The customer, an antique dealer from San Francisco, was stirring restlessly in the main room of the store. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

There is a stir at the entrance, newspapermen swarming, flashbulbs popping. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I added some Old Sour, with a dash of salt for good measure, and stirred. Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z

We took turns stirring this witches’ brew as darkness crawled across the yard. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

He stirred and stirred and stirred ... and suddenly the tip of the spoon knocked against the glass, opening a crack through which the coffee leapt, pouring onto his clothes. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

I knocked and went into his room with a glass of the cold tea and a soft-boiled egg I had stirred up in a cup, hoping I could get him to eat a few bites. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

Will and Lyra had been asleep all afternoon, and they were just stirring now, hearing the noise. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

Then, a faint breeze came through the wood towards them, and passed, just stirring the warm air. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

The only other real confrontation he’d had was hitting his father, but that wasn’t the kind of story that stirred the glitter up in the eyes of the old men in Tommy’s. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

Around and around they stirred the corn in an iron kettle over a low fire. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

There was stirring, a movement of mud and dead leaves. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

This hypothesis, too, has failed to stir enthusiasm. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Then you’d see her stirring a pot of brown liquid with turkey neck bones floating at the top. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

He eased his foot back to the floor and bent to gather up one of the tiny children who was beginning to stir restlessly on the blanket. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

No one seemed to stir in the beds around me. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

A gust of wind picked up in the woods, and the snow in front of it began to stir. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

Now Babulya was in the kitchen in front of a boiling pot, her ghostly eyes staring at nothing as she stirred the concoction with short, angry strokes. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

Finally, just when it looked as if Yishan was about to fall asleep from being so still, the king stirred. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

Because it was early afternoon, there were few people stirring on the streets. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

I stir up some oatmeal and found oranges and a juicer. Girls Like Us 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Hazelnuts, walnuts, chestnuts, almonds mounded in her basket and stirred her hunger with thoughts of hot roasted nuts on cold winter nights. The Midwife's Apprentice 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

His long, bushy beard collected more stems as it brushed the countertop, and his shirt and pants were spattered with whatever Babulya was furiously stirring in the pot. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

I wish I could hover like Grandma S. so as not to stir it all up. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

Somewhere, the billion dreams of the town since its origin stirred in a maelstrom far from the reach of the shrimpers’ nets. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was a stir from the men at the tables. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

I took a tablespoon of sugar and the same of saltpeter, stirred them in a coffee cup with a wooden spoon, opened the door to our coal-fired hot-water heater, and tossed it in. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

It stirred the fur on the men’s clothes and rattled the leaves around me. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

Stella said, taking the stirring spoon from her and peeping into the pot. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Brad showed up, which caused quite a stir because he was popular, but Patrick kept a secret as to why Brad came to the party. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

“What is it?” asked his grandmother, stirring the contents of a big iron pot on the stove. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

There was, for instance, a scarcity of hope on Middlesex, where his wife no longer felt any stirrings in her spiritual umbilicus. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Lyra stirred and murmured, and he stroked her forehead and found it hot, like Alice’s face. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

They slept hard and didn’t stir when the quiet got broken up by the Temptations. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

To offer the dead body of Bessie as evidence and proof that he had murdered Mary would make him appear a monster; it would stir up more hate against him. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

He remembered sitting at the breakfast bar and stirring the milk and chocolate together. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

‘Indeed deep in the wood they dwell,’ said Aragorn, and sighed as if some memory stirred in him. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

She had whipped cream, scooped tiny cakes from the baking tin, made ravioli, and stirred sauces. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

As morning came the wind began to stir again, but now it came from the North, and soon it freshened to a rising breeze. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

“This is going to be real tricky,” said Thorn as she helped Seven stir the potion. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

My especial favorites were those autumnal sonatas of Signor Corelli, which had made such a stir in the century previous. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

On the ground her bag shifted slightly: Cinnamon was stirring. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

A breeze stirred the grey haze of Daisy's fur collar. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

Luke was not still for a minute, but moved back and forth across the shadows, filling glasses, stirring the fire, touching the marble cupid; he was bright in the firelight, and restless. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

She felt such a stir of pity and gentleness for him that she almost reached out to touch his matted pelt, and only a sense of courtesy toward those cold ferocious eyes prevented ter. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

We told Dr. Xuma that the ANC was in danger of becoming marginalized unless it stirred itself and took up new methods. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I couldn't answer him; I was busy drinking it all in, busy trying to understand the stirring in my chest. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

He tossed his drakon meat into a hanging pot that seemed to be made from an old monster skull, then picked up a ladle and began to stir. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

The smell of clay and mountain sage stirred old memories. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

It was then I felt a stirring go through the room and for the first time I realized that I was guilty. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z

She took a deep breath and scanned the rest of the clearing, but no one stirred. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

She rolled up her sleeves and began stirring. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

Encouraged, I took a tablespoon of saltpeter and dumped it in and then stirred the pot with a wooden spoon also “borrowed” from the kitchen. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

As he mounts the crowd stirs and speaks in a vast murmur: “Argaven!” The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

Orange Juice’s stirring defence brought a glow to my heart. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

He poured it into the dough mix and stirred. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Worn out, indeed, I was; not another step could I stir. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

Furball stirred slightly when Matt laid the bag down in the pump house, but he didn’t bark. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

A smell that stirred something in his brain. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

Her grandmother waited by the stove, stirring in the pan. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

He lay in the high barn loft all night, listening to distant animals and insects and trees, the little motions and stirrings. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z

Helena began to stir a little and opened her eyes. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

A faint wind sighed through the godswood and the red leaves stirred and whispered. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

James stirs, and I know he is still awake. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

In the ruined halls and keeps of Winterfell, lords hushed other lords, horses nickered, and sleepers stirred in their dark comers. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

I could barely make out, or perhaps only sense, the forms of the boys, stirring fitfully but not yet awake: Dominick and James, six-year-old twins, huddled together for warmth on a pallet on the floor. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

His father had stirred himself, then, and gone to the House of Hwang and asked if there were a slave to spare. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

Holmes promised stirring views of Englewood, perhaps even a glimpse of Jackson Park off to the east, where the buildings of the fair soon would begin to rise. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Dad was stirring the soap dish up with his shaving brush, and I got close to the sink to smell the soap. The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

The part of me that is made of raw instinct stirs, wanting desperately to close that distance between us. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Linda stirred, woke up, stared for a few seconds bewilderedly at the Semi-finalists, then, lifting her face, sniffed once or twice at the newly perfumed air and suddenly smiled—a smile of childish ecstasy. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

The memory of him as a chastened boy stirred my affection and I let a little cry escape me. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

I could not identify individuals, only stirrings of color. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

The wind stirred around them, ripping strands of hair from her braid. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

On the wall above the bed, and on the ceiling beams: wings softly stirring. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

He stirred in half a spoon of sugar. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

He took the bird, a scrawny item, and set to work while Mr. Boatwright sat down and stirred the fire up before lighting a pipe. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

That they live in the catacombs under her great castle in the forest and operate her fell machines and stir her great cauldrons and do her bidding from morning till night. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

The surprise was “hot chocolate” which was cocoa and condensed milk made into a paste and boiling water stirred into it. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

I closed the journal, turned off the lamp, and looked at my brother to make sure I hadn’t stirred him. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

“We approve. Afterward some bard will make a stirring song about you, no doubt, and we shall have a more prudent lord commander.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

She turned to stir a pot of soup. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Something to think about anyway,” she finished, and gave her drink a fierce stir with its celery stick. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

He was off to Florida’s Hialeah Racetrack, where he was greeted with near hysteria, generating a bigger stir than any Florida visitor save President Roosevelt. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

From her I learned the glory and the tragedy of the history of my people, and I came to understand how that history stirred in my blood. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Elves stirred and murmured with astonishment, and Celeborn gazed at the Dwarf in wonder, but the Lady smiled. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

In my father’s science fiction book, the one that caused such a tremendous stir, all the aliens who’d come here through Lazarus Doors took the names of angels from the Bible and from the Koran. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

Here they were only one month into a new school year in a new town, and Cara was already stirring the pot, stewing up trouble. The Landry News 1999-12-01T00:00:00Z

As if, inside Werner’s head, an infinitesimal orchestra has stirred to life. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Then you can pour in your mixed-up eggs and salsa, and very carefully stir them around until the eggs are cooked. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

Gale begins stirring at my voice, trying to reach me. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

The scent touched him deep behind his belly, and he could feel the old anticipation stirring as it had when he was a child waiting for the first snowflakes to fall. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

In his head, Fred heard stirring music even more heroic than the TV show’s opening theme. Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

The fire had burned down and looked out but he stirred with a piece of wood and found a bed of coals still glowing hot and red. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

A breeze stirred the plum boughs, shivering leaves and Sparrow’s hair. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

They say around here that bellies stir up certain cravings or aversions. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

At sunrise, the monkeys stir and wake up, and you hear their cries as they greet the sun. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then she bounded away through the thickly tangled underbrush without stirring a leaf, without snapping a twig, and vanished into the green. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

Then she picked up the stirring spoon and turned toward the pot of simmering soup. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

I had it in my fingers when the boy’s eyes opened wide and he stirred. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

He was stirred by thoughts of sex that made him ashamed. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

I stirred the milk, and beige pellets floated up from the bottom, like sand encased in a shimmery oil that skimmed the top and bubbled around the whirlpool I made with my spoon. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

The sheriff stirred, crossed his legs, and inspected the job. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

I stirred slowly one morning, hearing the braying of nearby animals, my eyes blinking open to see my parents staring down at me. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

She would take fewer than three puffs, and something in the gesture stirred something inside her, and she told her charges cautionary tales. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Typhon is stirring. It is very likely that soon, in a few months, perhaps a year at best, he will escape his bonds.” The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

A slight breeze stirred the hair on his arms, and a hum vibrated almost out of the range of his hearing. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

To us, the things that stirred mortal human emotions are incomprehensible. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

He looked at Ma, but she continued to stir her porridge, obviously unaware. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

Often he would lie from one meal to the next almost without stirring, sometimes asleep, sometimes waking into vague reveries in which it was too much trouble to open his eyes. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

Bennie went to the counter and came back stirring milk into a paper cup. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

Olly stirs the milk and chocolate together while his dad gets the whipped cream, also freshly made, from the fridge. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

It won’t take long for him to stir, to grab hold of me, roll me over. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Petey stirred and then settled one last time in his self-made prison. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

As I rolled back the tarpaulin to the middle bench and daylight came to him, he stirred and growled. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

Baruch sat down beside his companion, and Will stirred the fire, so that a cloud of smoke drifted past the two of them. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

I sat down across from my dad at the table; he was slowly stirring his coffee and staring down at a crossword puzzle. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

One of the fighters is stirring up the onlookers by waving her arms and yelling. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

Seven stirs counterclockwise, one clockwise, pause...seven stirs counterclockwise, one stir clockwise... Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

But in one small corner of the country, something large was beginning to stir that terribly hot summer. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

The arras that hid my father and Claudius barely stirred. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

Prim comes over, stirring what appears to be a large bowl of snow. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

The sun was well up now, and the castle was stirring. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Teenie, making crust for a pie, was shuttling back and forth, carefully watching over Polly, who was peeling apples, and Amari, who was stirring a mixture of apple juice and brown sugar over the fire. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

Tendai stirred the thin porridge and tried to keep dismay from showing on his face. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

In the last two centuries, abject slavery, with us for thousands of years or more, has been almost eliminated in a stirring planet-wide revolution. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

He felt Frolic stir and turn in his light puppyish slumber, probably dreaming of birds and chipmunks to chase. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

“Ach, it just came to me: She hasn’t called me Daddy in donkey’s years,” said Dr. van Heerden, stirring three spoonfuls of sugar into a fresh cup of tea. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then I cleared my throat so maybe Audrey would look my way and see that paper, but she was busy stirring her yogurt. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

Or like last year when Dr. King spent a few months in town “stirring up trouble,” as the white folks liked to say. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

When they were gone, Arya took the letter and carried it to the hearth, stirring the logs with a poker to wake the flames anew. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Not even sweet singing voices to stir the air. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

On such a trip as mine, so much there is to see and to think about that event and thought set down as they occurred would roil and stir like a slow-cooking minestrone. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

Triumphant horns were quickly joined by a stirring string section. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

After hearing the charges against her, Sophie said, “What does my death matter if by our action thousands of people are awakened and stirred to action?” Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

She had turned her back to Olanna and was stirring the soup. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

To stir up more trouble, Octavian arranged for the Senate to host a state banquet. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z

They returned under the arch and as Silver came out of the bushes to meet them, they could hear the other rabbits stirring uneasily among the nettles. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

And General Taheri, whose hopes had stirred awake after the Soviets pulled out, went back to winding his pocket watch. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Frodo stirred, feeling that he must break the silence: he longed to shout out aloud. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

A much broader group was stirred up over the shooting than I had imagined. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Castle Black was already beginning to stir as men in black cloaks made their way across the yard to break their fast with bowls of porridge before they relieved their brothers atop the Wall. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

On Friday morning, the familiar sound of Asher ramming his wheelchair into my door stirs me out of my restless sleep in my dorm room. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Again, Gabriel stirred against him as he began to climb. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

Determined that he should stir from this deathly posture, this fatal repose, I filled the spoon again, and held it before him as a command. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

After a while the apartment began to stir— first Aunt Pearl, turning heavily in bed for the last few minutes of sleep, then the girls, drowsily untangling their arms and legs. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

The universe dissolves with him—until, after another Brahma century, he stirs, recomposes himself and begins again to dream the great cosmic dream. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now that every turn in the weather whistles an ache through my bones, I stir in bed and the memories rise out of me like a buzz of flies from a carcass. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Um, anyway,” Nico continued, “Saturn probably faded back to the abyss. We all thought the war was over. Now it looks like the Titans’ defeat stirred up Gaea. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

To show that Dr. King had stirred up all the trouble. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

And it would be one thing if I had planned to stir things up, but given the circumstances...how on earth did I cause so much trouble? Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

Hordes of monsters stirred and jostled one another, but none of them came forward. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

The dwarf stirred the coals with a poker. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Pong watched his friend stir his noodles from one side of his bowl to the other and back again. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

Portia took the lid from the pan on the stove and stirred the collards with a fork. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

Lightning stirred the water into a boiling cauldron, steaming and hissing with electricity. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

But before either of them had time to reply there was a stir in the Snake House. Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z

There was a very faint stirring all the way round the bench. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

Fadi tuned out his sisters’ phenomenally boring conversation, added a chunk of crumbly brown sugar to his watered-down hot milk, and stirred. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

He felt a collective, questioning stir from the audience. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

Deydey greeted him, holding him by the arms, and Nokomis stirred up the fire, adding a stick there, a bit of wood in exactly the right spot to make it blaze up cheerfully. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

The packers needed to head off trouble by stirring up conflicts among the workers to weaken the union. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

He sat looking at the white walls of the kitchen and heard the woman stir about behind him. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

My stomach stirs a little bit, thinking that he might be playing me or has stood me up, or something. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

At last he stirred and stood up, and it seemed that he was about to speak and to decide. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

Every once in a while, she stirs awake and mutters a prayer in Arabic. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Keira stirs in her corner, partially hidden from view behind the cardboard divider. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

And overhead the cog’s canvas sail rippled slowly, like the fur of some great beast stirring from a long sleep, then filled with a sudden crack that turned every head on the ship. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

In her father’s mind another question stirred, and he shoved it down deep and felt dishonest for thinking about it at all. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Something about the circus stirs their souls, and they ache for it when it is absent. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

My heart within me stirs, mindful of something. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Keep stirring,” Sara tells me, calling my attention back to the pot. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

I sat down on the bed and stirred in the sauce. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

In the heart of the night, in the darkest dark of the darkness, something stirred from the fen. Beowulf: A New Telling 1968-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had completely cheered up as she stirred the soup. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

I poured the water directly into it and stirred it instead of letting it drip. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

Vonetta added the part about “left” feet to stir up trouble. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

She handed me the bag and left me alone, while surprise, relief, and dismay stirred inside me like the ingredients of some strange, unsettling elixir. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

The war god laughed so loudly the windows rattled, but Grandmother didn’t even stir. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

The thought stirred her, but not for the usual reason of lost opportunity recalled. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were a sensation, a stirring, something she could not have sworn came from outside herself. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

“This. The final stop on your journey,” he said, stirring the contents of his cauldron so furiously that it spun like a whirlpool. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

She sat down at the kitchen table to stir the thick dough. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

But a nasty little worm of anger began to stir in me. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now Mom came back to the table with a full glass of chocolate milk, frothy from a fresh stirring. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z

She turned to the main junk drawer, which held all the utensils, the stirring spoons and vegetable peelers. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The mattress springs protest as I slide out of bed, but Helena doesn’t stir. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

Bertha stirring grits by the stove with a cat at her feet. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

He was lean and sun-darkened, and he could withdraw his own personality until he made no stir of anger or jealousy. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

He had spread his catch out on the grass and was counting the fish when he saw them all begin to stir and then, moving toward the water, slip into it and swim away. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

A feathery breeze was stirring, setting the flames leaping and dancing, their reflections in the black glistening oil cavorting too. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

She turned to Big Ma and said, “Daughter, stir those grits up right. Extra hunk of butter—good butter from McDaniels’s farm,” she felt the need to add. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

“Well then don’t get mad at her if she never does what you ask her to do,” Bertha harped, stirring some flour into a gravy base in a frying pan on the stove. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“He went home when we heard you stirring. Didn’t want to leave his house unattended during the storm,” says my mother. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

Right across the street was a blond lady in a blue shirt, standing by the window, stirring something in a bowl in her kitchen. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z

It was stirring him up inside in a way that I had never seen before. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

He turns the flame way down and stands there stirring the eggs in the pan forever, but when they finally cook, they’re delicious. Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Alexander’s guns were moving, realigning; horses were pulling caissons into position, stirring the dust. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

What if somehow, in their ceremonies and things, they’d managed to stumble on a way to do some stirring up themselves? The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

The dirt from beneath is stirred up and browns the water. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

With all her heavy-duty stirring, her beans were starting to look like pudding. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

