| 单词 | stamp |
| 例句 | You can’t imagine the screaming, shouting, stamping of feet and swearing that went on. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z The man stamped his feet on the ground, but he knew that she was the only woman who could stop a tree from growing out of his head. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z I plowed through drifts and stamped paths until eventually it occurred to me that I had all the materials to make snowshoes for easier traveling. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z The crowd started cheering and stamping their feet. The Million Dollar Shot 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z It’s a mistake to hang back too obviously in any group like this; it stamps you as lukewarm, lacking in zeal. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z The date stamps indicate when the telegram was received in Washington and sent to the appropriate office. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z The bard stamped his feet and beat his arms. The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z Whoever it was, he was calling—and stamping as well, Hazel noticed—in an unnatural way. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z And William Hale, who campaigned for stamping out the criminal element from Osage County, promised his own reward to anyone who caught the killers, dead or alive. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z “It wasn’t going to be a tramp stamp,” Alex says hotly. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z At this moment, from out in the darkening field, there came the sound of a stamp on the ground. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z The familiar sign had been torn down, stamped to kindling. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z He stamps my parents’ wrists and then gives us seat assignments on the train and warns us not to sit elsewhere. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z Constitution off a postage stamp, and when I got two weeks behind on that, I had two more weeks of newspapers to pick up. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z The notes were bigger than postage stamps, but not by much. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z He kept his Marlboros rolled up in one of his T-shirt sleeves, and he lit his cigarettes with a Zippo lighter stamped with a picture of a naked lady bending over. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z At the last moment Holly stopped, looked about him and stamped twice. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z “I don’t care,” said Harry again, looking with disgust at the writhing, stamping house-elf. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z When Billy Pilgrim’s name was inscribed in the ledger of the prison camp, he was given a number, too, and an iron dogtag in which that number was stamped. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z François swore strange barbarous oaths, and stamped the snow in futile rage, and tore his hair. The Call of the Wild 1903-01-01T00:00:00Z A slave laborer from Poland had done the stamping. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z “My career needed a fresh impetus, and perhaps a European stamp would help.” The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z Or at least stamps and stationery so he didn't have to spend his money to correspond with me? I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z Now the cabin was even quieter than it had been before loneliness put its stamp on everything. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z I flipped over the postcard to the side with the box for the stamp and the artist’s name. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z She liked the combined smell of worn leather bindings, library paste and freshly inked stamping pads better than she liked the smell of burning incense at high mass. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z We were herded into long lines to be inspected, interrogated, stamped, and then set loose among hundreds of other immigrants, speaking languages that sounded to my ears like the braying of farm animals. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z A short time later they were rescued by the flour Aurelianos, whose crosses of ash inspired a sacred respect, as if they were caste marks, stamps of invulnerability. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z She lifted her shoulders, curled her arms over head and clapped her hands, then stamped her feet, fast, fast, fast on the floor as if she were putting out a fire. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z Its white sails looked no bigger than postage stamps, its ninety oars like toothpicks. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z Then, he stamped on the heavy boy’s foot and grabbed the nozzle during that moment of distraction. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z Actually, I’d noticed the same foot movement myself, but what had struck me was that each time he stamped the foot back down again, flecks of mud flew up around his shins. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z Together, the vengeful young duo fights to stamp out Nazi aggression in the Soviet Union. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z It was called the stamp tax because every time colonists bought a newspaper, calendar, marriage license, deck of playing cards, or pair of dice they had to pay extra for a special stamp. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z I would sit in the big rocking chair by the stove and rock occasionally and stamp my feet. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z They had a favored place at the barricade directly across from the school entrance, and in that area a concentration of police stamped their feet and slapped their hands together in unaccustomed gloves. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z A storm of cheering and stamping broke out from the Slytherin table. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z A stack of mysterious books, in a Near Eastern language which looked like Arabic and bearing the stamp of the Williams College Library, materialized in the back seat of his car. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z Trying to get rid of it altogether is like trying to stamp out mice, you know? The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z Ellsberg disregarded that stamp on documents all the time, but in this case, his boss warned, the papers really were off limits. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z “We could get him to walk across a stamp pad so he would leave purple footprints. That way we could see if he went to the cafeteria and the library and all those places.” Ralph S. Mouse 1992-08-01T00:00:00Z Pa came in, shaking the soft snow from his shoulders and stamping it from his boots. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z “And stop stamping about like that,” Mother called. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z With those stamps, their owner could make copies much more quickly and neatly than if he or she had written out each of the script’s complicated signs at each appearance. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z While she was at Brown, postcards would arrive from time to time, envelopes plastered with colorful, oversized stamps. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z She turned away and stamped off quickly in the thin sunshine. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z She had grown to have some of the nature of an individual, stamped on the simple feelings of the child-queen who had once received her present of captives. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z I stamped my foot against the frozen ground. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z He pulled out the boxes and spent several nights going through the papers, looking for “Top Secret” stamps he’d missed the first time through. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z When he dropped the bag to reach for the bottle, it was hard to miss the ragged knuckles or the big, dusty footprint stamped on the front of his new shirt. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z Every single Hufflepuff had jumped to his or her feet, screaming and stamping, as Cedric made his way past them, grinning broadly, and headed off toward the chamber behind the teachers’ table. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z I headed out through our postage- stamp front garden. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z When she had stamped out every ray of hope, destroyed their lives completely, like a fairy godmother she presented them with a solution. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z “Confusion take this shouting!” exclaimed the magician, stamping on his hat “May Castor and Pollux.... No, not again. God bless my blood pressure....” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z We huddle together by the corner of the building, trying to stamp away the cold. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z The fire had left the ugly smell of smoke stamped and sealed on every piece of clothing that had survived the flames. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z “There’s no one inside!” yelled Hungry Joe, and began stamping on the floor. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z The chief stamped his staff on the ground. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z “Every man and woman in the United States will be asked to purchase war savings stamps,” I set the paper down. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z My passport was now filled with stamps from dozens of different countries, and I had never been asked to remove my hijab at an airport for security. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z The black and silver hat he stamped on, banged out of shape, and pulled on well over his eyes. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z Another black woman said she went to pick up a prescription at the pharmacy one day, and the clerk asked if she was on food stamps. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z There's the Post Office booth in one corner, where Mrs. Rhydd, the postmistress, sells stamps and dog licenses, though not today 'cause today's Saturday. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z “He’s not just a stamp collector,” said Mother under her breath. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z He looked over the thick blue binders, each stamped “Top Secret.” Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z There were stately chairs with the badger arms stamped in gold on their Spanish leather seats—the leather was coming off—and a portrait of the Founder over the fireplace. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z The man handing out the papers says my arms are that skinny I’d be lucky to carry two stamps but Uncle Pat sticks eight papers under each arm. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z Postal Service has issued a commemorative stamp to honor one of our country’s most outspoken revolutionaries—my father, Malcolm X Shabazz. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z There it was at the bottom, with the same prison return address, the same flag stamp, and my name and address handwritten again. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z Malvonne resealed the letter carefully and thought she would add another penny stamp in case that would help get it to Panama faster. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z It settled on the porch near my feet, and I stamped at it. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z But he waved his arms, he shouted with the best of them; and when the others began to jig and stamp and shuffle, he also jigged and shuffled. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z I thought the girl in charge was going to stamp her foot in anger when everyone else agreed on that “punishment.” The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z He refused to travel down to Chamisaville to fill out the government forms for welfare, for food stamps. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z They stamped something on my test and stuffed me onto a train headed downtown. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z I could make out about fourteen beehives tucked under the trees in the distance, the tops of them postage stamps of white shine. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Some draw on government help in the form of food stamps, housing vouchers, the earned income tax credit, or—for those coming off welfare in relatively generous states—subsidized child care. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Ash watched the huntress, who was gesturing with her left hand as she spoke, and the ring she wore — a gold signet ring stamped with the seal of the Royal Hunt — winked in the light. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z His feet were cold and he stamped them in the snow, surrounded by people waiting, too, for a car. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z She faced the attacker in a kind of instantaneous flash and saw the disconsolate eyes, which remained stamped on her heart like the hot coals of pity. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z I liked embroidering: the cloth stretched tight within my embroidery hoop while I filled in the stamped pattern with cross- stitches and lazy daisy flowers. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z All the beautiful skirts went swirling by, and the boots went stamping, and the fiddle kept on singing gaily. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z Mr. Samupindi took a drag from the nub in between two fingers before stamping it out in one of the several overflowing ashtrays that doubled as paperweights. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z I did not reply quickly because the Zimbabwean PTC where we buy stamps was on strike. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z The roof was a typical tar-over-wood affair, which meant, in addition to keeping it wet, the men on it were constantly dancing around to stamp out burning cinders. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z “I watched him snort and stamp around the room like an angry bull for a full two minutes before I remembered: I had borrowed the almanac myself!” The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z Then he addressed it and bought a stamp and held the card close to him for a minute before dropping it in the mailbox. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Just stuff my feet under the metal folding chair stamped Precious Blood and pick on a wad of brown gum that’s stuck beneath the seat. The House on Mango Street 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z The old man realized what I was doing, softened his manner, and finally stamped his document and said quietly, “Welcome to the Sudan.” Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The conductor, who was on the platform stamping his feet and waving his arms to keep warm, spoke to him. Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z Hundreds of cigarette butts were stamped out on the floor. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z When the paper had burned so close that he could no longer hold it, he dropped it to the floor and stamped it out with his shoes. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z With her bright eyes and dark, flawless skin, she easily earned the doctors’ stamp of approval, though later we would learn that she had some serious medical problems. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z It was on the tip of everyone’s tongues, in the misunderstood lyrics of her favorite songs, and stamped on the jewelry she’d owned for almost half of her life. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z The Stone Crows roared and stamped their feet, Shagga hooting loudest of all. