| 单词 | tool |
| 例句 | “You might want to stay back with the rest of the group down there,” said a man carrying a red box, like a tool kit, toward the shark. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z Our tech tools let us be “hyper social,” he says, which has many benefits, and also costs. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z He tried to stop her from spending so much time at church, and one of the most effective tools he used was to stop fixing my mother’s car. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z Snarling, using the weight of his body as a tool, he rode the circling and stumbling beast. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z A long workbench dominated one side of the room, the wall above it covered with tools supported on pegs. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z We obviously have no written records from the age of foragers, and the archaeological evidence consists mainly of fossilised bones and stone tools. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Physical tools work very differently from intellectual tools. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Gold, for example, is too soft to be made into tools for farming or building. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z She ran her still-raw fingers across the clay pots and wooden tools, amazed at how each had its own texture and weight Everything seemed so heavy and... serious. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z He straightened, limped over to Meryra and, taking the hammer from his hand, dropped it into its slot in the tool rack. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z Newt nodded, already on the move toward a small tool shed used for the Gardens; he’d clearly been waiting for the order. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z They dropped tools and knocked over half-finished projects as they scrambled around. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z He couldn’t push the minds of the dead as he could the living, but he could use all the tools of flattery and persuasion he possessed, for the dead are not immune to either. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z Journalism gave me another tool of exploration, another way of unveiling the laws that bound my body. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z I run from the closet down the hallway to the kitchen, where Lily keeps a drawer of basic tools. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z There are tools and seeds and plant food and watering cans that can be filled from a trough. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z He saw with anger that Dove was sitting at his bench, daring to use his tools. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z It sounded like he had some power tools. Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Then he looked at the neat arcs of gleaming tools, so eager to cut, they seemed to tremble. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z He laid the tools in a row at the head of the table. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The remaining type of variation among Polynesian societies to be considered involves tools and other aspects of material culture. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The crop birthed communities, requiring nails and braces for houses, the tools to build the houses, roads to connect them, and more iron to keep it all running. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z Inside, the workshop was a warren of crates and sandbags, wood scraps and tools. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z “I don’t know that it’s a good idea for you to go over there. Riches and idleness, devil’s tools, and you’ve not a very sturdy resistance.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z In the closets they found a variety of tools and equipment, but no obvious gear for milking gargantuan cows. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z But then, to my great shock, they began to use their tools to pull the structure down. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z Instead, Australian Aborigines were nomadic or semi-nomadic hunter-gatherers, organized into bands, living in temporary shelters or huts, and still dependent on stone tools. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z I went to the tool shed and grabbed a scraper for each of us. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z Minya’s “soldiers” were everywhere, armed with knives and other kitchen tools. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z The drawers had burst open and there were tools and plastic silverware, plates and cups floating in the water. The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z It’s a tool that can be used to kill someone, of course, but more significantly, a gun is a great disrupter of the natural order. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z With his shovel he’d struggled defiantly, as if the tool could indeed change the car’s fate. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z He gave Doon a tool belt, too, in which were wrenches and hammers, spools of wire and tape, and tubes of some sort of black goop. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z They also discovered, among the piles of stones at the base of a cliff, some stones whose shapes suggested the possibility of their being crude tools. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z A master engraver expertly carves his designs onto a polished copper plate using an engraving tool called a burin. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z She practiced wielding the knife as a weapon rather than a tool. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z Tally reset the tool, and the metal groaned again. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z With the tool I’d been given, I reached in and fetched out some. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z The shed has a worktable piled high with stuff and a giant Peg-Board wall with lots of tools hanging from silver hooks. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z The world has been taught to be scared of him, but the reality is that he is scared of the world because he has none of the tools necessary to cope with it. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z Pith helmets with netting, tools, and wax candles hung from nails near the front door, and a thin veneer of honey lay across everything. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z I helped my parents carry their tools, and they walked ahead so straight, each carrying a basket or a hoe not to overburden me, their tears falling privately. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z “Because the gods use heroes as their tools,” Chiron said simply. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z The only light was from a single green-glass desk lamp which illuminated little more than the tooled leather surface on which it stood. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z There was a bunch of tools gone: a chain saw, a drill set, a wrench set. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z It was lined with small tools and pieces of wood. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z I had been equipped by the organization with a demonstrator’s tools and I spent part of each day testing the soil and performing experiments. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The cortege passed in front of a construction site and the workers dropped their tools, removed their helmets, and, with bowed heads, formed a single line. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z In insisting these were the only tools required Galileo was dismissing Aristotelian logic as an irrelevance. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Calculus was the very language of nature, yet its very fabric was infused with zeros and infinities that threatened to destroy the new tool. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z High on crystal, the gang and I would tool down the beltway, admiring the traffic cones and bright yellow speed bumps. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z All the metal tools were made by a blacksmith, and the wooden pieces were made by skilled woodworkers. Cathedral: The Story of Its Construction 1973-09-19T00:00:00Z I wonder if they, too, have received playing cards and firearms in their letter boxes or if they’ve had their own specific tools provided. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z I ran up to the Amish girl and got my tool, but Mrs. Maxy was right on me. Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z He sees the intent in my expression, pauses, spits the nails, drops his tool belt, and comes toward me. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z The changing tools had been put away under the floor under the table, so that my total load had to be unpacked. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z We can never let up; we scramble our way through one civilization after another, metamorphosing, sprouting tools and cities everywhere, and all the time new words keep tumbling out. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Because Dillehay’s team had failed to identify properly the location of the stone tools in Monte Verde, Fiedel said, their antiquity was up to question; they could have been in a recent sediment layer. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z One of the schools is on the Lower East Side, which can be rough, even the seven- or eight-year-olds will carry knives or sharp tools like awls. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z The cyclotron was about to secure an international reputation as an indispensable tool of nuclear science. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z It was an artistic tool, an infinite nothing that ushered in the great Renaissance in the visual arts. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z Jennifer had found a tool kit with a hammer and a collection of mismatched nails and was ready to go. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z David managed to find work as a plumber's helper, carrying his tools and assisting him in a number of ways. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z With a little maneuvering, he managed to pull some duct tape from his tool belt and strap the sphere to his chest. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z Those historical inequalities have cast long shadows on the modern world, because the literate societies with metal tools have conquered or exterminated the other societies. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The Stone Age should more accurately be called the Wood Age, because most of the tools used by ancient hunter-gatherers were made of wood. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z She worked on a little smock for Muff’s baby and imagined that Wash was teaching her the tools. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z I loaded all my fishing tools up, threw the stringer of fish over Old Flap’s rump, and started riding back to the stable. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z He sat on a big tool chest closed with a padlock. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z Parts of sub-Saharan Africa were divided among small states or chiefdoms with iron tools. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z “How different can it be from fixing a rig? I just need my tools.” Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z When I’d pounded in the last nail and gathered up my tools, I fairly floated across the blooming prairie. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z There’s a smattering of claps and cheers as people rush off to grab their tools of protest. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z Leo wished he could pluck that memory out of his head and shove it in his tool belt. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z I ran over to his dreaded tool chest. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z Mama and Nokomis hung the smoky woven bags of rice and tools and medicines from the willow poles above. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z Nin must have freed them, with her slender tools and miraculous hands, and they’d all gone running into the sunset together. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z She used to carry her garden tools around the yard in it and the bottom is still lined with sunflower seeds. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z New instruments are plain as pikestaffs; new intellectual tools are not. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z We carried all the tools back to the truck and it felt like I was supposed to be there. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z Joe had his own workshop crammed full of tools he had begged, borrowed, stolen, or bought from various friends, enemies, and employers down through the years. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z In the 1920s in the United States, high school girls were given special classes in sewing, cooking, and hygiene, while boys learned woodworking and how to use tools. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z They have caps pulled low on their heads, grease on their faces, lumpy bags that could be full of tools on their backs, and one holds a thermos with a handle. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z But for the majority of my life, I’ve had the communication tools of a little kid on my board. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z He exchanged the Wii controller for a screwdriver from his magic tool belt and tapped the statue’s pedestal. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z Kalckar, however, was obviously cultivated, and Luria hoped that in his civilized, continental company I would learn the necessary tools to do chemical research, without needing to react against the profit-oriented organic chemists. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z Some of them worked in the dark, feeling their way blindly, in cold so fierce their hands froze to the metal tools they held as they made sure their companions were able to fly. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z “Put those tools back in the right order,” she muttered over her shoulder as she left. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z “But you don’t go to a job, make any money? How do you buy things? Like all those tools in the barn? Like”—he waved around the cabin—“all your stuff?” Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z Cloth, metal tools, pottery, and glass were brought as trade goods, though Aborigines never learned to manufacture those items themselves. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z It kept ripping tools, screws, and canvas out of his hands, but finally he constructed a makeshift frame. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z My healing methods are simple, the tools of my new profession few. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z Yet their stone tools were still crude by comparison with modern New Guineans’ polished stone axes and were usually not yet made in standardized diverse shapes, each with a clearly recognizable function. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z They made burning statements with questions, and killing tools out of laughs. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z The little shed was lined to the ceiling with shelves full of nuts and bolts, wires, tools, jars filled with shards of glass and broken bits of sheet metal. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z Owen had always been one for having tools—what he called “gear.” The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z He asked Leo to drill a few extra holes in the bottom of the hull with his power tools, and Leo was happy to oblige. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z We don’t have the tools to handle this situation. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z There were some old rusted tools lying about and some desiccated straw lined the far left corner, but half the roof was either missing or about to fall off. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z At the end of the day, Hugo put down his bucket of tools and sat next to the clock he had been checking. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z He pats the pocket where he’s stashed his new lock-picking tools. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z There's a sharp knife in the tool kit. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z “Rats have no thumbs and therefore cannot do many things that we can. They cannot make tools or weapons. They are masters of destruction, but creation evades them,” said Vikus. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z “But magic is neither good nor evil. It is a tool, like a knife. Is a knife evil? Only if the wielder is evil.” The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z If my father had this space, he’d fill it with tools and boards and a drill press and a lathe and cans and stuff before you could spit twice. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z I think the best we can do is give our young people a chance to make the best decisions possible by providing them with the information and the tools and the support they need. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z The document, created by the Labor Department to commemorate the centennial of the Emancipation Proclamation, certainly also served as another propaganda tool for the US government to improve its image on racial relations. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z Akmon pulled a ratchet wrench from the tool belt and spun it like a noisemaker. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z C.P. would curse and lay down his tools, and attempt to wipe off his hands on the filthy rag he stuffed in his back pocket. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z Whenever the sound of the king’s drum was heard, villagers threw down their tools and ran out to salute him. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z Patria had come in, acting very nervous, stammering about those boxes being full of new tools. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z I push the ridiculous thought away as I head toward the café’s entrance, shifting my thoughts instead to the running checklist of tools in my backpack. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z And what force would be stronger than me and my admittedly underdeveloped upper- body muscles wailing on the trunk with random tools? Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z Calculus is the combination of these two tools, differentiation and integration, in one package. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z “It’s a group in Seattle that gives woodworking classes. They have real tools and—get this—there’s a community garden you and Lola could visit.” The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z Pena had become interested while abroad in using genetics as a historical tool—studying family trees and migrations by examining DNA. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z They returned the next night with better tools. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z The cotton gin meant bigger cotton yields and the iron tools to harvest it, iron horseshoes for the horses tugging the wagons with iron rims and parts that took it to market. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z The types rotated through the exhibits every hour to ease the monotony of pretending to swab the deck, carve hunting tools, and fondle the wooden yams. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z Sefia unfolded the leather case that held the lock picks, her fingers catching on the metal tips of Nin’s most trusted tools. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z With furious concentration he sent for books, instruments, chemicals, all manner of tools and equipment. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z It’s no simple job getting me back to Beauty Base Zero, even with the elaborate arsenal of products, tools, and gadgets Plutarch had the foresight to bring from the Capitol. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z Probably, though we thought not so soon and not so many; a rat has a natural set of tools that monkeys lack: sharp, pointed teeth that never stop growing. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z Natural laws are described with equations, and equations, in a sense, are simply tools where you plug in numbers and get another number out. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z He reached in his tool belt and pulled out a simple mirror the size of a monocle. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z Petey held a bag open, whistled, and his drone tools hovered from their racked positions into the sack. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z They began to auction off the tractors, the trucks and tools. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z Doon buckled his tool belt around his waist and put on his slicker, which, for some reason, smelled like sweaty feet. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z Although “debtor’s prison” is illegal in all states, many states use the threat of probation or parole revocation as a debt-collection tool. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z While Snake dealt with the alarm, Fox and Eagle prepared to neutralize the trip wire, unclipping an electronic circuit board and a variety of tools from their belts. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z “No. That was a joke. Come on, dude. Let’s find those tools.” Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z L’Hôpital’s rule examines 0/0 with tools that were built upon 0/0 to begin with. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z That meant removing any barriers and using any psychological tools at his disposal, such as using nicknames to create a sense of friendship. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z Carting trays of plants, or gardening tools, or bags of topsoil for him. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z Leo patted his waist to make sure his tool belt was still there. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z I found that the philosophers there, centuries ago, had created a tool for their own undoing: an instrument they called the subtle knife. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Leo pulled a Ziploc bag from his tool belt and dug his hand into the lime. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z His three massive rolling tool cabinets - Chico, Harpo and Groucho - took up most of the room. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z A hammer lies on an anvil, but the other tools hang neatly from pegs on the walls. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z It took a couple of trips, but she ended up bringing out the sewing machine, most of the tools from her first class, a square template, and an iron. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z “Chief Taylor,” he said, “is a power tool.” Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z I remembered Papa talking about Stalin confiscating peasants’ land, tools, and animals. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z “From the way that fellow with a tool bag yelled at me outside, I thought there was a lion loose in here.” Mr. Popper's Penguins 1938-09-01T00:00:00Z Alum, lime, oak galls, urine, ashes, tallow, and stale beer — these are the tools of my trade. Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!: Voices from a Medieval Village 2007-07-24T00:00:00Z In those days, proving a mathematical theorem was often as simple as drawing an elegant picture; the tools of ancient Greek mathematics weren’t pencil and paper—they were a straightedge and compasses. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z “We might be all wrong about those Instructions. They could just be about some old Pipeworks tool closet.” The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z All over the room, greasy-looking cans and tools littered the floor. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z He could find nothing of where his fire had been, not a spark, nothing of his shelter, tools, or bed, even the body of the foolbird was gone. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z In the shed where he slept were the tools of the farm and the tools for their repair and maintenance. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z Leo would pull just the right tools from his belt and build something to do the job. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z She could only use patience and self-restraint poor tools when matched against the heartfelt mania of love to which the ancient race was martyred. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z The small, secure weight of tools along his belt, the smell of intermittent rain, and the crystalline brilliance of the clouds at dusk: these are the only times when Volkheimer feels marginally whole. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z With their hands free, they took up tools and beat from the bush their own food and shelter and their own fine business of right and wrong. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z From the doorway, as I chewed, I took in all the tools, so many of them. The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z Later there would also be need for seeds and artificial manures, besides various tools and, finally, the machinery for the windmill. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z He watched Yanomamo work with stone and steel axes and on the basis of these observations came up with a formula to project the time necessary to cut individual trees with both types of tool. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Nearby, garden tools hung on the wall and lay on a long shelf, clippers in four different sizes, shovels, hoes, stiff metal rakes and long-fingered leaf rakes. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z But Nate and Papa figured out that strange new tool pretty quick. I Survived the American Revolution, 1776 2017-08-01T00:00:00Z We had all sorts of maps and secret codes and tools. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z Instead of living in concert with the land, instead of relying on the country for sustenance as the natives did, he attempted to insulate himself from the northern environment with ill-suited military tools and traditions. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z When Congress began looking into the Justice Department, Burns and the attorney general used all their power, all the tools of law enforcement, to thwart the inquiry and obstruct justice. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z Marc Andreessen did not invent the Internet or the World Wide Web, but he certainly played a historic role in helping to bring them alive and make them easily usable tools. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z She gave away Daddy’s clothes, his tools, his hats ... gone to the Goodwill. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z He swung his body out and to the left; then he jumped toward the wall of the Maze, trying to grab another vine; the Grievers vicious tools snapped and clawed at him from behind. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z He was aware again of voices, of the clang of tools around him in the mud-walled courtyard, and the sharp, hot odor of metal mingling with the soft afternoon breeze off the Nile. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z It took me a few hours to clear my tools and other belongings out of the crummy job-site trailer where I’d been squatting. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z “And a waterslide!” said Brown Fur, who was pulling random tools out of Leo’s belt, tossing aside wrenches, hammers, and staple guns. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z He started pulling things out of the pockets of his magic tool belt - copper wire, some bolts, a brass funnel. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z I can hear Dad in our room digging through his tool bag and moving parts around as he gets ready to put together our new bunk bed. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z “Give me the tool belt. I want to see.” The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z Before leaving, he quickly grabbed some tools and beads, which he planned to give to the Indians as a peace offering. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z Pearl wielded the tools with expert hands, levering the side panels into place against the headboard, propping them up on one ankle while she bolted them into place. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z He was tempted to get out his tools and adjust the idle on her carburettor, because that much vibration would make her engine fly apart. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z I'm in my space suit on Mars and I'm navigating with sixteenth-century tools. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z “Power off any tools, folks. It’s your last Keller’s Critique!” he shouts. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z ‘We have not the time or the tools to bury our comrade fitly, or to raise a mound over him. A cairn we might build.’ The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z The ground is littered with tools—wrenches, wire cutters in various sizes, hammers, and a few others that I don’t recognize. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z Men from all over the district brought him tools to mend and to improve. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z Constance writes in response, ‘Rules and schools are tools for fools—I don’t give two mules for rules!’ The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z The workers carried oversized wrenches, cranks, and other tools, and were using them to make adjustments on some unseen apparatus beneath the water’s surface. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z “All he’s got are some tools and stuff—” “Tools?” The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z Kira entered and saw that he was wiping the blades of his tools and putting them away. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Were the reported tools at the site really tools made by humans, or just natural rock shapes? Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Always there is the muted rattling of her father’s tools inside his rucksack and the distant and incessant honking of automobile horns. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z The tools, the sharpening wheel, the wall full of puppets—all glowed warm and cheerful in the cones of amber light. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z Leo had taken the fortune cookie out of his tool belt and turned it in his fingers, wondering what price he would have to pay if he broke it open. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z The nick wasn’t large, but the hatchet was important to him, was his only tool, and he should not have thrown it. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z Why, then, did Copley show Revere at a workbench with his engraving tools spread out before him, holding a teapot as the object of his contemplation and offering it to us for our inspection? History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z From a pocket of his tool belt, Leo produced a piece of white cloth. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z “Complications from that broken hip,” he said matter-of-factly as he held a partially carved wooden duck and a carving tool in his hands. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z After we came down from the trees, we evolved an upright posture; our hands were free; we possessed excellent binocular vision—we had acquired many of the preconditions for making tools. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z We sent photographs of humans from all over the world caring for one another, learning, fabricating tools and art and responding to challenges. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z They even made their own tools and their own paper. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z The lumber and tools lay in a careless heap. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z Leo pulled a hammer from his tool belt. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z Instead of playing volleyball in the sandpit, counselors and satyrs were stockpiling weapons in the tool shed. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z A skilled tool and die maker, my father made replacement parts for broken machines and crafted forms for the glass bottles the company produced. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z “I am a tool in your hand,” he gasped. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z Like the simplest of human tools—hammer, scythe, bellows, ladder, scissors—the function of the molecule can be entirely comprehended from its structure. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z There were needles of all sizes and cutting tools laid neatly in a row. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z William Wise had set up a workbench for him and had finished the tool of hardened iron. The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z Rather than assisting in our stated goals—productivity, creativity, long-term thought—the tools can undermine those crucial aims. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z The robot was sent to fetch tools; Tendai hammered plywood over the hole and broken window. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z She clumped back to the workbench, sat down hard, and began selecting tools. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z Sheryl hands me something else—a tool belt—but in the pockets, pretty flowers and ribbons poke out in soft colors. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z The head of research for Sesame Street in the early years was a psychologist from Oregon, Ed Palmer, whose specialty was the use of television as a teaching tool. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z I changed to a fresh tool and went at it again. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z But he soon became interested in something else and disappeared, leaving the tools lying around all over the bathroom floor. Stuart Little 1945-10-17T00:00:00Z “Unity is our tool. We are not fighting for ourselves but for Germany.” Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z “Oh. I do,” Velia said, reaching into her pocket and unfolding a blade out of a complicated gadget that looked like twenty tiny tools in one. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z Gotta be exactly right, and there it is, the perfect keg, hiding behind the tool chest. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z It was simultaneously leading to tools that would make humans so much more powerful, and at the same time, it was making humans seem less powerful, certainly slower, than they’d ever been. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z The procedure doc we sent has instructions for carrying out each of these steps with tools you have on hand. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Gardens are fashioned for many purposes with many different tools, but all are collaborations with natural forces. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z If you’re not feeling well, lay your tools aside and lie down. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z The hole in die plane was still too small to use for anything and now he didn’t have a tool. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z That first day, we were clumsy with our new tools and extracted litde. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z In turn, she set up the apothecary I now use and fitted it with every tool of science known in France today. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z Its emergence was accompanied by the development of a new stone tool technology, now recognised as a defining feature of this species. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z He leads me to the repair area, where a large wooden table is covered with tools and parts and metal bits and oil stains. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z It is an essential tool to have around a virus lab be cause you can use it to make a photograph of a tiny piece of meat and find viruses in the meat. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z “They were like torture tools from the Spanish Inquisition.” Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z But there was always one or another of them riding home for a tool or with a message. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z He sighed, “A bit behind the times, that’s the trouble with him. He clings to matrix mechanics as the all in all, and this problem calls for more powerful mathematical tools. He’s so stubborn.” I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z “First I use this scissor tool right here to chop up the sample like this,” he says. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z “Yes,” he replied calmly with his hands fiddling with the tools in his trouser pockets. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z Or the way a man who always took good care of his tools would print. Lawn Boy Returns 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z Farm tools and sacks of feed lean against the walls. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z Regression analysis, which attempts to relate the values of quantity X to those of quantity Y, is a very important tool in statistics but is frequently misused. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z There was a door in the kitchen, communicating with the forge; I unlocked and unbolted that door, and got a file from among Joe’s tools. Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z I reached the chokecherry and dropped my tools. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z I sneak to what was once the teen stasis room and find a metal calibration tool from the drawer below the ship’s atmospheric monitor, still glowing purple. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z Anya nodded and stumbled back from the railing as tools flew off the walls, rocketing for Sigurd. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z “It’s all been researched and tested. These tools are built specifically for women.” The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z Kang eyed his work critically, then stood and replaced the tools on a shelf. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z Henry left the rest of his tools and stalked out of the house without another word, pausing only to jam his hat onto his head. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z Dillehay told Haynes his experience with stone tools in Arizona was useless in evaluating wooden implements in Peru, and then stomped outside with a supporter. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Stone tools, which many archaeologists regard as the most important artifacts, have no organic carbon and therefore cannot be carbon-dated. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z He borrowed a cup of dried peppers and a block of salt, and he brought in a long working knife, eighteen inches long and heavy, as a small ax, a tool and a weapon. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z Our tools for diminishing flight distance are the knowledge we have of an animal, the food and shelter we provide, the protection we afford. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z The gains in productivity will be staggering for those countries, companies, and individuals who can absorb the new technological tools. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z He pulled out his tool kit and cut and filed the metal, bending it until it finally snapped neatly into place. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z The most important new elements were Japan’s first metal tools, of iron, and its first undisputed full-scale agriculture. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z You also needed a tool to pin the monkey down, because monkeys don’t like needles coming at them. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z He’s standing by the tool bench but not working on nothing. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z I wandered up and down the cotton rows looking for arrowheads or lost tools or anything I could find in the furrows. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z Their skin glowed with sweat in the early-morning sun as they hurled their tools downward and jumped on them with their feet to grind them into the soft earth. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z People accustomed to keeping domesticated animals lacked the conceptual tools to recognize that the Indians were practicing a more distant kind of husbandry of their own. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z I follow him through the maze of old chairs and tables covered with tools to the instruments. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z 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 So I begun wi’ Compeyson, and a poor tool I was in his hands. Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z She feels that way, tool He cleared his throat. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z Silence might be a tool, but it doesn’t look like one he wields comfortably. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z “But I have better tools. Come nearer where we can reach them.” The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z This was a reasonable view, since they were the only tools needed for Copernican astronomy and for Galileo’s two new sciences, the science of projectiles and the science of load-bearing structures. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z The tool for making the holes was sharp, so that part was not difficult. The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z Kids bought game cartridges from him or borrowed his tools to fix their bikes. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z It was to become the most important tool in mathematics. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z Small stone blades and points provided more length of sharp edge per pound of tool than the large stone tools they replaced. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z He set down his tool box and pointed a finger at me. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z Surveyor at work: Teenager George Washington holds a surveying tool while a helper lets out distance-measuring chain and a slave looks on. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z Leen Ellison made her way to the top of the founder’s statue, where she flung what looked like small Frisbees from her tool belt. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z The Nhambiquara were nomadic hunters and gatherers with Stone Age tools. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z There was also the diagnostic tool of pornography. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z He had seen what happened when a contractor failed to do this: ladders careening through windows and walls, tools damaging furniture, paint all over the lawn and driveway. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z Meanwhile Kalypso brought him an auger tool with which he drilled through all his planks, then drove stout pins to bolt them, fitted side by side. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z “I ... I am in your service.. .Cinder made a placating gesture. “You are a tool in my hand,” the shadowed man interrupted gently. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z Different researchers are exploring the different mechanisms, and they are doing so using a growing set of tools. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z But sometimes a tool may have other uses that you don’t know. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z Other villagers, using tools borrowed from the visitors, pounded the rocks to break them up into gravel. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z And then, when the very last box of wires and parts and tools had been loaded into the wagon, Father went up for one last visit to our room. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z She gathered up their tools while Mother struck up a conversation with Mrs. Gates. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z While modern continental peoples included ones dependent on stone tools, as were Polynesians, South America also spawned societies expert in using precious metals, and Eurasians and Africans went on to utilize iron. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The tools in NHS wanted her to run the show, but you weren’t allowed to be the leader of more than two things, and she was already tennis captain and junior class president. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z I watch as he surveys the apocalyptic scene before him, then raises his arms like a conductor and in an instant every power tool goes silent. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z She was using a loud spinning tool called a saw. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z When they walked in, Amanda’s mother was busy with her usual tools: a yellow plastic bucket and a sponge. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Slaves were tools, so maybe the latter, but no one here was a slave. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z For building disability awareness and as an educational tool for success in the performing arts. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z He gathers up his tools and belongings while Julia runs to my cage. The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z And we are entering a phase where more people than ever before in the history of the world are going to have access to these tools—as innovators, as collaborators, and, alas, even as terrorists. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z Looking up from their chores, two men dropped their garden tools and hurried over to open the gate for us. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z We’d lost the distiller setup, the tarp, jugs, paddles, tools, rags, everything but the bloodstained sail, which was too worn and torn to hold water. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z Mrs. Johnson is good with tools from her years of overseeing set design, and plans how to drape the curtains and pavilions that we're sewing. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z Ecologists have since employed more sophisticated theoretical tools to produce new, lower population estimates; ethologist Dale Lott put the number of bison in “primitive America” at twenty-four to twenty- seven million in 2002. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z The cops found the apartment loaded with evidence—fur coats, some jewelry, other small stuff—plus the tools of our trade. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z I took my five fish, my fishing tools, and my pie and started home again. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z Consider what the beavers can build with no tools but their rodent teeth. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z “But I don’t have any tools here, so if you could unbutton your shirt a little, I’ll need to press my ear against your chest.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z He was a farrier, a certified maker of horseshoes, and his trailer carried all the tools of his trade, including nearly one thousand pounds of horseshoes, a gas forge, and a 150-pound anvil. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z All morning Etienne crawls along the attic floor with cables and pliers and tools her fingers do not understand, weaving himself into the center of what she imagines as an intricate electronic net. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z He would be safe in their house on Dart Street, he figured, far from any levees, with two stories, plenty of tools, and food. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z “I don’t know about tools and sandpaper and paint and paintbrushes and...” It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z I run out the door after him, reminding myself I’ll have to return to arrange the tools and press the Start button, but soon I’m caught up in examining the snake’s shiny skin and entrails. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z I knew what tools to equip them with because I’d been exactly where they were. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z “Go straight to your grandfather’s house—take a rest. We will be in as soon as this field is done and the tools collected!” Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Just another little sharp tool, shiny and fine. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z “He’s been out drilling in Smith County. Filling in for a tool pusher who got hurt, I think. I’ve been steering clear as much as I can.” Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z She ran back down the steps, new tool in hand. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z The child pretended to be frightened, but she knew her uncle was a doctor and that the bag contained the tools of his profession. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Within minutes, some twenty-five firemen arrived and, using axes and other tools, cut their way into the firehouse. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z He watched while the deputy, Abel Martinson, went through the tools in his toolbox. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z Henry came back into the living room with his tools. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z And if we make it to the town, maybe we can find a mechanic with solderin’ tools.” Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z Back then, they never had tools to do anything with Somkit’s stash, but now it seemed like his friend had enough supplies to fill a hardware store. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z Without the discovery of as yet unavailable research tools, we will probably never know what the ancient foragers believed or what political dramas they experienced. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z He’d even managed to pack Tyson’s oilcloth with his tools and metal bits, and Annabeth’s cap of invisibility, which made them both feel a lot better. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z Daddy lumbers in, dropping his tool bag in the hallway. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z “The book shows,” Bobby wrote, “that Christianity itself is just a Jewish hoax and one more Jewish tool for their conquest of the world.” Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z One time the factory owner selected my father to attend an advanced course in tool design in the nearby city of Białystok. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z He summoned some breath mints and a pair of welding goggles from his tool belt. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z He put his hand to his waist, where his tool belt should have been. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z The already Croesus-rich white man can’t get another skyscraper hotel finished and opened before all these integration-mad Negroes, who themselves don’t own a tool shed, are booking the swanky new hotel for “cotillions” and “conventions.” The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z Our first priority now was to head back to Phoenix so he could get his hands on the right tools. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z Then, carefully, using the delicate cutting tools she had been given, Kira snipped away the frayed threads. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z They argued nearly every day—about a flaw in the schematics or a tool that had been left at home. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z It speaks in differential, equations, and calculus is the tool that you need to pose and solve these differential equations. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z At the end of every day, the butchers lovingly cleaned and stored their knives and cleavers, the tools of their trade. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z I’m not sure whether it’s a tool or a weapon. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z I set my tools down and walked over to the wagon where Papa stood. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Nights she sat up to work on her tinkering, fixing clocks, pots, hand tools. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z The students wouldn’t listen to me, and I felt like I didn’t have the tools to make anything better. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z For the most part, he continued to use those same tools even as more modern, laborsaving power tools came to market in the 1930s. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z He had worked on the fish spear until it had become more than just a tool. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z There was a smaller wigwam where the tools were stored. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z He was trying for the twentieth time to reach his shoe, which contained a few useful tools for emergencies hidden in its heel, when the door behind him opened. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z “I like to garden on the weekends. You’ll need tools to dig up the treasure. This, too.” The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z Like consent searches, pretext stops are favorite tools of law enforcement in the War on Drugs. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z For instance, the mass production of bronze tools, which was just beginning in the South American Andes in the centuries before A.D. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Kylie hands her the tools she needs and shines a UV light around in my mouth as Dr. Ashworth works from the back to the front. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z Styx ambled up while we were putting the tools away. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z If the men didn’t drown in the rapids, those who survived would be left stranded in the jungle without food, weapons, tools, and shelter. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z Two Native American peoples, the Aztecs and the Incas, ruled over empires with stone tools. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z When I get back to Captain Smith’s cabin, the carpenter John Laydon is sitting out front with his tools, working at making a small wooden chest. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z She laid her tools and specimen containers at the head of the table, counting them off one by one. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z He looked into the tool shed and patted the four-by-four supports. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z A more popular tool of eugenics was forced sterilization, employed on a raft of lost souls who, through misbehavior or misfortune, fell into the hands of state governments. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z In one part of Russia, though, the nobles who owned the land were interested in trying out new tools, new equipment, and new ideas about how to improve the soil. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z He propped himself on his elbows and studied her as she polished her tools, noticing how carefully she lifted and cleaned each one. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z The hafts of the tools were stained black with the sweat of us all, our contributions, black and white alike. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z Mr. Hartsfield did his best to give us a tool to do our work. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z “You’re not the only one with tools, wild card,” she calls up at me. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z It is easy to think that new knowledge comes from new types of apparatus—Galileo’s telescope, Boyle’s air pump, Newton’s prism—not from new intellectual tools. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z “We don’t want to lose you. Think of your talents. Think of all the tools you have. From your hands to your feet.” It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z On a wide shop table, Shin saw a large pair of pincers, a tool used for gripping and carrying pieces of hot metal. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z They used tools and fire, were good hunters, and apparently took care of their sick and infirm. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z For two years we lived in a garage with the gardening tools, old furniture, a tiny black and white TV, and a lone mattress in the center. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z Our passion for learning, evident in the behavior of every toddler, is the tool for our survival. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z With the pliers from Lolo’s tool cabinet, I try to pull off the lock, but it doesn’t budge. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z After a long mystical sleep in which the tools of scientific inquiry lay moldering, the Ionian approach, in some cases transmitted through scholars at the Alexandrian Library, was finally rediscovered. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z After a breakfast of coffee and peanut butter-and-jam sandwiches, Granny took out her gardening tools from the shed, and we started working. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z She pressed into my hand a Book of Hours with a tooled leather cover and gilded pages. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z And I had been used as a tool. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z Some of the Mexican guys saw and started whistling and clapping and everybody set down their tools and came walking up to us and patted us on the back. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z We propped Dad up against a tool chest. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z Dad's tools live in neat racks above his workbench. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z They knew where everything was and stole my tools, even a chain saw and my shotgun that I kept back there. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The room was about the size of the forge back at Camp Half-Blood, with bronze-topped worktables along the walls, and baskets full of ancient metalworking tools. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z “Well, regardless,” said the Colonel, “we’re at a dead end. So one of you think of something to do. Because I’m out of investigative tools.” Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z All were lovingly ornamented with Spanish leather in scarlet, and with gold tooling. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z They believed that excuses were tools of the incompetent and forced every cadet to believe the same. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z It was then that animals were domesticated, agriculture began, and stone tools began to be replaced by metal ones. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z But that Saturday morning at home, as he laid out his tools and the pieces of an antique clock that needed fixing, he could not stop thinking about the monkeys. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z So, too, our personal communications can, if out of control, turn a powerful survival tool into one that works against us. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z Instead, improvisation can be taught to some degree in that it requires a set of tools and prior experiences from which to draw. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z I'll also have to empty the bedroom of all tools and equipment to fold it up any time I need to do an EVA. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z The steward went into the cockpit for a tool, came back with a beer-can opener. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z Her fortune cookie was still in Leo’s tool belt, waiting to be opened. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z Dr. Ashworth secures a mouth prop over me, a hard rubber tool that disables me from closing my mouth. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z It had still grinned when I played the tool and spat upon it, and it was still grinning when Clifton ignored me. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z The structure wasn’t much bigger than Uncle Holt’s tool shed and was put together with about as much care. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z "The others we have planted at the request of relatives who have no tools or who live too far." Seedfolks 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z The new language of science was above all a language which gave the new scientists tools for handling evidence, or, as it was called at the time, experience. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z He simply pulled out the correct tools and quickly cracked open the safe. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z They needed and developed varied tools for growing their crops, fighting, and making art. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The soldiers overturned the tables and chairs, and Amah’s carefully organized box of threads and sewing tools were strewn on the floor, red silk lying on the ground like a pool of blood. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z I shuffled over to the bottom of the comer and gingerly swung one of my tools into the two- inch-thick ice. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Sygaldry, simply put, is a set of tools for channeling forces. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z “Saw this when I was looking for tools. What do you think about putting it at the base of the handlebars?” Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z It became a tool that served me my whole life. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z Further evidence of fixed residence comes from their heavy stone tools, remains of substantial semi-underground houses with signs of remodeling, big village sites of a hundred or more dwellings, and cemeteries. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z She used it to push the broken ceramic of the milk bottles into a mound by the wall, and then she picked up the tools and returned them to their spots. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z Odessa also became tough and quick-fisted, filled with men who hardly needed a high school diploma, much less a college one, to become roughnecks and tool pushers on an oil rig. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z From that same tool rack, a pair of yellow-handled wire cutters hovered on their own propellers, floated just above Petey’s waiting palm, and dropped into his hand. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z And, at home, he was the guy with the tools. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z He stood up and stepped down from the porch onto the desert—for his back yard, except for the shed where he kept his digging tools, teas the desert. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z He raised his arms, and the tools on the wall shuddered as his magic pulled at them. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z On the basis of differences among the tools and other remains found there, scholars have divided up the “cavemen” into several groups, each named after a characteristic site. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z He fished a roll from his tool belt, and in no time Frank had wrapped it around Nike’s head, securing the gag in her mouth. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z The problem was that the ocean was big, Bermuda small, and the navigational tools for dealing with this disparity hopelessly inadequate. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z Like the rest of the world, most of the present Austronesian realm—Taiwan, the Philippines, Indonesia, and many Pacific islands—was originally occupied by hunter-gatherers lacking pottery, polished stone tools, domestic animals, and crops. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z In time she created a whole miniature world of household animals and people engaged in every trade: carpenters, laundresses, cooks, each with his or her own tiny tools and furniture. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z He gave the stonecutter a packet that, when opened, contained stonecutting tools, and set down his lantern. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z There were no tools with which to dig, and besides, burying the dead men would have taken too much time. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z If the commanding officer was coming, the warders on duty would blow a whisde to warn us to pick up our tools. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Joseph had seen the box, which was mostly empty except for some old tools and newspapers. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z Later I would learn that chimpanzees use more objects as tools than any creature except for us. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z Then I reach into our tool drawer and pull a wrench from the pile of dollar-store tools. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z His tools still lay on the worktable: small chisels with which he had been meticulously recarving, reshaping the worn, smooth places on the elaborate staff that the Singer used. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Judge overrides are an incredibly potent political tool. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z Inside, the garage was two walls of floor-to-ceiling tools, oil cans, carpentry and electrician materials. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z Communications tools and networks had become essential to success. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z All that day the rope gangs were kept busy sending down wood, spikes, cordage, tools and repair materials. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z They turned out to be a good tool for learning English. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z Her tools to create...well...her whole world. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z Soon, he too was working busily, passing tools and squirting oil. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z When I pulled myself off the cot and wandered outside, I found the tallest Negro man I’d ever seen working on the truck, bent over the motor, tools scattered around his feet. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z “What would anyone do with a tool that turned on him? Look out, your mixture is melting.” The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z When he handed the tools to her, she knew exactly where to put them in the trunk. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z Somewhere there was an actual arsenal, but it was closed off behind successions of sealed mesarthium doors, and anyway, Minya thought knives appropriate tools for butchery. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z She believed mysterious people were trying to kill her with alien sound wave machines, so she would sleep in a tool shed to hide herself. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z Without human inventiveness, all of us today would still be cutting our meat with stone tools and eating it raw, like our ancestors of a million years ago. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z We will look the other way and deny our public agencies the resources, data, and tools they need to solve problems. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z We always have a lovely display of objects used by chimps as tools. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z Cade wore a nylon backpack carrying some water bottles, tobacco, a flashlight, candy bars, a few tools, and our phones. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z They collected some old boxes and built a fire in the floor and he found some tools and emptied out the cart and sat working on the wheel. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z He slipped his keys back into his tool belt and headed for the mess hall. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z He observed her for any kind of mistake, any jerkiness with the tools. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z For the moment we stand amazed at having created a tool that can peer directly into the blazing heart of the Sun. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Kenyon doubted it; he could not conceive of ever wanting to waste an hour on any girl that might be spent with guns, horses, tools, machinery, even a book. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z An abacus is a physical tool for performing mental work. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z And I had helped, had been a tool. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z Leo pulled a calculator out of his tool belt and punched in some numbers. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z “It is your skill, not the tools, that make you master,” Amah said. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z They got a shiny little set a tools they use, sharp as witches’ fingernails, tidy and laid out neat, like the picks on a dentist tray. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z The vials and collection tools would’ve intimidated me before the hundreds of years of downloads. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z At Base Camp he pored over reams of computer printouts detailing logistical minutiae: menus, spare parts, tools, medicines, communications hardware, load-hauling schedules, yak availability. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z Knowing I only have one shot to get it right with this tool, I wrap the cord around my shoulder, position the circular saw between Noah’s shoulder and my own, and turn on the power. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z In Galileo’s view the intellectual tools provided by geometry were the only tools required by a scientist. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Our house was filled with stuff: papers, books, tools, lumber, paintings, art supplies, and statues of Venus de Milo painted all different colors. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z Beckendorf had given him some tools and spare parts, and now Tyson spent every night tinkering, though I wasn’t sure how his huge hands could handle such delicate litde pieces. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z Sociologists have frequently observed that governments use punishment primarily as a tool of social control, and thus the extent or severity of punishment is often unrelated to actual crime patterns. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z “Well, you did draw it,” Francis says, shifting her tools to the other counter. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z They’d been tooling through Michigan, headed for New York City, got off the turnpike for gas, got lost on their way back to the highway and had headed into the 7-Eleven for directions. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z Vincent leaves that very day, packing up just what he needs: his painter’s tools, his watercolors, his portfolio with drawings, and some clothes. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z Foods like frijoles and papas, clothing, plows, tools, nails, machetes, ropes, leather goods, baskets, comales for the toasting of tortillas and such, cleaning rags, buckets, and jeans jeans jeans, which have taken over. Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z And watching myself in the mirror now, I see that part of my problem was the tools I was using. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z The researchers realized that the machines people were building—those mechanized tools of productivity, war, and science—were so powerful that they were moving faster than people could keep up. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z Some instruments are both physical and intellectual tools. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Crows are well-known for making and using tools. Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z He had found another implement, another secret tool, to use for any purpose he needed. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z It’s not like I can respond, with the orthodontic tools stuck inside my mouth. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z I can’t pry it open without a tool, so I look back to his makeshift kitchen and find a teaspoon, still sticky, and insert its handle into the crack. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z I carried too much of everything—too much food, too many books, tools enough to assemble a submarine. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z A large number of sports fans, it turned out, refused to believe that a set of statistical tools could help them understand how good a basketball player someone was. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z Worse yet, every Englishman who hammered This illustration showing the tools used to punish and torture slaves appeared in Olaudah Equiano’s autobiography. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z They were creating the most powerful robots and conduits the world had ever seen, things that each year were making the tools of the previous year seem slow by comparison. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z “Well... I suppose it could be a storage room with some special tools in it or something—” A look of surprise came over his face. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z “Probably only garden tools,” I said, while we lifted it together. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z Another forge was built for the production of tools and nails. Cathedral: The Story of Its Construction 1973-09-19T00:00:00Z Even those few older slaves who could no longer labor with cane, no matter how maimed or injured, had to repair tools or nurse the newly wounded. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z I feel the hands that can make art and touch girls—think of all the tools you have. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z Initially, the clay was scratched with pointed tools, which gradually yielded to reed styluses for neatly pressing a mark into the tablet. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z They landed with no money, no equipment, no tools, no credit, and particularly with no knowledge of the new country and no technique for using it. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z The tools and the wheelbarrow were borrowed from several different families. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z She looked around, hoping to see someone with these tools in their hands, to see how they were using them. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z “You should have seen the veterinarian tools she used on me,” I said, wide-eyed. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z Wash packed up his tools and left a little before sunset. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z He worked in a garage, so when the bus broke, he pulled out his box of tools. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Behind him, the door to a bedroom stood open, and in that room a litter of machinery and steel tools was strewn upon a desk-top. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z Noah packed up the rest of the supplies— farm tools, several bags of seed, and some rolls of cloth—and tied them down carefully. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z Then he hooked his finger and yanked it down, and all the tools ripped off the walls and shot straight for the house spirit. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z She pulled a tool from her backpack, an arm-length pole that telescoped out almost to Tall/s height. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z I pull out the calibration tool and jimmy it under the lower edge of the cover. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z He wondered if he could produce a stick of dynamite from his tool belt and do a little discreet demolition; but he figured the caretakers of this place probably wouldn’t approve. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z Around my waist is a utility belt, equipped with a myriad of tools I’m all too familiar with. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z The saddle was just my size with tigers and dragons tooled in swirls. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z The tools to measure such activity are evolving, too. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z They had loaded food, clothes, tools, and utensils in the wheelbarrow, in case they might be able to barter with comforts instead of freedom. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z Delia and Juanita closed the gap in front of me and stood wielding their farming tools before them, ready for the next attack. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z Because these tools are delivered over the Internet and written in standard Web formats, they are accessible to anyone who has an Internet connection and are easily interoperable with any business. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z We assume that a large brain, the use of tools, superior learning abilities and complex social structures are huge advantages. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z I reach for the tools in my belt, grab a metal smoothing rod, and stab him with it. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z She could have helped her father buy seeds and tools for next year’s crop, a couple of new chickens, or maybe that sewing machine for her mother! Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z I crated up Ma’s tinker tools, trying to keep my mind afloat, never giving a settling chance to things like lynchings, drownings, and sheep killings. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z Powell was armed only with a pickax, but his incredible strength could turn that tool into a formidable weapon. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z The front door stood half open and a power tool was being used inside. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z The magnetic screws refused to be coaxed back into their grooves without the proper tool, so Artemis was forced to glue them too. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z The feel of the skate tools in my hand, the rough scratch of the tape, the spin of the freshly Speed Creamed bearings. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z He crossed half dragging the child and went sorting through tools standing in a barrel under the shed roof. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z Unsurprisingly, people with stone implements wanted metal tools as soon as they encountered them—the prospective reduction in workload was staggering. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z My first cut was serviceable, but when I tried to make the interior angled cut, the tool wobbled and jammed. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z “Foot up. Polish some tools. Get the hand feel of them.” Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z It was a common practice for chemists of the time to use the sense of taste as an analytic tool. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z He lifted the breadbox and took out a tiny volume bound in leather, and the gold tooling was almost completely worn away—The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius in English translation. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z Eratosthenes’ only tools were sticks, eyes, feet and brains, plus a taste for experiment. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z He returned her to the starting circle, this time taking away her bucket and tools, which she handed over with evident reluctance. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z At this point, said Furman, the most dangerous tool the Germans had was between the ears of a physicist named Werner Heisenberg. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Just as the telescope improved the capacities of the eye, these tools improved the capacities of the mind. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z It was the only way to talk to him, not with words, but with hard work and the feel of old tools, and with fat bulbs buried and waiting deep in the rich soil. How I Live Now 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z Minho seemed to think nothing of it, throwing it to one of the other Runners, who went and put it back in the tool shed near the Gardens. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z But all I think is this: Wrong tool for the job. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z Food was in short supply and so was everything else, and we could sell anything we could get our hands on—cloth, farming tools, wheat, sugar, rum, anything at all. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Hugo wiped his eyes and picked up his bucket of tools. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z Lolo’s old black tool cabinet sits dusty in the corner, as tall as I am. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z Which is why, instead of giving into the god-awful throbbing pain in my right shoulder, I channel it—using the pain as a tool to sharpen my focus. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z Gradually, the forms of the signs became more abstract, especially when the pointed writing tools were replaced by reed styluses. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Then there are new islands of capital conquest: factories in the Middle West, food-processing plants, tool and die works, lumber and pulp. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z I lay my tools on the ground and wipe my hands on my slops. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z They were given a tool for joint interactive planning. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z After we had finished eating, my uncle showed me his carpentry tools and his worktable, which was outside, occupying most of the little yard. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z Then, next to these, we found the real treasure: the old man’s tools. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z “Absolutely. As a matter of fact, we’ll use this test as a learning tool to study for the real competition. But anyone is free to see the test and check their responses.” Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z He jerked his head, indicating the old coal shed at the back of the property where Mamita's gardener, Florentino, kept his tools. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z Several of the tools used in this process, such as the stone reaping knives and grindstones, were similar to the tools independently invented in the Fertile Crescent for processing seeds of other wild grasses. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z "But she was a tool and spy of my stepmother's. I am very glad they should beat her." The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z He showed them his carpentry tools, and whittled them each a little wooden spoon. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z The same businesses that create new seeds provide farmers with the tools and fertilizer they need to grow lots of corn. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z To maintain power in the face of the country’s rising and restless black majority, the government realized they needed a newer and more robust set of tools. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z “To be born into privilege,” she said, “is to be given the tools to replicate that privilege.” Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z They had a tool or a weapon that is also nearly gone, or perhaps it is only dormant for a while. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z In the seventeenth century they acquired steel tools, and used them to make the return journey from seminomadic hunter-gatherers to agriculturalists who lived in more or less permanent villages. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z You need a tool to help you see it, but that third dimension is there, too tiny to see under normal conditions. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z “You know how to use it as an intercom. But do you know how to use it as an observation tool?” Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z We must learn the science and technology that provide the only conceivable tools for our survival. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z The locked enclosure over the latch should be easy enough to crack open with the right tool. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z He set out, visiting the work sites, tying down ladders, packing up tools, brushes, loose tiles, Sheetrock. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z The graph represents a powerful new tool for thinking. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z They were carrying locksmith tools, electronic surveillance equipment, and, between them, fifty-three crisp, sequentially numbered hundred-dollar bills. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z The carved eyes gazed at him with such a reproachful stare that the stonecutter set down his tools. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z He found a large rock he could use as an anvil base, and he pulled nails from his tool belt until he had enough to melt into a plate for a hammering surface. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z Archimedes studied three elementary tools that could be used to move weights: the lever, the pulley and the screw. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z He’s not someone who keeps power tools in the basement or shakes off work stress by making a risotto or trimming hedges. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z He held the body open for her and clamped blood vessels, handing her tools when she asked for them. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z “Not you tool” She trudged off with Chris at her heels. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z Just like algebra and calculus, these tools and these values represent acquisitions which are too powerful to be discarded, and which remain not as museum pieces but are in constant use. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Regression analysis is the tool that enables an economist to sort out these huge piles of data. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z We knew that because he was working on his car, throwing tools around the garage, and he didn’t say anything as we walked into the house, even after my mom said, “Salaam,” three times. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z His dialect was strong, and he used many names of people, places, customs, tools, that I did not know the meaning of, so I seldom caught more than the drift of his reminiscences. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z His hands were constantly in motion, pulling tools from his belt, working controls, tinkering with his beloved Archimedes sphere. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z But he just winked and went back to scraping with his little scraping tool. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z We have cots, the table and chairs we acquired in Kinshasa, a collection of agriculture books and teaching tools from Bikoki, my ancient suitcase of family treasures salvaged from Kilanga. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z “You know how to handle these tools,” Wash said. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z The nurses are busy preparing silver trays of tools, bandages, and alcohol bottles. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Back at the edge of the small stream he had crossed, Matty found what he needed as a tool: a bit of rock with a sharp edge. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z If economics is a science primarily concerned with incentives, it is also—fortunately—a science with statistical tools to measure how people respond to those incentives. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z Eril-Fane explained its properties to them—its imperviousness to everything, all heat, all tools. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z Extra clothes, books, scientific instruments and specimens, chess sets, flags, lanterns, tools, sewing kits, lucky talismans, razors, barometers, combs, scissors, playing cards, dishes, silverware, photographs—each man added to the heap. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z “And I’m talking about you tool” the colonel declared, whirling to rage at Yossarian. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z Three trunks were stacked against the far wall; there was an old wheelbarrow, garden tools, a coil of rope. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z He climbed up the metal steps to the top of the substructure, an elevated base upon which sat the draw works and the doghouse for the roustabouts and the tool pushers. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z They invented new tools such as stone scythes for harvesting wild wheat, and stone pestles and mortars to grind it. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z “Not only are we using the tools of persuasion—but we’ve got to use the tools of coercion.” Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z She could make animal snares and lash together tools or thatching grass. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z His view of the law was broad rather than narrow, for he believed that it was a tool that could be used to change society. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z She figured they’d have to walk part of the way anyway, and she wanted to have some tools for camping. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z Partly, it was because he believed that the hand tools gave him more precise control over the fine details of the work. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z I got my tool kit and started poking around. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Once it was discovered, cooking became one of the most important tools of the human omnivore. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z Miranda whined to the girls about how Gibbler dragged her around in the back of his Packard whenever he went to check out a strike or stare down an unproductive tool pusher. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z Partly, it was because he could not abide the noise that power tools made. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z He set Ma’s rocker back up then collected all her knitting tools and put ’em back in the basket. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z Most of the room was filled with workbenches and tables and sets of tools and weapons. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z With two Manchester graduate assistants, Hans Geiger and Ernest Marsden, he set about finding one, using alpha particles as his tools. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z A car's odometer comes from the factory set at 00000, though by the time the dealer’s done tooling around town, it’s probably got a few more miles on it. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z Behind crates and cabinets and peg-boards of tools, the walls are bare granite. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z Instead, I tried to keep up in all my other subjects and help Ma shine up her tinker tools. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z One afternoon, she walked out of the school alone and saw him packing up his tools under one of the naked trees in front of the superintendent’s house. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z Our hands evolved to grip tools, all right—including our own. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z But his hand, as though it had a will of its own, slipped the cookie into his tool belt. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z We stood apart in a knot and watched them strap on their lamps and gather their tools, and then a bell would ring, a warning to get in the cage. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z She owns a successful business and has a massive collection of power tools. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z I came over and handed him a hammer from the tool chest we always carried with us, and he got busy. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z “I’ll get it open. I brought along a few tools—burglar’s tools, you might say—in my back pack. Should I climb up the stand? No. It looks slippery. I think I’ll try the curtain.” Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z And after we got out, put all the tools away, my gramps’s friend came and gave us more money. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z At least to a tormented Petey, in overalls with a bulky tool belt on his waist, whom Donny Boy held in a headlock at the moment the picture was snapped. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z Using large tools like chainsaws and weed whackers is likely out for me. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z I recognized it as the strange watering can tool that Cray-Cray used every year at the pep rally. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z The gleaming steel instruments in the examination room looked like tools Terrance Randall might have ordered from the blacksmith for sinister purposes. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z They are both aspects of calculus, a scientific tool far more powerful than anything ever seen before. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z There were displays of power looms, rope-making lathes, marine engines, hydraulic presses, steam machines, and other tools, machines, and crafts from around the world. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Nancy handed tools to him, and she reached her fingers inside the monkey to tie off blood vessels and mop up excess blood with small sponges. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z “Til have it ready in little or no time,” he said, bustling and packing away his tools. The Awakening 1899-01-01T00:00:00Z Then, pointing to her luscious red hair, which was in a high, bouncy ponytail, the kind I could never pull off, she said, “Do you think all this magic happens without some serious tools?” From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z Akmon was wearing Leo’s tool belt—he was so close that Leo had to resist the urge to lunge for it. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z Mariequita sat near by, dangling her legs, watching him work, and handing him nails from the tool box. The Awakening 1899-01-01T00:00:00Z It started with that dipper, then it was a switch cut from that same birch, then I grew tired of tools. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z I can’t say how many times this tool has been wielded against me, in a variety of forms. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z The inventors hoped that if they improved their device, it would be a valuable tool for all surgeons. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z Our mission was designed knowing that anything might need maintenance, so I have plenty of tools. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z In order to help us perceive a character’s feelings or motivations, Wagner needed tools at his fingertips to be able to enrich and layer the music. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z Close-ups capture different hands gripped around tools, and sawdust flying like confetti. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z In June he’d gotten himself an artist s tool called a perspective frame, but then he had to go into the hospital. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z The grass in front of the pool is covered in yard rakes and hand tools. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z I put down the tools, take off the goggles, the mask, the plastic suit. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z “You’re another one of the white man’s tools sent to spy!” he accused me sharply. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z One shelf held nothing but writing tools: quills, parchment, bottles of ink, and several boxes with probably more of the same inside. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z Five years ago, Uncle Arthur arrived unannounced wearing a tool belt and armed with a power drill. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z I make some, wrap my hands around the warm cup, carry it to the workbench, clearing a space for my elbows among the wire and sharp-edged tools. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z The fireplace, the beams undergirding the loft, the tools dangling off nails on the walls. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z “When you have the right moves and the cool tools, women just melt in your arms. I’m going to try to talk her into parking out at the beach.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z The UN also brought us tools, blankets, and secondhand clothing. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z Apart from large-scale cave art, the people of the Upper Paleolithic also produced small, hand-sized drawings and carvings in bone, horn, or stone, skillfully cut by means of flint tools. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z “Thanks,” she says, as we put the tools away in their respective places in the garage. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z Even if I got everyone in this entire complex to join me here with garden tools, I don't think we could make it happen. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z The tools looked clean and well-oiled, saws, hammers, pliers, axes, mallets, planes, drills, screwdrivers, a level. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z Using a metal tool, the girl pointed to a discolored, eyeless egg. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z That is, they still used stone tools similar to those superseded in Europe by metal tools thousands of years ago, and they dwelt in villages not organized under any centralized political authority. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z With any luck, the territory would contain flint, jasper, or chalcedony, the raw material for spear points, meat scrapers, and other hunting tools. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z One day he was sent across the street, to Lipowa Street 4, to the enamelware factory where he sometimes had repaired tools and equipment before the war. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z They are tools that exist as notations on the page and in my mind; like the abacus, they transform the way I operate on numbers. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Spare tire, jumper cables, tools, a blanket—Dad’s emergency kit that he never used because they never drove anywhere at home. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z We could cut through the locks, of course, or even through the sheet metal walls; we have the tools for that. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z But none of those rocks at the base of the cliff is an obviously human-made tool, as are Clovis points and Cro-Magnon tools. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z “Now, we all know what this is. This little tool is magical and can alter the past and erase your mistakes.” Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z Spoon Man traveled all over North Carolina, plying curios and cookware, tools and trinkets—and news. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z "All right," he said, picking up several tools. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z How to clean a tool, properly, so that no trace of what had touched it remained. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z She liked the stone walls and wood beams that had been shaped by human hands and tools instead of by the mind of Skathis. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z “But with Dad’s tools, I can fix that.” On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Arabic numerals are tools which enable me to add and subtract, multiply and divide on a piece of paper far more fluently than I could with Roman numerals. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z No art, bone tool, or anything else has come down to us from early Homo sapiens except for their skeletal remains, plus those crude stone tools. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z I reached out and touched the end of a muddy wooden stick, a digging tool of some kind, sitting next to a small wooden hoe beside me on the boat. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z He wrestled with the back seat to get the tools. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z His friend threw our bags in the shed we’re in now and handed me and Rondell a bunch of work tools. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z Fernando carries out a framing nailer and an orbital sander and other tools with gears and handles and sharp edges. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z The evidence includes ground stone tools, pottery, bones of domestic pigs, and crop remains. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z With his entrenching tool, which weighed 5 pounds, he began digging a hole in the earth. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z And how, each time, Blancaflor was the one who gave the prince the tools he needed to complete his challenge. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z Beside him in the buggy was a satchel in which were his working clothes and tools. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z Bogrod submitted once more to his will, his befuddled expression changing to one of polite indifference, as Ron hurried to pick up the leather bag of metal tools. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z Fortunately, after applying his extensive tool kit and considerable ingenuity to the problem, Rob managed to rivet together a special strap that made the crampons work. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z I think he knew I needed the comfort of his presence because he sometimes let me go along with him and carry his tools. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z Stepping into the boat light as a cat Ged set straight the warped boards and rotten pegs, working both with tools and incantations, as he had used to do with Pechvarry in Low Torning. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z Min used sharp tools with points of various sizes. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z “No. It becomes a more accurate and deadly tool for a skilled swordsman. In the wrong hands, it would likely injure or kill the bearer.” The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z The naming of those tools—the figures and tropes—is what gives rhetoric its sometimes opaque-seeming technical vocabulary. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z I left her in a shack behind the house, where the Dominican kept his tools. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z There was a cooking fire, the flames represented by shards of red glass; a small, roughly made bench; and assorted tools, gourds, and shells. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z And they had given him tools of all sorts, some he had not known of before. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Gary approached the young man behind the counter and pulled a fat, intricately tooled wallet from his pocket. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z “I didn’t want to carry that!' He pointed at a long black duffel bag in the backseat. “Are those the tools you’re going to use to kill and dismember me?” We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z What is striking about these intellectual tools and cultural values is that they have proved to have a history quite unlike that of paradigms. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z A sliver of palm fiber off the torch handle made a poor enough engraving tool, but it was all he had. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z Much like the Gothic architecture that shaped the buildings for which it was written, isorhythm did not last as a tool in the organisation of music. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z Lawrence had invented a superb instrument for smashing atoms, but while he was preoccupied with making the tool better, the quintessential small-science lab had stolen the prize from under his nose. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z His coat was white and his mittens were white, and he did not carry a gun on his back, but in his hands he had shining sharp tools with which he carved the pictures. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z In the next few millennia the wheel and the metal tool sprang up in the same area. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Like mainland Aborigines, they were hunter-gatherers without metal tools. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Rhetoric, as cannot be repeated too often, is the imperfect tool of an imperfect world. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z The rover will also need to carry all my food, water, and solar cells, my extra battery, my tools, some spare parts, and Pathfinder. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z The presumption has been, either that thinking comes naturally, or that the required intellectual tools for thinking about natural science had all been developed by the ancient Greeks. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z “Make sure the pies in the oven don’t burn,” the woman told me, handing me a long, shovellike wooden tool. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z She had Mama bring her some plaster and tools. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Instead, using the best tools they have and all the knowledge that they can gather, they work to create future environments. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Mystified, Angel heard the sound of the tools on the metal frame of the small bed. Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z He caught glimpses of Min’s work—a fine teapot on a shelf, an inscribed jar that held cooking tools. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z Without the hatchet he had nothing—no fire, no tools, no weapons—he was nothing. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z He started to work, furiously tinkering with the sphere, pulling out anything he thought would help from his magic tool belt: a drop cloth, metal extenders, some string and grommets. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z Yet they were themselves not toys; they were made of the finest tempered steel, like the tools of a watchmaker or a dentist. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z They also carried food, flat wood, guns and powder, tools, clothing, and even water. In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z Guns, ammo, knives, and an assortment of other tactical tools, some of which I don’t even recognize. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z “Dad, the last time we went to Dr. Randolph you said he wasn’t the sharpest tool in the shed anymore.” A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z Leo pulled a tiny screwdriver from his tool belt. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z He just listened and doled out the eating tools. Ghost 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z He showed Robin how to hold the sharp tool and how carefully he must work so that it wouldn’t go through the wood entirely. The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z “I’m glad someone in your group is smart. The pinecone is a fearsome tool of destruction! I was a demigod myself in the first Giant War, you know. The son of Jupiter!” The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z Many years ago, the psychologist Norman R. F. Maier hung two long ropes from the ceiling of a room that was filled with all kinds of different tools, objects, and furniture. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z “Well, Beto’s set on fixing it. I told him he could use my tools. He can’t make it any more broke, right?” Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z For example, the Tasmanian archaeological record documents the disappearance of fishing, and of awls, needles, and other bone tools, around 1500 B.C. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The big difference is that all these management tools, data, or even photos are not stored on your computer as software. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z As long as Homo erectus did not undergo further genetic alterations, its stone tools remained roughly the same—for close to 2 million years! Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Could you use those tools to trisect an angle? Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z I got the first cut, but again, when I started cutting the interior angle, the bar worked its way out of the jig, and the tool dug in and broke. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z A brown leather tool belt hangs low on his waist. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z David and I worked in the tool and die room with our father. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z They are more like perfectly tooled but crazy little machines, and we violate science when we try to read human meanings in their arrangements. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z He went to a shelf above the table where he kept his tools and took down a piece of light-colored pine small enough to fit into the palm of his hand. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z When I enter their cabin, John is packing up his carpentry tools. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z The boards that he had crafted so carefully were neatly stacked, but his tools were scattered about, and it looked from the graying clouds as if rain was on the way. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z He also understood that the radio was a powerful political tool because it brought his voice into the homes of ordinary people, making them feel close and connected to him. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z We weren’t equipped for it, we didn’t have the tools or the materials, and we weren’t a building crew, but without a runway, RAF Maidsend was defenseless. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z He tossed them into his pocket and hurriedly replaced Jordan’s tools just as Monique and Jordan emerged from their bedroom. Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z He thought it was overused, a tool for players who couldn’t draw properly. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z His treasures were his tools, and the swords and knives he made. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z “Wonderful tools. Could be put to many uses.” Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z It has the sharpest cutting edge of any tool on earth. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z In place of pencil and paper, the main working tools were a set of molecular models superficially resembling the toys of preschool children. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z For them it was a tool to reckon the passage of the days and to maintain plots of land. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z “They are much simpler tools than the Whisperer, hardly more sophisticated than metal brooms. Otherwise my Executives would be unable to operate them.” The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z On impulse I grabbed up the tools and rolled under the bed. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z “So if we’re spatulas, what does that make you? Safety scissors? Or are you just a couple of tools?” Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z “One thing’s for sure, give him tools, and this young man can fix up anything you can find and build anything you can think of. I can vouch for that.” Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z Stevens settled in the cart with the tools. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z And then I am awake in the tool factory, and I know I have just screamed, but no one has heard me in the racket. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z Although those Africans of 100,000 years ago had more modern skeletons than did their Neanderthal contemporaries, they made essentially the same crude stone tools as Neanderthals, still lacking standardized shapes. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z It took all of his effort not to reach in his tool belt, grab a mallet and whop Hazel and Frank upside their heads. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z He gestured, and she could see a large table with his carving tools and scraps of wood. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z One whole wall is lined with big power tools. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z Midday on July 12, 1904 twenty-eight thousand men and women employed by meatpacking companies throughout the Stock Yard put away their tools and walked off the job. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z I beam a field of stars against a dark blue sheet I hang off Dad’s tool pegboard. Shine! 2019-11-05T00:00:00Z About nine-thirty I sneaked out of bed, went to the tool house, and took a hatchet out I put it under the couch. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z I got a cutting tool and put it in the special jig he had fashioned for our nozzles. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z He spoke mostly of the world of tools and objects when he had to speak at all. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z Blue Team’s commanders were also given a tool called Effects-Based Operations, which directed them to think beyond the conventional military method of targeting and destroying an adversary’s military assets. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z He would have his hands full of tools or be carrying Sounder’s body. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z By touch, he finds his case filled with woodworking tools. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z The nurse takes the silver tray of tools and pours alcohol into a white plastic bowl. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z All the tools and spare timber were gathered up and the roadway was swept. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z When we’re done and his tools are put away, he walks me out. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z It was bound in dark brown tooled leather, and the frontispiece was a painting of a fairy woman, elegant and pale, wearing a beautiful golden gown. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Fin was seated on a stool at her workbench, mending a gardening tool. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z The man sold provisions, dry goods, and farming tools. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z Spare parts, tools, boxes full of supplies—everything from soap to toilet paper. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z It is not difficult to show this using a tool from probability theory called an expectation, which is a measure of how much we expect each envelope to be worth. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z Turner and Lizzie stood by the grave as he gathered his tools and left, shaking his head. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z Before this observation, scientists had thought that only humans could make tools. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z He listed how many people knew anything about machine tools. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z He checked the time on the glass clocks against the time on his uncle’s railroad watch, which he kept with his tools and wound diligendy every morning. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z He started pitching his tools back into the toolbox. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z Using fairly straightforward tools of astronomy you can easily enough determine that the bulbs are of equal brightness and that one is, say, 50 percent more distant than the other. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z These maps were originally intended as tools for sailors, not assertions of European supremacy; they look like ideological statements only to people who do not use them for navigation. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z As the only tool for doing this was Aravis's scimitar, one of the packs had to be undone again in order to get it out. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z Not too long after, when Patria had come with her request to hide some boxes, Dedd had understood what tools were inside them. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z One main tool for shaping nature was fire. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z I had a box of matches with me, too—all my usual firemaking tools. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z Rashid Uncle stopped and lowered his tool and small piece of wood. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z “Don’t be scared. Trust in the Holy Beings. They wouldn’t put your naliyazhi in danger without the tools and means to protect himself. He’s no longer a baby. He’s growing into a man.” Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z Immediately Holmes deployed his tools of seduction, his soothing voice and touch and frank blue gaze. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z “We have to check that your wands are fully functional, no problems, you know, as they’re your most important tools in the tasks ahead,” said Bagman. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z The lights of the cars tooling up the ramp blinded us as we shuffled backwards through the snow that had started falling, like, two minutes after we’d left Delaney’s in our lightweight concert garb. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z Using the site’s graphics tools, she reconstructed her body, but most of her wish list focused on her face, new nose, chin, cheekbones. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z “Forget can be a powerful tool for distracting an adversary. It can leave them feeling scorched and barren. Whoever wears this will forget something important.” Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z Those tools are set out in more detail in the chapters that follow. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z If you examine a selection of the countless images available of Native people and their material culture, you would see that most focus on clothing, tools, weapons, and homes. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z We drilled with his power tools and attached the sides with plastic fasteners. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z There’s my father’s soga hanging on the wall, his farm tools, my mother’s broom, the eucalyptus stick she smacked me with when I misbehaved. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z He used his entrenching tool like an ax, slashing, feeling both love and hate, and then later, when it was full dark, he sat at the bottom of his foxhole and wept. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z It had been specially tooled for a Kenyan ivory hunter, and had the range and rapid fire capacity of a Kalashnikov. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z Josh handed up more ornaments with an extended pincer tool, and I snagged them on the branches. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z She spotted the shop immediately—a small hut in a yard littered with rickshaw panels, tools, cans of paint, leather benches, and tires. Rickshaw Girl 2007-02-01T00:00:00Z One naughty night, Dedd left Jaimito sleeping heavily after sex and stole out to the far end of the garden to the little shack where she kept the garden tools. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z There was so much she could do for this great hunter now; prepare caribou, catch rabbits, pluck birds, and even make tools with water and the freezing air. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Curious, I watched while Mechtild unlocked the doors to reveal all the tools of an apothecary. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z A tool just at the very moment I had thought myself free. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z In other words, consent searches are valuable tools for the police only because hardly anyone dares to say no. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z They began to throw down their tools and leave the rubble mounds. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z At the end of the hallway was a room full of people, some of them sitting on benches and pulling on knee-high rubber boots, some struggling into their slickers, some buckling on tool belts. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z But it is by far the best tool we have, self-correcting, ongoing, applicable to everything. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Children’s knowledge of how to use a tool could be a result of their experience with the tool; alternatively, it could be a result of their perceiving the tool’s affordances from shape and manipulability cues. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z His fingers, unlike Baba’s, were clumsy around tools, especially ones as delicate as a protractor, compass, or ruler. Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z As your company uses the online business tools offered by Salesforce.com to make your work flow, your business process team may come up with a customized solution that works really well for you and your clients. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z “I’m sorry I took you out to a bar that got busted. I feel like a tool.” Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z When I packed for this road trip, I made sure to bring all my kits and tools. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Here was a tool he could use, a process that could reduce the mysterious ways of politics to scientific testing and evaluation. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z How much do I trust my tools and my perceptions? The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z And my father’s constant preaching about how schools were, like Christianity, simply another white man’s tool of keeping the black man down didn’t help much either. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z With her garden tools she turned to go outdoors. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z It was the perfect tool for the Scientific Revolution. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z As he walked away, I saw the tool clutched in his fist. Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z Photography, at its heart, was about documentation, and he soon understood that for Mia photography was simply a tool, which she used as a painter might use a brush or a knife. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z I plunk the tools into the sterilizing machine, which will kill the germs so the tools will be ready to use on the next patient. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z The custodian takes a large metal clipper from his tool belt and prepares to cut the lock. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z And what accounts for the failure of Aboriginal Australians to pass beyond the stage of hunter-gatherers with stone tools? Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Despite calculus’s shaky foundations, by the end of the eighteenth century, mathematicians all over Europe were having stunning successes with the new tool. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z But at last he put it in his pocket, took a drill from his tool bag, and made five small holes in a neat pattern on the refrigerator door. Mr. Popper's Penguins 1938-09-01T00:00:00Z She was carrying a tool bag of coarse brown canvas, such as he had sometimes seen her carrying to and fro at the Ministry. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z “All the rhetorician’s rules,” wrote Samuel Butler, “teach but the naming of his tools.” Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z Faber opened the bedroom door and led Montag into a small chamber where stood a table upon which a number of metal tools lay among a welter of microscopic wire-hairs, tiny coils, bobbins, and crystals. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z If only we had some true friends, some who saw us as more than convenient tools for shaping their own desires! Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z On Sunday evening, Mr. Read showed Nat his workbench, his tools, and his books. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z “Filthy animals! They took all our food and even your father’s watchmaking tools.” Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z And I knew where Elnora kept the key to the castle apothecary, which held the other ingredients and tools I would need to make the deathlike potion. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z "You turned the greatest weapon of all creation into a gardening tool?" City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z His hands curled a little, remembering the feel of his tools. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z Then with a planing tool, he carefully smoothed away the surface of the design so that the colored clay was completely level with the body of the vase itself. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z He started forward to take her in his arms, but she disengaged herself rather hurriedly, partly because she was still holding the tool bag. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z “We need to search the closets. Maybe they have special tools.” Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z China had had writing for at least 900 years, and metal tools for at least 1,500 years, and had just invented the world’s first cast-iron production. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The increasingly sophisticated tools of neuroscience have something pointed to say about that. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z Sister Martha kept them unlocked on purpose: she had no tools worth stealing, she said, and it was too much trouble to fiddle with a key all the time. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z That landscape testifies to the population densities achieved in the highlands by farmers with stone tools. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Inside, the walls were decorated with real prospecting tools. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z Mollie saw workers—tool dressers, rope chokers, mule peelers, gang pushers—toiling furiously. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z Lawrence knew the Cavendish delegates were skeptical not only of his deuton theory but also of the cyclotron itself as a laboratory tool. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Intellectual tools, by contrast, manipulate ideas, not the world. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z It is a powerful—if limited—tool that uses statistical techniques to identify otherwise elusive correlations. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z The Nuremberg Rally of 1934 was itself an anthem to power and a carefully designed tool for further concentrating and advancing it. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z He had brought no surgeon’s tools for a social night at the theater. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Maybe it will even be a place where I trade my guns and knives for more productive tools, screwdrivers and nails and shovels. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z The great forward gallop of industrial capitalism has brought new tasks for the rhetorician’s tool kit, too. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z Inside were tools and cutting sand, no more. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z Henrietta was a black woman born of slavery and sharecropping who fled north for prosperity, only to have her cells used as tools by white scientists without her consent. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z Students absorb the fundamental music materials for their “tool box” to be used in more complex activities in the future. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z He dug on his knees with an entrenching tool while the man beside him threw up in the sand before lying down with his helmet across his face and fainting. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z “I’d rather have the sun, but at least we still have some light,” Grandma said, using a tool to set the silver-headed arrow to the string of her undersized crossbow and pull it into position. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z Géricault used the full range of painter’s tools—color, composition, mood, and lighting—to convey his theme of man’s struggle against nature. The Annotated Mona Lisa 1992-06-01T00:00:00Z That jump led to bone tools, single-purpose stone tools, and compound tools. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Met Bong stands up and disappears, only to return moments later with an armful of tools. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z I find the post-hole digger in that mess of tools all leaned up against the wall. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z In short order, I was tooling around the neighborhood with something approaching skill. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z “I am a tool in your hand, Lord Haliax,” Cinder amended as he crumpled, trembling, to his knees. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z “That’s the man who owns this land. The other guy’s the tool pusher,” Gilbert said. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z Meanwhile, in her role of unhappy helper but obedient daughter, Shirley had become quite adept with tools and familiar with the inner workings of the old house. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z So we played the game with our tools: our tennis shoes, two pieces of chalk, and his father’s tape measure. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z A large table occupies that space, covered with tools and scraps of metal and gears and old computer parts and wires. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z ‘Not he! When his tools have done their task he drops them. But you must go dangling after him, dawdling and talking, and riding round twice as far as you needed. “ The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z What he does is make a couple of cuts to see the quality of the meat, and then he uses a little tool to take a sample of the fat content. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z “His jealousy and hatred have been powerful tools. It has kept him obedient. For that I thank you.” The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z They are the tools that gave individuals the power to author, shape, and disseminate information at their fingertips. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z No, this tool sprouted propellers the moment it left Petey’s hand and hovered to a designated spot on a nearby rack. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z And now he didn’t even have his tool belt or his Archimedes sphere. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z Once I do that, I should be able to make a spark just by touching a metal tool. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z As the manicurist unpacked her tools, I pointed to a tube that looked like an accordion. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z He could jury-rig the Archimedes sphere into some sort of flying device, maybe, but only if he had his tool belt—which he didn’t. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z A thesaurus is a commodious tool for any reporter. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z While the dwarfs were hacking and wheezing, he grabbed his tool belt from Akmon, calmly summoned some bungee cords, and tied up the dwarfs. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z Using the few tools they saved, he fashioned two camp stoves, one using the ash chute from the ship’s boilers, and another, smaller one from the ash bucket. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z But this discomfort was worth it because when he gripped the mattock, a digging tool that looked a lot like a spear, his blisters thanked him by not erupting in pain. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z They had no tools to stanch a fire, and no plan at all for what they might do to put out a chemical inferno. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z One wall was crowded with tacked-up plans and schematics; another was piled high with tinkerer junk; the bench TimeStar occupied was littered with snipped wires, and tools, and computer equipment. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z “My tools? I have twenty acres of trees to care for. And I’m a wood-carver. You thought they were weapons?” Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z There were knives and plastic utensils and silverware and kitchen tools in a plastic box. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z In a trance, he put his clothes into a little suitcase, packed some of his tools and his deck of cards. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z I dig into the tool drawer again and find a rubber band. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z Over and over, Maria sank the sharp point of the wood-handled engraving tool, called a burin, into the polished metal, carving up tiny curls of shining copper. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z They were also accused of stealing the household items and tools they possessed, because supposedly such items should belong only to white people. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z That weed-filled yard was littered with balls and tools and shoes. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z Papá and Joe García borrowed money from a savings and loan company to buy a small tractor, tools, wood to build a shed to store them, and an outhouse. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z Lupita looked around her and saw nothing but a spare tire and some tools. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z He lifted his fingers up, and the tools shuddered on the walls. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z “You can be such a tool,” I said. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z We walked across the expanse of what we considered our yard, then through a thin collection of birch to the tool shed. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z Nothing could be in it except tools and cutting sand, as always. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z Galton may have derided the “microscope” of experimental geneticists, but the tool was far more powerful than Galton had presumed, for it could penetrate the outer shell of heredity into the mechanism itself. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z As long as he had his tool belt, Leo Valdez wasn’t going to sit around helplessly watching the Demigod Death Channel. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z In fact, what makes television so powerful, Dr. Anderson notes, is that it uses these attention-capture tools to constantly draw people back into the story, should their top-down focus waver. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z Dozens of power tools hung on the walls. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z In unscrupulous hands I would be a powerful tool. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z My mother had trouble persuading me to carry one because I was a lady, but I now realized that a handkerchief was an invaluable tool for a counterspy—to erase fingerprints, and so forth. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z “If you stood very tall up there, and if you had some tool, you could hit the ceiling and I would hear you.” Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Some dates, such as those for the rise of chiefdoms, are more difficult to infer from the archaeological record than are dates of artifacts like pottery or metal tools. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Ignoring the hammering of his heart and the shaking of his hands, he pulled out his tools and hoped his father would be able to understand that this was what Rashid had to do. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z She was working on her series of superimposed photos, images of tools in the shadows layered over more tools in the shadows. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z But you didn’t get to have your own country named after you for being a tool. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z Monks discovered that the astrolabe, an Arabic invention, was a handy tool for keeping track of time in the evening, helping them keep their prayers on schedule. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z With the obsessive attention to detail that characterized his brand of dogged genius, Rosellini purged his life of all but the most primitive tools, which he fashioned from native materials with his own hands. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z They hardly spoke to one another, except to point to a tool or to a sign of disease in a monkey. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Or were they looking for a practical tool for finding meaning in everyday life? The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z They had no metal tools, no writing, and no weaving. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z At that moment, what they did know was that Simplicio was missing and so was the canoe with ten days’ worth of food and tools. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z School helped give us the tools to change our lives. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z So he handed out clearing tools and hunting weapons to the same men who had been with him during the founding of Macondo. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z It was apparent almost immediately that they weren’t very familiar with the standard tools and techniques of glacier travel. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z There were garden tools standing in the corner. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z The tool sank almost to the handle, and Viola made a terrified bellow. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z A drop of sweat from my forehead splashes on the blade and the knife is just a knife again, just a tool, just a piece of metal in my hand. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z At the very last second he raised his arms to stop the axe and the edge of the tool sliced off three fingers of his right hand. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Yet another type of explanation lists the immediate factors that enabled Europeans to kill or conquer other peoples—especially European guns, infectious diseases, steel tools, and manufactured products. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z You must make do with the tools God has given for the job. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z "Great Rider," the woman said, "my tools and potions are inside the god's house, where the healing powers are strongest." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z “Hey, Dad? I’m off to get the toolbox. You recall the toolbox? Man needs tools to work. Screwdrivers and hammers and stuff. Plenty of tools there, you want to help,” and so on. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z But for Josquin, chordal harmony was too useful a tool in illuminating the text to worry about its effect on the modes. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z They boosted him up, behind the creamy-colored tooled leather saddle. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z All we have to believe with is our senses: the tools we use to perceive the world, our sight, our touch, our memory. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z There were welding tools, soldering irons, and electric drills. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z Thomas set aside the carving tool he had just picked up. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z They washed and packed their tools and walked out into the blazing heat. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z Dialectical materialism seemed to offer both a searchlight illuminating the dark night of racial oppression and a tool that could be used to end it. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The Nazis had embraced genetics as a tool for racial cleansing. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z If the dates are correct, are they really associated with human products, rather than just being a 15,000-year-old lump of charcoal lying next to a stone tool actually made 9,000 years ago? Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z You think about what you might do, start working out which tools you’ll need and whom you can ask for help. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z The problem was not wood so much as the lack of a tool. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z Physical tools enable you to act in the world: a saw cuts through wood, and a hammer drives home nails. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z On the floor beside the door, Ess found a box with old kitchen tools that had become rusty and been retired. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z There had to be some tool, something I could use to pry it open. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z "It's our river tool" the young man counters. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z Secondly, it is a question about intellectual tools: the concept of laws of nature, for example, shapes the sorts of questions scientists ask and the sorts of answers nature provides. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z She tested it by stepping out of her hiding place and into the path of a sailor coming along the deck with a bag of tools. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z By the time of Stepson’s death, scientists had devised numerous tools to detect poison in a corpse. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z Along with intensified food gathering in the last 5,000 years came new types of tools. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z He was making a mental list of tools he might need when a girl’s voice interrupted him: “What are you doing? You blew up my dining table!” The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z Strength is not just a tool for winning, it is necessary for survival. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z He pulled his keys from his tool belt. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z On the other hand, the ultimate explanations—for example, why bronze tools appeared early in parts of Eurasia, late and only locally in the New World, and never in Aboriginal Australia—remain unclear. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Zero became the language of nature and the most important tool in mathematics. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z There were crates and boxes stacked in one corner, and along the wall behind us hung rusted tools. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z Once in a while, Leo’s hands drifted to his tool belt. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z The fortune cookie in his tool belt started to feel heavier. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z Two Helpers had appeared on the path below them, each lugging two buckets full of gardening tools. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z We tossed all our tools down by the tree and got set to start working, and you wouldn’t believe what happened. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z The making of tools is a more complex matter. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z They are put in camps to grow food, make tools, work as porters, and train as soldiers on bases like ours. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Advertising too is a brilliant tool for creating conventional wisdom. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z The electronic bracelet was hidden beneath the bed, along with the tools he had used to remove it. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z My mother and father also adopted this saying as a tool of survival, perhaps as a way of keeping darker thoughts at bay. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z He dashed to the left as Leo pulled a ball-peen hammer from his tool belt and yelled, ‘Hey, Bronze Butt!’ Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z She knew that gaining the vote would give women an important tool to bring about the entire social agenda she envisioned, since her membership and support for her cause were largely female. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z Her needles and ulo, the tools of survival, were all in the pack. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z In the basement she found a jelly jar with a top and carried it out to the carriage house where the tools were kept. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z While the chief mate stood behind them, Reed unrolled a leather packet and took out a set of tools, lining them up in neat rows. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z “We need you. You’re a crack shot but no one’s expecting you to kill anybody. Focus on tools, all right? They’ll start trying to fix things in a moment. Try to disable their equipment.” Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z So I went to borrow some of your tools from the barn. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z But his clutter is fascinating: guns, tools, army clothes, even a radio of some kind, which he keeps in an army footlocker. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z “We need a tool,” Thomas murmured, looking around. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Her shriek pierced the air, and one of the robots about the table faltered and dropped the tool he was holding. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z Rekh motioned for him to kneel on the mat and, extracting a mallet from the tool rack attached to the table, handed it to him. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z Once there, Rondon gave them a generous peace offering—gifts of food, beads, handkerchiefs, and metal tools such as knives and axes. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z “But here I was, locked in, with all these fine tools. So I carved a key. It really was quite easy. The lock on the door is a simple one. “ Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Just before noon, they found a roughly rectangular clearing a few feet off the path, with soil that looked like it could be broken with their makeshift tools. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z They selected and “appointed” certain sticks or stones as tools because they had begun to connect form and function. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z The other man comes with his tool kit. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z The old man has brought a canvas tool bag that holds caulking irons and a big wooden mallet, and a coil of fluffy white cotton. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z Others were gathering supplies and tools; Thomas saw Minho carrying weapons from the basement to the main building. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z He had learned through experience that delay and heartfelt remorse were powerful tools with which he could fend off creditors for months and years, sometimes forever. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Five areas of technology may be singled out: First, metals—initially copper, then bronze, and finally iron—were used for tools in all complex Eurasian societies as of 1492. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z He kept patting his waist, hoping his tool belt would magically reappear. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z Deep within the scientific world’s powerful new tool—calculus—was a paradox. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z After searching through it, he took out a selection of tools which he produced to lay beside him in orderly fashion. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z A few yards away, Leen Ellison stretched, enjoying freedom, the gear in her tool belt clanking with each movement. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z Weaver came away dazzled by the cyclotron’s potential as a biomedical tool. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z “Any good witch knows how to build a tool with what’s on hand.” The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z The subjects would range from report writing to the use of force, from penal law to “standards of inmate behavior,” from tool and key control to drug awareness. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Leo almost jumped out of his tool belt. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z Stone tools indicate human arrival as early as half a million years ago. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z He’d pulled out a couple of tools and fixed it in about two minutes. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z But the Captain gathered his tools, waved, and headed for home. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z “For the miter saw. I brought a generator, too, so we can get power to these tools. Given any thought yet to electricity for your house?” The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z He pulled a chamois cloth from his tool belt and made a big show of wrapping up the physician’s cure. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z At Kitum Cave, while wearing a space suit and dissecting animals, he had been nicked three times with bloody tools. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z There were things you might expect—produce and meats, tools, bolts of cloth, handmade jewelry. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z Still, he slipped it into one of his tool belt’s magic pockets. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z When the lunch break came, Arlin took her lunch sack from a pocket in her tool belt and went off to meet some friends a few tunnels away. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z For instance, if all Aboriginal Australian societies were for some reason uniformly resistant to change, that might account for their continued use of stone tools after metal tools had appeared on every other continent. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z “If I only had my own tools or just a chisel of good quality...then perhaps I could make something worthy of you calling me that.” When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z Handwriting and document analysis were emerging tools in the field of criminal investigation. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z Or had Harry been nothing more than a tool to be polished and honed, but not trusted, never confided in? Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z “You taught me to value honor and strength. You gave me the tools for vengeance when I needed them most.” Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z The other goods, tools, cake-mix boxes and so forth were tucked out of sight in our pockets and under our waistbands, surrounding us in a clanking armor. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Buddy Ray pointed at the tool chest behind him. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z He got little tools for Tommy, and they went in the garden together. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z His tool belt seemed heavier since he’d put the cookie in there—which was impossible. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z “He likes power tools,” I said as I stepped between them. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z Next to a rope the most important tool a rider carried was a pair of fencing pliers. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z The first big breakthrough to bring the Internet alive as a tool of connectivity and collaboration—a tool that anyone, not just computer geeks, could use—was Berners-Lee’s World Wide Web. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z He had his own set of carpentry tools and a distinctly German design sensibility. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Three jets with their wings folded were parked like maimed insects awaiting rebirth among the tools and oils of the men who swarmed over the broken-open jet in the hangar. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z “I was learning to use the tools. I began to try them on this small chunk of wood that had been discarded. And it—” He hesitated. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Essentially, my job was to make sure they didn’t do anything to threaten security, such as drop tools to inmates or leave out dangerous equipment. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z However, any mathematician of the day would have scoffed at this line of reasoning; Archimedes used the tools of the infinite, which were so expressly disallowed by his mathematical colleagues. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z There were shelves lined with small, inscrutable tools and pieces of clockwork. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z “This man says he has a wireless in need of—” “Bring your tools,” the man says. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z Each tool was numbered, and he called the numbers out loud. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z It was big as the inside of a granary, holding at least two dozen thick-timbered worktables strewn with countless, nameless tools and projects in progress. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z I found the perfect hiding place, a small tool shed behind a clump of sagebrush that no one had hid in before. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z Partly it was the old pleasure that he always derived from mastering new tools and solving practical problems—working out the angles and planes at which the cedar would or wouldn’t cleave cleanly. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z Each group manufactured its own tools from local materials. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z They had with them tools and scraps of lumber, and they were prepared, they said, to build for the Imadas whatever was wanted: shelves, a chest of drawers, chairs. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z They discovered that by making small but critical adjustments in how they presented ideas to preschoolers, they could overcome television’s weakness as a teaching tool and make what they had to say memorable. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Reason, beauty, poetry, and excellent conversation were his preferred tools for settling disputes. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z Sitting down, he lifted the saddle onto his knee and looked close at the silver and the tooling. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z Her dress was smeared with grease stains from Leo’s tool belt. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z “He had been stripped of his tools: his coin, key, and candle. Furthermore, his cell had no door worth mentioning. No window that could be breached.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z As we entered the building, Raizel retrieved a hammer from the scatter of tools lying in the corner. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z I don’t know what kind of tools they were or where they came from, all I know is they looked absolutely dangerous. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z Those same shears are right here in my tool kit. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z He had converted what used to be a tool shed into his private world, with a padlock on the door and curtained windows from which sometimes rose sweet-smelling smoke. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z What tools would you require to construct Leonardo’s winch? The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Nobody but Flider would have dared to suggest that such cooperation turned Churchill or Roosevelt into Communists or Communist tools, or that Britain and America were working to bring about a Communist world. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The contents of her tooled leather purse with the rose designs had spilled all around her. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z The two main workshops, and those that required the most tools, were the stone cutters’ workshop and the carpenters’ workshop. Cathedral: The Story of Its Construction 1973-09-19T00:00:00Z Even though mathematicians knew that calculus was deeply flawed—thanks to the mathematics of zero and infinity—they quickly embraced the new mathematical tools. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z For years I have employed the Whisperer as an...educational tool. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z There were stories of Roz creating ropes and wheels and tools for helping her friends. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z When he finished, he glanced over at the shelf with his bucket of tools, and his heart pounded. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z They packed their clothes and a few boatbuilding tools, used their winnings from their races to book passage in steerage to Halifax, aboard the steamship Tunisian, and set sail from Liverpool. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z At Lee Chong’s they stopped and looked into the messy display window where tools and clothes and food crowded for attention. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z Then she looked at me and said, “Your nose is bleeding. The next time you come down I’ll fix it for you. It’s easy—I have all the right tools.” Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z They were accustomed to hardened maximum-security prisoners, and their tools were too severe to work with these men, so many of them guilty of the smallest of crimes—curfew violations, trespassing, public drunkenness. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z The walls were lined with tools and old sports equipment and camping gear—remnants of a happier life. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z There had been a shower of flying tools, a violent slamming of the door, and the service man was gone. Mr. Popper's Penguins 1938-09-01T00:00:00Z He doesn’t talk about the neon sign he’ll have or the big rolling tool cases or anything. Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z He fishes for tools, a socket key, copper wire. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z Robin put on his warmest under tunic and carefully put away the little harp and all the parts and tools so that they would be safe. The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z He had few tools other than his wits, his notebook, a handful of photographs, and the children’s letters. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z She’d be willing to sell us the old farming tools, and we could easily resell them at a good price. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z As the mathematicians turned their attention from observation to experiment, from astronomy to physics, they found they required a new set of intellectual tools, a new language. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z By the mid-twentieth century, the gene—or the denial of its existence—had already emerged as a potent political and cultural tool. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z “I’ll have it ready in little or no time,” he said, bustling and packing away his tools. The Awakening 1899-04-22T00:00:00Z To be a man, a doer, a builder, a leader, or to be a tool, an unfunny joke, a crusher of funky toadstools. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z Though it was intended merely as a time-saving tool, its use began to change the way composers and keyboard players manipulated chords, changing the sound of harmony along the way. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z “We’re experiencing a transition—from a town to a city,” said I. David Porras, a developer who tooled around in a Lear jet with red leather seats and painted black on the outside. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z “There are a whole lot of good tools in that workshop against the barn,” Daddy said. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z “Or some tools. That would make them seem mechanized.” Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z He makes his living forging wrought iron items like garden gates and fences, railings, stairs, and fireplace tools. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z In my experience, it was hard to write without your preferred tools, but impossible to write without a cigarette. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z Gerald ran to the area under the sink where Jordan kept his tools. Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z They are standard candles, objects of known brightness, and became a key tool for Hubble. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z Leo had never been so glad to fit his tool belt around his waist. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z He had seen her before, of course, when the Chancellor brought his family to the palace, but the King had never done more than keep track of her as a potentially useful tool. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z The ham-fisted Romans had almost ruined the tension adjuster, but Leo pulled a set of watchmaker’s tools from his belt and did some final calibrations. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z Another box, with the letters MMB, held old tools and some yellowing newspapers. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z Stubble Chin drew a hammer from his tool belt. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z Sometimes I have to use a special tool like a hook or a strap or something like that. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z You can then turn around and offer that solution back to the Salesforce.com platform as a tool others might want to use—for free, or you can get a fee for your business process innovation. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z Homo sapiens drove to extinction about half of the planet’s big beasts long before humans invented the wheel, writing, or iron tools. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Stone tools became common around 2.5 million years ago, but they were merely the crudest of flaked or battered stones. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z He has hidden the jewel under the mattress, in his tool case, in his shoe. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z One of the most common uses of early stone tools was to crack open bones in order to get to the marrow. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Without using any tools, you can still tell if it’s crooked—even by a tiny bit. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z He sat in the floor of the cockpit and sorted through the tools. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z They were nevertheless able to produce stone tools, and even managed occasionally to hunt down some of the island’s elephants—though, to be fair, the elephants were a dwarf species as well. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z I set my tools down, roll my chair toward my desk, and rummage through the top drawer for a set of headphones. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z I passed a child’s wagon loaded with garden tools. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z After subtracting out the cost of the food and ignoring the cost of the ruined sleeping bags and the lost tools, we made a grand total of four dollars. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z But before she crossed completely to the world of electronic computing, Katherine Johnson would tackle one last, very important assignment, using the techniques and the tools that belonged to the human era of computing. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z For this task the stone ax was their basic tool. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z In a louder voice he said, “I’m leaving my toolbox and tools at Mrs. Strawberry’s for you. I won’t be needing them.” On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z He jumped right in with questions about what plans I made or tools I had, then said, “How about we survey things together, if your mom's okay with that?” The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z She saw my face, which said back, I didn't know other tools were built only for men. The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z Milo, Tock, and the Humbug watched eagerly as the rest of the workers put down their tools and gathered around the big pot to help themselves. The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z Sunbeam electric frying pans are the Army’s tool of choice for a decon job. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Once the flat has been replaced with the spare, the two men lift the deflated tire into the trunk and put away the tools. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z Glowing like a beacon, especially compared to the display of paint cans on one side and gardening tools on the other. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z Then, a few at a time, we moved the tools and the motors from the Toy Tinker’s truck to the cave. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z All the tools that normally hung along the walls had been knocked off and scattered around the floor. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z I dump my tools with the others and then refill my water bottle and take a long gulp. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z The tools fitted into his strong, thin hands: his hands fitted the tools. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z He didn’t tell her what his father was doing to him because he wasn’t around anymore to carry the tools. Orbiting Jupiter 2015-10-06T00:00:00Z Delia patted her hip, and for the first time, I saw that she had a sort of tool belt full of odds and ends wrapped around her waist. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z On the first floor there they kept their extra supplies—tools, paints, brushes, drop cloths, everything—and on the second floor they had their offices, with their computers, files, maps, invoices, deeds to the properties. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z Why, then, were Native Australians still ignorant of metal tools and living in the Stone Age? Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z At the one extreme, the Tasmanians continued to use stone tools superseded tens of thousands of years earlier in Europe and replaced in most of mainland Australia too. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Weapons, tools, canned food, and most importantly, cases of bottled water. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z He’d cast a quick glance at Dr. Relf’s tools, and she had everything else necessary, so it wasn’t long before he returned with a little bag of glazing sprigs. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z His word was law, and if you needed a little legal education, then those brass knuckles were just the right teaching tool. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z Fin put down the tool, wiping her oily fingers on a rag. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z The men now did not pick up their tools because they were bent over in laughter. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z “They got a tool you use. Or you can use your hand. Whatever. It don’t matter. It’s good money, man! You want the job or not?” The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z She had to use the tools she was given. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z “I could mend it, if I had a workshop and tools.” The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z He reached into his tool belt and pulled out the actual vial of physician’s cure - not the trick-of-the-Mist version he’d handed to Piper. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z Humans must have been using tools all along, however. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z Since they were clever enough to use tools, I was surprised that they had not learned to make shelters. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z Morning finally came, and Hugo gathered up his tools and tried to do his morning rounds. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z “Indeed, my lord, this collar and chain do hold me fast,” I said, touching my ruff and the links of the chatelaine at my waist, where my needlework tools were suspended. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z The bucket contained about a gallon of seawater, and Fred set the moon snail at the bottom while he grabbed his tools. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z In Wasilla there was a place where good tools could be rented, and I found a kind of machine for drilling four-foot-deep-by-eight-inch-wide holes in the ground. This Side of Wild 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z She picked up a metal pan containing tools. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Rats running electric motors that ran belts that ran small circular saws, lathes, drills, grindstones, and other tools Mrs. Frisby could not name; rats hammering, welding, cutting. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z It was full of junk and scrap dealers, men and women selling tools, sheets of metal, rolls of wire. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z Pippin marvelled at his strength, seeing the passage that he had already forced with no other tool than his great limbs. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z Before Austronesians arrived, most of Indonesia was thinly occupied by hunter-gatherers lacking even polished stone tools. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Leo stuffed it in his tool belt and the bag vanished—no weight, no mass, no volume—though Leo knew it would be there as soon as he reached for it. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z Under the glow of emergency lighting, Nailer cast about, looking for some tool he could use as a weapon. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z Inside, they opened the suitcase they’d delivered earlier and took out tools: camera and film, spotlights, rope, and a roll of black plastic. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z Using a tool based on rational analysis turns our intuitions upside down. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z “Don’t you know any better than to let my grandchild play with that tool? I ain’t paying you to be a slacker, so you got no reason to be resting when you should be chopping.” Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z He flips the locking clasp on his tool case over and over until Marie-Laure begs him to stop. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z She went about picking tools off the shelf, holding them in the air so the sunlight bisected them. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z Unfortunately, nothing would have survived from such an encounter except, at best, a few fossilised bones and a handful of stone tools that remain mute under the most intense scholarly inquisitions. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z “Yes, yes sir. My father. He has a tool chest.” The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z “All those tools flying around when the car crashed, and he didn’t get hurt?” Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z “If it isn’t the genius who thinks vapid video games about intergalactic zombies are twenty-first-century learning tools.” The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z He should keep it in his hand, and make a tool of some kind to help push an animal away. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z There’s a shelf full of tools, only some familiar to me. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z They ask us to use our gilded tools to recast every curve of their faces. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z Two days before, Min had handed Tree-ear some tools to be cleaned, saying, “The vessels will be finished by midsummer. If you leave then, you will be able to return before the snow.” A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z “Dunno. Not really tool savvy. But I can do one hundred crunches in two minutes. Check my abs.” Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z He went to the tool crib and carried out a cardboard box. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z But even as he moved his tools, trudging back and forth to store them in the primitive litde structure he had built between two trees, he found himself thinking again of the old woman. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z He removed a whole arsenal of tools that none of them had ever seen before and proceeded to trap an ant and carefully observe it with his microscope. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z At least she gave me some tools to use. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z He auctioned off his roosters to the highest bidder, recruited men, bought tools, and set about the awesome task of breaking stones, digging canals, clearing away rapids, and even harnessing waterfalls. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z Rondon’s gifts of metal tools were a persuasive means of communication, allowing him to forge a fragile friendship. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z “My fantasies are more interesting than the real world and machines and tools are more interesting than you guys’ fantasies.” The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z “What about those forearms,” asked a Badger gravely, “that are held together by a chest? Come along, my dear embryo, and find your tool.” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z I scrambled to my feet and rushed to the other side of the barn where Pita had abandoned the rusty old tools. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z For an hour, I hear Daddy and Jameso throwing switches and clanking tools, boots knocking on the porch. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z At twelve o’clock the work crew put down their tools and ambled to the river’s edge to eat their brown-bag lunches. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z Tools were produced in diverse and distinctive shapes so modern that their functions as needles, awls, engraving tools, and so on are obvious to us. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Their workers were setting down tools and leaving work behind. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z I said, “Thank you, ma’am,” and pulled off my brogans and left ’em on the stoop next to all my fishing tools. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z The poles I made of equal length, using fire to cut them as well as a stone knife which caused me much difficulty because I had never made such a tool before. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z The service man put his tool bag down on the kitchen floor, looked at the refrigerator, and then at Mr. Popper, who, to tell the truth, had not shaved yet and was not very tidy. Mr. Popper's Penguins 1938-09-01T00:00:00Z He showed off the prize he’d just stolen—Leo’s tool belt—then danced away. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z For now, Xan had pushed all of Luna’s projects into a corner and divided the whole workshop into sections, each with its own sets of bookshelves and tool shelves and materials shelves. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z “Last year, I dropped a guy off at the trailhead,” he told us as we tooled north through darkening pine forests towards the rugged hills of north Georgia. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z The only killing tool they are allowed to use in the presence of white folks. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z If Pocock was done for the day, Joe would help him put tools and lumber away or sweep the sawdust and wood shavings from the floor for him. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z As everywhere else in the world, the archaeological record in East Asia for most of human history reveals only the debris of hunter-gatherers using unpolished stone tools and lacking pottery. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Tools for emergency, tow lines, a small block and tackle, a trenching tool and crowbar, tools for making and fixing and improvising. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z Cari paced back and forth in front of the porch until Wash told her to sit down so he could teach her the names of his tools. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z He didn’t enjoy it at first, but the journal became a useful tool. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z She held up a tool that looked sort of like a round-bladed pizza slicer. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z Why did Australia not develop metal tools, writing, and politically complex societies? Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z They discuss which tools to use to crack his skull, to slice his throat. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z By the steady rhythms of their voices and tools, he knew that the soldiers had not moved from the trenches. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z Using a caliper and other special tools, Agent Burger, with the help of the Dallas police, took eleven of Morrison’s body measurements. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z I myself had found ancient stone tools, very crude and primitive, that had probably been used as hammers. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z They had found many of their simple stone tools but, at that time, none of their bones had been discovered. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z Bronze tools spilled out of one—a compass, a saw, and a bunch of other things I didn’t recognize. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z The back of the truck is two giant tanks, their sides dotted with hoses and metal boxes of tools. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z Why, sometimes I’ve felt I ought to jump down off that stand and get physical with some of those brainwashed white man’s tools, parrots, puppets. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z Mr. Ferro stopped at a workbench and picked up a tap and threading tool. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z So one day, not long after one of Bristol’s mutts gave birth to a litter, the men all went to the barn to put their tools away. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z He unfastened the makeshift saddle pack he’d made, which contained his tool kit and a couple of other things he'd salvaged from the Birmingham wreck. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z Master snapped, and then, in English, “Education is a priority! How can we resist exploitation if we don’t have the tools to understand exploitation?” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z Their hands and tools were on her taut middle. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z I gathered the necessary tools and set up in one of the fume hoods along the eastern wall. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z Then he threw me another essential tool of demigod heroes—duct tape. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z He makes toys for her as well, and lets her play with ends of wood and leftover pieces of cloth and some of his less dangerous tools, while he’s working. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z Of course, we also needed other skills, such as the ability to make and use tools. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z No one mentions the ugly tools of torture just yards from the front door. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z She was so small, he thought about trying to carry her instead, but decided that would not only terrify her, it would probably make him seem like the world’s biggest tool. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z Yayoi iron tools were initially imported from Korea in enormous quantities, until domestic Japanese iron smelting and production began after several centuries. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z It was Arthur who said it first: “Do you realize what we’ve got here? We could open our own machine shop. With these tools and all these motors, we could make anything we wanted.” Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z It was filled with a sack of rice and not his usual work tools. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z Papá began to cut with his new tool. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z He turned around and grabbed more tools from his saddlebags. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z “Charlie’s working at the house with my dad, and he asked me to get him his tools, but I don’t know where they are and I thought you might help?” We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z The children’s faces were frozen, staring at the sharp object—a tool for removing waxen seals—that was now touching the soft underside of Gwenforte’s throat. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z “It’s the best tool I have,” I said. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z We could only dig about eight to ten inches deep with our crude tools. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z I spoke to the presence of the river and it allowed my brothers to cross with their carpenter tools to build our castle on the hill. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Although the tool was weightless in space, it was still difficult to operate, requiring the cosmonauts to expend a lot of energy with each movement. Women in Space 2014-02-01T00:00:00Z From his tool belt pouches he pulled some rope and a snap hook, then fastened the Archimedes sphere to his belt. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z Cora remembered that Mabel had extended an alibi to Calvin when some planting tools went missing. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z But then they told me about you, tool And I was like, ‘Get. Out.’ Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z Like an exposed raw nerve, he just stands there, holding that bizarre hybrid terror tool, and I realize that thing is the physical manifestation of everything he fears. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z She and Ivan had gotten too rambunctious practicing with the weapons Kin had given them inside her barn just after this year’s Shavuot, and they’d knocked all the tools off the walls. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z I don’t want to think of any of those dark objects being anything more than some garden tools the people found in the ranger station’s shed. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z The first evidence for tool production dates from about 2.5 million years ago, and the manufacture and use of tools are the criteria by which archaeologists recognise ancient humans. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z It was uncomfortable to work in that narrow, poorly lit space, getting in each other’s way with our tools. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Growing up and learning his trade from his father at Eton, he had used simple hand tools—saws, hammers, chisels, wood planes, and sanding blocks. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z Tuerto bats leftover beads among the tools and scraps lying around. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z They had placed the boots on the table and were examining them with tools and special glasses and powders and cloths and other tools. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z In particular, they can produce and use sophisticated tools. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z She dumped her brown tool bag on the floor and flung herself into his arms. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z He brought his son to carry the tools. Orbiting Jupiter 2015-10-06T00:00:00Z It was even better than she had hoped for: It was a big, beautiful, strong panga, the perfect tool for cutting mutarara branches. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z “You know, dear, Grandpa always said, take care of your tools and they’ll take care of you.” Lawn Boy 2007-06-12T00:00:00Z Mr. Zuckerman heard, and he came out of the machine shed where he was mending a tool. Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z Daddy drops his tool bag on the floor and walks into the kitchen to grab the plate I left for him on the stove. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z In return for her freedom, they demanded that her father free the English prisoners he was holding, give back stolen English weapons and tools, and send a large quantity of corn. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z That is a lesson that members of Abnegation learn—guilt as a tool, rather than a weapon against the self. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z Behind her, Alys, her face folded into puzzlement and concern, began to replace her birthing tools into the woven bag. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z On other days, deep in the woods, I've listened to him rant about how the tesserae are just another tool to cause misery in our District. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z My father found an axe in the tool shed and gave it to me. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z The Amish girls were handing out wood-handled carving tools and all the kids were sitting at picnic tables surrounded by the moms who were helping them. Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z A tool that resembled a compass was held lightly in his right hand. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z It was also the story of cells from an uncredited black woman becoming one of the most important tools in medicine. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z To his dismay, she was removing her embroidery tools. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z Theresa came home to find Helen lost in a panoply of analytical tools, all laid out on the kitchen table. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z He sat at his own bench, before him the innumerable tools of his trade. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z |
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