Seabiscuit gazed at the throng, stirring gently in the sunshine; Woolf studied War Admiral, watching him unravel at the starting line, whirling in circles. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

So peaceful, but what dreams they might stir up in her if she slept, all throbbing, and sliding. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

“And don’t be a stranger! Them folks back home ain’t nearly as fun as you. Betcha we can stir up a right amount of trouble, sure we can!” Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

He remembered his mother’s statuesque body bending over the gas ring to stir at something in a saucepan. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

Ben stood up and walked back over to the fire to stir his pot. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

When the meds are dialed this high, it takes away all stirrings. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

I wanted to know how the moon could drag the ocean in and out from such a distance, when it couldn’t stir the milk in Miss Maggie’s tea. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

The shifting shadows made the stone figures seem to stir as the living passed by. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Janie walked to the door with the pan in her hand still stirring the cornmeal dough and looked towards the barn. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

Dawn was just breaking, but the whole camp seemed to be stirring. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

And had his successors been united they would have enjoyed it at their leisure, for in that kingdom no disorders arose other than those they stirred up themselves. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z

And so he scurried away from his father, stopped when his father remained standing, and scampered forward again when his father merely stirred. The Metamorphosis 1915-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then rising an octave like “The Star-Spangled Banner”: “God stirred up the holy spirit of a man named Daniel!” The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

She heard the sound of the horse stirring. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

He raises a hand, stirring the air with his fingers. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

She heard her grandmother, singing an old song as she stirred something fragrant in the kettle. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

There was not the slightest surge of surf, and no wind stirred its surface. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

He would sing the glory of Hrothgar’s line and gild his wisdom and stir up his men to more daring deeds, for a price. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

The silver lines faded, but the blank grey stone did not stir. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

My batter needed to be stirred so I ignored the comings and goings in the living room again. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He wanted to try explaining how deeply stirred he had been by the pot but decided not to. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

We were tired of being on our best behavior, and we wished Daddy were there to stir up some excitement. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

We sat without talking for a while, watching the breeze stir the tops of the cotton plants. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

Stella gazed out at the few remaining leaves stirring in the sharp breeze. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

I’m at peace here in this kitchen—seasoning, chopping, and stirring pots. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

The lion stirred slightly as we drew closer. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Deep within her, something stirs, an itch she can't get to. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

The woman didn't stir, just stared up at the ceiling. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

It was motionless, but Sumac stirred in response to my subtle shift in position. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

After several hours of swinging from the oak tree in their netted trap, Jack and Sarah heard the leaves stirring and then the sound of a saw meeting rope. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

And this, for some reason, caused a strange excitement to stir in him. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

The Punjabi boy at the other end of the room stirred in his sleep and moaned something. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

No one else stirs in their cot— Tobias’s arm is draped over his eyes, but his shoes are now on, like he got up and walked around in the middle of the night. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

A grisly pale thing with black fingers, it was, that twitched and stirred in its jar as if it were still alive. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Something was stirring in New York City as the summer of 1777 was ending. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

He opened the can, stirred the paint, put a jacket on, grabbed the brush and went outside. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Len stirs and winces in pain, but the fear I see in his shuddering chin is the hardest thing to watch. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

After a while, she stirred with a purring sound and snuggled in even closer, resting her lips on Dill’s neck. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

Tree-ear stirred and stirred the mixture with a wooden paddle until the clay and water were uniformly combined. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

“You don’t know what I can do. Snow produces a glow and a tingle, if applied rightly. Your indifference is half affectation, and a good stirring up would prove it.” Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

At this the two men stirred and picked their way to the door and out, and sat down at the altar, looking around with wincing eyes as though the sword’s edge hovered still. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Octavian used Mark Antony’s actions to keep stirring up trouble. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z

Inside there was no air stirring, and the sky seemed near their heads. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

Something huge stirred in the air, and the ground rushed up at Sierra again. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

He felt his lost manhood stirring within him. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

The strong fumes of lye stung her eyelids and stirring the heavy mass tired her arms and shoulders. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

As he gazed Frodo became aware that there was a great stir and movement on the plain. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

“St. John,” I said, “I think you are almost wicked to talk so. I am disposed to be as content as a queen, and you try to stir me up to restlessness! To what end?” Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

Around them animals were stirring: horses stamped, birds began, waking, to sing the dawn in, and here and there across the market meadow, those in the tents were beginning to rise and move. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

Muthu stirred awake, and his eyes had a glazed, feverish look. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

“Eat foods that are green and wholesome, dress against the cold and damp, and walk every day to aid digestion and stir your blood,” I tell them. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

Sister Fenella was stirring a saucepan of milk on the range and testing the heat with her little finger. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

Branches stirred gently in the wind, scratching at one another with wooden fingers. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

As we left the city behind us for untamed swampland, a strange feeling stirred in my gut. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

He was all nerves and fascination and bashfulness and a deep, stirring hope. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Had the fire stirred up some other trouble for the Vigilance Committee? Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

He stirred several lumps of sugar into his Gurdyroot infusion and drank some. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

Bran's father sat solemnly on his horse, long brown hair stirring in the wind. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

The air carried the hushed sound of stirring straw, and the horses shook the sleep from their bodies. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Squirrels darted in the trees, stirring the leaves. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

And there came a second crack, loud and sharp as thunder, and the smoke stirred and whirled around her and the pyre shifted, the logs exploding as the fire touched their secret hearts. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

The boy stirred once, opened his eyes, and made a slight sound. The Fighting Ground 1984-04-01T00:00:00Z

The ponies stirred in their corral, moonlight glinting off their shiny backs. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

My mom stares into the four cups of tea at the counter, entranced by the little milk eddies she stirs up in each one. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

Around them the house brooded, settling and stirring with a movement that was almost like a shudder. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

Hanako shot to her feet and quickly moved to where her grandmother was stirring the soup. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

My efforts to stir myself roused him instead. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

Not a frond of the palm trees stirred. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The pennants on the tall ships stirred lazily. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

And then darkness spread over the page, and with the darkness came the music of evil again, and Kino stirred in his sleep; and when he stirred, Juana’s eyes opened in the darkness. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

But it was whole, and as I played the audience sighed, stirred, and slowly fell back under the spell that I had made for them. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

“The police don’t care about the disappearances, but if we can stir up some public outrage, maybe that will inspire them to look into it.” The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

And Lyra stirred and in her sleep uttered a little whimpering mew, which Alice quickly muffled. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

My heart stirred to hear him say so. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The biting alcohol burned in her throat and she felt the stirring in her that frightened her. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

At last Merry stirred and whispered softly: ‘So far so good; but how are we to avoid being spitted?’ The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

After all, the specter of colored rebellion, all those angry dark faces surrounding them, had stirred white settlers to leave the south. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

After sweeping I went into the kitchen, sat on the stool, and watched Kazi stir and chop. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

But the sudden disappearance, then returning without a single soul...There was something brewing, a cauldron that the king had journeyed to stir. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

She stirs, adds enough water to fill the pitcher to the top, and stirs again. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

That pounding, pulsing din stirred something in him. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

Even a half-remembrance of this episode, along with myriad other humiliations, defeats, and emasculations, could stir him into flights of depravity that surprised himself—but only himself. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

Detroit, for example, witnessed its first stirrings of integration in a speakeasy named Cozy Corner. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

All there is in life is questions and temporary solutions, and even though this was a major solution—it will always stir up questions. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

King Hrothgar was stirred by the telling of such brave deeds. Beowulf: A New Telling 1968-01-01T00:00:00Z

In many ways the article stirred up more emotion across the United States than the murder had. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

His voice was hoarse from thirst, but she heard him and stirred. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

They've been riding through the countryside stirring up no end of trouble. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

So I crawl away to the farthest corner and stay there, my eyes glued on him, my hand grasping the knife—ready, if he stirs, to spring at him again. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ekemeni whistled as she stirred something in the pot on the stove. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Other villagers who were starting to stir up the lanes with noise and dust didn’t seem to notice anything unusual about Naima either. Rickshaw Girl 2007-02-01T00:00:00Z

A few of us stir and try to see her in the dark. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

The prisoner lay on the bed, fast asleep, but she stirred at the sound of his voice. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

Hearing voices in the other room, she stirred, for she wasn’t deeply asleep. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

At lunch, Hazel sat in a corner, stirring her macaroni and cheese with her fork and studying the people around her. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

My mom starts aggressively stirring the pot in front of her. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

“I can't wait to get a job,” I say, stirring the ice cubes in my soda. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

All the Arctic peoples had been thrown into panic, and so had the animals, not only by the fog and the magnetic variations but by unseasonal crackings of ice and stirrings in the soil. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

And all the villagers who witnessed this exchange felt a stirring within them as well. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

She came and saw me and helped me stir the hops in my old oak barrel. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

She heard James stir and rolled over on her side to watch him. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You need to stir one hundred times. One hundred is best.” The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

A desperate person—say, someone trying to get the spider god to fix a mistake that had stirred up monsters—why, that person might try anything to get to Anansi in the palace above. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

The man gave us directions; and told Olakunde and me to stir a bone and get up—we had a real long journey ahead of us. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

Love stirred in the hearts of the young Brahmins' daughters when Siddhartha walked through the streets of the town, with his lofty brow, his king-like eyes and his slim figure. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z

They sat in the warmth for a long time before Faye stirred. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

An old red-eyed hound didn’t stir from his corner, indifferent to the visitors. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

“Quiet, gal. There’s enough trouble awake without stirring more. We’ll talk on the boat.” The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

Nothing moved in the compound, except a few pieces of paper stirred by the wind. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

How was it that I hadn’t heard him stir? Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

The branches of the tall pines stirred in a rain-bearing wind. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

I decided I would gently dispute with Hamlet, using my reason to stir doubt within him. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

Along the cliffs, a white dragon is stirring to life, its movements cracking the ice that encases it. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Ear stirred the cup of tea he was fixing for Mother. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

I knew Grandma’s fears were idle, but they stirred up a little fuzz ball of fear in my stomach. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Kamaswami conducted his business with care and often with passion, but Siddhartha regarded it all as a game, the rules of which he endeavored to learn well, but which did not stir his heart. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was stirring the noodles with a long-handled fork. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was a rustling through the monster’s leaves, like the wind stirring them in a long, slow sigh. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z

Taisin combined them all in an iron bowl, stirring them together with her index finger. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

There was a stocky middle-aged woman stirring a kettle that hung over the fire in the fireplace. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

Ingrid said he was a thief, but she thought he was stirred to know me, not to hurt me. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

All was quiet there in the dark, save the rustling of the leaves in the apple tree, barely stirred by a gentle wind. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

Now this is how I like my work, Victor thought as he blinked into the low sun, while he stirred his coffee with a spoon that was far too small for his fingers. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

Now I am the one who heats and carries the heavy buckets of water, stirs the soapy brew, lifts the sodden clothes to be rinsed, and spreads them to dry. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

Adam saw a big man, bearded like a patriarch, his graying hair stirring in the air like thistledown. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

The Death Eaters stirred, and Harry saw their eyes dart sideways at one another through their masks. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

And why did I see them now as behind a veil that threatened to lift, stirred by the cold wind in the narrow street? Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

The horn had stirred the castle from sleep,- men were coming out into the ward to see what the commotion was about. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Their mother was peering into one of the pots on the fire, stirring and tasting. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

The only illiteracy with apostrophes that stirs any sympathy in me is the greengrocer’s variety. Eats, Shoots & Leaves 2003-11-06T00:00:00Z

Manchee wanders in and out the back doors as I sweep, sometimes chasing the pink moths I stir from faint corners. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

There’s another pause of Chente crooning in the background while his dad stirs, before he speaks again. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

There was the woman, Ahjuhma, stirring a beaten egg into the pot with long chopsticks; she was wearing the yellow- piped white apron that my mother had once sewn and prettily embroidered with daisies. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

As Shirley stood at the stove, stirring a pot of stew or whatever, she'd squint with real concentration when I read to her. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

“It’s all that stirring up. Sending men into space and hurling them back down. Poking holes where they need not poke holes.” Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

For half an hour he saw nothing, heard nothing but the faint ruffle of Margalo’s wings when she stirred in dream. Stuart Little 1945-10-17T00:00:00Z

I stirred uncomfortably when she raised her eyes from her prepared remarks and seemed to be looking directly at me. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

Looking out the window I can see it, a glimmer, like the phosphorescence you get in stirred seawater, behind the sky, which is overcast and too low and a dull gray infrared. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

I mumbled sleepily, stirring but not waking up, thinking it a dream. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some could be seen plainly, others were but dim silhouettes, and yet still more, only now beginning to stir from their foul places, would be along much sooner than they were wanted. The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z

There was no wind; not a bird sang, not a leaf stirred. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Difficult to stir in the tiny cup, and so expensive that he’d rather not think about it. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

She flicks on the gas burner to warm the oatmeal, pouring a little skim milk into it and stirring. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

I came to Buckland and found it in uproar, as busy as a hive of ants that has been stirred with a stick. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

I feel something stir in my chest, something worse than sadness, worse than regret. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

She stirred, then sat up quickly, pushing her hair out of her face. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

Nothing stirred there on the hillside where the stuff of the world had been torn open. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

The sight of the rabbit seemed to stir something in my mother. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

When I returned Elnora’s key, she stirred but did not awaken. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

A little way off, Mr. Boatwright stood up and stretched and went out of the cave, and others were stirring. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

She was holding the large coffee cup and stirring nervously. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

Momma says it’s just trying to stir up a mess of trouble. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

There was a stir in the ward as people sat up in their beds. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

Bird feathers ride the little whirlwind her passage stirred. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Whenever she let her dreams take her down hopeful avenues, this notion stirred her, that of the town coming into its own. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

But he stirred his coffee good and put the spoon down before exploding. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

The buffalo-headed man reached a hand into the fire, stirring the embers and the broken branches into a blaze. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

“Are you all right?” he said as the goblin stirred, but Griphook merely whimpered. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

At such moments something resembling happiness actually stirs in your chest, but it isn’t the sort of emotion you want to lean on very hard. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

The lights turn red and flicker as the instructors stir. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

The air stirred again, still redolent with potent aromas. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

And a third from the pit of her belly to his, where new enticements stirred. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

In the rhythmic clacking of the train and the stirring, peopled silence of the car, I feel cocooned. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

The wiener was hot, so Juju licked at it tentatively, but when I stood up and started stirring the hot dogs again, I felt a blaze of heat on my right side. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Wagons and carriages rumbled down the streets, stirring up clouds of flies from the manure left to broil in the July sun. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

Mamita is stirring the soup with a long wooden spoon, and I’m thinking what Modem Etiquette would say about this meal. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her voice was very soft and she stirred her tea thoughtfully. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

The golden morning light seemed to glow all around him, while brighter patches fell, now on his lean, brown hands, now on his hair and face, as the leaves stirred over his head. Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

Perhaps it was my pathetic look and pleading voice that stirred the queen’s mercy, for she called to Hamlet. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

Something stirred inside her, some urge to plunge into the new white world and see what it had to offer. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

“Don’t worry,” she said, stirring a bubbling pot of grits on the stove. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

The thought ended his brief moment of calm, stirring in his mind a million possibilities of what might live in the maze outside, all of them terrifying. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

I felt a small uneasy stir in my stomach, remembering what she had said to Deidre. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

They put berries into it, and stirred it with a stick. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

But if you recognize yourself in these pages—if you feel something stirring inside—stop reading immediately. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

Papa asks, stirring me back to the street stones. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

The golf lady and the librarian and the commenters in the USA Today article—the rock lifts, and the worm wriggles out, and the fury stirs. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

He needed a high spot, above the smoke and stir of the fire mines and the smithies. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

A field of elephant grass weighted with wind, bowing under the stir of a helicopter’s blades, the grass dark and servile, bending low, but then rising straight again when the chopper went away. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

But even a quiet celebration causes a stir in 13, where they seem to have no holidays at all. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

Ma stirs, so I tuck my diary back into my satchel and pull out the secondhand copy of Pride and Prejudice Baba gave me. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Below us, Wazir Akbar Khan’s white- walled, flat-topped houses gleamed in the sunshine, the laundry hanging on clotheslines in their yards stirred by the breeze to dance like butterflies. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

And, as though she can hear the questions stirring inside him, Byrd whispers across the dark, “Take a deep breath. Go to sleep.” A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

I went to the pot and stirred it, scooped out a little, placed it in a bowl, handed it to her. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

The mother declared we should none of us leave, that she would not stir upon the river with such rogues as we; that none of us should use the boat. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

Dad clicked a tiny capsule into his whirlpool of Nescafé, stirred it in, and picked up the cup and saucer. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

She thought about it for a long time while stirring the bones in our soup. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

The news stirred up something infinitely black and evil in the town; the black distillate was like the scorpion, or like hunger in the smell of food, or like loneliness when love is withheld. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mother Smith hadn’t said a word when the stew burned because I forgot to stir it. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The train slowed, and the other prisoners began to stir. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

It participates in the pathos appeal inasmuch as it stirs an audience’s emotions to laughter—but more importantly, it participates in the ethos appeal, inasmuch as laughter is based on a set of common assumptions. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

When she heard me stir, she turned, wrinkling her forehead, and looked at me. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

After three days of weeping, one afternoon as she was stirring some sweet milk candy in the kitchen she heard her son's voice clearly in her ear. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

Then she stopped and resumed cooking the dinner with an unnatural smile on her face as she stirred the greens, and forced herself to think about happy things. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Usually I find her there, stirring milk on the stove and heating up a slice of apple pie. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

When she asks for a volunteer to stir, no one raises a hand. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

No owl hooted, no fox barked, no wind stirred the trees. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

“All those reports are supposed to stir up dissension against Abnegation,” he says, his eyes focused on the city beyond the train car. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

They began to stir though still tile world outside the shelter was impossibly dangerous. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

Since the crow did not object, Taran gently stirred the feathers around its neck and ran a finger under the bird’s sharp and gleaming beak. The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z

They were stirring, and he knew that Sarai could see him through their eyes. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

As always Nathan stirred with the first light; when he saw I was awake he sat up quickly, rubbing the sleep from his eyes.” Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