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z He turns back to Signora Divino and says something in Italian and then he stamps his foot and goes upstairs and returns with the hat of Signora Divino’s deadened husband. The Unfinished Angel 2009-09-22T00:00:00Z Horde captains came stamping out of the Abbey. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z An army of servants clad in bright blue livery for the new king bore jugs of posset and poured spiced wine in pewter goblets stamped with the seal of Claudius. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z He typed the essays, using the carbon paper to make multiple copies on the red paper, and stamped each one with a swastika to look official. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z The next turn was to keep it low, and shuttling hard between them, while the ring of boys gave them a steady stamping beat. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z Felicia used to burst in on conversations between Lourdes and her father, whining and stamping her feet until they included her. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z I pictured her sitting in the kitchen, the wallpaper border near the ceiling with its strips of stamped ivy, the floral porcelain handles on the cabinets. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z He and Aunt Gloria walked up to our front door through our front garden, which Mum says is the size of a postage stamp. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z By the end of August I had enough for the earrings and stamps. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z Vinny stamps his foot like a horse and makes his neck very straight like a goose. The Unfinished Angel 2009-09-22T00:00:00Z “If I die,” she murmured, “maybe I’ll be born again when the Rosen Association stamps out its next unit of my subtype.” Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z Around them animals were stirring: horses stamped, birds began, waking, to sing the dawn in, and here and there across the market meadow, those in the tents were beginning to rise and move. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z Danny pushed me aside as he stamped out the flame and grabbed it up. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Then, slowly, he moved his right hand across the closed Talmud, and his fingers caressed the Hebrew title of the tractate that was stamped into the spine of the binding. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z “It has all its official labels, the stamp of approval. I assure you it’s the real thing.” Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z He stamped a fist on the table; the table wobbled. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z “The word Love is stamped on the inside.” The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z He almost loped, not after the six-foot-three-inch bound of a Stew Boswell, but like a man who understood the true stamp and limit of his gait. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z Mother traded what she could for stamps to mail letters to Papa. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z Elinor drove around the next bend and suddenly stamped on the brake. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z He had the same resolved look on his face as the day he’d dropped the stack of food stamps on Mrs. Dobbins’s desk. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z As we folded and stamped all the flyers, I kept talking, telling Liz all about the Christmas float our church was doing. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Finn stabbed the ground with his shovel, stamped down on the edge to bury it deeper. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z Previously it took a lot of work to write a letter, address and stamp an envelope, and take it to the mailbox. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z The letters MS were stamped on the outside. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z “Coins should have the year they were made stamped on them, even now.” Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z There was enthusiastic cheering and stamping of feet. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z Thomas reached in and pulled apart the curtains of ivy, then stared blankly at a square of metal riveted to the stone with words stamped across it in big capital letters. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z He stamped his feet and went to the stove to drink a cup of coffee. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z "That's it?" the third one replies with a stamp of her foot. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z My instinct was to strike it in disgust; to stamp it out; but of course, I stayed my hand. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z Pipkin and Blackberry were waking, more at the stamping than the voice, which was thin and novel, not striking through their sleep to any deep instinct. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z The captain saw a ship breaker, tattooed with work stamps and scarred with hard labor. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z Then he stamps back to the truck, and Neumann One drops the Opel into gear. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z The teacup monkey stamps his tiny feet and points at the velvet bag beneath them. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z The Great Books arrived in ten boxes stamped with their contents. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z He stamped to attract his attention and Kehaar sailed across to him with one beat of his wings and a long glide. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z He stamped me with a belief in justice, then drenched me in culpability, and I wouldn’t wish such torment even on a mosquito. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z The men who were not rowing stamped their feet in time to help the rowers keep a steady rhythm with the oars. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z I grab it, glance at the private stamped on the front. The Crossover 2014-03-18T00:00:00Z The bedroom has the stamps of lovely landscapes you might discover in your dreams, and the bathroom has stamps with oceans and rivers and rain. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z He was a thing of the wild, come in from the wild to sit by John Thornton’s fire, rather than a dog of the soft Southland stamped with the marks of generations of civilization. The Call of the Wild 1903-01-01T00:00:00Z In fact, that afternoon she was waiting for me outside the gates of Camillo Junior High, standing beside a ridge of crusted snow that she had stamped down flat. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z The cashier punches some buttons and says, “After the food stamps, you owe ten dollars and thirty-eight cents.” Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z “Let’s start toward the road,” I said as I stamped out the fire. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z ‘My very bones are chilled,’ said Gimli, flapping his arms and stamping his feet. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z Stamp, stamp, he went, striking the wood he trod on with a convulsive grip at every pace. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z More than enough to stamp her as unfit to rule. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z That means you have a ration book with colored stamps in it. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z From without the house there was an approaching sound of stamping feet and murmuring voices, gathering volume in the roadway outside. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z By six o’clock she can no longer distract herself by sealing and stamping the envelopes she’s spent all day addressing. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z Not philosophers but fretsawyers and stamp collectors compose the backbone of society’. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z Many on welfare were worried that any little thing they did to bring attention to themselves might put their food stamps at risk. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z When Dahlia stamps her hind foot, you know she’s really upset. Orbiting Jupiter 2015-10-06T00:00:00Z And we both watched as he managed to stick on the stamps without touching the envelope. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z All Welfare food bore this stamp to keep the recipients from selling it. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z And Mr. Nossik—in a voice reminiscent of the most fiery Nuremberg Rally oratory—stamped and shrieked, “GET! OUT!” 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z We were supposed to study incandescent lamps, but he spent the period telling us about commemorative stamps. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z But the stamp of the World Controller’s Office was at the head of the paper and the signature of Mustapha Mond, bold and black, across the bottom. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z I had Mr. Casey mail my request from his house so the envelope would not be stamped with U.S. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z Mr. Gonzalez was about to search Miss Trixie’s area for his missing stamp pad when the door of the office opened and she shuffled in, scuffing her sneakers across the wooden floor. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Only the schedule is constantly shifting, derailed by our lack of a stamp from an official or delayed when Effie breaks one of her high heels. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z Unsure now, I hold out my stamped hand. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z “Do we have something stamped on our foreheads?” Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z I’m attaching 29,000 pesos in stamps, just to make sure it gets all the way to Florida. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z He wore a suit and hat, and it wasn’t until I saw his stamp that I realized he was a notary. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z With that he stamped the family’s passports with loud thumps and sent them on their way. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z “You said you were a stamp collector. But why would they deport you for collecting stamps?” Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z I add another Langston Hughes book on top of the magnolia book and pull my card out of my satchel and wait for the librarian to thunk a stamp in my books. Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z However things are stamped in Big Ma’s mind is how they will be, now and forever. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z So far, I’m good: no hand stamp at the border, and nobody’s tried to kill me. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z This sinking feeling grips my stomach as I look around, hoping no one sees the food stamps, hoping there’s no kids from my school watching. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z I remembered him stamping his foot when Aunt Gloria had tried to suggest leaving the Eye until later. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z And the Queen would stamp her foot, or perhaps sulk for a day. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z He danced around it for a minute, studying it, then he stamped it out. Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “That’s the genius of these institutions. They want the working classes, laborers. Boys who aren’t stamped by”—Herr Siedler frowns— “middle-class garbage. The cinemas and so forth. They want industrious boys. Exceptional boys.” All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z Instead, at the beginning of the year, each student received a paper lunch bag to decorate with crayons and stickers and stamps. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z Twice he stamped and then turned to leap to the ground and run. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z I knew Mom was opposed to welfare, but those kids got food stamps and clothing allowances. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z Would she not be forced to seek welfare, and food stamps, and school lunches, would she and her child not become a drain on the community’s resources? Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z Bo turned around and looked at the stamping hooves above the entrance to the Basilica. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z I had saved thirty-two Zim dollars and needed sixteen for stamps, which would set me way back from returning to school. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z His mother’s lady curtsied as she extended to him a folded piece of paper, stamped with his mother’s bloodred seal. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z The long table where he worked had been swept clean, with not a stamp nor a knife in sight. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z I did just that: I went to the edge of the tarpaulin and stamped upon the middle bench as I mildly blew into the whistle. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z Steam rose from their backs, and they shook their heads and stamped their hooves. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z Every bit of it was covered in stamps except for a square inch on the front, into which Mrs. Weasley had squeezed the Dursleys’ address in minute writing. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z Pausing only to stamp the escape alarm, they set out behind him toward the iron road. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z One of the horses whinnies and continues to snort and stamp, riled up about something. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z “Is America really ready for a Malcolm X stamp, even if it is thirty-four years after his assassination?” The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z Almost immediately DDT was hailed as a means of stamping out insect- borne disease and winning the farmers’ war against crop destroyers overnight. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z His latest girlfriend, a blond young honey, stamped a black spot on the back of our hands after we gave her our quarters. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z As we shook onto the shelf of the road the car nearly stalled and I stamped both feet again on the pedal and clutch. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z I stamp out the fire, bury the charred twigs, and sprinkle the burned spot with dirt. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Apparently they stamp out yards in the valleys where they feed during the dawn and dusk, but many of them climb back to the hemlock grove to hide and sleep for the day. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z ‘The riddle. The answer is a stamp. We should go to the zoo after lunch.” A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z What is happening here today is not injustice, but oppression, an attempt to throtde or stamp out a new form of life. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z Uncle stamped his foot at this impertinent thought. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z On it were stamped many numbers and her name in gold. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z And the sound of horses, jingle of harness, stamping of feet, soft blowing out of breath. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z “As a matter of fact I think he’s right. The best thing to do would be to stamp on the lot of them before they start attacking us all.” Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z They stuffed the leaflets into stamped envelopes and addressed the envelopes with names chosen randomly from telephone directories. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z Inside the box there were twelve bars of chocolate, all of different shapes, all with different fillings and all with numbers from one to twelve stamped on the chocolate underneath. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z Before he knew what he was doing, Hazel stamped on the hollow roof. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z I jumped up, trying to pull myself together and at the same time duck the flames and stamp them out. