| 单词 | tend |
| 例句 | Nokomis taught, but someone had to tend the sugarhouse fires, so many days she stayed instead of going to the ceremonies. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z But mostly Joe had quit fishing: there were too many other more important things to tend to, apropos earning a living. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z "Well, go tend to something else. The nurses are here to look after her. She doesn't need additional fawning." The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z And also, as he said she must, Mig tended Uncles sheep and cooked Uncle’s food and scrubbed Uncle’s kettle. The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z As night fell over the hushed, shadowy hills of the countryside, I thought of the women in the camp, spending their days cooking with corn and rice, tending to their children, gossiping about camp life. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z Conventional history of science tends to stop at this point. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z In the damp box of the old kennel, the sound of the sea washes away all other sounds; she tends to the snails as though to plants in a garden. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z He and I don’t get on, though he tends to forget. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z In the bunkers, they tended small children, passing out food, milk, and toys. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z Farmers tend to eat a very limited and unbalanced diet. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Then I made out a sweet, pale girl tending a trough of straw on which lay a tiny baby. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Lelia and I tended to dwell in the corners, along the periphery. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z But the looming threat of possible injury and perhaps even death did tend to focus his mind on the downside of his swashbuckling style. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z She tend to a white family a her own. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z What he meant was that he would under no circumstances tend these prisoners during the coming engagement, and he was saying it as politely as possible. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z If you push him from in front the weight behind him tends to take over, so that he might fall backwards. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z In their afternoons in the hospital, Pollard wooed her with quotes from Old Waldo while she tended to his leg. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z “What if I am selected instead to be a Sun Maiden who tends to the mummies?” The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z “Sister Marie says I have to get off now. I still have to tend the sheep.” The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z Frankly, I really shouldn’t hang out with them at all, since I tend to end up evacuating small soldiers while indulging depraved thoughts after watching them flirt with each other for hours. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z “I recommend Batman especially, for he tends to transcend the abysmal society in which he’s found himself. His morality is rather rigid, also. I rather respect Batman.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z A number of the butlers had worked for many years in the White House, tending to every family that came through. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z I “Had you had any relations with her while in the back seat that would have tended to make her, let us say, stunned, too weak to have gotten out alone?” Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z It must be record heat, cause I been tending to white folks for forty-one years and this the first time in history I ever went to work without no stockings on. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z While I have always enjoyed gardening, it was not until I was behind bars that I was able to tend my own garden. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Weeds have overcome her husband's herbs, but she still tends to the tomatoes—his favorite—that glow on the vine every summer. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z Our mother's love tended toward the horizontal, a pet being little more than a napping companion, something she could look at and say, "That seems like a good idea. Scoot over, why don't you." Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z Mrs. Kanagawa couldn’t watch Sam and me that week because she was tending to her sick mother in Oregon. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z It also tended to eat slowly away at my sense of justice. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z They tended to resemble Tom Waits, or maybe it was the other way around. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z Unlike the long-limbed, long bodied animals of the south that are cooled by dispensing heat on extended surfaces, all live things in the Arctic tend toward compactness, to conserve heat. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Females tend to smile at their interlocutors more than males do. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z But overall, community colleges tend to be places where dreams are put on hold. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z Beowulf lived quietly, doing country things—he took to the keeping of bees, and most days would see him tending his tawny hives in the sun. Beowulf: A New Telling 1968-01-01T00:00:00Z The ad is for “customer service” work, a type of job I tend to avoid because it normally involves a resume, which in turn would involve levels of prevarication I am not prepared to attempt. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z For reasons that have more to do with class—and often racial—prejudice than with actual experience, they tend to fear and distrust the category of people from which they recruit their workers. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z They tended livestock and harvested hay, grain crops, and potatoes. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z I felt guilty that I hadn’t visited him immediately in the hospital, so to make it up to him I quit my job and tended him day and night. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z “The MidMerican Conclave is an important one,” Scythe Faraday told them, “because we tend to set the trend for much of the world. There’s an expression, ‘As goes MidMerica, so goes the planet.’ Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z Archaeologists have tended to believe that paleo-Indians would have needed millennia to walk from the north end of the Americas to the south. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z We passed a camplire on the mud, steering well clear of it, for we saw that men in uniform tended it. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z The few who found it invigorating tended to be men who had waded in its “river of death,” Sinclair’s phrase, and panned from it great fortunes. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Major de Coverley was an ominous, incomprehensible presence who kept him constantly on edge and of whom even Colonel Korn tended to be wary. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z Things tend to get worse, not better, and knowing how unbalanced I’d felt being in the midst of the fray, I couldn’t imagine the state of the streets right now. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z One day in the summer recently, when he was visiting the United States to tend to some business, I met him in a coffee shop in a shopping mall not far from his home. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z While we scurried to finish the house, and the cook butchered the turtles and plucked the pheasants, the hairdresser arrived to tend to Madam. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z “Sorry—these cookies are good but they tend to crumble. I’m amazed. Why not?” Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z Mrs. Rimas and I tended to them as best We could. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z It was an odd slant, since at that point Bobby had no intention of isolating himself or turning down money; he was just tending to personal matters that he’d neglected for years. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z She wasn't shy, but when she spoke, certain words tended to leave her mouth reluctantly, as if they'd been forced out against their will. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z Farmers tend to breathe out nastier germs, to own better weapons and armor, to own more-powerful technology in general, and to live under centralized governments with literate elites better able to wage wars of conquest. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Advice, when she offered it, tended to be of the hard-boiled and pragmatic variety. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z Where the other supervolcanoes tend to bubble away steadily and in a comparatively benign fashion, Yellowstone blows explosively. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z The nurse was tending to soldiers when I arrived. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z “One day, I’m tending sheep. The next, I’m mixed up with a madman.” Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z Publicity, of course, tends to obscure these numbers, but like the Surgeon General’s warning on cigarette packages, the figures would eventually begin to filter into the public consciousness. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Then he’d go back to the house on the hill to tend the animals or repair the fences or study the ocean through the telescope. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z As I looked at the fire, I saw a little girl in a brown dress tending the flames. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z First, the letter shouldn’t have been on the bottom of the screen because, as almost all eye movement research demonstrates, when it comes to television people tend to fixate on the center of the screen. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z In the kitchen Mutti stands at the stove and tends a large black skillet. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z Steam was thickening, blurring the outline of Worm- tail tending the fire. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z He had loved to wash and tend his hands. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z They tended the crops and watched over the cattle, just as ordinary children did during the daytime. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z It wasn’t like El Patron’s memories, which tended to fall into a rut. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z And if so, was that because the job tends to attract tough guys predisposed to violence? Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z As befits a dialogue framed around reports from the subconscious regions, the Adams-Rush correspondence tended to emphasize the power of the irrational. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z Kids were nice enough to me, but they tended to treat me as if I were a grown-up. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z For instance, although she continued to discharge her professional duties with all her usual diligence, her general mood tended to undergo swings of a sort I had hitherto never witnessed. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z In this system, the students at the best colleges may be diverse—male and female and of various colors, religions, and hometowns—but they tend to share an upper-middle- class upbringing. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z I saw it as no different than tending to the dead. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z Leo’s hands tended to burst into flames when he was nervous. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z At camp, women and girls made clothes, gathered food—wild plums, blackberries, grapes—and tended babies. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z She began tending to Ona and the bald man while we all stood in a circle around them. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z His car was still running, and when the oil alarm light became hysterical again it was almost joyfully that Herbie tended to the motor’s gluttonous needs. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z There don't tend to be a lot of crackling fireplaces during the Tennessee summer, and Colin didn't smoke, so no matches were on hand. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z They managed to put an hour’s slow walk between themselves and what remained of their attackers before Con insisted they stop to tend Shae’s wound. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z When parts of the body aren’t used, they tend to weaken, or shrink, or atrophy. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Under what circumstances did people tend to steal more, or less? Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z She had no illusions: old plans, if one could ever remember them, the plans that time had overtaken, tended to have a febrile and overoptimistic grip on events. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z The corners of Gore buildings tend to be conference rooms or free space, so that no one can be said to have a more prestigious office. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “Ask the farm boy; he tends them,” Buttercup said. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z I tended him alone the second night so Mother could rest. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z He tended to be a bit pompous at times, but he was reliable. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z On our right is the outdoor theater—a Greek-style semicircle of stepped cement seats going down to a stage—an area that the upper classes tend to dominate during lunchtime. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z Still only eighteen, still silent, he tended sheep now, and nursed a deep despair. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z As Bob tended the stew, Damasen perused his drying racks, plucking various leaves and roots. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z Part of the problem was that, according to several reliable sources, I tended to exhaust people. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z “Ifeoma was busy tending to a heathen,” Papa said, pouring a glass of water from a bottle Sisi placed on the table. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z She read and read, and for breaks, she tended an incredible Eden of a garden, then read some more. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z Roman fauns tended to hang around and beg and eat. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z Once life originates, it tends to be very adaptable and tenacious. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z She usually kept it pinned up so the bigger kids wouldn’t use it, because when they did things tended to get out of hand. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z This suggests that languages have tended to evolve along with the people who speak them. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z A magical force called the Mist obscures the true appearance of monsters and gods from their vision, so mortals tend to see only what they can understand. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z That’s why the nuclei of atoms are so compacted and dense and why elements with big, crowded nuclei tend to be so unstable: the strong force just can’t hold on to all the protons. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z I went to his room, against my judgment, and found him throwing his carefully tended clothes into a pillowcase. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z In addition to fieldwork, girls also helped the farmers’ wives with housework and tended babies and young children. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z Sometimes when Charles looked at her he thought that in his dear Annie he would have a kind soul tending him in his old age. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z First thing came to mind was the woman he named himself some thirteen years ago because, while tending her, that was the word he thought of: Wild. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z When we get the coupla acres I can let you tend the rabbits all right. Of Mice and Men 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z After World War I, the heavily German character of Anaheim gave way to the influence of newer arrivals from the Midwest, who tended to be Protestant and conservative and evangelical about their faith. Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal 2001-01-17T00:00:00Z Music in a particular key tends to use only some of the many possible notes available; these notes are listed in the scale associated with that key. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z It tends to be cold outside when it snows; those two factors are positively correlated. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z In Russia, they saw the horrors of war as they tended the wounded and dying German soldiers. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z The driver, Mr. Post, chops wood, tends the stove, sweeps the leaves from the front walkway, and does mechanical repairs on the truck. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z But colleges, particularly small liberal arts colleges like Reed, tend not to be rigid bureaucracies. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z I ain’t much good, but I could cook and tend the chickens and hoe the garden some. Of Mice and Men 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z It sounds farfetched, but like a roast forsaken in the oven or a rescheduled dental appointment, childbirth is one of those minor details that tends to slip the minds of most soap opera characters. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z He holds his silence for a moment, letting his words sink in, but lately thoughts tend to float rather than sink. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z The only thing she liked to do indoors was cook and tend the sick. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z Woods always brought to his mind City Park, the tended woods on Honore Island where he went for outings as a child and where tiny convenient paths led you through. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z First we had to tend to the mules and Miss Love’s racehorse. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z Larger ones tended to have more powerful chiefs, more ranks of chiefly lineages, greater distinctions between chiefs and commoners, more retention of tribute by the chiefs, more layers of bureaucrats, and grander public architecture. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z I tended to Public Allies with the half-exhausted pride of a new parent. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z His own task was to tend the brazier and make certain that the fire did not go out. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z But the satellites tended to take care of themselves. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z The virtual particle/antiparticle pairs of spin Vi and Vi would have negative energy, and so would tend to cancel out the positive energy of the spin 2, 1, and 0 virtual pairs. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z After draining it in one go, he had disappeared below the tarpaulin and I had returned to attending to some small matter in the locker. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z “I will help, as long as we tend to these children first,” said the bald man, pointing to Jonas and Janina. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z We tend our sick as best we can. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z They all tend to be similar, farewell ceremonies to the dead. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z Why should wars tend to cause amalgamations of societies when populations are dense but not when they are sparse? Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z He’d been added to the boat last, he’d often struggled to master the technical side of the sport, and he still tended to row erratically. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z Stairways did not tend to remain deserted for long, especially during a siege. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z It said that as kids mature, they tend to outgrow their pretend world. Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z Fetching water, sweeping, helping in the kitchen, tending the annealing furnace in the shop were the unskilled work the boys did. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z When he says anything at all, even a simple thing about a car or a plumbing repair, it tends to come out like this—in terms that can be interpreted as sacred. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z People tend to get defensive when the integrity of their national sport is impugned. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z She didn’t visit Willie in the hospital, didn’t take him home to tend him as she had the first time. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z At the other end of the spectrum, the Refined tended toward the more formalized ritual, setting up black churches within traditionally white denominations. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z Little Jule is sure that her parents’ killer has come to finish her off—but the woman in black helps her up and tends the wound. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z And when they had walked for several hours Ged thought he saw, away off on the hills in the northwest where their way tended, a tiny scratch against the sky, like a tooth, white. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z Without the hogs to tend to, he could easily have been there even more than usual, preventing Luke from ever sneaking out. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z If the voice sounded less dominant and more concerned, the surgeon tended to be in the non-sued group. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z It’s beautiful to watch, but I tend to keep bumping into people. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z The farmer’s daughter tended it with loving care; she would comb its coat and wreathe its horns with garlands. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z “They worked like dogs tending your granddaddies’ and daddies’ places in Phippsburg so they could pay right for every nail. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z She had a reputation for being formidably intelligent, and in those days one often tended to hear of how she had humiliated this or that learned gentleman at dinner over some important contemporary issue. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z It was a grimy three-story brick building with a carefully tended football field in front. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z “I tell you, that Celia must be the worst one you ever had to tend to.” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z Good names tend to represent dignified and enlightened qualities. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z They tend not to say “thank you” or “sorry.” Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z She swung it onto her back each day and wore it while she tended the garden or gathered the herbs. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z Those who tended stock, like Einar, or who farmed, like Andras, or all of the village fishermen—they knew the sky. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z Along the road for perhaps a quarter of a mile she had been passing and admiring a row of splendid tended oleanders, blooming pink and white in a steady row. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z Judges tend to imagine the police have a sixth sense—or some kind of special police training—that qualifies them to identify people who are guilty of drug crimes without any evidence. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z I don’t think there was a miner in town who could get past the front gate when she was out in the yard in her shorts and halter tending her flowers. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z At his left sat Nico and Piper, her shoulder being tended by a nymph in a nurse’s uniform. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z Perhaps “enduring” and “continuous” are better terms for it, although at first glance all Egyptian art between 3000 and 500 B.C. does tend to have a certain sameness. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z These fictional dramas, like the evening news, tend to focus on individual stories of crime, victimization, and punishment, and the stories are typically told from the point of view of law enforcement. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z What this means is that the students—and parents—who choose to opt out tend to be smarter and more academically motivated to begin with. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z Germans tend to wear shorts no matter the weather. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z His parents grew angry when he missed questions—which he began to do more and more, as he tended to get mixed up when nervous—and scolded him for not caring about them. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z Art3mis: As you may recall, I tend to ramble in real time. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z He didn’t need to tend to her or tell Brekker that she could use relief. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z Whenever they were in moods like this—disturbed, upset—they tended to sound like Heckle and Jeckle. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z Eventually, with no customers and nothing else to say, Isabelle tended to the loose ends ofHugo’s bandages and took out a book. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z “So you said, but I’ve been curious about that ever since. Why would you tend those graves?” Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z My father tried looking away from the yellow tights—which wasn’t easy, since they were the brightest thing in the room and tended to draw the eye. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z People who know her at school tend to keep away. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z “It’s like India,” Shoba said, watching him tend his makeshift candelabra. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z Knowing that the horse, when forced, tended to become obstreperous, Pollard may have decided to err on the side of caution and advise Workman to withhold the whip. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z This was something that needed to be taken slowly and ceremoniously, like tending to the dead. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z Lincoln will stay behind on the riverboat and tend to the war. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z “With me, they tend to break frequently. But only when I—only when I color the facts a bit. I’m sure you ladies wouldn’t have that kind of trouble.” The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z “Remaining a bird for so long tends to cramp the muscles.” Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z I need hardly point out that when he did get one it tended to be good. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z Others tended to kettles hanging over cooking fires. In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z The varsity jackets tended to blend into one big mass. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z Lola said I was too young, but Lolo said not to worry since in the Philippines Id be tending the farm, so what was the harm? The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z She helps care for the four children in the house while Gloria tends to customers in her little grocery store. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z All the boys of the island, except Piggy, Ralph, Simon, and the two tending the pig, were grouped on the turf. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z In fact, we tend to judge children’s art according to the same criteria as adult art, only in appropriately simpler terms, and with good reason. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z They pointed out that the poorest patients tended to fare worst, in part because of malnutrition. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z Nsia’s breath was labored; I feared she suffered from some asphyxiation, and went to tend to her; all her attention being fixed on the object behind me. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z Ma was squatted down tending to her truck patch. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z Chioke, the junior wife, would be tending the pot of watery soup balanced on three stones over the fire. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z “And tend to her ladyship,” Gwen put in, looking out of breath but happy. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Eating, sleeping, bathing, laughing, talking, helping, and tending to Pita’s every need, that is how we spent the next few days at Abuelita’s house. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z Over time these challenges to authority tended to diminish. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “If no one goes to tend Gabriel,” she pointed out, “he gets very loud. He’d wake all of us, if Jonas slept through it.” The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z Without tending to the dishes they stand up, Gerald taking their two glasses and the rest of the wine. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z Some-how, Sergeant Holmes formed an idea of where you belonged and then tended to send you there. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Vanished states tended to leave visible archaeological hallmarks, such as ruins of temples with standardized designs, at least four levels of settlement sizes, and pottery styles covering tens of thousands of square miles. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Lowell was posthumously hailed everywhere as a genius of the first order, and Tombaugh was largely forgotten, except among planetary astronomers, who tend to revere him. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z Their skill level tended to peak at around age twenty-two, when they were older and stronger, which meant they were able to enjoy competing over a much longer period. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z At the same time, housing subsidies for home owners—who tend to be far more affluent than renters—have remained at their usual munificent levels. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z “Once I come to, some free folks up in the logging town was tending to me. A man and his wife, mighty fine folk. Took good care of me and didn’t want nothing in return.” Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z Fashion tended to suffer when work hours ran long. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z The tall grass tended toward blue green and waved in the wind the way I imagined weeds would wave in the sea. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z The recruit receives little, or erroneous, information about what to expect, which tends to maintain his anxiety. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Across the street, the Apollo campers had set up a field hospital to tend the wounded—dozens of campers and almost as many Hunters. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z My donors have always tended to do much better than expected. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z People tended to stay at home most of the time. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z For example, did Africa’s abundance of big wild mammals, available to kill by hunting, make it superfluous for Africans to go to the trouble of tending domestic stock? Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z “Well, you know, you and Ellie tended to be kind of cliquey. I think Savanna probably felt a little left out.” Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z The tenants’ wives took turns as servants in the main house, and they also tended my orchard. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Daddy’s office has become an examining room, and Momma tends to Mr. Lewis with Daddy’s help. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z Thula, with yet another infant to tend to, was no happier in their cramped quarters in the basement than she had been in the cabin. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z Mother was an herbalist so she could tend our health, and if she learned to midwife she would be able to deliver the grandchildren when they came along. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z Finally I say, “You one of em, too. All the babies I tend to, I count as my own.” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z We tend to think less, however, about the concepts or ideas that our culture has about sound and music. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z I'll sometimes have dinner with a group of happily cured cancer patients, but for the most part I tend to keep to myself, ignoring the great mound of social invitations heaped upon my desk. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z When Mrs. Garner passed, Caesar and his family mourned and tended to the farm, awaiting official word of their manumission. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z He generally liked me, tended to treat me, I thought, as he might some rising young VP in his Boston-based holding company, alternatingly coddling and browbeating me. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z People tended him now, and he helped with farm chores, but his energy was gone, taken away by the mysterious energy that lived in lightning. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z Although they tend to cluster in certain places–notably around the rim of the Pacific–they can occur almost anywhere. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z But gossip tends to thrive on bad news, not good. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z Instead she tended Weimaraners and had just one selfish wish: that when she died somebody would find her before the dogs ate her. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z Now he spent most of his days reminiscing on his porch and tending to an absence belted into a wheel-chair. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z It, too, was planted with manioc, and seemed recently tended. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z “Take the sand upstairs. If the Commandant asks about Slave-Girl, tell her she’s taken ill and that I’m tending to her so she can get back to work.” An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z Victarion had seen such men in foreign cities, tending their sacred fires. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z The land is well tended, the buildings strong and freshly painted. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Stableboys emerged sleepy from their straw to tend their lathered horses. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z Many of the colleges where lower-income students tend to enroll have limited resources and offer a narrow range of majors, leaving some students disenchanted and unwilling to continue. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z There were always subtle differences, but for the most part, a lamb chop tended to maintain its basic shape. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z Whenever he returned to Brooklyn to prepare for the next tournament or match, he tended to sequester himself in his apartment. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z He needed a vast workforce to tend it. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z More creatures like these moved about among the houses, or tended crops, or worked among the trees. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z Guards gave these managers, who were always male and tended to be physically imposing, virtually unchecked authority over their fellow prisoners. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z A German chambermaid named Caroline Klausmann had tended the children’s room and observed the same wrenching scenes. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z “I’m not saying his heart isn’t in the right place,” said Professor McGonagall grudgingly, “but you can’t pretend he’s not careless. He does tend to — what was that?” Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z He could not trust Jomo with the herb garden and would tend it himself when Master was out, and this way, his arigbe, his herb of forgiveness, would never run out. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z She used to watch her parents tending to patients in the front room of their house. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z Tall parents tended to have tall children, he discovered—but on average. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z This mother tends to be a woman who wanted to get some advanced education or develop traction in her career. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z More even than most teens, he tended to see things in black and white. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z We have some sense of ordinariness, and it tends to diminish our surprise. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z “I used to love to tend to my flowers back in Sugar Ditch. I learned to grow things hoping I could pretty up all that ugliness.” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z Later, he toiled on the prison farm, where he tended pigs and other animals the way he had during his early days on the frontier. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z They went to the front of the stall, where a man tended a pot of boiling oil. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z After a while, she hurries back inside to tend to Eden, who has started to cry. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z Surely I must have had nurses who tended to me, though I remember none of their names or faces. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z He said I was going to be a leader, and people tended to look to me like I was in charge without me even trying—my siblings, the welfare people, my classmates. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z Their modern descendants, however, tend to speak of their courage and valor. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z Then downhill swiftly they all repaired to the father’s house, and there tended him well—so well they soon could send him, with Grandfather Autolykos’ magnificent gifts, rejoicing, over sea to Ithaka. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z He concentrated, instead, on studying barnacles, writing papers on geology, dissecting sea animals, and tending to his family. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z I don't much care for the ponies; the noise they make, all that clanking and wheezing, tends to attract the dead. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z After all these years our father has never understood that we, his children, tend to gravitate toward the very people he's spent his life warning us about. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z She would tend to Chiron until his leg was fully recovered, and keep studying Daedalus’s laptop, which had engrossed her for the last two months. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z The “Jesus” he had in mind tended bar in a cafe across the street from the hotel, and was, Perry thought, muy simpatico, definitely someone he could trust to return the boxes on demand. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z Since readers tend to link a phrase to the words that came just before it, they will misunderstand a sentence when the writer had a more remote association in mind. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z I’ve got a sawmill to tend and food to gather for the winter. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z She had new memories to give them, new people to tell them of, people who would help tend to them and keep them. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z “Mine, I think. People tend to look twice at a car like yours.” The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z The animals had so much to eat they could afford to ignore food that tended to be sour. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z It was Smudge tending a sawdust pit squared off by a board fence—a dog-and-rat pit. The Whipping Boy 1986-04-01T00:00:00Z Downstairs, I find my mother and Prim tending to a subdued Gale. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z They tended die queen’s wardrobe, drew her bath, poured her wine, changed her bedclothes of a morning. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z If the partition is then removed, the molecules will tend to spread out and occupy both halves of the box. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z In other words, it is a form of Murphy’s law: things always tend to go wrong! A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z The media tend to present each new procedure as though it represented a breakthrough and therapeutic triumph, instead of the makeshift that it really is. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Marmeluc tended to him, cupping cool water into his unmoving mouth. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z Mats and dirty wrappers were spread all over the platform and people were crumpled down on them, men and women and children crying and eating bread and tending wounds. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z “Can I take you to town, Mr. Finch? It’s powerfully early, but I think I’ll run down and tend to some things in the cool of the morning.” Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z To her left the slope fell away toward a landscape of olive and lemon groves, of poorly tended vineyards and abandoned windmills, lying hazy in the evening light. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z “Go sit down,” I said, tending the eggs. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z “I don’t tend to sleep through the night anyway,” Denna said. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z Jorge emigrated to Australia where he tended sheep, same as at home. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Many Progressives—who tended to be middle-class white Protestants—held deep prejudices against immigrants and blacks and were so convinced of their own virtuous authority that they disdained democratic procedures. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z I turned and looked at the garden, meticulously tended, by whom, I wondered. How I Live Now 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z To plant a seed, watch it grow, to tend it and then harvest it, offered a simple but enduring satisfaction. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z ‘Others are worse off than I. I’ll wait till the bad ones have been tended to.’ Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z Burnham and Root tended to their fast-growing practice. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z The sea lay quiedy, bathed in a shy, light-footed light, a dancing play of black and silver that extended without limits all about me. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z Meeting your in-laws for the first time, likewise, you’ll tend to rein in the blue jokes. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z These were the kids of black administrators and professors at Princeton, who themselves were a profound minority and like the rest of us tended to gravitate toward the TWC. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z He watched them tend to Seabiscuit, then walked back to the jockeys’ room and sat down, heartsick. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z And Ross did tend to look a bit ridiculous. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z He found Nina tending to Wylan in a narrow cabin, her hands drifting over his arm, knitting the flesh of the bullet wound together. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z He’d had it from the lips of one of the grooms who tended the king’s horses. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Messages sent through dreams tended to get fuzzy around the edges, especially when you were dealing with Clovis. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z They tended not to employ colored help so Bessie had little information about their day to day. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z Farmers, therefore, tended to stay put and fight to the bitter end. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z And whenever Genie came in to tend to the plants, clean up a little and feed the four birds, pretending there were five, Grandpop would ask him to leave. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z Both inmates and younger officers tend to be on the move. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z It's clear she doesn't mean to interrupt their conversation to tend to me. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z As for the Indians, evidence suggests that they tended to view Europeans with disdain as soon as they got to know them. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z So they tended to belt him hard right off the bat and then let him lie. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z They had laid him abed in the healing-chamber, and the Master Herbal tended the wounds he had on his face and throat and shoulder. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z But they agreed it would be better for her to tend the cow and horse and protect the house from the wild critters. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z I climb the stairs, stepping long over the two that tend to creak. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z I walked up to my mother and saw that she was hovering over something, as if she were tending a baby. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z During this time I help tend to Gale, apply snow coat to my cheek, try to remember everything I can about the uprising in District 8, in case it will help us. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z This was the way the Masters tended to treat us that summer. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z Classical music traditions around the world tend to encourage longer, more complex forms which may be difficult to recognize without the familiarity that comes from study or repeated hearings. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z They didn’t know how experienced they were, what kind of training they had, or what kind of procedures they tended to do. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z Sailors still tend their wooden boats in the Great Harbor, and gangs of line-fishermen still haul their catch from the shallows offshore. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z Because of this, there are many Africans who, today, tend to equate freedom with communism. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z “Naturally I do, but as I have already proven to you, I make mistakes like the next man. In fact, being — forgive me — rather cleverer than most men, my mistakes tend to be correspondingly huger.” Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z She didn't remember getting hurt, but she did remember being tended to afterward. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z This was no wilderness, but manicured groves of red-fringed switchgrass, buckthorn, elm, and black cherry, carefully tended to give the illusion of a wild space. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z Glad of something to do, Harry pulled him free, then headed through the empty kitchen and back into the sitting room, where Mrs. Weasley and Ginny were still tending to George. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z They were covered in a slick moss and tended to bob or rotate alarmingly when stepped on. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z When we in the United States think of the most populous New World societies existing in 1492, only those of the Aztecs and the Incas tend to come to our minds. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Egyptian farmers raised a wide variety of fruits and vegetables—harvesting rich vineyards, tending extensive orchards, and producing record amounts of grain for domestic use and for export. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z My daddy is a general, and I know what he’d say if he were here: We need to do a recon mission, see if there are any more survivors, and tend to the wounded.” Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z Because individuals have different talents, one individual consistently tends to wind up with an excess of some essentials and a deficit of others. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z When George came inside, Mom was at the stove with a spatula, tending to a frying pan. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z “And to visit the graveyard. We come out here from time to time, now that there’s no one else to tend it.” Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z They tend them in private, even in public. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z I witnessed the dance because Hattie called me to tend the fire, and everyone saw me in my greasy, sooty state. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z I turn around and find the redheaded Avox girl who tended to me last year until the Games began. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z I tried to water the trees every few days, cut the lawn, tend to the flowers, fix things that needed fixing, but, even then, I was not a young man anymore. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z “I know the modern world tends not to agree with me, but after all, Plato had only one teacher, and Alexander.” The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z "God's wounds!" he swears, and pivots on his good leg to go tend the fire. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z Every pot grew some sort of herb, flower, or other plant Babulya carefully cultivated and tended to. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z The White City was a labyrinth of lagoons and tended gardens, and spread throughout it all, towering buildings crammed from floor to ceiling with exhibits. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z Alice, Nora, and I tend to do our work in front of the TV or with music playing, but we all get good grades, regardless. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z For now, I tended to people in the barn as best I could. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z “But why those graves? Why sail all the way to Penikese to tend the graves of people you never knew?” Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z There is ample evidence that pressure has been brought to bear on Ralph Meyers since his trial testimony which could tend to discredit his recantation. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z Though the technique is the exact opposite of most techniques of mysticism it probably is a mystical discipline, tending towards the experience of Immanence; but I can’t categorize any practice of the Handdarata with certainty. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z “Then Mr. Randolph remembered that maybe the bulbs was all burned out. He tends to forget since they really don’t help him much.” The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z He’d tended quietly to his apples and rhododendrons, his chinaberries and mulberry hedges, his rows of vegetables and flowers. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z They tended to earn good incomes—but not that good. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z He would need to find someone to tend the birds until the Citadel sent a man to replace Pycelle. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z He often passed small farms and cabins or found graziers tending herds on sunny balds. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z “Gunshot went through his shoulder and he blacked out for a time. He’s being tended to. Should be fine.” Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z I have shot it, but I tend to wince when I pull the trigger, and that throws my aim off. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z He walks a lot when he’s making a point, so homeroom tends to sound like “All right, guys”—swish swish swish—“today we’re going to do some team building.” Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z Diligent mice tended the neat little vegetable patches which every season gave forth an abundance of fresh produce: cabbages, sprouts, marrows, turnips, peas, carrots, tomatoes, lettuces and onions, all in their turn. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z Somebody told me that Bram Guernsey was in the Green Berets, though I tend to think this is untrue. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z Now I’m super-uncomfortable because I tend to want to fix things, but I can’t even come up with a decent response. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z “Someone who, because you are also Dauntless . . . tends to die.” Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z These learners tend to think in pictures and need to create vivid mental images to retain information. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z Call’s cuss words were taught to him by his sainted grandmother and tended to be as quaint as the clothes she made for him. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z We not only take it for granted—we tend to talk about the biologic revolution as though expecting to make profits from it, rather like a version of last century’s industrial revolution. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z But just as crime tends to be low on a street where a police car is parked, the 95 percent rate was artificially high: Feldman’s presence had deterred theft. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z “People tend to overestimate my character,” I say quietly. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z If civilizations tend to destroy themselves soon after reaching a technological phase, there might be no one for us to talk with but ourselves. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z The crusty old man helped little Ladd dismount, telling him, “You go on inside out of the rain, Sonny, while I tend to these horses.” The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z It’s kind of gross how fast that tends to happen. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z "The stories about you tend to focus on...other aspects of love." City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z Particle physicists have tended to favor the particle explanation of WIMPs, astrophysicists the stellar explanation of MACHOs. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z Piper tended to Jason’s wounds, but he wasn’t as badly hurt as he looked. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z Gloria tended to her visitor the best she could; the doctor came around on his pony. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z It was White Deer who had to tend Uncle when he had a cold. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z Among whites, those expressing the highest degree of concern about crime also tend to oppose racial reform, and their punitive attitudes toward crime are largely unrelated to their likelihood of victimization. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Once, he knew, her mother would have leaned down to tend the little girl at the sound of such a cough. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z 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 M31 has two small satellites, dwarf elliptical galaxies bound to it by gravity, by the identical law of physics that tends to keep me in my chair. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Those with circular orbits tended to grow and survive. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z As a result we tend to overestimate the importance of new technology and underestimate the rate of production and the impact of new intellectual tools. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Violet had to tend our place and walk the plow on his too, while I went from Bear to Crossland to Goshen working. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z Over the next few days, George Pocock went from boathouse to boathouse, tending to the shells of Washington’s competitors. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z It was bleeding again, and while Tialys flew fiercely at the ghosts to force them away, Salmakia helped Will tend to the wound. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z The Test, a weed-cut, carefully tended trout stream, seemed to him like a world of water. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z They could talk about anything they wished, including the gradual abolition of slavery itself, though he felt that Congress was unlikely to take any dramatic action “tending to the emancipation of the slaves.” Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z “I do tend to get straight to business sometimes, don’t I? Though I have a lot of wiggle room before I get as grumpy as Alec.” The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z Poor parents tend to follow, by contrast, a strategy of “accomplishment of natural growth.” Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z Not only do I tend to the complaints of the nuns, but country people and villagers pay for my services, and the poorest are granted them. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z Partly, this was because he tended strongly toward the traditional in all things. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z No longer would she tend her garden or prepare food for her family. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z “No—but I do know that it’s being administered by Scythe Cervantes, and he tends to be very physically minded. For all I know, he’ll have you tilting at windmills.” Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z People with four-year college degrees tended to consider themselves middle class even if they earned little. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z The truth is, though, that from the 1940s until the 1990s, film composers tended to be a different breed from concert hall composers. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z “Chaos and destruction do tend to take away a person’s dating possibilities.” Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z The permeability of North Korea’s border tends to improve when border guards and local officials can accept bribes without draconian punishment from higher-ups. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z “No, sir. Ah, I would say, sir, judging from what 1 heard, that General Hill thinks that, ah, Pettigrew is not a professional and tends to be overexcited and perhaps to exaggerate a bit.” The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Albert puffed on his pipe and tended the fire in the fireplace. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z Faced with an exciting question, science tended to provide the dullest possible answer. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z Rabbit runs tend to be bowshaped; but this was straight, so that above them, through the mouth of the hole, Hazel could see leaves against the night sky. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Mostly, I am to tend to this house. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z “They tend to look out for Friends on the road.” Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z Young otters collected watercress and fished; Cornflower headed a party of mice to reap the early cereal crops; more youngsters tended the salad gardens. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z He never stirred, and I had no time to tend to him. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z Two teams were organized and, after much debate, names were chosen: The Sparkle Ponies would stay on the beach, tend to the wounded, and try to salvage whatever they could from the wreckage. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z When Mama took sick, was Grandma came and tended to her when me and Daddy couldn’t. Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z And outside the gym were a weight-lifting area and a lawn, tended by inmates who, on warm days, reclined there. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “Someone tend the babe before he oversteps himself,” the noble said to the crowd. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z She took the week off from work and tended to me in Carla’s absence. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z Residues on fruits and vegetables tend to be somewhat less. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Mountaineering tends to draw men and women not easily deflected from their goals. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z “Calling cats,” it confided, “tends to be a rather overrated activity. Might as well call a whirlwind.” Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z Until he was a teenager, his family lived in the country several miles from Durham, tending a small farm of tobacco and corn using a team of mules. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z —Gethenians tend to have their children young; most of them, after the age of twenty-four or so, use contraceptives, and they cease to be fertile in the female phase at about forty. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z Inexperienced writers tend to be closer to academics than to journalists and use too few paragraph breaks rather than too many. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z The boat’s tending slightly midriver so I row as best I can and guide it back to the river’s edge. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z These new movements, of course, grew out of the old ones and tended to keep their names and pay lip-service to their ideology. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z In point of fact, Pocock, with only a lower- school education, tended to believe that it was he rather than these college men who should be deferential. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z “We just have to reteach them. As I said, people tend to be disoriented for a few days after being reset, which means they’ll be easier to control.” Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z They tend the well, and make sure that the roots of Yggdrasil are covered with mud and cared for. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z While Archer lay on the cabin’s long table with the tattered remains of his shirt sheared away, Sefia watched Doc tend to his wounds. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z Pa spun into a fixing frenzy repairing tack, mending his boots, and moving from room to room tending to all the things he’d let go during planting season. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z This greenhouse is one of his rooms, perhaps his favorite; perhaps in better times he tended the plants himself. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z Even months after the event, such remarks still tended to make Miss Kenton go quiet - though by this stage, I fancy, this was due more to embarrassment than anger. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z And although Mother had once or twice entertained Leapers in the house, she tended to lump them all together, fairly or not, with snake handlers, fallers, foamers, and other fringe examples of the henhouse sects. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z A girl about nine years old was tending the flames, poking the coals with a stick. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z They had trampled over the carefully tended beds in the garden and shot the donkey that was almost as old as its mistress. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z Just in the last year, I had tended to so many of the dead and comforted so many mourning families. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z The blind man said that he had first known of it when he was a newcomer to Village, still an invalid with wounds to be tended. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z Most psychologists believe that nature — genetics — accounts for about half of the reason why we tend to act the way we do. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The jockey lived hard and lean and tended to die young, trampled under the hooves of horses or imploding from the pressures of his vocation. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z They traveled dawn to dusk, past woods and orchards and neatly tended fields, through small villages, crowded market towns, and stout holdfasts. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z But the work continues as armies of undertakers and volunteers tend bodies in makeshift morgues. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z But he was stuck in Berkeley helping Molly tend to their daughter Margaret, who had undergone an emergency appendectomy. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z They were inked on girls’ bellies, which tended to be flat or only gently curved. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z After a pause, he sighed and added, “I tend to get anxious a lot.” The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z Then she adds, more briskly, “Be sensible, Ophelia. Mother Ermentrude would not send you away, for then who would tend to our aches and illnesses?” Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z People had taken to calling them “banana boats,” because once they were exposed to water both their bows and sterns tended to curve ever so slightly upward. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z Watching him tend to Mrs. Healey, I would never again have reason to question his motives. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z I knew it was a rude question, but a big house needs a cook and a gardener and someone to tend to the housework. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z Separate groups seldom cooperate, and tend to compete for territory and food. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z But an idle mind tends to sink, so the mind should be kept occupied with whatever light distraction may suggest itself. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z In fact, it was even more basic than that: if the surgeon’s voice was judged to sound dominant, the surgeon tended to be in the sued group. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z Having been successful thus far, the abductors tended to relax, light up a few cigarettes, get chatty with their hostages. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z Mitchell Sanders wouldn’t speak to me, which tended to cool it off, but then I’d start remembering things. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Scientists in those fields tend to be ignorantly disdainful of fields to which those methodologies are inappropriate and which must therefore seek other methodologies—such as my own research areas of ecology and evolutionary biology. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z It happens, however, that criminals and thugs tend to be undesirable warriors To begin with, they are often difficult to control. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z Laertes’ housekeeper, who reared the boys and tended Dolios in his bent age, had gone to fetch them in. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z The attorney tended to talk about the case with a mixture of calm and exasperation, as if his powers of incredulity had already been strained to the point of breaking. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z I never at- I tended because a fistfight broke out between hecklers and hillbillies and I was busy in the X-ray room taking shots of broken knuckles and metacarpals. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z This ownerless ruin had, before World War Terminus, been tended and maintained. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z The men tended to be taut and well built regardless of age, dressed in beige or gray pants the color of the plains and cowboy boots that were worn for function. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z All the time they were to go on bleeding, turn about, until the best knight in the world had tended them and salved them with his hands. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z “Well, that is special. It’s just that people tend to think you’re crazy when you talk about this stuff, you know? And we’re, you know...sworn to secrecy.” Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z Self-possessed, the way children of a blind parent tend to be. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z We cluster in family groups, but we tend, unpredictably, to turn on each other and fight as if we were different species. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Oh, I was sure Miss Sadie had done her part in tending Jinx’s wound. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z Here’s a likely theory: most parents who buy a lot of children’s books tend to be smart and well educated to begin with. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z Everyone seemed relieved that they would tend to the bald man’s injuries. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z I’d tended to Shiloh first, taking a fistful of scrambled eggs left over from breakfast, a bit of bacon, and a half slice of whole wheat toast that I stuck in my jeans pocket. Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z When poor single mothers had the option of remaining out of the labor force on welfare, the middle and upper middle class tended to view them with a certain impatience, if not disgust. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z I hadn’t heard anything about the situation in Brooklyn, which tended to make me think it had fallen through. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z The woman with the child on her hip kept her back turned, tending to the food. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z When we think of major overseas population movements, we tend to focus on those since Columbus’s discovery of the Americas, and on the resulting replacements of non-Europeans by Europeans within historic times. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The neighborhood did have lots of kids—Maureen had real friends for the first time—and we all tended to hang out at the National Guard armory at the foot of the hill. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z A baby cried and she went to tend to her. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z This woman was not her mother but Josefa, another chambermaid, the one who tended to the first floor. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z Local farmers tend to their olive trees in stony fields. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z He had done nothing much for forty years but tend his bees. Beowulf: A New Telling 1968-01-01T00:00:00Z As the relationship between America and the Soviet Union soured overseas, more and more Americans tended to agree with him. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z My fingers were raw and blistered, but I couldn’t stop yet to tend them. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z “To the office?” said I, for he was tending in that direction. Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z On the third night, Mother tended him and I stood in the doorway, listening to his gasps, watching Mother watch him, her face hollow, her eyes swollen with worry and exhaustion. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z At a hitch near one of the pens, a Cossack performer tended to his horse. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z “If we don’t distinguish our heartache—don’t at least attempt to work through it, you understand—it tends to pop up later. In different ways, aberrant ways.” The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z But Lexie was seldom, if ever, offended: subtle implications and subtexts tended to bounce off the fine mesh of her brain. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z Chest voice feels like the sound is emanating from the chest, which tends to create a lot of tension in the throat, particularly in younger singers. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z “So you’ve got you a wee babe to tend, after all these years without,” he teased her. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z “Ordinarily we never ask why,” Mrs. Montague said, “because it tends to confuse planchette. However, this time we were bold, and came right out and asked. Arthur?” The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z Cole ignored the orcas and kept tending the fire. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z “I have a white rose to tend...in July or January...I give it to my true friend,” I tell Joy. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z On television and in the movies now, and even in the pages of novels, people tend to dwell in a classless, homogenized American Never-Never Land. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z “Sometimes in this world things come easy, and you tend to lean back and say, ‘Well, finally, happy ending. The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z Mama says that was the poor woman’s bad luck, because now she has got to go right on tending after her husband and her seven or eight children. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Once a man has seen a dragon in flight, let him stay at home and tend his garden in content, someone had written once, for this wide world has no greater wonder. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z When he moved, it was to tend the cheeks in the pan before they burned. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z “Debts written on the wind tend to be... forgotten, shall we say?” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z But these state-based deliberations quite naturally tended to focus on local or regional interpretations of the Constitution’s rather elliptical handling of the forbidden subject. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z Furthermore, I was obliged to recognize certain other little signs which tended to support Mr Graham's theory. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z In this position he tended to lie very still, with only the occasional twitching of his ears to indicate that he was not necessarily sleeping. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z There was no hair, makeup, or wardrobe to be tended to, no marshaling of our children, no late-night speech being prepped for delivery. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z “I’m a pirate. Pirates tend to know these things.” The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z She had recuperated in the Birthing Unit for the first week, tended and checked—pampered a bit, actually, she realized. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z Like us, their families moved to big houses with big yards to tend on weekends, they owned fancy cars that needed washing and waxing. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z With the exception of Taro’s fixation on the refrigerator, the three of us tend to migrate to our own spaces when we’re inside the house. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z And because they come from a much greater depth, they tend to propagate over much wider areas. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z The estate was a huge piece of land, acres, encompassing a horse bam, a large vegetable garden, and a pool, tended by a young white caretaker named Harry. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z Band buses tended to be real cozy, especially after we had performed and were coming back to school at night. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z First, blacks tend to be first-generation middle class, as in Whitiker’s case, which means they have fewer resources to draw upon as they navigate the middle-class world. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z Europeans in those days tended to view children as moving straight from infancy to adulthood around the age of seven, and often thereupon sent them out to work. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z “There’ll be three looms for you to tend, a nice fat raise to your wages for these several weeks.” Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z While Papa tended to the team, I turned my dogs loose and let them stretch. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z By supper it had been decided that I would tend Lady Seymour whilst she was bedridden. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z I go through her closet and pick the outfit that most looks like something Rhiannon would wear; I’ve found that people tend to trust other people who dress like them. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z So, there was always fences to repair and animals to tend. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z We tend to spread them a little thin sometimes. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z “And how many looms are you tending at this time?” Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z I had noticed that Lula’s taste in literature had been tending away from the good old ripping yarns and toward the sticky romantic stuff. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z It’s full of books and plants she tends to with complex spreadsheets of watering schedules. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z The gorgonians tend to grow in closely packed, branching masses, but they do not fuse to each other; if they did, their morphogenesis would doubtless become a shambles. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z We walk among the sick only when tending them. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z Still, the coastal route has little empirical backing; its supporters tend to endorse the idea mainly because it seems to make sense. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z But they tended to be bigger than hawksbills, often too big to lift out of the water for the weakened castaway that I became. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z New Guineans tended to have much more substantial dwellings, more seaworthy boats, and more numerous and more varied utensils than did Australians. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z These same people tend to be informers, and who hasn't broken the law? The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z The gravity of relativity theory was brilliant at explaining why planets orbited suns or why galaxies tended to cluster, but turned out to have no influence at all at the particle level. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z “Weird daggers and swords tend to sell for mad bank,” Rufus says. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z He’s a consummate professional parceled in immaculately tailored Tom Ford, ruffled by absolutely nothing, whose affection for his charge shows in the way he tends to him like a favorite houseplant. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z I was starting a rotation in pediatrics at the time—good luck, since children don’t tend to hold the crippled responsible for their infirmities, as grown-ups do. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z When pressed to explain the discrepancy between his hypothetical antislavery position and his actual dedication to self-imposed paralysis, he tended to offer several different answers. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z And for better or worse, I tend to yell when I’m angry. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z Using a blunt sterling blade, I scraped away the soot engrained under his cuticles, relics of his job tending to train boilers. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z And ever since the prospect of seeing Miss Kenton again first arose some weeks ago, I suppose I have tended to spend much time pondering just why it was our relationship underwent such a change. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z Yes, the Romans did tend wild strawberries in their gardens. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z She tended to hover on the far side of the door frame, calling to Eliot to put on his sneakers and gather his things, but Mrs. Sen would not allow it. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z It wasn’t just one more thing to add to the work of cooking and cleaning and tending the twins and trying to buy food. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z The Court began insisting that federal judges defer more to state court rulings, which tended to be more indulgent of errors and defects in capital proceedings. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z He suspected she was tending a dying relative. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z Languages are invented by the people who speak them, who tend to care more about what is easy and what makes sense than about following rules. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z Whereas visual vocabulary tends to be more detailed, we lack nuanced conceptual words to describe sound and our relationship to it. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z Fill then, he and his family lived in the next village over and worked their own farm, tending crops and livestock. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Instead credit has tended to lodge with more celebrated chemists, mostly from the English-speaking world. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z A leader must also tend his garden; he, too, plants seeds, and then watches, cultivates, and harvests the result. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z I was told to tend her again, as I had right after the fire. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z Suburban children, meanwhile, are in the middle of the curve, while urban children tend to score higher than average. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z We tend to assume that useful technologies, once acquired, inevitably persist until superseded by better ones. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Julie always wants the spotlight and tends to sing extremely loudly. Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z On the other hand, secular histories tended to overlook spiritual movements like Mormonism altogether. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z Teachers, especially a teacher moonlighting as a counselor, tend to get left out of student gossip. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z Their accusers tended to be wealthier individuals who controlled local institutions or had ties to the national government, and were sometimes even the women’s landlords or employers. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z Later writers tended to attribute European success not to European deities but to European technology. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Normally, Uncle Vernon would have asked what car Mr. Weasley drove; he tended to judge other men by how big and expensive their cars were. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z My friends tended to get envious crushes on other girls. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z Every Saturday night now for almost a year he had watched Mario tending his father’s newsstand. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z Dustfinger signaled to the boy to follow him and stole past the carefully tended beds until he had reached the back door with the grating. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z All the same, when donors get restless and need to walk it off, that’s where they tend to go, scraping through all the nettles and brambles. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z A crot—the deadliest insult anyone could utter—was a simple, harmless eejit, like the thousands who had cut grass, washed floors, and tended poppies as far back as Matt could remember. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z A young man approached him, seemingly a shepherd lad, but fine and well-mannered like the sons of kings when they tend sheep. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z Herbalist, who ordinarily tended the sick, sat quietly in a rocking chair. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z St. Louis teachers, on the other hand, tended to act very siditty, and talked down to their students from the lofty heights of education and whitefolks’ enunciation. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z “Desperately tricky to make, and disastrous to get wrong. However, if brewed correctly, as this has been, you will find that all your endeavors tend to succeed...at least until the effects wear off.” Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z Building his campaign around reforming the city’s political system and better tending to its neglected neighborhoods, Washington won the election by a hair. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z There is thus comparatively little risk, but also little adventure, in their handiwork, which as a consequence tends to become routine. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z After one year of high school, I attended the University of Toronto and took a double-major Bachelor’s degree. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z The buses tend to hug the curb, so it’s safer here. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z When our well-being is threatened, when our illusions about ourselves are challenged, we tend—some of us at least—to fly into murderous rages. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Flights that leave on Wednesday or Thursday tend to cost less than those that leave closer to weekends. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z It was the most sensible explanation, and didn’t the most sensible explanation tend to be correct? Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z “Tomorrow I will tend to your aching bones. I have a notion for a new medicine, made from mallow roots that grow in the marshes,” I said. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z She was prone to errors of deportment—in moments of abstraction she tended to shift her weight onto one foot in a way that particularly enraged her superior. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z “Unpleasant loop entrances serve a purpose—normals tend to avoid them, so we peculiars have them all to ourselves.” Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z After its path is further changed by gravitational encounters with Jupiter or Saturn, it tends to find itself, once every century or so, careering toward the inner solar system. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z At the palace gates, the guards were tending to a line of wagons waiting to enter the grounds, and they did not notice when she slipped between the wagons and into the outer courtyard. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z We tend to spend a lot of time thinking about how to make messages more contagious — how to reach as many people as possible with our products or ideas. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z European metalworkers tended to create metal objects by pouring molten alloys into shaped molds. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z The following Saturday Lyman Gage announced that he would quit as president of the fair, effective April 1, to tend to his own bank. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z But they were such exceptional, unassuming kids you wouldn’t have known they were rich or lived in such a big house—and the trees, the lawn, everything so tended and cared for. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z “Yes, well. The passage of time tends to do that to a person.” Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z Although Adams tended to set the intellectual agenda in the dialogue that ensued, Jefferson inadvertently provided the larger framework within which the debate played out. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z My sisters will be placed at one of five imperial teahouses, or will stay at home to tend to Orléans's newborn citizens. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z My feelings tend to burst out of me like I’m a water balloon. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z He bent the pup’s head up and looked in its face, and he said to it, “Now maybe George ain’t gonna let me tend no rabbits, if he fin’s out you got killed.” Of Mice and Men 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z Nineteenth-century authors tended to interpret history as a progression from savagery to civilization. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z "Ah. You have to remember, many of the archaeologists were lonely Victorian men working far, far away from home and their wives. They tended to get...overexcited in their translations." City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z People who have been digested by a man-eating lioncelle tend to become nonentities—to live no life except within the vitals of the devourer. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z He had a hard time getting the brake closed—you had to know which doors tended to jump out and get in the way—but finally succeeded, a little bit winded. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “Did she tend to disappear back then, too?” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z But it also meant that whatever end of the boat was facing the wind tended to fall away, bringing us broadside to the waves. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z Kote was in the middle of it all, always moving, like a man tending a large, complex machine. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z Like most other major universities, Berkeley tended to think of chemists, biologists, physicists, and engineers all as inhabitants of discrete sandboxes. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z “So God will tend the laurels and keep them wet. And I will tend the players and keep them dry. And wiser minds than mine will decide when to bring the two together.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z The way I remember it, sightings of possibles tended to come in batches. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z More than in the past, they tend to live apart from everyone else, cocooned in their exurban chateaus. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z And it is His will that you tend to them. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z “We’ll say I fainted from exertion on the way from chapel,” he looked at me with a phantom’s smile, “and you had to tend me.” A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z I could live with Calypso, with invisible servants tending to my every need. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z Not being sure Miss Love knew how to tend the sick, she took some chicken soup up there for him. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z Their powers tended to make electronic gadgets go haywire. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z The next surprise in Figure 19.2 is a seeming detail on which I didn’t comment when I just told you that distinct peoples tend to have distinct languages. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Meanwhile, my father and mother tended to their garden, cutting weeds from their patches of com, beans, sorghum, and pumpkins. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z Furthermore, since perceptions tend to become realities, the natural tendency of the mass media to accentuate the anomalous, combined with an innumerate society’s taste for such extremes, could conceivably have quite dire consequences. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z She has a nice smile, which she tends to offer me for the small price of an extra cherry or two. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z But there was something about the largest object in the solar system vanishing that tended to disrupt normal schedules. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z They were folded into purses and knapsacks, but here the system tended to break down. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z I’d noticed that the rebels tended to sleep in, only emerging from the main building a few hours after daybreak. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z In that period, Saharans began to tend cattle and make pottery, then to keep sheep and goats, and they may also have been starting to domesticate sorghum and millet. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The inscriptions had worn off many of the grave markers, and most looked like they hadn’t been tended in years. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z It shares roots, of course, with tending—a farmer’s or gardener’s activity—but also with tension, the stretching of a pea tendril to incline it toward sunlight or to train it on an arbor. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z Westley asked question after question while the albino tended and redressed his wound, then fed him food that was warm and surprisingly good and plentiful. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z I tended my own stupendous bruise through its lurid healing colors and vowed to resign my commission as a meddler. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z He had three to tend: his own mount, and two packhorses, each bearing a large wire-and- wicker cage full of ravens. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z It’s not our usual table, but I’ve noticed that people tend not to argue with August. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z He had tykes to tend; he and Solora had two others in addition to the one that had brought about her death. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z They tended to be stolid, slovenly, heavy, and to my eyes effeminate—not in the sense of delicacy, etc., but in just the opposite sense: a gross, bland fleshiness, a bovinity without point or edge. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z The black infantry recruits, they inform me, tended not to survive. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z Sometimes Alys sent her alone to tend a simple cough or fever or rash. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z By a method termed glotto-chronology, based on calculations of how rapidly words tend to change over historical time, comparative linguistics can even yield estimated dates for domestications or crop arrivals. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z She spent her days in the garden, tending to her roses, geraniums, potato vines, and orchids. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z Musicians tend to have greater word memory and more complex neural brain patterning, as well as greater organizational and higher-order executive functioning. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z Honor students—black, white, or Asia Minor—tended to be nicer. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z It was becoming apparent that, although Bobby’s rhetoric was clearly anti-Semitic, he tended to use the word “Jew” as a general pejorative. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z They tended to plan and save for things. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z But these pools were still a bit dingy and tended to be crowded. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z This pattern is particularly striking given that less educated people tend to be more punitive and blacks on average are less educated than whites. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z When we picture the place, we tend to think of it in modern terms: a dedicated building full of racks of books, in this case papyrus rolls. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z Even on a good day, without rain, Ess tended to topple. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z “I aint studying no quarter. I got my own business to tend to.” The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z After they left, Bast tended to the inn, which was no great chore, as there were no customers. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z Animals are said to belong to the same species if they tend to mate with each other, giving birth to fertile offspring. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Lyddie was given another loom and then another, and even at the increased speed of each loom, she could tend all four and felt a satisfying disdain for those who could not do the work. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z “I fish the wide end of the creek and tend that garden.” Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z “I’ll tend to this matter, Ladies,” Grandfather said grandly as he stood. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The flower garden, as always, was thriving and well tended, with late roses in bloom and fall asters fat with bud. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z Chemistry was, generally speaking, a science for businesspeople, for those who worked with coal and potash and dyes, and not gentlemen, who tended to be drawn to geology, natural history, and physics. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z Lyra watched Will tending this one with fascination. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z With my threat hanging over their heads, I trusted them all the time we unhitched and tended the mules, turning them out into Papa’s pasture for the night. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z She shrank again from the touch before she saw it was one of the young women who tended the looms. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z For as long as I can remember, I spent late afternoons with Grandma India in her garden, tending her four o’clock plants. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Ma had told me that, back then, when she waren’t working in the field, she was tending to this girl name of Missy. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z This continued for the next five years, Enoch and his family planting their landowner’s crops before tending to their own. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z Like she was some helpless child who needed tending. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z We watched them anxiously and tended them with care and still we found them producing fewer seedpods, and dropping their leaves out of season, and some of them died outright, which had never been known. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z “As long as I tend to my job, that’s what you are paying me for.” The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z Such measures tend to keep them as much as possible out of direct contact with white women and lessen their attacks against them. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z The first thing people tended to notice about Phillips was that they hadn’t noticed him earlier. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z After we tend to the rest of the animals, I return to the ring stock car. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z After the animals had been tended to, the riders shared a simple supper of salt pork and cold white beans, washed down with ale. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z I pulled on the rope to tend to it. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z “I shall not in my contacts in the east tend to prevent offers to you all,” he wrote. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z People tend to speak of them with reverence, and students may even be required to memorize and recite key passages. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z My whole being tended towards the spot on the horizon that would appear and save me. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z Cultures of honor tend to take root in highlands and other marginally fertile areas, such as Sicily or the mountainous Basque regions of Spain. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z In countries with a very cold winter, two decidedly non-Christian elements tended to be intermingled, somewhat perplexingly, with the carol form. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z The neuropsychologist James W. Prescott has performed a startling cross-cultural statistical analysis of 400 preindustrial societies and found that cultures that lavish physical affection on infants tend to be disinclined to violence. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z And the menacing sense of destruction it tends to drag along with it, she didn’t add. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z But the kind of parents who name their son Jake don’t tend to live in the same neighborhoods or share economic circumstances with the kind of parents who name their son DeShawn. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z The southern California drive-in restaurants of the early 1940s tended to be gaudy and round, topped with pylons, towers, and flashing signs. Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal 2001-01-17T00:00:00Z He tends to eat household objects whenever he gets upset. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z I tended to dress according to my mood. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z Meggie was just thinking it would never end when the trees suddenly receded, and the drive brought them to an open space covered with gravel and surrounded by carefully tended rose beds. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z Besides the living conditions being really bad, health tended to be a big problem. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z “Normally you pay it in addition to your first term’s Arcanum tuition. But since you’ve jumped rank on us, you’ll need to tend to it now.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z “You can replant that whole field of corn, tend to it, harvest it, and turn it into food for poor old folks.” Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z Mothers looked away to tend to children, and fathers cleared their throats and picked dirt from their fingernails. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z I’ve noticed lately that when I’m around boys my age, they tend to get nervous, with flickery eyes and dry mouths. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Collaborative musical play continues among both boys and girls in international locations, whereas collaborative musical play in the U.S. among boys tends to wane. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z Milligan, disguised as a gray-haired gardener in a straw hat, puttered gloomily about the iron fence, tending to the rose bushes. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z This tends to change the rules for using and developing melodies, so the terms used to talk about contrapuntal melodies are different, too. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z She said that she was going out to attend a Crowning of the May Queen at some church, but since it isn’t May, I tend to doubt her veracity. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Then: “Very well. For now, Roskva, you will stay here and tend Snarler and Grinder while Grinder’s leg heals. When I return, I will collect all three of you.” Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z He offered Shin food, lodging, and five yuan a day— about sixty cents—if he was willing to tend pigs. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z One of the Sorrows floated after her as the other two tended to their damaged shrine. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z In the long run, though, he had to come back in and let her tend to him. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z On the other hand the control agencies tend to deny flatly and categorically that such losses have occurred, or that they are of any importance if they have. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z August and Zach tended to the bees and the honey, but I spent most of my time down by the river, alone. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z “Don’t worry, it happens to a lot of people. It tends to be related to stress. Breathe for me, Craig.” It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z Thus disorder will tend to increase with time if the system obeys an initial condition of high order. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z From the downy feathers on her apron, I figured, she’d been tending the new chicks. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z He'd call me Fat Face, blow out his cheeks, and do a little dance making fun of the parts of me that tend wide. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z Walter Reed tended to be the second or third stop for injured service members who were evacuated out of Iraq and Afghanistan. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z “I’m going to go do something useful. I don’t suppose you would allow some of us to come in here and tend to these wounded?” Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z I knew the boys who tended the llama herd would be performing their own special ceremonies and customs in the days that followed to ensure the safety and fortune of our village’s animals. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z Gertrude tended to my costume, smoothing my hair and tucking a sprig of fresh rosemary in my bodice. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z When given a choice, readers tend to attach phrases lower in the tree rather than higher. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z Such difficulties as these tend to be all the more preoccupying nowadays because one does not have the means to discuss and corroborate views with one's fellow professionals in the way one once did. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z “At least I can tend to my own business and let other people’s alone,” I says. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z When there’s violence involved, they tend to keep you. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z There tended to be more white officers bidding A-block and more officers of color bidding B-block, but there were many exceptions. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z For obvious reasons, he tended to pay attention to legends about fire. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z They went to Texas A&M University in College Station, met at a student pub where Jim tended bar, and married three years later, in 1988. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z Her mother, exhausted with grief, slept later than Lupita had ever known her to do, so Lupita tended to the baby and her younger brother and sisters. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z He knew that water was no small matter, and that they’d all have died without his gift, so he didn’t tend to waste much regret over not having Skathis’s power. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z For the rest of the day, Miss Celia works in the flower garden, tending to the mums. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z This rumor often results in debates on methods of keeping hot food hot and cold food cold, which never come to any satisfying conclusions and tend to make the debaters rather hungry. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z Conservatives tend to assert that mobility remains quite high, even if it has tailed off a little. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z He didn’t talk much, but when he did, people tended to listen. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z In the spring of 2005, The New York Times published a series of articles on class in America, a dimension of the national experience that tends to go unexamined, if acknowledged at all. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z Here the theorem provides the theoretical support for the fact that the measurements of any quantity tend to follow a normal bell-shaped “error curve” centered on the true value of the quantity being measured. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Romantic-era47 music also tends to use more complex chords in greater variety, and is very likely to use chords that are not in the key. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z Whoever tends to the brown Mercedes will surely know how to change a tire. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z The paper also found interesting evidence that people who identify as Internet addicts also tend to have personality traits, or psychological conditions consistent with substance abuse and “pathological gambling.” A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z As the delay suggests, polemics for the Noble Savage tended to meet with little sympathy in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z But the South’s taste for vengeance tends to fade quickly. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z Judith set Kit to tend the stirring while she readied the soap barrel. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z At such times the ridge came down, and the continental shelf, so to speak, stretched out, and the algae along the shore became so slack that I tended to catch my feet in it. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z Palsied, crippled, catatonic, spastic, Trapis tended them all with equal and unending patience. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z All rulers of all ages have tried to impose a false view of the world upon their followers, but they could not afford to encourage any illusion that tended to impair military efficiency. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z Her Majesty, the Austrians call their cannon, and for the past week these men have tended to it the way worker bees might tend to a queen. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z She tends to freak out over the dumbest things. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z When viruses come out of an ecosystem, they tend to spread in waves through the human population, like echoes from the dying biosphere. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z It looked mournful, he thought, and he wondered why the dead tree was left in this place where everything else was well tended. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z Without silkworms to tend or mulberry trees to pick, without neighbors to gossip with or goats to milk, my grandmother filled her time with food. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z Crying: My baby, my mother, my only, only love; groaning: My sin, my terrible God; screaming with pain, muttering with fever, bemoaning old age and poverty—how can they tend the wheels? Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z But what I couldn’t help noticing was how, more and more, Tommy tended to identify himself with the other donors at the centre. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z In the years before he had always tended them with care. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z “They will, Joseph. The house needs to be tended to, cooked for, cleaned, washed, scrubbed. It needs to be loved. It’s not like a book you can just close and put back on a shelf.” The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z The woman whose reputation was spotless, and who tended to her family, who didn’t drink or smoke or run around. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z Pittsburgh welcomed all, but the people of the city tended to draw lines. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z He saw that Strider was sitting alert in his chair: his eyes gleamed in the light of the fire, which had been tended and was burning brightly; but he made no sign or movement. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z The help tended to be officious, the rules, if heeded, restrictive, and the management meddlesome. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z I used my down days, those free from official business, to tend to Sasha and Malia and their lives, before going back “up” again—back into hair, makeup, and wardrobe. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z While Tata tended to get loud and angry when she drank, Chico was quiet and morose. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z Or worse—perhaps he would feel obligated to tend her in her remaining days. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z “Yes, Aunt. Mrs. Chester asked me if I would, and I offered to tend a table, as I have nothing but my time to give.” Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z It is a matter of common experience that disorder will tend to increase if things are left to themselves. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z “Those tend to be the only worthwhile kind.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z Granddaddy says that houses this old sometimes tend to stretch. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z I hadn’t been there that long when they put me to tending the boiler. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Joe was outside, down on his hands and knees, tending his vegetable garden that afternoon. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z People tend to treat you a little differently than before. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z Your arguments will tend to prosper if they are founded on the common assumptions of your audience—or, in special cases, if the audience is minded to defer to your authority. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z African warders tend to be either much more sympathetic than white warders, or even more severe, as though to outdo their masters. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z I guess the proudest thing about being a geek is that we start out tending to be behind, physically, socially, and experientially but we improve. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “Says I can’t tend no rabbits if I talk to you or anything.” Of Mice and Men 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z But I was eager for another crossing, mostly to tend the graves where my parents were buried. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z Avid inventors tend to swamp physics departments and science magazines with blueprints for incredible machines—machines that eternally generate power without any source of energy. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z Scholars tend to ask only those questions that they can reasonably expect to answer. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z “I wish I could tend to that azalea bush out there,” Miss Celia says one day. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z The mills were most often tended by women who were doing dangerous work while getting almost no rest. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z Whites tend to sell to whites; blacks to blacks. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z It was photographed and then the surgeon general, Dr. Joseph Barnes, who had tended to Lincoln in the president’s final hours, performed an autopsy. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z Sometimes she plucked at a thread on her ragged cape or bent over to pull on her socks, which were loose and tended to slide down around her ankles. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z There are many different types of crime, and violent crime tends to provoke the most visceral and punitive response. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Other investigators point to the fact that the chromosomes in cancer tissue are unstable; they tend to be broken or damaged, the number may be erratic, there may even be double sets. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Mr Farraday will usually have just returned from his short walk on the downs at that point, so he is rarely engrossed in his reading or writing as he tends to be in the evenings. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z Today, in Iran's urban areas, the great majority of the younger generation tend to meet their significant others on their own. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z Finally, these diseases tend to be restricted to humans; the microbes causing them tend not to live in the soil or in other animals. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z But it could also be a pain in the neck, especially when we were trying to tend to things unrelated to the presidency. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z As she watched, a woman darted out of a clump of nearby trees, glanced at Kira, and then brazenly began to pull carrots from the garden that Kira and her mother had tended together. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Lena had ambled out of the kitchen then, to tend to other chores. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z The woman in white, leaving Poppy Cottage, where Ivy left her grandmother tending the fire. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z She left her dogs to run wild and tended every need, cared for the humans she loved and, although she never would admit it, loved even more than she loved her dogs. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z I took a bath, tended to my various wounds, and generally took a well-deserved rest. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z I tend to think of rats leaving a ship. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Miss Duncan is pretty enough; I tend to think she would make a fine revenant, possessing the bodies of young women and using them to avenge crimes of passion. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z The rest of the morning, Lourdes tends hurriedly to her customers, mixing up orders and giving the wrong change. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z But Skipper tended to appear only before a match or a tournament to collect the small fee that was his due. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The first place he went was right next door to the California boathouse to tend to Ky Ebright’s boats. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z Isolated, segmented, and stratified, these families are cut off from the single, the gay and the gray, and, except for those tending them, anyone from lower classes. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z “Now I am Kote. I tend to my inn. That means beer is three shims and a private room costs copper.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z The fat man tending the bar rolled tobacco and stared at the back of Ridgeway’s head. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z She tended it like a fire and made sure it never went out. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z And although we continued our habit of meeting for cocoa in the evening, the sessions tended to be brief and unfriendly. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z My mother tended to move up the stairs in a sprint. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z Emma spent many nights sitting with him. holding him, comforting him, tending to him, as he suffered from sleeplessness, heart palpitations, and his almost constant digestive upset. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z How could the earth not He at the center of the universe, critics asked, if all heavy objects on our planet tend to fall toward its center? Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z It gave him more than enough time to pitch the hay and tend to the animals on his own modest property, located on five acres just outside Tremonton. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z After the torture was done, when the albino had finished tending his slashes or burns or breaks, when he was alone in the giant cage, he sent his brain to Buttercup, and there it dwelled. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z She was busy tending to the poor in a task that had neither beginning nor end. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Thus, competition between societies at one level of complexity tends to lead to societies on the next level of complexity if conditions permit. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Though always routine and un-eventful, these meetings tend to follow a certain thespian formality. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z I did what I had become best at doing: I tended to my work, even while my dying professor waited on his front lawn. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z “I think there will be one doctor who tends to both the women and the injured soldiers.” Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z “Do you always tend to keep your thoughts and emotions to yourself?” Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z ‘It is mending fast. You will soon be sound again. Elrond has cured you: he has tended you for days, ever since you were brought in.’ The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z I would definitely tend to hang over park benches. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Traditional grammars tend to run the three concepts together. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z In a way, the words are curiously weightless, for the environmentalists tend to live in, or at least reflect views from, rich places like London, Berlin, or San Francisco. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z The pictures get jumbled; you tend to miss a lot. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z For us, Sunday nights tended to be quiet and free. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z The women tended to be more handsome than pretty with high, articulated cheekbones. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z A family with a lot of schooling tends to value schooling. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z He tended to hum cheery scraps of Vivaldi when his work was going well; when it was not going well, he hissed softly through the thicket of his mustache. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z So if you just look at raw correlations between police and crime, you will find that when there are more police, there tends to be more crime. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z Even back on Rose Hill we tended to be cautious in our play, the memory of Zeke casting a long shadow for years to follow. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z But there were more important things to tend to, and so the agent rolled the creature’s corpse out into the surf, watching it go under. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z Then too, compared with the women at The Maids, my Woodcrest coworkers are an enthusiastic and outgoing bunch, though the faces tend to change from one weekend to the next. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z People in solitary jobs like shepherds or swineherds tend to either enjoy their own company, or be starved for conversation. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z Matthias had the feeling that someone—probably Nina—had tended to more of his injuries while he was unconscious. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z I ex- tend the invitation in Spanish, slowly, using gestures, feeling flushed with embarrassment. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z I pull a pad out of my pocketbook where I keep a list of what needs to be tended to, not for Miss Celia, but my own groceries, Christmas presents, things for my kids. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z Insofar as “art comes from art,” its history is directed by the force of its own traditions, which tend to resist the pressure of external events or circumstances. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z “It s a grievous wound. Someone tended it, stitched it up. There are the marks.” Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z During the summer months a great number of American vacationers can be found riding the Métro, and their voices tend to carry. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z He tends to strike to debilitate, light rapid hits that take an opponent down before they even know what’s hit them. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z And they knew Alys to be true in her guess, for it was she who tended the bodies of them all, and knew the signs that each year brings.“Sixteen” Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z The handcuffs, pistol, and continued beating were unfortunate but, hey, when you all shared the same difficult circumstance— prison work—you tended to give each other the benefit of the doubt. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Until the end of colonialism, she suggested, researchers tended to work in their own countries’ possessions. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Some doctors tend to feel they’re invulnerable, while other people, doctors included, refuse to set their work aside because to do so is inconvenient. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z “People tend to book up spots for readings in uncertain times such as these.” Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z Vivian tends to pick up discussions they started a few days earlier right where they left off, as if it’s perfectly natural to do so. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z “Love? His thoughts do not tend that way.” Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z It seemed the more frustrated I got, the wronger I tended to be, in algebra or anything else. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z In the back, workers tended to giant barbecue and kanyenya stands loaded with delicious goat and beef. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z Mary and the other black employees at Langley tended the new recruits as carefully and lovingly as if they were a garden. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z He sat bent over his knees and he whispered, “Now I won’t get to tend the rabbits. Now he won’t let me.” Of Mice and Men 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z The whole district tends to be that way. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z Tai sin and Shae tended to the horses as usual, rubbing them down and feeding them. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z Now she tended to walk bewildered around the house in her nightgown, scuffed brown loafers, no socks, and an unbuttoned pink blouse, spending both nights and days only halfway dressed for either one. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Cult members, who tend to be firm believers in their system, generally do not consider themselves to be in a cult. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z They tended the fires, stirred the soups, rocked the babies, and waited. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z Whites tended to wonder, “What Negro celebrity is he?” and to presume I was uppity. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z The school is larger than the one on Rass, not only because there are twice the number of families, but because people here, even more than islanders, tend to count their wealth in children. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z “It tends to spoil the truly objective observation.” The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z The women cut up chickens, peeled plantains, cubed potatoes, made sofrito, washed dishes, brewed coffee, and tended babies. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z There was always some potion simmering over a pot of burning pitch, and one of my duties was to tend to these. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z The next day, the second since the battle, Romans and Greeks worked side by side to clean up the warzone and tend the wounded. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z The road was narrower, and bumpy, apparently no longer tended by road crews. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z He feeds and tends the master’s hounds And takes a fair reward. Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!: Voices from a Medieval Village 2007-07-24T00:00:00Z I don’t know about any of you, but when I’m nervous about something, I tend to think about it all day, unless I come up with a complicated mental trick to distract me. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z He loved Frosted Flakes and tended to eat them all up in record time. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z Alyssa climbs in after to tend to him in the back seat, so Garrett climbs into the front to sit shotgun. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z Perhaps because philosophers tended to be men and greenwitches tended to be women, the argument took on an overly heated tone. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Unfortunately, these places tend to lack anything you'd really want to buy. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z They even had GIs tending to flowers around some of the barracks and some doing the same kinds of details they would have been doing back in Devens or any stateside base. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Becky tended to Madam’s battle wounds with ointment and medicinal wine. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z Every-thing was beautifully tended, and it was a vision of wealth and order beyond my imagination. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z And Willie—he tends to all of our church dues, insurance, lodge dues, and Saturday Night. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z He wrote and then erased, “Most of these slight variations tend to become hereditary’ He did not shy away from problems; he listed them. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Nearly every situation tended to be when it wet connected with King Pellinore, even in the wildest North. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z They tend to answer just the A card, or the A and the six. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z I tended to leave the room when religion came up in conversation because it made me uncomfortable; Deborah’s family tended toward preaching, faith healings, and sometimes voodoo. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z Last year it was observed that young women living at close quarters in dormitories tended to undergo spontaneous synchronization of their menstrual cycles. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z “People tend to kill them because they don’t understand they’re relatively harmless. And they don’t reproduce very quickly. That one down there is probably two hundred years old, about as big as they get.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z “The chickens I will tend to myself, with Yitzchak and the children. Chaya can help you here in the house. There is enough to do.” The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Mollie also tended to her aging mother, Lizzie, who had moved into the house after Mollie’s father passed away. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z As a matter of fact, the conversation tended to be rather earnest in tone and some very interesting viewpoints were expressed.' The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z The dead tend to leave a lot of evidence. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z The schools chosen for Main Stages in Nebraska tended to be from well-heeled communities that poured money into their theater programs, like Grosse Pointe, Michigan, or the Woodlands, outside Houston. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z He walked back behind the counter to tend to a couple of customers. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z We have, moreover, ample testimony that artists themselves tend to look upon their creation as living things. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z There’s not a lot of students of color at Livingston Middle School, but it’s true that we tend to stick together. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z A cheating teacher tends to be younger and less qualified than average. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z As she moved through the examination, Cora got the impression she was being conveyed on a belt, like one of Caesar’s products, tended down the line with care and diligence. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z She is to be queen, but she is also stuck tending to a crazy old tyrant for the rest of her days. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z Lawyers typically have little information about potential jurors, so their decisions to strike individual jurors tend to be based on nothing more than stereotypes, prejudices, and hunches. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z From that time on he tended to stumble a little when he walked, especially when he was tired; he never grew as big or as vigorous as his brother Martin. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z When, unluckily, they were allowed to get cold, they tended to a gooeyness, not unlike a wad of tired gum. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z The second part of my chores, the enjoying part, is divided into brushing the animals, tending to their hoofs, and my favourite part, helping make ’em comforted by keeping the horseflies off of’em. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z He tended to spend a lot of time looking out the window. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z "The castle won't grow no smaller, I promise you that, only now there'll be fewer hands to tend to it. You lot of slugabeds are going to learn what work is now, yes you are." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z Somehow I know without asking that Mr. Wallace isn’t going to go tellin’ folks about it, because people around here tend to keep quiet out of someone else’s business. Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z If it did come up, people tended to say: “Well so what? We already knew all that.” Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z The doctor cleaned and examined the baby while Joana tended to me. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z Other crew members scrambled about, tending lines, lifting crates, but the dark-haired boy wasn't there. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z In other matters they were, as a rule, generous and not greedy, but contented and moderate, so that estates, farms, workshops, and small trades tended to remain unchanged for generations. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z Similarly, throughout human history farmers have tended to despise hunter-gatherers as primitive, hunter-gatherers have despised farmers as ignorant, and herders have despised both. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Ugwu did not remember his name, but he tended to eat up all the chin-chin right after it was served, so Ugwu had taken to placing the tray as far away from him as possible. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z People who don’t climb mountains—the great majority of humankind, that is to say—tend to assume that the sport is a reckless, Dionysian pursuit of ever escalating thrills. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z We never laid a hand on each other again, and even though we’d get into plenty of verbal clashes, our tiffs tended to end the way our fistfight had, with us cracking up. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Triphena grumbled continuously under her breath and rejoiced audibly when they left to tend to the livestock. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z Knocked around for a while, tended bar, took the long route through college, got started late on a career. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z For the ten months he had tended cattle, it amounted to less than twenty-five cents a day. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z No one tended the garden, either to water it or to weed it, until it was swallowed up by oblivion, birds, and wild grasses. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z “I tend to tiptoe around the edges of any church I happen to see. But I’ll oblige y’all with a story, just to show I’m so very thankful for the hospitality and the vittles!” Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z Jinny tried to remember to invite Ben along anytime she was going to show Ess something new, but that sort of thing tended to be unplanned, to happen when it needed to happen. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z But he had always admired Matty, who had tended and helped Seer with such devotion and undertaken village tasks with energy and good humor. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z Her voice was quiet and gentle, and that was so surprising that he let himself be led and tended to. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z The reason why the combination of those four traits tends to make a disease run in epidemics is easy to understand. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Such cultural processes are among history’s wild cards that would tend to make history unpredictable. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z One of history’s few iron laws is that luxuries tend to become necessities and to spawn new obligations. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z The weavers at the Massachusetts Corporation had all refused the agent’s demand that they each tend four looms and take a piece rate reduction as well. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z So well adapted was the border culture to this environment that other ethnic groups tended to copy it. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z And the exchange we had that night in Miss Kenton's parlour over cocoa was fairly typical of the sort of conversation we tended to have on the topic of Lisa. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z The staff noted that he was reserved and quiet and tended to keep to himself, but they commended him for limiting his interactions “so that he is not drawn into too much negativity.” The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z He was an inveterate collector of these, which, in prison, tended to be extremely short. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z But perhaps, she thought, Einar would be in the meadow, tending his creatures, and would welcome her company. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z Albert ignored the questions and tended to the fire. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z It’s just that in the past, his lies tended to suit me. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z She had done so well on her two, then three, machines that Mr. Marsden gave her a fourth loom to tend. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z Nowadays, we tend to think of architecture in terms of enclosed interiors, but we also have landscape architects, who design gardens, parks, and playgrounds. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z He was a northerner, with black curls that verged on womanish, an effect he tempered with his carefully tended beard. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z “Birds,” said Mr. Powell, “tend not to have expressions on their faces.” Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z The other is that the notes should tend to be "in the staff" as much as reasonably possible. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z Perhaps more important, parents with higher IQs tend to get more education, and IQ is strongly hereditary. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z "Happens I have better things to do than tend to the comings and goings of crows." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z Yet it is precisely on such occasions that people display their good attributes, whereas they tend to hide and become “invisible” when they are depressed. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Ghosts were mostly friendly and less likely to see through their disguises than witches since, weary from their alive days, they tended to pay less attention to the living. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z And the sum total of all those differences is that in certain kinds of situations that require dealing with risk and uncertainty, Danes tend to react in a very different way from Belgians. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z Doctors’ families do tend to complain that they receive less medical attention than their friends and neighbors, but they seem a normal, generally healthy lot, with a remarkably low incidence of iatrogenic illness. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z In a eave near the house, the opening so small that Tally had to crawl inside on her belly, David showed her the cache of gear his parents had tended for twenty years. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z “It would tend to give you an edge,” agreed Lupin gravely. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z Or, perhaps, to tend it carefully like an eternal flame: a reminder of light and goodness that would never—could never—set anything ablaze. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z “What what,” he said as he hurried over to tend to her, his bare feet slapping on the floor. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z It had been planted many generations ago, and was now thick and tall, for it was constantly tended. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z But they tend to bounce around a lot. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Alys tended her there, holding her head so that she could sip warm liquid made from chopped wild sunflower roots simmered in spring water. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z “A lot a colored womens got to give they children up, Miss Skeeter. Send they kids off cause they have to tend to a white family.” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z When one stable’s wrestlers fare well on the bubble against wrestlers from a second stable, they tend to do especially poorly when the second stable’s wrestlers are on the bubble. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z North American researchers tended to scoff at the notion that some mysterious non-Indians had lived fifteen thousand years ago in the heart of Brazil, but South Americans, Pena among them, were less dismissive. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z In the past, wars had tended to be resolved when the belligerent princes had exhausted their resources. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z "My men are hungry, and our horses require tending." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z Why were blacks the ones who came to be so widespread, rather than the four other groups whose existence Americans tend to forget? Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Mig spent them scrubbing the kettle and tending the sheep and cleaning the hut and collecting innumerable, uncountable, extremely painful clouts to the ear. The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z The other three forces are either short range, or are sometimes attractive and sometimes repulsive, so they tend to cancel out. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z It was a story that tended to sprawl all over the place, and yet it remained essentially portable. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z “Fear not, future wife of mine. If you get scared tomorrow night, I’ll only tend to you.” What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z Their needs were tended to; there was nothing they lacked, nothing they…That was it, Claire realized. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z There was a constant scurry of servants racing up and down the halls, tending the fires, hanging up cloaks, putting away umbrellas, and delivering trays of tea to warm the travelers. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z Modern drawings of ancient cities tend to show them at an imagined apogee, the great monuments all splendidly arrayed together, perfect as architectural models. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Sofía had been in the bedroom, tending to her son, who was wild with all the noise in the house tonight. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z We always tend to think of the past as “the good old days,” while the future seems fraught with danger. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z When it does, the results tend to be pretty revealing. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z On a farm near the sea, a woman who tended her appearance reaped a reputation for eccentricity. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z I, on the other hand, held the opinion that to draw such a parallel tended to demean the 'dignity' of the likes of Mr Marshall. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z For the next ten months, Shin stayed where the pig farmer had left him, tending cattle in mountain pastures and sleeping on a ranch-house floor with two surly Chinese cowhands. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z Our next-door neighbor and her sons had set up a table on sawhorses nearby, and a caldron of water bubbled over the fire in the pit, tended by some people I didn’t recognize. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z Many people have observed that adolescents tend to be more reckless, impulsive, and vulnerable to peer pressure than adults. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z “My daughter Mary needs someone to tend her youngest. I’ll ask her.” Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z “All right. I need to go get her. But we’ve got even more pressing issues to tend to.” Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z Most academic analyses of this sort tend to languish, unread, on a dusty library shelf. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z She showed the baby to Pa and he said, “We got some nurses what’ll tend your child, ma’am. How long she been ailing?” Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z He stops fights, ejects drunks, soothes hysteria, cures headaches, and tends bar. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z There before him was the great carven dais where the old lady had sat, her fragile, tended body wrapped in silvery satin. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z I tend to think that even though you’re ten or eleven, you know right from wrong. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z When we got home, I saw Abuela outside, carefully tending to her plants in the courtyard. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z He had his detractors, to be sure, but Federalist critics tended to attack him in the public press, which he could and did dismiss as partisan propaganda. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z We always got along well with the soccer team; they tended to be pretty clever with the jokes they’d play on us and were always appreciative of what we’d do to them. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z They would have therefore had an advantage and would have tended to replace the original macromolecules. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z The descriptive sort of linguist tends to observe change in the language, note it, analyse it and manage not to wake up screaming every night. Eats, Shoots & Leaves 2003-11-06T00:00:00Z Virtually every adult rider, and most of the kids, naturally tended to weigh too much. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z He had a tidy, pleasant, boyish face that tended to blend with the scenery. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z While he tended to defer to Adams on the basis of age and political experience, Jefferson dominated his relationship with Madison for the same reasons. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z In fact, she didn’t tend to speak much to us when we were younger. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z For I then said: 'In fact, I tended to concern myself with international affairs more than domestic ones. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z He wore blue jeans and cowboy boots, and tended to ignore authority. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Their mother needed quiet to tend her two new boys, and sent the girls off to amuse themselves. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z Their discovery: when people are given a small stipend for donating blood rather than simply being praised for their altruism, they tend to donate less blood. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z Most mathematicians—Galileo, Pascal, Descartes, Newton—were familiar with the word’s use in technical astronomy, and tended to avoid it in other contexts. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z During the rest of the year, the climate is drier, and farmers plant and tend their milpas on the alluvial soil. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Lennie said, “Maybe if I took this pup out and throwed him away George wouldn’t never know. An’ then I could tend the rabbits without no trouble.” Of Mice and Men 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z Normally bonobos weren’t allowed near the offices, since they tended to make a mess anywhere they went, but since Otto was attached to me for the time being, we got special permission. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z This might or might not be true, but I tend to think it is, as Cloke almost certainly did not distinguish himself wherever it was that he happened to matriculate. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z Suddenly realizing where his thoughts tended, I seized his hands in mine. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z Some have gardens, and I wonder who tends them. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z Twice Ralph called Ti Fifi on his cell phone to report that the ambulance had broken down—the engine tended to overheat when there wasn’t enough motor oil. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z But the fact is, the letters I have had from you over the years, and in particular the last It tter, have tended to suggest that you are - how might one put it? - rather unhappy. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z Her method involved baby oil and a series of poses that tended to draw crowds, the mothers shielding their children's eyes with sand-covered fingers. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z Every person, just as every corporation, must tend to his or her own economic destiny, just as our parents and grandparents in the mills, shoe shops and factories did. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z “Theorists tend to be more liberal in their politics, liberal ranging on into radical,” the Nobel laureate Edwin McMillan, Lawrence’s laboratory associate and brother-in-law, observed years later. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z He tended to believe that his opinion was inevitably the right opinion, and he did not have a lot of patience for people who thought otherwise. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z Today, for instance, Americans tend to get most of their animal protein from cows, pigs, sheep, and chickens, with game such as venison just a rare delicacy. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Fencing fans tend to be a subdued crowd, but this group of fans was anything but subdued. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z Again, physicists tend to look down on evolutionary biology and history, because those fields appear to fail this test. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z One reason why technology tends to catalyze itself is that advances depend upon previous mastery of simpler problems. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z “At this rate, we’re going to run out of ambrosia,” Coach Hedge grumbled as he tended their wounds. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z We tend to count the diseases conquered, the planets explored, the drudgeries banished, and to assert that the greater good is served by seeing things our way. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z Dr. Gazzaley explained that people tend to be good at focusing and doing so narrowly—in a relatively small physical space, but when they seek to attend to a broader space, they lose detail. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z Even Teenie’s kitchen had a fire that never went out—those hot coals had been carefully tended at night. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z I look forward to tending my potato farm in the wide open space of the Hab. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z He is suspicious and distrustful of others, tends to feel that others discriminate against him, and feels that others are unfair to him and do not understand him. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z But they have little agility, tending to sloth when they reach full growth, and most Tasmanian herdsmen have learned with ease to avoid them. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z He stayed to tend the garden for the next family who lived in the Riddle House, and then the next — for neither family stayed long. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z Also, a smaller community tends to exert greater social incentives against crime, the main one being shame. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z For a while she simply stands there before tending to the shampooing of her hair, the soaping of her softening, slightly shrinking fifty-three-year-old body, which she must fortify each morning with calcium pills. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z A bachelor’s degree, not a year or two of courses, tends to determine a person’s place in today’s globalized, computerized economy. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z One thing that occurs to me now is that when the guardians first started giving us proper lectures about sex, they tended to run them together with talk about the donations. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z The story was set aside while the men tended to their dinners. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z Now, her hair braider had a cell phone, the plantain seller tending a blackened grill had a cell phone. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z Gender and race are not irrelevant considerations when it comes to heart problems; blacks have a different overall risk profile than whites, and women tend to have heart attacks much later in life than men. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z That didn’t happen too often—people tended to see Sasha as male. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z Eulogies tended to be brief, our motto being Another day, another collar. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z That was the part of her brain that tended to run in circles. The Lemonade War 2007-04-23T00:00:00Z “May I ask to what these questions tend?” Pride and Prejudice 1813-01-28T00:00:00Z As for my mother, she went on tending to the many chores in the house. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z The next morning, Duff found Adina by the lagoon tending to the fishing lines. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z Do you tend to identify a note by its interval from the previous note or by its place in the chord or in the key? Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z “Ms. Cooke, under a lot of emotional stress, Sparrow tends to check out from whatever situation she’s in. She might physically be in one place, but mentally she’s pretty far away.” Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z The farmer knew of another job: tending livestock up in the mountains. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z “Who else? He has to tend the store, and Mamita has to clean the house.” When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z They explained how they’d been tending their herd that morning and discovered a giant sack in the road. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z I found Lev in the storage room, overseeing a delivery of linen tachrichim with the same stern solemnity he displayed when tending to corpses. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z We stopped for a handful of days because there was a good wainwright there, and nearly all our wagons needed tending or mending of some sort. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z Ma took to telling me about hidden blessings, saying I should be thankful Doc Kelly had come to town to tend to his dying father. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z “Well, if you’ll excuse me, I have some injured friends I’ve got to tend to. Glad you could stop by, Rachel.” The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z For instance, once all other factors are controlled for, it is clear that students from rural areas tend to do worse than average. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z When I finally came back to the meadow, it was very late, maybe four or five in the morning, but Calypso was still in her garden, tending the flowers by starlight. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z In the museum, with so many people roaming around, Luba Luft would tend to do nothing. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z I tended to lose patience with some of the longer dream sequences, but for the most part we all got along, and the students either accepted or politely ignored my advice. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z In addition to being paranoid, confused, and intermittently tech-nophobic, defectors tend to suffer from preventable diseases and conditions that are all but nonexistent in South Korea. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z He sat leaning against the wall in the shed and watched her tend them. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z Back in the 1930s, warden Lewis Lawes had upset the inmate population by prohibiting the popular practice of tending rabbits. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z In Iowa, a state that is flat and stratigraphically uneventful, it tends to be comparatively serene. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z She knows it’s pointless to try this with me and leaves me to tend Gale while she and Prim rest. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z She tended to show off excessively during these visits, rushing to help Mother out in ways she would not have dreamed of without an audience. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z A child who had a low birthweight tends to do poorly in school. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z Urban life tended to abrade tribal and ethnic distinctions, and instead of being Xhosas, or Sothos, or Zulus, or Shangaans, we were Alexandrians. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z He tends to sport black jeans that are on the tight side, and a silk shirt. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z All those suburbs tend to run into one another out there, so you can’t always tell where one ends and the next begins. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z They it is who tend to be always insisting this or that figure is the one to emulate, or repeating what some particular hero is said to have pronounced upon professional matters. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z Music that contains no dissonances can tend to seem simplistic or boring. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z Daylight began to forsake the red-room; it was past four o’clock, and the beclouded afternoon was tending to drear twilight. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z Low-ranked wrestlers must tend to their superiors, preparing their meals, cleaning their quarters, and even soaping up their hardest-to-reach body parts. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z Given that she tended to keep quiet about her achievements, she may have worked on others, too. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z Hunter-gatherer societies tend to be relatively egalitarian, to lack full-time bureaucrats and hereditary chiefs, and to have small-scale political organization at the level of the band or tribe. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z "We tend to look the other way when it's in a residential neighborhood. But right here, on the town green, we have to enforce the law. Otherwise we'd have someone selling something every two feet." The Lemonade War 2007-04-23T00:00:00Z Or almost abandoned, because a pair of monks lived there in a tar paper shack, tending a small garden and some broken shrines. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z In the Juniors, we were fifteen to a dorm, so didn’t tend to have the sort of long intimate conversations we did once we got to the Senior dorms. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z He was unlike most of the other people who testified about such dangers; they tended to be researchers, victims, or their families. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z While Frank and Hazel tended to Blackjack, Annabeth and Leo helped get Piper and the boys to the sickbay. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z Earlier research had already demonstrated that women tended to respond better to withstanding pain, loneliness, and extreme temperatures. Women in Space 2014-02-01T00:00:00Z The officers who chose it tended to be size large. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z But as will happen in gardens, other plants grew there—dog’s mercury and Jack-in-the-hedge—and they tended to overtake the plants Emma loved. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z People who are convicted of violent crimes tend to get longer prison sentences than those who commit nonviolent offenses. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z He needed someone to manage his firm’s ongoing work while he tended to the exposition. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z First she tends to my roommate, and then to me. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z Repeat killers tend to rigidly adhere to a routine, yet the Osage murders were carried out in a bewildering array of methods. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z Other than when I was tending to her scrapes, she never let me get near her. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z But that burst tends to dissipate over the course of an entire can, and that is another reason Coke suffered by comparison. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z In Gothic cathedrals the arched vault tended to push the piers outward. Cathedral: The Story of Its Construction 1973-09-19T00:00:00Z Knowing not to sit on the furniture, she crouched, instead, in doorways and hallways, and observed gestures and manners in the same way a person tends to watch traffic in a foreign city. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z They tended to the cotton in all of its phases. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z Sherpas remain an enigma to most foreigners, who tend to regard them through a romantic scrim. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z In the world were also dwarfs—ugly creatures, but masterly craftsmen, who lived under the earth; and elves, lovely sprites, who tended the flowers and streams. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z When we got mad we tended to cause problems... like World War II, for instance. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z Rather, you needed to say a password to the person tending the door so they could be certain you were not a prohibition agent. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z All eyes went to their bodyguard, who had left off tending the roses and was oiling the gate hinges. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z At the far end of the orchard, a group of monks were tending to one of the abbey’s exterior walls. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z The Career Tributes tend to gather rowdily around one table, as if to prove their superiority, that they have no fear of one another and consider the rest of us beneath notice. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z “Nonetheless”—Uncle tucked his pistol into his belt—“the superior man tends his own garden.” Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z He bent to no god save the glowing iron he tended in his forge. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z This was unhelpful, as they were still tending the horrible skrewts and needed their wits about them. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z Kira tended his grave now, taking the babies with her while she weeded and watered the soft blanket of fragrant purple thyme she had planted there. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z Those who cared about such things tended to express their allegiance by wearing either Tar Heel powder blue, or Wolf Pack red, two colors that managed to look good on no one. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z It was very hard to move through crowds in the Invisibility Cloak, in case you accidentally trod on someone, which tended to lead to awkward questions. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z Like their precursors, they tend to be brash, confident, and unapologetic. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z I had a great yearning, lately, to pay my father back for all the years of neglect, and start tending his grave. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z All chords will tend towards pure fifths and thirds, as well as seconds, fourths, sixths, and sevenths that reflect the harmonic series. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z When a widely useful invention does crop up in one society, it then tends to spread in either of two ways. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z It is certainly true to say that premodern agriculturists tended to be theists, but it does not teach us much about the particulars. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z The comment was so like Bobby in that he tended to remember and categorize people through their chess games, not necessarily anything else. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z She could see some of them in the vast foul-smelling Field of Leaving, huddled beside the ones whose lingering spirits they tended. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Among them were Alvarez and Serber, who had been sharing a tent on Tinian for two months, preparing for their assignment tending gauges to be dropped by parachute with the bomb itself. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Meeting a king tends to induce a temporary but powerful amnesia. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z My daily phone calls with Barack tended to be short and newsy—Where are you? Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z As we go deeper, the cloud particles tend to get bigger. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Anger flashed across her face like lightning and her nose, which tends to redden and swell in anger, blew up like a balloon. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z While she and the baby studied each other for the first time, I cleaned up the bed and tended to Perilee as best I could, trying not to be alarmed at the amount of blood. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z Indeed, because all facts are by definition true we tend to think all truths are facts. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z She tended to trust her gut when it came to our rentals, and history had proven her gut wasn’t to be trusted. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z There must be men to tend them, men as steady as the wheels upon their axles, sane men, obedient men, stable in contentment. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z “No . . . . you tell it. It ain’t the same if I tell it. Go on . . . . George. How I get to tend the rabbits.” Of Mice and Men 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z In the following days he spent much time tending his four paws. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z Spraying tends to be repetitive, and a single exposure from which the wildlife populations might have a chance to recover is a rarity. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z I nod my head at Lizabeth and tuck the envelope in the big pocket of my uniform and tend to breakfast. Girls Like Us 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z Since the time of the alchemists, more and more elements have been discovered, the latest to be found tending to be the rarest. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Of course, New Guineans tend to perform poorly at tasks that Westerners have been trained to perform since childhood and that New Guineans have not. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Neel’s sister got up early to pump and haul water, feed the animals, make patties out of cow dung for fuel, wash clothes, tend the garden, cook, and clean. Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z Lev and the others showed me the same reserved respect they held while tending to the dead, averting their eyes whenever possible, their faces solemn even as fear and confusion darkened their gazes. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z Those with elliptical crossing orbits tended to collide and destroy themselves. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Because gravity holds planets in orbit and makes falling objects land with a bang, we tend to think of it as a powerful force, but it is not really. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z The air of collective displacement, the impermanence of life in wartime and the gauche personalities of the more recent arrivals tended to dissipate my own sense of not belonging. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z He stops fights, ejects drunks, soothes hysteria, cures headaches, and tends bar. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z I could not make out the face of the mother who rested from the pains of birth, but I could see the old woman in black who tended the just-arrived, steaming baby. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z While the gosling slept, the robot might tend the fire if it was cool out, or gently fan him if it was warm. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z Aged and frail, the maester shared his chambers with two of the younger stewards, who tended to his needs and helped him in his duties. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z This boy is called Geoffrey Atte-Water, because he lives by the River Fleet and tends the conduit there with his father. The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z “Because you’re funny and smart and because you seem to like me. I know that’s not a good reason, but I can’t help it; if a girl likes me I tend to like her back.” It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z Besides tending pigs, he hunted with the farmer for wild boar in the surrounding mountains. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z Even teachers were respectful of the now quiet and aging seniors, and tended to speak to them, if not as equals, as beings only slightly lower than themselves. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z They traveled aboard the royal barge, tended by a fleet of 400 other vessels. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z And she had schooled the princess, Nausikaa, whose fire she tended now, making her supper. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z Hitchhiking tends to be difficult on the Alaska Highway. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Nevertheless, in a given environment, animals of the same species will tend to behave in a similar way. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Special Duties planes need a lot of maintenance as they tend to go through them quite rapidly, bashing the undercarriages in the dark and getting bits blown off by antiaircraft guns on their way home. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z Instruments that can bend most pitches enough to fine-tune them during a performance — and this includes most orchestral instruments — also tend to play the "pure" intervals. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z Soon there are so many sick that there is no one with strength to tend the gardens, no one with strength to hunt or fish. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z “But I am free to do as I must to tend the King’s Forest.” Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z When a person with an injured arm would be tended and assisted till he healed. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z And down below, tending the wounds, the albino would whisper: “Tell them. Please. They will only add to your suffering.” The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z From the Renaissance to the present day, most Western music has tended to be tonal. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z It was the start of the growing season, and my father tended the crops through until harvest. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z We couldn’t speak while tending to the dead, but his gaze conveyed his worry well enough. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z She had not been allowed to tend it properly penned up in this cell, but even unwashed and tangled it shone where the sun touched it. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z "Oh, don't be afraid of Petunia. Gentle as a kitten, he is. Here, let me tend to your poor hide." The Whipping Boy 1986-04-01T00:00:00Z Harry followed his gaze up the carefully tended front path and felt his heart sink. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z I followed the sheriff’s officers inside the house, where a group of them were talking to the man’s wife, who was also trying to tend to her two children. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z I rushed past my worried mother who cried after me then ran to tend Ultima. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z On Zenilman’s map the neighborhoods of East and West Baltimore, on either side of the downtown core, tend to be thick with black stars. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Meanwhile, we tended our wounded, bringing them inside the lobby. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z The red priest rested by day but kept vigil through the dark horns, to tend his sacred flames so that the sun might return to them at dawn. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z “We don’t know. Probably you just collapse and need tending for a year or however long it takes to get your strength back.” The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z Historians tend to discount Gorges’s tale, partly because his memoirs, dictated late in life, mix up details, and partly because the notion that Tisquantum was abducted twice just seems incredible. “utterly void,” Dermer reported. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z I like to think you’re holding my thoughts for me until I can tend to them again. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z But the multiple-vehicle wrecks tended to happen during the day, which stood to reason, given that there are more cars on the road at that time. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z He had small teeth set in vast expanses of gum; those round ears; and delicate, almost maidenly skin that tended to flush and pale with the waxing and waning of his digestive problems. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z “The winter solstice and the two equinoxes. Midsummer Eve tends to be the rowdiest of them all.” Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z They were sitting on the steps like that—Mama hunched, Papa tending the blackening rings—one morning a few days before we left camp. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z Still, TV tends to blow things out of proportion. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z She continued working as a domestic, and also tended other people’s children. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z In my new life as a human, I was well tended. The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z People tend to compound the two problems into one; quite often when they ask, “Why is that art?” they mean, “Why is that good art?” History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z Once the ISS was habitable, spaceflights to the station tended to be made of international crews. Women in Space 2014-02-01T00:00:00Z For a while Sam sat musing, and tending the fire till the water boiled. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z They could end up in the Slammer behind air locks and double steel doors, tended by nurses and doctors wearing space suits. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The English historian Lord Acton famously said, “Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.” Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z A young boy squatted at the riverbank, tending a campfire. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z Izzy, Mia noticed, tended to respond by needling her mother even more, pushing her buttons with the expertise only a child could. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z Ignatius imagined it was something in his mother’s family, a group of people who tended to suffer violence and pain. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Hangover tending isn’t part of his job description, but he’s a mother hen. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z Seen in that light, it's not surprising that judge overrides tend to increase in election years. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z Enrique sees men with hoes tending their corn and women inside their kitchens patting tortillas into shape. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z I saw the Libyan Desert, where nomads tend their camels as they did a thousand years ago. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Spies tended to be freewheeling by nature, and they used many different systems to communicate. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z In my experience, you put a suit on any half-intelligent black man and white people tended to go bonkers. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z They’d spent many sleepless nights tending to me after the fire. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z The flame of hope that burned in him was smaller now, but no less bright or fierce, and he tended it almost daily with visions of the pot he would make. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z The room was full of bubbling tanks tended by boys who morosely fished the water with nets and who paid no attention to the newcomers. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z He also thought of Reggie as the son who tended to do whatever his mom and dad asked with no protest, the kid who cleaned up after himself. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z At the same time, the blades tend to slow down, so you have to twist your left wrist to add throttle, to keep the blades turning at the same speed. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Whenever she had a chance, she slipped outdoors to work in the vegetable garden or to tend to the animals with her father. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z “Simply stunning. Though such pale green tends to wash out women of pallid skin.” Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z The fact is, I have tended increasingly of late to indulge myself in such recollections. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z University students tend to sell to each other. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Everything looked old about it, old and tended, the smooth brick sidewalks, the many-paned windows, the little dome on top of the main building. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z When Grandpa-down-the-hill was a young man, there’d been herds of livestock spread across the mountain, and they were tended on horseback. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z We tend to think of children’s songs as simple, and in some ways, they are in terms of lyrics, structure, and music. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z Mended his tunic and helped him to tend to the burns on his fingers, his bedbugs and fleas? Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!: Voices from a Medieval Village 2007-07-24T00:00:00Z “All the more reason why folks want to buy what I have to sell. I want this done quickly. I have other business to tend to.” Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z My mom’s relatives tended to gather at Southside’s house around the corner—drawn by my grandfather’s cooking, the ongoing games of bid whist, and the exuberant blasting of jazz. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z The multicultural perspective tends to cast Indigenous peoples in general as an oppressed racial group without considering important political differences between the Native nations and other oppressed populations. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z Weeks before she had begun tending her own loom without Dianas help. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z Four dug in the holes, and three tended to the wheelbarrows. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z She even took pains to water the garden, and one morning I saw her tending the pumpkin vine, which was overladen with blossom. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z When the man they called Hunters Hunter knew her—tended her—she was touchy. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z The image of her grandmother assaulting another slave didn’t jibe with Cora’s recollections of the woman, but once she started tending to the plot she understood the truth of the portrait. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z That way I don’t have no mowing to tend to and she let me pick whatever I need, save me two or three dollars ever week. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z But oxygen tends to make organic molecules fall to pieces. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Although cedar does not expand or swell across the grain of the wood when wet, and thus tends not to warp, it does expand slightly along the grain. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z They tend to be rather secretive as their business is semilegal at best. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z Usually, when I track someone down under, the gambler tends to blow eye-popping numbers of notes. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z After supper, we kids washed the dishes while Poppy tended to my mother’s hands. Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z My silence, at this point, was total; any scene which tended toward scrutiny, demonstration, and display was deeply repugnant to my current spirits. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z My father would be tending to the farm. Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z “He hated my dad like he hated Sirius! Haven’t you noticed, Professor, how the people Snape hates tend to end up dead?” Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z “The first jumper tends to stick in your head.” Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z “I tend not to want to see how far I can break the law before I’m caught.” The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z I tended the fire a half dozen times each day. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z A second factor is that, just as the depletion of wild game tended to make hunting-gathering less rewarding, an increased availability of domesticable wild plants made steps leading to plant domestication more rewarding. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z All Copernicus could say was that ‘Earthy’ things tended to fall to Earth, solar things tended to fall to the Sun, things with an affinity for Mars would fall to Mars, and so on. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z I spend all day long tending to white peoples. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z He tended to do well in math, science, and English, but even that record was spotty— he once got an F in a Shakespeare course. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Unfortunately, the education system tends to dismiss kids based on their past and not on their potential. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z Hilda tended the pot of greens from time to time, as if there were anything she could do to make it better. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z But these cases also tend to create distortions and bias. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z Watching the woman hold and tend her infant one afternoon, Claire confided in her and described the return of the memories. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z After one particularly violent incident, my seven-year-old dad took the bus to fetch his father at work so that he could hurry home and tend to my grandmother's bloody wounds. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z I even said Maddie would be there and winked at him, and he just stared at me, all openmouthed like he tends to do. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z By nine o’clock, he speculated, there was nothing left she felt obligated to do, and so she read or tended her flowers or drove in to Petersen’s Grocery. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z The delivery room had eight beds, on which women moaned and twisted, tended to by fully covered nurses. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z The good news is that, as with a boa constrictor or a Planet Hollywood T-shirt, normal people tend to keep their distance when you're wearing a Walkman. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z “I’ll watch out for her and tend my own machines as well.” Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z The disciplining of children, like the tending of animals, was generally left to Father. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z And because what we are doing is so horrifying, we tend not to think of it much. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z He had more important matters to tend to. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z “We’d better get home and tell our mamas that we didn’t catch any frogs and that Mrs. Clayton could use some tending to.” Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z Murder convictions tend to receive a tremendous amount of media attention, which feeds the public’s sense that violent crime is rampant and forever on the rise. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z He remembered an island, a cave lit with soft glowing crystals, a dinner table on the beach tended by invisible air spirits. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z In those days, the ironbam did not work mines; that was labor for the captives brought back from the hostings, and so too the sorry business of farming and tending goats and sheep. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z He had adored her, she told Elizabeth, and satisfied her every whim, but he had tended to irresponsibility. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z Fish that were local in their ambit made the net their neighbourhood, and the quick ones, the ones that tended to streak by, the dorados, slowed down to visit the new development. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z This makes them move away from each other and so tends to make the star expand. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z The guns that are turned in tend to be heirlooms or junk. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z My difficulty was further compounded by the fact that for some years my father and I had tended - for some reason I have never really fathomed - to converse less and less. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z Quickly, she rushes over to me and tends to my wound. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The robot stood out of the way and quietly tended to the fire as her guests slept through the night. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z I’d be tending my herb garden, clipping sprigs of fragrant leaves or replanting tender roots, then all of a sudden, a single tear would fall down my face without my awareness, surprising me. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z His voice tended to be slightly high, plaintive. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z Then it occurred to me that the delicate shades of feeling, of reaction, are the result of communication, and without such communication they tend to disappear. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z Get up in the morning, eat breakfast, tend my crops, fix broken stuff, eat lunch, answer e-mail, watch TV, eat dinner, go to bed. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Commonplaces are culturally specific, but they will tend to be so deep-rooted in their appeal that they pass for universal truths. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z Each time his campaign stressed his commitment to the poor and the fact that the government in Philadelphia was controlled by a wealthy few who tended to disregard the welfare of its less fortunate citizens. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z He was sure he was tending a sweet but abused young girl at first, but when she bit him, he said, Oh, she’s wild. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z Were they tending to my empire even during a social event? Lawn Boy Returns 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z The other homes along the river were vigorously tended. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z These racialized narratives tend to confirm and reinforce the prevailing public consensus that we need not care about “those people”; they deserve what they get. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Ultimately, one tends to avoid him, for the universal characteristic of children is to assume that they have a monopoly on trouble, and therefore a monopoly on you. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z The reader probably still has some questions, but unfortunately, from here on in, the answers tend to be long and tedious. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z The Ice, as Estraven had said, tends to hold a high-pressure zone above its central area, where thousands of square miles of white reflect the sunlight. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z We Americans tend to be paranoid about Japanese efficiency, and it is indeed formidable in some industries—but not in food-processing. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z She pretended to tend to the guttering flames while Richard spoke to his mother, but it was impossible not to listen in. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z As any engineer knew, soil under pressure tended to shift to fill adjacent excavations. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z If she didn’t tend to the house, she was apt to find clothes, shoes, open rice bags, cans of beans, and dirty dishes strewn about everywhere. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z The path is starting to tend downhill again, so at least that’s a blessing. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z Bast tended to their needs, explaining his master’s knee was swollen quite badly and he didn’t feel up to taking the stairs so early in the day. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z Among large tribes, those with stronger big-men and hence greater centralization tend to have an advantage over those with less centralization. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Like most people, we tend to resist believing that we might be part of the problem. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z “Until I was created,” answered Cutie, “you tended the Master. That privilege is mine now and your only reason for existence has vanished. Isn’t that obvious?” I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z We do tend to improvise things like this as we go along, but it is clear that we can pick and choose. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Victoria told people that her power was discovered when she was a young girl and her mother left her to tend to her baby sister, who had a high fever. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z Their concerns tended to be practical rather than philosophical. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z You might even think to focus your activity toward the end of the test, where the questions tend to be harder than the earlier questions. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z We slept hour after hour, ate a little, tended our frostbites, inflammations, and bruises, mindspoke, slept again. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z If you didn’t tend the soil, then you bought and sold in the market, and before my father gave himself to the fields, he led the crazy life of a traveling trader. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z At whichever such “lab” the seeds ended up, they tended to come from only certain individuals of edible plants—namely, those that we preferred to eat for one reason or another. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z “Can’t exactly say which one. I thumb over to Welch every Saturday to the county library. I tend to pick out random shelves and just read every book on it until I’m done.” October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z What one is after when farfetching might be described as the intuitive perception of a moral entirety; and thus it tends to find expression not in rational symbols, but in metaphor. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z Her hair, which was once the color of autumn, was still the color of autumn, except that before, she had tended it herself, whereas now she had five full-time hairdressers who managed things for her. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z He found his voice tended either to disappear or to come out too loud. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z |
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