The mynah—a living creature smuggled in by the Mellower—stirred in its cage. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

The jeepney will circle the neighborhood while selling halo-halo, a sweet concoction of ice, milk, red beans, tapioca pearls, jackfruit, and coconut flesh—with even sweeter condensed milk drizzled on to stir in. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

As everyone stirred in their sleeping shelves, we looked around at one another, wondering where our jailers were. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

Abra stirred bubbles delicately with her straw and thought how her father had changed since the lettuce failure. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

“That boy was just scared and angry about things that had nothing to do with you,” my mother told me later in our kitchen as she stirred dinner on the stove. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Hannah fell to the ground on her stomach and didn’t stir. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

The cook stirred in his lean-to behind the kitchen, groping for his clothes and putting on his clodhopper shoes. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

She remembered the first week she came back, the week that Odenigbo sprang up whenever she stirred. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

A stirring at the tent flap made Dany turn her head. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

It looked like an egg whose yolk had been broken and stirred just once. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

In retaliation, they stirred up as much trouble as possible among the readers. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

I figured she just didn’t want to stir up more trouble, with Abbey missing and Dad’s future freedom in Dusty Muleman’s hands. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

It was at this point that I felt a profound and unignorable stirring. Eats, Shoots & Leaves 2003-11-06T00:00:00Z

The cat stirred uncomfortably in Coraline’s arms, as if it wanted to get down. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

No; moonlight was still, and this stirred; while I gazed, it glided up to the ceiling and quivered over my head. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

The blind man stirred the chicken that simmered in a broth. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

President Harding stirred me toward the Democratic party and President Hoover cemented me there. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

Still... standing at Neptune’s altar, he felt something stirring inside him, like waves rippling through his veins. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

The soldiers rolled logs to make small circles, where they sat while their companions stirred and fried. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Seeing Naomi, even for a moment, stirred a warm spot in my chest and made me remember that there was more than just Grampa that I cared about in Greenwood. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

The situation was much too volatile already, he told them, and the crowd would be hard to control if emotions were stirred up. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

She stirred a potful of green beans stewing in fatback and poured in a big handful of salt. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

In the ragged hedge on the opposite side the boughs of the elm trees swayed just perceptibly in the breeze, and their leaves stirred faintly in dense masses like women’s hair. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

Still—they had opened for business, had polished the glasses and wound the clocks and stirred the fires, and waited and waited to see who would come. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her arm is around me now, but when she feels me stir, she takes it off. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

Two hours later she was stirring a pot of her lamb stew. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

“This is why I came. They said she is controlling my son,” Master’s mother said, stirring the soup. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

She stirs the lumps from the batter, pours it into the buttered, hissing pan. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

With Westerberg in stir, there was no work at the grain elevator for McCandless, so on October 23, sooner than he might have under different circumstances, the boy left town and resumed a nomadic existence. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

She did not stir, but now she began again to breathe deeply, so that her breast rose and fell beneath the white linen of the sheet . The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

“Actually they probably just want to get us all stirred up and confused and at each other’s throats so that nothing bad or organized could happen around here.” The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

No one stirred in the farmhouse before noon on the following day, and the word went round that from somewhere or other the pigs had acquired the money to buy themselves another case of whisky. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z

Beau’s love somehow stirred up all my sunken sadness. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

He heard his parents stirring downstairs; Jenny’s hand clutched his, and he could feel it trembling. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

For a while she swam idly to and fro in utter peace; then she seemed to feel something stir in the depths beneath her. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Some Yankee trash stirring up trouble. We’ll catch em, ma’am,” he said, patting his billy club. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Captain Reed felt the old excitement stirring in his belly—the jittery, gut-jumping anticipation of a good adventure. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

But the warm April breeze stirred his hair, and the smell of the earth and the cry of the birds in the trees above him were a part of reality. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

The firmness of the floor beneath her feet was stirring and her legs felt as if they had vibrating vessels in them. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

But from the first stirrings of this project in the late summer of 2003 it was clear that the subject of class was more formidable—vast, amorphous, politically charged, largely unacknowledged. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

I rearranged his legs, but still he would not stir. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

‘You were less tender to me,’ said Glóin with a flash of his eyes, as old memories were stirred of his imprisonment in the deep places of the Elven-king’s halls. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

Most important of all, the resistance that African Americans demonstrated during the riots in Washington, Chicago, Elaine, and elsewhere were the first stirrings of what would develop into a movement that would change America forever. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

He makes saffron rice pudding, stirring patiently, pulling the pot from the fire with a troubadour’s timing. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

Around us families stir and mingle, tangling one another in arms. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was the first thing he’d seen in a long time that stirred him. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

The closest I ever got was one day when he was escorted down from the mess hall after an argument with the disputatious Officer Colon, who was always stirring things up. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I passed her, but she caught up to me at the door and blew upward to stir an errant strand of hair out of her sepia-brown eyes. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

I dream that someone breaks into his home as we sleep, that I stir beside him to see a faceless figure in dark armor standing over his bed. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

She was about to consider taking more serious action—though she didn’t know what that would be—when she felt Taisin stir beneath her hand. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Sir Bliant, in remarking that gentlemanly things seemed to stir something in his head, had noticed truly. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

All Tally heard was the tinkle of Az stirring his tea. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

The scent of fresh hot bread stirs my hunger. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

I think of the ghostly visions that stirred Hamlet to revenge, while Therese’s fill her with joy. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

On cold rainy days, she huddled in a corner of the big chimney in the cookhouse, watching the constant stirring of the big iron pots. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

“NO!” shrieked Hermione, and with a deafening blast from her wand, Fenrir Greyback was thrown backward from the feebly stirring body of Lavender Brown. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

Mercy stirred and asked, in a quite natural voice, for a sip of water, and Rachel’s haggard face lighted with a smile. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

Our feeblest contemplations of the Cosmos stir us—there is a tingling in the spine, a catch in the voice, a faint sensation, as if a distant memory, of falling from a height. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

A cool breeze flowed through the room and stirred the dust. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

After a moment they all stir, so I know they’re still alive, and the Dauntless soldiers advance. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

The otak stirred in his pocket, and a little vague fear also woke and stirred in his mind. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

The navigator stirs in his sleep, and the parrot waits for him to be still, then leans closer to me. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

When Osh stirred the porridge, the spoon made a sound like a boat being dragged across the beach. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

But these personal upheavals were minor compared with the hornets’ nest soon to be stirred by Galileo’s new scientific discoveries. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

As if she can tell I'm looking at her hands, she stirs, feels around a little, pushes a button, and the voice stops. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then there was a stirring in the rear of the chamber. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

But he could see why she wasn’t married; she stirred a man’s mind maybe, but not his body. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

In the place of my pain, I felt the stirring of determination. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

Behind her Otis Amber stirred a boiling mess in a big iron pot. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

He didn’t stir, but one of his brothers did. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

When we came in they began to stir, and Charles got up and made a pot of coffee while I read my notes. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

I cracked some walnuts, got down the acorn flour I had pounded, with a bit of ash to remove the bite, reached out the door for a little snow, and stirred up some acorn pancakes. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mama puts the chicken pieces into the pot and asks Stephanie to stir. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

The wind of the afternoon was gone and only a little breeze like a sigh was stirred by the restless thermals of the warm, dry hills. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Shadrach took a poker and stirred it thoughtfully among the red coals. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

Miss Brown just keeps stirring peas and wiping sweat. The Skin I'm In 1998-10-16T00:00:00Z

Then the spell was broken as great numbers of people, stirred by their own emotions, roared their acclaim and rushed toward Anderson to offer congratulations and good wishes, threatening to mob her. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z

The primary diver descends through the dark and cold until he hits bottom, stirring up a thick cloud of silt and sediment. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

A grizzled old colored man stirs a big pot of something over a fire, and a couple of small, dark-skinned boys run to and fro as the old man barks out orders. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

But that day the riddle upset Mamá so much that the fight it stirred up between them soured the game for Papá. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

The photos stirred feelings she couldn’t quite frame in words, and this, she decided, must mean they were true works of art. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

That was too bad, because something hiding far up on the rocks heard the shouting and stirred in its cave. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

Wind puffs rattled the cottonwoods, dust swirled in the road stirring grasshoppers up into their crackling, chili-red flights. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was possible that seeing Cleopatra might stir feelings of compassion instead of triumph in the hearts of the Romans. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z

Their footsteps and the occasional breeze were stirring up small devils of dust. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

The Helpers were stirring soups and tossing pizza dough and otherwise attending to a huge array of dishes, all of which smelled heavenly, and the boys’ mouths were watering like sprinkler systems. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

Silence once more; nothing was stirring, not even the leaves on the yew tree. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

The Squaller turned in the air, stirring the storm into a frenzy, sending ice flying until it stung her cheeks. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

The thought of ceding to the army a project in which the foundation had such an immense stake stirred Fosdick’s proprietary blood. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

He could feel the Hound, like autumn, come cold and dry and swift, like a wind that didn't stir grass, that didn't jar windows or disturb leaf-shadows on the white sidewalks as it passed. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z

Leaves stirred; mud shifted; there was the smell of overripe green things. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

There had been no stir at all when Jonas lifted him from the crib and placed him gently into the molded seat. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

When the girl stopped shaking, Alys stirred the herb-flavored broth that had been simmering on the fire in an iron pot. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

The wind picked up and howled across the field, stirring eddies of ash. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

“Hear, hear!” he shouted back, stirring a low rumble of cheers in the crowd around the rock. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

The breeze stirred her white hair, loosening the bun on the back. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

Madam said nothing while she stirred the sugar into her tea. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

His fingers were like ferrets that had done some evil and now never rested, always stirred and picked and hid in pockets, moving from under Beatty's alcohol-flame stare. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z

A half-dozen black puppies and the odd pig or two skulked among the benches, while women in ragged deerskins passed horns of beer, stirred the fire, and chopped carrots and onions into a kettle. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

No one came to the door, no window curtain stirred. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

Someone lights a lantern and men begin to stir. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

Laleh stirred against me, yawned, and rubbed her face into my stomach. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

I lay back and watched the silent beams of light radiate in the colorful dust motes I had stirred up. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

As she lay there staring up at the stained canvas, she could have sworn she saw movement out of the corner of her eye: Nin stirring beneath the mound of clothing. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

And something was stirring inside the statue’s mouth. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

There was a stir of movement in the fish house, and he appeared at the door, still clutching his dried fish. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

The breath coming out of the nostrils was so faint it stirred only the furthest fringes of life, a small leaf, a black feather, a single fibre of hair. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Riders stirred at first, murmuring with approval of the words of Saruman; and then they too were silent, as men spell-bound. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

“He had just turned fourteen the weekend before the earthquake,” she said, stirring her drink. The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z

I beat and stir the clothes with wooden paddles. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

Like someone stirred me up from the inside. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

Segregationists singled out Reverend Martin Luther King,Jr., branding him a “troublemaker,” an “outsider” who had come from Adanta to stir up local blacks. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

The moon as it rose seemed to hang for a moment above his head and glistened in his white hair as the wind stirred it. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

But the woolly mammoth slept on, refusing to stir a limb in her behalf. The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z

The boys and girls stir, restless for the main feature. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

Pots and pans were everywhere — don’t ask me how I had somehow not noticed this on my way downstairs the first time — and Jeffrey was stirring some pretend concoction in the deepest pot of all. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m from Virginia myself,” she said, and for some reason this stirred up the current that had moved in my limbs when I’d first entered the room. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

I heard my sisters stir beside me, muttering as they woke, and I knew it was working. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

No trees stirred in the wind, and there was no stream to soothe her fears with the gentle music of water. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

He stirred and shivered, but he did not look up. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

Though there were blankets over the cages, I could hear the animals stir as I passed by them, the floor creaking beneath my bare and chilled feet. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

After pouring a little of each into a large glass beaker, he stirred the mixture thoroughly with a wooden spoon, watching intently as it smoked and steamed and boiled and bubbled. The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z

Leaves boiled and stirred where my pups were. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It would stir up trouble if people knew that some are resisting the Council’s orders.” Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

The stirring, sieving, settling, and bailing were repeated any number of times, until Min was satisfied with the residue. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

A donkey stood a little way off, not stirring and yet apparently alive; at least it had not begun to deteriorate. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

John saw that the sun was beginning to stir, somewhere in the sky; the silence of the dawn would soon give way to the trumpets of the morning. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

Eventually, when Bitter’s and Aloe’s sounds became tired, pleading even, Pet stirred, but only to fade. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

I ate breakfast cheerily, watching the dust moats stirring in the sunlight that streamed in the back window. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

So we simply stood and watched in sullen silence while this disgusting old woman stirred around inside the jars with her foul fingers. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

Nearby, Bigwig was stirring and twitching in his sleep, searching for warmth, trying to press against another rabbit’s body no longer there. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Well!” said Herbert, getting up with a lively shake as if he had been asleep, and stirring the fire, “now I’ll endeavour to make myself agreeable again!” Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z

I like a corn- bread batter to be stirred some so everything is mixed but not too smooth with all the lumps gone. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

She didn’t dare to breathe as something stirred in the darkness. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Eliot stood by the lobsters, which stirred one on top of another in their murky tank, their claws bound by yellow rubber bands. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

“I can see through the window, you know,” Rupa scolded, stirring sugar into a hot, milky cup of tea for Neel. Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z

He enumerated the names of famous Charleses in order to stir up genetic ambition in the boy. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

When she left me, I felt comparatively strong and revived: ere long satiety of repose and desire for action stirred me. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

The wind stirred, and Hazel felt the cold tugging at her, trying to pull her to it. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

She turned him over slowly when he did not stir. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

Roosting birds rustled overhead; the night breeze stirred the leaves; here and there a dead twig fell. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

The old dry leather went up with a whoosh, and the yellow pages stirred as they burned, as if some ghost were reading them. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

“Going to give up all the leaflet stuff and try and stir them up into rebellion?” Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

Then he knew that the hope that had for one wild moment stirred in his heart was vain. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

She was looking, Mariam said, for the long wooden spoon she used to stir rice. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

She and Aunt Pam move to the ends of the stove, stirring the eggs and turning the bacon. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

Then again when the wind stirs they murmur; so these two also, stirred by the breath of love, were fated to tell out all their tale to each other. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

She put a finger into the pile of powders and began to stir gently. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Not even the relentless momentum of our ship—now carried by a steady wind—can stir these waters. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

My first thought was of angels descending, their burning brands flashing, their fierce wings stirring up things. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Where long ago, on the day that Sophie Mol came, Ambassador E. Pelvis stirred a pot of scarlet jam and thought Two Thoughts. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

After a moment, the audience stirs enough to clap. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

His voice slices across the air, stirring something in the pit of my stomach. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Her day dress is buttercup yellow and perfectly complements her new skin color—a dusky light brown, like warmed milk with cinnamon and nutmeg stirred into it. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

Above all, it didn’t answer any of the questions that the illustration stirred up in a normal inquiring mind: How did we end up with a Sun in the middle of our planet? A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

The newchild, Gabriel, stirred and whimpered, and Father spoke softly to Lily, explaining the feeding procedure as he opened the container that held the formula and equipment. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

She winces while she stirs her tea, as if holding the spoon pains her. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

Even Dad, who was rarely stirred by anything outside himself, glanced often at the clock. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

She shook his shoulder and pressed a piece of mango in his mouth, but he didn’t stir. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

The flowers stirred, opening their hungry yellow mouths. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

But Omakayas was too young, according to Grandma, so Mama stirred the fire and worried. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

A small brown bear waddled through the heart of town stirring up parking ticket flakes, but nothing else: the Doberman Brutus in the Pilar Cafe was much too tired to bark. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Perhaps roused by the sound of Fred and their father’s arrival, George stirred. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

“Well, he’s going to stir the pot for us. He’ll call some of his INS buddies,” she said. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Boots stirred again in her sleep, and Gregor patted her side to quiet her. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

She was moaning loudly, sounds that seemed so unlike her, so uncontrolled and stirring and throaty. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Ma’s eyes were fierce with purpose as she tried to stir Caroline out of her stupor. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

The blind man stirred restlessly in his chair. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

A swarm of butterflies stirs in my stomach, and my heart starts hammering again. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

That stirred up the anger once again inside Mark.“How could they? I mean ... what kind of losers ...” Trina nodded. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

“How about stirring up a batch of flannel cakes?” Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Quiet as a shadow, she flitted across the middle bai-ley, around the Tower of Dread, and through the empty mews, where people said the spirits of dead falcons stirred the air with ghostly wings. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

As if to his eyes some sudden vision had been given, Gandalf stirred; and he turned, looking back north where the skies were pale and clear. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

I heard a spoon rapping against china as Dad stirred in his sugar. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

The sphere was ten feet away, hissing and spinning as the winds inside began to stir. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

He fed Alyah in the early evening, warming milk in the microwave and stirring in powdered baby food, which he would then spoon into her mouth as he held her on his lap. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

Thinking it might be hidden, I put my hand in the jar and lightly stirred the leaves. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

"Then you stir it 'til it disappears. After it's mixed you take this brush and paint out a sample on one of these." Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

A light wind, very fresh, began to stir. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z

Back in Faye’s room she poured the three tablespoons of vegetable compound in the glass and stirred it. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Anger stirs and wakes in her; it opens its mouth, and like a hotmouthed puppy, laps up the dredges of her shame. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

Down below a wind fluff stirred up some greasy newspaper pages; you could smell fresh oil on the air. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

He watched his mother stir the yogurt, her face solemn, thoughts adrift. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

The bear stirred, restless, irritable, like the young king’s anger removed to the end of a chain. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

Several times, over the stir of the wind, I thought I heard a faint meow, but I couldn’t locate the direction. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

She got up to stir around and see if she could find him, and found herself too worn out to do much. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

They boo’ed in the tubes of the corkscrew stairs, rattled the wooden shutters, whined shrilly through the shot windows, stirred the cold tapestries in frigid undulations, searched for backbones. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

He stirred his cup slowly, and then stood there drinking it in a very self-satisfied way. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The wind stirred her russet hair, crooning softly in her ears. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

The spoon went into the salad and stirred. The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z

When he was finished, the darkness had disintegrated somewhat, and he saw, some fifteen feet in front of him, a man stirring in his sleep. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

