These two very old people are the father and mother of Mr. Bucket.
If you want to find Cherry Tree Lane all you have to do is ask a policeman
at the crossroads.
from Mary Poppins by P.L. Travers
"What's that noise?" asked Jean.
from A Castle of Bone by Penelope Farmer
"Don't look at him," Ben whispered.
from It Goes Eeeeeeeee! by Jamie Gilson
"Gramma, is that man following us?"
from In the Land of the Unicorns by Bruce Coville
Pew! Barber ran out onto the front porch.
from The Trouble with Magic by Ruth Chew
No, in those days no one ever thought of such a peril to the existence of
the human race.
from Monster Museum by Alfred Hitchcock
The last time we saw Charlie, he was riding high above his hometown in the
great glass elevator.
from Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator by Roald Dahl
Before my brother and I found the strange little creature under the sink we
were a normal happy family.
from It Came from Beneath the Sink by R.L. Stine
"You're the what?" The dinner plate young Richard Morgan held dripped
rinse-water on the kitchen linoleum as he stared suspiciously at his
father.
from Ghost Lane! by Jane Louise Curry
Blork was sitting in his secret place holding his poodnoobie.
from Space Brat by Bruce Coville
"Do you have the lizard snort?" asked Grizelda.
from The Dragonslayer by Bruce Coville
I didn't like the school in Winter Hill.
from Molly's Pilgrim by Barbara Cohen
It was a cold winter Sunday afternoon.
from The Mystery of the Monster Movie by David Adler
A wild ringing neigh shrilled up from the Spanish galleon.
from Misty of Chincoteague by Marguerite Henry
Sometimes Jimmy imagined his father carrying a canoe on his shoulder and
sometimes not.
from The Man in the Ceiling by Jules Feffer
It was not a dark and stormy night.
from The Celery Stalks at Midnight by James Howe