| 单词 | steel |
| 例句 | But with the financial crash, his father’s business—-exporting scrap steel to Asia—had all but evaporated. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z All you had to do was slide your tray along a steel counter and select what you wanted from all the main dishes and desserts and drinks. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z I shoved my foot between the pug and the steel gate, hoping to slow Fig’s heart a few beats closer to calm. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z European weapons were steel swords, lances, and daggers, supplemented by small firearms and artillery, while body armor and helmets were also made of solid steel or else of chain mail. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Uncle Jimmy locked the steel gate, leaving Alex with the uncomfortable sensation of being a prisoner, even though he knew he and Julie were safer if the store was locked shut. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z Each sardine was hooked through both eyes so that they made a half-garland on the projecting steel. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z Jon hacked at the corpse's neck, felt the steel bite deep and hard. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z The water had a metallic quality to it, a steel blue in contrast to the sky and seeming to give off a light of its own that cut into his eyes. The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z On the train north to the Catskills I unwrapped my flint and steel and practiced hitting them together to make sparks. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z “Throw down your steel and stand aside, and no harm need come to you.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z He was tall and spare, wearing a long chainmail hauberk and gauntlets of lobstered steel, but he'd lost his helm and blood ran down into his eyes from a gash across his forehead. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z I will take it to her anyway, jam the money under their steel door. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z Then she saw the bright glimmer of steel. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z With the advent of the first primitive, unpadded starting gates in the early thirties, some riders actually died in the saddle, speared into the exposed steel overhead bars by rearing horses. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z She wanted to show this boy another meaning for the word bang, and it involved his head against a steel door. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z He had to make do with oddments assembled from Lord Lefford's wagons: mail hauberk and coif, a dead knight's gorget, lobstered greaves and gauntlets and pointed steel boots. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z “I—” Dorian glanced at the window, then back at his father, steeling his nerve once more. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z “I’ll have no bloodshed in the Merman’s Court. Put up your steel, Ser Jared, else I must ask you to leave my presence.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z But they also made useful and beautiful goods—copper kettles, glittering colored glass, and steel knives and hatchets—unlike anything else in New England. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z The sounds were full with the sensation of slicing through land, the sense of forced progress, the sense that things made of steel would always win over things made of earth. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z The knight was clad in chainmail, with gauntlets and greaves of lobstered steel and a heavy gorget around his throat, but he had not thought to don his helm. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z Soon Todd was pushed into the room, the door was closed, and his protestations were muffled behind the steel door. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z "The fat one said the princess was with child. The one in the steel cap, he had the torch, he said that they had to hurry. I think he was a wizard." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z The steel support beam had to be craned in; the crew was waiting for the crane. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z "He has neither crown nor gold nor favor of the gods, only a piece of pointed steel." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z Brian took out his knife, opened it and locked the blade, and struck the back of the hard steel against the sharp edge of the flint. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z She tugged it clear on the third try, and held it up for him, a gory four-inch stiletto of irregular steel. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z She unplugged her air hose and unlatched the steel door and entered an air lock, and Tony Johnson followed her. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z I found myself driving faster than I wanted to and it began to rain, a cold steel rain. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z A steel helmet swallowed half the grinning skull. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z Hers was the only voice of authority up here, and even the eleven- and twelve-year-old boys were terrified of this female ogre, for she ruled with a rod of steel. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z The rooms are yellow and bare of anything except a single blue bunk, a steel sink and toilet, and a call box by the door. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z With a steel axe, workers could topple the same tree in less than three hours. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z “But I guess Aluminum Man isn’t appropriate either, since he’s also made of titanium, steel, plastic, various polymers, and silicon computer chips.” Ungifted 2012-08-21T00:00:00Z “Don’t make fun of me,” she said, and there was a hint of steel in her voice. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z We followed her into a stainless steel hallway, like I imagined they’d have on a space station or something. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z He was so huge that he took his horse down with him in a tangle of steel and flesh. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z On the chain were strung two safe-deposit keys, a gold watch with a fleur-de-lis pin, and a little steel tube with a ring on its top. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z I went toward the microphone where Brother Jack himself waited, entering the spot of light that surrounded me like a seamless cage of stainless steel. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z They put on white coats and surgical masks, and the two men walked down a long cinder-block corridor lined on both sides with steel doors leading to monkey rooms. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z A steel door with a square of window. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z A scarred face and a stubble of dark beard showed under his spiked steel cap, and he wore mail over boiled leather, dirk and shortsword at his belt. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z Its walls were too thin and were made of a type of steel much too brittle to hold so much molasses. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z Maybe my sister is wishing that I was with her to see the stainless steel appliances and the doctor’s office furniture. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z He unpacked a coil of metal that twanged and glittered from a steel box in his backpack. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z His fingers slide down my arms, and he holds me by the elbows as the car bumps along the steel rails. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z It seemed that Dernhelm laughed, and the clear voice was like the ring of steel. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z "I hope your savages do not share your reluctance, else we've wasted our good steel on them." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z By “steel barons,” the strikers meant the owners and top executives of the steel companies, many of whom were among the richest men in America. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z I saw the steel come into eyes, the brows lower to a level of suspicion. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z They were antique steel full moons, and when he put them on he invariably underwent a quiet transformation, becoming suddenly professorial, handsome in the way that some outdoorsmen are yet scholarly at the same time. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z The door opened, and the Earthman shot through to come up hard against an immovable steel arm. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z He tries to pull away, but my grip and Kenya’s grip are steel. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z He cornered me behind a massive steel ship propeller, leaning close enough that the heat of his breath fanned across my cheeks. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z They take up most of the space between this main building and the steel bleachers of the high school football stadium. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z “You shall have work for your steel soon enough. The enemy is moving, the true enemy. And Lord Snow’s rangers will return before the day is done, with their blind and bloody eyes.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z He was tremendous, well over two hundred pounds, with scars on his hands and steel toe-clips on his motorcycle boots. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z They say, Be slim and slender, as fast as a greyhound, as tough as leather, as hard as Krupp steel. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z Inside there was a hatchet, the kind with a steel handle and a rubber handgrip. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z Line is twanging like the high string on a steel guitar as the fish rises up to the surface, pulling the skiff behind it. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z The person in that painting with the steel bones and legions in his skull would have saved Jesse. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z “Those used to be towers, connected by steel cables.” Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z A few were clad in stolen steel, dinted oddments of armor looted from the corpses of fallen rangers. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Instead, extra-tall steel gates with spikes at the top surround the area. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z Along the wall of the staging area was a row of stainless- steel cabinets with rubber gloves protruding into them. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z It was a tall standing clock with a gold-trimmed face at the top like a head, supported by two steel beams. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z Kalyani put a steel tumbler of steaming coffee on the table for her husband. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z It invites a search for ultimate causes: why were Europeans, rather than Africans or Native Americans, the ones to end up with guns, the nastiest germs, and steel? Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Jorge was fourteen years older than she and wore round steel glasses that shrank his blue eyes. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z The Ohio steel mill had received a big order and needed coal, lots of it. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z "Put down your steel now, and I promise you shall have a quick and painless death," Robb called out. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z Early in the evening, Oppenheimer climbed the steel tower alone. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z "You sit in council and talk of ugly women and steel kisses, and now you expect me to be-lieve that you tried to protect the girl? How big a fool do you take me for?" A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z The first week was all pain, steel claws rip- ping at his shoulder muscles, raking his arms. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z You need to steel yourself to a lot of things when someone in your family is really sick. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z To regain the upper hand, the English set up a target made of steel. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z He steeled himself to ask the most important one. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z They had been painted red years ago but had chipped over time, revealing layers of orange and green, and patches of bare steel underneath. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z Bruce steeled himself and stood, picking up his briefcase. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z She shot him one more look before steeling herself and planting her feet in the dirt. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z I was running my team up a small frozen creek when I came around a corner and saw a raven caught in a number-four steel trap. This Side of Wild 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z The panel rolled away and revealed a tall steel door with a combination lock right above a thick metal handle. Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z Through the grid of steel cables, the skyscrapers divide into manageable fragments. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z The steel cables stiffened and strained like a drawn archer’s bow. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z I stood up for a long time again with my face pressed to the steel mesh of the window, breathing clean air that cut my throat and lungs like a razor. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z “Don’t give us easy ones, Mr. D. I’ve got brains of steel!” Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z He opened the tiny box, lifted out the grid with tweezers, and fitted it into a steel rod the size of a tire iron—the sample holder, it was called. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Now her legs were pinned under a gray-and-black steel air-conditioning unit that had fallen through the ceiling. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z Swords rode on their hips, singing their soft steel song as they rattled in their scabbards. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Catelyn clenched her hands, feeling the tightness in her scarred fingers where the assassin's steel had cut to the bone as she fought to save her son. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z They took the nerves of steel into account, but not the small mistake. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z Khrazz cursed and turned a high cut into a low one, slipping past the old knight’s blade for once, only to have his blow scrape uselessly off a white steel greave. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z I ignore him and attempt to steel myself for whatever is coming next. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z It held a change of clothes, a loaf of trail bread, some jerked meat, a skin of water, needle and thread, flint and steel, pens and ink. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z Thomas followed him to the steel door of the big concrete block and Minho turned to give him a wan smile. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z The fence said Dad had run him out, but I think the real reason was he had done his job for the steel company as the designated hatchet man. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z I can hear the hum of enchanted steel in the air. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z Some chose to brave nature’s fury: three men from the University of Berlin strung a pair of seven-hundred-yard steel cables between two Alpine peaks and waited for a thunderstorm. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z And she had stainless steel lifelines all around and a small cabin in the middle with two plastic portholes on each side. The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z The room was caught between old and new, between stone colonnades and stainless steel floors, between the very latest in high tech and old curiosities from the Industrial Revolution. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z The seat was steel, without a pad, and the driver’s feet went over the top of the motor to rest on two foot pedals. Lawn Boy 2007-06-12T00:00:00Z “Eleven stories tall. Forty-five thousand tons of steel. And longer than four city blocks.” I Survived the Sinking of the Titanic, 1912 2010-06-01T00:00:00Z Another woman, noticing steel helmets inside a television network car, laughed to the driver, “You getting ready for next summer?” The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z Thanks to their guns, horses, and steel blades, the foreigners won every battle, even with Tlaxcala’s huge numerical advantage. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z And since then we’ve engaged in hair pulling, shouting matches, and ignoring each other—but we’ve never fought like this, never with live steel. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z Steel on steel, pink snow, broken shields and severed limbs, and it would all be done. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Pink-enameled scales covered their torsos; on their heads were perched elongated helms complete with pointed steel beaks and crests of bobbing pink feathers. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z “I never thought there was anything powerful enough to blow out a steel tube like this. Bursting pressure’s got to be in the neighborhood of twenty thousand pounds per square inch, even with the weld.” October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z Not that I can see the storm from my cell, of course, with its empty steel walls and security cams and nervous soldiers—so I can only guess at what the sky looks like. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z As a result of extensive surgery, his right leg had a steel plate in it with eight bolt holes. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z So lifelike did he seem that it took the dwarf a long moment to realize he was made of painted marble, though his sword shimmered like true steel. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z I counted out five U.S. dollars to pay for the steel tubing and bar stock we were to use that day. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z The white horse and the black one wheeled like lovers at a harvest dance, the riders throwing steel in place of kisses. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z In the store we collect ladies’ lightly used stockings for use in parachutes and ropes, and tin and steel for scrap and metal drives. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z Slashing at each other, Brand and Cooke surged up and down the aisles of steel tiers. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z I loved the hulking Gustloff with its thick steel walls and multiple levels. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z Since the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution in Russia, steel companies had incited this xenophobia and painted strikers as wanting to overthrow the government. Fannie Never Flinched 2016-11-21T00:00:00Z From the hot heart of whatever hell I sent him to, he thrusts his steel into my hand and twists. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z I walk into the house, steeling myself for the inquisition. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z The smell of steel and forge wafts past, ever-present in a city known solely for its soldiers and weaponry. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z He rode miles across dry lake flats and over rocky cerros until he came to a high fence of heavy-gauge steel mesh with three strands of barbed wire across the top. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z The bared steel shone a fearful red in the glare from the firepits. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z By the time they caught sight of the Manderis muddy waters glinting in the sun, they could make out the voices of men, the clatter of steel, the whinny of horses. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z The steel frame trembled as rounds hit it with the wild rapidity of a drumroll. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z She accepted it with fulsome thanks; it was lovely to behold, and all that burnished copper would flash prettily in the sun, though if actual battle threatened, she would sooner be clad in steel. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z The Knight. of Flowers bought all his armor here, Tobho boasted, and many high lords, the ones who knew fine steel, and even Lord Renly, the king's own brother. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z Meanwhile, the German metalworking and steel industries are equal in productivity to their American counterparts. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z They hurried to open the steel doors leading to the underground bunkers. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z Sometimes, when I was stripping copper from a radiator or throwing the five hundredth chunk of steel into the bin, I’d find myself imagining the classrooms where Tyler was spending his days. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z “You just got a little concussion, a little steel, a little dirt, the whole thing.” Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z His armor was heavy steel plate, enameled in a dark crimson, greaves and gauntlets inlaid with ornate gold scrollwork. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z Instead of turbans they wore steel or silver caps, some of them set with jewels, and one with little wings on each side of it. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z And looking at those four wooden planks with the steel rod slanting across them was the only peace she had. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z She put out her hand and tapped an intercom attached to a steel post. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Three by the fire wore the red stallion badge of the Brackens, and there was a large party in blue steel ringmail and capes of a silvery grey. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z Mrs. Frisby heard the chug of the tractor and the soft scrape of the steel against the earth. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z The air lock was made entirely of stainless steel, and it was lined with nozzles for spraying water and chemicals. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z From these twisted creatures, the Scholars learned to trap the jinn with salt and steel and summer rain still warm from the heavens. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z We were under a steel grate made out of metal pipes. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z He swam the length of the steel hull and turned, treading water, gasping with the cold. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z She was still armored in her blue steel, though she had taken off her helm. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z As one of her admirers observed, “She has plenty of nerve and is as sharp as a steel trap. She moved her base up north and continued speaking out in cities around the country. “ A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z They passed a crofter's cottage, deserted and overgown, and skirted a flooded quarry where the still water had a sheen as grey as steel. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z They had steel rims and very thick lenses, and she could hardly see a thing without them. The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Long before anyone began manufacturing guns and steel, others of those same factors had led to the expansions of some non-European peoples, as we shall see in later chapters. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The cylindrical green tank only weighed a few pounds, and I had this little steel cart to wheel it around behind me. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z But there must have been some steel cord in her throat, for Cathy’s voice could cut like a file when she wished. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z His voice was quiet, but all the other boys suddenly fell still, for in his tone as in Jasper’s the spite between them now sounded plain and clear as steel coming out of a sheath. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z And then suddenly, thousands of the steel bolts that held the tank together let go. I Survived the Great Molasses Flood, 1919 2019-09-03T00:00:00Z Sticky molasses and egg whites coated his shoes as he picked up the cake and flung it hard at the steel door. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z I watched from the raft as the beautiful deep began to swallow the massive boat of steel. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z Every thing that could shine—faucet, refrigerator handle, stainless steel spatula—shined. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z In those big hands, the arakh became a whistling blur, a steel storm that seemed to come at the old knight from three directions at once. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z It was not the rat-faced man; this gaoler was stouter, shorter, though he wore the same leather half cape and spiked steel cap. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z Father and I found four heavy steel bars in the basement. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z One of the smiths knelt to inspect the object: three immense steel links, twisted together. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z “Take Lord and Lady Imp to the wagons, have Hammer fix them up with some company steel.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Jon tried a practice cut.He was clumsy and uncomfortable with his left hand, yet even so the steel seemed to flow through the air, as if it had a will of its own. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z More wealth than most of the crews collected in years off the ships, and yet it decorated this girl’s fingers as casually as Moon Girl pierced her lip with steel. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z No steel was permitted within the sacred confines of Vaes Dothrak, beneath the shadow of the Mother of Mountains; she had to rip the heart apart with teeth and nails. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z The spear she held was eight feet of black oak, tipped in rusted steel. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z From a different wagon came the steady rhythmic scrape of steel on stone as Yoren sat, chewing sourleaf and sharpening the edge of his dirk. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z “I don’t think she’s worried about the moped. People sometimes get mad when someone they care about throws himself in front of a charging thousand-pound animal wearing steel shoes.” Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z He slid a rolling wall panel in front of the steel door. Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z She steels herself, takes the pillow from her head. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z Instead of roamin ’ the jungle, hiding from hunters in three- piece loincloths, they are put in concrete cages with bars of steel. Tears of a Tiger 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Black and white faces peered at him from behind steel bars. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z We were within sight of where the two blast furnaces and the nine open hearths had been—where the “pig iron,” a product of iron ore, was melted into steel. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z He visualized the contours of Emo’s skull; the GI haircut exposed thin bone at the temples, bone that would flex slightly before it gave way under the thrust of the steel edge. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z The train beat on itself and danced on the shiny steel rails mile after mile. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z Sitting down on a steel cot across from the stove to mull over this eerie tableau, I encounter evidence of McCandless’s presence wherever my vision rests. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z “Stainless steel. Please accept it. A small consideration for your time.” Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z With the steel plates up, the deck was dark and dismal and prisonlike. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Dad reached into his pocket and pulled out his favorite jackknife, the one with the horn handle and the blade of blue German steel that we’d used for Demon Hunting. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z When she finally steeled herself, they had already cut down Louisa’s body. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z Sometimes it was fists, sometimes it was truncheons, sometimes it was steel rods, sometimes it was boots. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z Then their eyes were riveted; a slate-colored pigeon swooped down to the middle of the steel car tracks and began strutting to and fro with ruffled feathers, its fat neck bobbing with regal pride. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z "We are far from lost. I should welcome the chance to try my own steel against this Stark boy." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z His legs felt like steel springs and his arms were whips. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z Now the residents of the city forged an American dream of steel girders, fashioning opportunity with fire and iron. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z In the center of the circular lake, ten steel bridges—none of them connected—extend out to the walls like a star. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z He wondered what his lord father would make of them in their skins and bits of stolen steel. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z Now and then a street car rattled past over steel tracks. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z I yanked off the steel bars and flung the door open with a clang. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z The sharp precision of the world of steel and stone dissolved into blurred waves. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z Pod handed him up his shield, a massive slab of heavy ironwood banded with steel. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z It doesn’t matter how skilled a fencer you are, you can’t help but lose when your opponent has a blade of Ramston steel and you’ve chosen to fight with a willow switch. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z “We shall. Put away your steel, all of you. We will have no blood shed here tonight.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z This was a modern room with a curving steel desk near the center, carefully positioned halogen lights, and a spiral staircase leading down from a perfect circle cut in the ceiling about fifteen feet high. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z “What stocks did you buy—coal and steel?” October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z By the end of the month, half the steel industry, including almost all the mills in Chicago, Illinois; Cleveland, Ohio; Johnstown, Pennsylvania; Wheeling, West Virginia; Lackawanna, New York; and Youngstown, Ohio, had shut down. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z "They will have steel when they are ready. When they are of an age." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z “And there’s that ‘small steel pan’—what can that mean? The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z He nodded toward the rolling pack of Grievers between them and the Cliff—they looked like one big mass of rumbling, spiked blubber, glistening with flashes of lights off steel. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z The peoples of areas with a head start on food production thereby gained a head start on the path leading toward guns, germs, and steel. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z His flesh could sense the steel that enveloped it was in a kind of trouble, an augmented desperation. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z To have my hopes raised and dashed again, it’s like cold steel twisting in my gut. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z After a time he heard die noise again, the rasp of steel on stone as Bronn sharpened his sword. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z We arrive to find an inch-thick steel cable spanning the gorge, stretched between a fifteen-foot tower on our side of the river and an outcrop on the far shore, four hundred feet away. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z His heart pounded in his chest in time to the drums, and under his layers of leather and steel his brow was cold with sweat. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z They apologized to Aarfy for intruding and led Yossarian away between them, gripping him under each arm with fingers as hard as steel manacles. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z I'm wearing my good pair of shoes—boots made of dark leather worn soft over time, with strong laces and steel toes. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z Ben staggered against a steel post that supported the overhang to the breezeway. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z I could see it in the worried glances he gave the sun as it moved across the sky, in the anxious way he appraised every length of pipe or cut of steel. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z Even though I knew it was useless I tried tugging at the bars but they were the real McCoy, solid steel. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z The steel gleamed strangely bright in the wan sunlight, now red, now yellow, now blazing white. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z I picked my way over the steel bars, getting closer and closer to the front, until a row of seats was resting on top of my head. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z A woman behind the ticket counter says the Germans carry fog pills and wear rocket belts; their uniforms, she whispers, are made of a special cloth stronger than steel. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z Radar has walked away from the raccoon and is tugging on the handle of one of the four locked steel doors. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z To actually volunteer to talk to one, black or white, to let him in her house, watch him adjust his hips in her chair to accommodate the blue steel that made him a man. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z In engineering parlance, it embodied little “dead load,” the static weight of immobile masses of brick and steel. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z He was stopped by his leash, which was knotted to a steel ring at the base of his perch and to the jesses on his legs. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z We went down and Mr. Bow opened the solid steel cell door. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z “I drink plenty rhum dose tree days of carnival’* I could picture him in his donkey skin, wheeling around to the music of the steel bands. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z All in leather and fur they were, with here and there a bit of steel or bronze,- heavy beards covered hard lean faces, and made them look as shaggy as their garrons. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z His ankles, owing to the sharp steel edges of the shackles, were gouged and bleeding. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z The factory is full of huge machines that make the steel and cut it and bend it into watever shapes they need. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z “A man ought to have a real belt,” Dad said at breakfast on the day Luke was well enough to return to the junkyard, handing him a leather strap with a steel buckle. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z He calmed himself with the knowledge that if lighting struck, the tower’s steel frame would most likely conduct the electricity harmlessly into the ground. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z He took out a number of small steel splinters from my thighs with delicate and refined distaste. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z When, by August 1919, it became clear that was not going to happen, discontent within the various steel worker unions reached an all-time high. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z She slashed down hard, and Needle's castle-forged steel bit into the grasping fingers between the knuckles. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z “This edge,” said Giacomo Paradisi, touching the steel with the handle of a spoon, “will cut through any material in the world. Look.” The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z The guns and the wagons float past the dim background of the moonlit landscape, the riders in their steel helmets resemble knights of a forgotten time; it is strangely beautiful and arresting. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z They ignore me, or hurry past, because maybe they can see the steel spike of terror piercing my skull, driving all the way down into my soul. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z I say nothing, steeling my expression to blankness. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z The steel door of the incinerator went up and the muted hum of the eternal fire became a red roaring. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z The truck’s motion and the beer were soothing; the steel and glass closed out everything. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z Instead she stood just outside, staring back at the big steel door that opened onto the roof. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z Men working at the Manufactures and Liberal Arts Building heard the shriek of failed steel and ran for cover. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z A steel ball will knock to dust Irene’s Palace of Cosmetology, where women used to lean their heads back on sink trays and doze while Irene lathered Nu Nile into their hair. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z I saw stars, and fell backwards from the speeding car into the dust of the road, my feet becoming entangled in the steel spokes of the bicycle. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z Rebel yells resonated through the steel lockers and scraped along the cinderblock walls. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z They put their trust in thick walls, in stone and steel. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z He placed a hand upon Cutie’s steel shoulder and the metal was cold and hard to the touch. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z Shouts, and horses screaming, and the clash of steel, and . A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z He fieldstripped the carbine—it was full of sand—and cleaned it as carefully as he could under the conditions, sitting against the base of the seawall with his steel helmet unstrapped. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z In front of the chair in which he was sitting was a steel music stand, and on the stand was The Strange Case of Alger Hiss. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z The barrel had to be carried on a specially made car consisting of a steel cradle straddling two extra-long flatcars. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z The slatted steel grille rattled down thunderously and slammed on the sidewalk. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z No, he was running — running — where the Pickwells themselves, where every other kid, had only ever walked — on the steel rail itself! Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z When he felt that steel in his high behind he came on like Man o' War going to get his ashes hauled! Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z A twisted thing it was, six feet long from end to end, gleaming black and banded with red gold and dark Valyrian steel. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z ‘Don’t hurt us with nassty cruel steel! Let us live, yes, live just a little longer. Lost lost! We’re lost. And when Precious goes we’ll die, yes, die into the dust.’ The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z The steel bands of muscle flexed along his massive arms. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z "My lord father taught me that it was death to bare steel against your liege lord,"-Robb said, "but doubtless you only meant to cut my meat." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z The blade was two different types of metal—one edge bronze, the other steel. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z He heard the steel door clang shut and he knew that he was alone. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z “Seabiscuit’s like a hunk of steel—Solid. Strong,” he once said. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z The first thing Thomas saw when he ran up was a group of Gladers huddled just outside the large steel door, still ajar, its outer edge blackened with soot. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z And now the hospital bill hovered overhead too, yet one more steel beam threatening to bring them all down. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z Miss Love swung around, her hands clenched, face red, those gray-blue eyes hard as steel, and the fanciest gosh dern words coming out of that big mouth you ever heard. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z To the west, silver headlights crawled slowly across the spidery steel arch of the new Aurora Bridge. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z There was a ring and clash of steel. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z Then I pat my pockets where I keep fishing lines and my flint and steel, and bring out my sling, now strung with rawhide. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z For a long moment they stood there staring at one another, like his eyes were steel and hers a dern magnet. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z Inside the volcano, the elevator’s thick steel doors whisked open. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z There’s stainless steel between us, but it doesn’t matter. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z Behind him, the yard rang to the clangor of steel on steel. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z Then she stood up, incautiously this time, and wrenched all the steel hairpins from her tightly bound hair. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z “Ethics, rubbish!” said Mrs. Horsepool-Worthingham, glaring back with her steel gray ones. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z He found out that the president rested on two mattresses, and the bottom one contained steel wire springs. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z Gone was the musical cadence I had grown to admire; his words were all ice and tempered steel, his voice as frigid as the Baltic north he hailed from. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z A head with a stainless steel toilet and sink. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z “I was just waiting to see what you was gonna do to me ...” I leaned weakly against a wall, feeling sick, my eyes upon the sharp steel blade of the knife. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z His sword was across his knees, the steel bare for all the world to see. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z He crossed the Columbia River on a narrow steel span and climbed out of the river’s gorge to the gently rolling wheat fields of the Columbia Plateau. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z Silvered steel and gold inlay brightened their armor, and their warhelms were crested in a riot of silken plumes, feathers, and cunningly wrought heraldic beasts with gemstone eyes. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z Fingers grasping my hair, pulling my head back, the twinkle of stainless steel. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z She pretended his eyes weren’t scouring her. up and down, steel wool scraping her skin raw. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z He wiped his mouth with the arm of his sweatshirt and stared up at the bridge, which was right in front of us now, a huge mass of steel and cement and wires. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z “Maybe Elsie better get my Mister to build her next fence out of steel,” Mrs. McDuff said to a friend at the Big Store. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z They glinted with scavenge jewels, with steel necklaces and copper twists on their biceps. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z The cart is a two-wheeled steel trailer, square, and has a capacity of one ton. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z She saw: the knight in his pale armor head to foot, legs, throat, and hands sheathed in metal, eyes hidden behind his high white helm, and in his hand cruel steel. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z He had seen outlines of gray steel tables, outlines of the food they pushed into his mouth, which was only an outline too, like all the outlines he saw. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z The original inhabitants of those homelands thereby gained a head start toward developing guns, germs, and steel. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Wood bleachers rather than steel flank the court. Black Brother, Black Brother 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z The steel tiers lay jumbled; the doors of the cages swung open. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z The pit fighter came on again, screaming this time, as if sound could slay his foe where steel could not. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z I flushed the toilet: It was a steel commode/basin combination, just like the ones in the psych unit. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Before I knew it, the casket was coming out of the car, and I was holding tight to the steel rails that ran along the sides of it. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z If a long head start counts for anything, why didn’t guns and steel arise first in Africa, permitting Africans and their germs to conquer Europe? Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Their steel caps and shirts of mail must have been sweltering, yet they said no word of complaint. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z The design was so elegant, so adept at exploiting the strength of thin strands of steel, that the wheel appeared incapable of withstanding the stresses placed upon it. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Malcolm X steeled himself to catch a plane as scheduled that morning to speak in Detroit. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z The Sphinx bared her claws, which gleamed like stainless steel. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z There was the pitter-patter of footsteps above them, which almost made him stop, but he steeled his nerves and kept going. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z He made his way down a steeply descending gravel road to the river, crossed the wide expanse of green water on a steel bridge, and parked in front of the National Reemployment Service building. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z Good steel it was, with a wicked gleam to both blades; Ebben was never a man to neglect his weapons. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z The steel platform on which the trailer rested was only slightly wider and longer than the trailer itself, leaving a ledge about a foot and a half wide all the way around. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z The heft of steel in his fist made him bolder. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z I could imagine the splash and jar of angry steel, the leap and struggle until the torn heart failed, and then, not too long later, the shadow of a buzzard, and another. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z It must’ve been a regular steel blade, because he was slashing the dummies’ heads right off, stabbing through their straw-stuffed guts. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z And he does the thing Alex loves so much: He sticks his chin out, steeling himself up. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z The blade long and jagged in a hilt of red and black and steel. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z It was pulled up arid tied to a tree, and the oars were shipped in the wet bottom, beside a long pole with a steel hook at the end. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z In a second the glint of steel flashed in the shadows, lit by the owl’s eyes, and at the same moment Gareth jumped to the defence. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z He couldn’t stand empty-handed—useless—in such a storm of steel. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z Some iron, some steel—heavy crew would be the ones to deal with that. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z If they slept there, she and Estha, curled together like fetuses in a shallow steel womb, what would Hulk Hogan and Bam Bam Bigelow do? The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z They wore steel bracelets on their black arms, and loose, flapping cloths tucked half hazardly around their waists. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z When he was let out he stood for a moment, his back to the steel door. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z Czernobog simply stared at him, his gray eyes like points of steel. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z Moonlight seemed to concentrate upon the highly-polished steel dome in its designated position, sending an intense beam of white light back off into the night sky. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z The lamps were round hazy balls of light frozen into motionlessness, anchored in space and kept from blowing away in the icy wind by black steel posts. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z Cardan is wearing silver on his chest, too, a plate of gleaming steel that hooks over his shoulders and seems more ornamental than protective. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z During air raids, the young gunners wore steel helmets to protect them from the razor-sharp shrapnel that rained down as the shells exploded. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z They climbed the ribbed steel stairs of an escalator, the boy holding on to his hand. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z He stretches his arms wide as Zeke shoves him down the steel cable. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z As if a giant were swinging a sledgehammer, and that hammer were armed with five steel spikes... The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z Shawn fingered the thick steel, which I was sure he could tell was not cheap at all. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z The darkness crept down and the rain drummed on the steel roof of the cab and the windshield wipers sobbed their arcs. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z But not before I had seen orange steel poking through thick ground clouds below. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z More than three quarters of the knights were there, massed together like a great steel fist. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z Ned could feel cold steel against his fingers as he leaned forward. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z Agents in black shirts stood guard while scientists in lab coats busied themselves over a stainless steel table filled with jars. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z They were so wrought and poised upon their huge hinges, posts of steel driven into the living stone, that when unbarred they could be moved with a light thrust of the arms, noiselessly. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z He heard the ring of steel against steel as a far door clanged shut. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z These buildings were steel and glass and hard to tell apart; they all held enormous banners that swept from their lowest to highest windows. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z The crew of the White Hart met them at the rail, but Black Betha’s men-at-arms swept over them in a screaming steel tide. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z He ran to the door and caught the cold steel bars in his hot hands and gripped them tightly, holding himself erect. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z The BMW screamed as two walls of solid steel relentlessly crushed it. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z The steel casement was turned back like a banana peel. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z She twisted, lost her footing, and the axehead crunched against her temple with a scream of steel on steel. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Skeleton frames of steel beds, most with no mattress, filled the rooms. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z "This is cheap steel, but it's a real sword." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z Lord Stark had not treated him cruelly, but the long steel shadow of his greatsword had always been between them. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z ‘Go away! Be off! I don’t trust you, not as far as I could kick you; but be off. Or I shall hurt you, yes, with nasty cruel steel.’ The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z The crew attached steel cables to the bottom of the plane. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z On top of these they laid a grillage of steel, then filled it with cement. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z A round scarred face and a stubble of dark beard showed under his steel cap, and he wore mail over boiled leather, and a dirk and shortsword at his belt. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z I cross the room and stand in front of the windows, staring at what we can see of the compound, which is just more of the same glass and steel, pavement and grass and fences. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z It didn't look much like a factory—no towering steel silos or smokestacks billowing carbon monoxide, just a few buildings that vaguely reminded him of airplane hangars. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z “Emmett, find some armor for him. I want him in steel, not old bones.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z She asked to be excused, and dumped her dishes into the stainless steel sink. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z Her nails are short and polish-free, the magic fingers connected to the hands connected to the forearms roped with steel muscle and tendons that lead to shoulders, neck and bionic brain. Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z Now the flicker of approaching torches and the clink of steel ahead was very near. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z The helm that hung from his saddle horn was black steel, fashioned in the shape of a goat's head. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z Which is always an interesting experience since he’s six foot seven and 240 pounds of mahogany steel but has this high-pitched hyena giggle. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z Instead he handed me three small steel traps. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z When Henrietta’s cousin Emmett Lacks heard somebody at Sparrows Point say Henrietta was sick and needed blood, he threw down the steel pipe he was cutting and ran looking for his brother and some friends. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z A column of riders emerged from beneath the portcullis with a clink of steel and a clatter of hooves. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z Scoob steels himself and heads in what he hopes to the high heavens, as Dad likes to say when he’s being more over the top than usual, is the right direction. Clean Getaway 2020-01-07T00:00:00Z The knights came together in the center of the yard with a great shock of wood and steel. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z Patchface covered his ears, Princess Shireen pressed her face into her mother’s furs, and the boldest of the queen’s knights moved forward, steel in hand. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Instead of unyielding steel, my fingers sank into loose, warm soil. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z They were to blow up the steel towers carrying high-tension wires to the plant to cut off the power supply. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z The soils beneath Berlin were sandy and unstable; engineers quickly determined that the entire length of the 1,800-foot tunnel had to be sheathed in steel, to prevent the structure from collapsing. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z A crowd was gathered in the middle of the courtyard around the steel doors through which Thomas was startled to realize he’d arrived just yesterday. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z They listened to a country radio station turned up so loud that the twangs of steel guitars were distorted in the Hearse's old speakers. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z A stainless steel basin and sponges and bars of soap. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z Cayn whirled, steel flashing, drove back the nearest spearman with a flurry of blows; for an instant it looked as though he might cut his way free. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z “You know the difference between aluminum and stainless steel?” he said. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z He had obsidian eyes that looked as if they could punch holes in steel. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z The Bureau of Genetic Welfare isn’t tall, but it’s still huge, wider than I can see, a mammoth of glass and steel and concrete. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z The huge steel city—and thousands trapped inside—was sinking to the bottom of the sea. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z The building is three stories of solid brick with long windows on the first and second floors that have solid steel shutters that could be closed in case of atomic bomb blasts, riots, or invasion. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z A baker’s oven in the ruins of the shop like a grim totem, human remains bent behind the steel of a jail cell. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z Edward stops next to one of the crumbling brick buildings and forces a steel door open. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z Beside the washing machine in the basement was a wide counter and a deep steel sink. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z In a flash of steel, Cain had his blade at Grave’s throat, and the pockmarked assassin bared his rotting teeth at him. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z The steel fell from his fingers as the wolf knocked him off his feet, and they rolled in the grass, the wolf snarling and ripping at him, the prince shrieking in pain. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z I steeled myself against the blows that were sure to come. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z It was mostly made of windows, all jagged like the sections of a gigantic jewel, with what looked like steel beams holding it all together. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z We would be hard-pressed to get past this fence on our own—thirty feet high and always buzzing with electricity, topped with razor-sharp curls of steel. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z The steel rear-doors were unbolted from the outside and flung wide open. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z The red cloaks came at him from three sides with steel in their hands. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z But he steeled his nerves and said, “Yes. Um ... three cheers for Tyson!” The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z There was the fear and awe I felt when Grandpa took me to a sawmill to watch the giant whirring steel blades whine and scream as they bit into wet green logs. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z Pinmei looked at him, his black eyes mocking and triumphant, and she felt something deeper than rage steel itself inside her. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z Then he was retreating, the sword held high, jade-green flames swirling around cherry-red steel. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z "They will have steel when they are ready. When they are of an age." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z Even destroyed, it was a beautiful thing, utterly unlike the rusting iron and steel hulks they tore apart every day. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z My cousins try to pull me away, but I am steel, too. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z He tried to free himself, but her grip was like steel. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z Then she went to join Scythe Faraday, steeling herself for what was to come. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z The knight was a white steel shadow, his eyes shining darkly behind his helm. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z For the next eight years or so Jojo lived in a small cell with steel bars and a cement floor. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z The gleaming steel instruments in the examination room looked like tools Terrance Randall might have ordered from the blacksmith for sinister purposes. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z They sat beside each other on steel folding chairs, on the afternoon of the Day that Sophie Mol Came, sipping coffee and crunching banana chips. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z But just as guns did not determine the outcome of conflict in New England, steel was not the decisive factor in Peru. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Daddy sat down on a metal chair next to a long steel table. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z The rain drummed all night on the steel roof overhead. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z Steel rang on steel, and Tyrion soon realized that the tall man was quicker and stronger than he was. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z The two boats churned toward the railroad bridge with Washington in the lead, but by the time they passed beneath the steel expanse, California had closed the gap to a matter of inches. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z After glancing once at this portrait, Professor McGonagall made an odd movement as though steeling herself, then rounded the desk to look at Harry, her face taut and lined. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z For instance, Japanese steel, metal, car, car parts, camera, and consumer electronic companies compete fiercely and have higher productivities than their U.S. counterparts. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Morgan was like a small, steel robot, writhing to be let free, with a strength that frightened Ifemelu. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z There was a new lock, new doorknob, and what looked like steel enforcements in the door. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z The Second slid her sword a hand-span out of its sheath, her gaze passing over the copper-colored steel, which had been inscribed with hundreds of words, swooping up and along the blade in perfect spirals. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z The soldiers around the Institute call the morgue the Submarine because its main door is made of heavy steel and looks like a pressure door in a submarine. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Miss Peregrine, who seemed to be constitutionally incapable of idleness, took a saucepan from the stove top and began scouring it with a steel brush. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z Mother kissed me on the cheek and walked us to the steel door that protected our rooftop home. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z In fact when they emerged from the train at Grand Central into the underworld of cement and steel that leads to the terminal, Claudia felt that having Jamie there was important. From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z "My sword is Valyrian steel. The Old Bear gave it to me." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z The raft was sheet steel with large buoyancy floats on each end. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z Lucas didn’t exactly like the steel gate that we had to draw across. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z The girls entered a gleaming, stainless steel elevator. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z A thin man in khaki work clothes came out of a diminutive octagonal aerie and leaned over a steel gangplank. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Her legs were bent, with great knobbed joints high above her back, and hairs that stuck out like steel spines, and at each leg’s end there was a claw. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z The shed had a concrete floor and at the far end stood some empty steel drums. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z The Spaniards’ steel or chain mail armor and, above all, their steel helmets usually provided an effective defense against club blows, while the Indians’ quilted armor offered no protection against steel weapons. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Now listen to the same phrase played by an electric guitar, an acoustic guitar with twelve steel strings34 and an acoustic guitar with six nylon strings. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z During a long strike by the schoolteachers when I was a high school senior, I found a job in one of the area’s small steel plants. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z I try to steel myself for the drive. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z So the trainer has me work with flint, steel, and some charred cloth. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z The visitors poured through the castle gates in a river of gold and silver and polished steel, three hundred strong, a pride of bannermen and knights, of sworn swords and freeriders. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z Beakers and bits of metalwork are strewn across a wooden workbench, and there are a number of strange, shiny steel things that I reckon are weapons along one wall. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z Miss Anderson locks our chains to steel rings in the floor, tossing the keys to Mr. Redfern, who catches them one-handed. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z Bran shouted from the high seat as Lannister's men reached for their steel. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z She saw how his arms were forced in front of him, and from her vantage point she saw the silver glint of steel below his shirt cuff. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z They made a perfect half circle in front of the synagogue doors, like a steel trap with gaping jaws ready to be sprung. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z In the service bay he dragged out the steel trash drum and tipped it over and pawed out all the quart plastic oil bottles. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z His companion was a man near twenty whose armor was steel plate of a deep forest-green. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z One day Mars Bar would lead Maniac down the river, down the tracks, past the railroad gondolas, each with its mountain of coal, to the rolling mill at the steel plant where his father worked. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z As soon as I was on the boat, I gave a steel plate a hard kick. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Next to him, a huge lump of a man with a leg in a steel brace, a misshapen head, and a wild brown beard, fire flickering through his whiskers. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z In Pittsburgh the young steel engineer became more convinced than ever that his challenge to the Eiffel Tower could succeed. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Lawrence built an elegant mechanism out of brass and steel. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z He scooped water off the top of thick green moss that clogged the steel water trough under the windmill. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z Then I hear a thud—the unmistakable sound of steel sinking into flesh. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z Very strong steel hawsers with hooks on the ends of them were lowered from the front and rear of each helicopter. The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Big steel trolley freight cars were crushed as if eggshells and their piled-up cargo of boxes and merchandise minced like so much sandwich meat. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z We drove past the museum and parked right next to this basketball court filled with huge blue and red steel arcs that imagined the path of a bouncing ball. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z "They swam the moat. Climbed the walls with hook and rope. Came over wet and dripping, steel in hand." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z She must not have been this woman them all steel, tested in fire. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z My heart is still thumping in time with the percussion group, making my hands tremble, but I steel myself. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z Mom parked in the shadow of the steel gray bleachers and turned off the car. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z She was twenty-two feet long, with a two-foot wooden bowsprit sticking from her nose, a stainless steel pulpit above it. The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z A rat scampered around in its steel prison. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z Pizarro’s military advantages lay in the Spaniards’ steel swords and other weapons, steel armor, guns, and horses. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z He knelt to examine the great steel links Tyrion had dumped on the floor. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z The light shot off the steel and it was like a long flashing blade cutting at my forehead. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z He eased his feet in, holding the fluted steel edge of the culvert with both hands. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z The stuff went on like paint, then dried clear as glass and hard as steel. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z We saw it fall, but the noise of the crowd was too great for us to hear the familiar twang of steel hitting rock and mountain earth. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z When I finally open my eyes, I see that I'm now in a small, windowless cell with four steel walls. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z Rice explained that he had merely tested the wheel’s braking system, which consisted of a band of steel wrapped around the axle. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Backbiter’s double edge glowed wickedly—half steel, half celestial bronze. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z Wounded by flying metal scraps earlier in the war, he’d pulled out his pocketknife and dug the steel from his thigh. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z But they had become as useless as the board, just heavy strips of steel dragging her toward the ground. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z Gertrude’s ladies took pride in their needlework, but to me the thin, sharp steel was an instrument of torture. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z "No. I would hear his words. The mothers gc^hhagry, and steel fills more mouths than gold. What would you give us for your lives, Tyrion son of Tywin? Swords? Lances? Mail?" A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z Osha glanced around as Father's guardsmen appeared from beneath the trees, steel in hand. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z She needed to steel herself against what was to come. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z One of the dinners that I shared in a mobile home was cooked in an immaculate kitchen, walled in plastic tile, with stainless- steel sinks and ovens and stoves flush with the wall. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z The blade made a hideous scraping sound as he drew it back over the steel. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z The Dukes of Berry and Brittany, two decent men, might have been trotting along the road, in satin cuirasses which imitated steel. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z He pulled on his work gloves, and he cut through four strands of heavy steel wire before he realized he was standing where anyone might see him. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z That and the steel hoop of the wheel sticking up out of the cockpit aft. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z In the sixth grade there was a boy in my class who had a steel plate in his skull and was always complaining how test answers could never get through to him. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z But as quickly as the recognition registers, a steel door slides over the soldiers' faces and we are...a herd of goats. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z A funny little round man in hippie clothes with a mind like a steel trap. Lawn Boy Returns 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z "Be careful what you say, or I'll show you that steel is true." The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z Forgetting that it is wrong to speak to strangers, I said, ‘The pods are made of steel and glass, not perspex.’ The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z That it would turn without crushing its bearings and rotate smoothly and true were engineering hopes supported only by calculations that reflected known qualities of iron and steel. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z But, as we’ll see, food production was indirectly a prerequisite for the development of guns, germs, and steel. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Turn the uniforms into mirrors, blaring with the sun, the lances into spears of steel. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z The night rang to the clash of steel and the cries of the wounded and dying. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z Unmindful of this steel downpour, the villagers cheered and began dancing on the platforms. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z And then ahead of her, Kaisa had ridden up to the stag with her arm extended and there was a flash of steel and then red streaked down the stag’s throat. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z The prince steeled himself and made the leap. The Whipping Boy 1986-04-01T00:00:00Z The shield was a plain round steel thing of the type carried by the warriors of old. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z The grate is locked by a steel padlock, its shine a mocking contrast to the muted green coat that covers the rest of the ship. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z On the field, his toughness was almost incomprehensible; his head, as one teammate put it, seemed to be “made of steel.” Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Between us are the clean suit, the explosives, and the backpack, arranged in a line on the brushed steel. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z More critical than steel to Pizarro’s success was the horse. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z I remember, though, how she would stand right here for a moment, squaring her shoulders, steeling herself. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z They were relics of the Targaryens, black steel with dragon scales cresting their helms, now dusty and forgotten. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z He used to be a tugboat captain, and tugboats are made of steel, but he knows a thing or two about wooden boats and gives me a thumbs-up on what I done so far. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z It seemed strange that there could be so much color and beauty, and then when you got to Malone everything was tan and gray and black steel bars and wire. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z She fetched him water in a steel tumbler from the clay koojah. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Bran could hear the squires at their swordplay in the yard below, die ring of steel on steel. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z Yet another type of explanation lists the immediate factors that enabled Europeans to kill or conquer other peoples—especially European guns, infectious diseases, steel tools, and manufactured products. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z He knelt beside the first of these and looked through into a large white-tiled room, a laboratory with complicated glass and steel equipment laid out over work surfaces. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z George Ferris’s steel arrived, on five trains of thirty cars each. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z The Commander has a key to the door, which is plain and gray and flush with the wall and, I think, made of steel. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z His onscreen knight pierced the dragon’s hide with his steel blade. Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z He turned toward the sound and stared in utter disbelief as the South Tower began to collapse, all one hundred ten stories, crumpling down on itself in an explosion of glass and smoke and steel. Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z Rahel could smell the sheaf of bus tickets and the sourness of the steel bus rails on the conductor’s hands. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z In the yellow light Samuel slipped the bit in Doxology’s mouth, a bit worn so thin that is was a flake of steel. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z A butt weld was where the two ends of the steel sheet that made the tube were simply pushed together and welded. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z Jon drew out the blade slowly, so she could see the deep blue sheen of the steel. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z The mask is gone, and the gloves are off, and I’m going to use my anger to steel my resolve. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z Ugwu did not want to go into that ragged bazaar but he steeled himself and walked toward a man sitting on the ground with a red-stained rag wound around his head. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z If successfully erected, George B. Post’s Manufactures and Liberal Arts Building would be the largest building ever constructed and consume enough steel to build two Brooklyn Bridges. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z I steel myself, lower my camera, and walk over. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z When I was little, Chairman Mao had challenged the nation to catch up with England and America in steel production. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z I love how they look—like strong steel butterflies, soaring high. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z Harris opened a small steel door and took out a jar of Lady ’Stache Off. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z Earlier that morning, the police had strung half-inch steel cables along the sidewalks to restrain the crowd. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z He looked across to the far gate and seemed to steel himself. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z I steeled myself for a surprise attack, but none came. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z It came just before lunch, as he was standing at his locker, and flew in with such force it knocked him back, making the row of lockers resound like a steel drum. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z As we waited for a streetcar to take us to Aunt Cleo’s home for temporary lodging, I looked northward at towering buildings of steel and stone. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z The rod and reel were strung with a heavy line and thin steel cable for a leader. The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z “Stainless steel is better with rhubarb. Pass me the sugar now.” The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z I draw my scim and shove it through the creature, twisting, hoping steel will kill the thing. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z The steel lock clicked loudly when the gate shut behind us. Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z Now I looked up and saw steel as strong as it was old. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z He was not brave enough to take cold steel to his own belly, but a bite of mushroom would not be so hard. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z But cuneiform was found in museums, displayed in glass cases and preserved as something precious, not scratched into a steel slaughterhouse. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z “Did you know, Dèja, stretching steel shrieks, clangs as joints shift? Something told me the tower was dying. “‘Come on, Mrs. Able. We’ve got to move faster. Come on.’ Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z A national recession was under way, steel orders were reduced, and Coalwood was producing more coal than the steel company needed. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z He drew his sword and showed it to her; a longsword adroitly shrunken to suit a boy of twelve, gleaming blue steel, castle-forged and double-edged, with a leather grip and a lion's-head pommel in gold. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z I was clever, a burgeoning hero with an Alar like a bar of Ramston steel. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z I could feel the steel in his arms as the water tried to suck us away. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z By the time she reached the godswood, the noises had faded to a faint rattle of steel and a distant shouting. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z Hollow wood handles on the bottom, high- explosive charges in a steel can on top—handheld bombs the boys at Schulpforta called potato mashers. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z He looked at us over her bowed head, with eyes that blinked damply above his quivering nostrils; his mouth was set as steel. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z Pittsburgh was made of steel and dreams, and so were her trolley cars. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z When it was available, they also carried M-16 maintenance gear—rods and steel brushes and swabs and tubes of LSA oil — all of which weighed about a pound. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z But they were made out of thin invisible steel. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z The tower was steady and unmoving under the weight of twisted steel and plastic. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z Later we walk home, glancing back to see the great carloads of slag being dumped, red hot and smoking, into the ravine that skirts the steel mill. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z His thin hands belied a firm grip, as if steel hid beneath the moisturized skin. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z The red cloaks wore mail shirts over boiled leather and steel caps with lion crests. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z To the Europeans’ confusion, their steel and cloth did not interest the Narragansett, who wanted to swap only for “little bells, blue crystals, and other trinkets to put in the ear or around the neck.” 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z The links were forged of every metal known to man: black iron and red gold, bright copper and dull lead, steel and tin and pale silver, brass and bronze and platinum. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z Through his steel-inspection company he knew most of the nation’s steel executives and the products they made. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z “Let wood from the forests of Eyllwe defeat steel from Adarlan. Let the King’s Champion be someone who understands how the innocents suffer.” Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z The Vonnegut’s perfectly rendered steel loading ramp lowered to the ground, standing out in sharp contrast against the digital blackness of Archaide’s surface. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z Bigger ran to it and caught the steel bars in his hands and swept the door forward, slamming it shut. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z Then I was really confused because Mother had never worked as a secretary for a firm that made things out of steel. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z The steel was gray and saltscoured but he could make out the worn gilt lettering. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z I stumble, flailing and trying to regain my balance before any part of me comes between the huge steel wheels and the track. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z It was a half-moon of steel encased in a skyscraper of wooden falsework. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z She remembered that the Rusties didn’t use hoverstruts; every building was squat, crude, and massive, and needed a steel skeleton to keep it from falling down. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z Before he was aware of what he was doing, he ran to the door and clutched the cold steel bars in his hands. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z It was growing too dark to make out faces, hut the prisoner was wearing a shiny steel helm, and when Arya saw the horns she knew it was Gendry. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z Shawn shuffled around for a few minutes, then emerged with a handful of steel screws. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z Dr. Loofah scoops the cat off the stainless steel operating table. Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z He smells of steel and coal and forge. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z I steeled myself to hear that Hamlet jested about my death, or that he showed no care at all. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z Robinson’s diplomatic letter contained one fragment of steel. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z He absorbed its violence and brawn as it slithered past, a massive steel serpent. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z He's made of iron and steel, he's gritting his teeth and squeezing her neck. Freak The Mighty 1993-10-01T00:00:00Z The bush fought back, then yielded angrily, snapping and crackling before the inexorable thrust of steel. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z A long narrow table with a steel top stood under a series of unlit lamps and two worn leather cases rested nearby. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z I glance up and peer through the steel web above me. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z The locomotive was a diesel electric and there were eight stainless steel passenger coaches behind it. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z The water must always be boiling, so that the heated steel would dry instantly. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z Because, behind them, someone had just pushed open that screechy steel door. The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z The weight of his steel seemed to hardly diminish the grace and quickness with which Ser Loras moved, his rainbow cloak swirling about him. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z The American ship tows ours with a steel braid thick as my body. Inside Out and Back Again 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z It wasn’t a pan at all, but a small square of steel embedded in the wall. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z “This could have a steel file or hacksaw blade in it,” he said. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z Doubtless the boy was cooking inside all that heavy steel . . . but the last thing he needed was some stray arrow punching through his nephew's eye. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z He saw his brother Robb, taller and stronger than he remembered him, practicing swordplay in the yard with real steel in his hand. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z Their company would do with tobacco what John D. Rockefeller had done with oil and J. P. Morgan with steel: it would dominate the market and absorb or wipe out virtually all other manufacturers. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z It’s still soft, but it’s like there’s steel running through it now. Bronx Masquerade 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z The Old Bear had seemed pleased by the dagger, but he preferred a steel knife at his belt, Jon had noticed. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z Her golden hair shone as she wove in and out of a knot of three guards, her sword little more than a steel extension of her hand. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z When the Americans finally heard the VC and detonated the mines, hundreds of small steel balls exploded back at them, tearing into their flesh. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z Human beings in there were excreting into steel helmets which were passed to the people at the ventilators, who dumped them. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z Slender and tall she was in her white robe girt with silver; but strong she seemed and stern as steel, a daughter of kings. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z There were three hundred or so chickens floating in the big steel tank of ice water. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z She moved past one of the thick steel girders that supported the roof. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z The gently rolling sea of grass became a grid of steel fences as far as the eye could see. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z I saved my city pants and burned them bit by bit to make charred cloth for the flint and steel. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z "I believe in steel swords, gold coins, and men's wits," said Tyrion. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z The carving on the steel had the pearly gleam of a Damascus blade, while the stock flowed into lock and lock into barrels as though they had grown that way from a magic planted seed. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z She gripped Percy’s hand and steeled her nerves. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z We’re all small, scared, helpless animals, our legs caught in the teeth of a steel trap. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z Clegane had no splendor about him; his armor was steel plate, dull grey, starred by hard use and showing neither sigil nor ornament. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z The steel points of pikes flamed red with sunlight, as if already blooded, while the pavilions of the knights and high lords sprouted from the grass like silken mushrooms. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z It was a place impossible to enter except on official business, and then only by penetrating through a maze of barbed-wire entanglements, steel doors, and hidden machine-gun nests. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z The high concentration room, deep in the basement of the steel and concrete structure, was unscratched. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z With flint, steel, and tinder, he made a fire, which he told me to stoke with bits of wood. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z Aside from these brutal tactics, the steel companies also used another strikebreaking strategy. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z On Verrazzano’s next stop, the Maine coast, the Abenaki did want steel and cloth—demanded them, in fact. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z A steel dock half collapsed and submerged in the bay. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z He had somehow managed to doze off in the early hours, while draped over the steel rack. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z “How can that be?” said Mother, with steel in her voice. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z I steel myself, recalling face after suffering face I saw yesterday just downstairs. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The old men nodded at a folding steel chair with ST. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z It was generally agreed, however, that a steel rod came up through the center of the platform at night and he strapped himself to it. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z You ever hear that sound your anklebone makes when it hits steel? 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z And then ‘Ke hind’—that must be ‘key behind,’ and then there’s the small steel pan. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z The alcohol smell is on my fingers, cold and remote, piercing, like a steel pin going in. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z He watched Yanomamo work with stone and steel axes and on the basis of these observations came up with a formula to project the time necessary to cut individual trees with both types of tool. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Two police officers in dark green uniforms with brown batons and steel guns holstered at their waists sauntered into the marble foyer. Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z The bridge rose up over the river in a graceful parabola, its steel cables strung with red lights. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z The others died, sharp steel points ripping through their chests. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z A room didn’t need a locked steel door. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z They agreed to marry and go ’way up north, where Cholly said steel mills were begging for workers. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z Sparrows Point was rapidly becoming the largest steel plant in the world. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z Then I would carefully dig out the plant, taking care not to let the steel of the shovel touch the tender roots. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Pressed up against steel ribs and timber blocks young boys strangled when the oxygen left them to join the water. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z Gawaine, at the sight of steel, went into one of his blind rages. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z Far more important were the Spaniards’ steel swords, lances, and daggers, strong sharp weapons that slaughtered thinly armored Indians. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Then he twisted the combination lock and heaved open the steel door. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z Jon saw the flash of naked steel a few yards away. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z A bead of blood emerged from the white fur and ran down the smooth steel. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z The child hit the steel raft and then rolled off into the sea. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z He flipped up the lid on a steel drawer and found a battered boot box. Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z "My savages will put your steel to excellent use, my lord," Tyrion replied. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z “You want to know something else about your Jake Mosby? His daddy owns about twenty percent of the steel mill that owns us. He’s got more money than Carter’s got little liver pills.” October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z “My dad said it’s made up of so much steel that by the time they finish painting all the way to the end they have to start right back at the beginning again.” We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z The swords flew at each other, and their steel song filled the garden and rang off the white tbwers of the Eyrie. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z But with Mikken slain and the ironmen guarding the armory, good steel had been hard to resist, even if it meant grave-robbing. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z There seemed to be no alternative, so I steeled myself and approached the roof’s edge. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z Arul and Muthu returned as we were trying to tie our raincoat to a steel rod that was poking out of the wall of the bridge to make a roof. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z I can imagine, up here, how the marsh looked when it was full of water, like liquid steel as it reflected the color of the sky. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z Stronger than any common steel, lighter, harder, sharper... A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z I stare for a second at the sheet of steel that awaits me. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z He pulled a lever and flexed the heavy steel blade up and down, bringing the bottom edge to rest just even with the ground. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z Quickbeam bowed like a tree bending in the wind and handed to Aragorn two great black keys of intricate shape, joined by a ring of steel. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z In the floor of this room was a door or hatch and it was locked with a large padlock made of stacked steel plates. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z A sourmetal smell, like steel bus rails, and the smell of the bus conductor's hands from holding them. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Hundreds of steel cylinders, each of them six feet in diameter, were manufactured specially in Virginia and then transported by ship to the West German port of Bremerhaven. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z The seamless steel tubing I told Mr. Caton to order was delivered. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z They are moving cities, the glass and steel compacted onto a single boat. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z Once it’s full, the patrols will close the steel door and set the whole mess on fire. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z He advanced past Amarante Cordova’s decaying house to another crumbling building which had once belonged to the Ledouxs, most of whom were presently employed in the steel mills of Pueblo, Colorado. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z When the soup was done, Citra steeled herself for what she knew she must tell the scythe. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z It meant black men would not have to sweep Medallion to eat or leave the town altogether for the steel mills in Akron and along Lake Erie. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z His body hit the frame hard, hard enough that it made a hollow ringing like a steel drum, and Moss saw that Reg’s breath had been knocked out of him. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z She stopped crying, almost too quickly, I thought, wiped her eyes and steeled herself. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z He didn’t drink any more and took no pleasure in his food, but now and then his eyes would glitter with steel. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z Two steel rails ran the visible length of the tunnel, pinned into the dirt by wooden crossties. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z There’s half a dozen empty steel drums behind the bait shack, and I roll out the four have the least rust. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z The furniture was oak, steel and white leather - impersonal and masculine. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z She was about to select her favorite throwing knife—a bright steel dagger with a black leather grip—but Fin bent down and pointed to a different one. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z I slide my hand down into my pocket and clutch my 1943 steel penny, The object I brought in for sharing today. Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z He watched Thyon’s knuckles whiten, saw the span of visible steel lengthen as the sword was drawn up and out of its sheath. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z High leather boots with steel shinguards gave some protection to his legs, and discs of black iron were sewn into the fingers of his gloves. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z Jam tilted her head, and the light danced off them, bright and steel. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z “Yeah. I see ’em ” “You lived in one of them once, Bigger. They’re made out of steel and stone. But the steel and stone don’t hold ’em together. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z I hop down and walk toward her, pointing steel at her heart. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z Catherine wore hobnailed boots and a cape and carried a stick with a sharp steel point. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z All was a blur, bloody and gray and flashes of steel; Thomas tried not to look left or right, only ahead, through the narrow gap formed by the Gladers. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z On top of this workers would set down a layer of steel rails stretching from one end of the pad to the other, and over this a second layer at right angles. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z You can buy a man with gold, but only blood and steel will keep him true. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z The forest along both sides of the road was like a black wall — as hard as a wall of steel if we veered off the road at this speed. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z Before her, a set of thick black steel bars reached from ceiling to floor. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z I ran across the room and pulled out the dresser drawer and got my pack of razor blades; I opened it and took a thin blade of blue steel in each hand. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z “Leathers, talk to him, calm him. The Old Tongue, he understands the Old Tongue. Keep back, the rest of i you. Put away your steel, we’re scaring him.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z His father worked at the Fairfield Works, a steel mill in Birmingham. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z He sits in the topmost tiers of polymer, glass, and steel, dangling his pulsing legs, surveying at a distance the writhing life of the planet. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z His armor was shiny new; a bright streak of fire ran down his outstretched arm, as the steel caught the light. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z The steel jaws and the snowy ground were smeared with blood. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z Each night guards locked the room’s thick steel door. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z Then at last his gaze was held: wall upon wall, battlement upon battlement, black, immeasurably strong, mountain of iron, gate of steel, tower of adamant, he saw it: Barad-dûr, Fortress of Sauron. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z Her bones are steel girders, anchored in cement. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z If I placed a safety pin on a steel railroad track and let a train run over it, the safety pin would turn into a pair of bright brand- new scissors. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z Then she steeled herself and turned just slightly—just enough—and looked down. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z Like steel bus rails and the bus conductor’s hands from holding them. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z In the cage, the men had few options: they could stand in the center, they could sit on the cement, or they could lean against the steel rack. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z A big knight stepped down from the back of a wagon, clad head to heel in company steel. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z The smells of bread and beast, smoke and steel are dulled, as if the mist has weakened their potency. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z Where there should have been more cells there was a steel door, bright light shining beneath it. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z The steel was polished to such a high sheen that she could see her reflection in the breastplate, gazing back at her as if from the bottom of a deep green pond. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z The room was filled with many rows of high steel tiers. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z The steel was scorched and dented, the left ear of the snarling hound sheared off. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z He lay a long while, empty of mind, and then he heard the steel door open. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z The next day, they went to a hardware store and bought putty knives and steel spatulas, and the decon team went to work chipping the walls and floor. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Turning the little steel strip over and over between her fingers, she remembered an experiment she’d done in science class as a child. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z Standing by the window, he saw the huge flakes drifting slowly down out of an icy sky that was the color of steel. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 1964-09-12T00:00:00Z He yelled and shook his fists and with his very threats forced her across the cluttered room until she collided with one of the steel bed frames and fell back onto a mattress. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z The Hound's eyes seemed to glitter through the steel of that hideous dog's-head helm. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z The novelty of horses, steel weapons, and guns undoubtedly paralyzed the Incas at Cajamarca, but the battles after Cajamarca were fought against determined resistance by Inca armies that had already seen Spanish weapons and horses. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z We were issued steel army cots, two brown army blankets each, and some mattress covers, which my brothers stuffed with straw. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z It was close-woven of many rings, as supple almost as linen, cold as ice, and harder than steel. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z He could feel the exquisite sharpness of the steel. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z My whole body goes straight like a steel rod. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z Instead of a closet, the door opened to reveal a second door, this one made of steel with a large combination wheel. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z Roseland had taken one hit after another, from the exodus of white families and the bottoming out of the steel industry to the deterioration of its schools and the flourishing of the drug trade. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z “You understand? You can use the machines, but you’ve got to buy your own aluminum and steel.” October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z Burnham would have to build a railroad within the fairgrounds to transport steel, stone, and lumber to each construction site. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Under the tarp was an old steel rowboat with no oars. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z The casket was steel gray, with a white satin interior. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Under the layers of leather, steel, and wool, he was slick with sweat. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z Someone had hung up long, thin steel cables, on which were mounted clothespins. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z The dismal name came from the bleak opportunities workers faced in the region, where iron, coal, and steel companies had busted unions for two decades. Fannie Never Flinched 2016-11-21T00:00:00Z The armory adjoined the castle smithy, a long high-roofed tunnel of a building with twenty forges built into its walls and long stone water troughs for tempering the steel. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z He pulled a lamp close and wrote in the ruled accounts book, his steel nib skritching on the page. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z There was a mighty racket outside, crunching steel and shattering glass. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z Then he pulled forward his own weapon, a twenty-foot-long steel scaffolding pole that had been converted into a crude spear. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z She grew tense as fine steel when he traced the mutilated contours with his finger tip from a pit in her shoulder blade almost to the base of her spine. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z Carmen and her best friend, Tony, had watched in horror as the tank began to shake, as its rounded steel sides bulged in and out. I Survived the Great Molasses Flood, 1919 2019-09-03T00:00:00Z The Seattle skyline looms behind us, all the steel and glass shining like salmon scales in the sunlight. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z I flinched as steel came in contact with steel, the sharp metallic twang accompanied by a flash of sparks. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z I follow the pointed finger toward a small dark shape sliding down the steel wire. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z So hard that roughly two thousand feet of steel disappeared every day from the bit ends of all the jackhammers and pneumatic drills at work in the canyon. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z And another steel shelving unit shuffled in from the side. Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z I lunged at the thing that used to be Luke, thrusting my blade straight at his chest, but his skin deflected the blow like he was made of pure steel. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z I steel up inside, willing myself to do something I don’t really want to do. Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z Unless I returned with the king by dawn of thefollowing day, he would take the town with steel and fire, he told me. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z "This is good steel, so it's realer than yours." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z The steel mills that had once provided stability were cutting thousands of jobs. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z Then he crossed the little beach and disappeared among the piles and steel posts which support the piers. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z “Yup, I can see that. You rig those steel drums by yourself?” The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z There were few other people walking, and the stores all had their steel gates locked in place. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z There was a steel ladder on the side of the hopper car. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z He liked the bridges and the hills and even the steel mills. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z "Live steel is too dangerous. I will permit you tourney swords, with blunted edges." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z Seven feet by four and made of stainless steel, it would be the perfect blockade. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z The second rusalka’s hand was like clammy steel on her arm. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z We can dress you up in squire’s steel, pretend you’re Jorah’s butt boy, but there’s some will see right through that. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Still in training, using wooden swords instead of live steel, unlike those who follow us. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z He salvages the inferior Soviet equipment, milled from marginal steel, clumsily soldered; it’s all so unsystematic. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z He examined the car; it was a dark blue Buick, with steel spoke wheels and of a new make. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z Crimson cloaks draped their shoulders and steel lions crested their helms. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z They walked to the back of the entry hall, and Doon opened the steel panel and took out the key. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z I heard a heavy metallic thunk as my purchases slid into the steel tray near my knees. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z “No one’s going after rusty steel when we’ve got all these ships to gut.” Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z But I knew that my father and the men on the back of our truck were holding on to its bars as though their arms were made of steel. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z Auk XI, which had rocket candy inside that I had not moistened, leapt off the pad with a satisfying hiss, but then exploded, steel fragments whistling overhead while we hit the dirt inside the blockhouse. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z They were neatly arranged in shining rows inside a steel cabinet as big as a trunk. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z It was, to be charitable, a little awkward, and Turner kept sensing that Mrs. Newton was about to stick the steel point of her umbrella into any of the ladies who didn’t behave. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z The steel door swung open with a clang. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z His hands caught the cold steel bars in a hard grip. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z The scales were hard as steel; it did not even seem to feel him. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z The ringing clash of steel on steel jarred Catelyn back to the present. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z I had thought I had cut myself when jumping over my swords, one made of steel and the other carved out of a single block of jade. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z The old wooden structure had been empty of mules since Mr. Carter had sold the company to the steel mill. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z Cholly found work in the steel mills right away, and Pauline started keeping house. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z The “machine-gun fire” was the popping sound of hundreds of steel rivets as the structure blew apart. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z Cotton and needles in steel trays rattled on carts that busy nurses pushed before them. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z Without waiting for an answer, Gendry donned his steel helm and walked off. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z Minho nodded once, a steel look of resolve hardening his features. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z Over the next four months, they removed more than 3,000 tons of sand and soil, carefully inserting steel rings into the tunnel as they dug beneath Berlin's streets. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z Steel was steel; it was meant for protection, not ornament. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z He breathed the air outside the doors and it smelled like trains, diesel oil, and creosote ties under the steel track. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z In the kitchen, I show them the stainless steel drum that holds our primary water supply. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z They had chainmail over their chest and arms, and steel codpieces sewn into their pants, but only leather on their legs. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z The train started to slow and then sped up again, then slowed again, and black steel girders covered with years of oil and dirt became dimly visible outside the windows. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z "Does your wolf have steel teeth, to bite through jdate and mail?" A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z Through the steel and padding of his helm, he heard anguished screams, the hungry crackle of flame, the shuddering of warhoms, and the brazen blast of trumpets. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z “You!” said the Queen, laying her hand on his shoulder—a white, beautiful hand, but Digory could feel that it was strong as steel pincers. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z I glance back at the freak show that is my crew, steel myself, and follow her into the hospital. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z Slag looks like pieces of porous rock but actually is the cinders left over when iron ore is melted down to make steel. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z People performed all kinds of small rituals before they walked through that steel door. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The cheerful tinkle of steel drums now mixed with Luno’s odd piggish grunts, the wiry stranger swinging a deck mop with painful accuracy. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z It was hard to make out what was happening, but the screams of the horses seemed loud even at this remove, and beneath them Catelyn heard the fainter clash of steel on steel. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z And it gave him a shivering to see her face change, the steel leave her eyes, the lips thicken from line to bow, and the corners turn up. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z The wheels screamed on the steel rails, and wind rushed through the narrow space, hurling dust and loose papers down the platform. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z Jesper’s clothes were covered in tiny slivers and shavings of steel. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z She held out the thin sliver of steel. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z He glared up at the steel hulk, rubbing his bruised shoulder. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z “It’s a case of Mercurian gravity and a steel throwing arm. Watch, will you?” I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z On that day, a horse named Brick Top speared Tommy’s head into the steel overhead beam of the starting gate. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z I try to steel myself, close my eyes and remember Jake’s words. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z There, I take a few deep breaths and steel myself for whatever will happen next. Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z I flattened my body against the brick, steeling myself against the forceful water, and prayed. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z The claymores sent fragments of steel in whatever direction you pointed them. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z It caught Quaro low under the arm, the bright sharp steel biting up through leather and skin, through muscle and rib bone. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z I steel myself, push off the wall, and follow. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z Suddenly Cooke dropped the Chicago Daily Tribune and pulled a long knife from his pocket; his thumb pressed a button and a gleaming steel blade leaped out. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z “A recipe, I suppose. ‘Small steel pan’—that would be what you use to cook it with.” The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z As I lift Alan to the ground, a mild vibration shudders the twists of rusting steel poking from the massive slabs. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z I got Dad his knife with the carved bone handle and the blade of blue German steel, and he gave me a pipe wrench, and we went looking for Demon. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z “Lord Pea Pod. If you were a man, I would kill you for that, but my sword is made of too fine a steel to besmirch with craven’s blood.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z I held a sharp blue edge of steel tightly between thumb and forefinger of each fist. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z A tree cracked behind us, and then there was the unmistakable sound of steel slamming into packed mountain earth. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z Every man who wore the black walked the Wall, and every man was expected to take up steel in its defense, but die rangers were the true fighting heart of the Night's Watch. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z They were predestined to emigrate to the tropics, to be miners and acetate silk spinners and steel workers. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z If the problem had been a bullet or a blade, they might have succeeded, but the flecks and shavings of steel were too many and too small. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z Immediate reasons for Pizarro’s success included military technology based on guns, steel weapons, and horses; infectious diseases endemic in Eurasia; European maritime technology; the centralized political organization of European states; and writing. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z With Grover, he patrolled the neighborhood calmly, like a man of steel. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z Brand broke free and charged Cooke again, sweeping him into an animal-filled steel tier. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z Rock Horse Ranch Use the steel comb like this, you say to April, demonstrate how to remove the caked-on dirt. Booked 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z Then a door which opened by means of a large wheel; a hiss of air, and a brilliantly lit chamber with dazzling white tiles and stainless steel. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z Windmills stood motionless, their galvanized steel blades shimmering in the sun. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z Nailer only cared about the light stuff—the copper wiring, the aluminum, the nickel, the steel clips that could be sacked and dragged out through the ducts to his light crew waiting outside. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z The next day the committee revoked it—second thoughts, after a night spent dreaming of freak winds and shrieking steel and two thousand lives gone in a wink. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z His throat tasted of bloody iron and there was rusted steel in his feet. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z What we were after, I said, was some kind of steel for our nozzles that could withstand heat, pressure, and oxidation. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z He was mounted on an armored destrier and had donned his plate and mail, and a grey steel greathelm with a horsehair crest. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Sunlight streamed through steel chicken wire on the fourth side. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z Like the three gates at the receiving entrance, the doors were large rectangles of rounded steel bars that slid on rolling tracks. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z The steel ladder was made of paper, of silk, of quicksilver, of air. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Like steel bus rails and the smell of the bus conductor’s hands from holding them. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Minnie stood beaming and proud as Anna’s gaze moved over the interior city and upward to its steel sky. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z After trying it, the conquistadors ditched their steel breastplates and helmets wholesale and dressed like Inka infantry when they fought. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z The stunner has a pneumatic-powered ‘gun’ that fires a steel bolt about seven inches long and the diameter of a fat pencil. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z Silence terrifies you more than the pounding of a million pieces of steel chopping away at your flesh. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z The sound of their voices mingled with the whicker of horses, the clank of steel, and the groaning hinges of the great bronze gates to make a strange and fearful music. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z "I want no courtesies either," Mormont said, "so thank me no thanks. Honor the steel with deeds, not words." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z I closed the door and slid the steel bars back in place, making sure they were tight. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z They often carried steel reinforcing rods to older workmen who tied them together with twine or wire as the dam rose from the riverbed in a checkerboard pattern of concrete blocks. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z A spark flew where the steel bit into the stone man’s calcified grey flesh, but his arm tumbled to the deck all the same. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z There was a small steel door that led into a second room where bottles of gas were stored. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z That he did, albeit with poor grace, crossing his arms, scowling, and ignoring the naked steel in his lord commander’s hands. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Then the steel mills and factories closed and everybody left, like rats. Seedfolks 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Before we got to a curve, Mr. Weaver applied the brakes, and the steel wheels of the locomotive and our man-trip squealed like a thousand tortured pigs. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z Worn steel handcuffs bit at his wrists each time the small craft slapped into another wave. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z He rested his tired head against the steel bars and wondered how was it possible for this man to know so much about him and yet be so bitterly against him. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z The school had been imposing: a fallacy of glass and steel against the dusty expanse of the north shore clearing, like a middle finger thrown into the sky, built in record time. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z But as soon as we swung open the steel door, Ben’s face became a mix of excitement and panic, like he’d just been picked out of a crowd by a magician for the get-sawn-in-half trick. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z He whistled softly when I kindled a spark with the flint and steel. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z We are on a corner near a grocery, but its doors and windows are shuttered with graffiti-covered steel. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z The following morning Big Mary, chipped and soiled, stood over a landscape of twisted and blackened steel. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z The Anchorage couple had been too upset by the implication of the note and the overpowering odor of decay to examine the bus’s interior, so Samel steeled himself to take a look. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z The IOI skyscrapers were the three tallest buildings in the city, mighty towers of steel and mirrored glass joined by dozens of connective walkways and elevator trams. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z It was like hitting the steel plate of a battleship. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z Arya looked past him, and saw steel shadows running through the holdfast, firelight shining off mail and blades, and she knew that they'd gotten over the wall somewhere, or broken through at the postern. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z Her heart pounded in her ears, and the sound of wood against steel became almost unbearable. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z "It doesn't pay. She's a very strong woman. She has muscles like steel ropes." Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z Long had it been forging in the dark smithies of Mordor, and its hideous head, founded of black steel, was shaped in the likeness of a ravening wolf; on it spells of ruin lay. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z I propped my forehead on my elbowed hand and steeled myself for the cackle from Auntie Braxton and the laugh, which reminded me of an exuberant tuba, that would come from the Captain. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z I pulled myself together and picked my way back over the steel bars. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z True, anthropologists have long marveled that Andean societies did not make steel. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Mr. Brightwell shook his head at my request for steel tubing. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z It comes from the flashing red lights at the top of each of the ten steel doors. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z We began to sort the debris into piles—aluminum, iron, steel, copper—so it could be sold. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z I feel the cold sting of the steel blade as the pieces of plaster fall away like the husk of a coconut. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z Gary, who seems as flummoxed by the emergence of Billy as I am, leans against the lockers and bangs his head softly against the steel. Will Grayson, Will Grayson 2010-04-06T00:00:00Z Little Lenin remained behind to have his nostril probed by Dr. Verghese Verghese’s cold steel implements, and his mother probed by other, softer ones. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z A spark flashed blue- white as steel met steel with a rending crash, and Brienne sprang to her feet, the body of the dead king thrust rudely aside. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z In a locker behind the wheel pedestal he found coils of nylon rope and steel bottles of gas and a toolbox made of fiberglass. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z The capsules are made of glass and steel and are hung from the rim of the wheel. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z The owl was hanging upside down from a rod of stainless steel. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z At first, Ferris’s main worry was whether he could acquire enough steel to build his machine. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z The basin had steel taps, and rust stains. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z The steel of its blade glittered in the light of the moon. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z The original Watson and Crick model of DNA, with its hammered metal plates and rickety rods twisting precariously around a steel laboratory stand, is housed behind a glass case. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z Bran heard fingers fumbling at leather, followed by the sound of steel on flint. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z The bombers opened their bomb bay doors, exerted a miraculous magnetism which shrunk the fires, gathered them into cylindrical steel containers, and lifted the containers into the bellies of the planes. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z Then she thought of Timothy, and of the big steel plow blade. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z Fifty feet of rope, a ten-foot plank, and some big steel barrels, what sometimes they call drums. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z She hooked the steel pole to the screw that unrolled the awning. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z The world zooms in around me, and suddenly I’m directly above him, looking on as he approaches the steel door. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z A cradle was a sharp steel blade fastened to a framework of wooden slats that caught and held the stalks of grain when the blade cut them. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z The monster’s front talons were wrapped around his arms like steel bands. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z A giant inverted steel pyramid is perfectly balanced on its point. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z It tells the story of a place that was working iron and steel so far back that it made cannonballs for the Union army. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z Then the horse got up on its forelegs, its haunches heaved upright, and the knight sat up, lifting one steel gauntlet, as if to rub his head. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z In the blink of an eye he was surrounded by Stark guardsmen, bare steel in their mailed fists. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z They were black leather, with steel toes and acid-green laces that ran from ankle to bony kneecap, where they ended in neon bunny ears. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z Inside, my mother said, everything was made of aluminum and steel. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z They were trained to perform a purely mechanistic job “watching meters and adjusting dials” from swivel chairs set before tall steel consoles marked only with numerals. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Then, in December 1941, Japan bombed Pearl Harbor, and it was like Turner Station had won the lottery: the demand for steel skyrocketed, as did the need for workers. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z Brighten up stainless steel sinks with baby oil. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z The tavern keeper shouted a curse, and Sander called out, "No!" but both protests were lost in the sudden clash of steel upon steel. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z Or perhaps steeling himself for what was to come. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z Far more Native Americans and other non-Eurasian peoples were killed by Eurasian germs than by Eurasian guns or steel weapons. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z “Some of that stuff is stronger than steel.” Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z When demand for steel increased during World War I, streams of white workers moved into the nearby town of Dundalk, and Bethlehem Steel’s housing barracks for black workers quickly overflowed, pushing them into Turner Station. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z I clicked steel and flint together, even though I couldn’t see the tinder. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z The big steel wheels creaked a couple of times, then started moving. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z Uncle Claude lifted his tiny steel spectacles with one hand and wiped his bloodshot eyes with the other. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z In contrast to the more traditional surrounding architecture, such as the county attorney’s office across the street, the three-story courthouse sports steel trim around a checkerboard of clear glass windows that stretch the buildings height. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z At each halt a frozen, unbroken silence lay outside the steel walls of our box, the silence of vast wastelands, of the heights. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z Imagine riding a giant steel brush over a bed of gravel all day. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z His uncle was at the back wall, fiddling with the combination lock on a large steel door. Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z She looks from the AffloVest to me, the steel in her face melting away into a shocked expression. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z All through the day, the heavy thump of the locomotives’ steam pistons thundered down our narrow valleys, the town shaking to the crescendo of grinding steel as the great trains accelerated. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z She noted that the greyhounds had teeth like steel arrowheads. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z Their suits are blue, a stark contrast against the steel walls around them. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z They could end up in the Slammer behind air locks and double steel doors, tended by nurses and doctors wearing space suits. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z According to some tales, he hammered steel drilling spikes into granite for a railroad company. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z A window, behind steel bars, looked out at Seventeenth Street. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z She had already seen two people trying to dart across the walkway and both were taken down by steel crossbow arrows. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z "Live steel is too dangerous. I will permit you tourney swords, with blunted edges." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z She steeled herself and got back on the highway, determined to drive straight through to Phoenix. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z In the Barrel, a blade this sharp was known as kind steel. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z In his hand he bore a single arrow, black-feathered and barbed with steel, but the point was painted red. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z She could see a number of cars, some up in the air on gleaming steel poles, others over pits in the ground, and still others parked here and there. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z She heard the steel crash through the old wood, and again, again. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z But soon he began to show things like the park and the Natural History Museum and the Zoo and bridges and steel mills as if he himself had made every one of them. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z You might use it for cleaning, but only in extreme circumstances, like to strip rust from steel. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z His figure was enveloped in a riding cloak, fur collared and steel clasped; its details were not apparent, but I traced the general points of middle height and considerable breadth of chest. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z He’d believe her about the dungeons and the fat man with the forked beard and the wizard in the steel cap. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z The steel mill was off to our right, just a couple of miles north. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z The truck backed up to the steel tower that was built to hold the bomb. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z We were supposed to wear steel helmets even in Gorizia but they were uncomfortable and too bloody theatrical in a town where the civilian inhabitants had not been evacuated. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z Jaax and Johnson moved slowly out of the room, carrying the monkey, and turned left and then turned left again, and entered the necropsy room, and laid the monkey down on a stainless- steel table. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z His bare torso seemed hewn from steel, and though she knew it wasn’t possible, he seemed bigger, as if the very structure of his body had changed. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z The blade glinted two different colors—steel and bronze. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z Three marchers wearing shiny steel helmets identified themselves as construction workers. Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z The woman had scars carved into her arms and legs, bits of scrap steel embedded in her face and necklaces of scavenge twined around her throat. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z There were steel bars in front of the glass. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z Her hair had gone steel gray, and she pulled it back in a severe bun that showed off the long-suffering look on her face. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The yellow bus rumbled through a tumbledown section of town, an industrial no-man’s-land of railroad tracks, warehouses, and empty factories with broken windows and rusted steel roofs. Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z The bomb was there, he knew, sitting atop a steel tower. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Then, he danced on the Ford’s roof, leaving footprints of steel in his truculent clog across the top of the car. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Even though the nation’s steel companies were enormously profitable, their workers were paid wages so low they could barely afford to feed, clothe, and house themselves and their families. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z She wore the pads at her knees for crawling and climbing, but there was another reason, too—namely, the tiny steel blades hidden in each of them. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z Most of the stores were still closed, their steel gates locked and protecting whatever had survived the days and nights of looting. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z At the footsteps on the stairs, they steeled themselves for the latest representative of the underground railroad. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z Like so many workers in so many different crafts and industries throughout the country, the nation’s steel workers had expected that their wages and working conditions would improve once the Great War was over. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z At the time, I was contemplating a long pickled worm stretched out in a square steel pan. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z We spent that night packing them with supplies—herbal medicines, water purifiers, flint and steel. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z Soldiers clamber on and off, lean, pale, each carrying a pack, rifle, and steel helmet. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z Behind him, the door to a bedroom stood open, and in that room a litter of machinery and steel tools was strewn upon a desk-top. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z By necessity, and because it was SOP, they all carried steel helmets that weighed 5 pounds including the liner and camouflage cover. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z But neither do I want to listen—I finally steel myself and press my mouth to the flap. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z He wondered if Lord Brax had felt especially gallant as the weight of his steel pulled him under the black water. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z At the same time there was a fine steel wire of truthfulness in him that cut off the heads of fast-traveling lies. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z Bast struggled furiously to free himself, but Kvothe stood behind the bar, arm outstretched, motionless as steel or stone. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z The presence of the county jail supplies the first quality, while the so- called Sheriff’s Residence, a pleasant apartment separated from the jail proper by steel doors and a short corridor, accounts for the second. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z The next time it would be Mikken, and her father would listen to him go on about armor and swords and how hot a forge should be and the best way to temper steel. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z It was heavy wire, with holes about the size of an acorn, and it was set in a steel frame. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z And Iorek fell away, dislodged, and with a screech of twisting metal Iofur stood up tall, straightening the steel of his back plates by sheer strength. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z When I turned to see where it had come from, I caught a steel cylinder full in the stomach. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z As they came together in a rush of steel and shadow, he could hear Lyanna screaming. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z “Something huge. It had scales. They felt like steel. Then it dove deep, and launched itself toward the surface. I could feel its hunger. It wanted to devour me.” Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z Bent steel beams and the pulpy ends of impossibly twisted floors are all that remain. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z He could not feel the cold of the water, but he felt the steel when Stiv pressed his dagger to his throat. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z The only thing missing was steel, drum music in the background. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z Spanned by several steel bridges, the racecourse made a slight curve at Union Point, just before the finish line at the Fruitvale Avenue Bridge. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z Everything was brilliantly lit, with the glint of shiny white surfaces and stainless steel. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z Caggo took the man’s head off with one swipe of his arakh, the Valyrian steel shearing through flesh and bone and gristle as if they were so much suet “Too much noise,” he complained. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Then the boat gave a whistle and the men paraded single file down the gangplank while the women and children stood behind the steel plates, not even able to wave good-bye. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Each death row inmate was placed in a five-by-eight-foot cell with a metal door, a commode, and a steel bunk. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z She belched out a stainless steel canister—an old-fashioned lunch box thermos with a black plastic top. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z Every time he looked at the girl who had been Jeyne Poole, he felt the presence of that steel at his side. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Almost shyly, the boy led them to his bench, and a steel helm shaped like a bull's head, with two great curving homs. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z I could feel her steeling herself, trying to pull her pain inside. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z But no one calls; neither Tiny nor Jane even shows up online; and it's colder than a witch's tit in a steel bra, so I just stay in the house and catch up on homework. Will Grayson, Will Grayson 2010-04-06T00:00:00Z She put hardly any effort into it, just a twist of the hips and a flick of the shoulders, but the steel screamed against stone as it cut halfway through the solid marble column. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z Then I went out into the kitchen, took the steel out of the rack and began to whet the bayonet. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z The steel ran south and north presumably, springing from some inconceivable source and shooting toward a miraculous terminus. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z Just before they had stopped for lunch the drill had found something thirty feet down that had mangled the steel as though it were lead. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z They approached the door, steeling themselves for admonishment. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z The steel, more black than silver, lacked a uniform polish, and had a serrated crest, she told Eliot, for grating. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z Into a pit went Mr. Steffens, where, bound and tied, he was left to face the advancing razor steel of a great pendulum which now whirled down, down, closer and closer to his outraged body. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z A large round handle resembling a steel steering wheel marked the only way to open the door, just like something within a submarine. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z The slender blade seemed very small and the dragons very big, yet somehow Arya felt better with steel in her hand. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z There were scores of buzzing steel saws biting into green wood with loud whines. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z So instead he took down all the signs in his study, and in their place put up a new piece of paper that read, Bai lian cheng gang — a hundred smeltings, become steel. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z His arms were forged of steel, his backbone was the railroad, and in his veins was the coal that powered them both. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z "It's castle- forged steel, you stupid," she snapped, turning in the saddle to glare at them, "and you better shut your mouth." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z But I see him steeling himself against this fate, and I know that I have to be strong enough, and good enough, if he is going to sacrifice himself for us all. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z Slowly Brand stooped and tugged at one end of a steel tier. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z But the doors of iron and posts of steel withstood the stroke. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z Time freeze-framing as the guy behind the wheel locked eyes with the hitchhiker—trapped in the headlights and unable to dodge the thousand pounds of steel sliding straight at him. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z The young mouse knew that he had been born for this moment, his grip causing the tremor of the steel to run through his entire body. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z She wears glasses like Grace too, but hers have steel rims instead of brown ones. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z Her hair was done up in steel rollers and there was a white dab of face cream on a little place under her chin where a pimple had come out. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z A crown of steel he bore, but between rim and robe naught was there to see, save only a deadly gleam of eyes: the Lord of the Nazgûl. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z I sit on a crumbling window ledge three stories up, hidden from view behind rusted steel beams. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z With a turn of her arm she brought the sword into blocking position, her legs bracing for the impact as steel struck steel. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z Little shards of steel clattered across the hallway and the big door tipped over and slammed into the opposite wall. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z I press my back to the stainless steel cabinets and inch inward until I can duck into the hollow space beneath the grill. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z Six guards in steel helmets wait inside razor wire. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z Next thing I know, Earl’s arms encircle me like a steel band. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z We climb up the steel ladder, all the way to the top. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z There was an eternal hissing of steam, the deep grunting of steel engines, and the tolling of bells. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z The king’s host departed Deepwood Motte by the light of a golden dawn, uncoiling from behind the log palisades like a long, steel serpent emerging from its nest. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z They were working men, with steel and asbestos in their lungs and years’ worth of hard labor under their calluses and cracked fingernails. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z The Man with the steel Eveready Torch said that the picture had started, so to hurry. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z A crescent of enemy spearmen had formed ahead, a double hedgehog bristling with steel, waiting behind tall oaken shields marked with the sunburst of Karstark. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z "Bless him with salt, bless him with stone, bless him with steel. Nephew, do you still know the words?" A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z Since he was only a high-school graduate, many people in Coalwood—and in the union and the steel company that owned us too—thought my father was not qualified. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z Made from the finest steel, its double edges tapered to a ruthlessly-sharp tip. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z Longclaw was not so long or heavy a sword as his father's Ice, but it was Valyrian steel all the same. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z “Probably the worst thing about your trip will be that those steel plates will cut off your view. You won’t be able to see a thing, so you better take a last look now.” Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z To steel myself against emotion, I’m clinging to the practicalities of breaking the law. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z In a true volcanic eruption, he went on, the smoke is steel gray or black. I Survived the Eruption of Mount St. Helens, 1980 2016-08-01T00:00:00Z A white, compact bundle of fighting art shot like a steel projectile to the collie’s throat. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z Arya would watch him polish the metal with an oilcloth, shining it so bright you cculd sec the flames of die cookfire reflected in the steel. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z Their trainers used large steel hooks to pull the beasts one way or the other, to prod or punish them. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z When we consider the advantages that Spaniards derived from horses, steel weapons, and armor against foot soldiers without metal, it should no longer surprise us that Spaniards consistently won battles against enormous odds. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The dumpster hopped, and bumps appeared in its steel lid. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z His shoeless foot slipped on the icy surface and he dropped, his forehead smashing against the steel corner of the raft. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z “I guess so. But in town—” “In town, there’s a steel grid built into the ground, no matter where you go. Out here, you have to be careful.” Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z He stabbed his golden sword straight between its eyes, but the blade slipped sideways, as if the turtle’s skin were greased steel. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z There were no customers in the store, and Alfred began throwing the hook at his reflection on the door of the steel food locker. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z He passed the vault, trailing his hand along the steel spokes, the keyholes like compass roses, and he pressed his ear to the door, as if he could hear the rustling of pages inside. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z In the center of town, only yards away from the modern buildings made of steel and glass, streets of painters, ceramists, and sculptors had sprung up on the side of a steep hill. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Arnold’s photograph of the aftermath showed a Lilliputian man, possibly Burnham, standing before a great mound of shattered wood and tangled steel. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z The wet mill is like a giant steel beast, with a maze of pipes and machines inside. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z I’d split the log by driving steel wedges into the wood. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z His deep sapphire armor is finished with steel shoulder plates and leather straps along his arms and waist. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z The mill itself is a maze of stainless steel pipes, valves, filters, and tanks. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z All there was now was a mound of orange steel. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z Like all the other buildings around it, it is made of glass and steel. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z I heard a trolley lumbering past over steel tracks in the early dusk and I knew that underpaid, bewildered black men and women were returning to their homes from serving their white masters. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z Bits of plastic and wood and cardboard and steel. Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z His movements are fluid, his muscles like molten steel. Black Brother, Black Brother 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z “Guess the Lord didn’t want this one to fly,” Reverend Richard said while I turned a piece of jagged steel over and over in my hands, looking for some clue as to what had happened. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z Clearly, Mr. Ray was a man made of steel, and I had had no idea. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z The steel drums were on the money and when Big Joe showed up with a portable barbecue grill everything was everything. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Light crews like Nailer’s tore at the ship’s small fittings, stripping copper, brass, nickel, aluminum, and stainless steel. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z He was a stout man with a manticore on his shield, and ornate scrollwork crawling across his steel breastplate. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z The welding torches of men working on the steel cofferdam flickered on and off, glowing orange and electric blue. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z The heat of the blast completely vaporized the steel tower holding the bomb. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z There were small round mirrors on long steel poles stuck all over the corners of the bus. Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z By then the grove was ringed by rangers, sliding past the bone-white trees, steel glinting in black-gloved hands, poised for slaughter. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z It was a little too close for comfort, but my real scissors, the ones made of steel with a black handle, were packed away, and I had to get this done. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z The mare jingled the steel shanks of the bit with her grazing, and he remembered the sound of the bells in late November, when the air carried the jingling like snowflakes in the wind. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z Twenty' children were grouped in a circle round a chrome steel tower. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z My father was later ordered by the steel company to bulldoze them out, but he never did. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z Of Sourmetal Smells—like steel bus rails and the smell of the bus conductor’s hands from holding them? The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Each cell was identical: four feet wide, about eight feet deep, concrete and steel toilet, sink, steel-slatted bunk beds. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z No, I love things made out of blubber and steel. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z It wasn’t the color of a modern city, of steel, glass and concrete. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z Monday arrived cold and raw, with a rising wind that brought a smell of snow from a sky the color of plain carbon steel. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Tyrion pulled off his steel gauntlet and let it fall to the ground, wincing at the pain that stabbed up his arm. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z She donned thick black breeches, a quilted tunic, and a green leather jerkin covered with overlapping plates of steel. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z The wind was gusting, and the flickering orange light reflected dully off steel helms, thick beards, and unsmiling eyes. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z Pax recognized that wind—the story she was about to relate would end with blood on the snow and cold steel jaws. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z The weight of steel in her hands made her feel stronger. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z Another man moved close to us as somewhere a piece of heavy steel rang down. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z Khrazz slashed at his arm and caught him, but the arakh could only chip the hard enamel before it met the steel below. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z It could be beaten like copper, and polished like glass; and the Dwarves could make of it a metal, light and yet harder than tempered steel. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z “People were banging against the steel door,” Julie said, crouching behind the counter. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z On his right hand was a gauntlet of lobstered steel, on his left a fingerless mitt of rusted mail. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z The sight of the steel sent a shiver through her. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z They pour at just the right rate—too quickly and the molds will explode; too slowly and the steel will harden. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z Arranged in a horseshoe along the edge are stainless steel sinks and counters, a scalding tank, and a feather-plucking machine. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z Lourdes looks up through the steel lattice of the bridge coated black with exhaust. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z The following day Nel walked to the burying and found herself the only black person there, steeling her mind to the roses and pulleys. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z But rather than making them out of steel, they preferred fiber. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z The sides were steel mesh, and a lid with a padlock fitted over the top. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z He passed brass fittings and steel doors, noting easily stripped service lines. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z In a room like this, with four steel walls that bullets could bounce off of, the rifles probably use something other than lead ammo. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z He rubbed the dirt from the steel and pressed the cold handle to her open palm. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z Then walks in front of Axel, past the old owl who isn’t calling out, past the turkey vulture eating from a steel tray, past the pair of kestrels resting in the sun. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z You are a coiled steel spring, ready to dart out at the sound of the gun. Crash 1996-03-19T00:00:00Z “Yes, but steel is strong, Sonny,” he said. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z Across the street, a frosty black sand beach led down to the sea, which was as smooth as steel. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z When they reach the old steel gazebo at the very top, he leads her to its narrow bench and they sit. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z At one end was a trigger; at the muzzle end was a small nozzle and a steel roller brush. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z I clench my fists and try to steel myself. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z We pounded together on the sides and door, making so hideous a pandemonium inside the steel box that we could not stand it ourselves. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z The long ranks of man and horse were armored in darkness, as black as if the Smith had hammered night itself into steel. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z Eating did not seem to be a part of this existence in the steel box, and I did not often think about it. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z The man was credible enough—his company held the contract for inspecting all the steel used in the fair’s structures—but the thing he proposed to build just did not seem feasible. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z “Believe me! I’m engineer. All you need is one big beam. Those steel beams are something, mister!” Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z Dirty plates and cutlery were stacked on a steel trolley. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z But he didn’t sit down and no one minded the steel rod. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z The only other object in the cage was a steel bar in the shape of an upside-down U, cemented into the pavement like a bike rack. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z Certain areas of the walls are stone, while steel beams and concrete heavily reinforce others. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z His hair fell down in black curls, and my head was covered with black steel wool. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z Undeterred and apparently with a backbone like steel, she shakes her head at him, contempt in her voice. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z The rush of the train, the clicking of wheels upon the steel. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z Hesitant to try, Thomas steeled himself and pulled on the vine of ivy with all his strength. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z She did, and a moment later felt the cold steel of the officer’s handcuffs on her wrists. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z One by one we crept to that open end of the steel box, some on hands and knees, and jumped or crawled down onto the ground. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z He walked at a steady pace, his eyes steeled in the distance beyond George. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z Two narrow straps cut from cold-rolled sheet steel were lapped over the extended flange and used to clamp the fins solidly in place. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z Luke focused on them, trying to steel himself for what he knew Coach was going to say next. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z All that concentrated attention was like a laser cannon melting through a steel wall. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z “Typical,” muttered Mulch, flattening his ear to the cold steel. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z The second, also dark, probably Spanish, was as erect and slender as the blade of steel that was attached to his side. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z Her hands closed tight on my wrists, colder than the snow, stronger than steel. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z Grandmother and Grandfather Pickford stand straight up, as if sturdy, steel poles ran down their backs. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z I hear the whoosh as it cuts through the air and feel the burn of steel biting into my neck. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z Sherman picked up the bar and pondered the wounded piece of steel. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z Then he pointed at the steel wool and it flew across the floor, scrubbing and polishing so fast, the steel began to smoke. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z She fixes them up with paint and collage and steel wool stuck on at appropriate places. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z His paternal tone irked me to no end, and that helped to steel my resolve. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z Dozer and Petunia spring off the factory floor and grab on to the swinging steel arms. Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z Just behind that was the focal point of the entire church: a steel two-pronged fork similar to the one on the roof outside. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z There was a big steel door at the top. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z There were steel clamps cinched on both hands and connected by a short chain. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z The steel rails wobbled away from me like silvery snakes. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z A pair of steel hands closed around my windpipe at the sound of Hassan’s name. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z It is strong as steel, yet lighter and far more flexible, and of course utterly impervious to fire, Dragonbone bows are greatly prized by the Dothraki, and small wonder. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z Just as he had steeled himself against replying, Gregor thought of the last two years, seven months, and, was it fifteen days now? Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z They were carved from aged iroko wood, as unforgiving as steel. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z Mulch felt the cold steel of a gun barrel against his temple. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z The metal beneath him had grown harder by the hour, and the fanged steel behind made it impossible to lean back. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z They used to play quoits in the road with four big steel washers they’d found in a hardware store but these were gone with everything else. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z All this was paid for with money that should have gone into repairing the roof or replacing the dry palm fronds enclosing the latrine with corrugated steel sheets. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z He was also strapped to a steel lattice which was bolted to a flatcar on rails, and there was no way he could turn his head or touch the pipe. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z The cattail pond now had steel gray and rust brown pipes running up from it toward the groves, like someone had connected straws together in four crooked lines. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z He was the first man to stick the cold steel point of a turning plow into the virgin soil. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z She smiled to herself—delicate like a steel trap. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z It angers him, and it steels his determination to push northward. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z A high gray wall of steel that was the side of an immense oil tanker rumbled toward him, a rolling white froth at its bow. The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z “Will you teach me how to cut steel bars and drill them and how to weld?” October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z Of the brilliant bitterness between his father and his mother, a bitterness as smooth and fixed as steel. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z Torchlight gleamed off the steel claws that jutted from their gauntlets. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Once freed, the captives stripped the dead guards of their weapons and darted up the steps with steel in hand. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z Leaving the cake and all the ingredients on the table, he let himself out the steel door without saying good-bye. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z Lucas didn’t mind the steel gate that we had to draw across. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z When Arya turned to look, die saw that he was wearing his helm, all shiny steel and great curving horns. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z His cheeks and brow were scarred with intricate tattoos in green and black, ancient Valyrian sorcerer’s signs that supposedly made his flesh and skin as hard as steel. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z She heard the sounds of fighting, shouts, screams, the clang of steel on steel, coming through the windows of the Tower of the Hand. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z On the ground I start a small fire with my flint and steel and light the knot. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Crawling out on the ledge, my hands trembling, I lay a small pile of pine needles and twigs, then, taking out my flint and steel, strike a spark and start a fire. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z The biter bit, the hawk under the eagle’s foot, the spider in a steel web! The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z Then, with a sudden touch of steel in his tone, he added, “In fact, I’m certain of it.” Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z I stare at the big steel cell house door, unable to move forward or back. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z He takes a seat on a rock and watches me make a fire with my flint and steel. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z In truth, Jaime's armor was gilded steel, but this oaf would never know the difference. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z Its blade glinted with an evil gray-and-gold light where the human steel had been melded with celestial bronze. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z He shook and yanked and my fingers turned to steel. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z It was a low-slung steel car with two hard metal benches inside that faced each other. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z This one was William Cavendish, seventh Duke of Devonshire, who was a gifted mathematician and steel baron in Victorian England. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z Echoing marble corridors and a round vault door of burnished steel. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z A tallow candle weighed down one end of it, a steel gauntlet the other. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z It took me several minutes with flint and steel to get the fire going. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z Grover’s voice was high and reedy, as if he were terrified, but Jason suspected the satyr had more steel than he let on. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z His days were spent drilling the guard and practicing his swordplay, making the yard ring with the sound of steel as Bran watched forlornly from his window. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z "Come and make your japes with steel in your hand." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z Very strong it might be, wrought of steel and iron, and guarded with towers and bastions of indomitable stone, yet it was the key, the weakest point in all that high and impenetrable wall. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z “I shall find thee a piece of soft pine and will lend thee my knife. ’Tis sharp and of good steel. The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z “Look,” Zahra says, taking a drag from her massive stainless steel thermos of coffee. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z It crumpled under its own weight into a mountain of bent steel. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z It would awaken the nation to the power of architecture to conjure beauty from stone and steel. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Wheels squealed on steel and the train cars shuddered as the brakes were applied. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z Pain like a hot steel wire jabbed its way up her leg and into her hip. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z A wall of red-hot steel, blazing wood, and swirling green flame stretched before him. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z But Kino had become as cold and deadly as steel. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z I steel myself, recalling fertilizer and tractor references. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z Suddenly I felt like someone had injected me with steel. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z The distressed man explained that “Mars had cracked open and great tanks of steel had fallen in New Jersey and great monsters had arisen.” Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z "That is so. Once it takes fire, the substance will bum fiercely until it is no more. More, it will seep into cloth, wood, leather, even steel, so they take fire as well." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z I peeked through the seam in the steel and immediately wished I hadn’t. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z In the 1970s Robert Carneiro, of the American Museum of Natural History, estimated the labor required to clear a field before the advent of steel. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z “If it’s so dangerous, why not seal the wood in something that won’t burn, like plastic or steel? Why not put it in a safe deposit box?” The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z But instead he clamps his mouth shut, steels himself, prays Wangemann won't hit him, not here, not in front of his grandmother. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z His thumbs were stuck in his belt, on each side of a square steel buckle. Of Mice and Men 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z The king'laid his bright blade down on the map, along the Wall, its steel shimmering like sunlight on water. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z The familiar ping of steel against steel soon echoed back to the silent house. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z Alex pressed against the fence; the sharp steel stung his fingers, but he held on tight as his world turned upside down again. Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z The Andals were the first, a race of tall, fair-haired warriors who came with steel and fire and the seven- pointed star of the new gpds painted on their chests. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z Steel screams against steel as she slices a wing with her blade, and the plane goes into a spin. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z Lamar got a leather case containing a steel protractor, a ruler, and a compass. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z Streamers hung from the steel rafters almost to the head level of the tallest boys. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z She flexed her fingers, repeating the maneuver again and again, until the steel base left deep welts in her finger joints. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z It took nerves of steel to play the stock market. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z The song of steel on steel woke a hunger in Jon. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z The steel made a faint click against the stone. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Islands rose out of the steel harbor waters with sheer cliff sides, reaching to uneven summits, and crowned with austere, soaring firs. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z The door itself was steel and would have sent the Devastator slugs ricocheting straight back at him. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z It’s a blank, beige kind of conference room, filled with banquet tables, coffee thermoses, fruit baskets, plastic towers of cereal, tiered plate stands, and stainless steel food warmers. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z If he had possessed the steel nerves not to become rattled in public before, now he was: “I’ve reached the end of my rope!” he shouted to the audience of five hundred. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z In its place there is new silverware, which is not silver but stainless steel. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z Sweat streams down the smith’s face and into his burns-scarred jerkin as he hammers at a glowing chunk of steel. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z With the steel toe of his cowboy boots, Jordan kicked Gerald squarely on his shin. Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z I sit on my stool, wrapping my legs around the steel ones. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z Catching the steel look in her eye, I said, “I’ll stay on the wagon and tell him how it’s done.” Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z And so he steeled himself to say what he had known he must say ever since Dumbledore had died. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z The passenger compartment is made of steel, with bars over what would be glass windows in the wintertime. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z We set it down in the wooden wagon Ali built Hassan last winter for his birthday, pretend it’s a giant steel cage. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z Then she is leaning in the empty doorway, arms akimbo, almost standing in the way I would glimpse her when I left her countless times before, her figure steeled, allowing. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z I punched holes along their inner edge with a nail and then used steel wire to strap the fins to the sides of the casements. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z Once complete, this grillage of steel would be filled and covered with Portland cement to produce a broad, rigid raft that Root called a floating foundation. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z The Pinkerton National Detective Agency was the more dangerous entity, but its operatives of late seemed to be spending most of their energy battling strikers at coalfields and steel mills around the country. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z The fact that so many of the striking steelworkers were foreigners added fuel to the fire, something that the steel companies were quick to capitalize upon. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z “I see. And that is where those trifling maladjustments come in which you mentioned awhile ago—steel, hydroponics and so on.” I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z In a way, I’d had to steel my heart to her crying. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z I thought of the Kinshasa airport — dark unlit hallways, one steel hangar — and shuddered. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z The mountains around the school became icy gray and the lake like chilled steel. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z They clamped the steel handcuffs on his wrists and led him down the hall. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z The steel clattered on the sidewalk as the whirlwind rose into the night sky. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z The corpse was shoved up tight against the steel doors that formed the rear wall of our box, where he would keep cold. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z There was blood drying on the rippling steel, the red already fading to brown. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z I suppose it does look like a lab furnished as it is with steel, Formica, vinyl and lit by fluorescence. From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z Azor Ahai captured a lion, to temper the blade by plunging it through the beast's red heart, but once more the steel shattered and split. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z Since it was only the first day of spring, the pool was still covered with a tarp, but the stainless steel gas grills on the concrete slab surrounding it had been shined and buffed. Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z He must have climbed up by the steel latticework posts that anchor the thing in place. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z She just lay there, stretched across the car, her fingers struggling for a grip on steel. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z At dawn the next day she returned to her mountain and the nest box on the steel pole. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z Billy never even got to meet the chaplain he was supposed to assist, was never even issued a steel helmet and combat boots. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z And those who will take a weapon to such an enemy must be sterner than steel, if the very shock shall not destroy them. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z A foot of steel looks as if it has been transformed into warm butter and gouged by the fingers of a child. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z Finally he steeled himself to read the final rule again. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z It was rumored that the Italians carried knives, even the girls, and that the morenos had brass knuckles in their pockets and steel toes in their heavy shoes. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z I looked at the thick piece of blue steel that made the crossbar. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z Her sculpted black steel breastplate was inlaid in gold and showed a harpy rising with chains dangling from her claws. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Then we got plates and utensils and trays to push along the stainless steel counter as we decided what we wanted. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z He needed to steel up his nerves before they set out to do the real business at hand. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z He steeled himself for a blow, but it didn’t come. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z Like kingpins, one steel tier lammed into another, then they all crashed to the floor with a sound as of the roof falling. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z I steeled myself for his rage, but he surprised me. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z He checked the time by his stainless steel watch. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z She seldom touched him, and the warmth of her small hand sent darts of steel through his blood. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z Food production’s spread proves as crucial to understanding geographic differences in the rise of guns, germs, and steel as did its origins, which we considered in the preceding chapters. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z One was a gargantuan man standing beside Duke Perrington, who seemed crafted of muscle and steel—and took pains to display it with his sleeveless armor. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z As I walk back to my seat, I think of how when Dad left, he said that when we look at the steel pennies, we need to remember that we are unique, too. Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z Along an unused railway spur, four workmen labored in the shadowy red heat, setting up a platform and steel launchers for the evening fireworks. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z But the cauldron wasn’t made of iron or steel...it was made of vapors. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z For now, the tension was subtle, a vibration, like the inaudible cry of overstressed steel. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z "Cold," said Renly in a small puzzled voice, a heart-beat before the steel of his gorget parted like cheesecloth beneath the shadow of a blade that was not there. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z The hilt had been fashioned new for him, adorned with a wolf's-head pommel in pale stone, but the blade itself was Valyrian steel, old and light and deadly sharp. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z If you’re skilled you don’t try to steel yourself, you actually do the opposite, you let yourself go, completely, Hoagland told me once, like you are sitting on the toilet, you loosen a certain muscle. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z Salvador struck one along the side of the steel car, and during its brief blaze they inspected the hopper. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z Thomas steeled himself, then jumped on top of Alby’s body, grabbing both legs and pinning them to the bed. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z He tightened his grip on the cold steel handle. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z I steel myself and reach for a bucket. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z It’s as if our family tree looks like a set of high-voltage wires strung across a field from one steel tower to the next. Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z His rondels were golden sunbursts, all his fastenings were gilded, and the red steel was burnished to such a high sheen that it shone like fire in the light of the rising sun. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z But their well-tended vegetable gardens, small frame houses, and privies were blackened with soot from coal-burning steel plants nearby. Fannie Never Flinched 2016-11-21T00:00:00Z They carried steel bars, axes, knives, wooden stakes, and hammers— all the weapons used by the Khmer Rouge soldiers to kill their victims. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Clayton trotted happily, sneakily, down the concrete and steel steps of the subway station. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z In the strictest secrecy, we fed it the original data involved in the steel decision, its own answer, and the actual developments since,—the overproduction, that is,—and asked for an explanation of the discrepancy.” I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z They boiled what was left of the rice in a steel pot on a charcoal stove. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z Inmates could have their own radios, too, but the big steel cellblock made reception very difficult. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The leather and steel fittings on the saddle and bridle clashed together violently. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z I tell them this is where the fuel is coming from, the steel too. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z Vegetables were abandoned, half cut, on huge steel platters. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Sutton’s is a cafeteria down the street from the department store, with trays that you slide down a steel counter to select just what you want for your entrée and side dish. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z It was dinnertime when I came downstairs, steeling myself for the conversation. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z Yet they were themselves not toys; they were made of the finest tempered steel, like the tools of a watchmaker or a dentist. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z Often, we would start this call-and- response ourselves, but that night, other nameless prisoners took the initiative, and the voices from around the prison seemed uncommonly strong as though steeling us for what lay ahead. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z A few months prior, Kermit had been standing on a steel beam that was being hoisted over the river gorge when the crane slipped. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z The next weekend, Mr. Bykovski met with me and Sherman and O’Dell at the tipple machine shop to teach us the fundamentals of welding and cutting steel so that we could build our own rockets. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z In his hand he held that long shiny steel instrument. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z They used steel cables, frayed at the ends. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z But his pallbearers did not lose a step as they hustled to the Dempster-Dumpster, opened the steel door, and hurled the man toward the fetid dark interior where cans rattled and a bottle broke. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z He felt the blood trickling on to his hand, but he also felt the cold touch of steel against his skin. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z His muscles flexed taut as steel and he pressed the pillow, feeling the bed give slowly, evenly, but silently. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z In their white faces burned keen and merciless eyes; under their mantles were long grey robes; upon their grey hairs were helms of silver; in their haggard hands were swords of steel. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z Ned lifted Ice, looked down the cool steel length of it. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z His father had been an armorer at Bitterbridge, he said, so he had been bom with the sound of steel ringing in his ears and had taken to swordplay at an early age. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z It was like a wall of stone and steel. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z The exile knight looked from Dany to her brother; she barefoot, with dirt between her toes and oil in her hair, he with his silks and steel. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z The bullets hiss, they make a steel net, never ceasing, never ceasing. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z Morning light glimmered faintly against the edge of the steel across his knees. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z He began to leap up and down on the car’s hood, caving it in to the loud accompaniment of crumpling steel and Virgil’s hurrahs. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z All around her, the riders raised their lances, and the dirt and leaves that had buried the cruel bright points fell away to reveal the gleam of sharpened steel. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z They worked twenty-hour days, setting up instruments to measure the blast, and building a 100-foot steel tower to hold the bomb. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Poetry was the processing of my thoughts until the slag of justification fell away and I was left with the cold steel truths of life. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z I allude to the setting of steel traps for catching vermin. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z One was clear bright steel, merging a little way back into those subtle shadow-colors, but steel of an incomparable sharpness. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z “Except it’s not carbon. You use coke to make steel. Coke and lime.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z Empires with steel weapons were able to conquer or exterminate tribes with weapons of stone and wood. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Other voices took up the cry, and now the arrowhead flew, a long scream of steel and silk, pounding hooves and sharp blades kissed by fire. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z And then my mother laughed and laughed, in a gentle way, and you could tell her own spine was not made of steel because she bent in half, laughing and laughing. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z The Hound leapt at them, his sword a blur of steel that trailed a red mist as it swung. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z “Cheap steel. And notched. Here, see? I take back what I said. You need a better blade to hack off heads.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Somehow these plaintiffs would have to find the steel to speak freely and the composure to think clearly while seated in a pressure chamber. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z I look down and the ground smears beneath me, all gray and white and black, glass and pavement and steel. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z I was bracing myself for him to say something angry or bitter, steeling myself to absorb his understandable rage. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z "That piece of steel is the power of life and death." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z He tried to move his hands and found that they were shackled by strong bands of cold steel to white wrists of policemen sitting to either side of him. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z Her stiff gray hair caught the lamplight, glinting like stainless steel, and the blue hawk she had inherited from Lord Roke spread his wings briefly on the bracket by the door. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z We stood together, our trio at the corner of the stage, and listened as a steel guitar started off the first song. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z Some were old and broken down but most had been wrecked and they looked it—bent, arched, twisted, the impression they gave was of crumpled paper, not steel. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z Not only had the steel company decided to sell the houses, the sewage and water systems and the churches were on the block as well. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z The blade was shorter than Longclaw but made of common steel, which made it heavier. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z About a foot of the top floor of our building—where Buttercup’s window jutted out—with several feet of steel on top of it. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z When the steel struck the flint, such men were rare as dragon’s teeth; elsewise the world would not have been so full of slaves. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z In those days, children wore heavy, practical shoes that felt like they would outlast a steel monument, so whenever you could go barefoot, you appreciated it. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z “A drab has too much carbon in it. It’s almost steel.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z He had steel wool in his heavily gloved hand. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z The doctor now put some water to boil in an aluminium mug over a gas flame, and into the boiling water he placed a long thin shiny steel instrument. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z Second, the price of steel and other materials had been on the rise. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z He tuned the banjo carefully, fiddling with knobs and plucking at steel strings. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z All along the benches, his sons and brothers and sworn swords leapt to their feet, grabbing for their steel. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z They were in full armor, enameled steel from helm to heel, long pale cloaks over their shoulders, shining white shields strapped to their left arms. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z I held the steel seat with my hands between my legs so I wouldn’t fall over when we took the curves. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z Leap past yawning bomb craters and snarls of rusted steel, over spent bullets and shell casings. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z The wall behind me was made up of a dozen steel drawers. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z Aunt Spiker screeched, glaring at him over the top of her steel spectacles. James and the Giant Peach 1961-11-01T00:00:00Z She must steel herself to plunge it swiftly into the body of the frightful being the light would certainly show her. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z Aside from one couch and one lounge chair, both a mix of steel and black leather, the room seemed empty. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z On board were two benches, some steel wool, an old cooler, and a mound of frayed rope with one end tied to the mooring. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z The stripling had been stronger than he looked; his blade bit through die lobstered steel of the captain’s gauntlet and the padded glove beneath into the meat of his palm. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z The temporary general superintendent sent down by the steel mill in Youngstown was a man named Fuller. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z We walk around the back of the building and find four locked steel doors and nothing but ranch land, patches of palmettos dotting an expanse of gold-green grass. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z Jonos Bracken rolled off her, grabbed for his scabbard, and came up with naked steel in hand, cursing. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Tim pulls out some shiny steel rings for his first trick. Shine! 2019-11-05T00:00:00Z It was metal and slippery but was braced with steel bands. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z They looked strange and terrible in the moonlight both stark naked, with their silver steel glancing under the harvest moon. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z "I heard of a man who had a razor made of Valyrian steel," declared Toad. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z Balancing on beams, hands waving, guiding, positioning steel planks lifted by huge cranes. Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z The cells were different, too, with doors of solid steel instead of iron bars. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z These doors are banded with steel, and there are shields and dragons carved into their surfaces. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z He unsheathed his longsword and laid it. on the table before him, the bright steel on the rough wood. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z All were seasoned rangers, armed with obsidian as well as steel, warhoms slung across their saddles should they need to summon help. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Jewels glittered in its hilt, and the moonlight ran down the shining steel. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z While he explained to her that his job was building runways in the fields of northern France, his eyes kept returning to the steel forceps she had collected from the autoclave. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z He had kicked at the steel mesh until it was covered with dents. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z It was that night’s nerves of steel that landed me in France six weeks ago. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z Whites had arrived, imposed centralized government, and brought material goods whose value New Guineans instantly recognized, ranging from steel axes, matches, and medicines to clothing, soft drinks, and umbrellas. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z He pulled himself out of the hold and grabbed it—a stout three-and-a-half-foot gaff with a barbed steel hook on one end. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z The clang of steel echoed through the yard as the others joined battle around him. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z Some part of me did not want to leave the small steel bathroom. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z Henry, the light winking off the steel rims of his glasses, gave no indication of having heard her. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z That morning, at the tower at Trinity, Oppenheimer watched as scientists and army engineers worked together to attach a steel cable to the test bomb. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z In that half-world between sleep and wakefulness, I can almost hear the ringing of a hammer on steel and the dry hiss of the arc welder at the little machine shop by the tipple. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z She tried to pull away, but he hung on, and she looked toward the ship, steeling herself against the pain and the nausea. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z The edges were sealed without any bulky welds, and the metal had a dull, burnished look that made me guess it was more than simple steel. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z I noticed a detail I hadn’t seen before, a set of steel steps. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z She steeled herself for their revulsion and walked across her room. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z He spent hours each day running around the house measuring the angle of things with his new steel protractor. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z His wife stretched on the bed, uncovered and cold, like a body displayed on the lid of a tomb, her eyes fixed to the ceiling by invisible threads of steel, immovable. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z The ice was bare of snow and embedded with a coarse black grit that crunched beneath the steel points of my crampons. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z No matter how clever Scholar uprisings have been, in the end it comes down to steel against steel, and in that battle, the Martials always win. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z Uncle Jet even suggested capturing what was stealing the seeds by setting up a steel cage. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z The pavement would be their bed, the open-door toilet would be their bathroom, and the steel rack would be the seat they could share. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z He had knee-high boots with steel toes that he wore every night for his little kicking game, and he used them on me. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z The marina was momentarily quiet except for the merry chime of steel drums from the Coral Queen’s calypso band. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z But among them was this poor Earthling, and his head was encased in a steel sphere which he could never take off. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z One expert, an authority on how much structural strain a steel tank could bear before breaking apart, was on the witness stand for more than three weeks. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z I tried to steel myself for whatever was coming next. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z The soca music played on as she worked on another section of her hair, hectic steel pan and percussion thumping through the air, her spine prickling. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z Ser Addam dropped to one knee, a rangy man with dark copper hair that fell to his shoulders, armored in burnished bronzed steel with the fiery tree of his House etched black on his breastplate. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z "I saw that great hairy one to-day, the one who insisted that he must have two battle- axes, the heavy black steel ones with twin crescent blades." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z "This is Valyrian steel," he said when the link of dark grey metal lay against the apple of his throat. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z She’d grown accustomed to their presence, always steeling herself when she had to pass through a cluster of them, but they had never interfered with her before. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z It encouraged the leaders of twenty-four separate steel worker craft unions to come together under the banner of the AFL and stage a national work stoppage. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z His surgical kits stood open and gleaming, his instruments laid out in a sunflower of polished steel. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z There were too many nights when jumping down to lend my steel would only have ended in my own demise. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z No, it isn’t—it was steel and he jumped away totally freaked out. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z He ran to the steel door and caught the bars in his hands and shook them, as though trying to tear the steel from its concrete moorings. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z He swung it through the air a few times and it whistled past my head, smelling of heated steel and polished wood. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z When the tide comes in, the big steel barrels will float up and lift the boat. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z There was no more fear—no more steeling of her nerves…. And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z A large cofferdam, made of sheets of steel, was being built on the west side of the river to divert the water away from the base of the cliffs there. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z The steel had nicked into the edge of one of the darker stone pieces. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z They feed iron ore into the Blast Oven and pour molten steel into core molds from ladles. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z Against the Serric steel of a Martial blade, the knife will only shatter. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z The buildings were large, smoked glass and steel, each one joined to the next by a covered walkway. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z The pleas of the grievously wounded man reverberated through the steel walls enclosing him, but the fat recruit closed the door quickly and both recruits sprinted back to their place in line. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z A steel hatch sealed the corridor, and Captain Short, or her corpse, lay on the other side of it. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z He continued straight through, into an inner chamber, just missing a network of steel girders and maintenance ladders. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z We make good time, and I practice with my sling on the steel tower struts. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z It produced concrete-reinforcing bars, barbed wire, nails, and steel for cars, refrigerators, and military ships. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z We had to first climb Water Tank Mountain, so called because of the two cylindrical steel water tanks on top that held Coalwood’s drinking water. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z "If he does not bestir himself soon, it may be too late," the stout man in the steel cap said. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z “There’s sound steel here if you can find it,” a deep voice growled. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z She did not know how it would look, if it could capture the cruel mix of emotions she felt, the desire to cry and slap him and steel herself all at once. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z Two men in coveralls stretched a thick steel cable with a hook from the back of the wrecker down toward the brush at the edge of the river. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z All have long steel tables with stools bolted to the floor in pairs and an aisle down the middle. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z "You have a plan," he said flatly, with a scrape of steel on stone. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z It was a huge chamber, the walls—half naked rock, half polished steel—lined with computer equipment, electronic meters, machines that blinked and flickered with a life of their own. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z The steel points of their pikes winked in the pale sunlight as the column approached. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z I said, hysteria leaping into my voice, my hands slicing out with points of steel as I backed away. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z So what he did was he took a pencil and one of those steel compass things, and he started drawing circles onto a piece of paper. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z The guard tosses in a few loaves of stale bread and a bucket of water and slides the door shut, its steel pin dropping into place. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z I feel steel against my neck and glance down. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z Feet were scuffled, and things began to drop from people’s fingers—pencils, computers, map cases, clattering steel flak helmets. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z The Italians first discovered that it could communicate this virtue to steel or iron. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z There was another guy behind the old counter, wiping down the steel surfaces in the front kitchen and serving area. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z Dad was a perpetual optimist, confident that brains someday would triumph over inanimate steel; bolstered in the belief that he entered the fray with clean hands and a pure heart. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z “Yes”—Miss Harris’s voice was more steel than gold now—“Yes. Gilly, it is then. Well”—she turned her smile on the rest of the class—“Where were we?” The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z Knuckles and fingertips raw from hot water and steel wool. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z He went over to his racks of materials, selected a steel tube, and cut off fourteen inches of it with a hacksaw. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z Two of the boys wore glasses, curiously enough the same kind: tiny, old-fashioned, with round steel rims. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z I looked at Reynolds; he was gripping a steel bar in his hand. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z “I used a steel tube with a butt weld down the length of it. We don’t have much of the seamless kind. Too expensive. We used what we had on your last rockets.” October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z The door was steel and they kept it locked, for obvious reasons. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z It was raw steel, unpolished but expertly shaped. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z Harsh sounds of chains and pulleys, like the workings of an ancient steel factory echoed through the room, bouncing off the walls with a hollow, tinny whine. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z Workers laid foundations of immense timbers in crisscrossed layers in accord with Root’s grillage principle, then used steam-powered derricks to raise the tall posts of iron and steel that formed each building’s frame. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z I stare down the building’s steel girders and black windows, all the way to the cracked sidewalk. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z He was freed of the steel links on his wrists and pushed inside; he heard the door shut behind him. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z The pain was sharp when he tried to drape himself over the steel rail, and when he stood in place it dulled but remained. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z He crouches before the door to the front office to make himself as small as possible and crawls on his hands and knees to the steel cabinet, takes out the bread and starts to leave. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z When Jon turned it sideways, he could see the ripples in the dark steel where the metal had been folded back on itself again and again. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z And all along the rooftop of the structure stood twelve-foot-tall steel posts, a picket line of uppercase Ys, each of them strung with razor wire. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z How much had these poor victims paid to spend months living in this steel box? City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z "The steel must be part of your arm," the bald man told her. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z He walks up to me grinning, holds his hand out so I can see the red scissors from Coach’s desk smiling at me, their steel blades sharp and ready. The Crossover 2014-03-18T00:00:00Z She saw two destriers collide in full armor, going down in a tangle of steel and horseflesh. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z It loomed over us as precariously as the Tower of Babel, a marvel of glass and steel. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z As flames exploded outward, the massive steel and glass structures faltered and Zafoona closed her eyes and turned away. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z It was a large frame house, with miles of slippery wood floor, a kitchen clad in stainless steel so shiny it burned, a living room with a fireplace and giant TV. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z Harsh sounds of chains and pulleys, like the workings of an ancient steel factory, echoed through the room, bouncing off the walls with a hollow, tinny whine. The Maze Runner 2009-10-21T00:00:00Z It had a steel divider running along the center, segregating the white prisoners from the Africans. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z For example, the Korean steel industry is equal in efficiency to ours, but all other Korean industries lag behind their American counterparts. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The sound was the faintest of clinks, a scraping of steel over stone. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z You never tasted lemonade so good as what he makes in his steel pitcher, from real lemons and white sugar stirred in. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z All four of them looked over at the steel doors attached to the ground. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z I should’ve just gone while I had the chance, but the dogs had prehistoric fangs, deranged eyes, gammon tongues, and steel chains round their necks. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z Some wore their steel helmets but most of them carried them slung from their packs. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z No other armorer in the city could get that deep a green; he knew the secret of putting color in the steel itself, paint and enamel were the crutches of a journeyman. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z Just walked in through the front door, the steel door. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Stannis saw, and reached at once for the hilt of his sword, but before he could draw steel his brother produced ... a peach. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z Calder opened his mouth when the 5:38 train went by, rattling the windows, making the floorboards bounce, and filling the kitchen with the whoosh-whoosh of passing steel. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z Wes was intensely attracted to this short woman with a broad smile who mixed a steel backbone with Caribbean charm. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z It was a steel engraving of an oval building with rectangular windows, and a small tower in front. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z My regular route is down National Road, out past the hospital and Friendship Campground to this old steel bridge that seems forgotten by everyone but me. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z Two days before Christmas 1937, a load of 196 tons of steel was delivered to the Moore Dry Dock Company on the Oakland waterfront, to be machined into the Crocker Cracker’s huge magnet. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z That’s a stainless steel cylinder that resembles a top-loading washing machine with dozens of black rubber fingers projecting from the sides. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z The kitchen was all marble and stainless steel. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z The spore expanded, split, and burst within the corrupted steel and shards of concrete that had formerly been walls. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z We went to a steel gate in the back of the yard, where Granny rang a bell. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z I steeled myself for what was going to happen next, hoping that maybe, just maybe, Auk IV had fallen somewhere where we could retrieve it without being seen. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z “Ooh wee! Yo, Benny, we got steel and eighteens on this one!” he shouted like he was talking about a car. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z Huge finlike wind wings stuck up along their lengths, harnessing the breezes to help move the lumbering ships and their scrap loads of nickel, copper, iron, and steel. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z Aru steeled herself, and she and Mini spoke the words aloud. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z I never thought much at the time about what the phrase meant, but it had something to do with metal, with armor, and that’s what I would do, I would steel myself. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z Behind the door I heard the steel bars being lifted and I stopped knocking, my heart racing. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z Then I looked behind me and there were still more, standing against the walls, erect and silent, as though steeled to go into action at any moment. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Crab and Grandpop went on talking while Genie snuck peeks at the rifle, how the smooth wood contrasted with the gray steel. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z She was proud and could be hard enough but she was as true as steel and would never have deserted a companion, whether she liked him or not. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z The big steel hinges squeak shrill and sharp as the door opens. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z She could see the rippling deep within the steel, where the metal had been folded back on itself a hundred times in the forging. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z The only way up the Purina Tower is the steel ladder built into the side, and there seem to be about twenty-five thousand steps. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z “Wait here,” Officer Trixie says, and the door slams a solid steel closed behind him. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z It was reinforced steel, and he was twelve. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z I lit it swiftly, hoping he would not notice the flint and steel. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z "Little bird," he said once more, his voice raw and harsh as steel on stone. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z “Yeah, but still, there must be some iron and steel we could recover. Stuff that wasn’t so scarce when they gave up.” Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z Flying down the hallway, I head back into Building 1, slamming the elevator button until the steel doors slide open, and the elevator pulls me back down to my floor. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z Behind one stall an armorer displayed steel breastplates worked with gold and silver in ornate patterns, and helms hammered in the shapes of fanciful beasts. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z “One side is celestial bronze. The other is tempered steel. Works on mortals and immortals both.” The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z Seemingly he watched the white horse, but really he watched the triangular steel point of the pic. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z A chain leads from the collar around my neck to a steel rail inside the wagon. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z “Yes,” he says, “flint, steel, and magnesium are commonly used together for fire starters. I get it.” Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z Her heart is a steel drum, turned sideways on the ground. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z I saw the angels, or at least I imagined I saw them, watching us scrap, stepping forward and catching the car batteries or jagged lengths of steel tubing that Dad launched across the yard. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z Some suggestions: an unaccompanied violin or cello sonata, a flute, oboe, trumpet, or horn concerto, Asaian or native American flute music, classical guitar, bagpipes, steel pan drums, panpipes, or organ. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z It was all brushed steel with digital readouts and touch-sensitive controls. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z The ceiling was held up with a combination of steel scaffolding and old granite Roman columns. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z Fremantle could feel the presence of that vast army; he knew it was there, thousands of men, thousands of horses, miles of cannon, miles of steel. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z He landed breathless in front of Catelyn Stark, an ungainly-looking man with wild tufts of rust-colored hair sticking out from under a conical steel cap. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z She walked back out to her car and got in, steeling herself against the pain of a twice-broken heart. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z “Oh, all right,” grumbled Fadi, handing her the wooden spoon while he kept the steel fork with the crooked prong. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z I made my bones steel and my skin chain mail. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z At sea, heavy steel was as like to cost a man his life as to save it, he believed. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z Over the rush of falling waters, Jon heard a soft sound of steel on leather that could only mean that the Halfhand had drawn his sword. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z Too late to jump off while the go-kart rolled, its steel skate wheels hitting every bump and pebble on the sidewalk. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z The turret is crowned with a steel dome and is used primarily to range larger guns positioned farther below. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z The offending dust, hair, or paper, seized in miniature steel jaws, was raced back to the burrows. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z But each day we returned to our little sanctuary on the roof and slid the steel bars down tight to protect us. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z Again Zeitoun refused to sleep on the pavement, and caught only occasional rest by draping himself over the steel rack. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z The cages were inside steel boxes that looked like microwave ovens. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z An hour had passed and all I had to show for it were two ruined pieces of steel. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z When she started up again, her voice had changed; the steel was gone and in its place was a drifting, breezy music. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z One man stepped in front of them, but his captor gripped the hilt of his longsword and drew it just far enough to show a foot of naked steel. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z The blue steel flashed in the sun as the sword spun out over the river. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z There was no longer a supply of foreign laborers to mold steel, unload lumber ships, or slaughter cattle. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z Waited for the steel hands to loosen their grip. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z Fireworks explode above the bridge’s massive pylons and armed soldiers salute us on both sides as gigantic steel cables shoot to the sky. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z I saw him take out a sort of scalpel which had a long steel handle and a small pointed blade. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z “My great-grampa wore one of those when he went against the army,” Sam said, the sound of his whetstone against steel punctuating his words. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z The dance, the sweet steel song, a sword in my hand and a foe before me. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Mom had helped me collect scrap iron to make steel, and even let me donate our cast-iron kettle to the cause. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Some brothers with dreads started playing steel drums and that was getting us back to a good mood. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z But after a while, having heard how tom up the man was and reading the headlines in the Age, the News, The Messenger, by February she had steeled herself and let the woman in. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z I didn’t want to bother dipping the quill and steel pen on his desk into ink. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z A pair of stone knights stood sentry at the entrance, armored in fanciful suits of polished red steel that transformed them into grif-fin and unicom. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z Half a millennium ago, the Scholars crumbled beneath the Martial invasion because our blades broke against their superior steel. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z And Jon thought, “Ice,” she said, “and daggers in the dark. Blood frozen red and hard, and naked steel.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z In the seventeenth century they acquired steel tools, and used them to make the return journey from seminomadic hunter-gatherers to agriculturalists who lived in more or less permanent villages. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Just before she reached it, steel jaws sprang out of the earth with such speed that the air snapped. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z Major Major often paid strict attention to the horseshoes falling softly against the earth or riding down around the small steel pegs in the ground. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z This one’s stainless steel facade has been peeled back, exposing its innards as if it were decomposing from the inside out. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z My attention shifts to the enormous metal doors lining the inside of the circular steel wall. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z “Your father has the same problem. He can eat anything. Seems like his gut is made of steel when it comes to food. But when he gets nervous, he’s a mess.” All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z As I reached the second-floor landing, a flash of steel glinted in the corner of my eye. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z 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 While we wait, Ben motions to a steel door with a flashing blue light, its latch encased within a clear locked box. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z On the cell phone, the explosion is soundless, but I can imagine sounds—screaming, tearing, slicing through concrete, steel, and glass. Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z As I watch, power-ups materialize over the steel walls and along the edge of the lake’s waters, the colorful marbles lining the bridges both over and under. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z She steeled herself and stepped into the woods. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z BUT I was never to reach Mary's, and I was over-optimistic about removing the steel cap in the morning. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z Everything you could want, plus a few steel picnic tables out front. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z He looks out at the water to where they’re building the Bay Bridge—two toothpicks held together by a thread of steel. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z Other people needed, across their hearts, one steel rib. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z |
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