I stir my ambitious glop, standing and watching over his shoulder. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

Siddhartha thought a great deal at this time about the dying sage whose voice had stirred thousands, whose voice he had also once heard, whose holy countenance he had also once looked at with awe. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z

They tended the fires, stirred the soups, rocked the babies, and waited. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Ma Costa was setting a saucepan of milk on the iron stove and riddling the grate to stir the fire up. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

She stirred slightly, and Aunt Beast bent over her im-mediately, “What a lovely sleep, my darling. Do you feel all right?” A Wrinkle in Time 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

With a plastic beach shovel, he stirred the lemonade. The Lemonade War 2007-04-23T00:00:00Z

Only when daylight was streaming in through the door did the lodgers finally begin to stir. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

Grasses grew up its banks, and a musical silence stirred in its depths. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Nazis gave us time to wake and stir before resuming the march, which was a small mercy. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

The burglary caused another stir, but the Annex seems to thrive on excitement. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

In truth, Father, I am so stirred up by the thought of my first military duty—even if it is only reviewing border troops—that I hardly hear my good mother. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

It was the cold chill hour before the first stir of dawn, and the moon was low. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

She stirred the water in the pot, which was beginning to show occasional small bubbles at the surface. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

However, we were so emotionally and physically exhausted that we fell asleep almost instantly and slept for hours without stirring. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

I looked; I stirred the fire, and I looked again: but she drew her bonnet and her bandage closer about her face, and again beckoned me to depart. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

“Maybe she’s on our side, maybe not; but she exists to stir up resentment.” The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

“Spooney!” said the clerk, in a low voice, giving him a stir with his elbow. Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z

His greatcloak was sewn from countless layers of cloth-of-gold, so heavy that it barely stirred even when he charged, so large that its drape covered most of his stallion's hindquarters when he took the saddle. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

When Hercules arrived she met him kindly and told him she would give him the girdle, but Hera stirred up trouble. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

Outside and around, the little town masquerading as a village stirred and came to life. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

They could grow floating in a culture medium that was constantly stirred by a magnetic device, an important technique Gey developed, now called growing in suspension. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

A young woman comes to put a new loaf of bread in the ashes and to stir the pot of stew. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

They whipped the wind around us and stirred up a storm of dirt and sand. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Something in his thoughts had stirred an elusive memory in Ranofer’s mind. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

She held the paddle in both hands and stirred carefully, because if the pumpkin burned there wouldn’t be any pumpkin pies. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

Calliope music played: a Strauss waltz, stirring and occasionally discordant. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

But the way she told her news stories was always designed to create a stir and get a reaction, and she was never disappointed. The Landry News 1999-12-01T00:00:00Z

I stirred the soup and thought about our dinner guest. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

A woman is stirring something on a stove. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

He pours the steaming water into the mug with precision, adds two perfect spoonfuls of sugar, and methodically stirs the sugar like he’s making a formula. The Fourteenth Goldfish 2014-08-26T00:00:00Z

But the words turned over uneasily in his mind like leaves stirred up by a cold wind. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z

Her first surge of relief soon died away, and her thoughts, numbed by the sheer terror of pursuit, began to stir again in hopeless circles. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

I bet he just wanted to stir up Cold Sassy one last time. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

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

She saw me stir, swooped in, and sat on a rock beside me. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

On her right a wind sighed through the branches, and leaves rustled and stirred. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

A commotion stirs in the middle of the dance floor. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

Suddenly, there was a little stirring, a whimper, a little pink mouth opened in a yawn; so pink and moist was that mouth it seemed impossible in a coal barrel. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

The dirt on the ground kicked about, sweeping and stirring. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

If he could get Good Boys to Nebraska, it would create a stir. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

I remarked favorably its buoyancy, which stirred the heart at the thought that such excellently spoken men determined our fate. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

Kit felt a small pleasurable stir of curiosity. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

Its wingbeats stirred a storm of grit, and the crowd had to close its eyes. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Every time he shot a foul shot, he heard the crowd stir as he made the sign of the cross. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

What was not so noticeable, however, was that the trainer stood stone-still until the horse pawed the correct number of times, and then, consciously or not, stirred slightly, which caused Hans to stop. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the kitchen Grandma was all by herself, stirring the boiling syrup in the big brass kettle. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

Bobby’s chess dragon was not only stirring in the cave, it was lashing its tail. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Noise of a growing stir rose from the lobby below. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

When he stirred it was as if a boulder had come to life. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

A light breeze stirred the ground and a mist of dirt rose up, coating our faces, hair, and the inside of our noses. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

Lillian stirred in a half sleep, caught the smell of cigar smoke, and smiled. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Ever seen Westfield so stirred up about anything in your life? You and Ginny must be pretty proud of . . . that boy of yours.” Frindle 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Next to her, a man with a gray mustache stirred three different pots. Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

A cool breeze stirred the river as the sun sank down in the sky. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

Bob Rutherford, who was sitting next to him in the booth and spent his days in the herculean task of trying to sell real estate in Odessa, felt the same stirrings. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Behind him, the cook was spitting in Brunner’s coffee and stirring it up. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Tom stirred like a man shaken out of a pleasant dream. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

Purgatory soup, she thought, stirring hers with her spoon. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Then Boomer’s ears perk as something stirs from a patch of jewelweed. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

As we passed through cities and villages, we caused a stir equaled only by a circus parade. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

Across the river the south shore was black with men and horses, stirring like angry ants as they caught sight of the approaching ships. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Howard Fuller’s use of the phrase Black Power—against this backdrop of contention and violence—stirred a hornet’s nest in both the white and black communities. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

I was up and in the kitchen long before anyone else stirred, watching the snow fall in slow motion flakes in the yard. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

He printed an editorial in the paper that stirred everyone up. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Laleh always took her tea with three cubes of sugar and one cube of ice, and she always clanged the teaspoon against the sides of her glass teacup as she stirred. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

And I move more rigid than all the others with a sense of judgment; the vibrations of the chapel bells stirring the depths of my turmoil, moving toward its nexus with a sense of doom. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

The guard squatted down and stirred the pot with a long-handled wooden spoon. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Over time, many sports teams adopted a name, logo, or mascot that could stir fans by encouraging them to think of sports games as warlike events. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

The varicolored cloud dust that the sun had stirred up in the sky was settling by slow degrees. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

Lady Constance smiled again and stirred her tea. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

The animal has another original use for its urine: in hot, dry weather it will cool itself by relieving its bladder on the ground and stirring up a refreshing mud bath with its paws. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

But at that touch Frodo stirred and cried out softly in his sleep, and immediately Sam was wide awake. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

I pick up my spoon and stir my coffee, even though there’s nothing to stir together. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

We might be amongst them and move in them; we might remember and love them and be stirred by the sight of them. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

The air stirred and sawdust whirled in tiny tornadoes beneath our knees. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

He heard the whoosh of air and felt an eerie stir on his skin as the antigravity vessel passed overhead. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The thing inside the bundle of robes on the ground was stirring more persistently, as though it was trying to free itself. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

He waited for the mare to shy away from the yellow form that moved toward them; but the horse was upwind and did not stir. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

I don’t realize that I’ve fallen asleep until, somewhere through the darkness, a sound stirs me. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

He made no comment, but occasionally gave the potions a stir or a sniff. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

Mr. Paine knew how to stir up the pot; he went right after the King and attacked the crown on his head. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

Whether such memories were stirring in Grandpa, who can know. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

He did not stir; he lay still, feeling that by being still he would stave off feeling and thinking, and that was what he wanted above all right now. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

The girl, Hagar, was braiding her hair, while Pilate, whose face he could not see because her back was to the window, was stirring something in a pot. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

Starrett recalled being moved by Burnham’s frequent admonition: “Make no little plans; they have no magic to stir men’s blood.” The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

She was a deep sleeper and hadn’t stirred. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

In the calm morning, with only a faint breeze stirring the leaves, it seemed impossible that a mighty thing like this should ever topple, but here it was. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

When she stirred, the sun was up and Caesar paced between two pines, talking to himself. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

I was stirred by the dark mystery of mortality. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Our voices did not even cause her to stir. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

As I went through the standard motions—the rising and sitting, the donning of the prayer shawl, the prayers that came to my lips as naturally as breathing—anxiety stirred in my gut. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

She stirred lemonade in a green pitcher and waited. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

The commotion caused a stir, and neighbors began to look out their windows to see what was going on. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

Something stirs in the shadows across the street. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

At the prince’s coining, excitement stirred Elsinore to its darkest comers. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

Besides the slight stirring of the wind through the leaves, there are no sounds. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Tiflin put down the kettle and stirred the mash with a wooden paddle. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I get home from school, I find Mama in the kitchen, her citizenship study guide open on the counter as she stirs a curry on the stove. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

Then my mind goes back further still, to a small fire in a friendly hearth and my mum bent over a pot, stirring. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

Lust stirred in the eyes of men when they looked at Deborah, lust that could not be endured because it was so impersonal, limiting communion to the area of her shame. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

The toad, as if it saw that their interview was over, stirred again, bunched up, and bounced itself clumsily off toward the wood. Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

He gave a slight stir but remained curled on the floor. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

His eyelids fluttered and he stirred and then his eyes opened and they found hers, alone in the room with him. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Edd stirred the kettle and added a pinch more nutmeg. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

I poke the end of my chopstick into the wasabi so there’s just a tiny hint of green on the tip and then stir that into my soy sauce. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

In a mixing bowl, use a wooden spoon to stir all the ingredients until they form a thick dough.* Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

There was something familiar about it, something that stirred old memories, something dangerous. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

It was in the light of the moon that the king finally stirred. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

My mother in her plaid jacket bends over, stirring, my father adds a stick of wood to the fire. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

The little man stirred the coals again and blew on them to make them bum brighter. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

In bed that evening, Miyax’s spirit was stirred by the seeding grass and the restless birds and she could not sleep. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Next, I stirred the powdery remains into the beverages. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

The man took a long look at him, then went back to stirring his tea. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

I opened the door of a tiny ramshackle shed and saw more buckets, long wooden paddles for stirring the sap, scrapers for getting it out of the pans.... The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

The speech stirred the sinews and summoned up the blood quite brilliantly. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

Children from the slums were easy enough to entice away, but eventually people noticed, and the police were stirred into reluctant action. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

“I was just starting dinner,” the woman said as if in apology as she hurried to stir the stew bubbling over the fire in the stone fireplace. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

She was stirring up dust that made Bridge want to sneeze. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

I looked over at Mo, squatting by the fire, stirring a pot. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

When I picked him up, he stirred, then slumped against me. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

I measured two coffee mugs of buckwheat flour into a bowl, stirred in four spoonfuls of Royal Baking Powder—the only kind Aunt Ivy ever used—and half a spoonful of salt. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

In less guarded times, the darkened halls and galleries of Elsinore had stirred with furtive lovers and winking sentinels who let them pass. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

At the lower edge of the park in front of the first houses of the city there was a belt of trees, and something was stirring there. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

A patient hope stirred in their dark, brooding eyes. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Only two of the Freys had stirred, Tyrion noted, and they'd sat back down quick enough when their captain failed to move. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

On the third night, all the leftovers would be stirred together. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

Overhead, on the main floor, nothing stirred: the cows were resting, the horses dozed. Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z

For perhaps twenty seconds he sat without stirring. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

Ngubase’s dramatic testimony caused a stir in and out of court. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Perhaps he stirs. We must present the gifts now. Immediately!” The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

Sumac stirred with these feeble signs of the dawn. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

Those who knew the song made soft exclamation to themselves, while those who didn’t asked their neighbors what the stir was about. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

When I wake, with Carmine stirring and rubbing his eyes, Mrs. Scatcherd is standing over me. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

As I dragged each oar out—you can imagine how carefully—he stirred in reaction. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

Then, it bounded away into the bushes, stirring up the dead leaves. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

“Mo cooks very well,” said Meggie, stirring the thin, watery sauce into her spaghetti. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

Mama stirs the food in the pot hard, and her spoon hits the sides. Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

She stirred the fire and lay on more wood. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

And in that moment, something stirs deep in my belly. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

Even a galaxy so seemingly well-mannered as the Milky Way has its stirrings and its dances. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the suffocating cabin, maddened by the vibration of the metal plates and the unbearable stench of the mud stirred up by the paddle wheel, Meme lost track of the days. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

In the darkness beneath it, something huge stirred, grunted, and then growled. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

Sir Lawrence had had too much of Francis to be surprised that he had again stirred up an unnecessary tempest. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

On the boulder lay Fflewddur’s harp, which played of itself as the wind stirred the strings. The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z

On the way, we stirred up a herd of deer that crashed away through the underbrush and disappeared in two seconds flat. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

Once she stirred enough to climb out onto a branch to relieve herself. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

But here among my own less inhibited people, I discovered it was simply letting your feet, hands and body spontaneously act out whatever impulses were stirred by the music. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

“And our mistress still sleeps. Alcyoneus was forced to bide his time in the north, waiting, planning. Only now does Gaea begin to stir. Oh, but she remembers you, and so does her son!” The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

“There’s nothing like a good night’s sleep and that was nothing like a good night’s sleep,” he announced when he stirred, and gave an appreciative guffaw. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

My pulse isn’t the only part of my body stirring now. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Their remains stirred feebly on the floor, and as Harry leapt over one of their disembodied heads, it moaned faintly, “Oh, don’t mind me...I’ll just lie here and crumble....” Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

And when Robert started to stir, she asked if I wouldn’t mind going on home because Robert wakes up screaming. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

He does not stir, his lips quiver, his moustache twitches. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

All I can think about is his nearness, his dark eyes, his breath stirring against my skin. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Somewhere in the garden a nightingale was singing, and a little breeze touched her hair and stirred the leaves overhead. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

As he said this there was a restless stir on the benches. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

After a minute, Yossarian and a gentle warm wind were the only things stirring in the haunting tranquillity that hung like a drug over the vacated tents. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

Lord Tywin did not stir from his chair, but he did give, his dwarf son a long, searching look. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

He poured himself a man-sized drink, stirred it with his finger, and bottle between his knees, he replaced its cap. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

But it was cold in the kitchen, and she had to stir the fire up and put in some wood and coal. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

A breeze stirred the heavy, moth-eaten velvet curtains, ruffling his hair. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Up above the asbestos ceiling tiles, Caliban and Sycorax are stirring, probably since the smell of pink icing is now filling the hallways. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

She was only extemporizing but a stirring warmth flowed from her as if her heart was trying to come out to you concealed in one of those breathless, thrilling words. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

A fly stirred its wings softly in his ear. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z

Hot Pie was stirring the kettles with a long wooden spoon when Arya returned to the kitchens. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Kvothe stirred his cider with a long-handled spoon as he made his way back to the table. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

“The more powerful ones can do that. She did not die, Percy. She simply escaped. It is not good that the she-demons are stirring.” The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

It was a worthy song, and it could stir the embrasures and battlements of a strong man’s soul. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

He stood by the pot of stew, stirring, holding the ladle as tight as the cramps in his stomach felt. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

She’d stirred a kettle herself just yesterday; goodness knows her arms still ached from it. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

As Lyra looked at her, she had a shock: the blankets stirred, and a very thin arm emerged, in a black sleeve, and then another face, a man’s, so ancient it was almost a skeleton. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

Jay still had the stick he’d used to stir the paint in his back pocket, and he took it out. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

A young officer sitting with Stranger did say, as he stirred his brandy-and-water with his thumb, that he hoped before long thus to stir Yankee blood—and what of that? Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

The beds in that house were all too small for him but they made him a fine bed of heather on the floor, and he never stirred nor dreamed all night. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z

A narration might ask for the clarity and emotional temper of the plain style, for example, whereas the peroration— where you typically seek to stir your audience—gives the opportunity for a higher style. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

There were little stirs in the dark corners, solitary men or women gesturing their hands. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

That, stirred with languid pulses of the oar, New Word-Analysis 1871-01-01T00:00:00Z

He heated sauce, stirring with deliberate strokes.When he ate, he savored every bite as if it were the last he would ever eat. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

Hooper stirred on the ground, moving his legs up and down rhythmically. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

If he were standing in my room right now, I could probably feel his breath stir against my neck. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

He thought he saw the hint of a blush on her face, though he couldn’t be sure, for she stirred the embers in the campfire again, and the light flared reddish-gold over her skin. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

She listened, stirring the warm cream into the baked apples. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

The host of the Horned King was like the body of an armed giant restlessly stirring. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z

Sam stirred in his chair, and looked at the farmer with an unfriendly eye. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

A stir of voices broke me from my daze. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

Animals stirred, birds and squirrels, two timid rabbits. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

I stirred it vigorously, then grabbed a rag, wiping each of the boards clean, then made a new sample of each bucket. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

This time, however, instead of “Rock of Ages,” he launched into a stirring performance of “Onward Christian Soldiers.” The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

The hairs on the back of his hand stirred. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Habib added four cubes of sugar to his coffee and stirred slowly. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

She heard herself crying, her sobbing louder and louder until Baby stirred and he placed his palm against her mouth. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

The cat stirs, stretches, and then curls herself back into a ball. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

Ben stirred under the ragged quilt, and then turned over. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Eventually you reach a height where you can see the tops of the topmost trees, with nothing but clear sky beyond, and your faltering spirit stirs—nearly there now!—but this is a pitiless deception. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

Alys glanced over from the fire, where she was stirring a pot of onion soup. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

In that moment, something stirred deep inside all of us, something strong and intimate, that bound us to one another. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

It stirred the dust we kicked up with our shoes, and blew my hood up around my hair. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

And the nasally breaths and occasional flinches as Connor stirs in his dreams. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

“I mean what I say: I don’t want to hear about you two causing a stir, having the world looking at three colored girls, wondering where their father and mother are.” Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

Two girls with jump ropes, a boy doing a handstand, a man with long arms and legs spinning a basketball on his finger, a woman standing next to a younger girl stirring a pot. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

It was almost dark, and Matthias had begun to feel the stirrings of real panic when they finally spotted the first of the whaling camps. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

They told me they didn’t want to stir up trouble. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

“Hatred does not stir the stone men half so much as hunger.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

