dumbledore gave the password, it sprang aside, and he and Harry went up the moving spiral staircase to the oak door. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

In the spring of 1904, Galton presented his argument for eugenics at a public lecture at the London School of Economics. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

“You’d better start making my spring practice reservations. I gave you my itinerary' of practice camps, didn't I?” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

If only these wooden figures could spring to life and intercede for me! Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

If he sprang, the sharp thing would not hurt him. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

The snow had ingratiated itself with the ruins of walls and memory of a roof, and it made it seem like the small dark-brown house had sprung out of the snow itself. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

The sides of the glen were shaggy with last year’s bracken, among which the tight-curled fronds of spring were just thrusting through the sweet-scented earth. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

The cub sprang back in alarmand watched from a safe distance. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even to the Mere of Dead Faces some haggard phantom of green spring would come; but here neither spring nor summer would ever come again. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

I needed money if I wanted to come back in the spring, and I couldn’t very well work if I was gallivanting around with Francis. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Around her, doctors, nurses, and medics sprang into gear, hanging IV bottles on poles and throwing extra tourniquets around their shoulders. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

The day had started out as winter but had warmed to spring. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

Refreshed, she walked to the mouth of the culvert, saw no eagle, and sprang onto her wings. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

He reminded me of a cougar, muscles taut, ready to spring. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

It came from the direction of the spring and as I turned quickly I saw a girl looking down at me from the brush. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

The wall tore like a piece of paper, and through that hole Taborlin could see the sky and breathe the sweet spring air. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Another postal examination was scheduled for spring and to that end I made eating an obsession. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

He sprang out of the chair and shoved me so hard I almost fell off the roof. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

In the distance, beyond another long row of barracks, Hannah could see a single strand of smoke rising against the bright spring sky, curling endlessly out of a tall chimney stack. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Life in the barn was very good—night and day, winter and summer, spring and fall, dull days and bright days. Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z

Except for the weapons lashed to the horse’s saddle, these travelers might have been on a spring ramble. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z

“Me too! How can he—how can he spring a kiss on me without even telling me he’s gay first?” Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

No ordinary clasp would suffice for such a weight, so the greatcloak was held in place by a matched pair of miniature lionesses crouching on his shoulders, as if poised to spring. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

He paints as spring comes to the South of France, after many dreary winter days, inside and out. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

It went rolling along the aisles between music stands, its springs ratding against the drumhead. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

They use them during roundups, which are usually in the spring after the first thaw. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

The Earthman sprang forward and grasped the robot’s metal arm. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

The Times article also noted that bears are far more likely to attack humans in the spring following a bad berry year. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

“The campus is serving as a graveyard for most of the robins that attempt to take up residence in the spring,” said Dr. Wallace. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

Because the river has so much agricultural runoff, there were crops, too: Little tomato and soybean plants sprang up everywhere, well fertilized by all the sewage. Turtles All the Way Down 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

But as the weeks dragged on and the winter locked up the ocean around Elephant Island, they knew they were stuck until spring. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

I ducked out from beneath his embrace, sprang into a Superman pose, and beamed a ridiculous cartoon smile. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

I knew it was spring because that morning at dawn the sky was filled with flocks of darting birds. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

The men all knew what that meant: they were stuck until the ice broke up in the spring. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

He sprang on to the fallen body, and stamped and trampled it in his fury, stooping now and again to stab and slash it with his knife. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

All of the life of the earth dies, all of the time, in the same volume as the new life that dazzles us each morning, each spring. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The stars are followed by a trio of attackers who spring from the smoke like coiled snakes. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

She smelled faintly of flowers, which I guessed was a perfume, but beneath that was her own smell, like green grass, like the open road after a light spring rain. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z