| 单词 | vast |
| 例句 | The parking lot, where a dozen buses might normally be parked, had been transformed into a vast outdoor prison. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z It was a vast open-air hall with wooden benches, a velvet curtain with Greek masks, and three box offices in the shape of lions' heads, through whose mouths the tickets were sold. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z When he had left her, more than twenty years before, and after more than ten years of marriage, she had felt for that moment only an exhausted exasperation and a vast relief. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z He had always had a happy disposition, and most of the time looked perfectly content, trotting along through the vast stillness of the bush with stolid, unalterable good humor. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z He was the cold presence Hazel had felt earlier—like a vast deposit of obsidian, so heavy that Hazel couldn’t possibly move it, powerful and indestructible and completely devoid of emotion. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z I had always felt a vast distance separating me from the boss, and now I felt closer to him, though still distant. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z My determination, enthusiasm and youth were no match for Segal’s vast experience and skill. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z But I spent the vast majority of my time sitting in my haptic chair, getting almost no exercise at all. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z Its eight cylinders fired, the carburetor sucking in vast quantities of fuel. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z Teddy paced to the windows and stared out at the vast expanse of buildings. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z This beach, so soft, firm and vast, was like the cheek of God, and somewhere two eyes were glittering with pleasure and a mouth was smiling at having me there. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z It’s so vast it has waves like an ocean. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z Germany was sinking over a thousand Allied merchant ships every year, killing many sailors and destroying a vast tonnage of Allied supplies. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z The landscape was dark and vast and empty, with few cars and even fewer houses, and she tried to swallow the guts that had climbed their way into her throat. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z Phony rules, which proliferate like urban legends and are just as hard to eradicate, are responsible for vast amounts of ham-fisted copyediting and smarty-pants one-upmanship. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z He woke gasping, lost in darkness, and saw a vast shadow looming over him. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z So much already covers this vast Ohio ground. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z There were thousands of parked automobiles out there, twinkling on a vast lake of blacktop. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z Shadow turned a corner, and knew himself to be in another room, even vaster than the first. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z Again I met the Irish chap and we discussed world happenings, the vast armies of unemployed, the rising tide of radical action. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z The vast majority of those arrested are charged with relatively minor crimes. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z All around him, men were redefining themselves for the new world, and a vast pool of knowledge and tradition was evaporating. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z The fleet passes vast plantations laid upon the banks in unspeakable gentility. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z Milo squinted into the darkness and saw for the first time that they had entered a vast cavern lit only by a soft, eerie glow from the great stalactites which hung ominously from the ceiling. The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z Line by line, row by row, the fantastic men in their wild colors were descending straight at me, trotting, their feet pounding the earth like someone beating a vast drum. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z They crept through a vast cellar with thick support columns holding up a vaulted ceiling. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z Something happened inside me as I looked out into the vast universe. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z Tall, bright buildings loom over the treetops, but they are nowhere near this castle that seems to have fallen out of the sky and landed in the heart of this vast park. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z Here, on a vast scale, I had an opportunity to observe Bigger in all of his moods, actions, haunts. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z Floundering on its belly, it was like a vast metallic whale spouting smoke instead of seawater. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z I spoke across a vast gym floor to six hundred and fifty sixth, seventh, and eighth graders arrayed in bleachers before me. The Misfits 2001-10-01T00:00:00Z For nearly a decade, Jefferson and Washington had corresponded about making navigation improvements in the Potomac on the presumption that it afforded a direct link between the vast American interior and the Chesapeake Bay. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z The painting showed a hairless, oppressed creature with a head like an inverted pear, its hands clapped in horror to its ears, its mouth open in a vast, soundless scream. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z He paused dramatically before his vast black audience for God to act, but God declined. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z Though some of these personnel were probably on coastal patrol and other duties, it can be presumed that the vast majority were trainees, killed without ever seeing a combat theater. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z The jaw had $et open, he saw, and the vast mouth was a stiffened maw down which the dead man’s tongue had disappeared. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z Her wings spread in glorious flight, she looked down on the vast landscape. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z The audience is a vast, dark field of unpredictable creatures moving and fidgeting. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z At each halt a frozen, unbroken silence lay outside the steel walls of our box, the silence of vast wastelands, of the heights. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z Odin will battle Fenrir bravely, but the wolf is more vast and more dangerous than anything could possibly be. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z Bigger sat silently, bewildered, feeling that he was on a vast blind wheel being turned by stray gusts of wind. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z There may be a vast chapter in the development of art here that is largely lost to us simply because Neolithic artists worked in wood or other impermanent materials. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z The wizard clapped a pudgy hand to his vast forehead. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z While accumulating a vast fortune in his native Canada, Stewart had become the focal point of a business scandal. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Superplumes of the type on which Yellowstone sits are rather like martini glasses–thin on the way up, but spreading out as they near the surface to create vast bowls of unstable magma. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z I think I felt that something out there, some force, nameless and vast, had robbed me of... what? Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z Far away, maybe ten miles or more, there was a great burning, but between it and the Riders lines of fire blazed in a vast crescent, at the nearest point less than a league distant. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z I found myself standing in a vast, dark, empty space. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z Later it gently separated at the seams and became vast billows traveling above the sea instead of a still white miasma. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z But Natalie was moving briskly toward her mother’s desk, a piece of furniture so vast and shiny that it seemed like it might have its own gravitational pull. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z The letters furnished evidence of a vast public identity writing made possible. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z He was the master of this vast army. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Scoob returns the note to the table and stares at the vast concrete wasteland surrounding the RV and sighs. Clean Getaway 2020-01-07T00:00:00Z “We were a tiny speck in the vast vista of the sea,” Shackleton wrote later. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z Along the length of Elsinore's vast hall, torches flamed in their sconces. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z The gaily dressed young people sat in a circle around a vast mound of silk-tasseled corn, and already the husking had begun. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z I am on a vast diet so I can fit into my gown for the festivities. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z It wasn't an oil derrick but an enormous Japanese fishing trawler with two tall cranes for hauling up their vast nets. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z "Two hundred men or ten thousand, the country is too vast." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z Many of these rules have become entrenched in a vast community of English speakers, who respect the rules without ever having to think about them. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z When the SS set up its vast system of concentration camps, they moved these criminals into the camps to help control the prisoners. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z Pippin gazed in growing wonder at the great stone city, vaster and more splendid than anything that he had dreamed of; greater and stronger than Isengard, and far more beautiful. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z “I see your point. God’s knowledge and power are so vast, there’s no point in questioning his choices.” The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z Some remarkable process must be responsible for the vast outpouring of energy in a quasar. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z “You’ve landed with your bum in butter, and no mistake,” said the Afrikaner, wiping his vast chops with a napkin. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Seeing the vast, open sky in front of and below him had put him into some kind of hypnotized stupor. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z And with this light, Minli saw that the sky below her had somehow become a vast lake of pure water and the night clouds were made of floating lilies. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z The music and the voices rose and melded and surged through the vast interior of the stadium, filling it with light and love and joy. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z There was a broken table, two stools, and a vast number of bunches of herbs hung against the wall drying. The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z I thought of a chain of Gods, each having been created by the next, vanishing into infinity, the great vast void. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z And with the vast changes they sensed in the world around them, it was natural for people to gather and talk. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z He was delighted, seized his bow and quiver, and swept down from Olympus through the vast expanse of air to Colchis. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z More important to Italy’s musical enrichment than the cultural salvage from Constantinople was the importing, at vast expense, of skilled and celebrated Flemish composers. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z What did she know about the vast region of emptiness that inhabited him all of the time? Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z Once I had devoured the vast Herball, I hungered for more than the knowledge of common things that grew beneath me. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z Lookfar lost headway, and rose and fell on the vast surges like a chip of wood. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z Boats and trains brought vast amounts of lumber, grain, and livestock into the city to be stored and processed, then shipped out to customers across the country. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z Dumbledore screamed; the noise echoed all around the vast chamber, across the dead black water. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z The assembly looked with him, considered the vast stretches of water, the high sea beyond, unknown indigo of infinite possibility, heard silently the sough and whisper from the reef. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z The truth, which I can’t avoid acknowledging when I’m in those vast, desertlike stretches between afternoon breaks, is that I’m just amusing myself, and in what seems like a pretty harmless way. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Glimmering tracks of blue-black amethysts crisscrossed the vast open space, connecting one side of the underground city with the other. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z It is a vast area of deeply wooded wilderness—of endless chains of lonely lakes and rushing rivers. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z This amount of property value has a vast influence on the minds of its owners, very naturally. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z The entire west wall was a massive floor-to-ceiling window offering a breathtaking view of the vast cityscape outside. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z His corps of generals and provincial governors was filled with ambitious men with access to manpower and vast amounts of cash. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z Wilfred then said that I was welcome to listen to his vast collection of classical composers, mostly German, in his living room whenever I wanted to. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z Poor James, on the other hand, was still very much alive, and all at once he found himself alone and frightened in a vast unfriendly world. James and the Giant Peach 1961-11-01T00:00:00Z Some of the other teachers gamely made conversation with Mackintosh, but the chasm was too vast. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z He could tell now; her depression this time had become too vast for her even to hear him. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z The reality of the room fell from him; the vast city of white people that sprawled outside took its place. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z There was such a support network there, a vast and tight fabric of family. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z This unseemly conversation, luckily, couldn’t be overheard because of the deafening roars of the vast crowd, which had begun as Caesar’s party entered the box and didn’t die down for long minutes. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z Their stillness is the reason why these memories of former times do not awaken desire so much as sorrow—a vast, inapprehensible melancholy. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z There were the vast repositories where the corrected documents were stored, and the hidden furnaces where the original copies were destroyed. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z Eighty percent of its leasing arrangements lost money, often vast amounts. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z It was rumored, but never confirmed, that he con-trolled the vast Westing Paper Products Corporation from a private island in the South Seas. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z Then, gradually, the glow fades, and I find myself suspended in midair, overlooking a vast expanse of blue ice and snow-covered glaciers, all shifting and cracking under their own weight. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z After pulling into the vast parking lot outside Jadwin Gym, my father reluctantly slid into a wheelchair and allowed my mother to push him inside. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z They called each other wisdom as well, which Tyrion found almost as annoying as their custom of hinting at the vast secret stores of knowledge that they wanted him to think they possessed. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z Nothing like the vast, angry sea she’d been lost in only the day before. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z The vast majority of letters concerned misplaced apostrophes, of course, in potato’s and lemon’s. Eats, Shoots & Leaves 2003-11-06T00:00:00Z In Descartes’ system there is only one type of matter which, by its interactions and conglomerations, produces the vast diversity of materials that we experience. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Jon could sense the vast weight pressing down on him as he waited behind the Lord Steward. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z There was a throne room, a vast hall with a banquet table so long it could seat thirty, a library, a portrait gallery. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z The vast majority of child prodigies don't become adult geniuses. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z At the start of the 1970s, then, we were forced to turn our search for an understanding of the universe from our theory of the extraordinarily vast to our theory of the extraordinarily tiny. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Boasting and swaggering, he vowed to conquer vast empires. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z Eurasia is protected by its vast land spaces, Oceania by the width of the Atlantic and the Pacific, Eastasia by the fecundity and industriousness of its inhabitants. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z “I hope that you will see some vast changes the next time that you drop in 011 us,” Ignatius said. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z The twenty four tributes will be imprisoned in a vast outdoor arena that could hold anything from a burning desert to a frozen wasteland. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z She could see some of them in the vast foul-smelling Field of Leaving, huddled beside the ones whose lingering spirits they tended. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z This finding alone would have ensured Hubble’s reputation, but he now turned to the question of working out just how much vaster the universe was, and made an even more striking discovery. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z There was a flash of blinding green light and a rushing sound, as though a vast, invisible something was soaring through the air — instantaneously the spider rolled over onto its back, unmarked, but unmistakably dead. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z Lyra thought she could even hear them: a vast distant whispering swish. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z “It was an uncommonly hard winter,” he later said, “with vast amounts of snow.” Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z The overwhelming majority of forfeiture cases do not involve any criminal charges, so the vast majority of people who have their cash, cars, or homes seized must represent themselves in court, against the federal government. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z “When we returned to Afghanistan, the Taliban asked me to help get rid of the country’s vast poppy fields that were used to make drugs.” Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z There the trees ended abruptly, bringing the house into view across a vast front lawn. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z Only a few people occupied the vast lawn. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z But the Queen of the Undersea’s kingdom is vast and mighty. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z Yes, a lot of people steal from him, but the vast majority, even though no one is watching over them, do not. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z I saw that a vast distance separated the agitators from the masses, a distance so vast that the agitators did not know how to appeal to the people they sought to lead. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z His eyes blurred and there swam before him a vast array of red and blue and green and yellow cans stacked high upon shelves. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z In contrast, man has put the vast majority of carcinogens into the environment, and he can, if he wishes, eliminate many of them. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Were there vast wind-torn areas like the place he had seen in memory, the place where the elephant died? The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z In the vast majority of cases there was no trial, no report of the arrest. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z Timothy hadn’t quite figured out what was ticking inside the vast adult mechanism beside him. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z He could see nothing but the wheeling stars, and away to his right vast shadows against the sky where the mountains of the South marched past. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z Somewhere in the vast flock, a variant was born with a grotesque beak capable of cracking seeds. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z A palpable tension filled the vast interior of the shell house as the oarsmen changed into their rowing togs. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z Mrs. L. J Weidenbach was there too, in a vast hoopskirt, holding her daddy upright. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z The voice of Hamlet shouts, “What is this, a rat?” and his laughter echoes in a vast chamber. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z And across the vast, blue sky, white clouds hurried before the wind like sheep before invisible wolves. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z His vast chest heaved up and down and his wings were folded onto his sides. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z I feel that America’s past is too shallow, her national character too superficially optimistic, her very morality too suffused with color hate for her to accomplish so vast and complex a task. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z Ahead of me spread a vast, stark world of winter-dead trees. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z But still their meanings were lost in the vast whiteness in which I myself was lost. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z From the echo of their footfalls, the space around them must have been a vast cavern, but she couldn’t be sure. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z The vast Muslim world was wonderful for the growth of knowledge. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z The water was frozen, and the snow had been falling for so long that Bran had lost count of the days, turning the lake into a vast white wilderness. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Every time I turned my e-mail program on, I faced hundreds of messages from kids, students, former students, parents, and teachers stacked in vast queues; it took hours just to download the mail. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Even today, crossing a vast, splintered wilderness of ice would be a risky task requiring special vehicles and a big support staff. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z They probably still loathe school, but when they go home, their computers are passports to a vast, complex, and communicative world, one still largely invisible to many parents, educators, and other adults. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The Giant reached out and rolled the stone to one side as easily as if it had been a football, and now, where the stone had been, there appeared a vast black hole. The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z The earth shook slightly beneath her, vibrated as though she lay on the head of a vast drum. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z Down on the ground the prairies unscroll, vast and mundane and plausible as hallucinations, dusted already with snow and scrawled with sinuous rivers. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z It was vast and open and thinly quiet, and I felt so small. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z But such substances are so potent that a minute quantity can bring about vast changes in the body. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z It was a vast amount of planning and execution. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z There was a vast dish of eggs and bacon on the sideboard and tea and coffee. And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z He glided forward through the vast garden, and once again Sophie noticed how he seemed to melt into the shadows wherever he went. The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Miles to the west, a vast body of water lays shimmering like a mirage. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z The sky is vast, unblocked by buildings, even the modest ranch-style homes are separated by many acres. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z A great black shape against the fires beyond he loomed up, grown to a vast menace of despair. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z And here we were alone in the vast house, with only Beatrice and Giles to count as guests. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z A sense of vast release, of great peace. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z It was a long, mostly grim trip past ugly suburbs, decaying industrial plants, slums, and vast rail and truckyards. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z I hurry after Helene, spotting a flash of blonde heading through Grandfather’s vast gardens and toward a rickety shed at the back of the house. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z The uproar is only my own shriek, and chasms are, like all things vast, inanimate. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z In real life, however, even in our worst circumstances we have always been a relatively minor interest of the vast microbial world. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z When I was a child and Serra should have seemed vast to me, I was always able to find my way. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z There are two problems with cane if you want to make vast amounts of sugar: one of time and the other of fire. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z He wondered what they would say if they could see him now, cold and lonely, in the vast empty school. Ralph S. Mouse 1992-08-01T00:00:00Z By 10:00 A.M., six and a half hours before the race, a vast, agitated throng was already banging up against the fences. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z And on the earth, in every direction, as far as the eye could reach, there spread a vast city in which there was no living thing to be seen. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z The cities are large and memorably crowded in India, but when you leave them you travel through vast stretches of country where hardly a soul is to be seen. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z West of the stadium, a vast, flat assembly area, the Maifeld, had been leveled and a great limestone bell tower was being erected. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z Even the vast sextants and quadrants built by Tycho Brahe were simply enlarged sighting devices. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z The whole of Gryffindor House took up the challenge enthusiastically, so that it was impossible for Harry to get to classes on time because he was surrounded by a vast, chattering crowd. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z Work began on the wall, a wall so vast it could span the sea. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z It would be tragic to lose the elms, but it would be doubly tragic if, in vain efforts to save them, we plunge vast segments of our bird populations into the night of extinction. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z When you think about it, the universe is nothing but this vast knackery of churning black holes and exploding stars, constantly freeing atoms that collect together and become something else, and something else again. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z He flew, hopped, climbed to its crown, and looked down on the vast valley the river had carved. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z Thousands of slaves still toiled on vast estates in the hills, growing wheat and olives, herding sheep and goats, and mining salt and copper. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z We drove past the sturdy trees around the faculty of engineering, past the vast mango-filled fields around the female hostels. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z That something happened when personal turmoil dropped by at the wayside shrine of the vast, violent, circling, driving, ridiculous, insane, unfeasible, public turmoil of a nation. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z For the first time in my life I became aware of the life of the modern world, of vast cities, and I was claimed by it; I loved it. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z The forbidding complex of twenty buildings employed 7,000 people; by some estimates, the Stasi archives contained more than one billion documents describing the vast network of spies and informers cultivated over four decades. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z But because of the vast quantities of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, the sea could not be ordinary water; physical chemistry required carbonated water. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z To go into a vast building full of beautiful clothes, where people let you try them on, where you looked at yourself in minors...And the clothes were so pretty…. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z “Mr. Rowley here has vast experience treating female complaints,” said Grandfather. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z He moved on, until quite suddenly the tunnel opened out, and he found himself at the top of a vast cavern: a vault immense enough to contain a dozen cathedrals. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z The rest of my stronghold was belowground, in a vast subterranean complex that stretched all the way to the asteroid’s core. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z She had long since accepted that this was part of the job, that she had entered “a vast dome of silence from which I can never emerge.” The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z His vast fossil loot from South America was being unpacked, preserved, cataloged, and organized; whole museums could be built around it. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z Who had ever, in all human history, offered to young writers an audience so vast? Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z Accelerating hard under high weight burns vast reserves of energy. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Tendrils of vast gossamer gas clouds formed, colonies of great lumbering, slowly spinning things, steadily brightening, each a kind of beast eventually to contain a hundred billion shining points. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z This vast stream of life, dammed and muddied, is trying to sweep toward that fulfilment which all of us seek so fondly, but find so impossible to put into words. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z But he knew they were bountiful and life-giving and vast. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z Entering the Wood was like entering a vast cavern: The sound of her footsteps was magnified by the branches arching above. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z The vast vapours that arose in Mordor and went streaming westward passed low overhead, a great welter of cloud and smoke now lit again beneath with a sullen glow of red. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z She didn’t envision her insides as a vast computer code, all Is and Os, an infinity of sequences, any one of which might contain a bug. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z He was a man who needed plenty of space, a vast terrain in which to operate. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z To his right, the flatlands of Berkeley and Oakland marched west—a vast checkerboard of neighborhoods, with several million people who probably did not want their morning interrupted by two monsters and a filthy demigod. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z Throughout his extraordinarily vast correspondence, Jefferson never received another letter like this one. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z There was in his stomach a slow, cold, vast rising movement, as though he held within the embrace of his bowels the swing of planets through space. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z I felt myself a small creature in a vast tapestry of nature. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z That prevented the laborers from coming to work, and left vast quantities of mangoes, bananas, pineapple, garlic and ginger rotting slowly on the premises of Paradise Pickles. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z “The Ice Court is a vast structure,” Matthias said, turning away. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z Perhaps the rumors of vast underground conspiracies were true after all—perhaps the Brotherhood really existed! 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z Her fleeting victory had left in its wake a vast, echoing space, because she had taken on, for too long, a pitch of voice and a way of being that was not hers. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z “Do you think that they will find her, ser? The grasslands are so vast, and dragons leave no tracks across the sky.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z The vast majority of Americans, in Seattle and elsewhere, did exactly that. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z This makes it more or less impossible for it to get its teeth into a vast smooth curving surface such as the side of a peach. James and the Giant Peach 1961-11-01T00:00:00Z Under the touch of his hands, Jonas had found himself suddenly in a place that was completely alien: hot and windswept under a vast blue sky. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z The wounded sergeant blew through his lips a sound of incredulity, as though he had never guessed that pain could be so vast. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z Many were his age, but he somehow felt as if there existed a vast distance between them. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z The vast majority of farmers lived in permanent settlements; only a few were nomadic shepherds. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z With that, he bowed and scraped himself out of the room as a vast herd of ladies from the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children came streaming in. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z Rather than mutants, he had created vast flocks of dead, and then infertile, flies. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z Lord Asriel had seen the billion-strong flocks of blue starlings that wheeled at sunset around the palace of the Emperor K’ang-Po, but he had never seen so vast a multitude in all his life. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z Surrounding the plume seen in visible light is a vast cloud, bright in reflected ultraviolet sunlight and composed of very small particles. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z But then, this past September, Susan had transferred from the local school to the vaster, supposedly superior one in Garden City. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z Through the arches, Serra's lights glow dully, tens of thousands of oil lamps dwarfed by the vast darkness of the surrounding desert. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z Little scavengers only had so much time to profit before the lions rolled in and took the vast share of the meat. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z Then they guffawed, partly at themselves and partly at the vast white world that sprawled and towered in the sun before them. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z Instead of dying Pa made a vast fortune. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z The giant’s voice boomed in the vast chamber. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z Tension would set in at the mere mention of whites and a vast complex of emotions, involving the whole of my personality, would be aroused. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z The Indigenous peoples who lived on the Great Plains also used fire to extend those vast grasslands to make more grazing lands for buffalo herds. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z “I will allow you to ponder my vast cleverness while I sleep. Wake me when you need anything else figured out.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z A vast, empty desert stretched out before me, all under a night sky filled with wild splashes of color. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z At last she glimpsed a fair head emerging from the hatchway, almost hidden behind a vast load. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z I foresee an International Geek Tribunal emerging through the vast slowly connecting networks that are already forming between geeks here and geeks there. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The empire had defensible borders, yet the vast majority of the population couldn’t be trusted in the ranks—the Macedonians had a long-standing reluctance to arm the natives. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z Now, for the first time, Anna got a sense of the true, vast scale of the fair. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z I flip him off and ignore the vast disapproval coming from my father, because there’ll be time for that later. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z “You realize that the vast majority of them here in the South are unable to share fully in the responsibilities of citizenship, and why?” Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z He drove into a vast parking area and said, “Why don’t you two go look around? I’m going to get a little shut-eye.” Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z Their book collection was vast, ranging from their college textbooks to the latest scholarship on cryptography. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z Devon was both scholarly and very athletic, so the playing fields were vast and, except at such a time of year, constantly in use. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z The vast plain was hairy with dead grasses. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z Suddenly, the chute they’d been falling through opened into a vast cavern. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z Or to the top of a tall Florida pine where a vast pile of twigs and sticks in ordered disorder holds three large white eggs, cold and lifeless. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z The university’s enormous mainframe computers stood in the middle of a vast white room, looking, as one faculty member remembers, “like one of the last scenes in the movie 2001: A Space Odyssey.” Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z Once inside she saw that the building was even more vast than its exterior had led her to believe. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z The restless images gave way to a vast sweep of meadow, where Taran ran through grasses shoulder high, desperately seeking a path he could not find. The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z The vast majority are old people—specifically, old white women with tubes in them, yelling and moaning. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z Happy after all these years to discover someone interested in his work, the priest had no misgivings about revealing his vast knowledge. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z For at the start and for several decades thereafter, it remained a vast and nearly vacant plot of ground. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z When she looked through it, she saw those drifting golden sparkles, the sraf, the Shadows, Lyra’s Dust, like a vast cloud of tiny beings floating through the wind. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z The guards held their positions as Ares began to ascend into a vast stone cone. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z All around them lay the vast black ocean, deep and hungry. James and the Giant Peach 1961-11-01T00:00:00Z They were being carried through a vast wasteland. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z Uncle Jet looked at the vast space around the three of them. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z The corridor opened into a vast room with twenty-foot ceilings and rows of support columns. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z Finn whipped around, scanning the endless waving, twisting bodies, a vast sea of faces, searching for the pocket of stillness. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z It was the fortuitous conjunction of these two vast reservoirs of philosophical and physical wealth that defined America's national interest and made it so special. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z Sugar made the Africans slaves, so sugar must be wiped off the island, now a vast sugar factory to the world. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z The expedited work was finished by the end of May, and a vast circular building near Strawberry Canyon originally designed to house the world’s biggest cyclotron became the headquarters of an entirely different project. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Somewhere in this vast region is Pluto’s palace, but beyond saying that it is many-gated and crowded with innumerable guests, no writer describes it. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z We passed farms and villages, lone dogs crying out at our vast column. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z A few men knelt here and there in the vast structure. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z On towers all around the courtyard, bands of musicians played a vast, slow tune on quacking horns, blaring trumpets, and thundering drums, while below, the spiral moved to their beat. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z He sailed a rough chopping sea above which clouds drooped and drifted in vast mournful veils. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z It led through a vast talus field and then, a mile or so farther on, into woods. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z Making something right in at least one tiny corner of the vast house of wrongs—I learned this from Anatole, or maybe from myself, the odd combination of my two parents. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Fire had killed fifteen more, and an assassin had transformed the closing ceremony from what was to have been the century’s greatest celebration into a vast funeral. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Spread out beneath them was a vast disused quarry. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z The Milky Way, a vast celestial river in Andean cosmology, crosses the Peruvian sky at an angle of about twenty-eight degrees to the earth’s orbit. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z At first he was terrified that they needed so many weapons, but he was relieved to see that the vast majority of it was covered with a thick layer of dust. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z But inside were vast cavern-ous spaces where slabs of stones had been cut, hauled to the surface, and transported down slippery narrow roads to make distant buildings. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z Initial results showed a few key raised “islands” in control of a vast network of communication and interaction covering 200 square miles, as large as many early states. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z He glanced back at the sledge, a bit of refuse in the vast torment of ice and reddish rock. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z “The pleasant feeling of vast superiority, the easy success with women—” “Monster!” he howled. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z Lee felt a vast pity, yet at the same time he could feel the coming of a smile. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z NM: You don’t agree that it would be irregular for a prime minister to ignore a letter raising vital issues affecting the vast majority of the citizens of that country? Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Farther east was the Serapeion, a vast temple complex six hundred feet long and one hundred wide, dedicated to Alexandria’s patron deity. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z The vast bed of state, its curtains drawn back like the wings of a giant bird about to seize its prey, was empty. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z The lotus pond was one of a dozen pools of water in the vast gardens of the house. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z He looked out the window at the vast emptiness. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z Someday, and the day may not be long in coming, I shall be sole mistress of a vast estate. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z On the last sentence it opened, horrible and vast, the skin stretching ravenously from bone to bone and tooth to tooth. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z Just as outrageous, the vast majority of those lynched were murdered for what amounted to the most minor offenses against white supremacy. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z And since a vast majority of illnesses eventually go away on their own, most of the time it works for him. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z The long concrete sweeps of the interstate exchanges like the ruins of a vast funhouse against the distant murk. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z They took a few steps in, beams of light darting across the vast entrance space, and then just like that, the over-heads flickered back to life. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z I had seen parts of the ocean but had never stood at the shore of one this vast. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z He saw a candlelit room with a vast white-counterpaned bed, and himself, a boy of nine or ten, sitting on the floor, shaking a dice box and laughing excitedly. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z The Saudis, the Iranians, the Iraqis, they called the shots, they were the ones with the vast stockpiles of oil, not the Americans, where the holes were running dry. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z In a clearing spread a vast garden teeming with familiar and exotic plants, the ingredients of all the. varied medicines and liniments favored at court. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z It is important to remember that the vast majority of people in the Middle Ages were farmers with a limited amount of land. Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!: Voices from a Medieval Village 2007-07-24T00:00:00Z The third watched the pass, though there was little to see, only a vast bowl of darkness ringed by the snowy shoulders of the mountains. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z It is simply taken for granted that, in cities like Baltimore and Chicago, the vast majority of young black men are currently under the control of the criminal justice system or branded criminals for life. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Lights outlined the white walls of a vast house above, with pillars and statues and doorways going who knew where. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Called the Pa-Ja-Mo—or, colloquially, the Pajama—paper, after the initials of the three authors, the study was instantly a classic, with vast implications for biology. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z “Smaller than the smallest atom, greater than the vast spaces.” Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z The brothers were trapped forever in Ginnungagap, the vast gap between the fire and the mist. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z He didn’t mention it to Annabeth, but he started to feel like something was watching them—something vast and malevolent. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z The world below was distant and small; it was dwarfed by a sky so blue and vast the clouds were lost in it. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z “I have tested Nathan and can say he has vast amounts of kindness as well as the grandest of courage. He has within him the dormant abilities of a talented medicine man.” Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z A vast collection of troops, tanks, weapons, and vehicles surrounded the castle on all sides. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z The basilica is a vast, cavernous, echoing space, with all sorts of alcoves, balconies, domes, cupolas and arches affecting its acoustics. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z While one’s first association to African antelope is “vast dense herds spreading across the horizon,” in fact the males of those herds space themselves into territories and fight fiercely with each other when breeding. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z And the vast house too, the silence of that echoing hall, the uneasy stillness of the west wing, wrapped in dust-sheets. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z "Oh, Sam," she would say, speaking into the vast emptiness. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z It was as vast and blue as the oceans on the movie screens of my childhood. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z Knots of dense galaxies are separated by vast voids. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z Thoughts evaded me, hiding in the vast stretch of clinical whiteness to which I seemed connected only by a scale of receding grays. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z The vast fields burst with hundreds of thousands of white bolls, strung like stars in the sky on the clearest of clear nights. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z The only bright spot on our return to Little Rock was passing my father out in a vast field of train cars. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z Eastward Sam could see the plain of Mordor vast and dark below, and the burning mountain far away. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z A vast seething, hot world of fluidity, and Rine the rascal was at home. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z As he mounts the crowd stirs and speaks in a vast murmur: “Argaven!” The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z Given that it’s subterranean, the place seems surprisingly vast, the ceilings high. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z Portions of Y-12 were partitioned off so that the scientists could not cross from one end of its vast floor to the other without stopping repeatedly to show their passes. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z The great bear stood motionless as the boy darted here and there over his vast body, cutting, freeing, clearing the way. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z The drug war helped to birth this system of mass incarceration and create a vast, new undercaste. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Far above him, outlined against a vast pale moon, he thought he could see the shapes of gargoyles. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z He was haunted and tormented by the vast, boundless ocean. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z Illuminated by light cast from a few all-but-guttered candles in wall sconces was a room of vast size. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z Gone are the big petroleum companies and the forests of derricks as the vast oil fields have been increasingly depleted. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z Behind him, across vast distances of space and time, from the place he had left, he thought he heard music too. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z At its center was a vast shimmering lake that glowed with a pale phosphorescent light. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z The marching stones faded slowly from sight, but still beyond them, blacker than the gloom, brooded the vast crouching shadow of the Dwimorberg. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z He wore a black suit that stretched only far enough across his vast belly for one button to connect with its buttonhole. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z These vast architectural complexes included not only an inner shrine but workshops, storehouses, and residential quarters. The Annotated Mona Lisa 1992-06-01T00:00:00Z The Argo II could cover vast distances pretty quickly, thanks to its magical engine, but Leo figured the Romans had magic travel methods of their own. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z Langan talks about dealing with Reed and Montana State as if they were some kind of vast and unyielding government bureaucracy. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z The twins climbed into the vallom and rowed across vast, choppy waters. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z A storm was gathering ahead of them, a vast dark roaring lashed by lightning, but somehow they could not see it. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z I asked, for I had never seen anything so vast. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z In India we have many vast cities, just as in America. Seedfolks 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z With his vast experience, he offered to teach me the finer points of the game. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z An indefinite boycott would require massive machinery and vast resources that we did not possess, and our past campaigns showed no indication that we were up to such an undertaking. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z She could feel the emptiness, the vast black gulfs of air that yawned around her. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z Enabling virtually all citizens to experience noteworthy events simultaneously and in entertaining form, radio created a vast common culture in America, arguably the first true mass culture the world had ever seen. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z According to Descartes, in the case of gravity this pushing process was the result of the Earth being caught up in a vast vortex of fluid swirling round the sun. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z It was, rather, a vast sudden expansion on a whopping scale. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z He intended to spend time with his books—he owned a thousand volumes, a vast collection. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Barring a complete computer failure or other critical event, Vogel's vast knowledge of astrodynamics would never come into play. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z The next day one of Jamison’s errand boys woke me out of a sound sleep in my vast bed at the Horse and Four. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z The calculation was not made with reference to vast historical or geological shifts—the fall of civilizations, the erosion of mountains. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z He was beginning to feel claustrophobic and he was relieved when they passed through a door and into a vast, cathedral-like room that was practically bare. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z In other words, just like a vast majority of the crewmen, my job is to run side to side across the deck and back again to counteract the rolling motion of the sea. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z It isn’t the vast mob scene I’d been hoping for, but there must be forty kids, maybe fifty. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z And now a vast number of people have found a way to bypass it. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z All along the dock, there were vast pens of barrels covered with seaweed and hundreds of bales of cotton waiting for the mills. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z Nowhere in that vast array of purchases from Mr. Hanson was a gun. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z The organisms killed might, for all we know, be at the base of a vast ecological pyramid at the top of which totter we. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z The snow had stopped falling and the city, white, still, was a vast stretch of roof-tops and sky. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z The bird pirouetted on one vast wing and tipped into a slow, graceful spiral. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z She called on her father, the Lord of the Underworld, and summoned all the riches that lay in his vast realm. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z From the summit, the apparent immobility of the vast blue distance was broken, here and there, by wisps of smoke and tiny, momentary flashes of glass. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Across the width and height of the tunnel a vast web was spun, orderly as the web of some huge spider, but denser-woven and far greater, and each thread was as thick as rope. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z They become a vast tapestry on which the music and the story hang. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z I looked back over my shoulder at the vast slack dump as I followed my father back to the car. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z Now that I knew what I was looking at, I recognized it as the vast expanse I had witnessed in my vision at the fairground. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z Directly ahead lay a vast overgrown area which was neither pasture nor meadow. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z Ferula excused herself for a moment and ran to the bathroom, one of those immense bathrooms where the toilet was placed in the middle of the room surrounded by a vast desert of white tiles. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Immediately above rose the Lhotse Face, a vast, tilted sea of ice that gleamed like dirty chrome in the dawn’s slanting light. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z Great black pig-iron pipes a man could crawl through small, bright brass pipes no bigger around than your thumb There was a vast network of stone tunnels, branching and connecting at odd angles. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z The night was clear and the stars were spread out like diamonds on a vast blanket of black velvet. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z Willoughby was rare—his preference to remain behind the scenes implied the absence of vast personal conceit, a trait essential for two-penny despots. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z Fremantle could feel the presence of that vast army; he knew it was there, thousands of men, thousands of horses, miles of cannon, miles of steel. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z No cars were in the vast parking lot. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z He tried to grab a handful, then realized that under a thin layer of dirt and debris, the ground was a single vast membrane...like skin. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z To the east, forested slopes stretched away to a vast, barren plain. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z To me, with my vast ignorance, my Jim Crow station in life, it seemed a task impossible of achievement. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z “I told you to stop using that bleaching cream,” she murmured to the vast expanse above her. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z Unlike the shadowy and dark First World, tiny islands where land beings could walk dotted the vast sheet of water. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z In this realm his knowledge was so vast that the doctor from the nuns’ hospital used to come and ask his advice. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Lying on her stomach, she looked across a vast lawn of grass and moss and focused her attention on the wolves she had come upon two sleeps ago. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Her knowledge was born of vast experience, the natural cunning of a survivor. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z A considerable amount of floor space was devoted to a vast number of unmarked, sealed cardboard boxes, amongst which stood Harry’s school trunk. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z The air was full of mist, like the breath of some vast cold beast. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z I did not know how much time elapsed as I stood there, numb, astonished; but, suddenly, the vast ranks of the Communist party began to move. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z What a vast difference between Mary and those for whom I was leaving her. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z Koyré had a vast influence in America, and his Bachelardian conception of an intellectual mutation was adopted by Thomas Kuhn in The Structure of Scientific Revolutions. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z “I thought something vast would be nice after all the talk of confined spaces,” Marco says. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z Aristide walked away with 67 percent of the vote and wasted no time promising to deal with the vast inequalities of his country. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z Grasse needed his word in order to account for the ability of such tiny, blind, and relatively brainless animals to erect structures of such vast size and internal complexity. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z They were all whispering now, for it was like entering a vast open library or a mausoleum in which the wind lived and over which the stars shone. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z To the south lay the swamps, covered with an eternal vegetable scum, and the whole vast universe of the great swamp, which, according to what the gypsies said, had no limits. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z Tam Lin had treasures brought from the vast hoard of gifts the old man had amassed. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Even Lady Constance seemed to have shrunk a size smaller just by virtue of standing within this vast, imposing space. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z Somebody somewhere was laughing at them, vast and amused. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z As I ran the sound of my footfalls was pitched off short in the vast immobile dawn, as though there was no room amid so many glittering sights for any sound to intrude. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z The elegant ladies from the gallery scurried fearfully down the steps, hoisting their vast skirts above their ankles in an unseemly way. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z A vast city, glistening in the early-morning sunshine, lay spread out three thousand feet below them. James and the Giant Peach 1961-11-01T00:00:00Z The kapo took us out a different way, through a vast chamber where every footstep echoed. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z New England is a she, while the vast area we call the Midwest is just one big guy. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z In this system a tiny subset of riders became wealthy, a few lived comfortably, and the rest, the vast majority, had nothing. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z The vast majority of these insects are held in check by natural forces, without any intervention by man. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z The little of his face that was not obscured by hair or beard was soaking and swollen; he was shaking with tears, a vast, spotted handkerchief in his hand. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z The molecule had to be able to carry vast amounts of information, yet be compact enough to be packaged into cells. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z The blackness of the sea suddenly overwhelmed her; it was nothing more than a vast emptiness. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z The sledge was where they had left it, perched alone in a vast white landscape. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z Mr. Terupt still lay motionless inside the vast whiteness and beeping of that building. Because of Mr. Terupt 2010-10-11T00:00:00Z Mariners are protected by geography and the vast amounts of spices, meat, and iron they trade. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z Rains then carry part of the arsenic into streams, rivers, and reservoirs, as well as into the vast subterranean seas of groundwater. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Eventually we emerged from the forest, and the road became a path leading up a vast lawn to a huge manor house. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z Athens in the time of Pericles, Plato and Aristotle had a vast slave population. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z The stage was massive, with vast red- and-gold curtains drawn back to reveal a magnificent make-believe forest with a rolling painted ocean at the back of the wooden deck. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z She peered up, squinting at the underside of the vast metal wings, and the soles of the great angel’s feet, and the sky she could see around the edges. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z There he struck his lyre, and at the sound all that vast multitude were charmed to stillness. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z There was no up or down in a finite but expanding universe in which even the vast, burning, dazzling, majestic sun was in a state of progressive decay that would eventually destroy the earth too. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z This was a vast sum, far more than the cost of a train ticket. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Full of dark fins like knives, vast creatures beneath. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z The hotel room was a vast improvement over the one in Kabul where Farid and I had stayed. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z He was the commander of a vast shadowy army, an underground network of conspirators dedicated to the overthrow of the State. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z But now he knew that there were communities everywhere, sprinkled across the vast landscape of the known world, in which people suffered. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z It was built of a light stone that shone almost like snow in the glare of the moon, a vast spreading complex of walls and roofs and buttresses, all surrounding the slender spire. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z But, assigned to one of the vast eighty-eight-cell galleries for the first time, I found it hard to know where to begin. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z A vast meadow sloped down for at least a mile before flattening into another mile of wide green floor. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z He could not imagine turning the republic of letters into a vast law court. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z These extraordinary capacities of life have been ignored by the practitioners of chemical control who have brought to their task no “high-minded orientation,” no humility before the vast forces with which they tamper. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z He ran, he ran, through that vast dusk land where there was no hiding place. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z The red-brick building stood on a vast tract of land with immaculate lawns, athletic fields, swings, merry-go-rounds, an Olympicsized swimming pool, tennis courts and rows of brightly leafed trees. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z Now, will you agree that this letter raises matters of vital concern to the vast majority of the citizens of this country? Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Its edges glowed with the same milky jade color as the key, and just like the First Gate, it appeared to lead into a vast field of stars. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z The vast wasteland of television programming had finally reached its zenith, and the average person was no longer limited to fifteen minutes of fame. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z Above the machines, wrapping around the interior of the entire station, was a vast mural that occupied, in four long segments, the upper half of the station’s main walls. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z To his vast astonishment, he was not one of them. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z And now there was a vast screaming of yanked nails. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z It freaked me out thinking about the vast number of formalities I'd have no clue about. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z As a society, we certainly appear to have an inordinate fondness for sheep and other livestock, to judge from the vast numbers of them that we keep. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Rain said television was a vast wasteland that lowered our standards until we couldn’t tell the difference between bad and good. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z Washington and the six men set out in “excessive Rains & vast Quantity of Snow.” George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z Now that his secret was out, Milo relaxed with Yossarian and Orr and inflated opulently with a vast, shy pride. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z All around the plane, the vast blue sky shimmered in the sunlight. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z Over the recent decades, a vast and diverse flock of parenting experts has arisen. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z Their foliage was dense and dark green, their vast trunks gold-red in the heavy evening light. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z Berkner has suggested that there were two such explosions of new life, like vast embryological transformations, both dependent on threshold levels of oxygen. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z “Man, I should have gone to college,” he said, shaking his head in disgust at his vast ignorance. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z Buford felt the pain of old wounds, a sudden vast need for sleep. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z A few matings still were inexplicable, but, even so, the vast masses of data now falling into place made me certain that we were on the right track. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z Beyond the ominous water were reared vast cliffs, their stern faces pallid in the fading light: final and impassable. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z The machines stretched in long rows—row after row after row—across a vast underground warehouse. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z The noise was so pervasive that I even thought I heard the movements of those giant presses in the walls and the ceiling, as though the building itself were a vast meat grinder. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z Beyond the glass structure stretched a vast misty jungle. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z The vast majority were relegated to claiming races, rock-bottom events in which any competitor can be purchased for a set, low price before the race. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z According to the theory of inflationary cosmology, empty space can spawn other big bangs, creating a vast number of other universes: a multiverse. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z “London is vast, and there’s no lost and found here for peculiar children.” Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z Trees store vast amounts of carbon in their trunks, branches, and leaves. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z The vast network of the Provincial Police could report nothing, either. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z Under that keel lay the vast deeps of the sea, yet they were aground. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z When it’s glorious, I want to live in that place, where the stars are just marking a vast unreachable shell, like they used to believe in days of old. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z She put a vast arm round his shoulder and drew him toward her, breathing beer and vomit into his face. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z Finally, at the end of all our wanderings, we return to our tiny, fragile, blue-white world, lost in a cosmic ocean vast beyond our most courageous imaginings. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Where they occur, insect control measures that favor a vast increase of snails are likely to be followed by grave consequences. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z The theater is vast and empty and smells like new carpeting. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z To his astonishment and terror, and lasting delight, Sam saw a vast shape crash out of the trees and come careering down the slope. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z “How could a wall spanning the kingdom be defended? There would never be enough soldiers to guard something so vast! What does this Tiger Emperor want?” When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z They stood in a vast courtyard several times the size of a football field, surrounded by four enormous walls made of gray stone and covered in spots with thick ivy. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z Some of these traumatized common people, and their descendants became the settlers who would cross a vast ocean, drawn by the promise of their own land and higher status. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z Her vast belly was above him with its putrid light, and the stench of it almost smote him down. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z There he hung or hoved, his vast ironic mouth permanently drawn downward in a kind of melancholy, his lean clean-shaven chops giving him an American expression, like that of Uncle Sam. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z About 2 million years ago, some of these archaic men and women left their homeland to journey through and settle vast areas of North Africa, Europe and Asia. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Somewhere along the way, Lazlo had accepted that the answers weren’t here, not in all these tomes on all these great, vast shelves. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z “They could really use someone with your vast stores of knowledge.” Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z The vast majority of those stopped and searched were racial minorities, and more than half were African American. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z And so they’d gone on in mystery, but not without resentment and a vast deal of speculation. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z Lupita followed Salvador into the meadows that lay beneath the vast concrete arches. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z Since the vast disturbances in the Arctic, the ice had begun to disappear, and Iorek knew that he had to find an icebound fastness for his kin, or they would perish. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z Even Cutie at the far end—the only one on his feet—remained silent, eyes fixed upon the gloomy recesses of the vast machine before him. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z Ludus had hundreds of large forests scattered all over its surface, in the vast sections of empty land that stood between the thousands of school campuses. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z In Will’s large suburban house, Annabelle and Will are in the bonus room—that vast, luxurious space where Will and Stevie played when they were little, and where they now hang out with their friends. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z The Capitol twinkles like a vast field of fireflies. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z Bando will go to the library to find out where the hacking will be held on the vast preserve. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z The water tumbled past him as if from a vast faucet, larger by far than even the spout that poured water into the great white tub his boy bathed in. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z He’d left home after high school with nothing but his wits and his imagination, and he’d used them to attain worldwide fame and amass a vast fortune. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z They have absorbed a vast inventory of words, idioms, constructions, tropes, and rhetorical tricks, and with them a sensitivity to how they mesh and how they clash. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z There was hardly a light on in the whole vast house, and once or twice Meggie bumped her knee on a chair or a little table that she hadn't seen in the gloom. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z I am midway across a vast meadow, tall grass cutting my legs, before I realize I have nowhere to go. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z It took them to the edge of a vast desert. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z The unpredictable current and the vast, complex system of wildlife that resides beneath the churning water gave me hives. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z So the vast ocean had its will with Aias, drunk in the end on salt spume as he drowned. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z Suddenly, Celaena found herself standing at the white line, looking at the vast length of the room before her. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z The sea stretches before me, vast and bright and inviting. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z Behind it there hung a vast shadow, ominous as a thunder-cloud, the veils of Barad-dûr that was reared far away upon a long spur of the Ashen Mountains thrust down from the North. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z The vast majority consisted of allusions to prior communications whicb Major Major had never seen or heard of. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z The Sapiens population was thinly spread over vast territories. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Backward she sprang as the huge shape crashed to ruin, vast wings outspread, crumpled on the earth; and with its fall the shadow passed away. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z She was entirely round, now, like a vast life buoy with piggy eyes, and her hands and feet stuck out weirdly as she drifted up into the air, making apoplectic popping noises. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z He stood erect as if frozen amid the hysterical crowd in his box and around it—all around the vast arena. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z Instead of the ashy haze that hung over them, he saw with Gray a vast blue bowl of sky. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z It was magnitude 7.5, not vast as earthquakes go, but so abrupt and wrenching that it collapsed an entire mountainside. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z The gods had to be propitiated, and a vast industry of priests and oracles arose to make the gods less angry. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z So in fourteenth-century polyphony, the perfect fifth, the perfect fourth and the octave comprised the vast majority of note combinations, or chords, on offer. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z That is why he sold the vast Louisiana Territory to Jefferson for the bargain price of just fifteen million dollars. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z It flashed from the woodwork and the walls; it smote him with an awful, total power, as if generated by a vast mill. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z I looked past him, along the line of his shoulder, to a vast shopping mall with a prairie-sized parking lot, and agreed. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z The Harvard professor was known for his vast knowledge of international affairs—and his habit of insulting whoever was not in the room. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z To Richard Parker I shouted, “Stop your trembling! This is miracle. This is an outbreak of divinity. This is ... this is ...” I could not find what it was, this thing so vast and fantastic. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z When they finally spied Castle Black, its timbered keeps and stone towers looked like nothing more than a handful of toy blocks scattered on the snow, beneath the vast wall of ice. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z “I hope you chose something suitable from my vast wardrobe?” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z The vast trunk, supported in the grove by its torn-up roots and out on the grass by the mass of branches, was high above their heads. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z How could such a small target account for such a vast anger? The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z But in the deepest infinity—nestled within the vast continuum of numbers—zero kept appearing. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z Sturtevant’s rudimentary genetic map would foreshadow the vast and elaborate efforts to map genes along the human genome in the 1990s. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z Behind him lay the parking lot, a vast open space where occasional clumps of planted bushes spread long shadows over the ground. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z It stretched out before him, narrow and stony and pocked with weeds, a road of no particular promise, yet die sight of it filled Jon Snow with, a vast longing. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z Their rising income has paid for construction of vast megachurches in suburbs across the country. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z It helped the Lord to keep track of his vast realm. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z Other structures loomed in the distance, and beyond it all lingered Lake Michigan’s vast liquid darkness. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z Mrs. Clarke hustled her directly to the drawing room in such a flurry of chatter Penelope barely had time to gape at the grandeur of the house’s vast interior. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z Eradication there would be a formidable undertaking, considering the vast areas involved and the probability of re-invasion from Mexico. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z But the vast flood in the sky was another matter entirely. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z ‘That’s Portsmouth. Fort William and Mary. They have only a handful of men on duty there and a vast store of powder and ball.’ Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z Students stood under the last line of lanterns, their fingers curling through the plastic- coated wire of the fence, peering into the vast blackness, straining for a glimpse, a scrap of sound. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z More than any scientist before him, Bateson also grasped the idea that the discontinuous nature of genetic information carried vast implications for the future of human genetics. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z Had this information been acquired before the program was launched, a vast amount of damage could have been avoided and the taxpayers could have been saved a great deal of money. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z The Protectorate sat at the bottom of a long, gentle slope, right before the slope opened up into the vast Zirin Bog. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z Her face was sweet and tender, and, like Mr. Morton, she loved the vast hordes of unwashed and unwanted children more than she loved the cared-for ones. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z As he ran, a three-quarters-full moon was slowly descending against a vast canvas of multicolored stars. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z He worked all day at a vast black Linotype, refreshing himself at intervals from a gallon jug containing harmless cherry wine. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z Sitting in his throne, I felt like I had the entire sea at my command—vast cubic miles of ocean churning with power and mystery. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z As they rode, the empty sky and snow melted into each other, making Pinmei feel as if they were sailing on a vast white sea. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z They were ripples in the landscape, faint echoes of vast upheavals elsewhere. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z Chamberlain saw a vast pot of stewed chicken, a pot of hot tea, a disappearing loaf of battered bread, some pickles. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z The verb must be changed — at least in those already vast and growing areas where man is attempting to improve on nature’s way. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z It was a large, stately apartment, with purple chairs and curtains, a Turkey carpet, walnut-panelled walls, one vast window rich in stained glass, and a lofty ceiling, nobly moulded. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z The scene below seemed to unfold as if it were a vast diorama in a lighted case. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z And some worlds will look out onto a vast gaseous nebula, the remains of an ordinary star that once was and is no longer. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Each of them floating by themselves, out in a vast space. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z The silence of the catacombs is as vast as a moonless night, and as eerie. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z His collection was vast: classical, jazz, a ton of rock, five albums that featured Tuvinian throat singers. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z But when she opened her eyes, she was still alone in the middle of a vast lake. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z His enemy halted again, facing him, and the shadow about it reached out like two vast wings. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z The Cardinal strain was definitely a hot agent—it killed the cells in vast numbers, and it killed them fast. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Its only windows offer a view of sweet-gum trees, a vast and barely used supermarket parking lot, and an expressway beyond. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z The man pronounced Bigger’s name over and over again and Bigger felt that he was caught up in a vast but delicate machine whose wheels would whir no matter what was pitted against them. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z But once you get inside, it feels vast. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z Once it was dark, we remained by the instruments and saw the stars in their vaster orbits above us. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z Besides, it is dawning on me belatedly that Minneapolis is far vaster than Key West or Pordand, Maine, and that my two live job possibilities—Wal-Mart and Menards—are separated by about thirty miles. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z But early in September the vast majority of sufferers Rush saw and heard about were white. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z We slept in goat- hair tents that protected us from the harsh conditions in the vast wasteland. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z I wonder if Genly Ai sees that in Orgoreyn, despite the vast visible apparatus of government, nothing is done visibly, nothing is said aloud. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z They went north around the vast basin of bones, and then west. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z It seems safe to say that the vast majority of people lived in small bands numbering several dozen or at most several hundred individuals, and that all these individuals were humans. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z The humped outline of the vast heap of earth emerged from the empty green like a powerful prairie ship. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z A kilometer away the Ministry of Truth, his place of work, towered vast and white above the grimy landscape. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z Where were the lighthouses to guide my newly built ship of knowledge just setting sail on a perilous journey upon a vast, turbulent and unknown ocean of life? Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z Beyond the infrared is the vast spectral region of the radio waves. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z The edges that bordered the vast opening were smooth, except for one odd, repeating pattern on both sides. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z I knew God’s scale to be vast and perfectly accurate: I pictured it as a much larger version of the one at the butcher’s counter in the Bethlehem Piggly Wiggly. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z According to theories, they don’t always erupt explosively but sometimes burst forth in a vast, continuous outpouring–a flood–of molten rock, such as with the Deccan Traps in India sixty-five million years ago. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z She had never seen anyone shift such vast amounts of food, not even Constance or Ambrose Spike. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z He walked with Iorek up the slope toward the cave, where the fire glow still shone warmly in the vast surrounding dark. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z A vast promenade, mausoleum, acropolis, planetarium, library, opera house—everything marble and granite, everything profoundly clean. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z The vast mortality, involving something over 50 million of us each year, takes place in relative secrecy. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z The universe was vaster–vastly vaster–than anyone had ever supposed. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z To discover the agent of disease and death depends on a patient piecing together of many seemingly distinct and unrelated facts developed through a vast amount of research in widely separated fields. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z As though they had picked this for their home from a vast array of posh housing estates listed in a glossy pamphlet. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Thunder rumbled above and there was the distant whine of the vast clouds of flies, but this little patch of Manhattan echoed with Belet's laughter. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z There were white people to either side of him; he was sitting between two vast white looming walls. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z As a result, the vast majority of horses’ sleeping is done standing, which they can do thanks to ligaments that lock their leg joints in the extended position. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z PPC is a vast and germy pit stop on the highway of life, but you make it a little cooler. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z Until two years later, seemingly out of nowhere, an orchid sprouted, a shock of blue in this vast expanse of empty dirt. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z He had now a vast field of good land, for the new field was twice as large as the first. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z What a vast difference between Mary and those for whom I was leaving her. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z This is not all the truth, but it must suffice, for words cannot draw the vast map of my longing. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z The beautiful design and the vast open space reminded her of Mount Olympus. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z Metal shelves stretched into the darkness of a vast gray hall. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z He thought the American government’s plan to stabilize the local economy might help the wealthy business class, but it would do nothing to ease the suffering of the vast majority of people. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z After the great storm, Ma and Ba worried that vast damage had been done to the village. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z True turning points exist, but they are nearly always the visible tip of a vast and highly complex social process. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z It gazed at him from a vast distance, full of deep knowledge he couldn’t begin to understand. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z It did not look out on a vast landscape, but on a hemlock forest. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z And I remember, too, the talks of visiting speakers, all eager to inform us of how fortunate we were to be a part of the "vast" and formal ritual. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z He stood in a vast gloomy space like an underground parking garage. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z In those days Nebraska stood on a vast, hot plain very like the Serengeti of Africa today. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z Even today the vast majority of human communication—whether in the form of emails, phone calls or newspaper columns—is gossip. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z His rage was dreadful and yet Harry’s grief for Dobby seemed to diminish it, so that it became a distant storm that reached Harry from across a vast, silent ocean. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z Yakov, in comparison, had been like a mountain lake, its stillness a guise for its cold and vast depth. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z English were building factories, drinking tea, and organizing against the slave trade, the vast majority of Russians were serfs. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z The impossible demands had been removed and I felt a vast relief. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z “Light, light,” said an immense voice in vast syllables once or innumerable times. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z And the talk would weave, roll, surge, spurt, veer, swell, having no specific aim or direction, touching vast areas of life, expressing the tentative impulses of childhood. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z “Or am I lost in my vast credulity?” Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z Tables were set for the party in one of the vast gardens surrounding the Big House. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z On all sides he could see only the dark, slender silhouettes of trees, as if he were in a vast cage. The Fighting Ground 1984-04-01T00:00:00Z On December 11, a vast force, including eleven destroyers and light cruisers, launched an invasion attempt. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z The snow moved in no given direction, but filled the world with a vast white storm of flying powder. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z He had small teeth set in vast expanses of gum; those round ears; and delicate, almost maidenly skin that tended to flush and pale with the waxing and waning of his digestive problems. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z He could run, skip, jump—dance, even—on the vast linoleum without fear. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z I played my way farther out into the world, vast cavern aboveground, cautiously darting from tree to tree challenging the terrible forces of night on tiptoe. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z “I'm going to have to deduct the money for a glass beetle,” the burly redbeard announced as he let himself fall into his vast armchair. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z Far below another river churned, and above them birds with vast wingspans shrieked, their calls echoing down the rocky canyon. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z We were supposed to be reaching an understanding here about the elephant-grass fan belt illustrating God’s vast greatness; nobody wanted to be called on. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Very gingerly the boy began to cut a thin slice of the vast cake. Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z At that point it is no longer George Naylor’s corn—it becomes part of the vast river of corn flowing out of the Midwest toward your supermarket. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z ‘But the Tate Modem’s different. It’s an old power station. With a vast chimney. And Tall with a capital T.’ The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z Fear seemed to stretch out a vast hand, like a dark cloud rising in the East and looming up to engulf him. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z The bow was a vast wall of metal that was getting wider every second. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z He hurried across his land to the vast metal storage shed. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z He looked off to the east and west, at the Wall stretching before him, a vast white road with no beginning and no end and a dark abyss on either side. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z These were vast, airy marshes, some of them thirty miles wide, as splendid as fields of ripened wheat, yet as desolate in some ways as the dark side of the moon. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z The dockyard was vast and isolated—the ideal place for, say, a renegade god and his horde of demons to settle in. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z Now, here I am, staying in this vast penthouse suite that Hideo himself had requested for me. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z Emmett had my door open before the truck was stopped; he pulled me out of the seat, tucked me like a football into his vast chest, and ran me through the door. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z My grandsires owned a vast armory full of magnificent and valued battle equipment. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z It was a feeling of narrowness turned vast, as if she could hide small worlds within her. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z But to my surprise, the latch of the vast door lifted to release me. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z "My brother is young and strong, and he has a vast host around him, and these rainbow knights of his." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z On the floor of the endless plain, there was a vast, slow movement among the uncountable ghosts. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z Vespucci’s claim was that he had encountered a vast new landmass which formed no part of the previously known world—he had found a New World. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z The Nazis accorded music considerable esteem, hoping to shape the course of musical history by manipulative policies affecting the production and reception of music across the vast territories they eventually controlled. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z Then some unexplained turmoil within the earth’s mantle caused the land to break apart and drift off as vast asymmetrical chunks. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z But from the first stirrings of this project in the late summer of 2003 it was clear that the subject of class was more formidable—vast, amorphous, politically charged, largely unacknowledged. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z The MacGregors ruled the land near San Diego, and the Alacrans had a vast empire stretching from central California all across Arizona and into New Mexico. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Bram was right: people really are like houses with vast rooms and tiny windows. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z Whole rain forests had been consumed, reduced from millions of interlocking species to a bunch of cows eating grass, a vast web of life traded for cheap hamburgers. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z In all the vast hilly country there was no sound. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z In the vast spaces between the planets there are many objects, some rocky, some metallic, some icy, some composed partly of organic molecules. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z One weekend, the washing machine is occupied because Sonia is in the process of dyeing the vast majority of her clothing black. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z The sun set in a navy blue sky, and the stars sparkled on and off as they spoke of their vast distances from the earth. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z About where he got the vast webwork of scars that decorated his face and torso. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z To many German people, the vast army of working young people looked impressive. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z The site is, I am told by my friend Jeff Guinn of the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, "essentially a vast, cleared field dotted along the circumference by a series of disappointed small towns." A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z The other side looked like a vast red desert. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z We crawled around in the vast hollow pieces and the legs and the head. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z Whichever, it is a shocking sum, and just to mention it is to suggest the presence of a vast, powerful enterprise, intricately organized and coordinated. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Ahead of us, cleared and revealed by the same vast sweep of the wind, lay twisted valleys, hundreds of feet below, full of ice and boulders. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z Great shadows sprang up and fled, and for a second they saw a vast roof far above their heads upheld by many mighty pillars hewn of stone. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z The Elderclock chimed on unheeded as the schooner vanished into the vast black shelter of the sea, leaving only suffering in her wake. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z Not daring even to look at each other, Harry and Ron followed Snape up the steps into the vast, echoing entrance hall, which was lit with flaming torches. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z To begin with, it was very little faster than the vast body of water around them, and it might have been moving like that for some time without their noticing. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z “Not yet, no. But there is still plenty of time. Posterity is vast.” The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z From there we saw for a while, away below and beyond us eastward, vague vast lands blurred with clouds and shadows of clouds and streaked with silver of rivers, the Plains of Rer. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z For the vast majority of stars, there is only one characteristic feature that we can observe—the color of their light. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z They were very small to look at, yet he knew, somehow, that they were huge, with a vast stretch of pinion, flying at a great height. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z The son of a New England farmer and shoemaker was being accused of aristocratic allegiances by an owner of slaves with vast estates, much of both inherited from his wife’s side of the family. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z It was a vast expanse of cherry wood the size of an English baron’s dining table; smoked glass covered most of its surface. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z The vast, fluid space creates an atmosphere of quiet harmony while actively shaping our experience by determining how art shall be displayed. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z The tunnel was so interminable that she was unprepared when it abruptly ended in a vast chamber as large as a cavern. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z I'm just one small bit in a vast expanse. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z His expression was distracted again, and I didn’t doubt that his vast machine of a brain was busy thinking about a half dozen things all at once. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z But he took a deep breath and headed downstairs to the vast subway system that snaked beneath the city like hidden rivers. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z I have rooms there now—a vast sitting area, a bedroom behind latching double doors, and a dressing area with empty closets. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z Holding the glowing crystal before it, the horned toad exited the cornfield and entered the vast open desert. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z He took my arm and, looking around to be sure we were not being watched, guided me out of the hall through its vast doors. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z Electricity, to me, had always been a novelty and a luxury, and here was a vast landscape of electricity, a city of light. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z This brief overview of precolonial North America counteracts the settler-colonial myth of the wandering Neolithic hunter and vast unused and uncharted lands. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z Indeed, her mind felt like a vast storage room whose locked cupboards were all at once not only unlocking but flinging themselves open and dumping their contents on the floor. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z Congress effectively outlawed their communal property, passing vast acreages into the public domain, tracts which then suddenly wound up in the hands of large American ranching enterprises like the Devine Company. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Wings whose vast sweep shadowed a whole city, and he had only to fold them like a lady’s fan. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z The openings between the buildings led into a vast nighttime marketplace, lit by a procession of fluorescent lights. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z It left behind a vast expanse of mud, seaweed, shells, and the occasional, very unlucky jellyfish. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z The labs have vast ceilings and blackboards across the front. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z While Millard rambled on about the history of the Map, I traced with my finger a vast and trackless desert in Asia. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z The pale sky looked vast and you could see it reflected every so often in the patches of water breaking up the land. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z Two against a vast mob that must seem to them like one great animal, menacing them from above and from all around. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z Even from afar they looked vast and cold and inhospitable. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z Yet the strong anthropic principle would claim that this whole vast construction exists simply for our sake. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z It was a distance vast enough to have taken them weeks of walking and at which they must have died, some of them, before it was done. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z Pinmei continued to stare, the small figures like two stitches of embroidery thread on a vast tapestry. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z Perched atop a high mountain on the other side, its windows sparkling in the starry sky, was a vast castle with many turrets and towers. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z The ceiling and walls had been draped with emerald, crimson, and gold hangings, so that it looked as though they were all inside a vast tent. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z I sensed, too, that the Southern scheme of oppression was but an appendage of a far vaster and in many respects more ruthless and impersonal commodity-profit machine. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z And so I went to see it where it lives, in the vast cornfields of the Midwest. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z ‘It’s early days. He’s only been missing a few hours. And in the vast majority of cases, young people who disappear like Salim are found within forty-eight hours.’ The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z It was rather frightening, this vast sculpture of a witch and a wizard sitting on ornately carved thrones, looking down at the Ministry workers toppling out of fireplaces below them. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z He wanted the Romans to believe that in the Donations of Alexandria Mark Antony had given his vast holdings, present and future, to Egypt—a foreign power—and had not given the Romans anything. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z Dim yellow light through The rear window of the bar showed a vast pale form crouching upright and gnawing at a haunch of meat which it held in both hands. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z It was assumed by many PIH allies that Goldfarb had already made up his mind—he wanted his resources to go to curing the vast majority. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z The vast cyclic movements of chemical elements such as carbon and nitrogen through soil and air and living tissue could not proceed without these microplants. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Cadres of expensive professionals—lawyers, accountants, computer gurus, helpline responders—drain vast sums of money from the economy to clarify poorly drafted text. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z She brought me a vast, viscous, canary-yellow wedge of lemon pie. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z Her cries, as faint as the chirping of a cricket in the vast black night, were lost in the darkness. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z Suspecting that Lim was actually running a vast smuggling ring, they raided his shop. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z Moreover, vast tracts in the West had already been promised to the Indians, whose response to a population of black neighbors was likely to prove uncharitable in the extreme. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z Even in its stillness, a roll heaves beneath its vast surface like a giant turning over in his sleep. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z As windy as he was vast, he began by asking Winterfell to confirm the new customs officers he had appointed for White Harbor. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z With a desperate lash of its tail the rodent bolted between Mrs. Clarke’s legs, through the doors of the ballroom, and disappeared into the vast house beyond. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z In that vast space you can sail unaccompanied for hours, afloat on pine and brush and rock. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z With the opening of vast new territories, slaves had tripled in value. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z Having direct knowledge of the Lyceum, he probably helped design arrangements in the Museum; he is credited with urging Ptolemy I to purchase and/or copy books in vast numbers for the Library. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z His great silver eyes seemed vast in their sunken sockets. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z What we know today as Mexico and Central America are vast areas of land where many different nations of people lived, and have lived, for thousands of years. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z When the eerie feeling of being watched persisted, Miyax began to wonder if the vast nothingness was driving her mad, as it did many gussaks. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Looking out a minute ago I saw the glow of the volcano as a dull red bloom on the belly of vast clouds overhanging the darkness. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z A vast amount of information on the biology of the screw- worm had been accumulated over the years by Agriculture Department scientists in Texas. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Day after day, a vast heavy veil had been driving over London from the East, and it drove still, as if in the East there were an eternity of cloud and wind. Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z She was standing in the middle of a vast plain in the snow-shimmer night. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z When I look back at my first party at Manderley, my first and my last, I can remember little isolated things standing alone out of the vast blank canvas of the evening. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z All of them have not contributed, for example, the 1986 team, but the vast majority of the teams have contributed in many different ways. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Today there is a vast international radio, television and radar communications traffic. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z He was, at long last, about to be alone in the vast Alaska wilds. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z The gloom of the forest didn’t relent, though, for there were six primordial cedars that shaded an entire acre with their vast sweep of branches. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z I know I will never know a joy so vast as I experienced when I entered that tree’s dappled, shimmering shade and heard the dry, crisp sound of the wind rustling its leaves. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z At their first halt they looked back, and they could dimly perceive the roofs of the forest they had left behind, lying like a vast dense shadow, a darker night under the dark blank sky. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z The thought of crossing a vast stretch of sea is terrifying, especially if it happens after dark. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z Anatole told me these stories at night with a flat resignation, but I cursed and threw pillows and cried while he held me in the vast comfort of our married-student double bed. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z He had run out of words, and he was filled with a vast sense of helplessness. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z The museum’s various levels were comprised of vast caverns linked by a network of subterranean streets, tunnels, staircases, elevators, escalators, ladders, slides, trapdoors, and secret passageways. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z When I visit the local branch of my bank, I don’t think of this vast business as a tree, but ‘branch’ here is a dead metaphor. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Inej saw there was a mosaic on the floor of the vast rotunda below. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z Behind the dense sandstone of the header, the Captain believed, was a vast, undiscovered coal seam. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z He raised one huge hand like a vast claw and made a gesture as if pushing a disgusting thing away from him, into the black air. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z In surveying the forests from the air, vast blighted areas could be seen where the magnificent Douglas firs were turning brown and dropping their needles. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z The predator and the preyed upon exist not alone, but as part of a vast web of life, all of which needs to be taken into account. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z They were in the tipped-over pots on their hands and knees, scraping off bits of burned potato that still clung stubbornly to the vast pot bottom. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z And then the long roar as of the whole vast rumbling earth beginning to open. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z It took nearly a minute to connect, the line hissing and clicking, going quiet, then hissing again, so that I could feel every mile of the vast distance my call was spanning. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z His eyes were looking far away into the same vast void. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z Stretching to one side of him was a vast sweep of tall buildings flecked with tiny squares of yellow light. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z Coney Island twinkled beneath them, and behind them, the Atlantic Ocean reached its vast darkness into the night. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z But, at other times, vast, well-constructed, apparently robust intellectual edifices are swept away with barely a murmur because, to paraphrase Vadianus, experience really can be demonstrative. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Early editions of Archimedes come with illustrations which show objects floating in a vast ocean of water, an ocean which stretches right around the globe, and Galileo drew such sketches in his own text. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Harry shouted again, but the others needed no telling: They all scattered, and not a second too soon, for next moment the creature’s vast foot had fallen exactly where they had been standing. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z The vast depth of it fascinated and oppressed him. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z “So? So the Sahara is a vast desert. And it has existed for millions of years. And you changed it!” Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z If you have ability, the vast network of hockey scouts and talent spotters will find you, and if you are willing to work to develop that ability, the system will reward you. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z This period of control may last a lifetime, even for those convicted of extremely minor, nonviolent offenses, but the vast majority of those swept into the system are eventually released. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z The fires of Castle Black were hidden behind a hill, but the Wall was there, pale beneath the moon, vast and cold, running from horizon to horizon. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z Hearings in the vast courthouse are never reliably scheduled. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z He spent all his wealth on vast supplies of food which never gave him a moment’s satisfaction. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z I thought, It's happening, the it too terrifying and vast to name with anything but a pronoun. Turtles All the Way Down 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z The four friends hurried under the arch that led into the vast Rotunda Reading Room. Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z It was too vast and confusing to contemplate. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z “A member of the vast teenage underground besieged me on Carondelet Street.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Because even though our orchid was dead, there was still that vast, beautiful field of blue all the way in New Mexico, full of miracles and hope. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z The ground trembled as the vast river plunged underneath the road. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z There was little daylight in any case, but Lyra did look, and found herself standing in front of a vast building of stone. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z From the books I read, my knowledge of love was vast, but my experience of it was naught. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z The red eyes looked up out of a vast darkness. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z This vast brick temple consisted of seven 18-foot-high stories, each painted a different color. The Annotated Mona Lisa 1992-06-01T00:00:00Z Meridians of energy ran through every human being and animal and plant; they lay in limitless lines in the earth and the air like a vast web. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z Giants they seemed to him, vast grey figures silent but threatening. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z Edusco liked him, he could tell; he imagined Edusco talking about him in a gathering of other self-made Igbo men, men who were brash and striving, who juggled huge businesses and supported vast extended families. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z Corkers was a charmer, a vast ungainly man with drooping bloodhound cheeks and filthy clothes. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z But what of the vaster machines that will be giving instructions to cities, to nations? The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z “Well,” I answered, skirting the vast racial chasm between us, “I hope you are.” Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z Most occupy a vast middle ground of ordinary, while others are more distinct: pleasant, even beautiful, or sometimes slippery and unaccountably wrong-feeling. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z Marveling at Ann’s vast knowledge of federal housing laws, a HUD consultant admitted that “she knows more than most bureaucrats in Washington.” The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z The remnants of his vast web were there still, but the swarm of descendants he had spawned had been driven out by the Death Eaters, to fight for their cause. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z And it was, in a way, though it looked awfully lonely in the vast countryside—and dilapidated, too. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z The family had once owned vast amounts of land, many businesses, and other kinds of property. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z It was a vast room, full of people loudly talking and arguing. The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z Many, especially the baleen whales, are placid browsers, straining through vast volumes of ocean for the small animals on which they graze; others eat fish and krill. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z From here there was no land to be seen anywhere—just a vast expanse of blue water rippling in the evening sun. And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z It need hardly be said that the subtlest practitioners of doublethink are those who invented doublethink and know that it is a vast system of mental cheating. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z The vast majority of these “anti” women were educated, married, wealthy white women, who enjoyed the privileges of their status without considering the practical problems facing poor and powerless working-class women. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z With a vast rush Grond was hurled forward by huge hands. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z Why hypothesize the existence of vast, super-deadly pandemics that seem unlike anything else in the historical record? 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z This proliferation of corn and other crops such as beans, squash, and potatoes required vast networks of cultural and commercial exchange among the peoples of North, Central, and South America. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z The vast canvas awning kept the worst of the sun off the highest-paying citizens; the rest sat or stood in its full blaze. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z As we drew nearer, the castle appeared more vast than the entire village, and the sun itself was not able to brighten its gray stone walls. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z The banker glanced up, to where the ice loomed vast and pale against the sky. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z But I wanted somebody to know that out of that vast sea of ignorance in the Black Belt there was at least one person who knew the game for what it was. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z It was something which announced itself; a chill breath that seemed to issue from some vast cavern wherein discords wailed. The Awakening 1899-01-01T00:00:00Z There was a gap right in front of them: the entrance to the vast maze. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z The vast majority of my attacks are called absence seizures. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z I hope that the next time I see you, you will be a new man with a vast array of new adventures and experiences behind you. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z By 1600 William Gilbert could complain that intellectuals were expected to navigate ‘so vast an Ocean of Books by which the minds of studious men are troubled and fatigued’. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z “Respect for the individual” is where we, the associates, come in, because vast as Wal-Mart is, and tiny as we may be as individuals, everything depends on us. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z There just seemed to be nothing else to fill up the vast lostness of the moment. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z The vast majority of those arrested for drug crimes are not charged with serious offenses, and most of the people in state prison on drug charges have no history of violence or significant selling activity. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z He executed a vast swirling bow, nearly falling from the horse, arose grinning, mouth a half moon of cheery teeth. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Directly ahead of them, Nina saw a vast, silvery tree at the center of a circular courtyard, its boughs spreading over the stones in a sparkling canopy. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z For these poor, ignorant white girls to have understood my life would have meant nothing short of a vast revolution in theirs. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z She could hear more clearly than ever the immense singing hiss and swish of vast intangible forces. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z A second later, the carriage landed too, bouncing upon its vast wheels, while the golden horses tossed their enormous heads and rolled large, fiery red eyes. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z It was a vast stage without scenery, inviting him to run across, easily seen in the blazing illumination, easily caught, easily shot down. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z A few days ago it had seemed like a vast treasure trove, but now I knew it would never be enough. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z In that sense the secret is locked forever in the vast recesses of Burr’s famously enigmatic mind at that most pregnant moment. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z More and more Europeans saw growing sugar in the New World with slave labor as the road to vast wealth. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z We would release a huge bubble of energy that expands at the speed of light, leaving a vast trail of destruction in its wake. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z And something vast, green, and glittering erupted from the patch of darkness Harry’s eyes had been struggling to penetrate; it flew up over the treetops and into the sky. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z There are no mountains, valleys, volcanoes, rivers; no boundaries between land and air; just a vast ocean of dense gas and floating clouds—a world without a surface. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Each vast floor of a call center consists of clusters of cubicles. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z These laws operate collectively to ensure that the vast majority of people convicted of crimes will never integrate into mainstream, white society. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z The stars called to her like signal beacons burning on a vast black sea as she flung herself a hundredfold into the dizzy air. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z It was a small place tucked away at the edge of the vast Jongwe estate. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z But the universe is vast, and supernovae are normally much too far away to harm us. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z They wove through a neighborhood where the homes became increasingly larger and the grounds more vast, until the residences disappeared entirely behind gates and ivy-covered walls. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z It’s a vast congregation of hunger, infectious disease, and desperation, masquerading as opportunity. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z The truth was vast enough to drown in. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z I had read with awe how the Communists had sent phonetic experts into the vast regions of Russia to listen to the stammering dialects of peoples oppressed for centuries by the czars. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z In 1790, however, despite the presumptive dreams of a continental empire, the Louisiana Purchase remained in the future and the vast trans-Mississippi region continued under Spanish ownership. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z His ambitions had fixed upon the vast new America on the other side of the Rockies. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z The vast majority of jockeys’ wives couldn’t stand to watch their husbands’ races and rarely, if ever, came to the track. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Among Violet’s many useful skills was a vast knowledge of different types of knots. The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z What maharaja’s son had such vast, luxuriant grounds to play about? Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z Presently one flitted up from some roofless ruin of the town like a vast black bat, thin-winged and spiny-backed, and circling into the north wind came flying towards Ged. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z Of course, none of the vast crowd who would be there today would know that she wasn’t there of her own free will, but had been condemned to watch the spectacle as a punishment. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z Now in those days there was a terrible war being fought across a vast empire. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z I stagger to my feet, a lonely silhouette in a vast emptiness. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z Nathan asked Spider as they stared at the vast desert before them. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z The following day the SS—an organization that began as Hitler's personal bodyguard and grew to have vast authority over the "Jewish question"—continued to patrol the ghetto. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z But the vast majority of wild plants don’t reproduce that way. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z In South Carolina the vast, undisciplined army could find another excuse for its excesses beyond the slogan, “This is War, and War is Hell.” Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z He bought up a huge portion of Edmonton and built the first real house in town, a vast home surrounded by sprawling acres of virgin countryside. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z John turned away, and looked out over the church, which now seemed like a vast, high field, ready for the harvest. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z As a whole it is a vast, miraculous musical jigsaw, never since matched by any composer. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z Rills of water began to run down; soon they grew to a spate that splashed and fumed on the stones, and spouted out over the cliff like the gutters of a vast roof. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z “Not always. Not in the vast majority of cases...Very rarely.” The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z 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 But it’s better when the common threads are made explicit, because in the vast private web of a writer’s imagination, anything can be similar to anything else. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z And the stars overhead were alive with the promise of Hrothgar’s vast power, his universal peace. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z This corner of southwestern Idaho is unrelentingly poor and plain, with vast stretches of empty roads and treeless farmland, intersected by equally vast swatches of fast-food franchises and car dealerships. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Time was looming vast and terrifying before them. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z I could not imagine God pausing in His guidance of unimaginably vast worlds to bother with me. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z The smoke of hearthfires lingered blue over the slate roofs of little towns among those hills, a pleasant sight in the vast sameness of the sea. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z Like that complex, it was a vast grid of chain-link fencing with few walls, so the prisoners were visible to the guards and each other. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z She looked around and realized that every object on this vast plain had grown a vaporous comet’s tail—all pointing toward Tartarus. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z “They hold vast portions of the nation’s wealth and pay a proportionate share of the taxes.” Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z Though the reality and meaning of the Bible stories seemed vast and alien, I still found the stories enthralling, so I said: “The Bible stories are nice.” Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z Now Surtr, the burning giant, who was there before the beginning of all things, looks out at the vast plain of death and raises his bright sword to the heavens. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z I reached my arms to that vast blue sky. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z But then reflect that the vast majority of wild plants are unsuitable for obvious reasons: they are woody, they produce no edible fruit, and their leaves and roots are also inedible. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z She entered a vast circular ballroom packed with people dancing and drinking beneath a glistening pack of wolves hewn from ice. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z It was during these quiet hours that he could find perspective or inhale new information, adding data points to the vast mental map he carried around. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z The Dragon King’s voice boomed inside his vast body, the words echoing and vibrating like a gong in a large hall. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z But all of his bold resolve would have come to nothing without the vast indigenous army whose leaders believed they could use the Spanish presence to catalyze the destruction of the Triple Alliance. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z The stage is vast, the lighting is dramatic, the extras are innumerable, and the budget for special effects is absolutely unlimited. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z There must be some feature of the mineral content of these stone roads that made them run in ribbon-like lines over the vast savanna, and be so resistant to weathering or cracking. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z Milly has been a joy from the very first moment we laid eyes on her, and our love for her has only grown deeper and more vast as the days have progressed. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z In all the vast kingdom of the darkness only he moved, slowly, climbing. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z To indulge us, some of them even fell down and writhed convincingly on the Club House’s vast manicured lawn. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z They skipped through a set of glass doors and headed past the information booth to the vast foyer inside. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z A bigger gust moves the vast limbs, and the sound builds slowly until the wind commands the branches to dance and the leaves to titter. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z I was standing in a vast throne room with black marble walls and bronze floors. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z Maps conveyed nothing to Sam’s mind, and all distances in these strange lands seemed so vast that he was quite out of his reckoning. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z Beyond the trash heaps there was nothing at all— that is, only the vast Unknown Regions, where the darkness was absolute. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z City and sky become one, merging into a single plane, a vast sea of unbroken grey. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z Finally, he pulled a stool behind the bar and began to polish the vast array of bottles nestled between the two huge barrels. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z The rumbling mutter of the vast mob swept in. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z Only a few decades later, the astronomer Sir William Herschel confirmed this idea by painstakingly cataloging the positions and distances of vast numbers of stars. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z It was three storeys high, of proportions not vast, though considerable: a gentleman’s manor-house, not a nobleman’s seat: battlements round the top gave it a picturesque look. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z “To a nunnery!” he cried again, his voice echoing from the stone walls of the vast foyer. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z As the vast crowd broke into shouts and roars—of astonishment, delight, and approval—Aurelia jumped up. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z We kicked upward slowly, eyes on the serpent, a vast black silhouette circling around and around the rock. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z In his eyes, I see all the vast alienness of Faerie. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z She thought with dismay of the Richardsons, of the vast and gleaming Richardson house, of Pearl’s face when her mother dared set foot on this precious soil. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z I was standing in a vast cube-shaped crater—the space where the foundation and lower basement levels of Castle Anorak had stood. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z Of Asia they appreciated the vast extent of the Persian Empire, and they had an inkling of the Indian subcontinent beyond. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z I quickly realized the vast difference between choosing not to go to school for a day or two and being forbidden to ever attend. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z He had come to Hong Kong with a stack of flash drives containing classified NSA documents—documents that detailed a vast system of surveillance the American public had no idea existed. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z And Hazel saw herself in a vast cavern filled with strands of light like a luminous web. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z The top gangs went even further, buying vast “mother ships” that could be loaded with up to sixty thousand cases of drink. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z The vast beach, the thousands waiting on it, and the sea empty of boats returned the Tommies to their predicament. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z Gogol imagines that it will be a party of hundreds filling up a vast space, the sort of party where he might arrive and leave undetected. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z King Hamlet seemed like a giant to me with his vast chest and great beard. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z There were in fact many others, with vast tracts of empty space between them. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z But their forces, as vast and well-equipped as they were, were spread far too thin this time. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z Then he saw the little boy running fast and far ahead of him down a dark slope, the side of some vast hill. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z Each jeep contained six soldiers and a vast quantity of thick rope and heavy chains. The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z They can no longer carry on that extraordinary and efficient cycle by which vast amounts of ATP are produced, but are thrown back on a primitive and far less efficient method, that of fermentation. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z The hobbits soon found that what had looked like one vast fen was really an endless network of pools, and soft mires, and winding half-strangled water-courses. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z A vast winged shape passed over the moon like a black cloud. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z The vast majority of states continue to withhold the right to vote when people are released on parole. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z The red fires shone between it and the mantled shoulders vast and dark. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z The pervasive television, billboard, and Internet ads featured a lush green oasis, complete with palm trees and a pool of crystal blue water, surrounded on all sides by a vast barren desert. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z Reducing diversions even to 10 percent of total production, he calculated, would require a force of tens of thousands of inspectors fanned out across Russia’s vast territory. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Her eyeballs were beginning to get hot, as though vast energy was building up somewhere inside them. Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z Then, too, she would have advised against my marriage to Lelia, the lengthy Anglican goddess, who’d measure me ceaselessly while I slept, continually appraise our vast differences, count up the ways. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z The sun was high overhead in a vast sapphire-blue sky beaded with low, isolated, puffy clouds of dry and immaculate white. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z The two cart-horses, Boxer and Clover, came in together, walking very slowly and setting down their vast hairy hoofs with great care lest there should be some small animal concealed in the straw. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z All this requires vast amounts of energy —the little packets of ATP which the turning of the metabolic wheel alone can produce. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z A vast amount, of course, is contributed by Negroes, but there are rumors to the effect that people like Birchites and certain Texas oil millionaires look with favor on the movement. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z “Fine, fine. Enjoy your receipts. I’m not giving up on you, though. What’s the point of being old if you can’t beleaguer the young with your vast stores of wisdom?” Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z After three years of being Nikhil the vast majority of the time, he no longer minds. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z The crust of the earth is a vast museum.... The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z There were two tigers in that vast space. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z Percy grabbed Annabeth and backed away from the edge as a presence emerged from the void—a form so vast and shadowy, he felt like he understood the concept of dark for the first time. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z But it was really the vast polished dining room table I’d come to appraise. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z The two vast iron doors of the Black Gate under its frowning arch were fast closed. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z Around them, in the vast hall, flames leaped blue, flared, evaporated. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z His vast concern for “racial purity” obviously does not extend to all races. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z For those who don’t believe me: I’m assuming that after more than two thousand years the exhaled molecules are uniformly spread about the world and the vast majority are still free in the atmosphere. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z They were the only two human beings in that vast gulf of death. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z He saw, through the General’s eyes, the vast, sprawling city of Harare, which no one could completely control. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z Do you regard it proper for a prime minister not to respond to pleas made in regard to vital issues by the vast majority of the citizens of the country? Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z By the first century AD the vast majority of people throughout most of the world were agriculturists. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z I can see the whole mall and a bit of the world beyond: the frantic pinball machines, the pink billows of cotton candy, the vast and treeless parking lot. The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z My reading had created a vast sense of distance between me and the world in which I lived and tried to make a living, and that sense of distance was increasing each day. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z I’d spent the better part of the day in Alice’s staggeringly vast bathroom, a helpless victim as she played hairdresser and cosmetician. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z Now he said to her, with utmost condescension, “Dear girl, your credulity is as vast as this desert. One might get lost in it and never again encounter fact or reason.” Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z I cleared the Scoreboard off my display and opened up my grail diary, which had now grown into a vast mountain of data containing every scrap of information I’d collected since the contest began. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z The theater was hollow, empty, like a tomb with phantoms crawling gray and black on the vast screen. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z She stepped forward on the vast stage at the top of the world and bowed to her immense audience. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z In the sound of the drums I understood a vast pervading doom; but in the expectant silences between, my own disaster loomed larger, more consequent and more hurtful. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z I feel as if my body is dissolving and I am being drawn up and up, like thinning mist, into a vast emptying space. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z Cow paths had been transformed into paved thoroughfares, railroad tracks crisscrossed the valley floor, and electric lines snaked over the ridges and connected up to a vast switchyard hulking with transformers. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z He was surrounded by men sworn to House Lannister, a vast host twenty thousand strong, and yet he was alone. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z And there was the quiet terror that suffused my senses when vast hazes of gold washed earthward from star-heavy skies on silent nights . Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z “That I am not,” he said, winking, to the vast delight of the onlookers. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z The stage seemed vast and the roof of the theater house seemed lost—so far away it was. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z The sun had already set, and the vast interior space of the shell house was drafty and uncomfortable. 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 a son of God--a phrase which, if it means anything, means just that--and he must be about His Father's Business, the service of a vast, vulgar and meretricious beauty. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z Their vast wings seemed slow, but they flew fast, each downbeat driving them mightily through the air. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z I kept seeing my father standing at the rostrum in front of a vast empty hall, speaking to seats made vacant by the snow. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z “I cannot see that London has any great advantage over the country, for my part, except the shops and public places. The country is a vast deal pleasanter, is not it, Mr. Bingley?” Pride and Prejudice 1813-01-28T00:00:00Z He did not know that it was already behind him, somewhere back in that vast obscurity beyond the city, where the dark fields of the republic rolled on under the night. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z The King's Tower was before him, with its promise of warmth and a soft bed, yet Tyrion found himself walking past it, toward the vast pale palisade of the Wall. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z Now, invulnerable, I was as solitary as one live tree in a vast landscape of coal. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z With nearly eight hundred rooms and a vast, monolithic façade overlooking the Thames, the Cecil was Europe’s largest, if not grandest, hotel—a site typically reserved for diplomatic or national events. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z This—although the vast majority of Party members understand it only in a shallower sense—is the inner meaning of the Party slogan: WAR IS PEACE. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z But he had the opposite problem: The glare at the front of the vast, open room was almost too intense to look at. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z “He’s a beast, not a man! He could create a sea with all the blood he has spilled. And is still spilling! That Vast Wall is just a vast grave marker.” When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z I’ve already mentioned that Bigger had in him impulses which I had felt were present in the vast upheavals of Russia and Germany. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z For these chemicals are now stored in the bodies of the vast majority of human beings, regardless of age. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z On the other side, there was nothing but a vast expanse of ocean. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z Behind the facade lies a vast floor with no halls and no doors—just a gigantic room, doctors and nurses behind white masks, test tubes and pipettes, incubators and gurneys. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z I shut my eyes and imagined a vast, silent void. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z Walking across the train station’s vast parking lot, he seemed oblivious to the stream of grim, paunchy commuters on their way into the city. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z After several hours the commandant’s assistant calls him in and sets down his ballpoint and looks across his desk as though Werner is one among a vast series of trivial problems he must put right. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z For hours she watched the rapid sequence of textures that flapped like streamers outside her window: vast latifimdios, provinces of royal palms, black mountains encircled with clouds. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z Beyond that the ocean vast and cold and shifting heavily like a slowly heaving vat of slag and then the gray squall line of ash. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z Hamilton was hardly unique in his recognition that the vast resources of the North American continent constituted a repository of riches that, once unlocked, offered prospects of unparalleled prosperity and national destiny. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z The entire continent was now a vast American manor, within which the people could expand unrestricted by foreign opposition. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z A vast and inventive organization of living matter survives by seeming to have lost. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z With Muller’s discovery a vast new field of scientific and medical knowledge was opened up. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z He could only see a few feet in front of him, but the space must have been vast. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z Then rising swiftly up, far above the Towers of the Black Gate, high above the mountains, a vast soaring darkness sprang into the sky, flickering with fire. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z There was a vast green lawn enclosed by a white fence, the kind typically surrounding a horse ranch. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z Venus, they proposed, had a vast ocean of seltzer. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z She watched the Academy diminishing as they sailed away until it was only a small gray speck, indistinguishable from the vast dark sea. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z His footsteps echoed through the vast, silent reaches of the house. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z Cora pictured the insurrections as great, bloody battles, unfurling beneath a night sky lit by vast fires. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z It was a vast, luminous dream in which his whole life seemed to stretch out before him like a landscape on a summer evening after rain. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z Only a small minority are rearrested for violent crimes; the vast majority are rearrested for property offenses, drug offenses, and offenses against the public order. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z So Matt described the brown-clad men and women who toiled endlessly over the fields and the gardeners who clipped the vast lawns of El Patron’s estate with scissors. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z We together on a huge hall’s speaking platform, and that vast audience before us, miraculously manifested, as far as I was concerned, the incomprehensible power of Allah. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z They needed the rivers to rise in order to spread the fertile topsoil washed down from the highlands, and to enable their vast irrigation systems to fill with water. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z The gulf between the information we publicly proclaim and the information we know to be true is often vast. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z A vast low swale where ferns and hydrangeas and wild orchids lived on in ashen effigies which the wind had not yet reached. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z The museum had been a courthouse long ago and was now home to a vast and extraordinary collection of Mardi Gras artifacts and memorabilia. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z Here, in a vast open space—greater than Stromford’s entire commons—buildings pressed in on all sides. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z Behind her, the headstones fell away and it was all blue sky above the vast grayness of Erie. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z The Osage had seen what had happened to the Cherokee Outlet, a vast prairie that was part of the Cherokees’ territory and was near the western border of the Osage reservation. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z She had lived thus far in an isolated farmhouse surrounded by vast fields of wheat, with little to entertain her beyond the sound of the wind rustling the bone-dry stalks each autumn. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z To stay alive, I need a vast network of roots. Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z As late as AD 1400, the vast majority of farmers, along with their plants and animals, clustered together in an area of just 4.25 million square miles—2 per cent of the planet’s surface. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z He could see nothing but the instructor’s face and, beyond, the vast blue sky. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z And the feeling that people are like houses with vast rooms and tiny windows. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z His voice was clear, but it fell to nothing in the vast silence of the sea. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z For the first time, Meggie saw something like fear on Capricorn's face, a nameless fear without beginning or end, and behind it hatred rose like a vast black shadow. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z The vast majority fall into one of two large groups of chemicals. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Here the Continental Army had suffered through a winter of their own, and the vast, stark, frozen desolation itself seemed a more proper monument than statues and stones. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Now and again he glanced up at a vast face which eyed him from the opposite wall. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z The chamber in front of him, where the landing pad rotated before lowering down into the ground, was empty and vast. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z Each of them was a different word in a vast vocabulary I was just beginning to speak. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z Tom said with vast delight, ticking them off, “Lawrence, we got prisoners from the Fifteenth Alabama, the Forty- seventh Alabama, the Fourth and Fifth Texas. Man, we fought four Reb regiments!” The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z The treaty stated that in exchange for vast swaths of Muscogee land that would become part of what is now Georgia, the US government would pay $1,500 each year to the Muscogee Nation. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z My good Legolas, do you know that the caverns of Helm’s Deep are vast and beautiful? The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z The mayor was a vast, heavy man, so big in the middle that his arms looked small and dangling. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z She wanted tall southern grasses and the vast sky above the Sikurzoi Mountains. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z She stood there in the dust, one hand reaching toward Besa, but the distance between them had become so vast that she knew she could never touch him again. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z But he had on going to the Observer entered a new, vast, and exciting world. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z It would be ruthless, but a ruthlessness in the interest of Brotherhood, for we had only our minds and bodies, as against the other side's vast power. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z I became conscious, at first dimly, and then later on with increasing clarity and conviction, of a vast, muddied pool of human life in America. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z Boghetti was short, stocky, and dynamic, a demanding teacher with a vast store of knowledge about vocal technique and a stern manner with his students. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z The only pinpricks of joy in the vast, empty desert of my existence are the few remaining days of editing the movie I have made. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z Her footsteps crushed the fallen leaves and the dry branches, producing a light crunching sound, the only noise in that vast sleeping space. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Instead, when the fever rampaged through Philadelphia in summers to come, vast tent encampments were erected for the poor by the Schuylkill River and in the Northern Liberties. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z My ship stood out in the vast array of vessels, since it was the only giant robot. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z I’m sure I don’t have to tell you that the vast majority of the universe is composed of dark matter. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z When Justice Douglas visited the area in 1959, the year of the spraying, he was shocked to see the shriveled and dying willows — the “vast, incredible damage.” Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z They were raised on an ethic that extolled the power of the individual to shape his or her life, and then forced into a world where they were treated like cogs in a vast machine. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z The vast Reading Room thrummed with silent energy: people thinking, writing. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z About two o’clock the mist cleared away, and we beheld, stretched out in every direction, vast and irregular plains of ice, which seemed to have no end. Frankenstein 1818-01-01T00:00:00Z It encompassed not only the vast archives, but the university, too, together with laboratories and glasshouses, medical theaters and music rooms, and even a celestial observatory. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z But when two galaxies collide, the stars pass effortlessly by one another, like bullets through a swarm of bees, because a galaxy is made mostly of nothing and the spaces between the stars are vast. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z With the breakup of communist Russia, Artemis Senior had decided to invest a huge chunk of the Fowl fortune in establishing new shipping lines to the vast continent. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z It was quite a distance ahead of them, but they were still able to see it in the vast expanse of stillness and ice. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z “For such a one,” said Vetch to Ged, “I could work vast enchantments...” A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z A child cannot, thank Heaven, know how vast and how merciless is the nature of power, with what unbelievable cruelty people treat each other. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z A pair of goblins bowed them through the silver doors and they were in a vast marble hall. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z No, there had to be thousands in all this vast white mass, of which hundreds were visible just from the track. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z By 500 million years ago there were vast herds of trilobites, beautifully constructed animals, a little like large insects; some hunted in packs on the ocean floor. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z She passed concrete plains, vast expanses cracked by thrusting grasses. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z To the right, the vast turquoise ocean bit at the shoreline, gobbling small mouthfuls of sand. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z As a pink sun rose over the pines, vast patches of grass in the field flared up and crackled. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z He took her to the front entrance which gave into a vast pool of inky silence. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z It’s comforting to know that regardless of our vast differences and the light-years that separate our worlds, we’ll always have nipples in common. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z On the rue Vauborel, vast quantities of slate tiles have slid off roofs and detonated in the streets. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z In other habitats, the rim of sky above the horizontal is broken or obscured; here, together with the overhead portion, it is infinitely vaster than that of rolling countryside and forest lands. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z The first floor consisted of one vast room. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z Pippin looked up, and it seemed to him that the sky had grown ashen-grey, as if a vast dust and smoke hung above them, and light came dully through it. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z The Dragon was guardian of a treasure hoard so vast and valuable that they knew it would bring prosperity to their land for generations to come. Beowulf: A New Telling 1968-01-01T00:00:00Z The white man who owned the vast endless fields had scattered the cabins of his Negro sharecroppers far apart, like flyspecks on a whitewashed ceiling. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z The work was crushingly hard, the sun brutal, the dirt and ceaseless din almost unbearable, but the spaces were vast, the scenery staggering, and the company fast and fascinating. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z It took several more minutes for me to connect the name with the image on the screen—of a dark-skinned man standing in front of a white marble temple and surrounded by a vast crowd. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z Outside the city walls they camped with their vast herds, raising palaces of woven grass, eating everything in sight, and making the good folk of Pentos more anxious with every passing day. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z Yet from the viewpoint of the herd, rather than that of the shepherd, it’s hard to avoid the impression that for the vast majority of domesticated animals, the Agricultural Revolution was a terrible catastrophe. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Though exhausted, ill, and anxious about the voyage ahead, they carried evidence of a vast, teeming, interconnected ecosystem of plants and insects, the likes of which the great European academies had never seen. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z The topic corresponds to the small territory within the vast web of knowledge into which the incoming sentences should be merged. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z Even from that distance, and even in that urgent second or so, Will felt himself searched and scoured from one end of his being to the other by some vast, brutal, and merciless intellect. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z He looked down; through thick woods he could begin to see the boulders, great boulders tall as houses, piled one upon another like the wreckage of a vast explosion. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z They also ordered a vast number of cinnamon twists—everything to go—yeah, put it in boxes, and hurry, please. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The huge femoral bones that Darwin had extracted from the soil belonged to a vast, elephant-size llama; its smaller current version was unique to South America. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z He sat for a moment half dreaming, listening to the noise of water, the whisper of dark trees, the crack of stone, and the vast waiting silence that brooded behind all sound. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z A ramp led deep down into a vast underground chamber lit by candles. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Before the settlers were the Sioux, and before the Sioux were the vast open prairies, and before the prairies there was only ice. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z As the horns died away, a hissing filled the air; a vast flight of arrows arched up from his right, where the archers stood flanking the road. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z Lead by gymnast Alfred Joachim, the American flag bearer, they emerged singing from the darkness of the tunnel and marched out into the vast interior of the stadium. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z “He’s in that vast boy middle,” she said. Turtles All the Way Down 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z “The day has been filled . . . with talk about supers, single weapons capable of desolating a vast area,” Lilienthal recorded sourly, his earlier admiration for Lawrence shattered by the latter’s enthusiasm for this loathsome new weapon. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z What alone was wanting to the realisation of a vast fortune, he considered to be More Capital. Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z A vast herd of horses appeared below them. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z If each system were to have about ten planets, as ours does, the total number of worlds in the Galaxy would be more than a trillion, a vast arena for the cosmic drama. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Doom, doom it rolled again, as if huge hands were turning the very caverns of Moria into a vast drum. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z “Statistically speaking, how often has that strategy paid off, in your vast experience?” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z It stands there in the center while the rest of the vast, empty plate looks though it's been leased out as a possible parking lot. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z Set between the high front towers was a vast circle of stone and multicolored glass. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z Then his wrath blazed in consuming flame, but his fear rose like a vast black smoke to choke him. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z A new race-neutral language was developed for appealing to old racist sentiments, a language accompanied by a political movement that succeeded in putting the vast majority of blacks back in their place. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z The gypsy moth program shows what a vast amount of damage can be done when reckless large-scale treatment is substituted for local and moderate control. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z ‘And how come? Why has this miracle of ignorance endured? Because of one thing. A conspiracy. A vast and insidious conspiracy. Obscurantism.’ The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z The outer city lay below her, a vast patchwork of light and dark. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z No country, and certainly not one as vast and as aggressive as the new Soviet Union—nor one so close to Germany—was going to be without an air force. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z Bentley told all: She named names, exposed her Russian contacts, and painted a shocking picture of a vast communist conspiracy operating in the United States. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z The vast paintings churned and swayed in time with the music. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z He spent weeks out on the vast and remote plains, working in the intense heat and rains. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z And, at any rate, the price of a share of General Electric didn’t mean a thing to the vast majority of Americans, who owned no stock at all. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z Not from a cruel master, or the vast agency of bondage, but you specifically. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z In his vast, muscular arms he was holding a bundle of blankets. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z By outlining the cyclotron’s vast potential for advancing the peacetime goals of basic science, Ernest convinced Fosdick that the machine just might serve as a beneficent scientific counterbalance to Hiroshima. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Taran was aware, strangely, of vast activities along the forest trail. The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z The vast sterilization and containment programs required the creation of an equally vast administrative apparatus. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z Henry led the party into a vast cave. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z In fact, Mayor Clarkson had agreed that the vast majority of black nurses were doing their work both competently and honestly. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z We fail to appreciate that it is a tiny bubble in a vast multiverse of other cliques. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z It was a flank, a wall, a small bit of something vast. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z While dramatic progress was apparent in the political and social realms, civil rights activists became increasingly concerned that, without major economic reforms, the vast majority of blacks would remain locked in poverty. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z There it lay, a game for him to win, a vast bowling alley in the cool morning. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z He needed a vast workforce to tend it. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z What I discovered was a vast industry—a giant agriculture business or agribusiness. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z As they plummeted, Jason saw a vast army of monsters spread across the hills - cynocephali, two-headed men, wild centaurs, ogres and others he couldn’t even name - surrounding two tiny islands of demigods. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z The camp is set low in a valley, a vast spread of tents in endless rows and clusters. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z There is nevertheless a vast difference between drawing or painting forms and sculpting them. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z The air over and above the vast concrete river trembled with the warmth of Montag's body alone; it was incredible how he felt his temperature could cause the whole immediate world to vibrate. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z An aerie of giant eagles could’ve done manoeuvres under the vast ceiling. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z The park seemed vast, like it went on and on, but it was clearly closed for the day. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z The vast house was like a mausoleum—without a single sign of life inside its vaulted rooms. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z I mean, I was lying there in ratty sweatpants, amid a vast sea of soggy tissues. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z I thought Chicago was big, but New York is vast, enormous, overwhelming. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z The vast population of the city had not the vaguest notion of the great discoveries taking place within the Library. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Eventually, Solovet and Vikus waved them down, and the party landed in a vast cavern at the mouth of a tunnel. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z The only thing to distinguish each building is a number and a name; to either side of it are more units, absolutely identical, each three stories tall, arranged around a vast looping road. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z He determined to find the “special place” where Nancy had buried her pet, even though it meant combing the vast whole of River Valley Farm. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z Dany had never felt so alone as she did seated in the midst of that vast horde. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z He gestured to the vast collage of documents pinned to the walls around them. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z So the Astrea, and some four hundred other vessels, started in a vast convoy, guarded by British warships. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z Something about it intensified the green of the lawn so all that vast expanse seemed unnatural, luminous somehow, and not quite of this world. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z The vision went like this: Benton stood alone on the shore of a vast, menacing ocean. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z But for a vast number of neutrinos, a small fraction will interact with matter and in the appropriate circumstances might be detected. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z They reported to work in vast factories that had appeared almost overnight—at least they seemed to be factories, but there was “no receiving dock and no loading dock,” Parkins reported. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z To their right the walkway overlooked a vast glass enclosure, nearly a quarter mile long and tall enough to comfortably fit a trading ship. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z One who passed in and came at length out of the echoing tunnel, beheld a plain, a great circle, somewhat hollowed like a vast shallow bowl: a mile it measured from rim to rim. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z We walk into the vast Hub auditorium, UNITY, SECURITY, PROSPERITY. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z By its very nature it would have produced vast quantities of radioactive debris, but for conscientious mission profiles only in the emptiness of interplanetary or interstellar space. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z And the documents revealed a vast discrepancy between what government officials had been saying publicly and what they knew to be true. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z This sort of evidence — and no more — forms the basis of a vast amount of medical therapy in many other disorders. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z And, indeed, he had either bought books in vast quantities or had had access to a remarkable library, for On the Magnet begins with the first systematic literature review. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z I saw many interesting things, some of which may bear mentioning later, but for now suffice to say that she showed me all the vast and varied corners of the Underthing. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z How vast the great hall looked now that it was empty. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z The vast city of Harare was spread out like a jeweled sea. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z They passed a window and Bigger caught a quick glimpse of a vast crowd of people standing behind closely formed lines of khaki-clad troops. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z He recalled the open meadows of the countryside, days clocked by the fall of rain, the vast solitude of his fields, the cool quiet of the river and his silent house. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z So he based his home reservations system in Salt Lake City, where the vast majority of the women are Mormons and many are stay-at-home mothers. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z In any case, Euergetes acted decisively, defeating the dissidents and importing vast amounts of grain to feed the people. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z In view of the scientific evidence of the vast biological potency of this chemical, the action seems a minimum safety measure. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Orion was designed to utilize explosions of hydrogen bombs, nuclear weapons, against an inertial plate, each explosion providing a kind of “putt-putt,” a vast nuclear motorboat in space. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Never in the world would I replace the pleasure of reading a great author, or conquering some vast technical puzzle, for a perfect GPA. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z By April of 1972, her application to join her husband in heaven was still working its way though a vast, celestial bureaucracy. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z In any case, each of the three superstates is so vast that it can obtain almost all of the materials that it needs within its own boundaries. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z The three of them stood in awe, swinging their flashlights across the stalactite-dripping ceiling, admiring the vast cathedral of glittering stone they’d just entered. The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z Here on the western bank was the Thebes he knew, a vast jumble of workshops and laboratories known as the City of the Dead. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z |
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