She took her glass without comment, stirring the straight bourbon with her finger, and sipped reflectively while the sheriff also sipped. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

He stirred some more and blew into the container to cool the food. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

Vayu, Lord of the Winds, stirred a slight breeze. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Mom eased me back with her stirring elbow. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

The second body, close by, stirred when Ugwu touched it and he moved back. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

That is why there are stirring poems and brave heroes who die for what is right. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

On that first day of class, Kappe also told them that the second goal of the mission was to "stir up trouble" to turn Americans against German Americans, Japanese Americans, and Italian Americans. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

As he looked across the dreaded Marshes, something stirred in his mind. The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z

A thud and a whisper: Some other living creature had stirred close by. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

Every animal stirred and lifted its head and became excited to know that one of his friends had got free and was no longer penned up or tied fast. Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z

The jurors—some of them—stirred and smiled. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

He heard Robin stirring and greeted him with his blessing. The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z

One stair creaked under her foot, and she froze as the Ivans stirred. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

There was a great kettle of soap boiling over a fire just behind the house, and all day long Judith and her mother took turns stirring it with a long stick. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

The idea of Orange Juice stirring was too much for my nerves to bear, so I did not consider it. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

The boys stirred uneasily, as though something indecent had been said. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

Other prisoners were starting to stir, and Jack forced himself to stand up and look around. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

The silver-haired man added several heaped spoonfuls of sugar to his coffee, stirred it briskly. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

The twins stirred beside me, but they kept their heads bowed and their eyes closed in prayer. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

Instead, it seemed like root had only stirred a bunch of bad things up. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

I didn’t feel cold or scared; I felt wonder stirred with anticipation and a sense of homecoming. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

I rubbed my hair against the glass like the tank was a genie’s lamp and the action would stir up some magic. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

When it boiled, she sprinkled in the fine grains and stirred. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

Then there came a faint glow and stir in the heart of it, and it held his eyes, so that now he could not look away. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

Creeks where Hassan and I skipped stones all spring turned dry, and rickshaws stirred dust when they sputtered by. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

"These heights will be easy to defend, if need be," Thoren pointed out as he walked his horse along the ring of stones, his sable-trimmed cloak stirring in the wind. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

We both listened for Mama stirring in the front of the house near where we sat. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Also, some foot kicking, which basically just stirs up a lot of dirt that sticks to her sweat. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

Five minutes later, it stirred in a private springtime. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

A second thought, however—that he must find his boy and see him safe—stirred him to rise again, first bracing himself on his forelegs before straightening his haunches. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

The men ladling the soup were prisoners too, and sometimes one of them would take pity on me, stir the bottom of the pot, and put a real piece of potato into my bowl. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

Karin joins her, and they watch me stir, talking among themselves. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

Her eyelids flutter closed and the rose petals around their feet begin to stir. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Then Pax caught the faintest stirring at the opening of the warren. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

The mud shifted, the leaves stirred, the smell of overripe green things enveloped her and announced the beginnings of her very own howl. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

Chester stirred and chirped, but stayed where he was. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

He began to stir, and uncurl, and finally to stand. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

So I picked the top crust off and ate that first while I stirred my finger around trying to find the shoes and flies. Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Linda had stirred uneasily, had opened her eyes for a moment, looked vaguely around, and then once more dropped off to sleep. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

Instead of completely burning organic matter to ash, ancient farmers burned it incompletely to make charcoal, then stirred the charcoal into the soil. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Immediately, as if a spell had been removed, the others relaxed and stirred. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

Pa came in to stir things up again. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z

In the Abbey kitchens Cornflower stirred the oatmeal and checked on the bread baking in the oven. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

I get into the kitchen, and my mom’s setting the circle table Auntie Idris keeps in the kitchen, and my dad’s stirring a pot at the stove. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z

She stirred it well and left it in a warm place by the stove. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

Over in the poor white neighborhoods of East Durham, just a mile from where Ann sat, the article about the fire did indeed stir considerable interest. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

I glance back at Connor, but he doesn’t stir as I slip free from the covers, the fabric whispering against my flannel pajamas. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

The watcher turned his head to listen and then he stood up, and one of the sleepers stirred on the ground and awakened and asked quietly, “What is it?” The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

He did not stir, but remained exactly where he had fallen, with his left arm bent out at an awkward angle and his mouth gaping. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

I stirred until my arm ached and painted the samples as smoothly as I could, becoming more skillful as I went along. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now, anxiety stirred in my gut each time a gunshot echoed through the stadium. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

The omen of the dead father stirred up the last remnant of pride that was left in his heart, but he confused it with a sudden gust of strength. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

“Jasper wants exercise,” said Beatrice, stirring the dog with her foot; “he’s getting much too fat, and he’s barely two years old. What do you feed him on, Maxim?” Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

Apparently, the phantom fence cutters had struck all around the territory, stirring up trouble between every farmer and the neighboring ranchers. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z

The tiny bird didn’t stir, except perhaps for a small rise and fall of its chest. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

“Sometimes spirit die,” Amari replied quietly while she stirred the pot on the fire. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

Flailing her hands and feet, she stirred up the light snow. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

We wert walking through the fair, and something inside my rib cage began to stir. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

I make small stirring noises, so he knows I’m awake, alive. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

The room was sweltering; three small fans stirred the heavy air, and the brothers sat in their shirtsleeves around a scarred table upon which a pitcher of iced water glistened with beads of moisture. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

He vomited when he turned a corner and saw the construction site of the Capitol, emptying his guts from either a bad oyster or the hugeness of the thing stirring rebellion in his very being. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

Could she hear anything stirring behind the walls? The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

Ben, stirring something in the kitchen, and Joon, mending a net with some prairie grass on a rock. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

“Far as I can tell, you weren’t thinking at all,” she snapped, now furiously stirring. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

I could sense a stirring in the student body. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

A breeze whisked through orchard branches, rippled aspen leaves, stirred across the lawn, and slightly tickled the swimming pool water. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

An hour past dawn on the following Monday, a thick, grandly muscled woman arrived on the back steps of the Meecham house and waited for the sleeping house to stir. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Only one thought stirred in his mind: that he must have been in this place longer than he had imagined. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

I knew the old ringtails would be hungry and stirring for they had been denned up during the storm. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

She went to stir a pot on the hearth, and the dog lay down near the doorway, obeying the command of her hand. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

Nothing stirs; listless and wretched, like a condemned man, I sit there and the past withdraws itself. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

Out was where there were no kettles to stir, no bottles to fill, no smoky cooking fire. The Midwife's Apprentice 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

I stir the broom, grateful for the distraction. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Lady Constance stirred her tea again with vigor, although the sugar had long since dissolved. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

I start to bend toward the right-hand straw, but she whispers, "Too hot. It's always too hot. Just stir it for a minute or two." Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was not even above stirring their pot just a little. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

The chief mate had not stirred from his place at the rail. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

Lee made a great stir coming in with the tea. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

She took over the stirring, turning the paddle with both hands. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

Out of the corner of my eye I see Addie stir. The Misfits 2001-10-01T00:00:00Z

He remembered, but did not feel, the stirring he sometimes got at church meetings. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

I could see the backs of three women, stirring and chopping and moving pans around on a couple of giant stoves. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

I start stirring the sweet, milky rice pudding while Starry backs out of the swinging door. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

She stirred it together, then smeared it on my face and hands. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

He set off for the fields humming, and when he returned Pancha was in the kitchen, busily stirring marmalade in a huge copper pot. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

I drank my orange juice and coffee, but I couldn’t do nothing with them eggs but stir ’em ’round my plate. Girls Like Us 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

The bed creaks when I sit down in my parents’ dark room, but my dad doesn’t stir. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

A few hours later, the sky was brightening, the fog was lifting, the nighttime animals were slinking home, and the daytime animals were beginning to stir. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

Horace rested his elbow on his saddle horn and stirred a fly from his horse’s shoulder with his rawhide quirt. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

The sea breeze rolled in before him and stirred the fern by the front door. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

Then his own will stirred; slowly it forced the hand back and set it to find another thing, a thing lying hidden near his breast. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

Lola’s word stirred the dust of other words around it—man, mad, ax, attack, accuse—and confirmed the diagnosis. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Rhaego was restless in her belly, kicking like a stallion, yet even that did not stir Drogo's interest as it had. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

“Ain’t long enough for you to hold it and pour in those drops at the same time. I’ll go first; then you can stir when there’s enough liquid in.” Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

A breeze stirred and kicked up dried leaves, making them skitter across the sidewalk in front of us. Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z

The powders mixed more the longer she stirred, red mingling with orange, losing its distinct form. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

The fall on the floor had failed to stir him, and I would be unable to do so. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

His voice stirred my oldest memories: that warm glow I remembered as a baby, the sensation of this gods hand on my forehead. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

A low boil stirs inside, works its way upward, and tumbles out of me. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

Hillari glared at the speaker, then continued, “—some nutcase who stirs things up, then maybe all the little students will go to a game once in a while or join a club.” Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

Embers settled in the fire; the grass was stirring faintly with the night breeze. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

She drifts off, stirring restlessly, occasionally sighing out her phrase. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

At the mention of Dumbledore’s name, the members of the circle stirred, and some muttered and shook their heads. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

Feebly, he swung her hand from side to side as he spoke, as though to stir her memory, and his dark green eyes scanned her face in anticipation. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

It was a stupid story, I don’t know why I told him, but he looked at me thoughtfully as he stirred his coffee. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

He soon stirred; my eye was instantly drawn to his movements; he only took out a morocco pocket-book, thence produced a letter, which he read in silence, folded it, put it back, relapsed into meditation. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

Once in a while, she'd stir, get up as if moved by some urgent purpose, only to then collapse back into stillness. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

With one push she swings the door open and propels us into the stirring city street. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

He looked at her, and being a man whom pity deeply stirred, it seemed to him that her loveliness amid her grief would pierce his heart. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

“Our people have been watching him run around the county, stirring up things. He’s planning an attack soon. When he arrives, I want to be sure you’re not confused about your loyalty.” The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

It was a stirring sight, yet it did not lift her heart. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

She would never stir his cauldron of worries, never wave her power in his face. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

He was making noises and sounded as if he were about to stir. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

It had crept over her imperceptibly: a kind of stirring, an allure. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

The force of Desdemona’s fanning could be felt all over the house; it swirled dustballs on the stairs; it stirred the window shades; and, of course, since it was winter, it made everyone shiver. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

The boy was there, too, holding a shotgun aimed at the benches—but no one sitting there stirred. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

A breeze stirs the grass and Has­san lets the spool roll. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Qarl stirred in his sleep, and after a moment he began to stiffen. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Esme always gives me one of those spoons hanging in the tree to stir it, and we drink with our pinkies in the air and laugh. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

Then he took a pencil from his pocket, stirred the wine until the powder had dissolved, and replaced the stopper. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

And other currents that say, “Don’t stir up anything. Let’s try to keep things peaceful.” Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

On her shoulder, pale Viserion flapped wings the color of cream, stirring the air. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Min was stirring the clay in the drainage bed. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

Then Pippin looked the old man in the eye, for pride stirred strangely within him, still stung by the scorn and suspicion in that cold voice. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

The two suspects were placed in separate rooms and left to stir. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

The women around me breathe in, there’s a stirring in the room, like wind over grass. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was already stirring up batter for a pineapple upside-down cake, Liyana’s favorite. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

The boat started to tilt, stirring up the muck on the sea bottom and threatening to topple onto the cow serpent. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

The boy by his shoulder stirred and made a sound. The Fighting Ground 1984-04-01T00:00:00Z

“Coming? Coming?” she heard far away, somewhere else in the house, and she heard the stairs shake under their feet and a cricket stir on the lawn. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

Even years later, Mrs. Richardson would insist that that digging into Mia’s past was nothing more than justified retribution for the trouble Mia had stirred up. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

The wind from the thermos stirred up a nice sea spray that made a rainbow in the sunlight—perfect for an Iris- message—but our connection was still poor. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

He looked at me, and I could see the explorer’s excitement stirring beneath his calm expression. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

Feelings she did not understand were stirring within her. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

The sky was lighter already; there was a faint fresh stir in the air. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

That eye of hers, that voice stirred every antipathy I had. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

He helped Heqet wire the box shut, then turned to stir up the fire. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

I stir the pot and tell her, “Sara, I have the answer to our recipe prayers.” A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

When he spoke, everyone at the desk stirred slightly, then grew still, like leaves touched by the wind. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

The breeze stirred their long stalks, and shadows danced on her closed eyelids. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

“We must flush the poison. I have been stirring helplessly all day.” The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

“Your father sent you down here to play checkers and read a book. Not to stir up stuff.” Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

Just as numerous were the vermin, a plague of flies and mosquitos that stirred through the sweltering July air. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

For the first time, the watching crowd stirred as the hundreds of people around the walls drew breath as one. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

Then, as if my gaze had broken some spell, everyone stirred. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

One morning I awoke about three o’clock hearing Catherine stirring in the bed. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

There was stirring in the ranks at this but no one had the courage to moan about it to her face. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

Staring at the rice pot, I let out a breath of hopelessness when I see her take the ladle and stir the soup at my turn. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

She leapt to her feet and hurried to the fire, where a number of people were sitting and drinking and talking and occasionally stirring a big pot of stew. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

Shady stirred each jug to blend the two elixirs. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

Kino stirred in a dream, and he cried out in a guttural voice, and his hand moved in symbolic fighting. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

He didn’t stir, but his Hershey breath fueled my energy. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

It’s as if the thousands of times the Doctorita called me a dirty bnga are being stirred up into a whirlwind of old, painful insults. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

At the fence, we watched the cattle mill around, stirring up dust and knocking into the wood. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z

Only in a world where everything is patently being lost can a priest stir men’s hearts as a poet would by maintaining that nothing is in vain. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

Stanton delivered a stirring speech about the “sacred right” of women’s suffrage. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

They did not stir, but the sickly hue had left them. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

Mrs. van D. was trying to do everything at once: learning Dutch out of a book, stirring the soup, watching the meat, sighing and moaning about her broken rib. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

Instead, I waited for darkness, past Vespers and beyond, choosing not to stir until I heard the church bell ring the last prayers of the night, Compline. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

She fed some wood chips to the brazier on the afterdeck, stirred the coals with a blackened blade, and began to knead the dough for the morning biscuits. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Our sleepy neighborhood is stirring, waking up, and this time I stay on the porch with Sherlock and enjoy it. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

And the third is the way in which he seeks to stir them to anger, pity, fear, or exultation. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

He stirred his ice cream again and again. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

Lena sampled the hot chocolate and stirred some more. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

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

An old woman stood by the fire stirring something in a pot. The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z

I can hardly bear to listen in the kitchen, since beautiful music stirs me to the very depths of my soul. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

Her occupation, suspended by Mr. Rochester’s announcement, seemed now forgotten: her eyes, fixed on the blank wall opposite, expressed the surprise of a quiet mind stirred by unwonted tidings. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

Mark Antony’s behavior in Alexandria stirred up Rome’s long-standing contempt for Cleopatra and her exotic ways. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z

‘I need you to go with Dakota and Leila. While they’re stirring trouble in the ranks, trying to delay the attack, you have to find a way to sabotage those onagers.’ Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Likewise, your hopes of stirring the audience to anger or pity depends on the extent to which they are prepared to identify with the anger or pity you yourself seem to feel. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

At other times it would plunge beneath, stirring up the mantle and resulting in long spells of volcanic activity and earthquakes. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

One or two sleepers were beginning to stir as the light grew stronger. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

We played Caribs and Spaniards in the house, whooping and pretend-dying around her as she stirred our oatmeal. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

The faint hum and rattle of machinery still stirred the crimson air in the Embryo Store. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was now no breath of wind stirring; the night was still and quiet, and a chill was in the air. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

Out the now glassless window, the sound of rain falling on the burning houses is the sound of pebbles being stirred by waves. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

He would stir a little water into corn meal and give it to his father. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

Jay brought a new paint stick over and went to stir it all up. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

He stirred the sugar into the coffee slowly, silently, as if getting ready to say something. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

Suddenly Faramir stirred, and he opened his eyes, and he looked on Aragorn who bent over him; and a light of knowledge and love was kindled in his eyes, and he spoke softly. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

They stir until it seems all the wood, coals, and twigs are wet. Paradise on Fire 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

Harry felt a slight squirm of discomfort, as though a small snake had stirred inside him. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

I kept stirring until the mix turned viscous and milky. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

The one who had stirred up the bone ships, the iron monsters, the hullbeasts, the brand flies. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

Would the image stir too many painful memories? Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

He stirred again when we began cleaning the cuts and gouges on his face, reaching for my hand at the first touch of stinging antiseptic. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

I stir as I realize what a wry smile I'm wearing. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

He wore the glasses, too, and when we shook hands 1 could see pictures and words reflecting on his eyeballs, like when you stir water in the sun. Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

As they backed away from him, he began to stir. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

His interest in science stirred, Oldenburg became a tutor in Oxford in 1656 and was very much a member of the circle from which the first Fellows of the Royal Society were drawn. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

I yawned and stirred, as if about to turn over, and edged my foot under the box. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

They had been evading the Oxscinian Navy for years, always slipping in and out of the city before anyone noticed, stirring up trouble in their wake. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

“No, dear, run along, and bring me some coffee. I’m so tired I can’t stir.” Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Would you like a cup of bouillon? Shall I stir you a toddy? Let me mix you a toddy with a drop of Angostura.” The Awakening 1899-04-22T00:00:00Z

The hens didn’t even stir when he took their eggs. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

“What would you do to burn up all that energy you use to run around the golf course every day, lift weights, and train for three hours? You’d be going stir crazy.” Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

That afternoon, without stirring from her daybed, Emily had guessed that Lola was undermining Briony’s play, a suspicion confirmed by the diagonally ripped poster on the easel. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Then he sat in the dark, quiet, letting himself mend, not stirring, feeling a dull ache settle in his bones now that the first waves of pain had moved away. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The crowd began to stir now—it was to be this lady they had heard so much about. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

“Now we are to imitate the soul-song of our beloved Proserpine, as she stirs to wake in all her liquid self.” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was the first full act of his life; it was the most meaningful, exciting and stirring thing that had ever happened to him. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

