| 单词 | twenty-five |
| 例句 | Must have been a good twenty-five miles as he ran.” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z It would take only twenty-five days, and she’d earn enough to postpone their eviction. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z You take a bath or shower, lather yourself with my product, let it sit for three minutes, and once it's rinsed off, you look as though you're twenty-five years old. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z I was long and leggy and mosquito-thin, a record-breaking twenty-five inches at Baptist Hospital. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z But then shortly after his wedding one morning he was found lying dead across his bed—they said with twenty-five thousand dollars in his pockets. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z “They’re everywhere, though. That’s the thing that bums me out the most. I read that one in twenty-five people is a sociopath.” Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z “Before we start, I want your dementor essays,” said Snape, waving his wand carelessly, so that twenty-five scrolls of parchment soared into the air and landed in a neat pile on his desk. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z During the spring, water flowed over his father’s waterwheel with such force that it excavated a pool nearly ten feet deep and twenty-five feet long. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z He and Tessie were stationed at Pearl Harbor, where they lived in austere marital housing and where my mother, at twenty-five, got a terrible sunburn and was never seen in a bathing suit again. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z I was glad to be driving sedately at twenty-five miles an hour through vast, straight-furrowed grainlands, under an even gray sky, towards a capital whose government believed in Order. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z Then she forced me to work in her bakery every day after school for twenty-five cents an hour. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z Each day black boys between the ages of eight and twenty-five came to swim, draw, and read. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z “Not a fortune, as we could have if you’d let us give them a contract, but, say, twenty-five thousand dollars.” Mr. Popper's Penguins 1938-09-01T00:00:00Z There weren’t many of these women, but they paved the way for Marina Raskova and for the next generation—the generation that would fight in World War II twenty-five years later. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z “You’re supposed to all line up and start running nonstop for twenty-five minutes—no walking,” she said by way of greeting. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z While incarcerated, he went through drug and alcohol rehabilitation, got his GED, and taught GED classes to other inmates for twenty-five dollars a month. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z She falls among the lead group of five, and the rest of them stretch out, up to maybe twenty-five meters in front. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z Knew twenty languages when he was only twenty-five. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z Mack considered and correctly that twenty-five tom cats would be as nice a present as they could give Doc. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z Then at three twenty-five Cletus Underwood and his suitcase showed up at the front door, and we finally got some directions to Oz. Missing May 1992-03-01T00:00:00Z That month, I had another homecoming: I returned to Robben Island in order to persuade twenty-five MK political prisoners to accept the government’s offer of amnesty and leave the island. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z That evening the election was held, as the principal ordered, but only the same twenty-five voted, returning the same six SRC members. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z In addition to absconding with twenty-five thousand dollars and giving Milton false hopes of my return, Father Mike was abandoning his own family. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z Looking up at the clock, she says, “Oliver, you have twenty-five seconds of your time left only.” Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z “That means you got twenty-five dollars coming to you after the funeral is paid.” A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z And I repeated, twenty-five, twenty-five, twenty-five, because I didn’t want to think about anything else. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z Her grandparents had returned to Japan when Papa was nine, more than twenty-five years ago. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z There were, like, twenty-five or thirty cousins there, eating all of our food. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z The only way up the Purina Tower is the steel ladder built into the side, and there seem to be about twenty-five thousand steps. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z After I had gone through the sheet music twice, I moved to the glassware and then the records; Henry bought a garden hoe for twenty-five cents. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z He said anything over twenty-five seconds was “simply unprofessional.” Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z When he was twenty-five feet from the lifeboat I blew into the whisde with all my might. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z Seventeen out of the twenty-five players on the team were born in January, February, March, or April. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z We followed this with a speedy trip around the world, covering twenty-five countries in thirty-eight days. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z In the third to last paragraph she wrote that, if things did not get better, “there has been talk from twenty-five or more local organizations of planning a city- wide boycott of busses.” Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z That women’s wages be increased from one rupee twenty-five paisa a day to three rupees, and men’s from two rupees fifty paisa to four rupees fifty paisa a day. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z We pooled the money and counted it, and there was in all one hundred and twenty-five rupees, not even the half we had to pay. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z The work went faster when she was able to persuade twenty-five Peruvian soldiers to help dig. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z My first job was carrying lunches to the men who worked in the roundhouse, for which I received twenty-five cents a week. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z He put twenty-five dollars in new bills on the table. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z Besides doing so well in school, he earned twenty-five dollars a week. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z As soon as it was about twenty-five meters from the protesters, it spun around and faced them sideways. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z I got three swats and had to write Familiarity Breeds Contempt twenty-five times for speaking out in class and for providing Cooter with bad information on what it meant. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z Consider the fact that Canada has taken in twenty-five thousand Syrian refugees, while Obama’s plan to bring in ten thousand refugees was met with outrage in Congress. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z Elijah Poole, determined to avoid trouble, took his family to Detroit, arriving when he was twenty-five. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z The professor recited facts in a dull, earthy voice: the average age of onset is twenty-five; there may be no symptoms before then. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z “Yes, but he’s got Hill’s whole Corps behind him. Maybe twenty-five thousand. And Longstreet behind that. And Ewell in the north.” The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z “Why dont you all catch him, then? Wouldn’t you like to have a twenty-five dollar fishing rod?” The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z Taken individually, none of the twenty-five Norte Chico cities rivaled Sumer’s cities in size, but the totality was bigger than Sumer. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Her name, Rosaleen Daise, was written twenty-five times at least down the page in large, careful cursive, like the first paper you turn in when school starts. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z About twenty-five yards behind them came Old Dan, trying so hard to catch up. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z Proclaiming victory, Euergetes rushed back to Alexandria with a mountain of loot, including as many as twenty-five hundred Egyptian cult statues originally taken by the Persians back in the sixth century. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z The court fined each of the protesters twenty-five dollars. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z Since a Terraplane is another thing with wings, I edged up to twenty-five miles an hour, watching the needle rise. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z Its square base stretched maybe fifty feet wide and ten feet tall, with an intact facade of Corinthian columns rising another twenty-five feet. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z On a clear day you can see for twenty-five miles in all directions because you are in the largest observation wheel ever built. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z “First, I want a fifty-million-dollar bonus when I find the egg for you guys. Not twenty-five. Is that doable?” Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z One day he needed twenty-five cents to buy his lunch. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z In the flare of the flame, his assistants saw a windowless room, roughly twenty-five feet square. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z I grabbed up a block of wood—but then, twenty-five years of self-imprisonment took control. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z Now, in the late afternoon, it lay calm and smooth, a good audience for silence, a seven-mile circumference that could be traveled by slow car in twenty-five minutes. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z There are twenty-five major wet mills in the United States, most of them owned by two corporations, Cargill and Archer Daniels Midland. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z After twenty-five blows I staggered away, delirious with pain. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z It is impenetrable and over twenty-five miles square. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z Having come to Berkeley at the age of twenty-five, he was the other researchers’ contemporary, yet he struck them as older, more restless. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Sam was a white man of twenty-five years and exhibited none of the eccentric mannerisms of his co-workers. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z “I usually do about twenty-five cups in a stack,” he told me. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z Hint: “That return at twenty-five miles looks mean.” Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z One is drinking beer and one is twenty-five. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “You’re going into the woods for weeks and weeks with a person you have barely seen for twenty-five years. Have you really thought this through?” A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z They are now hiding in the house of the physician and Confederate sympathizer Dr. Samuel Mudd, whose farm is about twenty-five miles south of Washington. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z It cost twenty-five cents and came in a little blue-and-white packet. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z Then she spotted him about twenty-five feet away, just standing and staring. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z “I am not signing a paper condemning me to twenty-five years,” said Miss Grybas. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z “Twenty years, I suppose. Nearer twenty-five. I must have been your age . . .” He sighed and shook his head. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z “We’re back to four twenty-five. They don’t charge for extra butter.” The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z It doesn’t matter that the movie was released more than twenty-five years ago, because Iranians have a flair for holding lifelong grudges. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z “We’re about four hundred guys in the school. That means everybody’s got to sell fifty boxes. Usually, the guys have a quota of twenty-five boxes each to sell and the price is a dollar.” The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Alex thought he would never get to the end, but the second time he finished it in twenty-five minutes, which he had cut to seventeen minutes by the end of the week. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z They only paid four twenty-five an hour, and with all the casinos right across the river starting people at six twenty-five, well, it was hard to keep bodies behind the counter. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z She was back twenty-five years earlier when I was her little Charlie and she was willing to fight for my place in the world. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z These sentences were imposed pursuant to California’s controversial three strikes law, which mandates a sentence of twenty-five years to life for recidivists convicted of a third felony, no matter how minor. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Hull was young, perhaps not older than twenty-five, one of the few white faces in a sea of black and brown students. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z Ni^oise salad is the first course, which I spent all morning making, arranging the hard-boiled eggs and olives perfectly on each of the twenty-five plates. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z When someone speaks for over twenty-five hours, it must be important. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z Or that if Dr. K was twenty-five now, this is who she would be. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z He must have been about twenty-five, but asleep he looked like a boy. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z It was a complicated thing for children to understand, and it involved memorizing the squares of all numbers up to twenty-five. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z But the longer she stood, the longer twenty-five minutes seemed, and the more certain it seemed to her that sitting, in any context, would bring disaster. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z “Or a mouse. Hey, for twenty-five bucks you can buy a full-grown mouse.” Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z Everyone within twenty-five yards stopped talking and looked over. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z At most, they might have stayed in custody until age twenty-five or older, if their institutional history or juvenile detention record suggested that they were still a threat to public safety. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z “Where the hell I put that.. . You know other countries be buying her for twenty-five dollars, sometimes fifty? Her family didn’t get no money out of it.” The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z There would be five or six wet and wonderful years when there might be nineteen to twenty-five inches of rain, and the land would shout with grass. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z One especially does not need an unwieldy, totally immobile mass of wires and coils spreading over twenty-five square yards. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z Henri Bonnet said, “All that fighting we did twenty-five years ago. All those dead. Now the Germans back in France. In two days they’ll be here, taking everything we have. Who would have believed it?” Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z There are several floors with rooms full of twenty-somethings—some twenty-five hundred in all—working the phones. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z It may take them until they’re twenty-five or thirty before they make that decision, but they will make it. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z There were several calls for young men between twenty-five and forty with automobiles to sell various products on commission. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z “In twenty-five years,” said Sissy, “our family will have a stack of diplomas this high.” A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z It didn’t go more than twenty-five miles an hour, so Jedda-Boy’s truck lost us in the first ten minutes. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z Wedged closely together, twenty-five boys slept on the concrete floor in the secondary school dormitory. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z He counted waves and told himself he would leave after twenty-five had tumbled in. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z She’s one of those people who could be twenty-five or forty-five and you wouldn’t be able to tell the difference. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z Every schoolday afternoon at three o’clock, twenty-five of us Comanches were picked up by our Chief outside the boys’ exit of P. S. 165, on 109th Street near Amsterdam Avenue. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z Then again, you had to be twenty-five to drink in Mumbai, so maybe they didn’t have it that bad. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z So eventually Fred took his last three dollars and twenty-five cents and bought a bus ticket north for a new life. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z I must have written to God twenty-five times about that restroom thing, and still He hadn't changed it. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z "They must walk across their native sand. We think that something registers in their brains that kicks in twenty-five years later because they return to the beach where they were born to lay their eggs." The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z If someone asked all the kids in Eight B to close their eyes and list the twenty-five boys and girls in the class, that Owens kid wouldn’t have been on the list. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z And if I’m paying twenty-five dollars for a bra, there’s no way I can buy shoes. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z “I could have called any of twenty-five thousand high school drama directors,” he would recall. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z The natural lifespan of wild chickens is about seven to twelve years, and of cattle about twenty to twenty-five years. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Then, in a gruff voice: “But I want twenty-five.” Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z “I would. I know where I can buy one for twenty-five dollars. I know the man.” The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z I pay you twenty-five more cent a day than Mama did.’ The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z It was at least twenty-five hundred times greater than St. Helens, but perhaps eight thousand times more monstrous. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z But the demands of simultaneously running Base Camp and meeting the medical needs of some twenty-five people in a remote, high- altitude environment proved to be more than she’d bargained for. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z One effect of these laws was an increase in the prison population, over the next twenty-five years, of 560 percent. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z I remember with what pride we led twenty-five automobiles to Chicago. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z She would not live to be ten or twenty-five years old, as some peregrine falcons do. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z His students viewed Mr. Tuffett’s billboard more darkly: he had assessed them twenty-five cents apiece and had taken the credit for it himself. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z The referee blew the whistle, and Blue Springs quickly set up for a direct kick from nearly twenty-five yards out. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z I ran all around the rows of twenty-five open stalls to make sure of that. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Driving back into remote corners of the woods where there were barely roads, we would come upon twenty-five beehives up on slats like a little lost city tucked back in there. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z For six years, from age nineteen until I turned twenty-five, I did not sleep uninterrupted through a single night. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z It was a big one and weighted down too; must have weighed twenty-five pounds. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z She counts storm drains: at twenty-one she passes the butcher, the sound of a hose splashing onto tile; at twenty-five she is at the bakery. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z Chess Federation rating calculated after the event was astronomically high—2375—confirming his status as a master and ranking him number twenty-five in the nation. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z I was twenty-five and too old to be unusual. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z It had to be at least twenty-five feet up from here to there. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z Practice for all the teams began with twenty-five minutes of running laps on the grass just inside the asphalt track. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z By Ellsberg’s own calculations, he was arrested at protests at least twenty-five times. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z I did some quick calculations in my head: If she’d been running a children’s home in 1939 and was, say, twenty-five at the time, then she’d be in her late nineties today. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z Even the recruitment officer was so busy counting out the twenty-five one-dollar bills Ned handed him that he neglected to ask for proof of age. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z After twenty-five lashes, she takes him by his limp stalk of a neck and turns him around. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z “If you put your Mac in that funny mode where you can see the code,” Joy says, “I see things that I remember typing in twenty-five years ago.” Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z But it never was, because there’s probably a good twenty, twenty-five yards here. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z It was the coldest January on record for twenty-five years. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z And all for twenty-five cents, the quarter part of a dollar . Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z I’d say it’s twenty-five percent blame for the kids, twenty-five percent blame for the parents, twenty-five percent blame for the building, and twenty-five percent blame for the environment—that equals a hundred percent failure! Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z By that Friday, we had dwindled from some twenty-five thousand of us to only a few hundred. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z That’s how I knew that there were four stacks of twenty-five in one hundred. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z I did a good job and in almost twenty-five years I was never late or missed work. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Mrs. Grayson continued, “‘The winning piece for the entire state is awarded a cash prize of twenty-five dollars and publication of the story.’” Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z She was twenty-five and the sister of his son’s wife; he was fifty-two and married. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z “I’m heavier than Bun, you know. By twenty-five pounds. That should count for something, shouldn’t it?” The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z He stuffs twenty-five pieces of her jewelry into a plastic bag and hides it under a rock near the local lumberyard. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z In the intervening twenty-five years my name had become reasonably well known. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z Sometimes he drives to the university, parking behind his father’s department, running along the campus roads, through the confined, picturesque universe that had been his father’s world for most of the past twenty-five years. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z The twenty-five thousand international fans in the stands—a good portion of them Americans—rose and cheered them as their bow knifed across the line a full twenty feet ahead of the British shell. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z She had no qualms about telling a saleslady that a dress marked at twenty-five cents was worth only a dime, and she usually got it at that price. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z There was one with twenty-five Englishwomen in it. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z The next day Colonel Cathcart was there, brimming with tough pride in his new outfit and celebrating his assumption of command by raising the number of missions required from twenty-five to thirty. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z “Yeah, and my IQ is twenty-five. Really, what were you doing?” Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z “It was only as if one sailor had met a brother sailor, after twenty-five years’ absence,” Adams joked, “and had accosted him, how fare you, Jack?” Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z Fear is A.U. one, two, and four, or, more fully, one, two, four, five, and twenty, with or without action units twenty-five, twenty-six, or twenty-seven. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z He looked about twenty-five, with curly salt-and-pepper hair and elfish features. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z And there were still 5.5 million square miles untouched by man—an area twenty-five percent larger than the continent of Europe. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z “The doctor’s on a break. She’ll be back in twenty-five minutes,” the clerk said tersely. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Floors to vacuum, bathrooms to scour, furniture to dust, and twenty-five beds to change. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z The center door alone was almost twenty-five feet high, made of heavy planks of wood and joined with cross-ribs. Cathedral: The Story of Its Construction 1973-09-19T00:00:00Z There are twenty-five varieties of salamander in the Smokies, more than anywhere else on earth. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z “Ain’t nothing funny bout that. Took me three weeks and twenty-five dollars to get my hair black again.” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z We were doing fifteen or sixteen miles a day, nothing like the twenty-five miles we had been promised we would do, but still a perfectly respectable distance by our lights. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z They occur every twenty-five years, marking the anniversary of the districts’ defeat with over-the-top celebrations and, for extra fun, some miserable twist for the tributes. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z In 1980 in the United States, it took twenty-five jobs to generate one million dollars in manufacturing output. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z “The princess is more than twenty-five hundred years old,” Mr. Stead said. I Survived the Sinking of the Titanic, 1912 2010-06-01T00:00:00Z Trucks lined with drag kept rolling in from the ’Glades and other oudying parts, each with its load of twenty-five bodies. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z “But I’m gonna need a sewing machine. I can get one secondhand down on Duval for twenty-five dollars,” she said, and looked at me. Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z There were twenty-five or thirty families on that island and when Pilate made it clear that she wasn’t afraid of work, but didn’t like the mainland and the confinement of town, she was taken in. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z It was hard to become an old, seasoned trouper when you painted poison on yourself every third day and ended up raving mad by the time you were twenty-five. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z “This looks like the very same spot where I caught that nice mutton with your daddy, gotta be twenty-five, thirty years ago.” Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z “Very well, you can have it,” said Jo, handing back the story with a satisfied air, for after the dollar-a-column work, even twenty-five seemed good pay. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z She'd be fine for the twenty-five minutes it would take Mr. Taylor to get here. Dear Martin 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z By the end of the game I had made twenty-five more friends. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z I’d heard that there was a British commissary in White Plains, which was about twenty-five miles southwest across the New York State line. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z He should’ve sent an ambulance and in the twenty-five years I’ve been cleaning houses nobody ever tells you what to do when your white lady keels over dead on top of you. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z There were perhaps twenty-five pages of entries since the first of January—eight entries on this day alone. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z He could be locked up for the rest of his life, but there was a chance he could get out early after serving twenty-five years. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z “They were practically giving them away at a military surplus auction. I mean, for twenty-five bucks how could I not buy it?” Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z “Used to get twenty-five bucks a day from the government to dive lookin’ for liquor on the bottom and he got three dollars a case from Louie for not findin’ it. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z You’d be twenty-five years old, too, Cynthia, if you had lived. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z Then I finish painting between the radiators, eat one last block of fudge, and lose twenty-five pounds. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z “But what I could use some help on is the Trivia Contest. I’ve been working at it for twenty-five years and never even come close to a ringer.” Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z In the twenty-five years since, I had run into him three or four times on visits home but hadn’t seen him otherwise. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z Twenty-five miles of highway passed without his knowledge, twenty-five miles vanished because Ben had retreated to the land behind the eye again. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Reaching the top, we stepped out onto a series of slim iron walkways twenty-five feet above the ground, weaving their way among the thick timbers that supported the roof. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z We drove on, an old bus and twenty-five cars and trucks, toward the developments west of town; toward the developments where I live. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Queenie produced, as if by magic, a tin of twenty-five Player’s from deep in the pockets of her greatcoat. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z “He turned twenty-five when I was there last. And, though I’ll never be able to prove it, I turned twenty-seven.” Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z “Enough about the twenty-five dollars. Look, we’re all a little high-strung today. How about if we do a little storytelling instead of geography?” Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z This shifting front of rich ocean, about twenty-five miles wide, is the most fertile ecosystem in the world, supporting awesome numbers of fish, seabirds, seals, and whales. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z For over twenty-five years since Jude walked out she had pinned herself into a tiny life. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z There are blue and yellow balloons punching around in the wind, and two bake sale tables set up with blue and yellow tablecloths, and about twenty-five or thirty people in blue-and-gold track uniforms. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z At least twenty-five more are expected to go in the next few years. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z Since he had decided not to sell any, he kept on making two fishes a day and when he finished twenty-five he would melt them down and start all over again. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z Until I turned twenty-five years old, I had a recurring nightmare of the look on his face as he came around that corner. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z Tall and lean with salt-and-pepper hair and a handlebar mustache, at first glance forty-eight-year-old Cherrie didn’t necessarily look like someone who had spent the last twenty-five years in the South American wilderness. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z “Most I can sell you is twenty-five pounds of sugar,” apologized Mr. Hanson. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z He had not yet seen me, but I was no more than twenty-five feet away. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z She and Mr. Nielsen have been married for eighteen years, since she was twenty-five and he was in his early thirties. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z And, turning to me: “Now. Let us begin.” or the next several hours of that day I labored over a Greek legal dispute regarding the ownership of twenty-five oxen ravaged by the mange. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z Early the next morning, a foreman from the garment factory herded Shin, Park, and about twenty-five other prisoners up the mountain. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z “You should have sent that in before. We could use twenty-five cents more.” From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z Men became eligible at twenty-five, women at twenty-three. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z On the dead man’s head was a hat decorated with fox teeth, and on his wrists twenty-five ivory bracelets. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z At least twenty-five times I must have written that first one-page letter to him, over and over. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z "I already ran the numbers. At best I could get twenty-five meters per second. Even if I could get to forty-two, I'd need another forty-two to match Hermes when I came back." The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z After graduate work at Penn State and the University of Chicago, he was hired as a Harvard professor at age twenty-five. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z After taking the reins of state, Pachakuti spent the next twenty-five years expanding the empire from central highland Peru to Lake Titicaca and beyond. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Aureliano gave her fourteen little gold fishes because she was determined to leave with only what she had: one peso and twenty-five cents. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z “Well, it’s not like Ricky’s going to let my mom move her whole shift back twenty-five minutes. Just for some stupid after-school activity.” The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z He was twenty-five then, the same age at which Zannikos married. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z I was five-foot-eleven but I had twenty-five thousand cotton dollars in my name, and if the beauty in that was not apparent then, by God, he wasn’t smart enough to be in the family anyway. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z He had worked on government orders, camera lenses, and microscopes, earning twenty-five dollars a week. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z We've come to an intersection where three streets cross each other, veining off at odd angles so that the sightline cuts off after less than twenty-five meters. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z Pay the new immigrants twenty-five cents an hour and say we have no unemployment. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z No, it had never been very profitable, but the thirty acres had gotten them by for twenty-five years—better some years than others, she added: depended what the cannery was paying out. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z To multiply forty-four times forty-four, you figure how much greater forty-four is than twenty-five. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z They had also seen him lock his car as soon as he got out of it in a place where there couldn’t be more than two keys twenty-five miles around. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z A week later, another operative from the team—No. 46—was sent to locate Brown in Ponca City, twenty-five miles northwest of Gray Horse. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z Some of them are old hands, but there are twenty-five men of a later draft from the base. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z And the single-minded determination that had propelled him through twenty-five years of green- grocering in a famous ghetto of America would serve him a few last days, and through any of my meager execrations. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z “I’ve got twenty-five Negroes working my fields and if anyone so much as laid a hand on them, or any of their families...” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z At fourteen, she was going with a fireman of twenty-five. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z To the north across the charred landscape, twenty-five miles away, he could see Mount Elgon. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z “We will actually deliver right into your hands twenty-five frogs for every buck of groceries you let us have and you can come to the party too.” Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z And twenty-five kilometers and one short wagon ride later, I was walking down the lane to our farm. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z Once they was ’bout twenty-five, thirty yards from us, I spotted the one who had to be Sylvanus. The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z Over the course of twenty-five such trials, the subject correctly identifies the symbol ten times. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z About twenty-five minutes later, the country gives way to a few buildings in the distance. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z Most people imagine that the explosion in the U.S. prison population during the past twenty-five years reflects changes in crime rates. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z “That’s right. Old fellows of twenty-five—like me—have to watch their health.” Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z Malcolm X, who’d been dead for twenty-five years, exploded out of the small gatherings of his surviving apostles and returned to the world. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z I am yours always, Celia For twenty-five years, Celia wrote her Spanish lover a letter on the eleventh day of each month, then stored it in a satin- covered chest beneath her bed. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z In one combination or another, these three superstates are permanently at war, and have been so for the past twenty-five years. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z “Thirty-four point zero five. One hundred eighteen point twenty-five.” Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z The lion’s share of students boycotted the election, but twenty-five stu-dents, about one-sixth of the student body, showed up and elected six representatives, one of whom was myself. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z But twenty-five years later, about forty miles up the road in Odessa at Permian, there was some consolation. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z “It’s been twenty-five years, but every time it rains I think about my boy.” As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z Over the four days I spent on the Stampede Trail, I didn’t see a single aircraft overhead, other than commercial jets flying at altitudes greater than twenty-five thousand feet. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z He guessed they were twenty-five miles from Dunkirk. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z Desdemona looked in awe and terror at all the faces filling the windows, all the bodies filling the streets, nearly a half million people squeezed into twenty-five square blocks. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z A guy no older than twenty-five with floppy black hair plops down in front of me. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z Duly Pilgrim got onto a chartered airplane in Ilium twenty-five years after that. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z At low tide the shed sat on a sloping mud bank, listing twenty-five degrees from bow to stern. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z “Maybe my twenty-five cents from the cornflakes came already. That would make fifty-nine.” From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z By 5:40, he felt confident he would, after a chase of twenty-five years, be alone in a room with his revenge. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z I had been in and out of solitary confinement for months and I had lost more than twenty-five pounds. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z These were warheads loaded with eight to fourteen nuclear payloads, each one up to twenty-five times more powerful than the Hiroshima bomb. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Prices were cheap: fifteen cents for a large opossum hide, twenty-five for a good skunk hide. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z “He thought it was his fault, didn’t he, Shady? Because he helped Ned raise the twenty-five dollars to join the army underage and then Ned was killed. Because he thought he was a jinx.” Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z Wound with twenty-five tons of copper, this behemoth was transferred to the cyclotron’s unfinished new home before the end of March. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z He was twenty-five and had already been working on the tea estates for six years. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z “Start there, and move forward. I sort of modeled these sketches after a creative exercise comic artists like to do. It’s called ‘twenty-five expressions.’ When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z By the time Joe and the boys had limbered up and paddled to the starting line, at a little before 5:15, perhaps twenty-five thousand people had entered the regatta grounds. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z People routinely knocked off twenty-five miles a day up there. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z She was then a young woman of twenty-five who had yet to form her own character completely. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Basically, you sketch the same character with twenty-five different expressions, to sort of get to know your character better. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z Usually there are about twenty-five people, but I could swear there are more this morning. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z After ninety-six hours, your chances drop to twenty-five percent, and so on. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z “Just a job. I make a hundred bucks and you get twenty-five—okay?” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z “Well, I’m here. I’m twenty-five years old. I know about you from Mother. For four years now, I’ve been saving something for you.” Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z One two three four five six seven eight nine ten eleven twelve thirteen fourteen fifteen sixteen seventeen eighteen nineteen twenty twenty-one twenty-two twenty-three twenty-four twenty-five twenty-six twenty-seven twenty-eight twenty-nine... The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Nobody’s going to remember affirmative action in another twenty-five years. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z About twenty to twenty-five years ago, social activists started a campaign to get rid of unfair, negative racial stereotypes. Tears of a Tiger 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z It turns out that a deluxe, all-inclusive tour through the Cache River National Wildlife Refuge costs twenty-five dollars per person and lasts roughly three hours. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z “The other was two box tops from corn flakes. They send you twenty-five cents if you mail them two box tops with stars on the tops. For milk money, it said.” From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z “Language, Miss New Hampshire. You owe me twenty-five cents for that potty mouth.” Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z During the summer they joined together in bands of twenty-five to thirty—cactus leaves, a local favorite, were plentiful enough in that season to support larger groups. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z “You driving me crazy hanging around this house twenty-five hours a day. Get. Go chop down that poor mimosa tree you hate so much,” I say, because Mister Johnny never did chop that thing down. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z It was July 1984, and Farmer, twenty-five, was traveling between Harvard Medical School and Haiti. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z During the continuing Great Migration of African Americans from the South, Chicago had already received more blacks than any other northern city, a total that would grow to more than twenty-five thousand. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z I was there for almost twenty-five years and didn’t have no more troubles except for one time. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z In twenty-five years, I told myself, I’d be as old as she was now. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z I don’t recognize any of them, which is why I drove twenty-five miles to get here. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z In New York City, the early 1930s cohort was so small that class sizes were at least half of what they had been twenty-five years earlier. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z Girls were admitted to the Chicken Coop free of charge, boys for twenty-five cents, but Joe and his bandmates paid no admission when they performed. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z “This slide project is going to count as twenty-five percent of your final grade so I want the slides labeled with your name, class, and—” My hands must have been sweaty. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Negro Digest costs twenty-five cents, and Ollie Mae says there are twenty-five other things she could spend that money on, so we don’t get any magazines. Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z Suddenly Hauptsturmführer Goeth showed up and on a whim demanded that the guards lash each of us twenty-five times with their savage leather whips. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z To multiply forty-six times forty-six, you figure how much greater forty-six is than twenty-five. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z “It’s twenty or twenty-five minutes if you count the time it takes me to get Bryce and Aurora off the bus and walk back here with them.” The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z What is the difference between twice twenty-five and twice five and twenty? All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z She would be twenty-five years old by now. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z “Twenty- five and twenty-five makes fifty thousand. Let’s get her.” Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z He’s working in his uncle Anthony’s pub twelve hours a day, twenty-five shillings a week and every day soup and a sandwich. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z I waited fifteen minutes and then twenty and twenty-five, and finally I left my pack and went back to look for him. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z Linda kept the children moving for another twenty-five yards, then ordered them to stop. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z “I’ll pay two dollars and twenty-five cents an hour and put Concha in charge of her.” Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z Dasch splurged on a new wristwatch, and even bought a new handkerchief for twenty-five cents despite already having one. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z The crust beneath the Sierra Nevada Mountains, for instance, is only about nineteen to twenty-five miles thick, and no one knows why. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z And then, for the first time since being pregnant with Zoe and the last time before climbing in forever twenty-five years later, my grandmother took to her bed. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z I usually play my tips, which might be ten dollars or up to twenty-five on a good night. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z She would make twenty-five to thirty beds, vacuum, cart out trash. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z She passed a while back, but it’s in her honor that I’d like to donate twenty-five thousand dollars to the Hope Springs Downtown Revitalization Fund.” Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z Dozens of plain wooden coffins of all sizes lie in a trench surrounded by the small crowd, all that remains of the Jewish community of Kielce, once twenty-five thousand strong. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z His take-home pay was good—one hundred and twenty-five dollars each month. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z Shaped like an oval, the black pile was about twenty-five feet wide in the middle and twenty feet high. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z “Kevin said you stayed up to twenty-five minutes with your grandfather. Is that what I told you?” Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z Lou is twenty-five years old, dressed in a leather jacket, handsome, cradling Tommy in the crook of his arm in the bleachers at a high school football game. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z If you were delivering telegrams for Western Union in New York you’d be earning twenty-five dollars a week and living in luxury. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z “Maybe twenty-five. Hard to say because of the turban.” Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z At about twenty-five minutes, which was longer than I had ever run, I eventually fell behind the other sprinters, putting me in last place. Ghost 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z Then they talked about what they would do with twenty-five dollars. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z I put down the debit card Mom had given me—Daisy never had any money and my mom let me charge twenty-five dollars a week as long as I kept straight As. Turtles All the Way Down 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z About twenty-five years ago two men came to Atlanta to teach in the university system. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z "Car number one was bought by me for two hundred and seventy-eight pounds and sold for one thousand four hundred and twenty-five. Got that?" Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z It was used by all twenty-five teachers to keep grade records and also to create a test bank of the various exams they gave to students. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Only twenty-five years ago, Joe’s father, Esequiel, had had a permit to graze one hundred sheep and sixty cows in the National Forest. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z She took over the typewriter keys, and I think by the time I backed out of the room with the twenty-five dollars, she had forgotten I was there. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z He’d added a change of clothes, his toothbrush, and twenty-five dollars borrowed from Zalmay, all his cousin had had in the coffee jar hidden under his bed. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z A full 60 percent of Africa’s population at the time was under the age of twenty-five. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z “The selected entries will be published in the Carolina Times”—Mrs. Grayson paused for effect—“and the first-place winner will receive twenty-five dollars!” Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z Thembi was then twenty-five years old, and the father of two small children. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Because no matter what, it would be twenty-five in the stack, every single time. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z I was already training twenty-five to thirty hours a week, and I needed to put in more like thirty-five hours a week. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z “Mrs. Terry is going to work the phones tonight. I said f d go around tomorrow and help get the petitions signed. They only need twenty-five names for each one. That’s not that many.” The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z All of a sudden I looked at the clock in the checkroom and it was twenty-five of one. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z One afternoon I met a man who had been section hiking for twenty-five years with a bicycle and a car. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z New York City wasn’t as big as Philadelphia, but it had twenty-five thousand people—twenty-five thousand! I Survived the American Revolution, 1776 2017-08-01T00:00:00Z The post office, an official-looking cage in back of the store, had about twenty-five combination boxes to one side of the grille. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z When Welles was asked about Houseman during an interview in 1963, twenty-five years after the Martian broadcast, he refused to talk about his former friend. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z Although she had been raised to ten dollars a week when she went on reading, her runner-up received twenty-five dollars a week and the other readers received twenty. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z 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 I pulled out a tray full of large screws—twenty-five to a box. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z She said, “I stayed in the car alone about twenty-five or thirty minutes, until they returned. Anna Brown was not with them, and I never saw her alive again.” Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z “Every summer, Fortune magazine had an article about the twenty-five coolest companies around,” Barksdale recalled. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z Each term, he was given one notebook with twenty-five pages. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z Then there had been a movement of willow branches twenty-five yards away and downwind, so that no odor of fear came to the rabbit. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z I would not see her again for twenty-five years. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z Distracted by grief, Milton had been going only twenty-five. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z “It’s three dollars and twenty-five cents’ worth of brown water,” Tee reminded her. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z I had just short of twenty-five years there so I don’t think it was full retirement. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z When the laws for the Games were laid out, they dictated that every twenty-five years the anniversary would be marked by a Quarter Quell. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z Win twenty-five thousand dollars like she did and bounce up outta this jungle. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z The city proper, built on a low ridge, had once housed as many as fifty thousand people and sprawled across an area as big as twenty-five square miles. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z It’s been twenty-five days since I woke up. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z “You couldn’t get twenty-five dollars for that pole,” the first said. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z Permission asked, permission given twenty-five years after the Revolution. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Instead of leaving twenty-five thousand bucks, why not leave twelve thousand five hundred? Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z I thought she might change her mind, but suddenly she scribbled something and threw the pen down, committing herself and her little girls to twenty-five years. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z By the early 1990s Folan's team had learned that this long-ignored place covered as much as twenty-five square miles and had thousands of buildings and dozens of reservoirs and canals. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z “There’s twenty-five of you. Each give two dollars; quick now, this no time for argument.” The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z Over time, twenty-five states, plus the District of Columbia, adopted the chair. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “The freeze might have helped us there, too; I just don’t know. Three houses have tents now, which makes a total of twenty-five so far in the development.” Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z She was describing a Baltimore of twenty-five years ago and a neighborhood neither she nor Joe could rent in, but she didn’t know that, and never knew it, because they went to the City instead. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z Instead, she had to travel twenty-five blocks away by bus to another school that was set up for our people. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z “Yeah. He pays the bills on this baby”—Forrest tapped the card—“till I’m twenty-five. So I can work on my novel.” Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z Red had said the car only went twenty-five miles per hour, and he was late, so he’d probably been driving that fast the whole way. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z They used to be found in twenty-five countries. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z End of two weeks all two hundred traps are fishing and I’m pulling twenty-five a day by hand. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z Once a week she makes thirty samosas to sell at the international coffeehouse, for twenty-five cents each, next to the linzer squares baked by Mrs. Etzold, and baklava by Mrs. Cassolis. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z The rally ended as twenty-five thousand voices joined in singing “We Shall Overcome,” changing the words to express the triumphant spirit of the day: “We have overcome today.” Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z When Betty Bright opened up the bus door and called out, “Count ’em up, Victor,” a caravan of at least twenty-five cars and trucks, including the green Ford pickup, fell into place behind us. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z In less than five months they had travelled twenty-five hundred miles, during the last eighteen hundred of which they had had but five days’ rest. The Call of the Wild 1903-01-01T00:00:00Z At twenty-five minutes to ten he was tapping on the closed door of Blore's room. And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z He could have been twenty-five, maybe twenty-six, no older. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z For this I get twenty-five cents, which is a lot of money. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z Grandpa must of been twenty-five at least when he turned over the privy at the depot with a Yankee railroad bigwig in it. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z There are twenty-five of them under a hundred, and reciting them sure does help me when I’m nervous. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z He mulled this over—and considered how twenty-five of his classmates, some of whom he'd been attending school with for twelve years, could possibly have wanted to “know him better.” An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z You knew things at eleven that I did not know when I was twenty-five. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z Ma’s bedroom closet was spilling over with old suitcases, some of which she had brought with her when she left Haiti almost twenty-five years before. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z I couldn’t leave the classroom until I’d written “I will not tell lies in class” twenty-five times on the blackboard. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z They gave her twenty-five dollars, which was a ton of money in those days. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z They were twenty-five or thirty miles from the bars on the other side of the reservation boundary line. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z An inmate-grievance system had been instituted after the Attica riot; Sing Sing inmates typically filed about twenty-five grievances a week against the administration, but recently that number had gone as high as seventy-five. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “How can you do that? Your allowance is only twenty-five cents. Twenty-four forty-three plus twenty-five cents makes only twenty-four dollars and sixty-eight cents.” From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z There are ten or twelve gentlemen on board and they are leaving the twenty-five of us commoners behind to starve. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z His mother came down in a hired auto, in a fur suit like an arctic explorer’s, and saw him off in a twenty-five mile wind and a steady drove of ice floes like dirty sheep. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z He often weighed no less than twenty-two stone, and sometimes as much as twenty-five. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z The younger team kept running: twenty-five minutes, thirty minutes, thirty-five...and so on. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z Only twenty-three of the twenty-five hundred blacks working for Louis Swift made their way to the Yard. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z I turned fifteen on the Corner but could act like I was twenty-five, and no one cared. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z The twenty-five cities were not sited strategically and did not have defensive walls; no evidence of warfare, such as burned buildings or mutilated corpses, has been found. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z The twenty-five dollars that Katie got for the two policies got them through until the end of April. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z In the federal system, adults who unintentionally commit arson-murder where more than one person is killed usually receive sentences that permit release in less than twenty-five years. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z I had not hitchhiked in twenty-five years, and it was a vaguely humbling experience. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z He was serving eight to twenty-five years for manslaughter, he said, and for the past three months, he had been held in involuntary protective custody. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z It feels like years before we are down the twenty-five thousand steps and back on the ground. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z Led by their noses, and by Joe Rantz’s nose in particular, they quickly discovered the best feature of the new place—a cookhouse on the beach, just twenty-five feet from their front door. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z He was twenty-five, a sometime law student who spent his summers working around Spokane. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z The books were read, but they had little influence, and the demand for them was modest: it took, for example, twenty-five years for The New Organon to appear in a second edition. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Finally, I grab the cheapest one in my size, but even the cheapest one is almost twenty-five dollars. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z This was N. A. Chaderjian Youth Correctional Facility, known as Chad, home to some two hundred and thirty males ages eighteen to twenty-five. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z But take a look at the following list of where the last twenty-five Americans to win the Nobel Prize in Medicine got their undergraduate degrees, starting in 2007. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z One complete turn took you up some twenty-five feet to the metal hatch in the middle of the floor above. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “That couch cost me twenty-five bucks! Do you have twenty-five bucks? No. Because you’re nothing but a lazy moocher!” Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z Fifty divided by two is twenty-five, I think. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z He has been droning on now for twenty-five hours and thirty-two minutes, one hour and fourteen minutes past Thurmond’s record. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z On average, according to one study, college-educated women have their first child at age thirty, up from twenty-five in the early 1970s. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z In that relatively short period, more than twenty-five million newcomers poured into the United States. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z The caption said the family had found out just a few months earlier that Henrietta’s cells were still alive, yet at that point she’d been dead for twenty-five years. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z Dad wrote up about twenty-five or thirty questions like that and then insisted we rehearse the interview. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z Just as they drew up to the front entrance, when some twenty-five moves had been made, Collins offered Bobby a draw. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z Tonight I am much older than the twenty-five years, that I have lived. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z “I’d take what I could get, then. I can catch just as many fish with this pole as I could with a twenty-five dollar one.” The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z The wind was whooshing along noisily and steadily at a brisk twenty-five miles an hour, but gusting to at least double that, and from ever-shifting directions. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z Not long after Walter left, I was walking to the prison hospital with Sobukwe when I spotted Nana Sita in the courtyard about twenty-five yards away. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z We had four squads, but only twenty-five, maybe twenty-six, guys. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z “Oh, yes, well, we give from twenty-five to thirty for things of this sort. Pay when it comes out,” returned Mr. Dashwood, as if that point had escaped him. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z I noticed she always stayed in one place of about twenty-five yards, never leaving that small area. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z When we returned, the moose had advanced to the water and was drinking about twenty-five feet upstream. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z Nine out of the lot of twenty-five began with the sentence, ‘I do not want to be a servant.’ The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z He told us he had started in Maine in deep snow and had been endlessly caught in blizzards, but was still averaging twenty-five miles a day. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z “Yeah, well, it’s amazing how twenty-five dollars can help a recruitment officer overlook a thing or two. Maybe you should try it, Ned old boy, but then, company vouchers might not do the trick.” Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z With the twenty-five cents apiece that Dad gave Mary Alice and me, we could each buy five Nehis during our week, if we could slip off from Grandma long enough to get our allowances spent. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z “I thought at least twenty-five. He was a man. A dangerous man.” Ghost Boys 2018-04-17T00:00:00Z Aunt March usually gave the sisters a present of twenty-five dollars apiece at New Year’s. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z Yet he had belief in wonder and in the next twenty-five miles of black Carolina highway, he thought: Can a boy begin a prayer with the hatred of his father in his heart? The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z “That’s all right who it is. I can buy it for twenty-five dollars.” The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z Their wives were sentenced to twenty-five years in prison and fined $10,000. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z The number of inmates has tripled in the last twenty-five years, and rates of incarceration keep climbing. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “Oh! yes. But you see there is a considerable difference in age: Mr. Rochester is nearly forty; she is but twenty-five.” Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z There were fully twenty-five seeds studding the top of it each as large as the end of his thumb. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z It was a perfect fit, and it cost only twenty-five dollars, marked down from twenty-seven fifty. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z The way I figured, we couldn’t be very far—somewhere between twenty or twenty-five miles off. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z It was about twenty-five yards away, in the deep green shadow of a stand of poplars. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z And yet she could see her two daughters, two spinsters beyond the marriageable age; they were at least twenty-five. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z “A lot of people want to hoard money. Not me,” says Aguirre, who started helping after she witnessed a twenty-five- year-old Honduran lose a leg trying to board a train. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z “They been saying the same thing for the last twenty-five years.” Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z “Is the person who won in twenty-five in here?” Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z When they reached Lafayette Park, in front of the White House, the crowd was bigger than expected, about twenty-five thousand. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z After twenty-five minutes, a drunk man sleeping on a bench woke up and began to sing loudly: Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z “Bananas, mostly. Things in my domain. My drawings sell at the gift store for twenty-five dollars apiece, with a frame.” The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z For the ten months he had tended cattle, it amounted to less than twenty-five cents a day. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z The cheese bus—yellow and boxy like a block of government-issue cheese—picked kids up from Dundee Village and delivered them, twenty-five minutes later, to Perry Hall High School in West Baltimore. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z I live in a city where twenty-five per cent of the population is Negro and I doubt that the percentage is much higher, except in spots, in the eleven Civil War States. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z The book was about twenty-five years old, though, and all it had was really technical stuff. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z He was small for a giant - perhaps twenty-five feet tall, which would give him enough room to swing the massive sledgehammer in his hands. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z Midnight passes and I’m twenty-five days and a million years from becoming a man. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z I read through four of the twenty-five pages, mesmerized by how many laws exist to separate us. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z The twenty-five pounds I’d shed in Nepal came back with a vengeance. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z “Whether you like it or not, you’ll get to be twenty-five in time no matter what you do. You might as well be getting educated while you’re going towards it.” A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z The second was at seventy-five and the third and fourth were down in the blue water at one hundred and one hundred and twenty-five fathoms. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z “Right. His share was twenty-five dollars and seventy-five cents.” Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z “I can’t live in this country twenty-five years and not have some of it rub off on me,” she said. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z “The next month, they hiked the subway fare from twenty-five cents to thirty-five cents.” Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z I got to school twenty-five minutes early that morning. Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z The cow barn is a simple open-sided structure where the cattle eat twenty-five pounds of hay and produce fifty pounds of manure each day. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z The Street in Cairo exhibit alone employed nearly two hundred Egyptians and contained twenty-five distinct buildings, including a fifteen-hundred-seat theater that introduced America to a new and scandalous form of entertainment. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z It was new, and clean, and colorful, the way Athens must’ve looked twenty-five hundred years ago. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z Lee could count them, and he did: twenty-five. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Today, twenty-five years later, it’s close to 50 percent. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z She also kept an eye on less vital communications, examining up to twenty-five thousand messages a year overall. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z For all his work, his records led him to conclude only that Bibi’s attacks occurred more frequently in summer than winter, and that she had suffered approximately twenty-five major attacks in all. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z Wrestling twenty-five pounds of sugar back from Moore’s Store was nothing to picking all the gooseberry bushes clean. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z Then I remember that Char hasn’t got nobody but Juju, Juju is only twenty-five. The Skin I'm In 1998-10-16T00:00:00Z “Twenty- three, twenty-four, twenty-five,” the people shouted, and you could hear their enthusiasm. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z “And that our sentence shall be...twenty-five years’ hard labor.” Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z He had broken the track record by four seconds, the equivalent of some twenty-five lengths. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Chances were twenty-five cents apiece or five for a dollar. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z And it was from Cody that he inherited money--a legacy of twenty-five thousand dollars. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z Cooter got ten licks and had to write it one hundred and twenty-five times for being what Mr. Travis called “riddled with disrespect for his superiors.” Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z “Alaska. Six hundred twenty-six thousand, four hundred twenty-five square miles. State mammal: the moose.” The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z Each morning the thirty men working in the kitchen prepared three hundred dozen eggs, twenty-five hundred pancakes, five hundred pounds of bacon and sausage, and 180 gallons of coffee. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z They each had the requisite twenty-five dollars apiece. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z In the past twenty-five years, in dollars corrected for inflation, the annual international arms trade has gone from $300 million to much more than $20 billion. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z She began to take her niece to local benefits and community events, where Marian would be asked to sing a song or two and would earn twenty-five or even fifty cents. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z She showed up twenty-five minutes later with—I am not even kidding—a little suitcase on wheels. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z If she were an old woman, it might be easier to say what a man wants, but she is so very young, at the most twenty-five, it can’t be done, I cannot possibly tell her. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z My grandma met us at the airport, and from there we drove twenty-five miles north to a suburb called Spring. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z It’s on the prestigious Main Line, just twenty-five minutes outside Philadelphia, on a rolling campus surrounded by overgrown foliage. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z The assignment was twenty-five pages on John Donne. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z Corn, that used to cost a few shillings a bushel, cost twenty-five dollars a bushel—in silver. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z He was only a freshman, too, but he was averaging twenty-five points a game. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z Marvin Worth was the lone torchbearer, a thorn in Hollywood’s side, holding true to the initial dream for almost twenty-five years, despite the taboo image of my father. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z She had drifted up about twenty-five feet and was leaning against the railings of her floating platform, completely lost in a new book. Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z The twenty-five or fifty cents she had earned as a small girl rose to one or two dollars or more. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z The foundation was to be made of thick walls, built twenty-five feet below ground level, which would support the building and prevent it from settling unevenly. Cathedral: The Story of Its Construction 1973-09-19T00:00:00Z At two dollars a minute, twenty-five minutes would pay for a subscription to The Wall Street Journal. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z A good one cost as much as twenty-five dollars. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z In Europe alone, the fall of the wall opened the way for the formation of the European Union and its expansion from fifteen to twenty-five countries. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z We were going to be imprisoned for twenty-five years? Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z I was about twenty-five then, but I felt as if I had only a little life left ahead of me to build my future and attain the position that I wanted. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z “Round one will have twenty-five questions. Let us begin. Number one.” Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z To entice him to stay, G.F.’s father offered him twenty-five dollars to set up his own business right there on Cape Cod, a challenge and an opportunity that G.F. agreed to take on. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z About twenty or twenty-five of us boys, plus Dawn Madden, stood in a bunch to be picked like slaves in a slave market. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z I couldn’t explain why I wanted to drive one hundred twenty-five miles to ask an old man with memory problems what he and my mom knew about the white sharks coming to Massachusetts. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z “Your mama swears she doesn’t look a day over twenty-five,” Shamika shot back from the table. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z She is young and can find work now, but women over the age of twenty-five or twenty- eight are no longer considered for many jobs in Honduras, something made clear in newspaper employment ads. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z By that time almost twenty-five men had gathered in the front yard; some were poring over U.S. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z “There weren’t many of our people left by 1876,” Grandpa Nyles explained, “compared to the sheer numbers of whites. There were probably twenty thousand Lakota. At the same time, there were twenty-five million white people.” In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z The heavy front door was opened and I pulled wide the gate to the downstairs, standing to the side as some twenty-five to thirty officers responded. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “Teams will be asked twenty-five questions. Each correct answer from each four-member team is worth one point, so the maximum total team score is one hundred points.” Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z After eating these he still felt hungry and told Claudia she could have twenty-five cents more for pie if she wished. From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z These were rights they didn't think I needed from the tender age of fourteen to twenty-five. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z “And he was only twenty-five. He probably thought he had plenty of time to make a will.” Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z When I was twenty-five, I found a job cleaning construction sites in the suburbs of Raleigh. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z I've been shouting about it at the top of my voice for going on twenty-five years now, and they all just cover their ears. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z He, like most doctors then, believed that the human body held approximately twenty-five pounds of blood. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z It went through seventeen editions and was still in print twenty-five years after his death. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z “Hello hippie,” they said, twenty-five years too late. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z She must be only twenty-five, and I remember Dennis bragging about how he recruited her outside a downtown temp agency with the promise of working in a multinational business. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z After working for more than twenty-five years, I understood that I don't do what I do because it's required or necessary or important. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z The move echoed the establishment of the first computing pool at Langley twenty-five years before. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z That his intentions were honorable and that he himself was certainly worthy of the doctor’s consideration as a gentleman friend for Miss Foster since, at twenty-five, he was already a colored man of property. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z We went over the denominations a few times—one cent, five cents, ten cents, twenty-five cents. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z “Four years of high school...no, five. Because something would come up to delay me. Then four years of college. I’d be a dried-up old maid of twenty-five before I was finished.” A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z At the age of twenty-five, you have an assistant. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z Located twenty-five miles down a winding road from Charlotte, Monroe, population seven thousand, was typical small-town South. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z Finally, about twenty-five yards out, he lost it altogether and plunged with wheeling arms and an unhappy wail into the murky water. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z After about twenty-five minutes my parents came from the room, my mother patting a tissue against her eyes, my father's hand on her back. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z No. If she were past twenty-five, she might be permitted to enter as a special student and take courses without being a candidate for a degree. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z She looked quite young, I guessed about twenty-five or six, and she was very pretty. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z Then I spotted a wine for twenty-five bucks, an awful lot for a bottle from an area not generally known for its wines. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z On that first weekend in December there must have been twenty or twenty-five boats getting ready to leave. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z A smiling Chuck E. Cheese mouse stared at me from a printed coupon, offering me a two-dollar discount on any large pizza and a hundred tokens for twenty-five dollars. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z The man, short and dark, was trying to explain that he could get fifty dollars for the lamp downtown and had to charge her twenty-five. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z It had been the coldest winter in twenty-five years. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z “It has been said that if you see one mouse, there are twenty-five mice hiding that you don’t see.” Ralph S. Mouse 1992-08-01T00:00:00Z Two years later, when Blake was only twenty-five years old, MI6 sent him to Korea, on a mission to establish a new network of spies in the Far East. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z It is eight twenty-five when Lincoln steps through the front door of the theater. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z More than twenty-five years had passed since I came this way, for Emily’s funeral. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z Every other night they woke us to sign the documents sentencing us to twenty-five years. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z “They’ve been trying to catch that trout for twenty-five years. There’s a store in Boston offers a twenty-five dollar fishing rod to anybody that can catch him.” The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z Today the Jockeys’ Guild, which covers riders in the United States, receives an average of twenty-five hundred injury notifications per year, with two deaths and two and a half cases of paralysis. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z “But twenty-five? Are you looking for big stones or unusual piles of stones, or are you marking any old stone you see?” Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z Adding insult to injury, Tate went on to be re-elected sheriff, and he remains in office today; he has been sheriff continuously for more than twenty-five years. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z Miss Saunders gave me twenty-five pages to read in two days. The Skin I'm In 1998-10-16T00:00:00Z One night at supper, Dad was firing questions at Dan on the squares of numbers up to twenty-five. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z She was a small, almost hipless girl of twenty-five, with styleless, colorless, brittle hair pushed back behind her ears, which were very large. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z My memories were distorted by twenty-five intervening years. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z They were happily married for twenty-five years before she passed away. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z At twenty-five, Karen was eighteen years younger than Walter, and she was married. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z Ultimately, the three researchers determined that the Norte Chico held the remains of at least twenty-five cities, all of which they wanted to explore. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z They’re barefoot, and they climb to a high point twenty-five feet above the water, stopping on a ledge that hangs over the sea. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z For the first time in twenty-five years he weighed less than two hundred pounds. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z “I'm meeting them there at the church at twenty-five past six.” Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z Still, within five months, he had assembled a staff of twenty-five; within a year of his arrival, it would be fifty, and at its peak, one hundred. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z It was reintroduced dutifully every year, but the full Senate did not vote on it until 1887, when it was defeated 16 to 34, with twenty-five senators not even bothering to vote. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z “Spirited! Good, good. Pappa would have said the same thing about me twenty-five years ago.” When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z He is the youngest of his father's thirty-five children, twenty-five legitimate, fifteen from his own mother, the second wife; he has no past of his own. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z He couldn’t have been older than twenty-five, and he had a white baby face with ruddy cheeks, sideburns, and a gold cross around his neck. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z Perhaps twenty-five or thirty applicants would actually be examined by the registrars that day. Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z In June, Nixon made a bold move, announcing that he would begin withdrawing American troops from Vietnam, starting with twenty-five thousand men. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z Word had it this was going to be the biggest tournament in twenty-five years. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z We get there, and the bell rings, and everyone gets out their paperback and Mr. Shunk says, “Page twenty-five,” and looks at his notebook. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z My father, the most adorable father I’ve ever seen, didn’t marry my mother until he was thirty-six and she was twenty-five. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z But more than this, I had not felt the country for twenty-five years. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z It took reciting all twenty-five prime numbers under one hundred, but I didn’t get angry. 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