| 单词 | sugar |
| 例句 | Their grandmother served them bowls of hot oatmeal with brown sugar and milk to put on it. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z Coffee is even more interesting, for when the hot black fluid has ceased, a squirt of milk comes down and an envelope of sugar drops beside the cup. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z Work on sugar plantations was backbreaking, and treatment inhumane. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z Fig’s blood sugar was still too high, so Dr. Spires had increased his daily insulin amount. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z ‘Lemon rind rubbed on a lump of sugar and boiling water with rum. It’s a good drink.’ The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z And unless folks didn’t want his hands on their foodstuff, he’d soon be weighing up sugar and flour and drawing molasses out of the barrel. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z We still sometimes do that today: For example, gingerbread mixes sugar with spices such as ginger, clove, and nutmeg. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z Then the colonists traded their sugar for English fabrics, clothes, and simple manufactured goods, or they took their rum directly to Africa to buy slaves—to sell to the sugar islands. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z When the Portuguese regained control of the area, the Dutch fled to the Caribbean, bringing knowledge of how to grow sugar with them. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z We went out for breakfast, where I ate a bowl of oatmeal with a heap of brown sugar that melted into syrup over the hot mush. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z Kaira was emptying a packet of sugar into her coffee when he sat down next to her. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z He wouldn’t go back to the stables until Evy had come down, given him a bit of apple or some sugar, stroked his nose and called him a good boy. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z She couldn’t make up to me with a dern sugar lump. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z “This was such a good sugaring year,” said Deydey, “we’ll be able to pay off most of our bill at the trader.” The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z He put a cube of sugar between his teeth and sipped slowly from the glass, letting the tea soak through the sugar. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z Even today, the contrast is startling between the desert and the irrigated land, with its lush patchwork of maize, sugar, and fruit trees. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z I’d probably have to add less sugar to the next batch to even it out. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z The Muslims worked out a new form of farming to handle sugar, which came to be called the sugar plantation. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z She bit into it and the sweetness startled her; it was like liquid sugar with a tart, lingering tang. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z I shoveled tea from the bright orange tin into the filter basket, topped it with two scoops of rock sugar, and tucked it under the spigot. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z I feel loved like baby Rosa when I sink into her lap and she uses those sugar words that mean “beautiful girl” in Yiddish. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z There were canvas sacks of com—some to be ground for home use, some sold outright to pay for the coffee and sugar, nails, axe-handle, and tobacco that Jenny had written on a list. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z It’s bad when Grandma won’t talk to us because we can’t run to her when we need to borrow sugar or tea or milk. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z But in those days, if people used fruit, honey, and sugar to sweeten foods, they often mixed salty or even bitter tastes with sweet ones. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z New Guineans tamed sugar cane and bananas, while the first West African farmers made African millet, African rice, sorghum and wheat conform to their needs. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z “Lord, you all make my mouth hurt just thinking about all that sugar,” Momma says, and then she orders a small mango sherbet. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z It had given her pleasure, buying chocolate bars from the newsstand, cheap bars filled with sugar and chemicals and other genetically modified ghastly things. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z He picked up one of the still-warm tortillas, swiped it through the open tin of lard, and sprinkled it with a spoonful of sugar from the sugar bowl. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z The candies looked very much like square sugar lumps—except that each of them had a funny little pink face painted on one side. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 1964-09-12T00:00:00Z Madam said nothing while she stirred the sugar into her tea. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z “Not as good as the flan I used to make in Cuba. The sugar isn’t the same here. And the milk is so watery.” Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z 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 The mere fact that the sugar masters treated their workers as some form of property did not mean the Indians had to accept that definition. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z Adam stirred his tea and watched the sugar crystals whirl and disappear into liquid. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z Old Tallow had her fill of sugar, too, and Nokomis said that in all of her memory there had never been a sugar year like this one. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z Some 400,000 English people stopped buying the sugar that slaves grew and harvested. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z I added sugar and flour to the list, since I was running low. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z Mrs. Fanning called out, "Why, here you are, sugar!" How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z You could be working the fertile fields of Brazil or the hills of Jamaica; the brutal cycle of making sugar was much the same. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z Some is made into other sugars like maltodextrin, which can be used to make instant pudding or gravy. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z We had it read to us every breakfast, as we sat in the high school cafeteria, eating porridge with cream and brown sugar. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z Spoon Man, Stella noticed, simply sat there and watched the activity around him, sipping from a cup of sweet tea, nibbling Mama’s sugar cookies, and burping occasionally. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z Pinch could hardly wait for it to cool—gum sugar! The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z He had brewed them tea, and now poured it for them, offering cream but no sugar. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z She takes another sip of tea through the sugar cube before she replies. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z The taste of whipped cream and powdered sugar and the smooth calves of Herr Siedler’s wife. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z He watched the ants crawl across the mangoes, and he knew where they paused to sniff the sugar inside. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z Monet worked hard in the pump house during the week, and on his weekends and holidays he would visit forested areas near the sugar factory. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Not in Louisiana: There, sugar was god, and work was the only religion. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z “Why is it a sugar snow, Pa?” she asked him, but he said he didn’t have time to explain now. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z He thought maybe somebody had mistaken salt for sugar. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z They liked it as sweet as possible, so Nhamo measured six spoonfuls of sugar into the pot. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z First I washed it and rinsed it with sugar water. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z He followed her as she circled the sugar mill, leading to their favorite spot under a watch light. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z The nurse said, “There he is. Doesn’t he look nice? He’s my darling. He’s my sugar pie.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z I was so delighted to have outsmarted her that I forgot myself and began whistling “Praise the Lord and Pass the Ammunition” as I returned the sugar bowl to the kitchen. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z She grinned to herself and glanced around the room, taking in Pol talking with Tulan, Parsa’s two daughters racing out the door with rock sugar in their fists. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z There’s something amazing about any souffle, how a half dozen eggs flavored by nothing more than sugar and chocolate can turn into something so air-like. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z He was bathing in it, wallowing in it, positively luxuriating in it, his flickering tail hanging over the side of the bowl, flinging sugar across the table. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z Republic, and cane sugar has been replaced by other sweeteners invented in the Age of Science, this one substance forever marked our history. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z When she got home a little before two in the morning, there was a letter propped against the sugar bowl on the kitchen table. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z It has bagels and soup and sugar and chicken in it. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z “Mix some sugar with that flour, put it on her tail, and wrap it in brown paper. Tie it on and leave it for a week.” Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z I take out the envelope with the photograph, set it safely on the sugar tin, and hang my sopping coat beside the door. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z For the sweet, each guest was served a skull of spun sugar. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z “He used to have about a dozen cups of coffee a day with ten spoons of sugar in each.” I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z Jay sat in a chair on the other side of the table and chewed on a ragged wedge of sugar cane from the counter. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z They showed up at the barn every morning at seven sharp, Howard with sugar cubes, Marcela with Wee Biscuit, a toy Scottish terrier given to her during a visit to Bing Crosby’s house. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z They’d looked delicious hanging from the tree’s branches, but cut up into pieces, they emitted an aroma unlike anything he’d ever smelled before—the scent was intensely sweet, almost sugaring the very air around it. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z “My pa always swore by a poultice of brown sugar and cobwebs—though where you’d find cobwebs in this bitter cold, I have no idea. Flour paste and brown paper should work fine, too.” Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z Following the strand of sugar and slavery leads directly into the tumult of the Age of Revolutions. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z He stirred the sugar into the coffee slowly, silently, as if getting ready to say something. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z But if people stopped buying that sugar, the whole slave system would collapse. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z You have to have the factory right there, because sugar starts losing sucrose within hours of being picked. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z His eyes flicked to Bridge’s, then back to his sugar tower. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z The smell of ginger and cloves and burnt sugar drifts over my bed, the smell of her body wash and shampoo and perfume. Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z “I’ve got some great news, Jubi. Brent’s bought us a house in Dallas. When I say us, I mean you and me. And it’s pretty as a dollhouse, sugar. Wait until you see it.” Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z They drink tea with sugar and evaporated milk and eat shrimp cutlets fried in saucepans. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z The English public, now consuming some eighteen pounds of sugar a year, knew little about the lives of the enslaved Africans whose labor sweetened their meals. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z There was something about the fried dough covered with cinnamon sugar that Oliver could not get enough of. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z But no matter how slow he was, there was always a cube of sugar in my pants pocket. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z If Mam has nothing in the house Bridey brings tea, sugar and milk. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z “Can you get some sugar and some fresh water?” Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z Women my mom used to be friends with held a linen cloth above them and ground sugar over it so my parents would have a sweet life together. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z Globes of thinly blown sugar sit on each plate and must be broken open in order to access the clouds of cream within. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z “I have their passport and come for two butter and sugar.” A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z If I do that each year, then someday, when we need them for sugar, we will have them. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z But the young woman with the chestnut hair and the narrow waist who gave sugar to the horses, where was she? Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z All we have is oatmeal, but I will make him a smiley face with brown sugar. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z Because the next words out of her mouth are: “Oh, sugar honey iced tea.” Fast Pitch 2021-08-31T00:00:00Z The owner of a sugar plantation built a home—called the Great House—usually high on a hill, where the tropical breezes blow. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z There was also a laptop computer, a litigation bag with the FBI insignia in yellow, and a box of maple sugar candies—acorns, wee pilgrims, in fluted paper cups. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z She was shorter and stouter than Muriel, with hair the color of cinnamon and sugar. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z Yesterday in the sugar maple, I realized that I was jealous of three things. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z Farther downstream, beyond the bluff, were traces of the old cotton landing where Finch Negroes loaded bales and produce, and unloaded blocks of ice, flour and sugar, farm equipment, and ladies’ things. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z The Doctorita starts clanking around in the kitchen, blending together bananas and sugar and milk in a mixer that shrieks like the wind. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Since sugar and meat were both in short supply, and since it was rumored that infants had died from saccharin mixed into formulas as a sugar substitute, these charges were widely believed. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z E. coli can survive by feeding on two very different kinds of sugars—glucose and lactose. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z All prisoners were to receive the same amount of sugar in the morning: a spoonful and a half. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Mr. Chris had to get back to the sugar camp to watch his fire. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z “My mother asked me to get some sugar for tea at the next village, also some tea leaves if they have them,” I said. Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z Sprinkles look like glittery bugs; even the sugar tastes bitter. Black Brother, Black Brother 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z Charles Monet returned to his job at the pump house at the sugar factory. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Bakers began frosting their cakes with plain sugar—it was cheaper than luck and just as sparkly. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z Today we say,“a spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down.” Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z "She actually gave us up because she doesn't have legs. They had to get cut off because she got the sugar." Ghost 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z Everywhere smelt of suntan oil, hamburgers, and burnt sugar. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z He moved the sugar bowl to the center of the table and pushed it back again. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z He called “tidbit-itis” the cases of enteritis or gastritis due to too many carbohydrates, especially sugar. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z She tipped the cookie jar toward Pa and he reached in and pulled out a cookie that had walnuts stuck to the top of it and sugar dusted all over it! Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z She ate her sugar bun slowly, reluctant to have done with its sweet taste, while the coffee got ice-cold. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z As a proof he produces on the spot two pounds of sugar for us and a half-pound of butter specially for Tjaden. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z This launch wasn’t advertised, because we had no idea how our new propellant of saltpeter and sugar would work. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z Gretchen took a short lap of her coffee, surprisingly neat, then looked up at me and with a gentle paw pushed the sugar bowl over toward me. This Side of Wild 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z Mrs. Odom brought powdered sugar doughnuts out on the porch and we sat around and listened to Jackie tell Waffle House stories. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z “I bet a little sugar will give me a lift. Want one?” Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z As Equiano explained, the sugar slaves could hardly rest even when their day was done. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z Now he changes the walk entirely, bouncing around me, circling like a werewolf who found a box of sugar. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z Abby sits down across from me and immediately gets to work building this fussy little house out of jam and sugar pouches. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z “Mix it with sugar. Tastes just like frosting.” The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z To tell their story, we must begin with what they did—how sugar shaped their lives. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z She reaches behind her and pulls out a sliver of sugar cane and hands it to me, and her eyes smile at me, though her lips just keep on singing their tune. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z “And it’s the sugar I’m worried about, not the caffeine.” The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z Similarly, in Brazil there is a dance called Maculele, which some trace to the sugar fields. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z But most of these things, except perhaps the salt and sugar, would not keep forever, even though I did not use them up. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z She handed Lyddie a cup of her boiled coffee, thick with cream and maple sugar. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z Sugar crushed people, and yet it was because of sugar that Gandhi began his experiment in truth—so that every individual could free him- or herself. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z Right now sugar prices were low, but when people found out how hard it would be to get sugar in the coming months, prices would soar. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z Then he reached out and held my hand, and I felt as though my mouth were full of melting sugar. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z In addition to these sledging rations were powdered milk and cocoa, sugar, tea, potatoes, tobacco, canned meats and vegetables, liquor, flour, and a dozen and one other staples and delicacies. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z “I’m sure teachers are going to love that. A sugar rush on top of the hormonal mood swings of middle schoolers.” Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z I drank it without sugar in the dripping glass, and it was pleasantly bitter. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z Masters of sugar, the Muslims began to use it in lavish displays. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z “She remembered putting something in her mistress’s cocoa that turned out not to be sugar, but a lethal and little-known poison,” said Dumbledore. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z Maculele is danced with sticks or sugar cane stalks, and it looks very much like training for combat. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z Next to my favorite sugar maple tree beside the bam is a tall aspen. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z “Now hand me that sugar dish, Jez. And Jay, get me a lemon.” Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z Besides the chicken and vegetables, the tray has coffee, hot water, a teabag, milk, sugar, salt, pepper, juice, yogurt, and a cookie. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z “I think that extremely unlikely,” said Henry, dropping a lump of sugar into his coffee with a splash. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z Impossible, also, to imagine him calling the boardinghouse again and again until finally Mrs. O’Toole said, “Listen, sugar. She don’t want to talk to you. Get it?” Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z She turned in slow pirouette, dead arms outstretched, snow dusting her dark hair like powdered sugar. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z Sabbath or no Sabbath, that sugar basin is going to be done on time. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z He pointed out the sugar dispenser and apologized to them for the fact that there was no way to make cream available: Petersen’s had run out. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z That meant coffee, tea, sugar, and chocolate were safe. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z Despite the recent rationing of sugar, tires, gas, tea, and coffee, a big turnout of visitors was expected in the coastal towns that summer. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z “Come and take a walk, my dear?” cried Polly, hopping toward the china closet, with a look suggestive of a lump of sugar. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z 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 The twins are hungry again but I know I can’t give them water and sugar all day and night. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z Not only did the slaves need to This 1875 engraving of a sugar harvest in Louisiana shows the factory near the fields. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z But once people learned how to make sugar crystals, they began to use the name sharkara, which also meant “gravel.” Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z That part of the grim history of sugar and slavery was over. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z She smelled like jasmine and sometimes like coffee with cream and sugar. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z But he knew, as soon as he arrived, that he did not need the sugar to cancel out his GI crewcut and his American smile. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z He picks up a box of sugar on the table and proceeds to pour a ton into his mug, spilling as much. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z “I’m a sugar addict, just like your father is an alcoholic.” The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z With the rise of Islam, Egypt became the world’s great sugar laboratory. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z Working in civilian clothes he has confiscated tons of sugar and then watched it disappear from the warehouses, as if through a funnel he is sure leads back into the street. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z “I give up,” Pork Chop said, after trying to mix in the sugar. Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z She put a teaspoon of sugar in the cup and stirred. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z He was very busy with his politics and his business, traveling constantly, financing new political campaigns, buying land and tractors, raising race horses, and speculating on the price of gold, sugar, and paper. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z She talked about stray cats she had rescued or how she had made a mistake and put salt into a cake batter instead of sugar. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z For dessert we ate bizcochitos and hot coffee flavored with sugar and cinnamon. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Aimee considered opting out by claiming low blood sugar from involuntary fasting, but she decided against starting out the year as the class hypochondriac. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z And so by the 1700s, sugar was becoming a standard ingredient in England, Holland, and the North Americas for everyone who had a bit of money. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z “I understand now why Chrissie said she hated sugar season,” Mother said. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z So while his words take us from Africa to the sugar islands, even his memoir does not take us to the fields. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z I know it is my one chance to get as much sugar as I can, so I wait a few seconds to form enough spit in my mouth. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z He took a long pull of the lemonade, which, thankfully, contained sugar, when he saw the movement, or rather, the lack of movement. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z It’s surrounded by bowls of coarse white sugar and lumps of natural brown sugar, and various cookies, fruits, and sweets arranged on plates. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z It was a child’s voice, bell-bright and as sweet as icing sugar. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z Confectioner’s sugar dusts the stubble on his face. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z Its dark sugar crust has cracked on top and the syrup pours down the sides and onto the platter. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z Or my mom could just putt there at her usual, stately 31 miles per hour while Jeffrey and I bounced and chattered in the backseat like two bald monkeys on a sugar high. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z “Why do you think I’m making Christmas sugar cookies?” Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z Or I’d demand to count the sugar packets of an inmate who, I was sure, had taken too many. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z ‘You no-account! Don’t you never think to go stealing sugar in this house. Mr. Hancock is that generous I’d have given you a piece if you had asked politely.’ Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z That was true, but only half true, since the power of the overseers was a result of the curious lives led by the sugar masters. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z This was when the syrup was taken off the fire to cool so that it formed into crystals—grains of sugar. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z “I thought we had some from the butter and sugar we traded.” A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z We treated ourselves to hot tea and sugar and went to bed. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z And beet sugar colored by new processes was now outselling cane sugar from the Caribbean. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z The English were eagerly filling Antigua, Nevis, Saint Kitts, and Montserrat with slaves and sugar mills. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z “You are made of sugar, my bun. Come to the store with me now!” Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z He permanently borrowed about a dollar, enough to grab a few quarter waters—the colored sugar water sold in small plastic bottles at the corner store. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z Dale poured himself a cup of steaming coffee, adding three spoonfuls of sugar. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z “I’m going to give you a little cup of tea. I don’t have any sugar, but something warm will do you good,” she said. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z “Don’t be like that, sugar,” he called, and the raucous laughter started again behind me. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z First, she pulled off a lump of the rice dough and molded it into a small pocket filled with sugar and nuts and sesame seeds. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z In Cuba large-scale sugar planting began in the 1800s, brought by new owners interested in using modern technology. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z So, in 1959, when Hawaii finally became a state, it was more like the multicultural land the United States was becoming than the sugar Hells that were so much a part of its history. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z They were planning this year’s sugaring, a time everyone looked forward to with joy and excitement, as much as ricing, maybe even more. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z The leaves spend the whole day using sunlight to make food—sugars. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z Then came gardenias and benne candy, all bubbling sugar and toasty seeds. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z Square cookies crowded the dish, smelling deliciously of butter and sugar, and Ophie’s mouth watered as she looked at them. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z But there was a delicious anticipation, like molded sugar on her tongue. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z Many of these fractions, the sugars and starches, the alcohols and acids, the emulsifiers and stabi lizers with the strange names, will be made into food. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z Cane loses money as long as it sits, and is on its way to making money once it has been made into sugar. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z “Your grandfather got it all sugared up for you.” As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z As a result of all this effort and care, Egypt was known for the “whitest and purest” sugar. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z Most of the time the tickle refused to go away, so I had to drink milk with honey, sugar or cough drops. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z My siblings stick their fingers into the sugar and lick what they are able to pull out. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The family sugaring place was at the other end of the island. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z “I take two sugars and a giant glug of cream. How do you drink it?” Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z They could eat all they wanted, for maple sugar never hurt anybody. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z Madame Manec sneaks Marie-Laure chocolate bars, slices of cake; this morning they squeeze lemons into glasses full of water and sugar, and she lets Marie-Laure drink as much as she likes. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z The stars were circling the peaks of the mountains, dipping into the cane fields belonging to the sugar mill. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z And then a new voice began to be heard from the most profitable, slave-dominated sugar island of all, the very land to which Columbus had brought his first sugar plants. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z I’d just mixed the batter that we’d dip the Oreos in, and now I was putting some confectioner’s sugar into a shaker. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z We boil milk, sugar, and spices, as if we’re making vanilla pudding. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z In a pure-oxygen environment, 16.7 million joules will be released for every kilogram of sugar used, releasing the explosive force of eight sticks of dynamite. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z I fished the one cup I owned out of the knapsack and poured in hot water and a spoonful of sugar from my supplies, plus a sprig of mint from Mama’s window box. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z It holds a china teapot and cups, cream and sugar, and a plate of cookies. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z There, they would be able to collect flour, sugar, and other provisions, as well as explosives and fuel. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z “Glory be—this Pepsi-Cola must be liquid sugar. Why, I do feel better!” Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z She never washes the jam jars or mugs and there are flies in the sugar and wherever there is sweetness. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z There was a huge sugar maple in front of what must be the parlor door, and another at the porch, which, from the presence of churns and cooling pans, must lead into the kitchen. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z There was a big load of sugar to be unloaded to be used for making ice cream. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The snow covers yesterday’s slush and settles on the rooftops like powdered sugar on a gingerbread town. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z Vegetables such as peas, beans, and sugar beets are sometimes thus protected. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z The first domesticated horse I ever saw was a bay gelding, and it was standing next to the corral, nibbling sugar cubes from Shawn’s hand. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z On their right a wide and graceful parkland led up to a great house with a classical portico as brilliant as icing sugar under the moon. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z That’s when you begin adding sugar and turn the beater on high. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z “We’ll do X-rays, a diagnostic profile, test his urine and blood for sugar levels, and check his thyroid,” Dr. Spires continued. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z Gramps likes this, and so do I. I still climb the sugar maple tree, and I have heard the singing tree sing. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z But he drank, and the coffee was sweet with brown sugar, and strength boiled into him. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z “Hmm,” she said finally in a squeaky little tone and spooned two heaping measures of sugar into her cup. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z After it had steeped awhile, I took out the bags, added quite a lot of sugar and put the pitcher in the basement. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z The pxinies whinnied quietly as they trotted over to see if he had sugar, a carrot, or anything else. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z As I pass under a streetlight, the bulb pops and I smell burnt sugar. Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z Piles of cane are heavy, bulky, and hard to move, while sugar in tiny crystals can be packed into barrels and shipped by water. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z “Actually, I’m diabetic and I need some sugar asap.” Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z I feel as if I’ve been awake for days and running hard; my chest hurts, my muscles cramp as if they’re out of sugar. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z “Start by putting a good sized lump of sugar on your tongue. Brown sugar’s best. Right on the center of your tongue.” Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z “If he doesn’t take his medication like he is supposed to, he will! Checking his blood sugar, eating a balanced diet—he doesn’t want to do any of this!” When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z The very first question she asked Snowball was: “Will there still be sugar after the Rebellion?” Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z I heard the foreman say, “Help George here unload the sugar.” Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z But he’s left me a present beside the sugar tin, where the picture of an SS officer once sat. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z And I'm not gonna pretend like it wasn't amazing living in a house that always smelled like cooked sugar—which smelled like him. Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z I held it with both hands, took a sip of the Lipton tea with sugar and milk, and placed it back on the saucer. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z The twins sat stone still at the table, staring down at the sugar scattered over the table. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z In fact, the global hunger for slave-grown sugar led directly to the end of slavery. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z By the second week of April, the sap had ceased to run, but it had been a good sugaring season. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z Cassie rescheduled for the next test and got her nails done at a salon, Enchanted Blue, while they locked me up and dripped sugar water into my empty veins... Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z I’ll give you sugar cubes at the end of the race, I said. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z Maybe I’ll have a life I’ve never dared to imagine, in a bright, snug house where there is plenty to eat—warm cake and milky tea with as much sugar as I please. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z Some of the clarified syrup was boiled until it turned to sugar and was molded into fancy shapes. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z He entered another stretch of time, and now, lying snugly on his tongue, was a sugared almond, whose sweetness belonged to another world. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z But even more impressive were the number of crops they grew: cassava, sugar cane, yams.... A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z He stood a safe distance away, legs apart and obviously ready to run, holding a stick of sugar cane nearly as tall as himself, which he had bought instead of fireworks. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z My mother said, “Well, but, sugar, it goes both ways. You know how to speak English and they don’t.” The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z They prescribed vitamins and sugar pills and pills to make her sleep, but Celia diminished, ever more pallid, in her bed. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z ‘Own up! I want the name of the filthy little boy who put down the sugar! Own up immediately! Step forward! Confess!’ Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z “Sure! Mom never lets me eat this stuff. She says there’s too much sugar.” From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z “I threw out the brown sugar too, so there won’t be any sugar for the oatmeal.” A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z There will be tea, sugar, flour, milk, butter and a separate docket for a bag of coal from Sutton’s coal yard on the Dock Road. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z “Berries from the garden and homemade raspberry preserves,” Lena said, placing a platter on the table containing toast, butter, a pitcher of milk, a bowl of sugar, and a bowl of jam. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z “So,” Mom says as she sprinkles brown sugar over her bowl of oatmeal. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z The word for “a piece of sugar” in the ancient Indian language of Sanskrit is khanda, which, as it passed through Persian to Arabic to Europe, became candy. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z “I was born in the shadow of that sugar mill,” Guy said. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z In San Antonio, they had made their own presents or exchanged oranges and small bags of roasted pecans dusted in cinnamon sugar. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z Anything that wasn’t at the sugaring place, or anything that broke or wore out, they could make for themselves. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z Tanin dropped lumps of sugar in two of the cups and turned around. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z My room smells like dirty laundry and old candles, not spices or burnt sugar. Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z Rillieux figured out that if the sugar syrup was heated in a series of special sealed pans, instead of in open cauldrons, the whole process would be transformed. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z It is a reasonable question, partially answered when the coffee arrives and my father slips a fistful of sugar into a pocket of his sport coat. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z Back in the cellar we ate sugar cookies and jars of plums in syrup. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z With pains like this, I need more relief than a cup of hot sugar water can provide. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z When we had watered all the hives of Tiburon and sprinkled enough sugar to cause a human being to gain fifty pounds, we drove home hot, hungry, and nearly drowned in our own sweat. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Having seen the smoke and tasted the sugared air on his tongue, he delayed his journey to Palestine to detour back toward Vienna. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z Cane sugar had brought millions of Africans into slavery, then helped foster the movement to abolish the slave trade. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z It was getting to the perfect stage of meltiness, where the sugar and caffeine came together in a glorious adrenaline spiral. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z He added more sugar to his coffee and nodded slowly. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z Slave labor was valuable because it produced cheap sugar that everyone wanted to buy. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z Wanting both felt like a huge ask; it felt like wishing for hot ice cream or a bitter sugar cube. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z “Them that would steal the sugar out of your punch.” Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z Flow she thought to tell me every day that I was her sweet brown sugar. Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z In a mysterious dance of sunlight and sugar, water and wind and soil, we build invisible bridges to connect with the world. Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z He nodded at me, lifted a sack of sugar off a pallet, and set it on the handcart. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “All the way, moving, moving from the mountains through the road of concrete comes the water, from the mountains of Dajabon of Haiti bringing water to the cane field the sugar....” Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z We shared a large cinnamon pretzel and had lemonade, but the sugar caught in my throat and the drink was too sour. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z But that only gave other Europeans the opportunity to take the lead in seeking sugar fortunes. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z She and Charlie could have fed themselves—just one good harvest—one good sugaring—that was all they needed. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z “Do you take cream or sugar with your tea?” the woman continued as if nothing unusual had occurred. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z “Hot and with plenty of milk and sugar in it.” The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z Food was in short supply and so was everything else, and we could sell anything we could get our hands on—cloth, farming tools, wheat, sugar, rum, anything at all. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Near the sugar mill was a large television screen in an iron grill cage that the government had installed so that the shantytown dwellers could watch the state-sponsored news at eight o’clock every night. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z That was why sugar, like salt, was so rare and why, much as she wanted to, Nhamo didn’t dare take a spoonful for herself. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z “Two sugars, no milk,” she called from the sitting room as Conor made the tea. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z “Everything matches and the sugar bowl is right where it should be.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z The tummy medicine tasted like liquid candy canes without sugar, but it worked. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z “No, it’s let—the fields and pasture and sugar bush for the debt. The house and shed we’ll just leave be. I hope the snow don’t do in the roofs.” Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z On the table was the marble slab, the sugar tin, a rolling pin, a large bowl of green apples, and one bright yellow lemon. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z Since he was a young boy, James could be placated by a treat from Alice’s kitchen, the sugar apple that cut short a fit or tantrum. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z The women lined their eyes with dark kohl; some painted their lips and nails, and all of them wore black dresses colorfully embroidered with endless stitches, each the size of a sugar granule. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z I was tense, as usual, turning my sugar to caramel. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z In the arithmetic test, children were given math questions like “When sugar costs 10 cents a pound, how much will five pounds cost” and asked to write their answers in the margin. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The giraffes were following gravel paths, were pausing to munch sugar pears from tree- tops. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z Ginger, a spicy sugared ginger smell, enveloped them. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z She gets out bread and some orange fruit I ain’t never seen before and then some red-colored drink that tastes of berries and sugar. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z Instead, they bought loaves of sugar that carried a label that said, “Produced by the labour of FREEMEN”—the sugar came from India. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z Later, when I was brought dinner, stiff cold porridge with a half teaspoonful of sugar, I refused to eat it. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z I took the sugar spoon from the bowl and put four spoonfuls in my cup, stirred it, smiled at Gretchen, and nodded. This Side of Wild 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z He was a beautiful little boy, sweet as sugar, and had the same temperament as his father. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z Indeed, as late as 1894, when the average English person was eating close to ninety pounds of sugar a year, the average Russian used just eight pounds. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z Instead, we always start Thanksgiving with a cut grapefruit, sugar sprinkled over it the way Lolo likes. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z When he brought chewing gum, we chewed the sugar out of it, then swallowed it whole. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z Ruth is quieter than before, looking down at her cup and playing with the sugar packets, her eyes occasionally wandering to the books that line the walls. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z Since the school had links with many of the great civilizations of Asia, the Mediterranean, and Europe, word of sugar and the experience of tasting its special sweetness began to spread. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z Only to Lotus he gave secretly sugar and oil, because she was not accustomed to hardship. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z Now growers who knew all about plantations, mills, and refining found sugar waiting for them on islands as beautiful as Hispaniola had been when Columbus arrived. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z Oh no, you’ll spoil her, too much sugar is bad for them. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z That made it extremely hard to take when Parliament sided with the sugar planters. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z A smile spreads across my face when I realize it is sugar! First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z In another commercial neighborhood, gangs ransacked every grocery store, littering the streets with squashed fruit, flour, eggs, and sugar and turning the neighborhood into what resembled one giant dump. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z Despite the late addition of chopped fresh mint to a blend of melted chocolate, egg yolk, coconut milk, rum, gin, crushed banana and icing sugar, the cocktail was not particularly refreshing. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z The sugar cane is sticky, and I chew it so hard that it hurts my teeth. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z First he put butter and sugar into the large metal bowl. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z She reaches for the dish of sugar packets, takes out a pink one, a white one, a blue. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z It's so much like the ocean, but warmer, like it's mixed with toasted sugar. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z Confusion, panic, and incoherent speech are all symptoms of extremely high blood pressure and blood sugar, which can lead to heart attack and stroke. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z Running away from the sugar plantations, or attacking them in force, was another kind of statement. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z “No, it isn’t morning yet. You must go to bed, and not trouble poor Mamma. Then you can have the little cake with sugar on it.” Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z It was black, and it didn’t have any sugar but I didn’t want to get up and get the milk and sugar next to the marine colonel. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z A pewter mug was in front of his father, and a cup of hot milk, sweet and aromatic with sugar and cinnamon, before himself. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z We heated water to soak a cube of gichy-michy in, and drank the water hot, sometimes with a bit of sugar melted in it; harnessed up again and went on. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z She spooned porridge into her mouth, found it to be bland, and scooped four heaping mounds of brown sugar into the gray mess. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z I have to blow tiny sugar ants from each before putting it in my mouth. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z In one hundred years, the amount of sugar an English person used had increased by 450 percent. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z Mixed in with the sugars are important minerals the grasses have drawn up from the soil. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z “She made it with milk and lots of sugar.” Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z It seemed only a few minutes later that he passed a large fistful of sugar packets to another friend of his, instead of the prescribed six. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “It’s a little too sweet. It would be nicer if you reduced the sugar in it.” Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z “All right, big man. Think you can give me some sugar?” The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z Lee had set out one cup and a bowl of sugar on the table beside his big chair. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z She put three spoons of sugar in her coffee and, holding the spoon in the cup with her thumb so that the handle threatened to puncture her eyeball, she slurped a bit more. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z It was when I had gone to find her a Coke that I saw Mrs. Baker, standing alone beside a pile of sugared strawberries. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z I knew how she must have looked when she was young, tall and handsome, going round to the stables at Manderley with sugar in her pockets, holding her trailing skirt out of the mud. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z I check the house for belongings, shut the door to the attic, and set the photograph upright beside the sugar tin. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z On the morning of her eleventh birthday, she wakes to find two new packages where the sugar bowl should be. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z But, don’t care how firm your determination is, you can’t keep turning round in one place like a horse grinding sugar cane. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z These were, he proved, identical to the sugar obtained from cane. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z He adds another spoon of sugar to his tea and waits for her to elaborate. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z “How is that racist? I only took sugar because I like to bake.” A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z We’d shake the powdered sugar on top of the fried Oreos at the end, and eat them while they were still warm and gooey, with mugs of cold milk. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z When Mommy left for work, we dipped white bread in syrup for lunch, or ate brown sugar raw out of the box, which was a good hunger killer. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z After supper, Pa took them on his knees as he sat before the fire, and told them about his day at Grandpa’s, and the sugar snow. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z One of the tall sugar maples that turns bright orange in the fall. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z “Ah, Janey-Jane. When have I ever passed up the opportunity to steal a little sugar?” Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z "I'm afraid I don't have any sugar," she said. Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z “Would they have paid that for sugared blood?” Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z He told her she needed to educate herself, learn the warning signs, know how to bring down her blood pressure and control her blood sugar. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z Bowls and measuring cups and ingredients covered the counters; flour and sugar dusted their clothes. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z How we’d be covered in flour and sugar after rolling plum dumplings. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z The desk was still there, but now it had a big aluminum coffee urn sitting on it, with Styrofoam cups, creamer, and sugar spread out around it. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z That night when she tucked me in, Mama said, “Will, sugar, try to be a better boy tomorrow. Hear?” Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z Cells depend on chemical reactions to live: during respiration, for instance, sugar combines chemically with oxygen to make carbon dioxide and energy. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z In order to create sugar, Europeans and colonists in the Americas destroyed Africans, turned them into objects. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z That was a gene’s signal to make more RNA messages and thereby generate the relevant enzyme to digest the sugar. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z By the time she reached the sugaring camp she felt a little bit afraid. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z “There’s plenty of sugar in the store. I saw that. And it keeps. But when it’s gone—what then? You see, that’s foolish and shortsighted.” Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z And in the Carolina colony, where molasses was called “long sugar,” it served as a substitute for sugar. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z To the British, the Rhode Islanders who rolled the barrels off the ship so that they would not have to pay the sugar tax were smugglers, pure and simple. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z Etta put cups and saucers on the table, opened the sugar bowl. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z 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 Once a sugar-sensing protein had detected sugar in the environment, it would recognize one such tag and turn the target genes on or off. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z When Ruth was naked and lying there as moist and crumbly as unbleached sugar, he bent to unlace her shoes. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z It reminded him of a cookie made with sawdust instead of sugar. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z “You, um, you know how Dr. Spires said it could take a while before Fig’s blood sugar is normal?” Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z A small store was set well back from the road in a grove of sugar maples. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z Naomi had swept up the sugar and cleaned the counters by the time Henry came out of the twins’ room a few minutes later. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z She’d get mad and hit me if I crossed her or sassed her, and I’d do meany things to her, like tripping her up or putting sugar in her salt cellar. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z Americans were intensely aware of the power that the sugar lords wielded in London. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z Sits with the taste of sugar still in her mouth, licking her lips. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z Every flavor imaginable—sugar apple, tamarind, soursop, guava, mango, coconut. Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z He knew he was on the verge of passing out from low blood sugar. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z I decided to do what I’d learned at Ari’s Cakes—make a few small batches of cupcake batter, each with different amounts of sugar. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z There were tamer trips, to textile factories and sugar refineries, but my favorite is always the slaughterhouse. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z A horse- drawn fruit wagon went by, its driver singing: “Fresh from the vine, sweet as sugar, red as wine.” The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z The kind of sugar easiest to produce from cane is dark—the color comes from molasses, which also makes that form of sugar spicy and even bitter. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z With the precision of a chemist, Baroness Hoover dropped three cubes of sugar into her tea. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z The girls couldn’t help laughing, and felt better for it, though Meg shook her head at the young lady who could find consolation in a sugar bowl. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z Next to the mounds of fruits and spices at the fairs were piles of a medicine that the Italians also bought from the Muslims: sugar. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z Miss Leefolt, she got a hand on her hip, waiting for her sugar. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z Once again music and songs helped the sugar workers to keep up their spirits—to speak to one another in ways their bosses could not understand. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z On Sunday evening, April 7,1765, a swarm of Rhode Island men, their faces blackened, boarded the Polly and stripped the ship of its cargo: barrel after barrel of molasses from the sugar islands. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z And yet, for that very reason, sugar also became the lynchpin of the struggle for freedom. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z Habib added four cubes of sugar to his coffee and stirred slowly. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z Instead, it was vaguely grassy, but mostly tasted like sugar beet juice. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z Then she made me some Red Zinger herbal tea with sugar in it but I didn’t like it, and she said, “You can stay for as long as you want to stay.” The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z “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 The Quaker William Allen, who had sworn off sugar for nearly fifty years while he battled against slavery, drank his first cup of tea with a spoonful of white, free sugar. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z There’s sugar beets and sweet corn and green peas. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z “He from down South. They named him that because when he was a baby, he used to eat sticks’a butter rolled in sugar,” Freddy said. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z Patty paused to make sure we knew what she meant by the sugar. Ghost 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z She reads aloud to Mrs. Alducci, and then brings her favorite resident, Mr. Giancarlo, a sugar cookie in the shape of a snowman. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z In Cuba, we see guests competing against Cubans in dominoes, and a line for sugar cubes, and Rufus cheers for his roots. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z “No, Ash, we would never do that. But every time you get a letter, you go on a little high, then you crash, like too much sugar at a birthday party.” Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z William Clark visited the island of Antigua in the 1830s and painted the steps in making sugar. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z Every few weeks, UN workers would deliver the rations of rice, beans, vegetable oil, sugar, salt, and a flour mixture called sosoma, made of soybeans, sorghum, and corn. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z If they were stationed near a village, they could exchange soldier’s luxuries such as tobacco, cigarettes, and sugar for milk and eggs. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z I thought about the kilo of sugar he’d tried to stash under his shirt. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Yeah, I thought, and I bet you kissed Mr. McAllister between every sugar lump and apple, and hugged him every time the mare did what you wanted her to. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z There they began to apply skills they had learned from the Muslims: how to plant sugar cane, and how to refine sugar. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z I cut a thick slice off the loaf while she sprinkled sugar onto the plate. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z “You know I want to come up and give her some sugar.” Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z They had never bothered much with clarifying at the farm as there had hardly been enough syrup or sugar for the family, but the mistress was very particular and stood over Lyddie directing her. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z That was how Mama found me: barefoot and in my nightclothes eating out of the pot of rice from dinner, Dinah propped up against the sugar bowl facing me, in the dark kitchen. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z There was an article in a Pittsburgh newspaper that said it was the greatest sugaring year in the whole history of Pennsylvania! Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z The elms and chestnuts are long gone, the stately hemlocks and flowery dogwoods are going, and the red spruces, Fraser firs, mountain ashes, and sugar maples may be about to follow. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z A truck is parked there—with a man loading up my sugar maple. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z There were no mangoes among the fishermen’s great stores, but sucking on his piece of sugar cane reminded Salva of those happier times. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z When he finished he said: “You know what I would like? Some iced tea. With sugar in it.” Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z Other than trying to find the right insulin dosage to bring his blood sugar down, which could take almost three months, everything else was looking up for Fig. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z She says, “Ruth May, sugar, you don’t have a speck of business with the Jeune Mou-Pro, so when you see them, why, you run on into the house.” The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z “Wasn’t that long ago folks didn’t have any sugar. No coffee or tea, either.” Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z I have more sugar on my one finger than anyone else does! First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “Before night,” Pa said, “we’ll see the last of the sugar snow.” Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z In her own portion she put several spoons of sugar. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z He crushed aspirins in a cup and dissolved them in water and put in some sugar and sat and lifted the boy’s head and held the cup while he drank. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z She broke out the sugar water to get glucose to the brain. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z She’d also had three cups of tea, and thus nine cubes of sugar, which meant she had enough fuel to power an electro-plasma system. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z By 1814, there were more than three hundred factories in France alone, turning beets into sugar. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z My grandfather had brought sugar and cream and two loaves of fresh bread so we had a good meal. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Mama made a very fine bread pudding from slices of stale bread, sugar, cinnamon and a penny apple sliced thin. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z Obediently, he quieted and stared in the same direction at the spindly maples that made up their stand of sugar bush. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z I couldn’t really blame him, I don’t think I’d be real happy about sharing my brown sugar and my folks with any strange kids either. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z The sugar maple tree is my thinking place. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z Hawaii is where the two journeys of sugar cane join. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z Her family had raised sugar beets, cattle, hay, and corn. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z People in Mexico and Russia and Poland will spoon out her sugar for coffee, or to bake in their birthday cakes. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z In it I kept a kettle, some sugar and coffee, and a tin mug. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z The newspapers tell you what you can purchase: five hundred grams of sugar, two liters of milk, two kilograms of potatoes. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z The doors to the pantry stood open, and Eliza’s crocks of preserves, the sugar cone, and her spice cabinet were missing. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “Sorry. Blood sugar’s low,” said Number Two, hastily unwrapping a granola bar. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z I will see her every day, and we will go searching together for lovely things—gold-trimmed dishes, and a white cat, and a sugar Easter egg, and a cup of stars. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z Things we never run out of are sugar, flour, and cornmeal. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z I have to go to the brook for more water, and sometime soon I am going to have to go to the store, since I am running out of several things, including flour and sugar. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z It’s a blend of 55 percent fructose and 45 percent glucose that tastes exactly as sweet as table sugar. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z At night we sat around the fireplace and ate baked apples spiced with sugar and cinnamon and listened to the cuentos, the old stories of the people. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Eliot drank soda from a paper cup, Mrs. Sen steeped a tea bag with sugar and cream. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z “Mi niña, good idea. I can be making the sugar crust in the meantime.” Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z “I’m very fond of sugar. And I think it’s a good idea to put nuts on top of things, don’t you?” Raymie Nightingale 2016-04-12T00:00:00Z She’d baked batch after batch of sugar cookies and peanut-butter blossoms, and Ruth really had done everything that was supposed to be Christmasy even more perfectly than my parents had ever quite managed. The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z The manager brings her a cup of tea with an extra lump of sugar, but it remains on the desk, untouched, and grows cold. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z “Oh, yes, I sent him to the next village for sugar.” Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z Although the vet had said it could take up to ten weekly visits to get his blood sugar in check, I was optimistic. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z He looked like a cookie rolled in sugar. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z Maria soon learned that this colony in Surinam existed for a single purpose only: to grow and harvest sugar. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z “I’m gonna make me another one, if you don’t mind, sugar. I got problems.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z The sugar and chocolate and caramel scents were all floating out of the box, landing in my nose, and even though I’d eaten breakfast, my stomach gurgled. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z Peggy placed a plate, knife, fork, spoon, sugar, cream, and bread before him; then she dished up the bacon and eggs. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z Mom and Dad helped with each of the steps—creaming the butter and sugar together, adding the flour and cereal milk and other ingredients. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z I hold it out to her, the way I would if I were coaxing a horse with sugar. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z Suddenly I was tired and frazzled, like I was coming down off a sugar high. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z “What is that? Some kind of sugar substitute?” Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z English, North American, French, and Dutch ships competed to supply the Caribbean plantations and buy their sugar. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z There was the thirst I had when I watched clear, sweet juice trickle from sugar cane being crushed. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z I ate the egg, I ate the sausage, and when I reached for more sugar for my tea she slapped my hand away. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z She is comforted by the order of the round loaves, the texture of grain and powdered sugar, the sustaining aromas of vanilla and almond. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z He moved there because many Indians were already in Natal, laboring as indentured sugar workers. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z For breakfast we had scrambled eggs or Cream of Wheat with globs of butter and sugar. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z After that, the four of us wander the mall, trying on purple lipsticks and eating sour apple candy slices crusted in sugar that turn my tongue green. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z “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 Some chocolate had the bitters and you added sugar. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The Englishman sent over real coffee and sugar and marmalade and cigarettes and cigars, and the doors of the theater were left open, so the warmth could get in. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z With my coffee, cream, and sugar cubes mixed, I return to my table. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z ‘Johnny, hurry, hurry! It’s Mr. Hancock. He’s ordering a sugar basin. Can’t you go faster? Shake a leg.’ Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z I felt my resolve to keep my distance melting down like the sugar in those leaves. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z And that is precisely where Marc’s family story begins—with Nina’s grandfather, the serf who bought his freedom from figuring out how to color beet sugar. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z “Tea,” which had to be transported from Asia, and “sugar brought from the West Indies ... compose a drink cheaper than beer.” Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z “She cooked up sweet milk for you, too, with nutmeg, cinnamon, and sugar. Said you was to have some with your gingerbread.” Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z They would have resisted any tax, but sugar was an especially sore point. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z If I could bottle the tiny winds, they'd turn to sugar dust. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z The toe Shrank back Into place, And on that day I began to think Of Kool-Aid not As sugar on The tongue But as medicine. Neighborhood Odes 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z Rather than consuming both sugars equally, the E. coli cells had selectively consumed glucose first. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z “Spilling sugar. Spilling salt is bad luck, but sugar...” I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z Toothpaste, sugar, and bug spray weren’t as good as Apollo’s music, but they made for a pretty decent flash-bang. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z In France, revolutionaries were turning against their own nobles but remained uncertain about what this meant for enslaved Africans on their sugar islands. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z When you went to bed there was a bowl of cornflakes with sugar and cream. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z The restaurant had pounds and pounds of butter and sugar. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z Ma said to me, “But at least you got to test my cobbler for me, honey. My blood sugar’s probably sky-high already.” The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z She led me into the house and gave me a cup of hot cocoa with lots of sugar in it. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z We go inside after that and decorate our sugar skulls with glitter Fina brought and brightly colored icing that Mom helps us mix up. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z I think of her intoxicating smell, like fruit and sugar and warmth. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z She wanted a pot of hot chocolate made with two handfuls of sugar, which was a shocking amount. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z Combining sugar with almonds—as is still done in marzipan—cooks who were serving wealthy Muslims built elaborate, edible sculptures. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z Fritz insisted they go home for a while, and he would watch the fire at the sugar camp. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z I’m incredibly stiff now and my ribs are killing me, but I’m still able to eat cereal with milk that’s dubious, to say the least, and loads of sugar. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z “Over by Holmes, sugar. They got a good selection. Plenty variety.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z I shake my head no and drop three cubes of sugar into my coffee. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z They set the filled ones away, to cool into maple sugar. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z At the end of seven days, the man whose turn it was got all the sugar at once. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z “And if you need any help—with him—” “Why would I need help? We’ll get along just fine, won’t we, sugar- sweetie?” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z But the world of sugar was about to grow very rapidly—spread by a storm unlike any the world had ever seen: Islam. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z Malachy and I fill the twins’ bottles with water and sugar. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z Then she reached into Granny’s old brown crock for some sugar lumps. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z The four nucleotides were not, however, completely different, for each contained the same sugar and phosphate components. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z “I love the love, but can we please try the cake now? Serenity and I need some sugar.” I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z They won’t eat the bread and goody till I kill the taste of the sour milk with sugar. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z Then Baba takes a sugar cube and puts it in her mouth and sips her tea so it gets sweet that way. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z Someone must have been hoarding sugar just in case there was a direct hit on the airfield and everybody needed cheering up. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z This was called indenture: the new way to find people to work the sugar fields. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z Then they drink a cup of coffee together in the kitchen: hot, strong, as much sugar as she wants. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z Hidden under the straw was a little pile of lump sugar and several bunches of ribbon of different colours. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z One day Bando went to town and came back with five pounds of sugar. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z Next to it was a table with large containers of flour and sugar underneath. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z “Morning, sleepyhead,” Dad said, spooning sugar into his coffee mug. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z They raise cattle and sheep, grow wheat, milo, grass seed, and sugar beets. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z She had a distant memory of the taste of real tea, buried with her recollections of sugar and birthday cake. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z "Couldn't you slip honey or sugar into it? To make it more pleasant?" The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z Celaena looked piteously at the dog, which was now licking the sugar off her fingers. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z Perhaps their taste for it grew because Europeans had been exposed to sugar in a different way: through war. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z Thrilled with himself, he bounded forward in such intense excitement that he bumped straight into Deydey at the side of a kettle, just as he was pouring boiling-hot syrup into a sugaring trough! The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z “You don’t get sugar diabetes from not eating sugar. You get it from eating too much sugar.” Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z She rolled over the block of sugar maple, a castoff from someone’s construction project, and it became her perch whenever she had a spare moment. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z The brick oven had been heated for two nights in a row, and the whole family had gone without sugar since Sunday to make sure that the minister’s notorious sweet tooth would be satisfied. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z Jo’s one strong point was the fruit, for she had sugared it well, and had a pitcher of rich cream to eat with it. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z “Did I call your face a sugar bowl or something?” she asked, peering at me. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z That’s when Japanese chemists discovered an enzyme that could transform glucose into the much sweeter sugar molecule called fructose. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z He pops a sugar cube in his mouth and leans against my horse. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z All that was needed was a heap—no, three heaps—of sugar, and some hot cream and— Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z A sugar basin would have to have two such handles and they would be larger than the one on the creamer. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z He was holding the sugar tongs in his hands, tenderly stroking their curved handles. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z I said, “Oh, yes, yes, she wants the sugar right away, and she told me to run.” Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z Her lips pressed together like she’d tasted sour lemonade, like that time we added salt instead of sugar. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z Sugar lords like Beckford wanted to make sure American colonists would buy only from their islands, and would not be able to look for cheaper sugar elsewhere. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z Phronsie whispered that it was good if you put a whole lot of brown sugar on it. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z Though terrible conditions for sugar workers still exist in places such as the Dominican In many parts of the world, sugar is now harvested by machines, its long history fading into the mists. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z There were arches of spun sugar, towers of pastry, basted birds posed for flight. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z A roll of toilet paper was turning to white mush next to a ruined small box of sugar. The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z Clearly the artist, George Robertson, wanted it to look peaceful and beautiful, and to make slaves look meek and humble. the sugar islands—if, that is, the colonists or the French followed the rules. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z And I suppose they’ll be wanting sugar and milk on top of everything or they might be banging on my door looking for an egg if you don’t mind. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z It reminded him a little of prison hooch, brewed in a garbage bag from rotten fruit and bread and sugar and water, but it was smoother, sweeter, infinitely stranger. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z “Oh, for heaven’s sake, it is! Come on, sugar, let’s get dressed, quick!” Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z With obvious pleasure Rosy showed Francis her data, and for the first time he was able to see how foolproof was her assertion that the sugar- phosphate backbone was on the outside of the molecule. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z Cane sugar production in Cuba was booming, driving down prices. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z Before war came to it, it must have been a beautiful place with its palm trees and sugar plantations. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z Something happens to my heart; it cracks like the sugar crust on Mami’s flan, hearing the nurse talk to me that way. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z They were called Alpha and Beta, and Abenthy fed them carrots and lumps of sugar when he thought no one was looking. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z On one grave was a beautiful little cat with a pink sugar nose and a tail curled around its feet. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z When they traveled to the sugar bush, the family packed as lightly as possible. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z Then she bustled around the room, muttering, sweeping the windowsill with her short-handled broom, straightening the bags of rice and flour and sugar on her shelves. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z Her servants sprayed perfume, and the young woman gulped down sugar water before putting her hand on the door. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z We peeked out the window and saw he’d cut down a whole stand of sugar cane by lashing it with his belt. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z One cinnamon, one sugar, one chocolate, one raspberry. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z Another donor regularly brings two or three large gunnysacks of sugar. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z “We’ll help you get your things inside, sugar. But we can’t stay. It’s getting dark. We need to get on home.” Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z “Two or three boxcars turned over and rolled down into the ravine. Spilled a mess of flour and sugar and I don’t know what-all.” Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z “My daddy’s not here. He’s out at the sugar camp,” Marly said. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z We take two more tries to get the ratio of sugar, Earl Grey, and halwa right, but finally it’s ready. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z Red Rabbit immediately looked for some sugar in my pants pocket, but he had to be satisfied with my promise of some in the future. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z When it came to things like saying hello, counting from one to ten, or talking about buying coffee and sugar, they did pretty well. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z “Well, I brought you some more sugar; we’ll try next year. Merry Christmas, Thoreau!” he shouted, and looked about the room. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z “Stainless steel is better with rhubarb. Pass me the sugar now.” The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z Habib took a handful of sugared almonds and made a pot of green tea. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z There had been another candy that was like a soft but chewy fruit snack that was covered in sugar. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z I turned east toward Sully’s Inn and the private beach where we could hawk our sugar for twice as much. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z She got a confused, disgusted look on her face, like she done salted her coffee instead a sugared it. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z “It’s just fried dough. I like them best with cinnamon, but sugar is cool too. Come on, my treat.” What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z José Arcadio would bring slices of ham to him in his room, sugared flowers which left a spring-like aftertaste in his mouth, and on two occasions a glass of fine wine. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z “You go on to your homework, sugar,” she tells me, and she sure doesn’t need to ask me twice. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z Soon he is taking Marie-Laure along on various errands again, teasing her about the mountains of sugar she spoons into her coffee or bantering with warders about the superiority of his brand of cigarettes. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z She had to work and worry for every bar of soap or bag of sugar she could find. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z A plantation owner was a kind of god or king, ruling over his empire of sugar. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z But in Europe, the three new drinks all invited the addition of sugar. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z “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 She wore a long white dress like a bride’s and a tiara of sugar flowers made especially for her by the plantation pastry cook. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z The cake had taken time and thought, and sugar we didn’t have leave to waste. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z For him she planned sugar in his motor, scissors to his tie, burned suits, slashed shoes, ripped socks. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z He poured me a cup and added sugar, blew on it a few times. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z All the while, little cytoplasmic factories work 24/7, cranking out sugars, fats, proteins, and energy to keep the whole thing running and feed the nucleus—the brains of the operation. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z I told her yes, because Dad always took sugar. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z I reached up to scratch my face and squished the wasp that had been sucking sugar off my cheek. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z For her seventh birthday, a tiny wooden chalet stands in the center of the kitchen table where the sugar bowl ought to be. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z The merchant had been asking ten pennies for half a pound of salt, fifteen for a loaf of sugar. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z They buzz The lawn for Their own sugar And wet play. Neighborhood Odes 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z Through their words we can finally begin to hear about sugar slavery from those who lived it. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z He had gone back and forth gathering sap from the sugar bush. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z And August had made his step pyramid out of sugar cubes. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z It’s crammed full of molecules and vessels endlessly shuttling enzymes and sugars from one part of the cell to another, pumping water, nutrients, and oxygen in and out of the cell. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z She always reminded me of a glass of iced tea so weak, you had to add a whole cup of sugar to make it taste like anything at all. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z “You know it’s my pleasure, sugar,” she said. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z Momma used to tell me, “Deny it until they’ve got you dead to rights, sugar. If they can’t prove it, it never happened.” Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z So they came: friends, neighbours, bringing sugar cane and frosted sugar and sticks of striped candy for the new baby. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z “Only thing you know is every Saturday, starting now, you got two more quarters to put in your sugar bowl.” Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z Uncle Kufa and the other men traveled to a trading post to barter for tea, sugar, salt, cloth, and matches. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z The reed the Persians found was probably sugar cane. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z Earlier we’d spooned dry sugar into our pockets, and now, just as a bonus, we sprinkled it on the feeding rims. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z The next week passed in a kitchenstorm of flour and sugar, for Christmas was fast approaching. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z No coaxing, no sugar, no lullaby, no story, even the light was put out and only the red glow of the fire enlivened the ‘big dark’ which Demi regarded with curiosity rather than fear. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z She slid a metal bowl full of snowy sugar in front of me. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z More and more Europeans saw growing sugar in the New World with slave labor as the road to vast wealth. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z They were able to make enough syrup and sugar for themselves. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z I heard a spoon rapping against china as Dad stirred in his sugar. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z His sugar bush was scraggly and his oat crop barely enough to feed his growing family. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z I poured myself a bowl of delightfully sugar- encrusted cereal, and sat down at the table. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z We let Bradley have some sugar in exchange for his agreeing to buy flour and a cast-iron pan. Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z Twenty-three years earlier, King Louis XIV had issued a set of rules that defined slavery as legal in the French sugar islands. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z There is the aroma of mulled wine and sugared candy, peppermint and pipe smoke. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z Then she fetched sugar and a cup for herself. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z That’s why I decided, up there on that roof, that we would melt saltpeter and sugar. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z They spared themselves trouble by going instead to the sugar mill, where in the past year they had discovered their own wonder. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z In the evenings she cooks for him, hoping to please, with the unrationed, remarkably unblemished sugar, flour, rice, and salt she had written about to her mother in her very first letter home. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z ‘When you was in Canada did you go out and get any fresh snow and eat it with cream and sugar? Once I read where it was mighty good to eat that way.’ The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z Some crouched in dark doorways of abandoned buildings, gnawing on moldy bread and the peels of sugar beets. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z Mama had always put the leaves in a mason jar with sugar and water and left it in the sun until it was as brown as Ophie’s skin. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z The glucose corn syrup wasn’t as sweet as sugar, but it was cheap. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z Many items are rationed—meat, cheese, butter, lard, coffee, sugar, silk, nylon, shoes; our entire way of business changes as we work with those flimsy blue booklets. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z “People get dizzy for so many reasons. He could have gotten up too quickly. Or maybe his blood sugar dropped.” Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z “Oh, look — they’ve got deluxe sugar quills — those would last hours!” Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z It would be a long time before I told this story to someone in America and learned the reason why: the Kool-Aid was supposed to be mixed with sugar, and sugar was expensive. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z Joseph and I were splitting wood—he was getting good—and piling it beside the sugaring house. Orbiting Jupiter 2015-10-06T00:00:00Z What we call molasses is just a natural part of the first grinding of sugar cane into syrup. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z With a square of waxy bakery paper, the boy pulled out a concha frosted with pale yellow sugar and placed it on a plate in front of me. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z But he grinned as he said it, and looked at her like the very air she breathed was made out of sugar and spice. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z Now Sherm stacked sugar packets on the tabletop, carefully shaking each one first to make it lie flat. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z The sugar has melted off leaving plump moist chewy bites. Inside Out and Back Again 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z Our first concoction included one mealworm, a piece of fern, two sunberries, and pinches of salt and sugar. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z In it there were sacks of flour, meal, com, sugar, salt, and cases of canned food. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z She said, “When I was a girl, we only had sugar on Sundays.” The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z Qottab are these little pastries filled with crushed almonds and sugar and cardamom, then deep-fried and coated with powdered sugar. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z He licks his lips from the last piece of sugar candy stolen from my purse. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z “Let me bring a couple of slices over to the fellas first. Kids don’t need all this sugar.” Monday's Not Coming 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z The truth hits me hard, right along with the sugar rush. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z Knowing that their slaves were likely to die by the time they reached their thirties, Louisiana sugar planters were extremely selective—they bought only healthy-looking young men in their late teens. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z “I am so sorry to do this, sugar. But you’re off the campaign.” Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z That morning she gave me three powdered sugar doughnuts. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z Everyone knew that the family who owned the sugar mill were eccentric “Arabs,” Haitians of Lebanese or Palestinian descent whose family had been in the country for generations. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z I added the sugar, flour, baking powder, and salt to the mixer and turned it on. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z The twins hold up their bottles and cry for more water and sugar. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z Thus began a new chapter in the story of sugar. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z Though my basket was hill, I found room for a sack of hard candy and a small loaf of sugar. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Wrestling twenty-five pounds of sugar back from Moore’s Store was nothing to picking all the gooseberry bushes clean. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z Remember, Jamaica has sugar plantations, which are very different from the cotton plantations you find in the American South. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z And wars against the Muslims brought Europeans to sugar. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z Even with the salt water mixed in there might be some food value left in the flour and sugar. The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z “So you like sugar in your coffee,” he said. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z You made sure the world heard about the beauty of maple sugar children, and the artfully tattooed backs of Black sailors venturing out to foreign places. Bronx Masquerade 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Brazil is the land that imported more Africans than any other to work on sugar plantations, and in Brazil the soil is still perfect for sugar. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z Other times, he asked for tea and then went on to examine the sugar bowl and the tin of milk, muttering, “The capabilities of bacteria are quite extraordinary.” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z Now Filipino men were imported to the sugar fields to compete with the Chinese and Japanese. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z And Ma got a pound of tea, and a little paper package of store sugar to have in the house when company came. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z Another room, furnished with long tables and benches, was near a kitchen, where Ralph chewed into a bag of sugar and enjoyed a fine dessert. Ralph S. Mouse 1992-08-01T00:00:00Z She had saved a string of duck bills, too, that she’d fill with hard sugar for a special treat. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z And that was before sugar really took off. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z Maybe because my blood sugar was low and it was The Week From Hell, I wanted a shout, a sound—any sound. Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Only sugar—the sweetness we all crave—could drive people to be so cruel, and to combat all forms of cruelty. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z Two lay open and empty, sprinkled with snow like sugar on a cake. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z “I think I shall trade, also,” said he, putting his thumbs in his waist-coat pockets, “to the West Indies, for sugar, tobacco, and rum. Also to Ceylon, especially for elephants’ tusks.” Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z She stood in the bathroom and combed her hair, then she padded to the kitchen pantry and pulled out a dime-sized lump of brown sugar from the sack on the shelf. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z The sugar content in our samples was high enough to mask the taste of the plastic cups. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z I spread on a modest amount and set it on a pink glass plate, the kind that came free in bags of sugar or flour or laundry soap. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z I sit down and reach for the cereal and pour out nothing but sugar dust. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z That’s because if you count the calories, foods loaded with sugar and fat are the cheapest foods in the market. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z How delicious it is, this concoction of milk and eggs and burned sugar. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z The broken sugar bowl used for an ashtray, the damp spot on the ceiling where the roof leaked, the laundry box in the corner. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z We drank sassafras tea, sweetened with some of the sugar Bando had brought me, rubbed our turtle shells clean in the snow, and went out into the forest. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z I thought it must be reasonably nourishing, with all the sugar. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z Her skin matches the exact shade of mine—a sugared beignet fresh from the oil, golden brown and glistening under the lantern light. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z So, I sat back and drank the fresh glass of tea he made for me, without milk or sugar this time, so that the leaves’ strong, earthy taste lingered like smoke on my tongue. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z Also a fork, spoon, knife, salt, pepper, sugar. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z This idea terrified the English—and not merely because their sugar island of Jamaica was just over a hundred miles across the water from Saint Domingue. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z She pictures three-hundred-pound sacks of refined white sugar deep in the hulls of ships. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z At first many of the slaves working sugar plantations in the Mediterranean were Russians, or anyone captured in war. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z 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 now there were more and more “free” workers—those who had moved off the estates and lived in their own houses, splitting their time between sugar work and their own businesses. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z That put an additional pressure on the sugar harvest. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z Laleh had acquired a bag of Sour Patch Kids while she browsed Terminal 4, and the combination of sugar and temporal distortion proved an incendiary one. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z He took the sugar tongs, the medallions, and the magnifying glass, one by one, and turned them in his pudgy fingers. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z They came in and I passed around a tray with cups, tea, milk and sugar. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z “They’re stories, boy. Stuff and fantasy. There was no elixir of immortality. If anything, it was just sugared blood.” Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z You could buy a quarter loaf of bread, a cup of sugar. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z The only way to fight sugar masters, it seemed, was for the workers to be harder, tougher, and more willing to accept bloodshed than the owners. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z "Ah, come on, sugar, loosen up, will ya?" his wife coaxed him. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z Why should a switch in sugar consumption cause a pause in growth? The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z Mr. Lucas was sure to bring us bags of unshelled pecans covered in sugar and salt, and maybe a few ripe peaches. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z My sister, who had begun to be alarmingly meditative, had to employ herself actively in getting the gin, the hot water, the sugar, and the lemon-peel, and mixing them. Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z “I knew a guy in Chicago,” Jinx said, “he scorched the sugar to make a richer color.” Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z But the strawberries were sweet without sugar, and although it seemed weird to eat it plain, the Smokies’ bread had its own flavor without anything added. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z “Tonight I was looking at that balloon in the yard behind the sugar mill,” he said. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z And yet the tangled story of slavery, sugar, and freedom still had one extremely dark twist to come, in the United States. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z It was sort of crunchy, because the sugar didn’t dissolve, and it was greasy and left a filmy coat in my mouth. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z This rat was not just eating the sugar. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z Violence was the very soil from which sugar sprang. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z So many sugar plantations dotted the landscape that slaves called commanders managed other slaves. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z Maybe it would be a healthy diversion: inhaling sugar while listening to someone’s sordid past. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z Rosemary returns with a breakfast tray, and when she pulls off the brown plastic lid I see that she’s put cream and brown sugar on my porridge. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z In the sugar colonies, the wounds of slavery were never far beneath the surface. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z "I don't suppose any of them will care two lumps of sugar whether you roll or not." The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z “Scoot uptown and bring me a twenty-five-pound sack of sugar. Tell them to stick it on my bill. After that I want every gooseberry off them bushes out back.” A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z Mother said, “You know, Chrissie, I’ve never been here in sugaring season before? I always wanted to, I remember, and Grandma was always insisting. But we could never get here until school was out.” Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z She could pay for her trip by selling the sugar, and it would give her a chance to see the big city and her perpetually ailing sister. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z “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 How might a bacterium even “know,” or sense, that the sugar source had been switched? The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z Doctors warn that young people are gaining too much weight from eating sugary snacks; parents learn that kids who drink too many sweet sodas can cycle between manic sugar“highs” and grinding sugar “crashes.” Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z That is a perfect description of sugar Hell. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z Furthermore, it suddenly made sense to her that at least one person in the family should get the full effect of the maple sugar. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z Those teenagers made up seven to eight out of every ten slaves brought to Americas sugar Hell. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z But that was dishes and wood-chopping and things like that—not sugaring! Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z “The sugar. That’s how I was taught to drink it, too. I remember, you used to just mix it into your tea. Two cubes, then a splash of milk, just like a Brit.” The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z He gives Jay a kiss and gets his sugar from me. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z The wealthier families in our village supplemented their diets with tea, coffee, and sugar, but for most people in Qunu these were exotic luxuries far beyond their means. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z I wasn’t sure if it was just the sugar from the cherry cobbler or if it was bottled-up stuff over Jermaine or if maybe I had just stayed up too late. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z But throughout the rest of the old sugar lands, cane was still growing, and slaves were still giving their lives to harvest it. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z Was she actually going to take all her sugar back to Belgium? The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z We were in the dining hall by 6:40 for a breakfast of dry bread and hot sugar water, watched over by a somber portrait of George VI, the king of England. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Country is lemons—not sour, but sugar sweet and tangy. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z British colonists’ ships set out directly from New York and New England carrying the food and timber that the islands needed, trading them for sugar, which the merchants brought back up the coast. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z As was a guest filling her apron pockets with sugar. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z Jinny ran to and fro, as quickly as she could, picking up the sweet dark snaps, sticky with crystallized sugar. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z Wash drank half of it in grateful gulps, feeling the cool and the sugar slide down his throat. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z By 1866, the mill owners had learned how to break down cornstarch into a kind of sugar called glucose. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z Finnick sloshes some cream in my cup and reaches into the sugar bowl. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z In the early 1700s, the average person in England consumed an estimated four pounds of sugar a year. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z 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 To work their sugar fields, Dutch and Portuguese plantation owners had first tried to enslave the native Amerindians, but unrest and escape attempts grew so high that the practice was finally outlawed. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z Just as the taste of maple sugar faded along her tongue, she bent over, pushed back delicate leaves, and found masses of plump red little berries. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z I first saw him in the sugar bowl. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z If there are no tortillas, they try to fill their children’s bellies with a glass of water with a teaspoon of sugar mixed in. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z We urgently need an end to these false assurances, to the sugar coating of unpalatable facts. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z By systematically depleting nearly all the nutrients from the broth, Beadle found that the mold strains could still grow on a minimal broth containing nothing more than a sugar and a vitamin called biotin. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z There were apple and mince and dried-berry pies, little spicecakes with maple sugar frosting, candied fruits and nuts, pitchers of sweet apple cider, and great mugs of steaming flip for the men. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z Tessa had taken her sugar cookies out of the oven when there were only five minutes left and still had to decorate them. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z And there are still sugar plantations where the work is brutal. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z She returned with two small paper bags, each containing half a dozen sugared almonds. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z Too tired to mix the saffron-colored powder into the hard cake of oleo, she simply smeared the white stuff on the bread and sprinkled the sugar over it. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z The “slavers” then loaded their ships with barrels of sugar and sailed back to Europe to begin the cruel process all over again. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z She was fashioning small cones of birchbark for the sugar. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z 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 In 1896, an indentured worker in British Guiana who called himself Bechu began publishing a series of letters to the local newspaper, revealing the conditions on the sugar plantations—or “estates,” as they were called. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z When Ruby obeys Mack, he gives her a cube of sugar or a bit of dried apple. The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z Pascal had a kilo of sugar cane and a defunct World War II handgun in his backpack. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z “The sugar tongs,” he murmured, '“yes, they were probably quite valuable.” The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z The ideal of brotherhood announced by the revolutionaries of Paris finally included the sugar workers of Saint Domingue. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z Sighing, he said, “Well, they say sugar comas are manageable these days,” as he reached in to grab the popcorn with a scoop. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z To this day you can find piles of sugar cane heaped in tropical markets—offering buyers a refreshing treat that is somewhere between a candy bar and an energy drink. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z When the cupcakes were all done and the whole room smelled like sugar, we set them out to cool on the kitchen island. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z The little pieces of pastry Sister Fenella had left after trimming her rhubarb pies were formed into clumsy crosses or fish shapes, or rolled around a few currants, then sprinkled with sugar and baked separately. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z After all, the chaos in France made the English slave trade and sugar islands all the more profitable. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z “If you was to wait, the ground would thaw to mud. Better go tomorrow if it’s fair. Take a little sugar to your brother on the way.” Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z The sweet molasses smell of brown sugar teased my tongue as I placed the bowl in the microwave. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z Then Mama and I cooked six tuna casseroles six different ways, and we baked four chocolate cakes and dusted them with confectioners’ sugar. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z He’d plowed through half a dozen donuts from his box and was getting powdered sugar all over his face. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z I put him down and laugh and make the old bludger a coffee, with plenty of sugar and milk. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z “I need, uh, time to prepare some materials. Are you free in an hour? We can reconvene here. I’ll order food. Bring, uh, your passport and any receipts and relevant documents you have, sugar.” Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z The brown cake was a special wartime treat, when sugar was tightly rationed. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z “But this past season—I know you remember, ’cause I couldn’t keep you away from them—they were so sweet and thick they made ordinary sugar be ’shamed.” Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z Oh my God, I can’t believe there’s so much sugar in this stuff. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z She needed a proper comal or at least a cast-iron skillet, but the tortillas were still delicious rolled up warm with sugar and a bit of cinnamon and salt. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z Uncle shared his food with Salva—a piece of sugar cane to suck on right away, then fish that they cooked over a fire and yams roasted in the ashes. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z Flour, sugar, salt, eggs, milk, butter, baking powder, cinnamon. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z It stores sugar in the form of glycogen and releases it as glucose in carefully measured quantities to keep the blood sugar at a normal level. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z And there was the pervasive and incredibly delicious first-time smells of burnt sugar and popcorn. Confessions of a Murder Suspect 2012-09-24T00:00:00Z She emptied the contents of the bag onto the bed, ignoring the dunes of sugar that poured out with it, and surveyed the land of goodness before her. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z There was clean linen on the chair next to the stove, and on the shelf there was water, atole meal, sugar, milk, kerosene, and other things. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z We’d stack our gifts—along with the sacks of flour and sugar, blankets, and trunks that other families were taking— on top of the bus in a great towering pile. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z “Layers of pastry and cinnamon and sugar all rolled into a twist and covered in icing.” The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z Weigh equal quantity of sugar and keep by. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z He reached for the sugar shaker now, and I stood there feeling suddenly that the old man before me was not Brother Maceo at all, but someone else disguised to confuse me. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z You cannot forget how much they took from us and how they transfigured our very bodies into sugar, tobacco, cotton, and gold. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z King Henry III of England, for example, liked sugar. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z Since sugar had to pass through many hands before it reached the fairs, it was expensive and hard to get. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z “Just the same, I’ll feel better when you have some sugar and food in you.” Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z Nevertheless, at her parents’ insistence, he concocted some lilac-colored sugar pills, which he prescribed with the warning that they were a Siberian remedy for deaf-mutes. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z He was the captain of a Kerch trader, and it seemed he had crossed paths with a sugar farmer in a Zemeni port. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z There were sacks of salt, and sacks of store sugar. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z The yeast eats the sugars in bread dough and, as a by-product, gives off carbon dioxide. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z But instead of simply increasing the African quota, the authorities reduced the amount of sugar that Coloured and Indian prisoners received by half a spoonful, while adding that amount for African prisoners. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z We still have some sugar cookies in a round tin, which Hannah immediately pries open. Shine! 2019-11-05T00:00:00Z “I'll make it with the right amount of sugar next time.” Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z Shelves of goods—buttons, handsaws, sugar, rifles, bullets, scissors, pencils, bolts of cotton cloth, medicine, toys, in no particular order—lined the walls. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z The Nanny by that time was en route back to Liverpool, full of sugar and tobacco. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z Dessert as the extremely sweet end to the meal was invented because so much sugar was available. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z “I am merely being frank. I don’t believe in sugar- coating things for the young. That is how I was raised, and I turned out perfectly well.” The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z Now that we were looking, we still didn’t see any cake, but the scent of it was on the air—brown sugar and warm butter. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z We'd gotten six cookies to split, and they’d been gooey and delicious at first, but all the sugar was beginning to sour my stomach. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z My sugar bread goes flying on the rug, butter side down. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z Celia enters her kitchen and warms a little milk on the stove, then sweetens it with a few lumps of sugar. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z Ms. Anderson held out two paper cones topped with pink sugar clouds. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z That’s why the consulate was giving butter and sugar to Americans. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z After Daddy went back to the sugar camp, Marly expected she’d fall asleep the way she had the night before. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z The organic matter is mostly sugar mixtures derived from the hydrolysis of cellulose, but, in addition, there are various food factors which must be added. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z The sugar broke Ma’s lower extremities, which is how doctors say legs. Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z The smell of toasted sugar makes my mouth water. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z One Muslim ruler filled a feast table with seven large palaces made of sugar; another displayed an entire tree made of sugar. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z Both terrified and incensed, the savage watchdog thundered around, tipping over another table and three more chairs—napkin holders bounced across the floor; a sugar bowl shattered. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z He brought the steaming cups in and went back for the sugar bowl. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z The soft drink makers could have just switched one sugar for another. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z Up on top the air smelled less like grease and sugar, more like just-baled hay and the muddy waters of the Yellowstone as it lazed its way around the fairgrounds. The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z As sugar planters fled from the revolution in Haiti, some moved to Cuba’s Oriente Province, others to North America—to Louisiana. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z She drank nothing but sugared water while keeping her eyes on Ma. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z “Boy needs a drink. Strong lemonade with plenty of sugar. Care to join us?” The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z She smelled like baby powder and sugar cookies. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z My grandmother might ask me if we had enough sugar in the house or should she get some, and likely as not, I would know. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z She also took containers of salt and sugar. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z “Take each cookie and roll it in the powdered sugar. Then place it on the cookie sheet.” The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z Rats presented with solutions of pure sugar or tubs of pure lard will gorge themselves sick. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z Or fixes me grits with butter and sugar. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z I stay in the infirmary for as long as I can, and with the sugar cubes and food and rest from work, my body gradually grows stronger. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Chronicler lost all of his needles but one, both extra pairs of socks, a bundle of dried fruit, a loaf of sugar, half a bottle of alcohol, and a pair of ivory dice. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z Then suddenly turning to me in a resolute way, he said: “Doctor, won’t you be very good to me and let me have a little more sugar? I think it would be good for me.” Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z After all that sugar, I figured I'd be able to come up with something on how to live with Mrs. Baker for nine months. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z On a footstool, tattlers sit in piles like stacks of warm sugar crepes. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z Last week, the sugar and butter had filled Miss Celia’s whole house with the smell of Christmas even though it was the crying shame of June. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z Antonapoulos would go into a restaurant, and while they sat at the table he slyly put lumps of sugar, or a peppershaker, or pieces of silverware in his pocket. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z On the cereal shelf there needed to be five of every kind of cereal, even the nasty ones that taste like dirt until you put sugar on it. Ghost 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z I open my mouth to say no, I’m too tired, but Emilika holds up her sugar bowl. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z Ivanito helps her blend the coconut with egg yolks, vanilla, condensed milk, sugar, cornstarch, and salt, and holds the empty tin vegetable- oil containers while she fills them with the mixture. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z “We have not been able to get salt or sugar.” The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z After dinners, the family would sit in the open terrace with bowls of dried apricots, and pistachios, sugar candies, and a big samovar of black tea. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z Jaja poured the cereal from the carton on the table, scooped in powdered milk and sugar with a teaspoon, and added water. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z “Mira,” Mom sighed, “it could take up to ten visits to get his blood sugar in line. We’d need enough money to cover expenses for at least three months.” Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z “Are you even watching your sugar the way the doctor said last time? Repeat after me: diabetic coma.” Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z Reaching roughly across his shoulder I picked up a greasy menu that rested between the sugar shaker and the hot-sauce bottle and pretended to read it through my dark lenses. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z “You know who else didn’t like grits unless they had sugar on ’em?” she asked. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z “Well, you can blame me for that one, sugar. I’m the safe one in the family,” Grandma said. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z We bent and thrashed amongst the long green rows of sugar beets, using hoes without handles. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z There are silver-lidded sugar bowls and containers that look rather like urns. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z And for dessert she has fried dough balls in rosewater syrup, and baklava, and saffron cookies stuffed with cinnamon, sugar, and walnuts—all of it she baked over the weekends. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z When Wragg returned and told us that the corridor had been successfully sugared from one end to the other, I began shivering with excitement. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z In exchange for the butter and sugar, the man gave them two bags that looked like about fifteen pounds of rice each. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z Our playmates’ families exchanged their unwanted food for sugar, coal oil, spices, potted meat, Vienna sausage, peanut butter, soda crackers, toilet soap and even laundry soap. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z I liked running to do someone a favor, to get some sugar or tea, or to carry a message. Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z The cupboard is bare except for a bag of dried rice, some sugar, and spices. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z But there was a catch, a special problem, in sugar work. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z We used the money to buy sugar and salt to help flavor our meals. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z Only another sister, Rosa Amalia, holds hunger at bay: each Saturday, she brings Enrique’s grandmother milk, cheese, butter, rice, sugar, beans, and vegetables. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z Soon there were sugar plantations all over the island, and a kind of “white gold” rush began. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z Then we passed around our little hoard of sugar cubes and crackers and peanuts. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z On the morning of her twelfth birthday, there is no puzzle box in place of the sugar bowl when she wakes; her father is too busy. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z She returned to the kitchen again so she could get some sugar, an egg, and water that wasn’t the freezing stuff from the cellar well, and returned to the barn. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z A black muzzle materialized, licked up the sugar, and touched thejockey’s shoulder. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z There, laboring around the clock, workers cook and clean the bubbling liquid so that the sweetest syrup turns into the sweetest sugar. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z Too new, too tight to have much sugar, they were eaten anyway. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z Harry asked Ron as he poured sugar on his porridge. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z At breakfast this morning, when I dropped sugar into my tea, I slipped two lumps into my pocket. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z Taft gets hopped up on sugar and scrapes his knee falling off a big rock in the garden. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z Each man had a daily sugar ration of three lumps, but most of them willingly put one lump a day in the “sugar pool.” Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z They drank huge glasses of iced tea, sugared and garnished with mint leaves. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z And it took place thousands and thousands of miles away from the sugar islands—in India. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z “I remember that Abuelo used to give me those gummy candies that look like orange slices, and I would suck all the sugar off before eating them,” I said. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z Once he regained control of the sugar island, he could use the Louisiana Territory to feed and supply all his sugar plan-tations in the Caribbean, and reap the rewards in white gold. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z I slurp my coffee as we travel, finding that the cream and sugar greatly enhance its flavor. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z We lifted the covers and filled the feeders with sugar water. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Put the kettle to boil, take out sugar and one Lipton tea bag from the pantry, milk from the fridge. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z “Want a sugar cube?” he asks in his old seductive voice. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z When we talk about Atlantic slavery, we must describe sugar Hell; and yet that is only part of the story. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z Then he was in the study, carrying a tray with three glasses of tea, sugar, spoons, and some of his mother’s cookies. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z One day they were working near where the beans ended and the sugar cane began. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z By fall of 1791, the French passed a law making free blacks and people of mixed background on the sugar islands legally equal to all other Frenchmen. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z They brought back sugar, rum, molasses, limes, cocoa, and ginger. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z “Black? No cream or sugar at all?” asked Grace. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z They acknowledged the innocent child hiding in the corner of their hearts, holding a sugar- and-butter sandwich. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z Her maman would set up tea parties with sugar cakes and marzipan rose creams just for us. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z She whispered in my ear, “You can add sugar if you want, though.” Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z You could smell the sugar before you walked in. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z I was up on top of three pallets cutting the hemp rope of the sacks of sugar. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z A week or two before, Josh Preston had passed out on the playground because, as Mrs. Port explained, he didn’t have enough sugar in his system—something stupid like that. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z The Americans wanted cheap sugar and to be able to buy it anywhere, but they had no voice in Parliament. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z He saw her memories of childhood—roughhousing with her brothers, running around their courtyard home, begging their mother for rock sugar. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z They took Mike some sugar and flour and a little coffee. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z At the wharves, she could watch trade ships from faraway ports unload spices, sugar, coffee, silk. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z It was the same experience we’d had with black powder and then again with potassium nitrate and sugar. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z The flakes blow across the road, as light as powdered sugar. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z Many of the bettors had asked for a draw because they had to go to work on the docks loading sacks of sugar or at the Havana Coal Company. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z As he gorges on sugar, Mom picks over his treats, checking for anything that’s open or “out of the question.” A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z Eliza had hidden a sugar lump at the bottom of the bowl. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z And no matter what the words said on a piece of paper, sugar workers did not work just seven hours. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z “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 The enslaved people were shipped across the Atlantic to the islands, where they were sold for sugar. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z Leroy screamed at me all night, threw the sugar bowl upside my head, threw my clothes out on the porch. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z Before the game started, I never chopped so many lemons in my life and that’s when I wasn’t carrying big sacks of sugar. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z He misses the press of people, the noise and chaos, black Model Ts rattling along the cobblestones, the treacly smell of street vendors’ peanuts roasting in sugar. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z “You can start with the gold. Take that rolling pin, and roll it out like dough. Sprinkle some confectioners’ sugar on the table first. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z It was the usual hazy pink sky as dusk fell, the smell of fried stuff smothered in powdered sugar, people laughing and hooting and pushing past me. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z That was a sort of hard candy bar made out of sugar, chocolate, and oat flour. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z While other kids were swimming and playing baseball, de la O was out in the hot sun, weeding, picking beans, and pulling heavy sugar beets out of the ground. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z But whom could they get to do the backbreaking sugar work? Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z “How much sugar does the Beast of Ravenel want in his coffee?” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z “Well, they...they’d find some other things. Maybe sugar for the sweetness and something else, maybe the sun, for light.” The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z Dawn Madden leaned in so close I could smell the sugar on her breath. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z “Come on in, sugar,” says a voice from inside, dark and smoky like whiskey. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z “When you put it that way, sugar, how can I say no?” Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z Why would any Indian risk going off to work in sugar? Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z “Would you like some sugar to get your flies round again?” Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z “Yes, he was really taken by the sugar tongs,” Riccio answered. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z Riptide cut through the arai as though they were made of powdered sugar. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z Butter is cut into tiny portions: three times a week, they each get a square half the size of a sugar cube. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z They buy sugar flowers and do not eat them, wrapping them in paper instead and carefully bringing them home. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z She sends me back into the bar where Pete offered me the sip to see if the barman would fill the twins’ bottles with water and maybe a little sugar in each. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z The Celestial bronze blade shattered it like a sugar cube. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z She dumped a packet of sugar into her coffee, then another one, and then a third. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z Ugwu had saved them, the same way he saved old sugar cartons, bottle corks, even yam peels. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z Any minute now, he’ll make tea and reach for the sugar. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z To understand the slavery that brought Africans to the New World, you must begin with the death rate on the sugar plantations. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z Each is dusted with confectioners’ sugar and topped by a dollop of whipped cream. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z This map from the 1600s shows boats coming to and fro, as well as the kind of sugar mill that was run by enslaved Africans. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z That meant Leo had only himself, his bag of junk food, and a few highly improvised weapons made from sugar and toothpaste. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z But already in my memory, it has happened and I am standing under those blazing trees—flamboyants in bloom in my imagination, not having seen those sugar maples he spoke of. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Dr. Masuku had a stack of magazines, Sister Gladys carried a box of disposable syringes, and the staff cook had his arms full of sugar bags. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z It was chocolate and sugar spun into sweet little dollops that melted in your mouth. Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z Peggy came back with her arms full of cups, saucers, spoons, a jar of cream and a bowl of sugar. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z Soon the priests were holding mass baptisms on shore and marching their converts onto ships bound for sugar plantations in Brazil, slaves to the higher god of commodity agriculture. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z I can feel blood running down my temple but I know it’s from the sugar bowl cut that’s split open again. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z For as soon as a sugar planter made enough money, he took his family and moved back to Europe. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z Snow falls, fine as sugar, but inside our cabin it is toasty warm. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z He stirred in half a spoon of sugar. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z “Iced tea. That will help. Yes, it would. Of course with sugar and a slice of lemon...” Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z For breakfast Mario had brought a crust of bread, a lump of sugar, and a cold Brussels sprout. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z The next step in the spread of sugar came through a university that was the crossroads of all the world’s knowledge. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z She said, “Do you like cream and sugar?” Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z The Venetians greatly expanded the sugar trade, so much so that a hundred years after Henry Ill’s reign, the English were able to buy thousands of pounds of the sweet stuff each year. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z Cora sat by the edge of her plot on her block of sugar maple and worked dirt from under her fingernails. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z Eggs and bacon, or pancakes and sausage, or oatmeal with cream and brown sugar. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z Remember Henry III and his difficulties in finding even a few pounds of sugar? Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z She sent the butler robot for tea with cream and sugar. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z The creatures seemed no more dangerous than sugar ants, but something worried him far more. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z Chocolate chip cookies and butterscotch cookies and sugar cookies. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z I sit down with the same breakfast as everyone else: a bowl of oatmeal with a sprinkle of brown sugar on it, and a mug of coffee. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z Cookies—sugar, butter, cinnamon, flour, and more sugar. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z Arnold had made the hippie tea that was sweet without sugar and I sipped it while we dragged out the notebooks. Lawn Boy 2007-06-12T00:00:00Z One morning she boiled molasses and sugar together until they made a thick syrup, and Pa brought in two pans of clean, white snow from outdoors. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z “Said in the news this morning it was apt to be the best sugar year in New England history,” he said. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z A chipped crockery bowl appeared from the pantry, alongside the butter and eggs and milk and the sugar loaf and the nutmeg grater and the small amber flask. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z The British Parliament had placed a tax on sugar without giving the North Americans any voice in the matter, and the colonists were furious. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z But from ancient times until quite recently, sugar itself was a medicine, a means of healing. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z The fragment of coral, a tiny crinkle of pink like a sugar rosebud from a cake, rolled across the mat. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z Any slave on a Brazilian sugar plantation knew that freedom was close at hand—if he or she could make it to the mountains and join the community of Palmares. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z But Olive had made arrangements, on pain of not going up, for the plane to try to fly as far as the sugar factory before it crashed. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z Automatically she poured a cup of coffee and placed it for him and put the sugar bowl and the cream pitcher in front of it. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z In 1854 only 11 percent of world sugar production came from beets. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z I pump fake him then sugar shake him for an easy two. The Crossover 2014-03-18T00:00:00Z The best part about them is the giant granules of sugar sprinkled on top. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z Heckle and Jeckle hadn’t noticed anything new about Pa. They were just glad to sugar him up. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z The millions of Africans taken to work in sugar were not taught to read and write. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z During the ceremony, many of the married female guests are invited to the altar to hold up a lace sheet over the couple and take turns grinding giant sugar cubes atop the sheet. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z Gagging sporadically, the volunteer patiently scraped out the corpses, cooked up another sugar solution, and rehung the feeder, although already he was beginning to despair of ever attracting a hummingbird to his humble, accursed digs. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z I made some—milk, egg yolks, sugar, salt. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z “You weren’t even in my territory, man! Besides, you tossed the pink fake sugar stuff. You only get half a point for that stuff!” Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z “So”—his eyes grazed over the file in his hand—“today’s the big day! We’ll start Sir Fig Newton on insulin and get his blood sugar back in check.” Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z The horse smelled the sugar, and the prickles from his chin tickled my fingers until I opened my palm. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z Though Indians used sugar in rituals, they also enjoyed eating chunks of sugar cane. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z Sugar refiners drain out the dark molasses to use by itself and are left with relatively white sugar. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z At McDonald’s he ordered a cup of coffee and a hot chocolate, got extra cream and sugar for both, and steered Gerald to a booth near the back. Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z The mistress decided to take a large selection of the molded maple sugar to Boston. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z “I especially enjoy the way the cinnamon and sugar feel against the roof of my mouth.” Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z Maria avoided the sugar trade as much as possible. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z The town looked like its sugar days were over. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z Just by the way Papa jabbed his spoon in the sugar dish, I knew something was coming. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z ‘And you can have chocolate as well. Chocolate tastes even better than cacao beans because it’s got milk and sugar added.’ Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 1964-09-12T00:00:00Z In addition to the extra HFCS, Americans are eating more old-fashioned cane sugar too. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z When sugar is in the headlines, critics speak about how much of it we eat, not who picked the crop. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z The kitchen soon filled with the smell of baking bread and with the sweet smells of cinnamon and sugar and cloves. The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane 2006-03-30T00:00:00Z The spot where I’d landed was now coated with ice, and I was covered in frost like a sugar donut. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z She mixed the cocoa powder with a little sugar and poured in the hot milk, making some for herself as well. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z Then the ships brought sugar to North America, to be sold or turned into rum—which the captains brought back to Europe. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z Those dozen blockbusters are the cereals wheat, corn, rice, barley, and sorghum; the pulse soybean; the roots or tubers potato, manioc, and sweet potato; the sugar sources sugarcane and sugar beet; and the fruit banana. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z “Please. You ate more sugar than any kid in history, and you still got pearly whites, don’tcha? Just one cavity your entire life.” As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z “Me, too. Listen, Santa, why you called, sugar?” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Five ingredients were selected for this special burning: milk, cheese, butter, honey, and sugar cane. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z A barn was suddenly made of gingerbread and spun sugar. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z In the narrow bottle-crowded room that he rented on one side of the square, he lived several years off the hopelessly ill who, after having tried everything, consoled themselves with sugar pills. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z Ugwu stole some of the milk and sugar that Master brought home from the directorate and put them in old tins and gave them to her. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z The enslaved Africans who were taken to the sugar plantations lost their names; they were meant to be pure property. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z “Then make it. Please. And put in two spoonfuls of sugar. And you can throw a lump of coal in the fire, too.” The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z Harry drove the wagon back and forth to the store for cornmeal, sugar, flour, and other supplies. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z Cole kicked at the butter, flour, sugar, and baking soda. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z Babou shifted the sugar cube around in his mouth, clacking it against his teeth. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z I heat up water in the kettle and coat the bottom of a coffee cup in sugar. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z Father Damian spooned some powdered milk into his mouth and then placed a bag of sugar and milk next to him. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z Like how many teaspoons of sugar went into a glass of iced tea. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z I was eating a steak dinner, my book propped against a sugar shaker, entirely content, when I glanced up to find Katz stalking towards me across the restaurant, looking alarmed and furtive. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z They stole two cashboxes containing 40 guilders, blank checkbooks and, worst of all, coupons for 330 pounds of sugar, our entire allotment. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z Once I gave him some sugar he became much more enthusiastic. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z M&M’s would be good too, if your mom isn’t around to say no sugar. Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z He has the sugar of his tea spread out on the window-sill, and is reaping quite a harvest of flies. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z Mate finished the last of her drink and sucked the sugar through the straw, making a rude sound. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z She neatly lines up little bags of beans, sugar, and laundry soap—items a local grocery store donates because the packages are damaged and cannot be sold. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z She poured him several cups with lots of milk and sugar. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z Besides, there wasn’t going to be very much more sugaring. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z “I could hear an ant creeping up on the sugar bowl,” boasted Ear. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z When he takes his furs to town, he will not need to trade for much store sugar. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z And this one had found a way of making chocolate out of sugar, chemicals, brown coloring and vegetable oil. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z They love the mushy food Mam makes in a pot, bread mashed up in milk and water and sugar. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z I don’t know if it’s the sugar or the chocolate or the cream filling, but the miniature cake makes me feel better. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z Mom made ham with her not-so-secret ingredient of brown sugar, and all the traditional sides are spread across the table. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z Matilde is all white sugar—sweet and forgiving— while I’m pure acidic lemon. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z “Marvelous, Mrs. Murphy,” he says, and dumps four spoons of sugar into his cup. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z For sure, the icing made all the difference, but Stella wasn’t sure how to make her writing like creamed sugar. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z Ali feeds the animal a cube of sugar—another custom, to make death sweeter. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z But his reducing, combined with the blunt-instrument character of diabetes treatment in the 1930s, made controlling his blood sugar extremely difficult. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Garvey ignored the question as he laid out salt, flour, eggs, baking soda, a bottle of water, sugar, butter, and molasses. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z “That’s okay. Potassium nitrate has much the same property and exactly the same number of oxygen atoms as potassium chlorate. Mix saltpeter and sugar and we should get the same reaction we just saw.” October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z The sugar smell lingered in the smoke—weighting it. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z Like sugar diffusing out of a cube in a cup of coffee, they are present at high concentration on one end of the egg, and low concentration on the other. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z Dry biscuits, canned meat, sugar, and powdered coffee, all in one big can. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z On top of the fridge stood tonight’s pudding: a huge mound of whipped cream and sugared violets. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z There, he learned the same rational, scientific approach to testing and experimenting that had proven that the sugar that comes from beets is the same as that which comes from cane. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z Omakayas forgot the bears, forgot the whispering of the plants, became a cousin within a pack of cousins, roaming the camps, stealing bits of sugar, laughing at each other. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z The sap began to rise in the sugar bush, and Cutler’s was in a frenzy of activity. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z Could a person survive on just butter and sugar? A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z I cut a lump of sugar off the loaf and added it along with a healthy dollop of milk to my mug. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “He’s going to need the money from the sugar crop more than ever. The sap’s there, the wood’s cut, and just look at the help!” Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z Nancy made a flat cake of white flour with a sprinkling of sugar on top, and Jenny pulled tender radishes and onions from her garden to give the taste of spring to their meed. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z Beet sugar was a triumph of reason, of science, over the gifts of nature. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z The snow looked strange in the moonlight, like icing sugar on a model city. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z “Thank you, Quentin. This mixture of potassium chlorate and sugar will demonstrate rapid oxidation.” October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z O’Dell leaned back at an acute angle and shoveled a little sugar in. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z Daddy had also liked coffee, strong and black with lots of sugar. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z “The next season I had enough ripe red ones to fill a pail and make a pie—long as I added sugar!” Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z A large store of proteins and sugars must be present to mop up the poison and wring it from the body. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Its edges...they weren’t defined, but seemed to melt against the blue of the sky like sugar dissolving into tea. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z Beneath it was a rectangle of white sugar sand two feet long and three feet wide. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z It was because of the molded sugar that Lyddie’s dream of taking the calf money home came true, though she couldn’t have known how that dream was going to come out. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z We stole extra paper packets of sugar for her, from the cafeteria at mealtimes, smuggled them to her, at night, handing them from bed to bed. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z Mama was putting together a stew and Deydey was off somewhere with Fishtail, planning ceremonies that would be held during the sugaring, not far from their camp. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z It was a large silver tray, and on it were a pewter teapot, two paper-thin white teacups, sugar, cream, and an open box of chocolates. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z She watched as I found the recipe and started pulling flour, sugar, and butter from the cabinet and fridge. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z Angie grabbed them and wasted no time opening the bag and removing a sugar cookie decorated like a Christmas tree. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z And when he returned home to Louisiana, he applied his knowledge of engineering to refining sugar. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z There was one product, sugar, and all the profits went to a few Cubans, and, of course, to the Americans. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z I got the triple-berry pancakes, which were sprinkled with powdered sugar. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z Madam’s list of required delicacies was endless: gingerbread, pies of brandied peaches and preserved cherries and mincemeat, macaroons, blancmange, Jordan almonds, sugar candy, as many kinds of cake as there were fingers on both hands. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z I spend all evening cutting up the pumpkins, and boiling them for hours with sugar to make a sweet paste, and then I use my last sucres to buy loaves of bread from the bakery. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z “Fruit, but nothing with sugar. Candy, cake, stuff like that. I don’t even like to smell it. Makes me want to throw up.” Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z I sat Dinah against the sugar dish and had a hot bowl of grits for breakfast. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z She heaped sugar into the tea, having diagnosed herself as suffering from hypoglycemia. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z He extended his arm and opened his hand: the cube of sugar. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z She filled the rest of each glass with beaten egg and milk mixed with a little sugar. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z But God, when her lips come apart, everything turns warm and her sugar sweet breath is in my mouth, and I probably taste like hot dogs but I don't care. Will Grayson, Will Grayson 2010-04-06T00:00:00Z The sugar workers listened and understood: Smith was speaking not about the Bible, but about the present. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z Exactly how much they cut depended on how much their mill could handle—the cutting must never get a day ahead of the grinding, for then the sugar cane would dry up. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z The descendants of some maroon communities still live on the lands that the sugar lords never managed to conquer. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z The other said that to change anything in the sugar islands would invite slave revolts, help France’s rivals, and thus hurt the nation. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z “Basically, salt and sugar!” she says, chuckling as she types notes into a laptop on the side table. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z “There’s Old Wilkins! He went out to get some sugar and never came home.” Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z "That's correct," says Tiny, and then explains, "simple sugars don't really help me put on muscle mass." Will Grayson, Will Grayson 2010-04-06T00:00:00Z While the boy ran around, she found her husband sitting in his favorite spot behind the sugar mill. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z The grandfathers, way past slashing but still able enough to bind stalks or feed the sugar vats, used to be thought safe. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z Once Columbus brought sugar cane to the New World, that time was over. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z I checked to make sure we had everything—the vegetable oil, the brown sugar. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z Trays of colorful fruit tarts and sweet puddings dusted with a fairy-frost of sugar had also appeared, along with steaming pots of fragrant tea. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z “You have to believe me that I didn’t mean to hurt you and tell your secret. I wasn’t thinking. Maybe it was all the candy. A sugar overload.” The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z Two dollars could buy enough cornmeal and flour and sugar to keep her family going for a couple of weeks! Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z “Me too, Mother. Me too. There’s nothing there. Just my spit. My spit tastes like sugar.” The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z “How many cakes? The price of sugar is still high. How about apple bread instead? That’s cheaper to make.” Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The truth hits me hard, right along with the sugar rush. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z The more sugar was planted, the more mills were built to grind it, the more docks were hammered into place to ship sugar, the more enslaved people were brought from Africa to work the plantations. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z In addition, Shackleton allowed hot milk and sugar at regular intervals: the only way to keep going was by fueling themselves constantly. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z He starts to get up to bring sugar to the table, but I grab his arm. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z “Oh, yeah. I mean, of course, sugar. But this could be full-time. Connections, upward mobility, real experience in the field doing some amazing work.” Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z “I think you need some sugar. You’ll probably have too much tomorrow, with your birthday cake. But let’s get a cookie.” Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z The sugar slowly worked its way into his system and made him feel a little stronger. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z We had just awakened from a short sleep and were sucking lukewarm coffee out of plastic tubes and munching on bacon which had been squeezed into little cubes, like lumps of sugar. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Lily is Jackson’s younger sister, sweet as sugar and as pretty as a summer day. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z We look at one another, and suddenly our mouths feel sticky from sugar and empty. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z But perhaps it needed another spoonful of sugar. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z The tonics the hospital administered, however, were merely sugar water. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z How she was going to mix the brown sugar, cinnamon, and butter with the fruit we’d bought, and then she just stopped talking. Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z I feel like cotton candy: sugar and air. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z While it was warming, she put a sugar bun and a spoon on a round tin tray. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z “It’s got a wee bit of sugar on it,” she whispered. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Mr. Freeman: “Art without emotion is like chocolate cake without sugar. It makes you gag.” Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z When the English looked at the sugar they used every day Clarkson and the other abolitionists made them see the blood of the slaves who had created it. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z He didn’t seem thirsty, wasn’t napping, didn’t have the sugar breath. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z ‘Why, of course—Cilia Lapham. That was July. Come to think, it was the very day Mr. Hancock ordered his sugar basin. It was the second day of July—that was a Tuesday.’ Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z “A lots of cream and sugar up the spoon just a little bit.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Madam set the fan in her lap and reached for a piece of sugar with silver tongs. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z Mr. Cutler had built a large sugaring shed two summers ago, and the only time any of the men were around the big house was when the livestock needed tending to. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z If you give them sugar, they get excited and then crash. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z In her pocket she had a bottle of sugar water and on its red-framed label she had written, “Drink me.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z The English had stopped the slave trade, but the rulers of a sugar colony were not yet ready to listen to slaves demanding to be treated as full human beings. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z I could do what Ariana did—bake a couple of small batches with different amounts of sugar, so I could see which one tasted the best. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z 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 That was valuable knowledge, because while it is not hard to grow sugar cane, farmers who plan on making sugar itself face a special challenge. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z “Very sick,” said Doc, “and due to be sicker. Put in some milk, and add half a bottle of beer. Give me the other half in a glass—no sugar in the milk shake.” Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z One day after supper, she’d found her apron pockets full of sugar. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z Then Ma did extra cleaning and cooking, and opened the package of store sugar. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z “I don’t know, sugar. I try to keep an open mind, but all these trials seem to end the same way. Doesn’t seem like Black folks can get any justice.” A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z "So you see, sir,” said Somkit in a voice sweet as palm sugar, "we were just testing that taxi out so we could fix the motor. Ask Officer Manit—he'll vouch for me.” A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z It would of helped if I had a lump of sugar or even a carrot in my hand. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z It’s just ketchup, mustard, honey, brown sugar, and garlic powder, which really kicks up the flavor of anything you’re making in the kitchen. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z The sugar cube tucked in his cheek made his voice sound funny and his cheek puff out like a squirrel’s. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z I licked a bit of powdered sugar from my fingers, but Dad was watching me, so I grabbed a napkin and wiped the rest off. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z Mom riding a tiny tricycle with tiny me on her shoulders, me eating breakfast with cinnamon sugar plastered all over my face. Turtles All the Way Down 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z “Used to be we’d sit around the sugar fire and sing and sing.” Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z Because everything was labeled in English, some people got confused and sprinkled packets of salt in their tea instead of sugar. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z You need wheat and sugar cane and apple trees. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z The sugar and crackers were wrapped in cellophane, the jelly in a small plastic coffin sealed with cellophane. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z Here in Japan, maybe this pack was valuable, like butter or sugar. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z A third cousin of Papa’s, Hopewell Stump, from out in Banks County, clerked and took care of the chickens that folks brought to trade out for nails, flour, sugar, coal oil, coffee, and chewing tobacco. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z She took a lunch bucket of bread and cheese and a little packet of molded sugar. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z He liked it even more than the grits, and it didn’t even need extra sugar on top. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z She gave it a lump of sugar that had appeared in her hand and climbed aboard its back for a ride. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z One by one he sampled each item, tasting first the flour, sugar, and baking soda. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z She received some extra sugar from Mr. Kugler, which sparked off jealousy on the part of the van Daans, because Mrs. van D. didn’t receive any on her birthday. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z I pull cocoa and then sugar from the shelves. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z Renzo stuffed the two wads of bills into his jacket and dropped the sugar tongs into his pants pocket. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z So the ginger sugar blew unnoticed through the streets, around the trees, over roofs, until, thinned out and weakened a little, it reached Southside. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z “You swanks have sugar?” he asked Lucky Girl. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z “We have no means of making sugar on this farm. Besides, you do not need sugar.You will have all the oats and hay you want.” Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z The Africans who had worked in sugar quickly left the plantations and tried to farm or moved to nearby towns. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z It was a pale brown sugar, not dark brown like the maple sugar Ma used for every day. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z She had made a vanilla cream cake with custard and spun sugar. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z There was a sugar cube kicking around in his pocket. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z The sugar workers spoke in another way, too. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z When another sugar, such as glucose, was present, the lock remained intact, and no lactose-digesting genes were allowed to be activated. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z She said that Chris was a lot better, and that he was so happy about the sugar crop going right along in spite of everything that it was helping him to get better. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z Gooseberries are so tart that more sugar than fruit goes into the pie. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z Why don’t they eat the sugar that runs on the ground? Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z The picture was meant to show the whole sugar cycle at a glance. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z I watch her open a packet of sugar, spill some on the table, then press a fingerprint of the crystals into the cover of her sketchbook. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z “You’re not changing your underwear often enough, sugar,” his mother interjects from across the cabin. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z Nan reached over and plopped a handful of mini-marshmallows and a heaping spoon of brown sugar in my bowl when his back was turned, but I still didn’t eat a bite. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z After putting in their time in sugar, they could begin to farm for themselves. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z That voice told them to destroy everything related to sugar. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z I looked at the sugar on the front of her T-shirt and thought that if she had the slightest idea what she looked like, she wouldn’t be laughing at all. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z I breathe in the smell of warm Nutella, fruit, and sugar. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z How many gallons—what a wonderful crop!—how perfect the sugaring weather had been for days and weeks. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z Hurry up and come because he was about to turn into pure sugar thinking about her. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z “William,” said Mr. Pumblechook, mournfully, “put the salt on. In happier times,” addressing me, “I think you took sugar? And did you take milk? You did. Sugar and milk. William, bring a watercress.” Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z I had to eat by myself, without the brown sugar. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z A veritable fountain of youth in our dolmades and taramasalata and even in our baklava, which didn’t commit the sin of containing refined sugar but had only honey. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z She put the sugar bowl and the—ugh—cream jar away, despite her misgivings. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z Full-on panicking, and all the comfort she felt from her notes with Keeper melted away like a sugar cube in a cup of hot tea. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z “In Havana, if I needed a cup of sugar, all I had to do was knock on your door.” Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z The ingredients are made of molecules—sugar, say, or water. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z She climbs gingerly back down, stepping over the chickens, marches to the sugar tin, and picks up my envelope. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z “You have to clear out the rocks before you can plant, sugar. Or nothing will grow.” Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z But even all this careful organization did not solve the second problem with sugar. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z “Nice white sugar ... when taken moderately cleans the blood, strengthens body and mind, especially chest, lungs and throat,” noted a physician in the 1500s. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z “Oh yes! Now I ’member, she baked them walnut and sugar cookies and something she say she gunn call rope cookies. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z The model will be on its bench in the corner, and the sugar bowl will be in the center of the kitchen table, its little spoon resting on the rim. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z Was it the fields of sugar cane they brought to mind, or the endless reach of the ocean to meet the sky? The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z She brought the cup up and took a sip and it was only then I remembered: Camilla didn’t like sugar in her coffee. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z My mom won’t buy us any because she says it’s nothing but sugar mixed with chemicals to make it neon colors, and it’ll give you cancer. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z For example, soda was banned at my old school because of the sugar content. Ungifted 2012-08-21T00:00:00Z “And no classes—just the pageant tonight. Now go get me some more sugar.” Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z This morning, however, she fluttered down between the marmalade and the sugar bowl and dropped a note onto Harry’s plate. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z Just the thought of my favorite crêpe—strawberry and banana with Nutella, powdered sugar, and whipped cream—makes my mouth water. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z When word of the breakthrough in making sugar reached the landowners in that one more advanced part of Russia, they knew just what to do: plant beets. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z In the back of the truck August had gallons of sugar water already made up. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Whatever its chemical constituents, the transforming principle was not composed of sugars, lipids, or proteins. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z The following pages are like a slide show: a portrait gallery of sugar work. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z I’ve been eyeing thin strips of sugar maple in a dreamy cream color to use for my floor. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z “This is a mixture of potassium chlorate and sugar,” Miss Riley said. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z Ma, the sugar police, probably would’ve flipped if she tasted this! As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z Grandmother took Nhamo into her hut and gave her—wonder of wonders!—lemonade with sugar. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z When it came time for her to put him back, she’d sweetened his confinement by placing her last bit of sugar on his tongue. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z When this was baked brown, sugar was melted and poured over the top. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z One bright afternoon, while I’m walking down the street to our house, swinging a bag of sugar and dried lentils, I see MacGyver. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z By the time it reaches the end, the corn is reduced to simple molecules, mostly sugars. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z After she served it to me, I doctored it with two packets of creamer and four of sugar. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z There was only the delicious, extravagant, warm, tasty scent of buttery baking crust, and of vanilla cream, and of powdered sugar, still drifting in the heated air. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z Never, either, had the sugar camp looked so good. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z The boy took the fish, and for the next hour the three of us sat around the kitchen table eating pickled herring and crackers and sugar cookies and milk. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z Working her way through the doughnut, confectioners’ sugar snowing onto her chest, she said ruefully, “I miss my cigarette.” Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z The British followed by turning Barbados into a sugar island; then the French found rich soil on Hispaniola all over again. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z Rodney and Connor then lined up all the salt and pepper shakers and started tossing sugar packets over the barricade with forks and spoons as catapults. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z The Howards motored down and watched, too, feeding sugar cubes to their horses and surely wondering what they had gotten themselves into. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z “Rancid milk is stinking up the insides. That’s what happens when milk and sugar are left to pool for three days. My own classes haven’t even had a chance to use it.” A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z An aide brought a cup of hot boiled coffee, thick with sugar. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z This time, he added both glucose and lactose—two different sugars—to the culture. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z I drained the mug reluctantly and scraped my finger along the bottom to get the last of the undissolved sugar. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Once they arrived, they would use the frames set up last year for their big sugaring house. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z “They’re giving me my own lab. Meanwhile, don’t tell them, but I’m purchasing mass quantities of research supplies: sugar, gelatin, cornstarch and...jelly bean molds!” The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z Yet he firmly held the lamp as if it were as important as butter or sugar. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z I run inside just to grab the sugar skull I made last night. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z Now beet sugar set an example of modern farming that helped convince Russian nobles that it was time to free their millions of serfs. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z She stood with the sugar bowl in her hand. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z She popped the last little bit of the lump of maple sugar onto his tongue. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z When he was given the opportunity to study law in England, he faced the same problem as the indentured sugar workers: He would lose caste if he crossed the black water. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z The lives of sugar workers were ruled by the cane, and by the relentless pace of work. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z He even claimed to have been there on one of his higher flights, and to have seen the everlasting fields of clover and the linseed cake and lump sugar growing on the hedges. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z Sugar turned human beings into property, yet sugar led people to reject the idea that any person could be owned by another. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z That sugar maple sat on the lot for months. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z But on the sugar islands, while more than two million people were brought over from Africa, there were only 670,000 at emancipation. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z In another cupboard are a box of tea bags, Peek Freans shortbread biscuits, a five- pound bag of sugar that has not been poured into a bowl, a tin of evaporated milk. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z After the sugar snow had gone, spring came. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z “No double-scoop cookie dough on a sugar cone? With sprinkles? What happened?” Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z The remains of another sugar packet lay in a small coffee puddle next to her cup. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z He added a generous dollop of sour cherry jam to his glass, but I was inclined to drink mine unflavored, with only a cube of sugar to sweeten it. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z Think how many cubic centimeters there are in the world outside your window–how many sugar cubes it would take to fill that view. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z But since the linkages between the nucleotides involved only the phosphate and sugar groups, our assumption that the same type of chemical bond linked all the nucleotides together was not affected. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z When the party was over, Mami really wanted to save that crown, but her little brother Edilberto found that sweet crown and sucked off the sugar rosettes. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z But when Prosper reached for the sugar tongs, he grabbed his hand so quickly that the boy gave a start. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z He stirred several lumps of sugar into his Gurdyroot infusion and drank some. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z “We got white rice! First we got the butter and sugar, and then Jiichan sold it at the black market!” A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z Carlos places six sugar skulls on top of my headstone. Ghost Boys 2018-04-17T00:00:00Z Some three thousand carved pieces of sugar stood on that table, showing every step of her trip, down to carved sugar birds in sugar cages and sugar elephants on parade. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z Just because Fig had sugar problems didn’t mean we couldn’t enjoy it. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z He finished scooping sugar into a customer’s coffee cup and waved at me. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z Probably she didn’t need the sugar but it was the only thing we could find to steal. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z The sugar did very well because it stuck to the ice cream. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z Adam sat silently for a while, stirring sugar into his lukewarm tea. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z I don't know if it was the sugar smell, or the buildup from earlier, or what, but I just...said it. Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z By the 600s, the doctors at the school were writing about a medicine from India named sharkara or, as the Persians called it, shaker— sugar. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z “I think anxiety is very interesting,” observed Amy, eating sugar pensively. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z At least I had broken her of putting cream and sugar into everything. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z It quickly reached the ignition temperature of the sugar. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z She filled a large jug with skim milk, but the Mellower’s mother measured out the sugar. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z From the field behind the sugar mill a group of workers were watching the balloon floating in the air. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z Sassur gave us a few coins to buy a cone of spun sugar. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z That was the product of the sugar beet plant located two miles north of town, its aroma carried easily even with a light wind. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z When Deborah got to her doctor’s office, her blood pressure and blood sugar were so high, her doctor was amazed she hadn’t had a stroke or heart attack while we were in Clover. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z They discuss clothes, or talk about the boys they are going out with, licking the doughnut sugar off their fingers. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z “Most I can sell you is twenty-five pounds of sugar,” apologized Mr. Hanson. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z The rat had climbed out of the sugar bowl and leaped up onto the stove. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z For beet sugar showed that in order to create that perfect sweetness you did not need slaves, you did not need plantations, in fact you did not even need cane. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z “We can trade butter and sugar for rice. Everyone in Japan, they think of rice day and night,” Jiichan was saying. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z On top of it all, she had lost a ration book and they had to do without sugar for two weeks. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z 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 There are two problems with cane if you want to make vast amounts of sugar: one of time and the other of fire. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z He dropped it in a kettle of boiling water and then added a bit of sugar and salt. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z Then she gave him a mug of coffee without sugar as she had been told the Buendías drank it, and she spread his clothing out near the fire. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z It shone on the floor like spilled sugar, and when she slid from her gryphon’s back, it was cold under her bare feet. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z “Oh, I brought sugar skulls we can decorate, too!” How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z In fact, I don’t even borrow sugar from my neighbors. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z The wind pulls at her hair again, and I catch her scent—like fruit and sugar. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z Guess the extra sugar in the milk was too much. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z Cane grows in Brazil today, but not always for sugar. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z The macaron towers draped with nets of sugar syrup and golden honey. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z I then spent about a fortnight on a sugar plantation in Natal living with a group of African laborers and their families in a small community called Tongaat, just up the coast from Durban. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Little sugar skulls are lined up in rows. Ghost Boys 2018-04-17T00:00:00Z Sugar made the Africans slaves, so sugar must be wiped off the island, now a vast sugar factory to the world. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z Pearl glanced at the shelves above the stove and pushed a box under them; she took down bread, cheeses, dried fruits, meats, and a bag of oats and sugar. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Grover, listening, snitched two packets of sugar from behind the counter. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z A fat red-faced man in check breeches and gaiters, who looked like a publican, was stroking her nose and feeding her with sugar. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z I remember touching things, not even that consciously, just placing my fingers on them; things like the toaster, the sugar bowl, the ashtray in the living room. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z I used to love these, with their mixture of nutmeg and molasses, but now all I could taste was the weird rush of sugar, the tang of chemicals. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z She had been queen of the cabin and the straggly fields and sugar bush up there on the hill. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z The body of the sugar basin was quickly completed and he began repousseing on it the rich garlands of fruit with the same skill he had had forty years before. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z I don’t know what to say to that, even as my whole body tingles with tiny granules of sugar, as Madrina says. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z “Remember? We buy butter from friend who have farm. But sugar I have no memory of. I may have tasted sugar, but I have no memory of.” A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z Now called the Sugar Act, the law was designed to make sure the American colonists stopped smuggling and paid their sugar tax. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z Ms. Anderson, the art teacher, poured pink sugar into a cotton candy machine. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z Napoleon was seemingly in an impossible bind, but he found a way out of the sugar trap. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z “I got a few hours’ work for tomorrow at the sugar mill,” Guy said. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z The products on his shelves showed many of the ways sugar was Unking the world. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z The sugar water in the IV tube hardly moves. Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z “After we start planting, there’s no time for sugaring. You plant oats early and you get oats; you plant ’em late and you get nothing but chaff.” Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z Those relationships were the real evil of the sugar plantation: A master could do anything he wanted, and a slave could not resist. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z She puts sugar and cinnamon inside half of them for me, and those are always on top, so when I sneak into the kitchen, I don’t even turn the light on. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z I smiled and dropped three sugar cubes in my tea. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z You had no choice but to have the sugar mill right there, and sugar mills require a wide range of occupations. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z The English then set out to conquer more sugar islands, starting with Jamaica, which they took from Spain in 1665. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z “No sugar. I don’t want nothing to make me sweet.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z “We will go tomorrow to Kobe for butter and sugar. That will help.” A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z Mr. Hancock did not recognize him as the apprentice of Mr. Lapham who had rashly promised a sugar basin in time for his Aunt Lydia’s birthday. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z I had brought some food — fruit, meat, sugar, salt, and a chicken — and my mother lit the stove to make tea. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The sweet smell of vanilla and powdered sugar filled the air when I stepped into the Hidalgos’ house. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z I had slipped a cube of sugar into my pants pocket before we left. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z On that day we used up the last grains of orsh, and the last few ounces of kadik-germ; we had left now two pounds apiece of gichy-michy, and six ounces of sugar. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z When Napoleon was calculating how to get sugar without having to fight the English fleet, a couple of beet-sugar factories had begun operating around Europe. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z I developed an eye for measuring how full a silver-looking ladle of flour, mash, meal, sugar or com had to be to push the scale indicator over to eight ounces or one pound. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z And with every cup of tea came several spoonfuls of sugar. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z He grimaced when Adam put two spoonfuls of sugar in his cup. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z Taking his wife’s hand, Guy said, “Let’s go to the sugar mill.” Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z Her moans echoed through the stairwell, and we rushed out of our apartments to calm her at once, bearing palm fans and sugar cubes, and tumblers of refrigerated water to pour on her head. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z “Another thang bout them Yankees,” said Grandpa, heading for the dining room, “they never heard a-sweetmilk. When I ast for it, the waitress lady brought me some with sugar in it.” Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z We’re part of some kind of pilot program that tortures kids by taking away sugar. Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z Her joys, her plot, that block of sugar maple she perched on like a vulture. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z Soft, salty bread and white cheese, slices of spiced meat, and quarters of some big, globed fruit that tasted of sugared rain. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z Ads were posted in Spain to attract sugar workers there; even a few African Americans came from the mainland. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z “I’m mostly pecans. With just a soupçon of maple sugar.” The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z “If that stuff be sugar, where are the red ants?” Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z They came toward me as I ran, a crowd of men and women carrying cases of beer, cheese, chains of linked sausage, watermelons, sacks of sugar, hams, cornmeal, fuel lamps. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z She sounded like she was trying to borrow a cup of sugar. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z The sugar mill workers sat in the front row in chairs or on old buckets. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z For some reason sugar and caffeine always calmed down my hyperactive brain. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z I whipped the sugar bowl out from behind my back. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Even the sounds of nightmare from the other shelters no longer reached him, for he was back to where he came from, feeding the ponies with sugar over the garden wall. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z “My stocks are low right now and we’ve got those darn flour and sugar limits, but I believe we can put you together a kit.” Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z He filched an old kettle and two lumps of sugar, just in case. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z “Now,” said Mrs. Baker, “while the sugar is coursing through your veins.” The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z Moreover, few Indians carry the gene that permits adults to digest lactose, a form of sugar abundant in milk. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Soon they began building Muslim-style sugar plantations on the islands, some of them staffed by slaves purchased from nearby Africa. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z “Pity sugar makes it useless,” he added, taking a sip and shuddering. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z To him strawberries were a holy mystery, jewels of sugar, deep red gems, sweet orbs, succulent rubies. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z “I had such a strange dream last night,” said Jane, as she sprinkled sugar over her porridge at breakfast. Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z There is a transparent tube that goes from the bag of sugar water that the doctor hung above Djo’s head. Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z “I can give up my morning latte and afternoon sugar fix. And maybe we could even ask Gran for an extra loan, but...” Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z Wherever she went it was sugar and indigo, except for a stint folding tobacco leaves for one week before she was sold again. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z Baba shakes his head as he drops sugar into his tea. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z “He offered me sugar and wanted to know all my secrets,” I say in my best seductive voice. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z She brought empanadas and sugared breads wrapped in tinfoil, arroz con pollo and chicken soup packaged in plastic containers. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z Nina's Russian grandfather on the Volga and Marinas Indian great-grandfather in Guyana were linked by sugar. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z But then he said, “You do have powdered sugar on your nose,” and smiled. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z No thunderstorms marred the flavor of the sugar. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z Thus, sugar drove more than 900,000 people into slavery, across the Atlantic, to Barbados and Jamaica—and these were just two of the sugar islands. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z It was dusted generously with powdered sugar, which spilled down his jacket with the first bite. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z William Beck- ford, for example, came from a family that owned twenty-four sugar plantations in Jamaica. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z Your sugared heart could not bear the treacherous circumstances here in the port of Gotenhafen. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z In the beginning I could find sugar and chocolate, but those things have been harder recently, and I can only get them sometimes. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z Rice, oatmeal, dehydrated potatoes, canned roast beef, gingersnap cookies, sugar, coffee, and chocolate were some of the items packed in watertight tin containers. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z Not a single piece of bread-and-butter or a lump of sugar had been left behind. Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z At home, sugaring time would come soon, and already we’d carried the pails and the taps and the tubing down from the barn loft and begun to wash them all out. Orbiting Jupiter 2015-10-06T00:00:00Z “No, no memory. I have heard sugar taste like fairy tale.” A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z Figs that drip with honey, sugar blown into curls and flowers. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z Some pies were still too sour, other; gritty with too much sugar. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z “We right here, sugar,” she said, like she was growing annoyed. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z On the night of August 14, 1791, commanders from the richest sugar plantations in Saint Domingue gathered in a place called Alligator Woods and swore a solemn oath. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z She winced when he put two heaped spoons of sugar into his extremely milky coffee. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Just before his army physical, he ate a fistful of candy bars; thanks to the consequent soaring blood sugar, he failed the physical. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z He saw sugar mill smokestacks and homes where people put day-old tortillas on their tin roofs to dry. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z I’m sitting in the living room eating a piece of Moms’s homemade bread with butter and sugar when Diego comes strutting through the front door. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z She swore she detected sugar in the milk. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z We can still have bread and cheese and a nice jam jar of tea with lashings of milk and sugar and what more do you want? Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z At the last moment Mollie, the foolish, pretty white mare who drew Mr.Jones’s trap, came mincing daintily in, chewing at a lump of sugar. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z I watch the sugar water travel down slowly. Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z But I finished the whole plastic row, four neat towers next to the sugar and the milk. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z “I made you some tea. For your birthday. It’s in the teapot. I didn’t even put sugar in it.” Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z Then she would smile at him prettily and set the coffee service down on its tray while he helped himself to the sugar. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z He didn’t want to tell his grandfather that it tasted like liquid sugar. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z He drank it and ate the sugar bun that they had saved for him. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z We drink our tea while Alphie chews the last bit of bread covered with sugar. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z “I was tricked. Yes, I was. I saw the pretty color and believed it was sweet. I know there is no sugar in Japan for cake. But I saw the pretty color.” A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z First they cooked parsnips with sugar and spices and yeast and poured this into casks, where the fermenting mixture sang loud and sweet as it turned into wine. The Midwife's Apprentice 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z I wet the brush and rearranged the tube of paste to prevent my parents from asking any questions, and fell asleep with sugar on my tongue. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z Kathleen O’Connell at the shop knows Dad is off to England and money will be flowing back so she’s happy to let Mam have credit for tea, milk, sugar, bread, butter and an egg. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z “They had brown sugar in the heart of Africa?” Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z Frank stuck the jar in his backpack and thanked Esther, who had already switched from calling him sugar to son. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z His mother fiddled with the sugar bowl, a blithe expression on her face. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z When Parliament listened to the sugar lords, the colonists felt helpless, as if they were slaves. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z We each ate half and laughed at how our faces were sticky all over with pink sugar. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z Avery fiddled with the experiment as only a microbiologist could, growing the bacteria in various cultures, adding beef-heart broth, removing contaminant sugars, and growing the colonies on plates. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z There was bread and cheese and fruits that looked so ripe they might be bursting with juice, and what looked like dark sweet cakes laced with cobwebs of sugar. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z “We will trade butter and sugar on black market for rice!” A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z One cube of sugar, picked up with deliberate care with the tiny silver tongs. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z Carl ate a slice of bread spread with butter and sugar. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z They clustered around her in the front lawn, pouring so much sugar on her that she looked downright mystified. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z Sometimes baked big pans of navy beans with plenty of sugar and hunks of bacon laying on top. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z Slowly, Japanese women joined men on the sugar plantations. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z Their parents left them after the big delicious dinner and two rounds of hot tea with mint and sugar. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z “Day and night I wait on you—‘Bring me tea, bring me sugar, rub my feet!’ A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Her cook prepared for Woody a special meal of teriyaki fish, its sauce enriched by the gift of sugar, and Toyo served it on one of her few remaining treasures, a fine set of porcelain. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z I glanced at the old cooking notebook my mom made for me sandwiched between the can of sugar and the can of flour on the counter. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z For a whole month I’ve saved up the sugar I put on my hot cereal, and Mr. Kleiman has used it to have fondant made. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z His sugared almond tasted of her name which seemed so quaintly improbable that he wondered if he had remembered it correctly. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z Even the “junk drawer” in Park Slope was stocked with things like banana chips and sugared almonds. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z He makes us laugh the way he smears the sugar all over his face and grins at us with his fat sticky cheeks. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z He had been trying to organize a Kitchen Workers’ Union and had recently charged the camp’s chief steward, a Caucasian, with stealing sugar and meat from the warehouses to sell on the black market. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z In the old days, the winds swept through the irrigated plains around Jalalabad where farmers grew sugarcane, and impregnated the city's air with a sweet scent. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z Some of the coconut milk was mixed with sweet evaporated milk, sugar, egg yolks, and rum to make coquito. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z All year, the Capitol will show the winning district gifts of grain and oil and even delicacies like sugar while the rest of us battle starvation. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z It’s an Indian name, meaning “tree sweet juice,” or—in other words—maple sugar. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z After she had passed around the teacups, milk, sugar, lemon and cake, Dicey sat on the floor. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z She couldn’t eat them, but she seemed to appreciate touching them, as though the sugar and flour gave her strength, the same way they would a living person. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z Guests at sugar plantations often remarked on how many one-armed people they saw. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z He dumped two spoonfuls of sugar into his cup and slurped to keep the hot coffee from scalding his mouth. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z Last night, as we lay on our mats in the closet, Mami started telling me stories about growing up on a sugar estate where her father was the resident doctor. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z “Three minutes, who’s up?” he announced, upending an extraordinary ormolu-gilt hourglass and displaying a boiled egg with a pair of silver sugar tongs. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z A single strand of DNA consists of a backbone of sugars and phosphates, and four bases—A, T, G, and C—attached to the backbone, like teeth jutting out from a zipper strand. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z That is, a master could sell any slaves who managed to live, if he needed more money than he could make from sugar. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z “Want a sugar cube?” he says, offering his hand, which is piled high. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z She’s eating a doughnut covered with powdered sugar; the sugar has come off on her nose. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z Ida stirred some more sugar into her coffee. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z Some of the graves had offerings of food as well: tortillas, bowls of chili, bottles of soda, fruit, and whole herds of tiny donkeys, horses, and pigs made out of pastry or sugar. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Nevertheless, Susan Kidwell and her mother had managed to sugar the pill and install a cozy atmosphere in their apartment—three rooms on the ground floor. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z All I need is a blanket, a few spoons of tea and sugar and a few cuts of bread to keep me going. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z Mr. Hanson added the sugar sack to the pile on the counter, then clicked his tongue in satisfaction. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z Matt looked at the tamales, bowls of chili, and loaves of bread decorated with pink sugar. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Glossy sugared hawthorne berries, like rubies on a stick, made Minli’s mouth water. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z I pointed at an empty lot full of sugar sand. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z With each repetition of his name, he pounded on the table so hard that the blue glass sugar bowl with the spoons hanging around its rim clattered up and down. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z For an African, whether you were sent to the Caribbean or South America, you were now part of the sugar machine. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z The very fact that slave-made sugar was so popular made it harder for the English to ignore the reality of slavery. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z Caesar pictured his father cutting cane in a Florida hell, burning his flesh as he stooped over the big kettles of molten sugar. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z She takes two teacups from the cabinet and puts one cube of sugar in each. Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z I had to go back uptown for more sugar and another big can of Crisco. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z Marie-Laure and her father sleep in; they drink coffee thick with sugar. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z “Yes,” Pa said, “he’s very glad. He’s going to sugar off again next Monday, and he says we must all come.” Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z In Sugarcandy Mountain it was Sunday seven days a week, clover was in season all the year round, and lump sugar and linseed cake grew on the hedges. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z If he could not grow and process sugar in the Caribbean, he needed another source. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z When I am satisfied that my finger is wet enough, I take it out of my mouth and slowly roll it around on top of the sugar. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Whenever they could, people used the spices that were so popular, they became an expensive necessity: pepper, ginger, sugar, sometimes saffron. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z Halfway into the mug, I realized I should have asked for sugar, but then it seemed too late. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z “Dad, how come you let all the sugar stay on the bottom?” Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z More precious foodstores—cases of nuts, boxes of sugar, crates of barley, flour, and jam—were sledged back to the new camp, dubbed Ocean Camp by the men. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z Grover slipped another two sugar packets into his back right pocket. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z They do everything together and are as close as sisters and as opposite as sugar is to salt. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z Experiments carried out about a decade ago showed that after treatment with this chemical there is a sharp increase in the nitrate content of corn and of sugar beets. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z “He can’t hurt you. Not as long as you stay with me. I promise. Why—you’re trembling! Here, have some more petit fours, sugar for my sweet one. There you go. Feel better?” Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z Otherwise, she sat quietly, playing with sugar packets until her mother made her stop. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z Martin bursts in, and within sixty seconds, he changes his drink order twice, burps, and manages to level Abby s sugar house with an overly enthusiastic finger poke. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z “What you got there, sugar?” he asked, lazily. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z And why was one sugar consumed first, and only then the second, like a two-course bistro lunch? The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z First, all the sugar must be chewed out of Mexican gum, then the bartender gives a few slips of paper to the aspirant, who writes either a proverb or a sentimental remark on the strip. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z He decided to come bearing sugar, since he knows how badly everyone wants it these days. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z Thank Einstein, Fig’s blood sugar is back in check. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z We were standing on Arnold’s front steps and he handed me some kind of hippie iced tea that tasted sweet but, he said, had no sugar in it. Lawn Boy 2007-06-12T00:00:00Z He was spreading out his sugar, which he had saved, in the window, and was manifestly beginning his fly-catching again; and beginning it cheerfully and with a good grace. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z She could listen to the crunch of sugar underfoot that the children had spilled without reaching for the switch; and she forgot the tear in die living-room window shade. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z The world of sugar centered on the Muslim Mediterranean, but it also stretched as far as China to the east and even Europe to the north. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z She could tell that he was also watching the hot-air balloon behind the sugar mill fence out of the corner of his eye. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z Then my grandmother would add “sugar” to her shopping list and she’d say she didn’t know how she’d ever got along without me. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Instead, they scurried around like little sugar ants, busy hormiguitas, gathering the materials to create a sturdy device in which to carry our wounded sister, because her leg hurt so much that she couldn’t walk. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z Ishmael found his mother at her kitchen table once again, reading the last chapter of Sense and Sensibility by lantern light and drinking tea with sugar and lemon concentrate. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z When he came up for breath she pulled her chair in close to the table and reached for the sugar bowl as if nothing had happened. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z What was even better than the taste of the coffee was the silky texture given to it by the sugar, a thing Winston had almost forgotten after years of saccharine. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z Once, after lights out, a brave boy called Wragg tiptoed out of our dormitory and sprinkled castor sugar all over the linoleum floor of the corridor. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z Mrs. Boozer—Miss Alice Ann, not Miss Catherine—came in the store for some flour and sugar one day and told Papa she’d never got mail from as far away as New York City before. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z There was a three-tiered pink-and-white cake, draped in fondant and topped with a sugar figurine of a baby holding the number 1 in its chubby hands. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z Something sweet and strong that makes my mouth water, like a swirl of cinnamon and sugar. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z The crowd was working in and out of the stores like ants around spilled sugar. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z He will get only a little store sugar, to have on the table when company comes.” Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z She divided it into long, slender strips, then into small squares, smaller and smaller, as small as sugar cubes. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z From the 1750s on, sugar transformed how Europeans ate. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z We ate hot cereal with strawberries, buttermilk with strawberries, bread with strawberries, strawberries for dessert, strawberries with sugar, strawberries with sand. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z Slowly, I walk my finger back to my spot on the mat and begin to eat each grain of the sugar. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Also, prices of critical supplies such as oil, bread, and sugar had risen because of the policies of the government in the capital city of Khartoum. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z At the door she remembered the sugar and shoved it at the woman. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z But it is in India, where it was used as an offering in religious and magical ceremonies, that we have the first written record of sugar. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z “You didn't come by the barrelhouse on Sunday. You said you'd bring me some of that sugar.” Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z “You have endless supplies of sugar here. I may never leave,” Windy says. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z Chocolate and peanut butter—despite the fact that I do my best to avoid the intake of refined sugar—are a worthy combination. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z Typical Day on the Plantation allowed her to sit at a spinning wheel and rest her feet, the seat as sure as her old block of sugar maple. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z My body shook like when I didn’t listen to Mom and had two cups of coffee with sugar in a row. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z As I got up to get the sugar, I saw Mama fix Doc with a serious, hard look. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z The twins sat at the table, covered in sugar but happy. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z They were laying off sugar or carbs or caffeine or meat or dairy, but maybe a little butter was fine now and then. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z He tosses another sugar cube in his mouth and saunters off. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z The sugar story in the United States centered on Louisiana—though even supposedly free states like New York made fortunes in transporting and selling sugar grown by slaves. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z It’s like cooking: If you put in sugar and apples and oranges and lemons, when you eat it it’s going to be sweet. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z “Is it not?—Tea is being brought, monsieur. If you will indicate your cream and sugar preference, please.—Thank you.” I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z And there’s no sugar- coating it: She deserved better friends. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z 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 But they knew that in a town there were many houses, and a store full of candy and calico and other wonderful things—powder, and shot, and salt, and store sugar. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z At breakfast—lumpy oats with no sugar—when I ask how to get to school and what time I’m expected to be there, Mrs. Byrne looks at her husband and then back at me. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z “People here do not have a desire to investigate....Indeed, they ridiculed me for looking at anything else in the country except sugar.” The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z “They’re supposed to be for the horses, but who cares? They’ve got years to eat sugar, whereas you and I...well, if we see something sweet, we better grab it quick.” Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z The sugar cube he held between his teeth was still dry when a man slammed the passenger door of the truck and marched toward the shop. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z The silver-haired man added several heaped spoonfuls of sugar to his coffee, stirred it briskly. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z She came over to me and gave me some sugar and I put my arm around her. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z By 1640, when Pernambuco was briefly ruled by the Dutch, its plantations sent some twenty-four thousand pounds of sugar to Amsterdam alone. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z It was the best night they had ever had at Maple Hill, except of course that first night at the sugar camp. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z The curve of growth can be plotted as an exponential line—1, 2-, 4-, 8-, 16-fold growth—until the culture turns turbid, and the sugar source has been exhausted. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z Some are like a pot of black coffee, no cream, no sugar. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z No one could have seen it at the time, but the invention of beet sugar was not just a challenge to cane. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z It tells of growing a circle of sugar cane as a kind of sweet protection for a lover, and it includes specific instructions on how to use sugar cane. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z Back in England, Clarkson and his friends saw their chance: France was no longer in the midst of a revolution, and Napoleon’s sugar dreams had failed. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z The topping is made of burned sugar that tastes sweet and also a little bitter. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z In the 1890s, the price of cane sugar was declining, and the planters who owned sugar fields in British Guiana were on the edge of bankruptcy. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z By the nineteenth century, when growers turned to the richly planted islands of Hawaii, they brought with them the knowledge of how to run sugar plantations. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z “You can’t eat it like that! You have to eat one piece at a time, faceup, so that the cinnamon and the sugar hit the roof of your mouth.” Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z Warm air rushes out, smelling like a mixture of hamburger grease and sugar. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z “If it last long, maybe next time we keep some butter and sugar.” A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z “You know, that’s a very fair question, and I feel silly for never having explained it to you, sugar pop.” Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z Walmart, which was then the nation’s largest grocery retailer, had joined our effort by pledging to cut the amount of sugar, salt, and fat in its food products and to reduce prices on produce. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z It was sweet, as sweet as the little packets of sugar I eat at Dunkin’ Donuts, sweeter maybe. Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Here, she says, put some sugar and water in the child’s botde. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z “It is the sugar. It disappears so fast. . .” Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z 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 They gathered around the kolyvo, which was sprinkled with the powdered sugar of the afterlife and mixed with the immortal seeds of pomegranates. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z Besides, Omakayas reasoned, as she walked contentedly along, the taste of the sugar would save her from eating every one of the berries she was sure she would find on the path. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z On many of the sugar islands, Africans created similar dances in which people spin, jump, and seem to menace each other, then, just on the beat, click sticks and twirl away. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z She may be using me for a sugar rush, but that’s okay. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z “What is the thing you’ve been begging and badgering me for all these years? Leaving notes around the house to remind me. In my shoes, in the sugar bowl.” Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z There is temporarily a marked increase in sugar content, making the plant more attractive to many animals. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Napoleon quickly recognized how important sugar was to his nation. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z She hands Mr. Sorenson a cup and offers him the sugar bowl. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z It was a marvel to behold: three tall tiers glazed in pink with sugared petals, far too tall to have fit beneath the cover it was under. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z As if the tea wasn’t already a spoonful of sugar away from being syrup! As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z I tell Mami we’re supposed to have the pancakes with maple syrup, but we don’t have maple syrup, so we sprinkle sugar on them and they taste good. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z But his exhaustion was more than a match for the sugar. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z He discovered a small blue-and-white ceramic box hidden in the corner behind some jars of sugar and salt. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z Canned peas, tomatoes, butter, condensed milk, powdered eggs, sugar, flour, vodka, whiskey. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z They hooked me up with two IVs: one sugar, one salt. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z In the same way, our built-in instincts tell us to eat lots of sugar and fat. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z During the winter, we had collected a bowl of snow and poured Pet milk over it, and sprinkled it with sugar and called it ice cream. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z While the Islamic world was spreading and absorbing new knowledge, enjoying the taste of sugar, Europe had gone the opposite way: isolation. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z He shook his mane like he was having a sugar seizure. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z Anything other than diet and Grandma will go off about him not watching his sugar. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z Then we laughed our way through the sugar high. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z “Salt instead of sugar, and the cream is sour,” replied Meg with a tragic gesture. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z She sits next to me with a tray of tea and a bowl of her sugar cookies. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z “Oatmeal, brown sugar and butter on top,” negative tone—positive nod. This Side of Wild 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z Grown on either sugar alone, the bacterium begins to divide rapidly, doubling in number every twenty minutes or so. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z The kids transferred the remains from the morning’s coffeepot into the teapot; then Oliver dumped three generous spoonfuls of sugar into it and Isa added milk. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z They were afraid of the living death that awaited them in the rice fields, on the great cotton plantations, the sugar plantations, in the deep South—and so ran away. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z I add milk and sugar and act like I always drink coffee. Paradise on Fire 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z “Sorry. There’s no milk or sugar that I could find,” Jennifer said. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z “The Americans have so much butter and sugar they can give away! Ah! It is hard to imagine.” A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z A rush of sugar made my brain buzz with pleasure. Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z I had to clean up after Sam while Lynn made us breakfast: what we called brown eggs, made by scrambling eggs with shoyu and sugar. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z Their faces were covered with yellow vanilla filling and powdered sugar. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z “It’s full of sugar and a little milk. You look as if you need it.” The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z I set off full speed, sucking sugar out of my molars and just real pleased with myself. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z But shortly after that they were transferred to Tule Lake, where there were turmoil and violence and arrests, and now they were here, traveling ten hours for butter and sugar. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z “No, sugar, were not broken. We’re just the ones who need attention right now.” A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z She added flour and sugar to the reserved dough in its bowl, then mixed in water until it was the right consistency. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z Henry pushed the sugar bowl toward her and brought it back. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z Sitting around the kitchen table we had a sad, makeshift dinner of canned mushroom soup, soda crackers, and tea without sugar or milk. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z Dakota reclined glumly on his couch, mixing sugar into his drink and chugging it. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z “There’s nothing in that brownie except sugar and fat.” When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z “The sugar bin is getting low,” I would say. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z There were bunches of carrots and celery and loaves of bread and jars of jam and molasses and bags of sugar and links of sausage. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z “So that’s why it’s a sugar snow, because Grandpa is making sugar?” Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z He guided Joe to a lumber rack and pulled out samples of the different woods he used—soft, malleable sugar pine, hard yellow spruce, fragrant cedar, and clear white ash. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z From there we watch as people dressed like snowflakes, like elves, like rabbits, like sugar plum fairies, march past us, strangely truncated because we’re looking down on them. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z Moments later wheeled carts arrive, chock-full of pastries, eggs cooked in every way, grilled meat, petit-pancakes with sugar dust, and bowls of colorful fruit. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z The scent of rose and ice and sugar. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z A couple of weeks later they went to Kobe and got more butter and sugar to trade for rice. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z Beet sugar was a foreshadowing of what we have today: the Age of Science, in which sweetness is a product of chemistry, not whips. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z After he finished munching, she treated him to half an apple or a lump of sugar.She thought it was too cold to wash him on the street. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z On the other hand, world sugar prices were plummeting. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z And beet sugar was just the first challenge to cane. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z Now I rub one between my fingers, crushing it to granules, then lick my index finger and stick it in the sugar before popping it in Carmine’s mouth. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z My mother poured out tea sweetened with sugar into the teacup, and threw this into the sea. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z For dessert, she brought out a dish of strawberries dusted with a little cane sugar. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z I kept asking for a cupcake but Mrs. Howard said, “The last thing you need is sugar.” Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z A century later, in 1900, when sugar was used in jams, cakes, syrups, and tea, and every modern country was filled with factories, world production of sugar reached six million tons. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z In the living room they were talking about taking the train overnight to Kobe to get the butter and sugar in the next day or two. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z Ma gave Caroline some ginger tea, adding two large spoonfuls of brown sugar to the cup. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z They boiled water and mixed it with the precious sugar and salt to feed the weakest people. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z “I just want to have a quick word with the doctor,” Mom explained, using her sweet neighborly voice as if we’d come to borrow a cup of sugar. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z Olanna went inside to count the cans of dried milk, tea, biscuits, Ovaltine, sardines, the cartons of sugar, the bags of salt—and she could not help the gasp when she saw the toilet tissue. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z 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 After the cacophony of shattering sugar, it does not take long for the diners to realize that, though the globes appeared identical, each of them has been presented with an entirely unique flavor. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z “No, sir? “You didn’t sneak down to the school kitchen and do anything to Mrs. Bigio’s powdered sugar?” The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z I wait for her to ask what the project is, but she just looks at her watch and says, “Oh, sugar, that would actually help me out a lot.” A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z They sat facing each other in a booth, and Jean Louise studied the napkin container, the sugar bowl, the salt and pepper shakers. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z It makes even more sense when you realize that those cheap calories reward our instincts for fat and sugar. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z |
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