So when Hanako showed everyone her pencils with erasers, they caused quite a stir. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

He thought carefully over all Eilonwy had told him; his despair lightened a little and pride stirred within him. The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z

The washers stirred the clothes in the washing machines with long poles. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Scared and thinking everyone might want to stop hunting because of a few clouds, I said, “If a storm is brewing, it’s a good night to hunt. All game stirs just before a storm.” Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Every eye in the car filled up with marsh, moved by it, stirred, yet uncomprehending. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Barack Obama had already created a stir at the firm. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

As he stirred with his stick, muttering curses into his stained white beard, he was thrown into a hysterical passion by Francie asking for a pickle from the bottom of the vat. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

The pines stood out dark against the pinks and oranges creeping across the sky, and a breeze stirred around her. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Actually,” he said, as though continuing a conversation begun while Eleanor slept, “I cannot believe that my wife stirred up that storm, but I do admit that one more word about pure love...” The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

But that night, something new and dangerous stirred within her. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

When they reached the cave, they found a fire, a rabbit roasting, and Serafina Pekkala stirring something in a small iron pot. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was proud that he had made up a new word, and he enjoyed thinking about all the commotion it had stirred up. Frindle 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Through the open door that led into the barn came the sound of moving horses, of feet stirring, of teeth champing on hay, of the rattle of halter chains. Of Mice and Men 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

She stood at the stove stirring tomato sauce around chicken meatballs. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

Maybe, I thought, I could sprinkle some cocoa powder on it, or stir in some honey, just to liven the flavor. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

I stumbled toward the camp, and the nymphs stirred from their trees. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

She sipped, wrinkled her nose, added another spoonful, stirred, then sipped again. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

He stirred in the formula and tested the steaming mixture with his finger. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

Hanako watched her grandmother stir the soup, then remove the pot from the stove, her thin arms sticking out from beneath her rolled-up sleeves. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

We each turn our attention to our soy sauce, Mom taking a whole mound of wasabi and stirring it in. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

He recalls sleeping for maybe twelve hours, then stirring and trying to sit. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

The next day just before noon, he stirs from his dirty mattress. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

She did not understand. . . . three heads has the dragon . . . the ghost chorus yammered inside her skull with never a lip moving, never a breath stirring the still blue air. . . . mother of dragons . . . child of storm . A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

But it was more than the natural swell of parental pride that stirred inside him. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

The train is stopped in the forest, for no reason I can make out because it’s the middle of the night and nobody stirs. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

Then something stirred behind her, and a hand reached out of the dark and grabbed her wrist. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

He saw the others stirring and awakening, and was afraid of them when they moved, so he killed one after another with a blow of his fist. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

She put the candle down and picked up her spoon and started to stir. The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z

Grief stirred within Achilles’ heart as he listened. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

Minutes passed; a waterbird on the river beside them stirred and called; the occasional car moved over Magdalen Bridge. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

He couldn't fathom what was stirring in the prince's mind. The Whipping Boy 1986-04-01T00:00:00Z

It seemed of utmost urgency to Laila, suddenly, that she not stir or make a noise. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

Part of me would like to talk to them, but I wonder if Grammy is right—maybe talking about things just stirs up sadness. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

He stirred his coffee several times and seemed to be waiting. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Tell your mama her beans will go perfect with the killed lettuce. I hope Mrs. Odom is bringin’ her famous corn pone,” Stella’s mother said as she stirred another pot. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

He stirred and looked up, then gave me a broad smile. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Something brand-new stirs inside and all around me, as if I've been turned inside out. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

The raven stirs and caws at something in the shadows. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

A breath of air stirred up the slumbering coals and cast shadows leaping and fighting on the inside walls of the little birchbark house. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

Occasionally, when Ammu listened to songs that she loved on the radio, something stirred inside her. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Townsfolk complained about the congestion, the noise, and, when it was dry, the dust clouds the traffic stirred up, making the air so thick and dirty they couldn’t open the windows of their houses. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

More than once, with a jolt of the stomach, he thought he saw one stir. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

Aarfy was tapping the bowl of his pipe against his palm leisurely as he paced back and forth in corpulent self-approval, obviously delighted by the stir he was causing. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

I glanced over at Mother, but she was stirring circles in her mashed potatoes. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was facing away from the letter, and showed no sign of stirring. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

These scenes of terror and slaughter were not what they had looked forward to on that night when old Major first stirred them to rebellion. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z

The Mud Man stirred, the whites of his eyes showing beneath fluttering lids. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

When I heard Greg and his pals stir in their tents next to ours, I finally gave up all pretense of sleep. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

A breeze stirred the mist, and the faint scent of copper stung her nose. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

His comments about Jews and the crimes of the United States had stirred things up, but as an American citizen wasn’t he protected by the First Amendment? Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Once a week, he prepared the “special sauce” for his hamburgers, making it in huge kettles on the back porch of his house, stirring it with a stick and then pouring it into one-gallon jugs. Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal 2001-01-17T00:00:00Z

Whatever it was, I guessed it had been stirred up with Clorox bleach. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Inside the wall trees were growing Their branches hung out over the wall; their leaves showed not only green but also blue and silver when the wind stirred them. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z

I liked exploring the rows of plants—they offered some shade from the Mississippi sun, and if the wind blew even a little, the plants swayed and stirred up air that seemed almost cool. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

He was lacing the latigo through the cinch rings when there was a small stir behind him. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

“What would Jo say if she saw you now?” asked Amy impatiently, hoping to stir him up by the mention of her still more energetic sister’s name. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sandalwood fans flick-flacked in front of sweaty faces, barely stirring the hot air. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

He remembered how they had looked, the three of them sitting at the breakfast table, how Hooper had stirred his spoon around and around in the teacup, bland-faced, knowing. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

She turns her back to me and continues stirring her tea. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

Werner tacks across the room and stirs the coals to life. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Cloistered in his sprawling town house on Rutland Gate, Francis Galton was oddly unstirred by the “stirring times.” The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

Miss Saunders has really got all the other teachers stirred up. The Skin I'm In 1998-10-16T00:00:00Z

But when he stirred his food listlessly, she held Theresa’s hand; when he lost weight, she felt it lose its grip. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

It looked dreadful, and fear of what would happen to him stirred within Michael. Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z

The last attempt to stir up trouble had been put to rest. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

It seemed to reach the sleeping children, huddled on the old blankets in the comer, for they stirred in their sleep. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

She went on stirring and muttering, and telling Fern to stop asking about things no one needs to know or there would be no cake for her. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

Alone with Milo later, Major Major felt protest stir for the first time and said he would prefer to continue eating with the other officers. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

Mr. Morrison looked up from the pot he was stirring and smiled. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

He took the packet of grape flavor from his pocket and opened it and poured it into the jar and stirred it and gave it to the boy. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

And as for the uncanny business of the name, in the world at large it hadn’t caused much stir. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

The water was calm, solid brown because of how the rain had stirred everything up the day before. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

From the moment she took her place in the witness box, she caused a stir. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

I will go back as soon as I can stir: I need not make an absolute fool of myself. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

She looked up to see if Teenie had reacted to that, but Teenie simply continued to stir the food in the pot over the fire. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was strange to reach the marble steps and find no stir of bright dresses in and out the door, and hear no sound but bird voices in the trees. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

As a frightened bird caught inside a house startles one person after another, the news stirs up the servants and nuns alike. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

Miss Honey waited, trembling a little herself and watching the child as she slowly stirred herself back into consciousness. Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z

And she went to the well that was near there, and made a stirring in the water. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

They stirred and began to shout him down. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

"Not a mouse stirring," said the other, fairly shouting. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

Rose hips were everywhere, yellow and red, and you could make strings of beads clear to your toes without stirring off the porch. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

Across the room, Dovid didn’t even stir, though my alarm had surely woken him. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

But the panic is stirring inside me, a big black moth of scaredness flapping around inside my chest that can’t get out. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

Faro bounded around the tractor, his feet stirring up small sprays of dirt with each bound. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

I can feel that cough stirring in me solar plexus an’ workin’ its way up through me entrails till the next thing it takes off the top o’ me head. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

I stir, hearing hushed voices outside my bedroom door. Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

The golden monkey was tenderly smoothing the fur between the sleeping dæmon’s ears, and as Ama looked, the mongoose creature stirred uneasily and uttered a hoarse little mew. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

My garments trailed through brambles, and my feet stirred up dust that settled over me and parched my throat with every breath. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

Many times she took a little of it out into a saucer, and stirred it round and round. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

He sighed deeply, with a shudder that stirred his whole body. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

For they did not move or speak with mouth, looking from mind to mind; and only their shining eyes stirred and kindled as their thoughts went to and fro. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

Nokomis was stirring the syrup using a dancing kind of smooth movement with her arms. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

No one was stirring down-stairs, so I unbolted the door and went out. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

“Hhhhmmph. Little sister,” my mom mutters under her breath and keeps stirring. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

When it is my turn to receive the food, I watch anxiously as the cook stirs the rice soup. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Tom finished his hot cakes and stirred his coffee. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Aloe was standing at the stove, barefoot and in a rumpled jalabiya, stirring a pan. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

Alex’s hands freeze, and his head jerks back to his dad, who’s still stirring with his heavy wooden spoon, face impartial. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

I tiptoe to Mom’s bedroom door and sit down with my ear to it and wait for her to stir. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

That morning, we had scrambled eggs spiced with pine bark, which came from the sticks we used to stir them. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

I don’t know what I spected—some kind a stirring—but it’s just a regular old hot Friday with flies buzzing on the screen. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

When I stir the next morning, my nightgown and legs feel damp. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

“What I mean is, things are fine around here. Why would you want to go stirring up trouble?” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

He didn’t have much of a routine be­yond eating, drinking and sleeping, but there were times when he stirred from his lethargy and rambled about his territory, making noises and being cranky. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

When Kimbro came down the floor and watched I glanced up silently and continued stirring. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

A nervous wind stirred the branches, but nothing more. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ron was about to answer back when Professor Lupin stirred. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

A half-buried recollection stirred uneasily in his memory, but he could not identify it. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Macon knew it was not food she was stirring, for she and her daughters ate like children. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

“What enormous arms you have,” remarked the Wart, watching him stir the spirits with a spoon. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

But as he knelt, he felt a stirring through his hands, knees, and belly. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z

Then the wind began to moan, causing branches to stir and trees to creak and knock one upon one another. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

Sam could hear his own joints creaking, if he stirred. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

They had been credited with attempting to stir up rebellion among the animals on neighbouring farms. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z

The mere thought of adding acidity to my stomach stirred more nausea. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

He stirred in the water and made to swim. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

As I was stirring the pot of food while the sun came up, Amil tapped me on the shoulder. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

The sky was clear to the south, and a fresh-scented breeze was just lifting the twigs and stirring the pine tops. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Behind him the rabbits stirred in the bush. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

She also stirred a sort of envy in him by telling him that during the Two Minutes Hate her great difficulty was to avoid bursting out laughing. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

Every year there are seven days on end when the sea lies still and calm; no breath of wind stirs the waters. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

Empty turtle shells stood drying in the corner, and the cook’s assistant stirred the thick soup bubbling over the fire. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

He stirred up a lot of trouble, but it created a ton of publicity for our paper chain. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

Cook stirred the soup and then put the spoon down and held up the candle and looked over at Despereaux. The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z

At last, as Grandma stirred, the syrup in the saucer turned into little grains like sand, and Grandma called: “Quick, girls! It’s graining!” Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

She’s stirring the pancake mixture so fast that I’m sure it’s about to fly out of the bowl. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

When he stirred again, his head felt like to burst and the ship was spinning round in dizzy circles, though the captain was insisting that they’d come to port. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

He listened, but there was only the wind stirring in the juniper branches, rustling the grass around him. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

I waited to see if anyone stirred, but to my relief there was no sound. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

There was a stir of restlessness along the bar, shoulders hunched, legs were uncrossed. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

I strained to listen, as if I might hear the whisperings and stirrings of the past. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

In the daytime, a ray of sunlight shone into the tomb, making all the dust motes she stirred up swirl like falling snow. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

But there was only one kiss that made me feel something stir deep inside. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

With the long iron stirrer, Estha stirred the thick, fresh jam. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

When she heard him stir, she snapped on the fights and came over beside the bed. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

Despite his bland supper, despite the nagging message broadcast in his head, and despite the uncertainty of his plan, he felt a stirring in his heart, a good feeling that might pass for hope. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

Harry stirred counterclockwise, held his breath, and stirred once clockwise. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

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

She was stirring and staring into her tea. Girls Like Us 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Klaus pictured Mr. Poe arriving in his car and putting the Baudelaire orphans inside, to go somewhere else, and felt a stirring of hope. The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z

As though a weary tide stirs stones in the old woman’s lungs. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Then, a couple of hours later, while I was making a few lame attempts to stir the river with my pole, he spoke up out of nowhere. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

At that moment, he heard a stir of talk in the corridor, and the kitchen door opened to let in Sister Benedicta. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

She could feel a kind of comfort and silence from it, nothing like the tension that had stirred it earlier. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The kids from Trace Middle stirred restlessly and looked toward Beatrice and Roy, who no longer had much of a plan. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

As they drew near the cottage, Ivy began to feel dread stirring in her belly. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

As she stirred with one hand, she wove threads with the other. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

A woman flitted from the stove to several bowls on the counter, stirring and kneading and folding as she went. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

At the time I paid little attention to her background or legal problem, for something in me was deeply stirred by her presence. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

On August 10, 1917, she ignited the movement again with a banner she knew would create a stir. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

A fragrant curl of sweet kinnikinnick smoke stirred from the red stone bowl. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

When the sea is flat and motionless, you wish it would stir. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

Enrique’s disappearance stirs up a bad memory: Lourdes’s ex-boyfriend and Diana’s father, Santos, tried to make his way back to the United States after being deported to Honduras. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

As he had said, his voice was hoarse, but he sang well enough, and it was a stirring tune, something between Clementine and La Cucaracha. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z

She was pouring boiling water into a bucket full of dry midlings and stirring the materials to a steaming paste. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sefia and Archer tensed, preparing to run, but nothing stirred inside. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

Aposiopesis—a sudden breaking off as if at a loss for words—can be intended to stir pathos. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

She scratched Rhaegal under one eye, and his jade-green wings unfolded for a moment, stirring the still air in the palanquin. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

The West might not be directly accountable for all of Iran's drama, but they definitely stirred the pot back in the early 1950s. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

He was absorbed in Olanna’s voice and so he did not hear the sound—boom-boom-boom—from somewhere distant outside the windows, until she stopped stirring and looked up. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Then, as Fiver stirred and muttered beside him, he pushed him gently with one forepaw and nuzzled his shoulder. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

At the first touch of iron, Encanis began to stir in his sleep. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Aeschylus tells the tale splendidly, but in his hands it is a stirring martial poem. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

The wave of discontent that was stirring the people was beginning to strike at the heart of that oligarchic society. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

I watch the rise and fall of her, the stir and rest of her. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

A breeze stirred the drapery of vines that were the only thing standing between outside and in. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

She stirs and calls for lemonade but I give her a jamjar of water. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

Judith set Kit to tend the stirring while she readied the soap barrel. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

Her hands, so steady when she stirs vats of jam or braids my hair, flutter like frantic birds, desperate for me to move faster. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

I could picture Diego sitting where Jesse once had, and that stirred up emotions—both pleasant and painful—I wasn’t equipped to deal with in the cereal aisle of the grocery store. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

Most of the council members seem to be there, stirring tiny sticks in tiny cups of coffee, the majority of them men and women David’s age. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

My mother and I stirred not from where we stood. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

The night seemed oddly quiet to her, though she could hear Yoren's muttered snores, the crackle of the fire, even the muffled stirrings of the donkeys. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

We sat, without speaking, on a lumpy sofa that creaked each time one stirred. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

The quiet lights in the houses were humming out into the darkness and there was a stir and bustle among the stars. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

It was hard now to stir, to face this mage-lad, this frail enemy, at the sight of whose staff Yevaud, the old dragon, winced. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

She told the story of each one, and Lyra felt her heart stir with admiration for these great, brave, distant heroes. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

Grey-eyed Athena stirred them a following wind, soughing from the north-west on the winedark sea, and as he felt the wind, Telemakhos called to all hands to break out mast and sail. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’m about halfway through when the train runs overhead, and it’s glorious: it’s like an earthquake, you can feel it right in the centre of your body, stirring up the blood. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

The same puff of wind that had blown it away stirred the coals in the fire. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

These same internal stirrings also predisposed him to regard all perfectly symmetrical narratives or stories preaching an obvious moral message and populated by larger-than-life heroes as utter fabrications. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

I stirred so it wouldn’t stick to the bottom. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Shorty pours the lye over them, cracks two raw eggs into the mix, and stirs it all up with a wooden paddle. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Lyra watched as a condemned prisoner watches the stir at the back of the courtroom that might be a messenger with a pardon. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

I can’t resist giving it a shake, stirring up the snowstorm until I cannot see the little deer. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

The sunlight pouring through the colored glass outlined their sweet young bodies through the thin cloth, and Tyrion felt a stirring in his groin. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

I felt all stirred up inside, so much that I couldn’t make sense of my thoughts. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

Somewhere inside her, a black worm of dread stirred. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Yet it was not really the thought of the weather that stirred him. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

When the time came for the mourners to come up and eulogize him, no one stirred. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

Out of the comer of his eye, he saw the sleeper stirring, and knew he must finish his man quick. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

The children stirred slowly out of their sleep. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

One hour of answering questions about batty old wizards who’d invented self- stirring cauldrons and they’d be free, free for a whole wonderful week until their exam results came out. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

Nothing stirs: no farmer materializes in a window with a rifle. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

O Fruition, dear Sis, the Spirit of Liberty stirs the Countryside like Sap, & everywhere I am sensible of the Blossoms. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

This time he went to sleep and didn’t stir all night. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

The doves in the cage above him stir with a soft fluttering of feathers. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Frodo stirred and opened his eyes, and smiled, seeing Sam’s face bending over him. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