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The men at the Tribune would do their best to stamp out and smother the burning embers that landed on the roof, but eventually, the fire won out. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z On the stamp sat an ugly, bald bird. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z These were rough around the edges from our camp can opener and stamped with expiry dates and some with company names: Campbell’s, Heinz. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z “Will no one come?” it cried; and then, while the staggering and stamping went on wildly, I distinguished through plank and plaster:— Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z The paper was tom and stiff with dried blood, but the broken seal was her father's, the direwolf stamped in pale wax. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z “What postmark? The address, the postmark, the stamps, they’ve been tore off or something.” The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Although she submitted applications for food stamps and aid for dependent children, the welfare officials told her that she was ineligible because her children were no longer living with her. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z The squire brought down, and gave Demodokos, the clear-toned harp; and centering on the minstrel magical young dancers formed a circle with a light beat, and stamp of feet. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z “I’m not for sale!” she said, stamping her foot. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z Other coins had ships stamped onto them, or elephants, or goats. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z She peeled another stamp from the book and walked over to the little girl on the swing. Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z More tightly organized and military minded than Tiwanaku, the rulers of Wari stamped out cookie-cutter fortresses and stationed them all along their borders. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z One of the does, coming up the slope a little way behind, stamped and turned to bolt. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z “I can show you the time stamp on my phone.” They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z He pressed on and on, until at the door of the room the middle gendeman stamped loudly with his foot and thus brought the father to a standstill. The Metamorphosis 1915-01-01T00:00:00Z The words “Opened by Censor” were stamped heavily on the back. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z “There’s only one thing,” said Tucker, stamping with his left hind leg. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z It is amazing how Liza stamped her children. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z Deirdre brayed and the goat stamped the ground and the owl hooted and the chickens clucked and Grunt grunted his appreciation. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z “Madontfl” cried his girl in exasperation, and stamped out of the room. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z My inherent idealism yearns for the issuance of the commemorative stamp and the living document of The Autobiography of Malcolm X to continue to bridge ignorance with insight, and despondency with hope. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z I pause in front of the romance section, where they have a dozen books wrapped in brown paper stamped “Blind Date with a Book.” They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z He watched me out the corner of his eye as I stamped around trying to warm up. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z In his traces, Red Rabbit stamped and snorted, so that Hand Clap had to run over and quiet him down. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z The class was quick to point out that the ink would soon wear off, that Ralph would have to keep running back to the stamp pad, which no mouse would do. Ralph S. Mouse 1992-08-01T00:00:00Z She presses the stamp onto the back of my hand and I show David. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z The “One two three” rhyme, for example, uses all four maintypes of body percussion—stamping, clapping, patsching, and snapping—but not all of the types of body percussion need to be incorporated. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z “But—” “I’m not having one in the house, Petunia! Didn’t we swear when we took him in we’d stamp out that dangerous nonsense?” Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z David holds his hand out to me, and I turn it over so she can stamp the back. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z And that was before I pledged for those darn war stamps. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z “I still think we should have let him get a tramp stamp.” Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z I saw Peewee put a stamp on the letter and take it out to the mail sack. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z There’s a Brazilian samba she stamps to in bare feet, waving her arms until she is flushed ^nd exuberant with the rhythm of the drums. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z I often manned the church library, checking out books to members, stamping the due dates on the cards inside, and making sure the borrowed books were returned on time. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z For six years I had been getting canceled stamps from my friends, carefully soaking them to get every bit of envelope paper off. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Golly Moses, he looked as if he could stamp his foot on the ground and the rocks would split open beneath him and fire and thunder come out. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z Mr. Gonzalez took the opportunity of her disappearance to retrieve his stamp pad from the bag and discovered that it was covered with what felt and smelled like bacon grease. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z There was the same stamp on each one. The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z Yes, that old lady facing the ghost who stamped her papers without questioning her was her sister. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z We stood about stamping in the snow, gobbling up food and drink, backs to the bitter wind that was filled with a glittering dust of dry snow. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z I stamped out the fire and pocketed the fish. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z I walked down and tried to stamp it out with my boots, but it smoldered all the more. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z She took the card, stamped it, pushed it down a slot in the desk. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z Madame Semele knocked the blackened bowl from the fire with a stick, and she stamped it out in the long grass. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z We ban poor women and, inevitably, their children from receiving food stamps and public housing if they have prior drug convictions. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z Soon he was lost to view, still trumpeting and stamping far away. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z There are similar galaxies, as if stamped from the same mold, all over the Cosmos because these simple laws of nature—gravity and the conservation of angular momentum— are the same all over the universe. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z “But I thought you said they don’t give college students food stamps unless they have a job.” On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z Men began to stamp their feet, to pound their fists against the tabletop. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z She flicked her tongue over a brass seal to moisten it and pressed the stamp firmly into the wax. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z The horses stamped on the other side of the feeding racks and the halterchains clinked. Of Mice and Men 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z When he was done everyone applauded thunderously, some people pounding on the tables or stamping as well. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z His grandmother stamps her foot as if she were scatting an animal. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z Get her so hackled she’d make the wrong change for stamps. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z The envelope has no stamp, since it is being hand delivered. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z They caught the bus, or bought stamps, as quickly as they could, and never loafed around the cafe or the fountain. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z With these words, a holy stamp was set on our desires. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z On the rue des Patriarches, she hears a distant stamping, as though thousands of people are on the move. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z Some were bent and wizened with age; it was a sight that stamped itself on the brain. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z The differences between those trajectories were stamped by continental differences in domesticable plants and animals, germs, times of settlement, orientation of continental axes, and ecological barriers. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z But an image is clearly stamped in the center of it. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z You wait for some stamp to give you permission to go somewhere and live. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z Every betrayal contains a perfect moment, a coin stamped heads or tails with salvation on the other side. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z “She did put enough stamps on, then,” said Harry, trying to sound as though Mrs. Weasley’s was a mistake anyone could make. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z He was already up, stamping to get his circulation flowing. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z Adam stamped the mud off his shoes when he reached the pavement. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z I can see it in the time stamps from our text messages. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z Gerald learned to cook and shop with food stamps and wash clothes at the Laundromat. Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z She wanted to watch Mo giving Elinor's books new clothes, pressing fragile gold leaf into the leather with his stamps, choosing endpapers, stirring glue, fastening the press. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z I described him for the doctor, his walking before me in the schoolyard, stamping the blacktop, announcing our presence with his swagger, his shout. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z With stamping and flashing of tails every rabbit on the slope dashed for cover. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Something you want to hide in a cardboard box, something to stamp out of your mind. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z His herd stopped, too, as one, whinnying and stamping as he paced back and forth. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z “But you were so close to finishing! You can’t quit school for some food stamps!” On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z He stamped the letters and put them in his pocket and he asked Samuel, “Is that all right?” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z "Treacherous hounds!" said Bree, shaking his mane and stamping with his hoof. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z I lie motionless;—somewhere something clanks, it stamps and stumbles nearer—all my nerves become taut and icy. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z Let’s stamp out the scoundrels, and never mind what their motives are! Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z “Where have you been, you young monkey?” said Mrs. Joe, stamping her foot. Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z Her face was distorted as she stamped her high heels and screamed. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z She swept the cottage’s dirt floor, sprinkled it with water, and stamped it to keep it hard packed. The Midwife's Apprentice 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z One of the does stamped on the puddled floor of the punt. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z There was food in the wagon, and wine—and a camera, and a stamp collection, and a stuffed owl, and a mantel clock that ran on changes of barometric pressure. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z I invented a postage stamp where the back tastes like creme brulee. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z I write five more letters and she gives me money for stamps. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z On the table under the window' lay a massive volume bound in limp black leather-surrogate, and stamped with large golden T’s. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z I held the little packets up so Cade could see the black date stamped across the foil. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z Sort of look over the old stamping ground generally. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z The tail end of my jacket catches on fire and I have to stop to rip it from my body and stamp out the flames. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z Or if I had a stamp I could write to Joe Louis and say, Dear Joe, Is there any chance you could tell me where you got your powerful shoulders even though you were poor? Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z The horse snorted and nervously stamped her feet. I Survived the Great Molasses Flood, 1919 2019-09-03T00:00:00Z The horses stamped and snorted, and they chewed the straw of their bedding and they clashed the chains of their halters. Of Mice and Men 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z But as he was sulking far too furiously to touch the supper and had spent the whole night stamping and roaring and cursing, he naturally did not now look his best. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z This, perhaps, was the final contribution of Nazism to genetics: it placed the ultimate stamp of shame on eugenics. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z Its hilt was stamped with a screaming eagle. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z She stamped the card and handed me the books. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z One, dressed all in leather, stood next to a handsome black horse that stamped its hooves on the soft grass. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z Every now and then it snorted and stamped the ground. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z Sophie suddenly found herself looking at a face she had seen on stamps and coins and in the newspapers all her life. The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Eventually, one of them will get stamped and you’ll be told you can go be poor in Canada. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z He wanted to get back to Pyongyang in time to vote in the August election for the Supreme People’s Assembly, the rubber stamp parliament of North Korea. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z Jack touched the letter in his coat pocket, the one with the Nazi stamp on it. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z She was thrilled by the opening discussions about her husband’s image appearing on a U.S. postal stamp. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z “Do I look like I blow truckers for food stamps?” Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z Once you have that felony stamp, your hope for employment, for any kind of integration into society, it begins to fade out. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z “I realized how many men had died because those pages had been stamped top secret and because generations of bureaucrats like me kept them secret,” Ellsberg said. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z “Yeah,” she said, “I guess I heard of that. So I’ll go back to the stamp shop tomorrow and get another sheet. These we can use for the mail.” Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z The large one was stamping his leg furiously, trying to extinguish it. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z We huddle together, complacent as cattle, stamping our feet to stay warm. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z "All science is either physics or stamp collecting," he once said, in a line that has been used many times since. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z He barely had enough moisture in his mouth to seal and stamp the envelope. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z The note was stamped with the school’s official seal, attesting that he was a full-time student and only thirteen years old. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z “It’s okay!” he called up to the light the size of a postage stamp, which was the open trapdoor, “it’s a soft landing, you can jump!” Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z Pieces of paper with all sorts of writing on it, seals and official-looking stamps. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z Dad pays for all of us, but David doesn’t want his hand stamped. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z His pass was scanned and found to contain an out-of-work stamp; he was taken in. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z I stuck the letter back in the envelope, Scotch-taped it together, and readdressed it to Buddy, without putting on a new stamp. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z Weeks passed at Mrs. Sen’s before he found a blue aerogram, grainy to the touch, crammed with stamps showing a bald man at a spinning wheel, and blackened by postmarks. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z Her oxfords were stamped down at the heels so that she could slip into them like clogs. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z “Sorry,” he said from his spot on the floor, surrounded by thin strips of paper stamped “Top Secret.” Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z I sealed the letter and went to grab a stamp from the junk drawer in the kitchen. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z There was tie throb and stamp of a single organism. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z She stamped on it, just to be safe, and retired to the porch. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z It was a hard red apple stamped out of tin. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z His foot had gone to sleep, and he stamped it so hard that the floor shook. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z He gets paid about fifty-three cents a day, which he can use at the prison commissary to buy toothpaste, snacks, stamps, and other miscellaneous items. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z I heard that those come with a special stamp on identification cards that allows Jews to be out past curfew, to not be deported. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z When he came in, stamping the snow from his boots, and caught Laura up in a bear’s hug against his cold, big coat, his mustache was beaded with little drops of melting frost. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z But letters from school—the kind that are written on real paper and sent in a real envelope, with a stamp and everything—those are even worse. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z He took a stamp, dampened it on a small sponge, stuck it on my envelope with a dramatic flourish and said, “Any kind of special occasion?” The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z The official smiled wryly and stamped the papers. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z The Baratheon look was stamped on his face, in his jaw, his eyes, that black hair. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z “England offers us nothing but taxes, stamps, and bloodshed.” Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z He leafed through it, pausing at the entry-and-exit stamps of other journeys. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z After Mom came home from England, a big box covered in British stamps arrived on our doorstep. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z It had Zeus’s likeness stamped on one side and the Empire State Building on the other. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z People rushed forward to stamp on what remained of the sign. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z The little circles and the big circles went round and round, and the skirts swirled and the boots stamped, and partners bowed and separated and met and bowed again. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z The gold stamping still obstinately showed through the layers, but the deep red had become a dark burgundy. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Most startling of all, a splendid dark cartoon of a black eye was stamped in a ring on my eye socket, in the richest inks of Tyrian, chartreuse, and plum. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z The resting horses nibbled the remaining wisps of hay, and they stamped their feet and they bit the wood of the mangers and rattled the halter chains. Of Mice and Men 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z He pulled at his necklace, extracting a coin with a seal stamped on it. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z We looked back at the inn with light coming from the windows and the woodcutters’ horses stamping and jerking their heads outside to keep warm. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z The horses were stamping and whiffling at the edge of the clearing. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z The book listed hundreds of attractions you could visit, from the world’s largest ball of twine in Darwin, Minnesota, to the world’s largest ball of stamps in Omaha, Nebraska. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z All I remember from the rest of that night was looking all over the house for an envelope and a stamp. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z And when all the coins had been counted and tasted, the old man would scrawl upon a parchment, stamp it with his seal, and give it to the captain. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z It seemed that everything to eat in our house was stamped Not To Be Sold. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z This U.S. stamp is based on a tulip from her flower book. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z By human standards, it was an ordinary sized book, but it looked like a postage stamp in his huge hand. The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Matthias stopped above the gatehouse and stamped his foot upon the stones. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z The wind was whipping off the lake, and she hugged her upper arms and stamped her feet as she waited for the door to open. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z Strange to say, if you do not stamp yourself with the words exhilarated or terrified, those two things feel exactly the same in a body. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z "We don't print stamps of living people. So we stopped the run immediately and recalled the stamps, but thousands were already sold." The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z And when I chose to look the other way, I was sort of putting a stamp of approval on it. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z He smiled and she put the rest of the stamps in her back pocket. Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z When I had mentioned the issuance of the stamp to others, the news simply stopped folks in their tracks. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z The mustached man smothers Sasha’s flaming skirt with his coat while the balding man stamps out the burning tatters that flame around them. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z “You don’t think the gods would be even a little upset to find out that their entire universe was stamped out?” Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z What follows is a growing mumble, two voices starting polite, quiet, like when a lady buys stamps at the post office and gives the minimum amount of respect required to the teller. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z She stamped furiously, shaking the dogs up and down. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z “Sure was nice meeting you all. Listen, Naomi, you mind getting my blueberry pie tin when the picnic’s all over? It’s on a red dishcloth. Has a Clabber Girl stamp on the inside.” Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z Cynthia peeled one of the stamps from the book, stuck it on her forehead, then made a funny face at her grandfather. Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z Do you want to show me your stamps? Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z Then he heard their feet stamp up the steps, scratch on the doormat, and enter the lobby. Ralph S. Mouse 1992-08-01T00:00:00Z He stamped and bolted into the trees, followed by the other rabbits who were in the open. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z The inside of the band is stamped with the letters EJR. Dear Martin 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z “I don’t want a ‘rubber stamp’ type of wife,” he told her a few weeks later. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z Just as the sign “Goering Street” in the capital of newly independent Namibia reminded me, Africa’s past has stamped itself deeply on Africa’s present. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z There was some official-looking paperwork, and then Maya reached for an envelope with a red “Return to Sender” stamp on it. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z The man stamped a visa and handed it to him. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z Her teacup monkey, Singe, starts to stamp his feet and reach his paw through the cage bars. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z Ten years ago, when Anatole received that first letter stamped with the new, official seal of the Presidency of Independent Angola, it looked like dreams could come true. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z A lick of the envelope, a stamp, and tossed in a pile of a hundred others. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z All Poles carried identity cards, and the Nazis stamped the cards of Jewish Poles with a big / for Jude, which means “Jew.” Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z I know all about food stamps and dollar menus and layaway. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z It was Fiver who had stamped and he was now staring intently across the field. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z I stamped up and down to bring the blood back to my hands and feet. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z He passed a battery of Southern artillery, mixed Napoleons and Parrots, served by wagons stamped USA. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z We couldn’t pay in money, of course, or put it on the Compucount: we used other things, some jewelry that was my grandmother’s, a stamp collection Luke inherited from his uncle. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z A few grains of the powder fell onto the bridge of her nose as she used the thumbtack to stamp a dot above her eyebrows. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z The letters Mother wrote back, painstakingly, late at night, when she’d saved up enough money for a stamp, contained plenty of news of Matthew and Mark, but never once had mentioned Luke’s name. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z We produce our passes, from the zippered pockets in our wide sleeves, and they are inspected and stamped. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z But usually you receive a letter made of heavy paper, stamped with the king’s crown seal below a short thank- you for your child’s life. Red Queen 2015-02-10T00:00:00Z In fact, it’s three metres by five and I once worked out that it could fit 22,500 stamps. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z Maybe it's the shock and anger of learning I have to leave, but something wakes up inside me, something as powerful as a searchlight, and I jump up and stamp my feet. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z “It won’t really entail much work, licking the stamps is the longest job.” Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z I thought she was going to stamp her foot. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z The world, through his unleashed emotions, imprinted itself upon him, and he carries the stamp of that passing moment forever. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z Then he added indignantly, “I awaked to find the lid of the cart open. Of course, no one would help me up. My white smock stamped me as a vendor, an untouchable.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Hazel was just wondering whether it would be worthwhile starting a side passage to link Bigwig’s hole to Dandelion’s, when he felt a stamp of warning from somewhere close by. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Recently I asked the postman for special- issue stamps; I’ve waited since childhood for postmen to give me some of their own accord. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z They were more interested in leftover change for Jolly Ranchers candy than in stationery and stamps. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z The reporters were almost always in tow, and Howard usually created some amusement for them to write up or photograph, including talking Smith into dipping Seabiscuit’s hoof in ink and stamping their Christmas cards. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z These women and their children can no longer live in public housing, receive food stamps, or access basic services. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z When I exit the Block on the far side, a soldier congratulates me, stamps my hand with squad number 451, and tells me to report to Command. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z He stood up, stamping his feet back into his boots. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z And there it was, a plain wooden crate stamped with the words: I Survived the Sinking of the Titanic, 1912 2010-06-01T00:00:00Z She compensated for this handicap by developing a memory on which was indelibly stamped everything she had ever heard or seen or experienced. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z The entire herd was now looking their direction, making foghorn growls and stamping their hooves. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z I jammed my hands in my pockets and stamped my feet on the sidewalk a couple times. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z Then Howard hurried over and whispered “Pineapple” in my ear just as I was stamping my foot again. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z The itching gets so bad at night that I have mini-tantrums, waving my arms and stamping my feet to keep from scratching or bawling. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z It says, “Class 5-A,” whatever that means, and stamped on the card’s back is “Michigan Local Board No. 19, Wayne County, 3604 South Wayne Road, Wayne, Michigan.” The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z She stood up, stamped once to make her dress fall straight, and looked at herself in the mirror. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z Litres of water used up in the wetting of stamps. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z Then I sorted out the carbons, stamped on a by-line, put the stuff in a couple of big manila envelopes and rang for a boy to take them to the Gare St. Lazare. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z These coins were as big as Girl Scout cookies and had images of various Greek gods stamped on one side and the Empire State Building on the other. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z I did; whereupon began a heaving, stamping, clattering process, accompanied by a barking and baying which removed me effectually some yards’ distance; but I would not be driven quite away till I saw the event. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z It’s really the look on his face that stamps down my smile. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z With just a one-cent stamp apiece, Miss Love had let every lady and girl in Cold Sassy know she had been thought about way up in New York City. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z Pranav slid out from under the turtle and showed everybody what he’d found: a bright yellow envelope with “Clue” stamped on its front. Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z How could I possibly ask for a photograph to be taken, as well as stamps, when we had not eaten bread in more than a month? I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z I put my hand on the doorknob and take one last look at the empty box covered with stamps from Madagascar. Dragons in a Bag 2018-10-23T00:00:00Z Sam kicked at the little fire and stamped out the sparks. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z I could hear the stamping feet of our horses, and the grinding, crunching noise made by their strong teeth as they ate the hard, yellow kernels of com in their feed boxes. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z He took up the letters on the table and stamped them carefully, and then turning to me, said:— Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z He heard Mr. Tiflin in the house, stamping his feet into his boots. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z But the boy did not leave the hut; he stood there, defiant and angry, stamped on the ground, clenched his fists and forcibly declared his hatred and contempt in his father’s face. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z “I work day and night and have a small drawing ready for you which I'll send bye and bye. I have no more money for a stamp, excuse the postcard.” Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z “It’s another yellow envelope with ‘Clue’ stamped on the front.” Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z I licked stamps and envelopes until my mouth went dry. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z She stamped the floor and groaned in horsey agony as her eyes rolled back into her head. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z The crowd hollered for blood, their voices and the stamping of their feet filling the room with a horrible drumming. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z The crowd explodes with claps, whistles, and stamping. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z Picked up the food stamps, looked from me to Baba like we were pulling a prank, or “slipping her a trick” as Hassan used to say. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z She would be all dressed in her gray suit and black high heels—which Aimee had put her stamp of approval on—maybe putting on another coat of mascara. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z Sefia stamped her heel down on top of the man’s foot. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z Dicey stood up in frustration and stamped her foot on the ground. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z My face stares back at me: smiling eyes, a Belle-bun full of camellia petals, a rosy blush set in brown cheeks, and the Belle-emblem stamped on my chest. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z They stamped around and shivered until Miss Riley led them back across the field. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z Dr. Montague stamped across the room to the chessboard and took up a knight and regarded it furiously. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z She had started to explain Hera’s plan for bringing the camps together to battle Gaea and the giants, but the goddess stamped her walking stick against the marble floor. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z The men stamped out their cigarettes and spread slowly into a semicircle. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z She jumped up from the bench and brushed her hair and stamped her feet, then waved her arms around frantically. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z Curiously, Hard Tack appeared to be stamping his foals in a mold that was the polar opposite of his own. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Then the shortened sheet was copied again, producing a full-sized page with blank white space where the “Top Secret” stamps had been. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z The letter to her husband was returned unopened, stamped kit/led in action. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z The snow around it was stamped with his footprints. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z Jack collected stamps and begged ship captains for ones from faraway places. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z Around her, masked and veiled men and women crowded onto the terraced ledges, stamping their feet as the action proceeded below. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z The horses nicker and stamp as we leave. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z The prison seal was stamped in blue ink for both of us to see. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z In all the rush and fervour, Montag had only an instant to read a line, but it blazed in his mind for the next minute as if stamped there with fiery steel. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z After listening to the chief, the magistrate rapidly made out the necessary traveling documents and affixed the official stamp. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z I reach out my hand and turn the box so I can check the stamps on the other side. Dragons in a Bag 2018-10-23T00:00:00Z Each stamp is a snapshot of a story, of one thin slice of history captured like an ant in amber. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z Tom went back in again, and there was a sound of much thumping and stamping. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z After that, each month an envelope with a government stamp came for me. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z I touch the tiny frog stamp on his hand and show him mine. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z A dark bag is put over my head, stamping out the light. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z Spectators tried to stamp out the fires that ignited, but it was clear that a drenching with water was needed desperately. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z Making these stamps must have entailed a great deal of work, and they surely weren’t manufactured just to print this single document. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z They turned it on for a whole host of reasons, sometimes for things as small as a kid accidentally using their ability, or to stamp out unruliness in one of the cabins. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z Grube told me that he thought the kings of Kaan, never allied with Teotihuacan, may have wanted to stamp out pernicious foreign influences—xenophobia is a powerful motive in every culture. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z The right-hand corner of the box was decorated with a mess of stamps. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z It looked rather unimpressive, just a flat piece of lead with some unfamiliar writing stamped onto it. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z And of course, right then, Dahlia stamped her foot. Orbiting Jupiter 2015-10-06T00:00:00Z Negroes cannot use the same pharmacy or buy postage stamps at the same window as me. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z The chariot did nothing, and the witch-woman stamped her foot on the rock. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z I could see them stacked in the corner, small brown boxes stamped NOT FOR SALE, waiting for other families to come along. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z It’s strange to think that no other kid will get to come down to this room anymore, but I like knowing that I got to leave my stamp on it. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z Jake’s mom shouted when he answered “A stamp” for the question “In philately, what is an Inverted Jenny?” The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z Grinning, Amarante produced the food stamp book and, while Nick looked on incredulously, painstakingly tore out four one-dollar stamps which he laid carefully on the counter. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z But she could hear only their labored breathing and the stamping of their feet. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z “How will you manage? The pass is blank. It will need to be filled out and also stamped officially for you to board. They will have a complete manifest.” Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z We were standing outside the post office when the local magistrate, a white man in his sixties, approached Paul and asked him to go inside to buy him some postage stamps. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z “Get out of here!” shouted the king, stamping his foot harder and then harder still so it seemed as if the whole castle, the very world, were shaking. 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 jostled and bumped one another, laughing, stamping their feet against the cold snap that had surprised the city this week, the last gasp of winter before spring began in earnest. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z The next day a messenger came to deliver an invitation stamped with the royal seal, and Ash hovered in the doorway to the parlor as her stepmother unfolded the letter and read it. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z The squeeze of the sponge as Jackie’s mother wet a stamp. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Our first lesson was all stamping, first as a group then individually across the floor. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z “But I can address things and lick stamps and—” Miss Hilly get up from the table. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z In fact Maddie didn’t fly at night for a while after she’d clocked the hours and had her logbook stamped, and she had a difficult time keeping in practice because she used it so little. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z This time, however, Bo’s name is not stamped to her butt cheeks. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z “If you can stamp it out, do so. But if you are right about the volcano, it won’t much matter what is on fire and what is not.” The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z To stamp that on a child at birth is capitalism at its best.” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z At the stamping, all the rabbits above ground ran for cover. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z And now dozens of people—old people, people I thought were in line to buy stamps—have launched into a choreographed dance number, with high kicks and hip thrusts and shimmying arms. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z “Oh, gosh,” she said in a strained voice, and jerked her head back and stamped her thick old-lady shoe heels on the kitchen linoleum. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z Then into the pool plunged the line of men, stamping, churning, moving in a crazy line up the pool, flinging their feet about. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z We must settle the question of slavery’s extension now,” he told his daughter-inlaw, “otherwise it will stamp our National Character and lay a Foundation for calamities, if not disunion.” Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z The plastic was soft in her hand, still warm from having been stamped into shape inside the machine a few seconds before. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z They stamped their feet for hello, and the ladies stamped back, Hello! How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z Although we were the poorest family on Little Hobart Street, Mom and Dad never applied for welfare or food stamps, and they always refused charity. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z Lyra said hotly, and she even stamped her foot. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z He remembered having seen it the day before, when he came looking for a stamp album. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z The librarian stamped her card and shoved it back to her without, as was usual, looking up. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z “Sometimes Daddy sold food stamps to buy clothes for us,” I say. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z Home plate was tilted up and stamped on top with a cracked mollusk fossil. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z I stamp out the remains of my little fire, clear up the scraps of food, and tuck Cinna’s gloves in my belt. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z Cynthia asked, holding up a stack of stamps and envelopes. Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z For Omakayas, he bought a small cross stamped out of German trade silver. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z In response, there rose another storm of hooting and stamping. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z "They’re really not very good scientists. They're more like stamp collectors," he wrote in the New York Times in an article that stings yet. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z And now they shouted, now they yelled in triumph and stamped their feet, and through his eyelids, Harry saw bursts of red and silver light shoot into the air in celebration. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z He drops his cigarette on the cement and stamps it out with his foot. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z In his room, Ben packed his gym shoes and trunks into a blue zippered bag that had the Marine Corps seal stamped in white on the outside. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Jethro was sensitive to color and contrast; the memory of the golden kitchen and the velvet shadows of the room beyond was firmly stamped in his mind. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z My collection of candy wrappers had fallen out of their notebook and were crumpled under my stamp album. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Kit came to a halt, and suddenly she stamped her foot in the dusty road. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z She snapped her head and said, “Okay, Mom. So can I have a stamp, an envelope, and a piece of paper?” Crash 1996-03-19T00:00:00Z The horses began to stamp and snort as the fire flared. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z The woman in the customs booth stares at my documents, then glances at me briefly, and with two quick movements stamps everything and sternly nods me along. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z With the start of the Cultural Revolution all the stamp shops were closed down, because stamp collecting was considered bourgeois. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z He didn't even have to pay for a stamp. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z So that's what was in those boxes stamped Danger— explosives stacked in the ground-floor storeroom. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z I followed behind the people who waited in line to get their entry stamps. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z She stamped past me and on down the corridor. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z He would not be here, either, if it had not been for the letter with the Nazi stamp. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z And at the top was the stamped address, Soldier Island, Sticklehaven, Devon Soldier Island! And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z Grandma sat by my bed, took out my stamp collection, and tried to get me to take an interest in it. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z The officer stamped his foot petulantly, turning weak with frustration. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z It’s just the sting of seeing the flaming, furious look stamped on his dark, familiar face. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z He would have stamped the dirt down on top of the jar, and scattered leaves. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z I wouldn’t have been able to buy even a penny’s worth of war stamps otherwise, let alone a Liberty Bond. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z While earnestly wishing to erase from his mind the trace of my former offence, I had stamped on that tenacious surface another and far deeper impression: I had burnt it in. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z “I paid extra to stamp my patriotism on my car. Vigilance!” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z “The sound of men stamping overhead as they run about. There is the creaking of a chain, and the loud tinkle as the check of the capstan falls into the rachet.” Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z “This is the same stuff that’s on the back of postage stamps. Mix a little of it in your powder and add water. Let it dry. I think it’ll burn. That’ll be fifteen cents.” October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z They were a rich red leather, with a pattern stamped in gold. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Their purses have somebody’s initials stamped all over them, just like the ones I saw at the Winterset Collection. Shine! 2019-11-05T00:00:00Z His eyes shut tightly, he stamped his feet, shouted, and swung the weapon about him like a scythe. The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z Everyone laughed and screamed and began smearing each other with yolk, chasing each other up and down the house, rocking its frame with their stamping feet. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z It was a week later that the letters came: two of them, thick and bound with black ribbon, stamped with an ornate red seal. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z What the hell do you say if you get a stamp of approval from a legend? On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z Others stamped their feet and whistled their approval. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z I was glad, of course, to be relieved of responsibility, but it rather added to my sense of humility to feel that I was not even capable of licking stamps. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z The all-day parade, titled Hitler Unlooses War, was a demonstration of America's military and industrial power, aiming to stamp out any doubt about America's ability to crush Hitler and win the war. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z I’ve seen their photo albums and it’s stamped like bam! all over his face. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z While he was wiping his stamp pad, he wondered how many of the other workers would appear. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z The card, like all the others, was four inches wide by five inches long, blank on one face, with postal insignia and a printed one-cent stamp on the other. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Thirsty for information about friends and family and folks from all around, everyone loved Spoon Man’s visits—sometimes he even carried mail and packages, saving folks the cost of stamps. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z We came in stamped with such errors we can never know which ones made a lasting impression. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z It had a yard the size of a postage stamp and the grass never seemed to grow enough to need mowing. Lawn Boy 2007-06-12T00:00:00Z It was the size of a bread loaf, stamped with a serial number and the Words U.S. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z The light comes from the tall rounded windows behind the front desk where some women stand, dressed nice and stamping books and answering questions. Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z As she returns to her office, she realizes there’s no stamp or postmark on the new envelope, worries that the professor will suspect something. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z Dear Diary, When I was born, the doctor must have stamped “National Spokesperson for the Plight of Black People” on my forehead; a stamp visible only to my teachers. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z First there came mimeographed letters of commendation, then real letters signed by the Secretary of the Treasury, and not with a rubber stamp either. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z "I don't know where she is now. And I haven't got an envelope and a stamp. An' there isn't a mailbox. Or a postman." Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z By and large the Milagro lawyer’s articles had been fairly innocuous—generalized summaries of welfare problems, advice on how to pay less income tax, on how to apply for and receive food stamps. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z “You can’t use food stamps for bullets. You need money. Real dollars.” The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z The money will have to be changed, and the postage stamps; they will have the Queen on them instead. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z His handwriting is famously illegible; student compositions are regularly returned stamped with tan rings of coffee, sometimes golden rings of Scotch. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z On my way to the post office I think, Why should I squander money on stamps when I have two legs to deliver the letters myself in the dead of night? Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z Rose stamped her foot on the damp ground. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z “Your Grace, I must protest—” hisses Durufle, but the bishop cuts him off by stamping his crozier to signal the finality of his judgment. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z Uhmma holds the certificate in her hands, tilting it back and forth so the light will catch the gold medal stamp. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z ‘She’s designing you a beautiful mark so when you are man- grown and master smith you can stamp your silver with it.’ Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z The sleek brown mare shook her mane and snorted, stamping a hoof as if impatient to depart. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z Luma asked what he meant, and Jeremiah explained that at a certain time each month, food stamps ran out. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z She looked again at the word she had written, then erased it with her own toes, stamped the sand firm, and tossed the stick into a pile of glistening kelp nearby. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z Alfred opened his wallet and pulled out the amateur card with a postage- stamp photograph. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z The bottles don’t have any labels fastened to them, just the stamp Old Kentucky in the glass. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z He stopped and stamped a paw on the floor in frustration. The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z She stamped her boots a couple times then reached for the door handle. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z They sat on the floor together, cutting “Top Secret” stamps off the copies. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z He stamped his foot and his eyebrows went down over his eyes. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z The function of hate, as Sarai saw it, was to stamp out compassion—to close a door in one’s own self and forget it was ever there. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z They wear matching workout gear with Sweet 16 stamped on their hips. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z “Excuse me!” barked the Prime Minister, now positively stamping up and down. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z Stanley stamped down on the back of the blade of the shovel, piercing the hard, dry earth. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z You are no longer eligible for food stamps; you may be discriminated against in employment; you cannot vote for at least twelve years; and you are about to be evicted from public housing. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z They huddled close together and Gran whispered stories of olden times, before magic had been stamped out and magical creatures driven to extinction. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z I was beginning to feel anxious when a man whose passport had just been stamped accidentally dropped two of the many bags he carried as he was going around the checkpoint to reboard the bus. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z I slip onto one of the chairs and examine the stamps. Dragons in a Bag 2018-10-23T00:00:00Z I open a cabinet and am greeted by a dozen candles, all of them the color of buffed leather and accented with a gold stamp of Balekin’s personal crest—three laughing black birds. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z As Nailer passed one, he spied the faded image of an apple stamped on its surface along with letters. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z Inside the envelope were a stack of cards, a bunch of rubber stamps, an ink pad, and a sheet of three-ring-binder paper filled with a fifth grader’s sloppy handwriting. Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z My brother is bringing Danny, whose nose runs all the time, who wears knitted vests in diamond patterns, who has a stamp collection. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z Thomas couldn’t imagine why that one word would be stamped on the beetle blade, unless for the purpose of announcing to the Gladers that it was evil. The Maze Runner 2009-10-21T00:00:00Z Mom is counting her food stamps as we walk into Walmart. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z Wab was still bitter as she stood, brushing the grass off the back of her faded sweatpants, the initials of a university she’d never attended stamped across the seat. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z She could not look straight down—that was Jeremy’s back—but off to the right, and a bit behind them, she saw a gray-brown square the size of a postage stamp. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z I could hear the horses stamping and jingling their harnesses in front of the tavern. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z He had hoped it would nod its head or stamp a hoof, like a trained horse he had once seen on the village green when he was younger. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z 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 They came stamping in, and Mother let them talk and tell what they’d done already. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z Grace could see the red “Return to Sender” stamp slashing across the white paper. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z She was on her feet stamping and screaming. The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z They made stamps out of raw potatoes and covered the walls with symbols. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z The immigration officers were asking for three hundred leones, almost two months’pay, to put a departure stamp in passports. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z He flailed his hands and even stamped once with his long, narrow, elegantly shoed foot on the plush carpet. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z Winter was coming, and the men and women in line held their coats tight around them and stamped their feet to stay warm. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z Styx, by the roadside, straddling the bike, with joy stamped across his face. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z Then the camera cuts away to a purple screen with the title of the show stamped across it like a rejection stamp. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z He stamped his foot again and time slowed. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z There are pyramids of imported chocolates, an ice cream counter, aisles and aisles of fancy cookies and canned gourmet food, ticking away like little clocks toward the obsolescence dates stamped on their packages. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z The authorities looked at my papers and stamped me in. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z Donning his God outfit once more, in a matter of seconds Herbie stamped out the newcomers. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z When Arion saw the horses, he stamped the ground in outrage. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z The word came out sounding like a growl, and Lady Constance stamped her feet in anger. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z The number erases all that has gone before, stamps it null and void. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z Vonetta went on and on about all the money we were saving and how she made sure Fern and I didn’t waste our money buying candy, airmail stamps, and mooning over boys in Oakland. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z Like everything else you can purchase without ration stamps, they’re totally worthless. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z I used a stamp of Alexander Graham Bell. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z Hazel stamped, and a few moments later Dandelion was beside him in the bracken. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z I wonder if my speech also bears a Danish stamp. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z Then he turned away, drew his sleeve over his nose, and got up, and stamped about, trying to whistle, and saying between the efforts: ‘Where’s that dratted creature?’ The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z Instead, she went into the junk drawer and grabbed a stamp. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z After that, she slapped the stamp on it. Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z His iron staff was as tall as he was and crowned with a dragon’s head; when he stamped its butt upon the deck, the dragon’s maw spat crackling green flame. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z If the Mud People knew that the word “leprechaun” actually originated from LEPrecon, an elite branch of the Lower Elements Police, they’d probably take steps to stamp them out. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z It was beautifully bound in leather with gold letters stamped on its spine. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z A member of Parliament, arguing against the stamp tax, said that the colonists, who had no representatives in Parliament, were being burdened with a tax they had not voted on. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z When they laid a sheet of the study on the glass, the cardboard covered the “Top Secret” stamps, but not the text on the page. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z Uncle Ossie continued, “We in this community look upon this commemorative stamp finally as America’s stamp of approval....” The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z “You can’t buy bullets with food stamps. You got to pay me money.” The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z The Moton school office put war stamps on sale, each purchase a small offset against the gargantuan cost of the military production. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z ‘This is more to my liking,’ said the dwarf, stamping on the stones. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z A time stamp is burned into the lower left corner of the image, just like on the shaky home videos Dad used to take. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z All through the summer he had stamped them out like sudden fires. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z Hands were clapped, feet were stamped upon the floor and on the hard winter ground outside. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z A school bus is a book of stamps. Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z They clapped and stamped and roared for more of Popper’s Performing Penguins. Mr. Popper's Penguins 1938-09-01T00:00:00Z He rubbed the side of his face against the barn wall and stamped a hoof. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z He settled down next to Trina and the little girl, thinking about the past, and drifted off to sleep, only for the darker memories to come and stamp out his foolish hopes. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z And, crying hysterically, he stamped off in a huff. The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z I stamp my foot to scare them away, but Ma says, “Leave ’em be. Dragons in a Bag 2018-10-23T00:00:00Z Many bear Mr. Barris’s stamps and initials, but there are other diagrams written in different hands that Chandresh does not recognize. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z She had with her another paper bag that seemed to contain the same assortment of material and twine, aside from the stamp pad, which was sticking out of the top of the bag. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z I make a bunch of noise, stamping on the floor, clearing my throat several times, a few more stomps, then step around the corner. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z He yelled at them all the time, waving his broom, stamping his feet, trying to make them understand. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z Then Aunty Ifeoma did a little dance, moving her arms in rowing motions, throwing each leg in front of her and stamping down hard. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z She stamps a card and puts it in the back of the book, then hands me a card inside a small yellow envelope. Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z Everybody made a terrific noise, shouting and yelling and stamping, cheering Grandma. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z The snow was falling steadily now and flakes the size of postage stamps landed on his face, on his hair. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z At this point, the disgusting old Grand High Witch began to do a sort of witch's dance up and down the platform, stamping her feet and clapping her hands. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z Brother Elisha came in, slamming the door behind him and stamping his feet. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z “Read it and stamp it,” one of the interrogators said, handing a document to Shin and one to his father. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z And Serafina stamped again and clapped her hands with the other witches, and they shook their throats to make a wild ululation that tore at the air like claws. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z It's my way of putting my stamp on the neighborhood. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z They pressed well between the pages of a book, and you could stamp a star-shaped pattern on your skin with their pepper-pot seed capsules. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z When her voice fell as low as she would allow it, she stamped her foot and said, “All right. All right. But you gotta take my kids.” One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z She warmed the pale white beeswax over a candle, poured it carefully, and watched as the eunuch stamped each letter with the direwolf of House Stark. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z I didn’t realize he was writing an address until he pulled a roll of stamps from a kitchen drawer. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z Each miner had two brass medals with a number stamped on it. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z Dad asks the driver if he’d mind going by way of the G.P.O. and the driver says, Is it a stamp you want or what? Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z They were all wearing the same uniform: a tea towel stamped with the Hogwarts crest, and tied, as Winky’s had been, like a toga. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z It either went into my mouth that instant or was lost to Richard Parker, who was pawing and stamping the ground and huffing impatientiy on the edge of his territory. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z Other than one ration stamp each for cheese, meat and bread, all she received from us was a jar of jam. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z But he was a silent man with problems of his own; as long as a letter was properly stamped and addressed it was no affair of his. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z Dolores stamped on the brakes suddenly when a movement on the side of the road caught her eye, but it was only a deer. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z “That sign I saw out in the Maze—remember? The metal one with words stamped on it?” The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z It did seem as though the fire in him was smothered, the thunder and the avalanche, the war cry and the whirlwind, all stamped out. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z She would stamp out all of the things that were bad about Johnny as they came up in the boy, Neeley. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z She stood by his side and beamed with satisfaction, waving one small arm in the air, while the people, released now from their solemnity, whistled and stamped their feet in ap-preciation. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Our cedulas are stamped when we come back through the gates. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The envelope was a pale blue gray, small and square, and plastered with colorful stamps that took up one-third of its surface. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z Then Lady Constance tossed her head and stamped both her feet in impatience. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z Her hands are stamped with faint liver spots. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z He stamped his feet against the evening chill. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z The neighbors were tumbling from their houses now, and they watched the falling sparks and stamped them out to save their own houses. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z Dicey ground her teeth and stamped her feet in anger, still walking. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z At that moment, a snowflake stamped her arm. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z Some people like to collect stamps, coins, or antiques. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z I knew Caitlin’s address by heart, and wrote it in the center of the envelope, trying to leave enough space for all the stamps it needed to make it to my best friend’s house. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z “Because the Church people in my world, right, they’re frightened of Dust because they think it’s original sin. So it’s very important. And my father...No,” she said passionately, and stamped her foot. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z The main door opens and I hear Lenny stamping the snow off his boots in the hallway. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z “Believe it or not, droppings don’t come stamped with a species label,” Dad deadpans. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z Then I see the number stamped on the back of his denim shirt: 105. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z The dragger stamps the ground in frustration and, in an apparent fit of temper, turns and shoves the circling, deranged one over. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z They looked and felt different—thinner paper, more exotic and colorful stamps. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z To open Cape Coalwood, I loaded Auk V with our bottle-tested formula of finely ground black powder and postage stamp glue, cured under the water heater for five days. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z Pa called out, and all the skirts began to swirl and all the boots began to stamp. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z “They stamped my passport when I got here and asked if I had anything to declare.” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z My father, I know, would have chased someone like me right out, stamping his broom, saying, What you do? Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z What I don’t want is the stamp of the white world on me. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z All around me there were big black boots going stamp stamp stamp and I dodged around them and ran and ran and ran, twisting and turning, and dodging and swerving across the kitchen floor. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z I memorized the Gothic style of the writing the hue of the ink, traced the stamp, and made note of the terms used. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z “Then put those food stamps away and gimme three dollars and forty-three cents,” the storekeeper said. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Mrs. Smith stuffed the folded page inside an envelope, already addressed and stamped, and sealed it shut. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z She couldn’t pace back and forth in her living room like always, so she just tapped her feet as if stamping out a campfire. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z Malvonne did not know what made her waste a three-cent stamp other than the pleasure of knowing the government was delivering her heat. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z He is preparing to take his registration exam, the two-day ordeal that will enable him to become a licensed architect, to stamp drawings and design things under his own name. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z She stamps on his sword arm and presses her scim-point to his throat. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z Summoning all his courage, in one desperate moment, Jack pulled out the letter with the Nazi stamp and thrust it at the officer. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z April gave her stamp of approval to this latest innovation by trying it out herself, doing the forehead taps very slowly and dramatically. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z “Chairman Mao said, ‘In a class society everyone is a member of a particular class, and every kind of thinking, without exception, is stamped with the brand of a particular class.’ Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Mixed in with the applause, though, was a spattering of whistles and the stamping of feet, the European equivalents of catcalls and boos. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z Will stamped on it at once, hard, crushing the man’s fingers between the hilt and the lead, and then wrapped the rope more tightly around his hand and stamped a second time. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z The car was late meeting us—the driver had to avoid an unexpected patrol—Paul and I stood for half an hour shivering and stamping around in the drainage ditch where we hid the bicycle. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z We were descending into a valley, in the middle of which was a town that, from here, looked no bigger than a postage stamp, overwhelmed by green on all sides. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z James taught Sammy how to put out a fire properly; how to cover it with dirt and then stamp on it and wait, to be sure no telltale smoke rose from the ashes. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z I stamped out the few that were still edged in red and threatening to flame up again. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z It's stamped in gold with a golf-club insignia. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z In the back of the van were three calves, tied up to a rail and stamping about, their eyes enormous, and rolling with fright. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z One afternoon, as I sat at my mothers desk, filling out and stamping paperwork, my cell phone rang. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z On the far side of the street Bryce is screaming and stamping his feet. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z Scipio stamped his foot so forcefully that he crushed one of the little soldiers. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z She threw the stamp album casually into the bag of things to be confiscated and went back downstairs. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Each sentry could reach his neighbor in a matter of moments; and the appropriate stamping signal—for they had more than one—would bring out the officers and the reserves. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z On the back of the jackets were stamped the letters FBI. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z Joey began pulling her braids and stamping her feet up and down. The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z That day they were working in the prison shop, assembling bird feeders, which was barely more interesting than stamping out license plates. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z Francie pushed the wrinkled dog-eared card covered with stamped dates across the desk. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z They were facing the wrong way, after all, and it was dark and wet, and they were busy stamping the ground and staring gloomily and longingly at the lights of the village. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z Mark could only imagine the sadness that must have been stamped in his features. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z I stamped the two envelopes and mailed the one to Father and put Shreve’s in my inside pocket, and then I remembered where I had last seen the Deacon. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z Then, after applying a special-delivery stamp I’d found in Bobby’s top drawer, I took the letter down to the main mail drop in the lobby. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z A scruffy-looking bearded guy stood in the doorway, stamping water from his boots. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z Next to it is a glossy envelope emblazoned with a gold stamp of the Warcross logo. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z On coins, on stamps, on the covers of books, on banners, on posters, and on the wrapping of a cigarette packet—everywhere. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z There was the sound of someone stamping snow off boots at the entrance of the inn. Ralph S. Mouse 1992-08-01T00:00:00Z Naturally, all this took a lot of time, and I hadn’t gotten very far on my tree, so I was fretting and stamping out the fire when I stopped with my foot in the air. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z The only bright spot in the whole mess was that I wouldn’t have to make payment on the $100 war stamps pledge. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z She stamped over to her chest of drawers, yanked one out, and threw it clattering to the floor. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z And that was how Baba ended those humiliating food stamp moments at the cash register and alleviated one of his greatest fears: that an Afghan would see him buying food with charity money. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z Checking the time stamp on the image, she saw it was from noon local time. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z I knew it was from Cuba right away because of the funny stamp and the Spanish words in the return address. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z If you can give me a envelope with a stamp on it, and put yer address on it, I’ll find out where Sam is to be found and post it ye to-night. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z It is as though formerly we were coins of different provinces; and now we are melted down, and all bear the same stamp. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z And then one day, I saw an envelope so completely covered with stamps it barely had space for my name and address. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z I asked Big Ma for two dollars to buy first-class envelopes, a memo pad, and postage stamps so we could write a proper letter to our mother. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z “He’s not a teacher. He’s a stamp collector and he’s being deported,” I said. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z He then shook my hand and stamped my document. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z “Have you ever seen any of his letters with Philippine stamps on them ?” “Oh, yes. Your children showed me one.” The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z As soon as she was gone, Thalia stamped her foot in frustration. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z Now he looks like someone who will turn up, later, on a stamp. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z Freddie began a slow clap, and the team followed, chanting along in time, stamping the floor as they sped up. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z Upon landing, Columbus was to thrust his sword into the ground and claim the New World for Spain, while his men assumed positions that mimicked those depicted on a two-cent postage stamp commemorating Columbus’s discovery. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Intercity travel in North Korea had once been impossible without a travel permit, which would be stamped or folded into a “citizen’s certificate,” a passport-size document modeled after the old Soviet identification card. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z “He ain’t. They give him eggs for stamps. He puts stamps on their letters and then trades out the eggs at Grandpa’s store or at Williford, Burns, and Rice in Commerce.” Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z Rab had simply shown Mrs. Lapham a letter signed by Governor Hutchinson and stamped with the Great Seal of the Colony. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z Anyway I love you and want to get this off special delivery so you can get it in plenty of time if I can find a stamp in this madhouse. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z They stamped a paper, and I was approved for entry into the United States. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z They passed out flyers, pamphlets—A Message from City Councilman John Kwang—buttons, ballpoint pens, keychains, lapel pins, every last piece of it stamped with his perfectly angled script, simply signed, John. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z It’s about half the size of a shoebox, and lots of colorful stamps surround my grandmother’s address. Dragons in a Bag 2018-10-23T00:00:00Z It twitched its ears and stamped the ground softly. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z And while she went through the barn, the halter chains rattled, and some horses snorted and some stamped their feet. Of Mice and Men 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z He stamps the postage and I head back home. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z She stands up and, I swear on a stack of pancakes, stamps her foot. The Misfits 2001-10-01T00:00:00Z The printer evidently had a set of at least 45 stamps, one for each sign appearing on the disk. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Trying to make it look casual, Ellsberg dropped a blank piece of paper over the “Top Secret” stamps on the page he’d been about to copy. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z We decided to risk getting our passes stamped and the correct travel documents once we were in Johannesburg. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Cigarette packages that lacked a New York State revenue stamp—cigarettes purchased out of state, for example, or on Indian reservations—were not allowed to be distributed to inmates, and were apparently thrown away. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z A few times he lost his temper, shouted, and stamped out of the room in disgust. Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z He kept his stamps neatly categorized in books and loved to imagine the strange and exotic countries they came from. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z The tablecloth has the pattern stamped straight on the linen in washable ink, like a paint-by-numbers picture. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z A barrelhouse blues was being shouted over the stamping of feet on a wooden floor. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z Suddenly, she removed her shoes and began stamping on the shells in her bare feet, slowly at first, then faster and faster in a mad flamenco, her arms thrown up in the air. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z Once more I advanced and started stamping on the middle bench with my foot. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z There were heraldic devices worked or stamped on the sides—enormous Mack eagles with two heads perhaps, or wyverns, or lances, or oak trees, or punning signs which referred to the names of the owners. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z “When I get to the bend I’ll stamp. But if I run into trouble, get the others away.” Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z “Massachusetts State Penitentiary” was typed on the upper left corner, across from a waving American flag stamp. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z “I know. He bought shells from me earlier. With food stamps.” The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z It snorted and stamped and whipped its head back and forth, trying to pull itself free, but it was trapped. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z She saw that not a single one of the frock coats understood what might happen if her grandfather decided to stamp his foot on the ground. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z She turned the front porch light on and off by stamping on the floor. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z The stamp also serves as a reminder of the stock from which we were bom and confirms significantly that how one lives his or her life today stands as a testament to one’s forever after. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z But the boy before me says playing stick-ball, and the girl before him says stamp collecting, so when the question comes to me, I say sewing. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z I raise my arms, waggle my hands, and stamp my feet at them. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z Such a dress could be made of leather or linen, it might be plain, or Mo might imprint a pattern on it with his tiny decorative stamps. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z But Kino beat and stamped the enemy until it was only a fragment and a moist place in the dirt. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z She built Mr. Edwards’ face and his clothes and the word that was stamped on the metal clasp of his suspenders. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z He was off, slowly enough, down the slope, but when Hazel stamped for him to stop he did so at once. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z And it wasn’t that her mind wasn’t spinning with ideas—images of flames, of those stamping horses, wore sharp in her memory. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z Ellsberg showed Robert the system he’d worked out: after each copy was made, the “Top Secret” stamps at the top and bottom of the page had to be cut off with scissors. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z He could smell the horses in the dark, and could hear their shiftings and their soft stamping on the needle-covered ground. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z She had no time to fool with Fern, but Fern stamped her foot, confounded by the effort it took to get Big Ma near the chicken run. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z According to the time stamp, Sorrento had sent the memo just after eight o’clock, less than five hours ago. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z With these as a bracer for the day, Frightful and I would stamp out into the snow and reel down the mountain. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z Hastily he stamped out what was left of the fire, scattered the ashes, and laid the turves on the hole. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z “Fools! Fools!” shouted Benjamin, prancing round them and stamping the earth with his small hoofs.“Fools! Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z He was well out into the great field and looking for a sight of the distant arch when he felt along the ground the first stamping thuds of the alarm. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z “Very well,” the judge says, stamping and signing the form, then returning it to the clerk. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z “Stalin had a tremendous blow up,” recalled one top official, “losing his temper, banging his fists on the table and stamping his feet.” Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z “We have orders to stamp out the pagan worship of a dog!” The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z Theresa stamps her skate so hard, she bends the wheel. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z The dreadful word was stamped on his mind as if by a printing press on a sheet of paper, and the ink was red. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z Twice a day he checks his campus mailbox for letters and postcards stamped with the multicolored profiles of the queen. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z The food stamp program, in turn, was a vehicle to let “some fellow ahead of you buy a T-bone steak,” while “you were standing in a checkout line with your package of hamburger.” The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z She stamped her foot and raised her arm in a turbulent gesture that made Yossarian fear she was going to crack him in the face again with her great pocketbook. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z My pounding heartbeat stamps out the noise of our footsteps and the hiss of the dungeon-lanterns. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z The name Professor R. J. Lupin was stamped across one corner in peeling letters. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z Her mouth folded into a tight, wrinkled stamp. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z She turns around and hushes us all and stamps her foot until we’re quiet again. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z The horse was stamping her front feet and blowing her nostrils open wide to catch the mountain-lion smell that was on the wind now. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z Her face was stiff with cold and her legs were shaky, but she clung to his fur and stamped until she felt stronger. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z Uncle stamped on the dirt over the sleeping bag until finally the smoke stopped. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z All around Helmuth, boys and girls cheer, too, rocking the balcony with their stamping of feet. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z “Not food stamps, you dumb old coot—money. 1 need money for those shells.” The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z But Penelope’s reverie about the Imperial Russian Ballet was soon drowned out by the ruckus of two ruddy-cheeked servants careening dangerously around the nursery, while the children stamped their feet to keep time. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z In the license plate shop where our gang worked, he operated the machine that stamped out the numbers. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z Hooper was sticking a lot of new stamps into his green leather album. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z Then, over the screams and the roars and the thunderous stamps of the battling giants, Hagrid’s yell came loudest of all. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z The old man laid the food stamps on the counter again. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z He was wearing his green woolen sweater, on which was stamped the letter of his high school, and his shirt was open at the throat. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z I stamped at the ground this time, getting better footing. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z He carried all three portraits to the front counter and was about to stamp his embossed gold Hofacket’s Fine Portraiture seal on the lower left corner of each one when Granddaddy stopped him. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z One of the horses stamped and his bridle jingled in the night. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Newsmen, cursing the undue delay, stamped their feet and slapped frozen ears with ungloved, freezing hands. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z And then they brought out their largest tomes bound in gold, the leather covers stamped with the five-cornered star of the Concordian Empire, and threw open the heavy covers. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z She stood on tiptoes and stared into them, then stamped her foot and shouted, “No, your real eyes! Those fakes don’t fool me any more than your ridiculous lie about Abe!” Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z He never got a stamp on his forehead on his twenty-first birthday at The Tombs, never jumped in Dalhgren Fountain. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z Finally, the man stamps all of our passports and winks at me as he hands them back to Mama. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z “We need to stamp the inside of your wrist with your ID number.” Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z “I want a stamp,” I said, teetering on the knife edge of rudeness. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z I put a stamp on it and everything. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z But the longer she spent in America, the better she had become at distinguishing, sometimes from looks and gait, but mostly from bearing and demeanor, that fine-grained mark that culture stamps on people. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z The only way to tell these corporate drones apart was by checking the six-digit employee number stamped on their right breast, just beneath the lOI corporate logo. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z Baba dropped the stack of food stamps on her desk. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z Finn jabbed the shovel into the earth, stamped on the footrest, tossed the dirt over his shoulder, jabbed, stamped, tossed, jabbed, stamped, tossed. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z And when she came on Saturdays, she'd always catch Cynthia marching around outside the front of the store—prompted by her grandfather—and Miss Fran would stick stamps on Cynthia's chubby cheeks and forehead. Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z I wanted to stamp out all the people like him. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z |
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