Then he glanced back toward the lion fountain where the girl was still reading her book and the hedgehog was stirring the filthy water with his hands. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Wrote to you?” repeated Edna in amazement, stirring her coffee absently. The Awakening 1899-04-22T00:00:00Z

I kicked the shovel because I knew I’d stirred things up. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

Deep in my stomach, a kind of stirring. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

He remembered standing in the Brazilian rain forest while on his voyage and being stirred by its beauty, moved to think of a higher power. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

The flowers looked alive, like they would move if a breeze stirred through the kitchen. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her father stirs the keys in his pockets. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Indeed, the master narrative led to such surprising conclusions about Native American societies before the arrival of Europeans that it stirred up an intellectual firestorm. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

In the beginning, on a dog-day Monday in the middle of August when the West Texas heat congealed in the sky, there were only the stirrings of dreams. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Bristle didn’t stir, except for the flicker of an eyelid as she cut a warning glance at Pax. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

On the flagpole in front of Haus West, a large white Olympic flag stirred lazily. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Now the faintest stirring of a breeze rustled the display of sedge that stood before the fireplace. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

The boy’s tale made her heart stir in her breast, but this was not all. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Weasley was stirring the contents of a large pot on the stove, while Mr. Weasley was sitting at the table, checking a sheaf of large parchment tickets. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

The helicopter’s winds had stirred up the water, and now the house was rocking so violently that Barry was knocked onto his knees. I Survived Hurricane Katrina, 2005 2011-04-01T00:00:00Z

I felt Danny stir and saw him turn his head, the grin gone now from his lips. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

I placed an extra newspaper by the jar and started to leave, but Jake stirred. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

They surrounded Odysseus, weeping and laughing and welcoming him home until they stirred within his own heart the desire to weep. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

She herself was smoothing out a paddle to use in stirring the syrup, and just the day before Deydey had started hollowing a peeled, smooth piece of basswood for a trough. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

She moved to sit up, not entirely sure what had caused her to stir from sleep in the first place. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

An unnatural wind stirred up the trees outside. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

An echo came back from the cliffs and stirred more shrieking from far above. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

As I reached his side, he stirred and looked at me. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

At school they created a stir among the other children. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

It stirred up the old anxiety and self-doubt that always threatened to bubble to the surface. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Yes, it was a narrow way—and John stirred in his seat, not daring to feel it God’s injustice that he must make so cruel a choice. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

The moonlight, penetrating a thin space between two trees, caught the stream that ran through its centre, so that, now and then, as the branches stirred, there was a gleam of water. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

I stirred it around, took a few bites. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

Every pore was open to the action swirling around him, every vibration, every stirring, every cheer, every carnivorous roar. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Human beings have a demonstrated talent for self-deception when their emotions are stirred, and there are few notions more stirring than the idea of a neighboring planet inhabited by intelligent beings. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was too tired to get stirred up about it. Girls Like Us 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Curtains is drawn and I don’t see no stirring. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

The crowd stirs again, while a few of the girls from my school look at one another in shock. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

The ruckus caused a big stir and Herman fired me on the spot. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

The others sitting around the fire stirred uneasily. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Then she turned her eyes down the counter and saw Colonel Meecham stirring the grits that Hobie had insisted on heaping on his plate. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Hark!” said I, when I had done my stirring, and was taking a final warm in the chimney corner before being sent up to bed; “was that great guns, Joe?” Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z

Nothing stirred people's envy more than a private joke. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

Finally she took the eye-dropper from her pocket and squeezed two drops of croton oil on the string beans and stirred it in. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

I was briefed from time to time by the Secret Service on the more serious threats that came in and understood that there were people capable of being stirred. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

The wind swirled around them, stirring their black cloaks and sending a scatter of red cinders flying from the fire. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Lancelot came last There was a stir among the torch- bearers near the door, and a sound went round the hall. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I don’t want to preach it you, Kit. It’s just that the Quakers have a name for stirring up trouble, and it seems to me you manage to get into enough by yourself.” The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

I stirred, baffled by the strange sensation, squinting into dark corners to learn the cause. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

With temperatures below freezing, and no room to move around to get their blood stirred up, they were always cold. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

And Boxer put out his nose to sniff at the bank-notes, and the flimsy white things stirred and rustled in his breath. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z

She was in his mind, which meant he was alive—and her moth that was perched on his lips could feel the faint stir of breath—but where was he? Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Hermione threw the new ingredients into the cauldron and began to stir feverishly. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

There was a stir of voices from them, requesting and obtaining shelter. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z

She takes up her teaspoon and begins to stir slowly. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Though I couldn’t feel it when he touched me, his presence stirred me up anyhow. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

I spent hours glued to our window, watching the goldfish glide in slow motion, stirring the jade green plants with its delicate fins. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

She put down the wooden spoon she’d been using to stir the stew and unfolded the letter. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z

Olanna poured some palm oil into the cooled mixture and stirred and stirred until her arms stiffened from fatigue. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

He stirred the hissing bacon around with a fork. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

A moment later the gates began to stir, creaking, dripping, and slowly, slowly opening against the current, making the water seethe and churn. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

“Hold on while I look up Nigeria,” he said, and she went back to stirring her eggs. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

“Whatever you say stays here with me. I know you and your mother don’t get along, but you’re more alike than you think,” she says, stirring in the honey. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

In the yard, small groups of indfgena women are stirring steaming pots of beans and chicken broth over fires, and peel- ing an enormous mountain of potatoes. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Shivering, she wrapped her blanket tighter around herself and crawled over to the hearth to stir the coals. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

The guards shoved Gendry inside with the boy and barred the doors behind them, fust then, a breath of wind came sighing off the lake, and the banners stirred and lifted. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

The moment they opened the door, Pong felt the darkness stir behind his left shoulder. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

Something stirred inside the Maze, down the long corridor in front of him. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

Parsons, stirred to vague enthusiasm by the bombardment of figures, took his pipe out of his mouth. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

She was stirring a doughy paste of ground beans in a mortar. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Outside his window, the wind stirs up over the lawn, rustling the linden trees down in the garden. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Dr. Bangs came twice a day, Hannah sat up at night, Meg kept a telegram in her desk all ready to send off at any minute, and Jo never stirred from Beth’s side. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Indians’ appearance in this European city surely caused a stir. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Melisandre felt the warmth in the hollow of her throat as her ruby stirred at the closeness of its slave. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

They stir round and round like the ingredients of a new cocktail. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

Holding his breath, he bent over the bed—and the golden monkey stirred. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

Mother was in the kitchen when I arrived, stirring a stew with one hand and with the other holding the phone and explaining the properties of motherwort. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Usually he felt a stir of eagerness at this part of a chemical procedure—a thrill to create something no one else could, and alter the very structure of nature. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

One of the boys moved slightly on his cot, as if stirring in his sleep. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

And across the city, atop a monolithic wedge of seamless, mirror-smooth metal, a statue stirred, as though awakened by the tumult, and slowly lifted its great horned head. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

He did not look at me, nor did he greet me, but he stirred, as if resdess, and sighed profoundly. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

But then something stirs in the bushes behind us, and I jump in spite of myself. Dragons in a Bag 2018-10-23T00:00:00Z

The voices talked of everything, there was nothing they could not talk about, he knew from the very cadence and motion and continual stir of curiosity and wonder in them. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had noticed that, as soon as he awoke, most of his animals also began to stir. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was a rage in his brain, a bloody cloudy area like mud stirred in a pool. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

He put down his book when he saw me stir. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

This caused him to mistrust all purely rational descriptions of human behavior as incompatible with the more passionate stirrings he felt within his own personality. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

“Do you want a murderer crawling back to stir up revolution?” The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

And Matt is the kind of kid who loves to stir things up. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

I turned back toward the bed to see if maybe, just maybe, he was stirring, stretching his arms overhead and rubbing his eyes. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

He steals softly over the grass, careful to make no sound; he pauses—fancying she has stirred: he withdraws: not for worlds would he be seen. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

Dwight rode his bike round and round the yard, stirring up clouds of red dust while Burl hollered at him to stop ’cause he was trying to change the oil in his truck. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

There was an earthy indefinable scent that stirred her senses. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

Wind stirred the grass by the boar’s feet. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

For a moment, nothing stirred except the roiling mist. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

No wind stirred the wood; the air hung humid and heavy, and Jon's clothes clung to his skin. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

"And high above the putrid corpse a crystal chandelier is tinkling. It tinkles and twinkles, but not one breath of air stirs in that gloomy tomb of a room." The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

A few hours must have passed before I heard my father stir. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

The dogs, who had already been stirring awake, backed away and began to growl low in their throats. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Sekai stirred in her bed—a beer crate donated by Mr. Thirsty—and made sucking noises. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

What certainly went on the Harlem and Roxbury wires was that Detroit Red was going crazy in stir, or else he was trying some hype to shake up the warden’s office. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

“She hasn’t stirred from this chamber ever since they brought you here,” said Eilonwy. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z

Occasionally she stirred the cat with a wooden spoon. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Wind stirred the grasses, and they rippled like water. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Mom appeared thoughtful as she stirred her tea. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

When he heard Roy’s footsteps, he stirred and cracked one eye. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The breeze came up again, stirring the grass. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

And she went back to stirring a huge pot of soup. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

I pause in my tracks, puzzled—though not stirred—by what I see. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then, as whenever he was moved or stirred, he had to put it into a song. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

At length they stirred and looked up, and began to search for anything that would give them tidings of Balin’s fate, or show what had become of his folk. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

Sometimes it is a memory in the middle of the day as I stir iced tea or wait for soup to heat. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

I stir my coffee with the wooden stick. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

Nothing but hot, black, bare ground and delicate white filaments of ash, which stirred and crumbled under the trample of bare feet. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

He began to stir the spoon, observing the way the dark liquid of the cup slowly moved into the cream. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Kino moved sluggishly, arms and legs stirred like those of a crushed bug, and a thick muttering came from his mouth. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

She stirred it briskly, counting in her head till five minutes had gone by. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

I would stir up my fire and think about how much food it must take to keep one little bird alive in that fierce cold. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

We had to get the sugar into the gum, but it was too sticky to stir with a spoon. Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z

The House had then decided never again to allow itself to become inflamed by the mere rant and rhapsody of a meddling fanatic” and had argued “that the subject would never be stirred again.” Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

He was still stirring the yogurt, and it was turning a pinkish shade of gray. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

Kit looked back at the gray figure bent over a kettle, stirring something with a long stick. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

He felt the quiet sea breeze stirring outside the house and peeking in at the window. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

Sparks jumped across the river as the machine’s windstorm stirred the fire to a new intensity. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

A shadow came out of dark places far away, and the bones were stirred in the mounds. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

I watch Mom stirring the pot, still in her work clothes. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

He shook his lasso of poison vines and insulted the monsters’ bad breath, stirring them into a fury. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

So I stirred one hundred times, even after Dad offered to take over, even after my arms burned with all that luck. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Already the birds were beginning to stir and make bright sounds in the branches overhead. Stuart Little 1945-10-17T00:00:00Z

Lady Elnora snorted and stirred in her sleep, and her cap slipped over her eyes. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

Catelyn watched a breeze stir his auburn hair, so like her own, and wondered when her son had grown so big. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

In the same way, some chess players can be emotionally stirred by mentally replaying a brilliant game by a great master. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

He moved as if not to stir the air around him. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

She called out the twins’ names, and heard in reply only the stir and scuff of hooves, and the thump of a heavy body pressing against a stall. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Then morning comes, the wavering grey turns to gold, there is a stirring within me as the sleepers awake, and he softly departs. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

Kendra noticed that she was not just scooping in chocolate powder—she was stirring in contents from multiple containers. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

They stir his blood, call him to duty, make his legs long to leap away from the table, away from the radio, and run down to the inner city to join the marchers. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

I stirred my potatoes around on my plate, not wanting to look at him. Miracle's Boys 2000-04-23T00:00:00Z

It waren’t like no human sound atall, it was a kinda wail and a moan and a yell all stirred up together. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

He felt the adder breathing, its cold exhalations carrying the sweet musty odor of death stirring his whiskers. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

The fury stirs, which means stuff combines with other stuff. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

Will managed to glance upward and saw the clouds stirring and swirling, and that gleam—something immense—growing more powerful, as if the clouds themselves were becoming luminous with energy, like plasma. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

I watched him kneel and open one of the buckets, stirring a milky brown substance. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

At times some Rider would lift up his clear voice in stirring song, and Merry felt his heart leap, though he did not know what it was about. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

But looking at the cold face with its blank, hooded eyes, he felt something stirring inside him and knew it was fear. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

The fear that had gripped him when she had stirred made him realize that it would have to be quick and sure. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

It was like drinking glass after glass of water and still emerging thirsty, and with the stirring fear that he would never quench the thirst. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Walking down the block the next morning, Calder stirred the pentominoes in his pocket. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

The brush along the road stirred restively under a new and unexpected population of gray tigers and gray bears. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

President Snow pours tea for both of us and fills his with cream and sugar, then takes a long time stirring. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

But he stirred it vigorously until it became glossy white, holding the spatula like a delicate instrument and studying the paint as it laced off the blade, back into the bucket. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

As time goes on, even the arrival of micrometeorites—fine dust from space—stirs up and covers over the rays, and they gradually disappear. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Medwyn put his hand into the lake and stirred the water. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z

Terrors stirred within her, and she imagined she could hear a din of helpless screaming in the heads of all the ghosts. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Huge windows line one wall, revealing the cheesemaking process, massive machines stirring and churning the creamy cheddar. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe, he thought, this was just one soldier, ignorant or cruel, wanting to stir things up. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

The banana leaves stirred up a breeze as Saleem pushed through them. Rickshaw Girl 2007-02-01T00:00:00Z

The appearance of the weapon caused a stir among his children behind him. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Since the news was first reported, there were some geographers, including Sir Clements Markham, a British explorer and former president of the Royal Geographical Society, who had stirred up controversy by doubting Roosevelt's story. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

Just like the Discovery Channel said it might, his body shuffling stirred up the water so much it terrified the jellyfish. Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

She stirred her hands in the air above the pedestal, then motioned me closer. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

He had not stirred from his seat, but in his mind he was running, swiftly running, he was with the crowds outside, cheering himself deaf. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

She thought, If the world will not stir itself to punish the wicked. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

I stirred the ice around with a spoon in the brownish, cloudy mixture. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

Small flames stirred at the trunk of a tree and crawled away through leaves and brushwood, dividing and increasing. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

At fifteen, still schoolmastering, he took a job in the nearby town of Kendal, and a decade after that he moved to Manchester, scarcely stirring from there for the remaining fifty years of his life. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

Now John knows early American settlers didn’t five in tree huts, but he’ll do just about anything to stir up some excitement. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

I was starting to get hungry just watching her stir the pot. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

I had spent several hours resting fitfully in Michael Reese Hospital’s lobby, stirred from uncertain dreams by the pealing ambulance bells and the groans of patients. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

At the same moment the stirring of the air became perceptible to them; and it grew very cold. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

Or as if the beasts were trembling, stirring . A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

I could feel my soul stirring when he spoke. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

She tested the temperature of the water as Sister Fenella had done, and then sprinkled in some milk powder and stirred it up well. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

Molly gets up from the rocker, goes over and stirs the oatmeal for no reason, puts her palm on the teakettle. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

The effect was galvanizing: his muddied half-chewed tail stirred and he raised his shoulders, then his forelegs, with a convulsive effort, like an old work horse getting up after a fall. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

He poked the eyelash into the water droplet and stirred it, separating the slices from one another. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Arm in arm, the bride and he passed through an arched stone door, as wisps of fog stirred round their legs. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

I got Mr. and Mrs. Diamant up at three thirty, before the house was stirring. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

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

Nokomis said all of these things while stirring syrup, sugaring, constantly checking and rechecking the fires, making extra makuks and cones of birchbark to hold the sugar they would have that year. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

It was like a creature awakening from sleep, and when it moved—sinuous, liquid—and shook open its massive wings, a bone-deep terror stirred in all the warriors. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

But it was also dangerous, deliberately meant to stir up the wingnuts and kooks. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

They slipped in and out of the box of peeling gray, making no stir in the neighborhood, no sound in the labor force, and no wave in the mayor’s office. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

She stirred it carefully so that the spoon didn’t hit the sides, and at the end the young woman snapped her fingers, just like Richard had earlier. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

McCandless was stirred by the austerity of this landscape, by its saline beauty. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

I poured the water for him while he stirred cement and sand together. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

“These old bones aren’t good for much anymore, but they can still squeeze the lemons and stir the sugar,” she says. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

Perhaps the dancers had stirred her after all. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

She opens the box of pancake mix, adds milk and egg, stirs. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

He signed me up for soccer teams to stir the same passion in me. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Then came the murmurs and the mutters, whispered curses, whispered prayers, the hornets stirring in their hive. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The wagon stirred up a lot of dust that kind of settled over everything like a nice, smooth blanket. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Or Mrs. Grasso would ask her to stir the pot of tomato gravy. I Survived the Great Molasses Flood, 1919 2019-09-03T00:00:00Z

Once again his guilty conscience stirred, but he pushed the tiresome feeling away. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

The arcana stir inside me like flickering candles. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

He vanished from sight, although there was a stir in the Dust he left behind, like smoke when a hand is passed through it. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

The moon was reflected in the water with a glassy brilliance, and the breeze gently stirred the rushes and the treetops. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then, coming down from the hills there will be a prince riding, bright in green and silver with a hundred bowmen riding behind him, pennants stirring, horses tossing, jewels flashing... The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

Mama stirred the soup in the kettle, heated it through, and brought some to Nokomis in the tin bowl, with the trader’s spoon. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

Greater encouragement came from Rowan Gaither, whose businessman’s soul was stirred by a device he thought might have great commercial possibilities. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

Then came a sound from the back of the cave: the girl was murmuring and stirring. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

He rubbed his hands to stir the blood and started to dig. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

“There’s nothing wrong with greed. It’s all that lousy Dr. Stubbs’ fault, getting Colonel Cathcart and Colonel Korn stirred up against flight surgeons. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

“Here’s a spoon so you can stir it,” she said as she put the glasses on our trays. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

My hand goes up first in every class so I can stir up a good debate. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

I stand there a minute, watching her stir the iced tea, feeling the discomfort in her posture, her dread that I might be about to ask for her help on the book again. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Soon I heard her quiet, even breathing, but I still couldn’t sleep, not until the sky began to lighten and I heard Pretty Boy stir under his cover. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was a grandeur about the day, about the colossal, barely stirring beeches and oaks, and the light that dropped like jewels through the fresh foliage to make pools among last years dead leaves. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

“She’s waking up,” her dad says as Stella begins to stir. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

He listened intently, waiting for the boy to stir or begin screaming for help. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

For the first time ever I felt a stirring of anger against my father for making me a white preacher’s child from Georgia. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Celia knows that good charms and bad are hidden in the stirred earth near its sacred roots. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Are you sad to be leaving?” he asks, stirring sugar into his coffee, drinking it back in one gulp. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Baba stirs milk and sugar into his tea—one teaspoon of each, measured with slow and steady hands—and gazes thoughtfully at me. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

As he read on, Kit forgot the meaning of the words and felt a stir of pleasure at the sound. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

Roy stirred again and John pushed him away, listening to the silence. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

I was closer to the hyena, but it wasn’t stirring. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

Rafe started stirring the Fruity Pebbles into his yogurt, making the colors bleed into a rainbow swirl. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

They served themselves, stirring the rice with their forks, squinting as they extracted bay leaves and cloves from the stew. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

The wife would not stir herself to sweep the floor of their hut, nor did the children trouble to wash the food from their faces. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

I knocked three times before I heard a gentle stirring in her room. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

I feel his arms stroke my back, his hands tighten around my waist, his breath, and his smell, my tongue warm against his, a stirring inside of me that makes my tongue press farther. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

In his sleep the boy felt something and stirred. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

So they talked until the sun reached its height, and suddenly the noon-bells were rung, and there was a stir in the citadel; for all save the watchmen were going to their meal. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

I let them fiddle with their phones as I stirred the dduk mixture, allowing my muscles to whip the flour and sugar water into a sweet, chewy mass of luck. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Piggy stirred the sand under water and did not look at Ralph. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

“Want to go in and see if anything’s stirring at the inn?” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

She went away a long way without stirring or removing her hand. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

And whether it was the result of gaining height or whether it was the shaman’s spell, a breath did stir the air on Lee’s face. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Suddenly, instead of the guy in charge, I was the one at risk, and I tried to slip by silently, not even stirring the air. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ifemelu stirred the batter and peeled the fruit; her own mother did not bake, their oven housed cockroaches. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

The first whiff of its scent had stirred up some memory which he could not pin down, but which was powerful and troubling. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

If we did not know better, we might be tempted to take all the atoms that make us up, mix them together in a big container and stir. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

The barest trace of magic stirred the air. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

His efforts just seemed to stir up the mud and make the water dirtier. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

My mother moved back and forth like a bear behind me, stirred up by the smell. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

Something big was troubling her enough to stir her far from home. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

My gut is the sea, roiling and stirring with deep dark acidity and malevolent intent. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

There were no leaves to stir in this wilderness, but the air buffeted his body and made his hair stream away from his face; it was wild outside him and wild within. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Only one," she said, "the best of them, my uncle . . . but Brynden Blackfish was a Hilly first. My sister is not about to stir beyond her Bloody Gate." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

“Yeah, but that was before you came to the sleepless city,” said Somkit as he dumped a spoonful of bright chilis onto his food and stirred. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

The pot boiled and bubbled over a fire which hissed and spat, and she stirred it with a spoon as big as an oak tree. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

To Frodo’s great joy the hobbits stirred, stretched their arms, rubbed their eyes, and then suddenly sprang up. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

Faint stirrings and distant sounds came to her from deep inside the belly of the Palace. The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

—You shall never reach it, say I, for if you stir without this House, you shall be taken by the Watch. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

Oversized menus clutched in her arms, Grace felt the first proud stirrings of power rush up from her pedicured toes to the very top curl on her head. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

“This is a quality establishment,” Zack replies, carefully stirring in the sugar with a long spoon. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

Whoa, this is stirring something up in me, breezy and swift. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

There was something familiar in the songs, and he remembered old Betonie’s singing; something in his belly stirred faintly; but it was too far away now. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

My mind spun around everything Styx’s questions stirred up. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

“Many thanks, Archivist, but I don’t wish to cause a stir.” The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

Feeling my hand stir, she gripped it tighter as if she had to finish her story before she could let me go. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

She nodded her head back and forth as she stirred the soup, almost as if she heard music in her head. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

The agent waited alertly for some movement down among the adobe houses, for some telltale stir in the shadows between buildings or in the cottonwood darkness along Indian Creek. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Presently he said in a soft voice: “Do not stir an instant. It is enough. You attend him; I will look to her.” Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

First to stir were the families with small children; Harry had never seen witches and wizards this young before. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

There were sounds in the world now, too: insects were stirring, and a very slight breeze was rustling the dry grass stems growing higher up the dune. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

The roar and clatter of water, the great swirl against the horses' fetlocks, the cool, stirring air and the darting dragon-flies, filled Shasta with a strange excitement. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z

This is what Uncle C was stirring up? Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

“I will never stir from your side,” said I, “when I am suffered to be near you. Please God, I will be as true to you as you have been to me!” Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z

A dragonfly hovered directly above the young mouse, gently stirring his whiskers. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

I wished he hadn’t said that ’cause it stirred my worries up and I’d been doing such a good job of keeping them locked in tight. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

I could feel a faint stir of excitement in my breast. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

He never stirred, and I had no time to tend to him. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

Adam stirred his tea and watched the sugar crystals whirl and disappear into liquid. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

It was one in the morning and hardly anything stirred in those wide downtown streets. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

He looked up and shrugged, then went back to his stirring. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

They could hardly see for the thick black smoke issuing from the stall in which Hermione was stirring the cauldron. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

She runs at him and he melts before this whirling dervish with a damaged child in her arms and a healthy one stirring inside. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

Hope stirred in me, and I believed that Horatio would succeed in calming Hamlet's madness and reconcile him and my brother. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

There was another stir from the crowd, but nothing happened. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

The younger children are restless, and the older boys stir up trouble in small ways, wherever they can find it. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

There’s Papa with his stethoscope and Kazi stirring a pot of something. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

The dragon stirred, glittering like a mountain of pennies. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

“Frolic?” he called, and the puppy woke, stirred, and came to him. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

Gurgi, whose leg had shown no improvement, stirred restlessly and whimpered in his sleep. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z

He stared at the river, and the breeze stirred his hair like white smoke. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

As I stirred around in the rusty old cans, I thought of another time I had searched for a can. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

“But Ma, as sure as I’m standing here, she’s been stirring up trouble and heartache from day one and I’m tired of it.” Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

There was a very small stir; shoulders turning slightly, quick glances, expressions of surprise. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The orange Kool-Aid we drank was muddy, because the rain had stirred up the river before we filled our jugs. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

Her head was half bent to watch her shoes stir the circling leaves. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Wow, this thing sure stirs up some memories,” G’ma says, grunting as she bends at the waist to remove the Green Book. Clean Getaway 2020-01-07T00:00:00Z

Clover tried to stir her stout limbs to a gallop, and achieved a canter. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z

She browsed the busy pages with a crisp flip-flip-flip that stirred up the faint smell of paper. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z

Mama doesn’t even stir when Charlie jumps on the bed, and she doesn’t say anything when I tell Charlie to leave my stuff alone. Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z

“So, tell me then, how long do you think...?” he says, stirring the air beside his head. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

This family, on a Saturday morning in October, began, one by one, to stir out of their dreams of affluence and vengeance into the anonymous misery of their storefront. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I just wanted to stir up the liquid a little. We’ve got to hit the fire next.” Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Some boys stir the parts in their kits halfheartedly. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

In the ragged hedge on the opposite side of the field the boughs of the elm trees were swaying very faintly in the breeze, their leaves just stirring in dense masses like women’s hair. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

He adds milk, stirs it noisily, rests the small silver spoon on the rim of his saucer, and takes a long slurp. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

“There must be a reason,” Marly said, and stirred the island of marshmallow around and around in her cup. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

Unseen, on the edges of the undulating buttes, deer and wild turkeys stirred and every now and then the night burst alive with a shooting star that left a delicate and misty trail. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Tiny Aiyi stirs suddenly, her head rolls and then falls back, her mouth opens as if to answer my question. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had no desire to get her roommates stirred up over nothing. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

I’m usually good at staying one step ahead of a major squabble, but my sisters seemed to have gotten better at keeping things stirred up between them. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

This is the first kiss where I actually feel stirring inside my chest. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

She’s making a beef dish, stirring the pot while talking nonstop in a friendly Pakistani accent. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

Eleanor heard Arthur take up a book, and put it down, and light a cigarette, and sigh, and stir, and finally say, “Listen, isn’t there anything to do around here? Where is everybody?” The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

A troll stirs a large pot alongside a winged pixie. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

“In Godspell, Jesus stirs the pot. He’s a rebel, and I was a rebel.” Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

She gave me a short, hard look and then stirred the pot of beans she had on the stove. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

The first minority candidate ever elected to the board, her tenure had been as stirring as it was controversial. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

To the boys, he seemed at times almost devoid of emotion, yet year after year he somehow managed to stir the deepest and most affirmative emotions many of them had ever known. 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 stirring in the crowd, a few hoots of derision, but Kennedy smiled. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

Bitter turned her head to glare at her husband, and Jam could almost smell her mother’s temper as it began to stir, boiling in her chest under her silk nightgown. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

Working with her hands stirred her old, fearful industry. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

For once, I was up before Osh, though he was stirring in his bed as I slipped past him. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

She stirred the water all the time with a big wooden spoon, and sifted in the meal until the kettle was full of a thick, yellow, bubbling mass. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was lost, astray in a strange house where nothing and no one now stirred in him the slightest vestige of affection. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

At night masked lovers met under the rose-hung colonnades or in the lamplit gardens, and the air stirred with the scent of jasmine and throbbed to the music of the wire-strung mandarone. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was a rustling, a stir among the people on the benches. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

Or when Mother turned her head I’d scoop up a fingerful of molasses from the jar and stir it into my milk. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Another thing that caused a stir among teachers and students was my peculiar way of writing: I wrote upside down, literally. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

There are six or seven base women stirring and scooping food from the pots. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

A little wind stirred outside, swinging the door wide open On creaking hinges. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Everybody remembered the plague of robins that announced her return, and the tale about her watching Hannah bum was stirred up again. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

Intent on keeping their balance, they ignored him altogether, and Lord Asriel felt the hair stir at the back of his neck when he realized that they were ghosts. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

Dad stops stirring eggs and stares at my empty glass. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

You see, my dramatic entrance to the University had made quite a stir. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Then he added, "He can be sluggish if you don't stir him from time to time with a stick." The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

This was the challenge she was putting to existence—she would not stir, not for dinner, not even for her mother calling her in. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

All around her, men and boys stirred and crawled from their pallets. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

The dust they stirred floated up and hung in front of the sun that was dipping behind the hills. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

People begin to stir, telling each other good night with solemn nods. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

I looked at Mom, who was stirring her soup as if it were an ordinary evening, and that was when I lost it. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

I stirred the fire and added some wood. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

At the edge of the field were the elm trees, faintly stirring, and somewhere beyond that was the stream where the dace lay in the green pools under the willows. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

“He said it was stirring. That’s a lot more than just happy. You have to pay attention. You really embarrass me. You—” The sight of some high school students distracted me. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

I wonder that religion can live or die on the strength of a faint, stirring breeze. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

The window was open; net curtains stirred in the breeze. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

My thoughts were interrupted when the wonders of night life began to stir in the silence around us. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

But it had, and as the last notes of the music faded into silence I felt the audience begin to stir. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

She wanted to watch Mo giving Elinor's books new clothes, pressing fragile gold leaf into the leather with his stamps, choosing endpapers, stirring glue, fastening the press. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

The air of the bell jar wadded round me and I couldn't stir. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

Garfield was respected for his ability to work with those of different viewpoints, and he had given the delegates a stirring address calling for party harmony. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

The men worked well and quickly, with many a sidelong glance at us; they seemed to enjoy having created such a stir and lured such a big audience. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was a new vague doubt stirring in his brain. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

This was their best shot at stirring the goddess into action. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

No one stirred or spoke until Ekheneos broke the spell—an old man, eldest of the Phaiakians, an oracle, versed in the laws and manners of old time. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

I spent hours stirring up the pond bed with my toes and a stick, gathering the tubers that floated to the top. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

Soon after Nasser’s interrogation began, his duffel bag created a stir. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

Because it is so magnificent, my book creates a huge stir. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

As Dany walked to the empty chair at the foot of the table, they did not stir, nor speak, nor turn to face her. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

“The snake had not stirred,” Nathan said as he came back. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

Watching the captain at work, stitching a head wound, Turner felt the stirrings of his old ambitions. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

At last James stirred, and his eyes opened. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

A patch of old snow, he thought, until he saw it stir. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

I shake some vinegar into my hot and sour soup and stir it in. Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Not a sound, and nothing stirred, although I watched for hours.’ The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Lkossa’s streets, it seemed, were only just beginning to stir, filling with people leaving their homes and setting up wares for the day. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

Two black women sat stirring the beans and talking about a shared memory back from the city, about a play where the main actor had been too drunk to recite his lines. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

The wind stirred the wolverine trim on hood and the owl turned his gleaming eyes upon her. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ann gave herself up to the pious delight that hymn singing had always stirred in her ever since she was a child in the small wooden church down the road from her father’s house. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

I stirred the pot which I had put down in the sun and took a spoonful of the uncooked lentils and rice in my mouth. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Pa and Mr. Highgate stirred everyone and they lit torches and searched high and low but didn’t come up with nothing or no one. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

“In research, as in all business of exploration, the stirring time comes when a fresh region is unlocked by the discovery of a new key.” The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

In their lust, which age had turned to kindness, they moved their lips as though to stir up the taste of young sweat on tight skin. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

Now that I recognized Yakov’s dybbuk for what it was, I could feel him stirring inside of me like a phantom limb. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

He shaved his down to a powder with a straight edge razor then dipped a heaping spoonful into a cup of hot water and stirred it up with sugar. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

I push the thought away, concentrating on the pulse of the music and the stirring blond beauty before me. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

The outrage that the demonstration stirred in C.P. stayed with him as he drove back across town to the small gas station he had recently bought. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

I ate a bowl of it, stirring in multiple packets of crackers, and looked over the bus routes. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Throughout this part of the country the farms lay tranquil under the winter snow, waiting for spring and the plow and the stir of new life. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

She stirred who-knows-what poor wild thing into the stew and called it beef or rabbit. The Midwife's Apprentice 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

He caused no stir, put out no vibration, became as nearly invisible as it is possible to be. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

She stirred up the fire and brushed off the stove-top with a turkey wing. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

Only a gentle noise on the edge of hearing, a soft fluttering as of a song half whispered, seemed to stir in the boughs above. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

As I whipped, beat, and stirred the lemon cake batter, I missed hearing my sisters’ voices and having them around me. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

She poured dry mustard in a glass, stirred water into it until it was partly fluid, and drank it. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

The sun filled the car and the children, sleeping in the back, began to stir heavily against the new day. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

She neither stirred nor murmured, but hung in his arms profoundly asleep. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

The last few nights have been a mix of strange feelings stirring in my belly. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

The hum and rattle of machinery faintly stirred the air. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

Whistling, grunting, belching, tapping his foot, stirring restlessly, sniffling. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Up here, a hundred feet high, a little wind was blowing, stirring the snow. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

He grabbed my hand that wasn’t stirring and held it up to my eyes. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

They create something in the pit of our stomachs that stirs up those emotions and more. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

He stirred, and she felt every part of him shift against her. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

But the Glow-worm didn’t stir, so the Centipede reached out of his hammock and picked up one of his boots from the floor. James and the Giant Peach 1961-11-01T00:00:00Z

He did not mention Papa—he hardly mentions Papa in his letters—but I knew what he meant, I understood that he was stirring what I was afraid to stir myself. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

The sound stirred a new feeling in Frightful. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

The fourth planet from the Sun has stirred the imagination of humans for eons. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

Gathering a blanket around her shoulders, Alice crawled to the fire and put another log on the ashy heap, stirring it until she found a few red embers, and put the saucepan on to heat. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

When a couple of hours had passed I heard something stirring in the Count’s room, something like a sharp wail quickly suppressed; and then there was silence, deep, awful silence, which chilled me. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

A breeze blew into the kitchen, stirring the ruffled curtains and carrying with it the odors of grass and flowers and orange blossoms. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

She stood in the kitchen, stirring a pot of green beans and taking swigs from the bottle of hooch in her pocket. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

There was not a human creature anywhere, not a leaf stirring, not even a bird awake. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

The noisy Greek camp was hushed; nothing was stirring there. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Accuse you?” gasped Ranofer, aghast at the hornet’s nest he had stirred up. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

An autumn breeze stirred her hair and sent a scurry of leaves racing toward her. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

Still, when she held a pupa—or “date pit,” as she called it—with its outline of tiny wings beneath the protective shell, she felt the creature stirring within. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

I heard a stir in the ward, opened my right eye, and saw that Billy’s father had gone. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

An April breeze ran across the meadow, stirring the bushes and the trees in one long chilly sigh. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

Two young boys, the only children there, were going from fire to fire shaking grain in shallow pans and stirring it with paddles as it parched. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had only one plan himself—and that was to keep her stirred up until she gave herself away. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

A breeze stirred through the open window, and the crystals of the chandelier struck a gentle chord. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was a sensation in his hearts, though, as a stirring of embers. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Thank the gods, Hazel and Frank began to stir. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Moths were perched on the wooden headboard and the pillows and the wall behind the bed, and when the door opened, they lifted into the air like leaves stirred by a wind. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

I lifted my mug and stirred the spoon. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

From the corner of my vision, they seem to stir. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

The horde of arai wailed, flapping their leathery wings and stirring up clouds of blackness. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

A late-afternoon sprinkle had stirred up the dust, and now a slow breeze carried in an almost-radiant smell of dust and dry pinon pine and sage. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z