| 单词 | volume |
| 例句 | He picked his way over to the stereo to turn down the volume. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z I knew that he consumed volumes of political philosophy as if it were beach reading, that he spent all his spare change on books. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z In the next stall, I heard Annabeth and some guy arguing with each other, then the music’s volume decreased drastically. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z The volume is down and I wonder what she does in there all day. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z The resulting volume of garbage overwhelmed its disposal system, which consisted of janitors bumping large barrels of fetid garbage down the same three flights of stairs used by customers. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z I was intensely aware of where I sat, the volume of darkness I displaced, the shiny- smooth span of packed dirt between us, and the shocking separateness from me in my mama’s eyes. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z Baba smiles and mutes the volume, then begins the familiar ritual of tea making. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z “Only if we turn the volume up,” the woman replies. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z At the Capitol Hilton hotel, a rock band turned up the volume on their amplifiers, making the walls and tables vibrate. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z Mrs. Reilly reached down next to her chair and picked from the floor the large volume of The Consolation of Philosophy. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z He sucked all the blood out of her chest with a vacuum pump, and measured the volume. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z Alexander returned with a dusty volume about solar eclipses. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z After twenty seconds, I lowered the volume until Dad’s favorite song faded into silence. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z “Do you feel that? That’s the volume. You have to find the volume that works for you. We’re going to do that next. Well, what do you think?” Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z He was being hit everywhere now and the crowd noises leaped to life as if someone had turned up the volume on a monstrous stereo. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z I’d just looked away to grab my backpack when I heard, once again, the soft double ding that indicated I’d received a new message, and I turned down the volume on my computer. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z So she had been surprised when the book that he brought back for her was a volume of fairy tales. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z It had gotten chilly all of a sudden, so I put on my yellow Montauk hoodie and adjusted the volume on my hearing aids and leaned against my backpack and started watching. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z But he had no idea the immense volume of alcohol I consumed on a daily basis. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z Covered with blushes, I hid my volume, but they knew it was there, this artifact of the conqueror. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z Father touched the radio gently and turned the volume up until Nasser’s voice filled the world. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z The next moment you are startled by a furious outburst coming from a great troupe of monkeys, only outdone in volume by the shrill cries of strange birds. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z He increased the volume of his voice until he was shouting. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z I turn the volume on my machine up loud. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z And man, as I headed to Jefferson that night, I was feeling good, so good it felt like someone had cranked the volume of life up to eleven. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z So all children born in Illinois would end up with a sixty- volume library by the time they entered school. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z He’s gaining volume and kind of enjoying ridiculing me, the way somebody just a few years older than you can love power more than genuinely old people like your parents. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z She sneaks out to bookstores, surprised when her father does not inquire as to where the piles of freshly bound volumes came from. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z But before the tune launches into full volume, let me fill you in on what has happened these last eleven years. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z There were bound volumes of the Banker’s Journal and the Stockbroker’s Gazette, and complete sets of the Victorian novelists, never opened. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z Jamison set the papers on the table and picked up a heavy volume bound in green leather. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z This is my situation: writing these pages, surrounded in the room I am in by volumes of Montaigne and Shakespeare and Lawrence. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z He removed a slim volume from under the counter. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z Meantime in the living room, the volume of Trotter’s voice told Gilly that Walter Cronkite had called it a day, but she no longer needed to rush. The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z It was a tattered old volume containing all the plays and sonnets. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z He laughed and then winced at the volume of his own chuckle. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z She turned the volume down, taking a deep breath as she turned out of the lot. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z It’s as if the city has become a library of books in an unknown language, the houses great shelves of illegible volumes, the lamps all extinguished. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z He turns up the volume as far as it will go and presses the headphones against his ears. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z Nearby, a group around the piano were singing folk songs with more volume than melody. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z In late spring, when the page proofs for the second volume had been finished, Stanton and her daughter went to Europe for an extended stay. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z He smiled and lowered the volume on the radio. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z Ceramic plates and platters are displayed on open shelves, along with what seem to be hundreds of cookbooks, food encyclopedias, and volumes of essays about eating. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z If I measure the volume of a sphere, the language I am using is a dead metaphor. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z He turns up the volume so I can hear the music floating across the morning air. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z And a sheet of note-paper in the first volume saying: “I hope this is the sort of thing you like,” and signed, “Love from Beatrice.” Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z An experience in British Columbia speaks volumes on this point. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z The Big APE radio from Jacksonville was turned to such a high volume that Ben did not hear the first three sentences Sammy spoke to him after he was in the car. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z But the earplugs didn’t work very well, so I would watch old movies instead, with the volume turned way up. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z I believe Father Olufemi has several of his works in his study; he keeps the oldest volumes there. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z Celia’s hands are shaking as she picks up a volume from the pile of Shakespeare and hurls it at him. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z I shove one hand into my jeans and hold the phone with the other, pressing the volume up button each time the screen goes blank. Will Grayson, Will Grayson 2010-04-06T00:00:00Z She turned up the volume on the TV. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z This institution, which contained only about one-tenth the number of volumes in the Museum, seems to have been dedicated to public use. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z “ON THE GROUND!” yelled the scythe, with such volume it echoed back and forth between the brick buildings of the street. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z She went back to her room and a moment later the volume on her TV went up. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z He pulled out one of the volumes, thumbed through it, put it back, pulled out another. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z Other people seemed to turn their volume on and up when Sula was in the room. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z The original Red Book has not been preserved, but many copies were made, especially of the first volume, for the use of the descendants of the children of Master Samwise. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z These three volumes were found to be a work of great skill and learning in which, between 1403 and 1418, he had used all the sources available to him in Rivendell, both living and written. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z Lower the temperature and the volume of the balloons gets smaller and smaller. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z Bronwyn opened the trunk and pulled out a waterlogged volume of Tales of the Peculiar. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z Lying on top of a volume of the World Book Encyclopedia, a grubby piece of lined paper was folded in half, with “Marion” written on the outer edge in Bunny’s tiny, crabbed hand. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z Ellen’s voice has risen in volume and pitch, her palms planted flat on the table. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z She’d slip on a pair of dancing shoes, put a stack of records on the phonograph, and crank the volume way up. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z After my article about the expedition was published in the September issue of Outside, the magazine received an unusually large volume of mail about the piece. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z In fact, as I recall, I was up on the step-ladder dusting the portrait of Viscount Wetherby when my employer had entered carrying a few volumes which he presumably wished returned to the shelves. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z Dad set out to prove them wrong by the sheer volume of his work and application of every particle of his energy and intelligence. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z The song rose in volume, strangely bled of Christmas or of celebration. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Yet according to Heisenberg’s principle, we cannot know how much energy there is in a volume of the vacuum at any given time. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z The rumbling below him rose in volume with the passing seconds, but he could not tell if the men were coming closer or receding. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z The trumpet call had let loose an enormous volume of noise. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z Not changed so much as living at a different volume. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z She nodded, causing Bull to crank up the volume. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z All of the life of the earth dies, all of the time, in the same volume as the new life that dazzles us each morning, each spring. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Music bombarded him at such an immense volume that his bones were almost shaken from their tendons; he felt his jaw vibrate, his eyes wobble in his head. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z He sat close to the set, keeping the volume as low as possible so his sisters wouldn’t be disturbed. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z As if someone's got a finger on the volume button, the voices in the background get louder. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z The sheer volume of attacking sand buried her feet with each step. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Guides to the States, all forty-eight volumes of them. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z The baby monitor on the table beside them crackled, and she adjusted the volume slightly higher. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z “Yes,” Pinmei said, and her anger gave her voice the volume she had been trying for. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z The first guests began arriving at Holmes’s World’s Fair Hotel, though not in the volume he and every other South Side hotelier had expected. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z He reached over and turned up the radio a little louder, matching Lily’s volume. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z But then Gogol flips the record, turning the volume up on “Revolution 1.” The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z His volume was loud, though—loud enough for everyone in the office to hear. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z Jacob opens a slim volume of Hebrew and balances it on his knees. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z A single volume wedged in the rack against the forward bulkhead. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z In the car, approaching their school, Nademah turned up the volume on the radio. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z Music Mistress had to spend a quarter hour inching me along to the desired volume. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z Ms. Pagett starts to say something else, but Mom is pushing the volume button. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z On the bottom was a single volume from an encyclopedia. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Nene was in the living room watching VH1 at low volume, almost mute, as if it was the images that he cared for. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z She switched the iPod back on and turned down the volume. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z The police did receive a higher volume of calls, particularly near the imaginary landing site. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z No one wants to go to a festival to do calculations of mass and volume, except maybe Roli, who did, in fact, win last year. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z His original plan for the volume was to include only fifty-two games, but as he continued to make corrections and also to play in more events, he eventually added eight more games. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z The engine started quickly, to my relief, but loudly, roaring to life and then idling at top volume. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z Mr. Curtain had turned the volume up on the television. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z Melissa turns the volume up, and the girls begin jumping in the pool, swimming and jamming to the beat. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z The sheer volume of training for a space mission is astounding. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Artemis returned the tiny volume to its owner. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z I should point out, though, that my dad slowly started turning the Christmas music on the radio to a deafening volume. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z She would jump for the remote and turn up the TV volume until it was too hard to tell what was louder, who wanted to win the noise battle more. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z It’d never even occurred to her there was such a thing as Puerto Rican literature, let alone that it would be worthy of a thick volume in a Columbia University library. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z Lord, save us all, thought Turner when he hefted the volume. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z “My grandfather always says that’s what books are for,” Ashoke said, using the opportunity to open the volume in his hands. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z Rowan put away his toxicology book and pulled out his volume on weapons identification. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z “I don’t think I’m ready yet,” Moss admitted, his voice dropping in volume. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z I had it in my mind to remove some book with me, which volume might provide entertainment and improvement in my hours waiting upon Dr. Trefusis. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z His stretchy arms and legs rested limply on dislodged volumes. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z Then at a normal volume he said, “Give it back, Ambrose.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z There were deep pools of knowledge in the dusty volumes quietly shelved in the libraries, and Antain thirsted for all of them. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z She herself had been eager to learn, scarcely able to wait to open the wonderful volumes in Grandfather’s library. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z But the volume of mail fell so low that I worked but one or two nights a week. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z “It has a dreadful stain on it, if you haven’t noticed. All of Fort’s books have just been beautifully reprinted in one volume, so I now have that.” Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z Her volume button got stuck on high, and the whole block could hear her yelling about how he had to pay more attention. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z So, curiously, the boat had rounded ends and rounded sides, but the interior volume was rectangular. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z I knew that there were ways to improve the sound by bringing up the volume on the good parts and cutting out the static in other parts. Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z He made lots of noise, fussing with the plants, shifting pots around, turning the volume up, ever so slightly, on the outdoor sounds from the cassette player to cover for the one missing chirp. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z Now, speed that sound up, and crank the volume high enough to blow out the windows in heaven. Ghost 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z It was a worn little volume; Darius must have liked it very much. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z She was smoking and drinking and watching Bunker with the volume muted so she could read. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z But this didn't work because the Range Rover had a volume control in the back, too. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z I use metal tongs to pull at her skin to add volume to her breasts and curvature to her waist. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z Only with some frantic shuttle diplomacy and the most liberal applications of flattery did Halley manage finally to extract the concluding volume from the erratic professor. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z From its hiding-place he took out his mouse-nibbled volume, turned with religious care its stained and crumbled pages, and began to read Othello. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z Finally, Ben leaned over and turned the volume knob. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z She took me to that house of humans, which was filled with all manner of love, put me in the bed, put Exodus on the CD player, and turned the volume down to a whisper. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z Now I wonder if that volume is still on the prison library shelf. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z He powered on the TV and turned up the volume, way louder than it needed to be. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z “We’re going to knit a bit after supper,” she whispered as the organist cranked up the volume. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z But in deep space there is only about one atom in every ten cubic centimeters, a volume the size of a grape. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z The man’s voice was low, excited, tense; but what it lacked in volume was more than made up for in the breathless manner in which he spoke. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z Matilda Joslyn Gage also helped with the project, but it still took more than ten years to produce three volumes, each about one thousand pages long. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z It was around the same time that the piano’s close relative the organ also mastered the art of volume control, thanks to a device called a ‘ratchet swell pedal’. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z Then, turning the volume as loud as it will go, I add, “You deserve it!” Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z I’m going to write you a regular volume, for I’ve got heaps to tell, though I’m not a fine young lady traveling on the continent. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z Dad was talking loudly, at a volume that would have suited a mountainside but was thunderous in the small restaurant. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z Long before reaching the doors, they’d heard a soft rumbling that grew in volume the closer they got. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z To make matters worse, the supermarket offer had expired, so there were no other volumes. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z They sang so joyfully loud that Ms. Katz from across the hall tapped on their door’s window and motioned for less volume. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z The volume’s first run sold out in days, a handsome edition with Elijah Lander’s name in gold leaf. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z When I was tired of jumping, I got out some volumes of my encyclopaedia and curled up on my bed against the wall and looked at some interesting entries. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z I turn the volume up and lie on my bed. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z He didn’t turn down the volume and she didn’t say anything else to him; instead she turned to Obinze to continue talking. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z And always there are the returns, augmented now by the huge volume of items that have been tossed on the floor or carried fecklessly to inappropriate sites. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z “What needs to be done is to increase the volume of the cylinder with only a small amount of additional mass,” Quentin stated. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z Enormous folio volumes of spurious translations were published. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z So I turn up the TV volume and put on some baby cartoons. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z Frankly, I have been studying various religions as a hobby ever since I read volumes 36,44, 45 of the Harvard Classics, which you may be acquainted with. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z The great libraries of the world contain millions of volumes, the equivalent of about 1014 bits of information in words, and perhaps 1015 bits in pictures. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z What it would be like to spend ten years in this tall narrow house, shuttered from the world, studying its secrets and reading its volumes and looking at this girl. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z The walls were lined with bookshelves containing badly preserved volumes with the bindings crumbling and flaking, or distorted with damp. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z The noises without increase in volume, pass into my dream and yet linger in my memory. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z Mama had raised the volume the moment we’d left the room. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z On an ordinary day, Mrs. Richardson would have opened the door, told Izzy to turn the volume down, made some disparaging comments about how depressing and angry Izzy’s music always seemed to be. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z I reach into my jacket and turn the volume up. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z When he received his authors copies he saw that FitzRoy had added a volume with a religious polemic arguing against Charles’s geological findings—that the earth was formed gradually and was still being formed. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Frank is watching The Lost Secrets of the War of 1812, but even though the volume is up, I can still hear Aurora helping my mom in the kitchen like they’re a totally normal family. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z No, Agatha Swanburne would sit calmly upon her trunk to wait for her ride to Ashton Place, and perhaps take out a favorite volume of poetry to pass the time. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z Her mouth chanted my lines at quarter volume. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z His honey eyes were speaking volumes, but she was too afraid to guess what they were saying. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z The reactors at Hanford, however, were breeding plutonium in sufficient volume to make a test feasible and provide for an unlimited number of plutonium bombs afterward. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z He lifted the breadbox and took out a tiny volume bound in leather, and the gold tooling was almost completely worn away—The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius in English translation. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z I lower the volume, ready to hit Stop if it opens. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z To these four volumes there was added in Westmarch a fifth containing commentaries, genealogies, and various other matter concerning the hobbit members of the Fellowship. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z 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 If written out in English, say, that information would fill some twenty million volumes, as many as in the world’s largest libraries. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z I was a bit quiet at first, nervous, but I built up the volume as I hit the second verse of the hymn. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z I had a small collection of books that came with me to Forks, the shabbiest volume being a compilation of the works of Jane Austen. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z “What you must learn of proper decorum would fill volumes,” she said with a weary sigh. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z The part of the song we love to sing the most started to play, and I turned up the volume. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z “That’s nothing. Check these out” Shay sat her down at a table, turned to a shelf, and pulled out a handful of volumes in protective covers. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z In the afternoon hush the volume of sound was startling. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z Having made this announcement, my employer put his volumes down on a table, seated himself on the chaise-longue, and stretched out his legs. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z I could hear them laughing at full volume behind me. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z With Bull, volume was the thing, but Virgil could achieve the same results by letting the interior ice harden his eyes or freeze the edges of his voice. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z The office is large but looks smaller than it is due to the volume of its contents. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z She keeps talking, the volume in her voice growing with every word. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z My dad turned up the volume to block out the music coming from my brother’s room and, leaning up just enough to make eye contact with me, pointed to his jaw and then to Lucas. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z They heard the Howler go off in the entrance hall — Neville’s grandmother’s voice, magically magnified to a hundred times its usual volume, shrieking about how he had brought shame on the whole family. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z But there is a book: the second Braille volume of Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, as thick as a sofa cushion. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z In the preceding minutes its whining had been rising in volume to a scream. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z Mom screamed, her volume reaching a new decibel. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z Park tried to turn the volume up on his Walkman, but it was already all the way up. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z A large black and silver volume caught his eye. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z To help the wine merchants out, Kepler chopped up the barrels—in his mind—into an infinite number of infinitely tiny pieces, and then added them back together again to yield their volumes. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z Grandma Post let us have leftover peanut-butter pie for breakfast while she played solitaire, occasionally looking up through her thick glasses at the Perry Mason rerun she had on, the volume blasting. The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z And, since the surface of the region shrinks to zero, so too must its volume. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z When two people talk, their volume and pitch fall into balance. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z And he puts in my hand a volume called The Souls of Black Folk by W. E. B. Du Bois. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z Some of them spoke volumes about the deceased's life and times. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z Nick pulled out the D volume from the red set and looked up dictionary. Frindle 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Wes was in the living room watching television with the volume turned almost all the way up. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z Even if somebody ties me to a chair, sticks headphones on me, and pipes “Link Rowley!Link Rowley!”in an endless loop at top volume, I will train my brain to block it out. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z He carried a single volume for the journey, a hardbound collection of short stories by Nikolai Gogol, which his grandfather had given him when he’d graduated from class twelve. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z You can imagine the scene: a dark-paneled room, an artfully frayed Persian carpet, row upon row of leather-bound legal volumes, oil paintings of Mr. Mudge and Mr. Rose on the wall. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z She was ringed by thick walls of silence which hissed in her ears, rising and falling in volume to some pattern of its own. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z There was a philosopher called Charmadas who, it was said, could recite the contents of any volumes in libraries that anyone asked him to quote, just as if he were reading them. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z After changing my clothes into warm, dry sweats, she switched the radio to an easy-listening station and turned the volume down low. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z Because of the large volume of mail I receive, I am unable to write personal responses. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z In the end, their results fill three thick volumes and, along the way, challenge a lot of preconceptions of what character is. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Another case of men devoting their lives to studying more and more about less and less—filling volumes and libraries with the subde linguistic analysis of the grunt. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z Crucially, the harder you hit the key the harder the hammer hit the string, resulting potentially in different levels of volume for every note. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z My brain fries when I try to read Shakespeare, but my English teacher would not accept “my hound hath eaten my volume” as an acceptable excuse for avoiding Hamlet. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z The small patch of land in the monastery garden produced an overwhelming volume of data to analyze—twenty-eight thousand plants, forty thousand flowers, and nearly four hundred thousand seeds. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z The Rosenblum girls wailed like they were trying to outdo each other in volume, so I slipped out into the hall. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z The Latin dictionary was the first of thirteen thousand volumes which he would eventually buy and, at his death, bequeath to the Boston Public Library. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z Which means we’re all left smiling and nodding as she talks at a secret telling level of volume. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z Hilary Putnam, perhaps the most influential analytic philosopher of the second half of the twentieth century, published a famous article called “The Meaning of Meaning” in a learned academic volume. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z I turn up the volume and listen to him tell me what I already know, what I can feel—that it wasn’t me who couldn’t breathe, it was Megan. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z The volume was turned all the way up. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z There were volumes of Afrocentric history like the ones that are sold on the sidewalk in downtown Brooklyn, social science primers, and an academic survey of perceptions of race over the years. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z For a time they rode in silence, and then Lee said, “I’m sorry you bought those books. I have the condensed form, in one volume, the textbook. You could have borrowed it.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z I pulled out the mix Mrs. Hidalgo had made for me and put on my headphones, turning the volume up loud, the only way to listen to punk rock. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z The church members felt the challenge and the volume of song swelled. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z It wasn’t exactly as if silence fell all over the room, but the volume did dip significantly, and then rose again. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z When the first song ended, he lowered the volume and asked, “Did you enjoy the game?” Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z I was going to have to start a new volume soon. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z Technically, I suppose, you could turn your television off, but my parents keep it on, with the volume low. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z Our opinions must be expressed at top volume in order for people to listen. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z Hank, a retired professor of classical archaeology, always brings a small volume of Greek poetry to read, his long sun-spotted fingers curling over the tops of the pages. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z They kept their heads steady and mouths aimed at the microphone so that the volume of their voices didn’t fluctuate. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z Sneaky throws the pillow back, and turns the volume down on the TV. Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z “There are over three quarters of a million volumes here, and that’s not even taking into consideration the clays or scrolls or fragments from Caluptena.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z Having spent that much, Lyddie squandered fifty pence more to get the child a beginning reader and a small paper volume of verses that the bookseller recommended. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z Kira saw some of the men turn in their green volumes, finding the same passage. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z It is the biggest dam in America east of the Mississippi and something of an attraction for people who like concrete in volume. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z His stereo volume increased to drown her out. Liar, Liar 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z I plopped back down on the couch and turned the volume up on the TV. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z As in: Mom doesn’t want Dad eating salt, because too much of it increases the volume of blood, which can cause hypertension. The Crossover 2014-03-18T00:00:00Z I spoke volumes to him this way, speak to him still, those same volumes he spoke with me. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z The energy in a tiny volume of vacuum must be fluctuating constantly. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z Others at once took up the cry, and the phrase w'as repeated, parrot-fashion, again and again, with an ever-growing volume of sound, until, by the seventh or eighth reiteration, no other word was being spoken. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z By then, however, it had lost both its novelty and the volume of ridership that the Midway had guaranteed. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z I expect the test to be a review of perimeter, area, and volume. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z I find myself overwhelmed with the sheer volume of it. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z 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 I lie back on her bed and listen with the volume turned down so low it sounds like a murmur. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z I turn down the volume and sing along under my breath. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z “No, no, no,” he said, soft at first, then rising in volume. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z He had not returned to reading his poetry, which filled more than five volumes and lay forgotten at the bottom of his trunk. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z Frederick hurries the volumes back inside their slipcovers; he calls, “Mother?” and a woman wearing a green ski suit with white stripes down the legs enters crying, “Fredde! Fredde!” All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z I weighed each volume in my hand, and wondered at which I should remove with me. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z Park managed another smile and slunk back into his seat, putting his headphones back on and cranking up the volume. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z The fog’s barely lifted and the volume of the world’s down way low—just me in the hush. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z My voice isn't timid—it's exactly the right amount of volume. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z Then she would begin her sobbing again, slowly gathering volume and strength. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z I was watching cartoons, trying to drown out the teen voices by raising the volume higher and higher. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z In a great blur of snow and silvery glass the building’s roof—that marvel of late nineteenth-century hubris, enclosing the greatest volume of unobstructed space in history—collapsed to the floor below. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z It was a thinner volume than Omar’s, and the cover was green, not orange. Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z I suppose I should add a few words here concerning the matter of the actual volume around which this small episode revolved. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z Mom is working on my dress and watching some Lifetime movie with the volume turned up too high. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z A television stood near the printer—its screen flashing but the volume turned down—and on top of it sat a glass of juice. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z The new single volume by Charles Darwin, the humble and articulate guide, was a huge popular success. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z One wore a stud in her lip, another was a self-styled Paris intellectual—beret, scarf tossed around the neck, volume of poetry. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z There were hundreds of old volumes, some of them probably quite rare. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z To something too small or sluggish to duplicate this experience–a snail, say–the idea that a boom box could seem to two observers to produce two different volumes of music simultaneously might seem incredible. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z Nor does he bother to open up the volume on perspective he’s pulled out of his duffel. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z A crescendo is an increase in volume that leads to a climax. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z But if I borrowed one thin volume, returning it as soon as I finished, would anyone notice? Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z And when he did, he could not stop the worn old words from coming, louder and louder as though sheer volume would wake her. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z Besides, as any code breaker can tell you, there are times when silence itself speaks volumes, saying as much as any message itself could. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z My hands found a favorite volume of philosophy. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z Because I was the writing teacher, it was automatically assumed that I had read every leather-bound volume in the Library of Classics. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z “Are you ready?” he asked Maribel and me a little too loudly, as if speaking at such a volume would scare the boy off. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z We smiled at the notion of Yutar poring over the hundred or so volumes of Treason Trial transcripts. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z He turned the tuning knob until he found music and then turned up the volume. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z I turn up the volume on the microphone, but I still can’t hear anything but muttering. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z In this case, he wrote, in a draft text, the volume and weight of the water displaced correspond to the volume and weight of the ball, according to Archimedes’ principle—except they don’t. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z We turned the volume down but stayed up talking. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z Clancy said carefully, then turned the volume of the radio all the way down. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z Because of the large volume of mail I receive, I am unable to write personal responses. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z The nucleus of an atom is tiny–only one millionth of a billionth of the full volume of the atom–but fantastically dense, since it contains virtually all the atom’s mass. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z Stuffed into a corner is a copy of a book I know but didn’t expect to see here in this place—Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass, bound together in one volume. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z He was just placing a bookmark in the pages of the thick volume he held. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z Accurate numbers are difficult to estimate, but it seems probable that the Library contained half a million volumes, each a handwritten papyrus scroll. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z People began to mutter and speculate, the volume of their conversations rising again. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z Many of them are secondhand, all the classics for example, one volume in blue cloth boards cost one mark twenty pfennig. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z On the table under the window' lay a massive volume bound in limp black leather-surrogate, and stamped with large golden T’s. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z Her book was a volume of English history illustrated with a few drawings which she pointed out to me. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z After several minutes’ thought, Harry tore the obituary out of the Prophet, folded it carefully, and tucked it inside the first volume of Practical Defensive Magic and Its Use Against the Dark Arts. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z She looked with envy at where he sat, propped against a bulkhead, lost in a bulky brown volume. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z Lydia gaped as he opened the volume, and before he had, with very monotonous solemnity, read three pages, she interrupted him with: Pride and Prejudice 1813-01-28T00:00:00Z But then Axe muted the volume as he replayed my stump speech, removing my voice so that we could look more closely at my body language, specifically my facial expressions. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z Because of the large volume of mail I receive, I am unable to write personal responses. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z I see Michael in the control booth, regulating volume and lighting in the auditorium. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z He takes the control from me and turns the volume back up. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z Something called London by somebody called Pennant, six volumes bound in red leather—massive books, two feet tall. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z He’d turn up the volume, start bopping his head, tapping the steering wheel, and singing along. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z Next week I have to read Palestine at the Crossroads and the second volume of Galilei. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z Some of the old-timers considered this sentimental and some thought it wasteful and to some it was sacrilegious since there was no provision for it in any sacred volume. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z Glancing at the bookcases, I thought I could distinguish the two volumes of Bewick’s British Birds occupying their old place on the third shelf, and Gulliver’s Travels and the Arabian Nights ranged just above. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z Samuel Pepys records how he sat up reading the volume until 2 am, calling it ‘the most ingenious book that ever I read in my life’. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z “I switched it off so I didn’t have to listen to them fool children,” he said, adjusting the volume until it stopped squealing. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z The volume is already cranked, but Noodle cranks it higher. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z We learned that a bright button is weightier than four volumes of Schopenhauer. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z In his Defence, Adams had written three volumes of relentless and seemingly endless prose to show that political power invariably rested in the hands of a few prominent individuals and families. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z In the early volumes of the Philosophical Transactions it appears only once or twice a year. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z “It’s a bit newer. And all in the one volume.” Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z He now understood the issue of displacement in terms of volume, and it was an easy step then to grasp it in terms of weight. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z He flicked swiftly through the dusty pages of the aged volume. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z Cultures are like books, the anthropologist Claude Levi-Strauss once remarked, each a volume in the great library of humankind. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Besides that, I finished the first volume of a biography of Emperor Charles V yesterday, and I still have to work out the many genealogical charts I’ve collected and the notes I’ve taken. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z He then said, with great volume and force, “Benton, you have been called to bring change to the world. You have found favor in God’s eyes.” Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z Let's call the volume of the airlock two cubic meters. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Over a period of weeks, criticism mounted steadily in volume and color; in one interview, Harold Urey labeled the measure the “first totalitarian bill ever written by Congress.” Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z He turned away from me, and began perusing the volumes upon the shelf, selecting some, drawing them out, and laying them in the crook of his arm. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z I checked out the fat volume from the school library in the hopes it would help give our team an advantage in Mrs. Barton’s social studies project. Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z It turned out to be not a book at all but a wooden box trickily carved and painted to look like a calf-bound volume. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z I waited, my arms outstretched at either side, until he turned again, and began to stack them, volume after volume, on my hands. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z I tried to turn the volume down on my Lobot ears, but I got confused and turned them louder at first, which kind of shocked me. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z In the past few days, the volume of sales had risen staggeringly. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z As much as an eighth of the hill, by volume, was composed of such fragments, he said. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z That entire volume of space was nipped out of the System, practically speaking. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z And a free- swimming one-celled amoeba is much more sophisticated; with about four hundred million bits in its DNA, it would require some eighty 500-page volumes to make another amoeba. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z If you are not familiar with Mrs Symons's books - a series running to seven volumes, each one concentrating on one region of the British Isles - I heartily recommend them. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z In the middle of a war for survival, given the sheer volume of messages traded back and forth among Soviet embassies and the government in Moscow, making multiple copies must have seemed an insignificant decision. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z In the middle of the desk there is a large leather volume. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z At one point he said the cells “would reach a volume greater than that of the solar system.” The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z I roll my thumb over the volume dial. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z I can adjust the volume and even play DVDs if someone has popped one in the player for me. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z The voice on the radio faded, then came back up to full, static-filled volume as Z threw his weight into taking down the light. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z Kira noticed that each of the guardians had an identical volume. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z His voice had risen in volume with every passing word until he was shouting, his body trembling. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z He could shave some tinder off it, and there were always Bonneville’s notes, five volumes of them. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z Oversize volumes contained maps of lands Cora had never heard of, the outlines of the unconquered world. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z George slips his hand out from under Emmett’s and turns the volume up. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z Lying in her palm was a tiny golden volume the size of a matchbox. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z Every week the factory assembled a different machine, determined by the volume of orders. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z She saw several volumes of an encyclopedia set: “Antarctica to Balfe,” then “Jerez to Liberty.” The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z When a couple of heads turn to look at us, he immediately lowers his volume and continues. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z She pulled herself out of the chair to turn up the volume on the television and then plopped back down. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z He pulls out one of the volumes and lays it flat on the table, so it spills open, its pages covered in text and pictures. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z She reaches over and turns down the volume, which is annoying but also parental, and it feels good to have her be annoying instead of worried and sad. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z When I pull up to Building A, before she opens the door to get out, she turns the volume knob down all the way. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z The volume is muted, and I’m staring at the flickering images. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z And in spite of this self-knowledge I equipped Rocinante with enough writing material to take care of ten volumes. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z The larger books on the desk are moving at a less steady pace as Marco goes back and forth between handwritten volumes, scrawling notes and calculations on loose sheets of paper. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z In his own dwelling, there were the necessary reference volumes that each household contained: a dictionary, and the thick community volume which contained descriptions of every office, factory, building, and committee. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z A heavy black volume, amateurishly bound, with no name or title on the cover. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z To figure out the volume of a barrel or the area under a parabola, mathematicians added infinite zeros together; to find out the tangent of a curve, they divided zero by itself. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z South Korea’s economy is 38 times larger than the North’s; its international trade volume is 224 times larger.5 North Korea’s periodic belligerence, however, does trigger eruptions of anger in the South. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z These indivisible lines and planes are like atoms of area and volume; they can’t be divided any further. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z Methuselah hurled the dusty volume to one side, narrowly missing his companion. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z “This traffic covered a period of more than a year, was from many different sources both on the Atlantic and Pacific Coasts, and the volume was increasing daily,” Elizebeth reported. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z Jack grabs the remote and turns the TV on, keeping the volume below three bars. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z I got to my feet and gasped as the pain in my head roared louder, like someone had turned the volume knob as far as it would go. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z Some schoolchildren are singing a song from My Fair Lady, and my hand itches to turn up the volume. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z Unfortunately, Harper committed an outrageous and unconventional act when she completed her work for the first volume. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z I switch on my reading lamp and listen to the shipping forecasts on the radio on low volume. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z Boyle found that if the pressure was doubled, the volume of trapped air was halved; if the pressure was tripled the volume was reduced to a third; and so on. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z She reached forward and began gently to release the volume from my grasp. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z “They weren’t ordinary books. They were volumes on art. Six of ’em.” Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z Stalin’s book showed how diverse minorities could be welded into unity, and I regarded it as a most politically sensitive volume that revealed a new way of looking upon lost and beaten peoples. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z The full edition of his speeches runs to eight volumes and more than four million words. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z Those remaining on the shelves collapse, a few volumes falling, but Marco does not seem to notice. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z “No obstacle is too big,” Isa continued as Oliver increased his humming volume. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z Soon shouts and battle calls broke out, rising in volume, filling the air like thunder. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z During this time, I also spent many minutes examining the road atlas, and perusing also the relevant volumes of Mrs Jane Symons's The Wonder of England. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z “Help,” I say, but my voice comes out like a gasp with not near enough volume. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z They had to learn to recognize the same sound or speech unit through all our normal variations in speech volume, pitch, speed, emphasis, phrase grouping, and individual idiosyncrasies of pronunciation. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Jenna steals away to press "play" on the cassette player she'd hidden in a corner, and soft music wafts through the whole room at just the right volume. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z I lowered the volume until it was silent. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z When she got to the part about the slaves touching Our Lady’s heart and how she filled them with fearlessness and plans of escape, June turned up the volume. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Mom lowers the volume and turns to me. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z One day while killing my hour of prayer, I remembered a series of volumes of Indian history I had read the year before. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z If Burger King and McDonald’s launch a price war to gain market share, they partly make up in volume what they lose in price. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z She looks up at Marco, who is now deeply engrossed in a particular volume. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z She picks up the volume filled with names. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z One was a volume of Freud’s early papers, he told me. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z The warden’s library is a big dark room with heavy red drapes drawn closed and floor-to-ceiling books—the kind of official volumes with thick indexes Natalie likes. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z He spoke in Farsi, but Sohrab argued back, his voice rising in pitch and volume until it started cracking. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z He pulled out several volumes, glanced in the tables of contents, then closed the books and put them back. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z After curfew, everyone locked their doors, turned out the lights, turned down the volume, and reaped tears for Jack and Rose and the passengers of the doomed ship. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z At the beginning of the school term I read my civics and English and geography volumes through and only referred to them when in class. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z My job is not, however, as genteel as it at first appears, thanks to the sheer volume of clothing in motion. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Then even a gene library of 1,000 volumes would not be enough. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z I set the volume and brightness controls to their lowest settings and tapped the Apply button again. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z Darius raises the volume on the music, and this is what takes up the widening silence between us. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z I was disallowed the use of the house’s library, for fear that liberty amongst the volumes there would allow me to study and so unfairly prejudice the results of the experiment. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z A sickly child, he made the family library his playground, poring over volumes he struggled to lift from the shelves. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z “You know there’s a price,” said he, reaching under his mattress and pulling forth another volume. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z Someone cranks up the volume, and the storage closet bursts open, revealing Bram, holding a hairbrush. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z Then he rose again, went into the den, and returned carrying several volumes of an outdated encyclopedia. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z The heavily illustrated volume, just 165 pages long, presented incontrovertible evidence that humans and chimpanzees were built to the same body plan. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z Moreover, as well as particles, which occupy a single point of space, and strings, which are lines, there were found to be other objects called p-branes, which occupied two- dimensional or higher-dimensional volumes in space. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z One of my dad’s old Beatles tapes had been playing in the machine with the volume turned all the way down. Doing Time Online 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z The volume of the infernos roar also died down enough that he could hear the crunching sounds of his footsteps again. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z Twig yelped, and I had to turn down my volume even more. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z Take an equal volume of any two different gases and put them in identical balloons. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z That suits me just fine, gives me a reason to drag around my beat-up volumes of Langston Hughes and Claude McKay. Bronx Masquerade 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z I put my earbuds back in and raised the volume a little more, letting Stevie Wonder’s singing voice fill my ears. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z It’s either a quiet moment in their movie, or our neighbors have finally turned the volume down. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z Mom pulled a volume of poetry from our bookshelf and began to read the verses out loud. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z We had the “P” volume from Encyclopedia Britannica that somebody had left behind in our house in Iowa when we moved in. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z Riddle had a habit of raising his voice to a blasting volume when on the phone. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z The rising volume of noise threatened to push his panic over the edge, but he knew he was treading on fragile ground with Trina. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z She wrote her aunt that “his journal is come out at last along with two other thick volumes ... but I have not had time to read it yet.” Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z It was light enough as it was, a volume with no weight. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z While waiting for them to decide what sonar stood for, one of the panel of experts looked up from a heavy volume and sent a signal to the commissioner. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z He turned up the volume on the radio. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z Joseph handed me the second volume of Octavian Nothing again and we watched them until they turned out of sight. Orbiting Jupiter 2015-10-06T00:00:00Z I had not looked through those volumes for many years, until these recent developments led me to get down from the shelf the Devon and Cornwall volume once more. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z In a volume of Proceedings of one of the weed-control conferences that are now regular institutions, I once read an extraordinary statement of a weed killer’s philosophy. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Furthermore, for each degree up or down you go, you gain or lose a certain percentage of the volume. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z She doesn’t change her volume to adjust for the noise. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z Like Park with the volume turned way up. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z But I don’t know which knob is for the volume and the radio blares for a minute. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z Of this group Michael-Mary Graham was the queen, for her poetry had been published—first in 1938, in a volume called Seasons of My Soul; there was a second collection in 1941, called Farther Shores. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z Each word pushed James’s volume up and up. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z The volume of things was confounding—the volume of air above me, the volume of water around and beneath me. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z We know of a three- volume history of the world, now lost, by a Babylonian priest named Berossus. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z It was a large black volume entitled The Walking Dead in tarnished silver letters. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z Now that same sheet of newspaper was carefully folded and tucked inside Penelope’s volume of poetry, serving as both bookmark and, she hoped, lucky charm. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z Although Malcolm X is no longer with us physically, tens of millions have gotten to know him through this timeless volume that you now hold in your hands. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z There were not many people on this floor; its stacks were filled mostly with bound volumes of scholarly journals and pamphlets. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z One, Liyana received a tiny present in the mail from Peachy Helen, a new four-inch-tall edition of Kahlil Gibran, and it was a volume she didn’t have yet. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z To Cavalieri, every area, like that of the triangle, is made up of an infinite number of zero-width lines, and a volume is made up of an infinite number of zero-height planes. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z I sit here in silence writing this small volume of words, and it seems to me the most public thing I ever have done. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Mother shouted as she raced to the radio, turning the volume up. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z In a related exercise, Democritus imagined calculating the volume of a cone or a pyramid by a very large number of extremely small stacked plates tapering in size from the base to the apex. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z He does the same and turns up the volume. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z “Mrs. Lacy is trying to explain that Mrs. de Winter is very fond of sketching as a hobby. So she gave her six fine volumes all about painting as a wedding present.” Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z She pulls out an oversized volume of photographs of Paris, by Atget. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z While the sounds in the church were increasing, Elder Thomas made the regrettable mistake of increasing his volume too. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z Helmuth turns up the volume on the radio, and the sounds of the parade fill the flat. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z Bookshelves of leather-bound volumes fill the walls with the exception of the one directly next to the door. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z I bought a complete set of the Harvard Classics—chiefly because Bobby said we didn’t have room for them in our suite—and rather perversely read all fifty volumes. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z Beilstein is the massive German compendium in 28 volumes, listing all the organic molecules known to chemists. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z The Lives of the Saints are waiting for you, Frank.Volumes and volumes. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z I stop fanning before Big Ben releases me and turn the volume knob up, louder this time. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z Parked automobiles catch fire, as do curtains and lampshades and sofas and mattresses and most of the twenty thousand volumes in the public library. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z I wiggle the Walkman into my jacket pocket and turn up the volume. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z Leo stuffed it in his tool belt and the bag vanished—no weight, no mass, no volume—though Leo knew it would be there as soon as he reached for it. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z He really needs to work on his volume control. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z Everything is quiet, tense, until Chantal changes the music and turns the volume up really loud. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z Fred was short and thin, but what he lacked in size he made up for in volume. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z She steps back, blinking, and then a blast of words explodes from her lips at full volume. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z And I know her definition of “tired” can fill volumes. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z As we might expect, children respond to the dynamic levels of loud and soft quite dramatically, changing their movements to match changing volume levels. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z He increased the volume and they sang along; there was an exuberance to the song, its rhythmic joyfulness, so free of artifice, that filled the air with lightness. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z She spent much of her time reading, and in 1894 she wrote, “I am rather ashamed to find I use up rather more than a volume a day of novels.” Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Part of her wanted to scream, so she slid a Tori Amos CD into the player, turned up the volume, and let it do the screaming for her. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z I had turned down the volume on my phone because I hadn’t wanted to talk to nobody. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z Each word pushed James’s volume up and up. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z The entire ground floor, except for the kitchen to one side, was lined with shelves, and the shelves were filled with volumes of every sort. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z I’d looked right past the slim volume on the bottom shelf, wedged between two yearbooks. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z My mother responded by turning up the volume on the kitchen TV while my father pushed back my plate, set Joan in my lap, and instructed me to play. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z Grunting, Cassiopeia lugged back the first volume of The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z She ran her finger along the volumes of military history, lingered at The Second Punic War, and stopped at The Reason Why. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z Of course, zero space is the smallest possible volume; when a gas reaches this point, it takes up no space at all. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z I suppose it all started at boarding school when I began getting lots of callers, and though none of these beaus lasted long enough to even be called relationships, my sisters mistook volume for vampishness. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z After breakfast, Charlie asks to draw pictures at the table while I watch TV with the volume super low. Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z The commotion within me went on, but at a lower volume, as if someone had turned down my dial. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z Quang-ha hits a button on the remote and increases the volume. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z Then there appeared to be less common sources per unit volume of space for the nearby sources than for the distant ones. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z He shoved some scrolls aside to reveal a dusty volume bound in rotted leather. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z Mrs. Cobb strode on in front of him, passing a stairway that rose up too steeply, and then a library hoarding shelves of dark volumes—the arts of necromancy, Turner figured. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z For the next twelve years lived abroad, in Paris, Rome, and elsewhere, composing the first volume of Dead Souls, the novel considered to be his finest work. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z She shoots Mr. Talk-a-lot a look and turns up the volume on her phone to drown him out. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z “It’s a bit dense,” she admitted, holding up the brown volume in her lap. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z When they came back to the study after dinner, his father closed the door—something he hardly ever did—and reached for a volume in the glassed case behind his desk. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z Kasim raises the volume and he dances while slowly turning down the corner of Joy Road. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z The first two volumes of Harper’s work, The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony, came out in 1899; the third volume was published in 1908, two years after Anthony’s death. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z She braced her left leg hard against the cold metal of the ladder, took out the now familiar volume, and laid it gendy on the ladder top. The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z His donation to us of the more than one hundred volumes of the preparatory examination free of charge was a generous gesture that saved the defense a great deal of money. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Fifth period has become this horrible little slice of hell where the volume in my head is turned up. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z But annexed to it and preserved with it, probably in a single red case, were the three large volumes, bound in red leather, that Bilbo gave to him as a parting gift. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z Sometimes he turned the volume up; sometimes he turned it down; sometimes he’d switch the TV off, then back on. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z I was munching my way, so to speak, through Granddaddy’s volumes of Dickens with great satisfaction and had made it all the way to Oliver Twist. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z They made so much noise I had to keep cranking my headphones, until it just wasn’t worth it anymore because the volume was making my own ears hum with pain. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z If I listen closely enough, I can hear Bushwick’s volume turning down real slowly. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z He took it from me, turned the pages rapidly, and passed the volume back to me. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z Ainsley is playing some video game, and the volume is turned down. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z According to Archimedes’ principle, if water were to occupy the volume of the block which is under water, that water would weigh the same as the whole block. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z At the Ferris Wheel the pumps meant to drain the tower excavations ran twenty-four hours but could not conquer the volume of water. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z The lake was surveyed, its volume determined, and the insecticide applied in such great dilution that for every part of chemical there would be 70 million parts of water. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z At six-thirty, which was when the national news began, my father raised the volume and adjusted the antennas. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z When Colin was about four, he read a book about Archimedes, the Greek philosopher who’d discovered that volume could be measured by water displacement when he sat down in the bathtub. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z Quickly it was realized that petroleum in volume not only could be used to bind bowels and banish scabby growths but could be refined into lucrative products like paraffin and kerosene. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z Still, I cut the engine as soon as I was in a spot, so that the thunderous volume wouldn’t draw attention to me. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z The volume should be low enough that you could speak at a conversational level without raising your voice. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z Of the first edition, only seven copies are known to survive, and not one has come on the market since the importance of the volume was recognized. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z The vastly different sentences afforded drunk drivers and people convicted of drug offenses speaks volumes regarding who is viewed as disposable—someone to be purged from the body politic—and who is not. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z A hum like a washing machine escalates in volume until I think my ears might burst. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z The soaps are the best, and Carlie turns the volume up full blast so she won’t miss anything from the bathroom or while the vacuum is on. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z A few days after buying the volume of Shakespeare, Sissy woke up one morning and nudged her current lover, with whom she was spending the night in a quiet family hotel. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z He heard voices bickering inside the house, and he hoped it was only a TV show with the volume turned up. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z There he settles into an armchair and flips on a Korean satellite channel with the volume turned up extra loud. Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z He has the volume up so loud, I am sure the neighbors can hear. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z Imagine an extremely tiny volume in space, like a really small box. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z With timidity, I placed the three volumes of Locke upon the heap of clothes, which little library rested there rocking atop the frock-coats and shirts. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z It was in those days, then, prompted by my natural admiration for the lady, that I had first taken to perusing her volumes in the library whenever I had an odd moment. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z He chuckled, got out a tattered ledger volume, and scribbled a note to himself. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z In its first volume, Bethe asserted that K-capture was “practically unobservable.” Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z He had inhaled a large volume of seawater, yet his lungs were entirely dry. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z I jump off the sofa and take the tablet he offers me while Baba goes to the other couch and turns on the TV with the volume low. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z He turned up the volume again, leaned his head back and closed his eyes. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z All around it, smoke was hovering wispily off the ground, and just behind it, great volumes of smoke were billowing from the earth over a large area. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z She pulled out a thick volume bound in black leather and propped it open on the mantle above the fireplace, holding it in place with a heavy pewter candlestick. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z If this were not so, it is doubtful that any conceivable volume of chemicals — or any other methods — could possibly keep down their populations. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Beat Box lowered his volume but kept the beat. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z And of the two, the Dust was flowing more quickly and at much greater volume. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z I put my glass down and grab the remote, clicking the volume button up, up, up. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z When Khalil and One-Fifteen are mentioned, the volume lowers a whole lot and doesn’t go back up until a political story comes on. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z “The challenge,” Ignatius continued at full volume, “is placed before you. Will you turn your singular talents to saving the world, or will you simply turn your backs on your fellow man?” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z With its silvery green binding it looked plain, a poor thing among all the other grand and lordly volumes. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z Maybe the volume had been turned right up by whoever had been using it last, I don’t know. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z A few volumes leaned out, inspecting Mini as closely as she was inspecting them. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z As the Abbot spoke, so his voice increased in volume and solemnity. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z He carries smaller volumes with him at all times, transcribing them into larger ones once they are filled. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z This may seem like a small thing, but it speaks volumes. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z I knocked again, but she turned up the volume, and the Beatles sang about all the lonely people and wondered where they all came from. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z With a remote control in his hand, he watched all three concurrent news programs every night, raising the volume on any war coverage. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z She keeps the volume low—Fifi goes kinda nutty barking if an animal is injured and cries out in pain—but the insane little beast watches it like she’s obsessed. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z The screams rose, first in volume, then in pitch, and then it sounded like a slaughter, like farm animals squealing and shrieking. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z She even found something suitable for Lady Constance: a small volume about the stately homes of England that was mostly pictures. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z He sticks the tape in the stereo and turns the volume loud, the way I like it. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z “Meet you at the corner!” came the punch line, at top volume. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z He had spent enormous amounts of time at the great libraries of the world, and had purchased all the rarest and most important volumes on alchemy. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Kneeling near the lamp, Ash pulled out volumes on history and trade regulations, old account books, and a small, cloth-bound journal written in a fine hand. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Coach asked, his voice at a more tempered volume. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z Cynthia's voice is less than half the volume of Mum's. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z By proceeding systematically in this manner, the police are able to engage in an extremely high volume of searches. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Beyond sheer verbal volume, the punch so evident in the Adams prose reflected his more aggressive and confrontational temperament. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z Gogol leans over toward the stereo to turn the volume down a bit. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z I hit the volume button and her voice comes pouring out of my speakers. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z All of a sudden their complaining fused and shot up to top volume. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z Nearby, a group around the piano were singing folk songs with more volume than melody. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z Njemile turned the volume up once an image of their school flashed on the screen. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z They went chronologically, starting with volume one and working their way toward one hundred and fifteen. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z From among the landscape books he took the volume on Versailles he had borrowed from the Tallis library. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z Then I removed the remaining volumes to my own chamber. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z They never progressed beyond measuring volumes and counting days and hours. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z He doled out a constant stream of advice and counsel, all the time recording his findings in thick red volumes entitled Genetic Studies of Genius. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z A big TV screen flickered, the volume turned down. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z A wail escaped from his mouth, inhuman and piercingly loud, rising in pitch and volume. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z This came partly from the volume of Crick’s voice: he talked louder and faster than anyone else and, when he laughed, his location within the Cavendish was obvious. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z He walked over to a bookshelf against the wall and pulled on the spine of one of the volumes it held. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z He spent his time reading Jaime’s books, which Blanca brought him on the sly, and listening to the street sounds and to the whisper of the radio, which he kept at the lowest volume. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z But their refusal to discuss it beyond an Everything is fine said volumes. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z There was something relaxing about the steady drumming, so constant that it almost became inaudible without ever decreasing in volume. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z But then I turn the volume up real loud and I push a button: “Hi, everybody. I have a new computer.” Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z The old woman raised her arms, and then, in a voice that surprised me with its deep strength and volume, shouted to the top of the mountain. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z He always turns the volume way up when Amá and I are arguing, as if he’s trying to drown us out. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z It's all the stories in two fat volumes. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z If they get loud in the kitchen, I turn the volume up. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z I explained that Melissa, Katie, and I were feeling overmatched by the volume of media requests and the work it took to travel on the tight budget we were on. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z She picked up an old volume of classics and flipped through its pages. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z Through my earbuds, the level of volume is about three bars. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z His grandfather switched to a sports channel, then turned up the volume again. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z Her voice rang out through the church at twice its usual volume. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z The volume titled Silky Mischief, in which Rainbow’s gentle influence saves an ill-tempered pony on a neighboring farm from a gruesome fate, left an especially lasting impression. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z There were only four volumes of trial proceedings, which meant that the trial had been short. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z This gave him control over the volume and pitch, and produced a deep, solid bang capable of shaking the door, the frame, and the wall. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z The “alpha racetracks” like this one at Oak Ridge separated fissionable U-235 from natural uranium at a high volume, though not enough to build more than a single bomb. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Someone turns up the volume, so we can all hear their voices. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z Taran noticed the enchanter had even made some attempt at straightening up the disorder of ancient volumes crowding the room. The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z The amount of information in human DNA, if written out in ordinary language, would occupy a hundred thick volumes. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Liam punched a knuckle against the volume button, trying to turn it off. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z The question of team preference was common in our part of North Carolina, and the answer supposedly spoke volumes about the kind of person you either were or hoped to become. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z He reached up to his earpiece and lowered the volume. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Both volumes became a quiet comfort to her Sunday loneliness, because as she read them she could hear Ezekial’s rich, warm voice filling the darkness of the cabin. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z After Harrison left, Richard turned up the volume of the radio. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z The closing door startled me so I near dropped the volume. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z Charles’ law describes the relationship of the volume of a gas to its temperature. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z The chattering of the avatars around us grew in volume. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z He raised the volume and sang along with words he had memorized from a lifetime of listening—“La la la la life goes on!”—smiling wide and clapping. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z He reduced the volume of the radio and rearranged the sheets of writing paper before he opened the door. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z Instead I turned down the volume on the television. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z Or the opposite—I’d be supercharged, unfocused, like a radio at top volume flipping quickly from station to station. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z The volume coming from Screecher was incredible, as though a microphone were embedded in his throat. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Because of the headphones and the volume being pumped up to mega-decibel I never hear him come in, he's just suddenly there, like whoa! and I'll bet I jumped about a foot. Freak The Mighty 1993-10-01T00:00:00Z The 5 x 109 bits of information in our encyclopaedia of life—in the nucleus of each of our cells—if written out in, say, English, would fill a thousand volumes. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z The band was whipping through its repertoire at the usual earsplitting volume. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z She glanced at Mona, who was still asleep, and then reached for the closest volume, pulling it down as quietly as possible and opening it in her lap. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z I jam my finger down on F12 until the volume’s as high as it will go. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z It was designed to increase the speed, lower prices, and raise the volume of sales. Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal 2001-01-17T00:00:00Z Joseph adjusted the volume. a sad woman . . .’’was the first thing they heard. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z The old man dug the remote out of his pocket and muted the volume. Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z He pulls his hands away, laughing loudly like he’s forgotten any rules about volume. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z And the volume of the singing had gotten louder and louder. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z Taran had never been allowed to read the volume for himself; now he was sure it held more than Dallben chose to tell him. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z “This is volume three. And since Marysville’s public library is not so scrupulous as its historical society, this is the only volume that is missing any of its pages.” Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z Her little brother, Adam, is smashing his Legos and watching cartoons at top volume in the living room. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z Dad asks how I’m doing, and he even turns the volume down on the television just in case I want to pour my heart out, but I don’t. Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z All the matter in the star will be compressed into a region of zero volume, so the density of matter and the curvature of space-time become infinite. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Dad preemptively turned up the volume on the TV. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z I had to be the one to start it up—and the one to fumble with the volume knob when it just about blew our eardrums out with static. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z The ground shook as a distant rumble increased in volume and the wreckage around us vibrated. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z He pauses, then says, “Maybe it’s because I’ve spent a fair bit of time with your photos now. They speak volumes.” I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z In some ticket booths the volume grew so great, so quickly, that silver coins began piling on the floors and burying the ticket-takers’ shoes. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z It’s as if she thinks volume makes up for her lack of pitch. Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z “Nah, she got a phone call from some dude,” Sneaky says, picking up his controller and turning the volume down a little. Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z I turn up the volume on my machine—very loud. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z It was eerie and distancing, like we’d fished an old movie of the nursery out of a vault and played it back without volume. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z But I was right about the dry throat — no volume. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z “Where are the knobs, kid?” they ask me when her volume goes up. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z The first volume dealt with the interval from the Creation to the Flood, a period he took to be 432,000 years or about a hundred times longer than the Old Testament chronology. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z A third volume was so unenticing that it wasn’t published until 1899, more than a century after Hutton’s death, and the fourth and concluding volume was never published at all. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z All work on the Hyperatomic Drive through all the space volume occupied by the Stations of the Twenty-Seventh Asteroidal Grouping came to a halt. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z The murmurs are fast, and when the volume rises, they’re followed by long silences. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z They were too far away for Theon to make out any of the words, but the fear on Fat Walda’s round pink face spoke volumes. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Even though the volume was way down, so Dad’s voice wouldn’t wake Mom, he still filled the room, like how a light fills a room even when it’s dim. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z On the twentieth of May, Yutar handed out a dozen blue leather- bound volumes of his final speech to the press and one to the defense. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The volume control for the bathroom speaker was to the side of the sink. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z We are near the chasm—we must be above it, given the volume of the sound. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z I had a good loud scream, and I sucked in air, preparing to use it, but my throat was so dry I wasn’t sure how much volume I could manage. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z It contained a bookcase: I soon possessed myself of a volume, taking care that it should be one stored with pictures. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z Betsy’s brother sent her a volume of essays “to improve my mind.” Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z “Dogs are loyal. Dogs don’t turn on you for stupid reasons,” I continued, but at a normal volume. Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z The book, Uncle Tom’s Cabin, or Life Among the Lowly, was published in two volumes in March, 1852. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z Sometime he’d settle for pop music, which, if the volume was turned down low, still allowed him to concentrate on his board analysis. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z Mr. Eberhardt’s tone of voice remained level, but the volume had gotten much louder. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z She climbs the ladder and restores the heavy Audubon volumes to their shelf one at a time, as though putting away something irritating. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z If he had, however, “it would not indeed have been a single volume, but an Encyclopedia in bulk.” Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z He didn’t know when it had happened, but as if out of thin air she had appeared in the doorway, clutching two blue-bound volumes in her arms. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z The volume on his raspy voice was stuck on maximum and he nearly blew you down like the Big Bad Wolf when he talked. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z I took out the recorder, turned the volume down low and played the last poem Esteban had read to us, his sweet voice filling the classroom. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z “I will go upstairs to the triple zero room, locate the appropriate encyclopedia volume, and check both ‘Savonarola’ and ‘Shrove Tuesday.’ Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z Admired by Jane Austen, Dr. Johnson, and David Hume, Blair edited the first Scottish edition of Shakespeare and a forty-four volume uniform edition of the English poets. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z Imagine the din and commotion, the clutter of machinery, that would be needed for a fire department to raise a similar volume of water. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z “Due to the high volume of calls, our operators are busy and working to get to your call as quickly as possible. If this is not a true emergency, please dial 311.” Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z The volume I hear is about five bars out of ten. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z But an invisible object weighing ten times more than the Sun and collapsed into a volume the size of an asteroid can only be a black hole. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z When he was finished, the entire volume was stored on the camera’s chip. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z The thing was, though, there was almost nothing in the twenty-seven volumes about the Dresden raid, even though it had been such a howling success. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z FitzRoy’s volumes did not get as positive a reception as Charles’s, so the publisher released Darwin’s volume as a separate book without telling him or compensating him financially. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z And Bunny Corcoran had a habit of playing John Philip Sousa march tunes in his room, at full volume, late at night. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z I turn the volume down and press Play. …one: You listen. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z “This is a volume of Shakespeare’s plays,” she said a little weakly. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z He nodded the head solemnly and vanished for the second time, to return on all fours in a few moments with a learned volume, the only secular work in his possession. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z Robert Lindsay raised the volume, and the class raised their own volume. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z I turn the volume on the radio up all the way in the hope that it might drown out everything rattling inside of me. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z By now, the screams—which had been increasing in volume had brought Mr. Vendleri. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z From without the house there was an approaching sound of stamping feet and murmuring voices, gathering volume in the roadway outside. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z All around me are the words “Thank you for your honesty” at different volumes and pitches, and my anger begins to dissolve. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z Both Jeanne and Jacob silently resolved to grab as many of those old, tattered volumes as they could carry as soon as Michelangelo’s diversion began. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z I knew that he read books, because I had got him volumes from the library several times. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z If the volume of a gas is related to its temperature, a minimum volume means that there is a minimum temperature. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z Like all great communicators, he loved language: he wrote a whole book about the word ‘serendipity’, another about the phrase ‘standing on the shoulders of giants’, and he co-edited a volume of social science quotations. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z But to do the policing job properly would cost money beyond any legislator’s courage to appropriate, given the present volume and toxicity of agricultural chemicals. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z “I can do this,” he said, not in a whisper, but at a confident volume. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z The parrot perches high on the foremast, squawking at a volume far too loud for such a small bird. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z So he put his headphones on before the girl sat down and turned the volume all the way up. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z On bookshelves were bound volumes with my name and my mother’s embossed upon the spine beside a date; the dates stretching back to the time of my birth. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z I roll the volume up until faint, stringy guitar music slips past the headphones into the waiting room. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z In later works Archimedes figured out the volumes of parabolas and circles, rotated around a line, which any math student knows are early homework problems in a calculus course. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z In the cluttered study the old mouse produced a yellowed volume. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z In her first year of operation she had produced two volumes of poetry, written by men known mainly for their violent tempers. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z But now the volume on the growl is turning up again. Sunny 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z Their calls first start all together and slow and then pick up speed and volume until they finally dissipate to separate voices and rounds of hand clapping and cheers. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z He was an extraordinary old mouse, who lived with the company of his volumes in the solitude of the gatehouse. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z Grant calls for his order book, a thin volume of yellow paper with carbon sheets. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z The volume of these same toy blocks varies between 1 and 125 cubic inches. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z After school, my brothers and I cowered in front of our beloved TV—the volume turned down to a whisper. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z And with that, he would wander back into his study, to all appearances still thoroughly engrossed in the volume held open in his hands. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z Adding infinite things to each other seems to work out most of the time, so long as you are dealing with something in real life, like finding the volume of a barrel of wine. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z “I know. Just keep it at a lower volume at night, okay? You can still listen to it.” A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z I was reading Oliver Twist, one of the assigned volumes for our summer reading list. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z The volume of her voice bumped up a notch. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z As he entered, the din of voices dropped to about half its volume. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z He pulled out four or five volumes from his encyclopedia and threw them on the floor. Fourth Grade Rats 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z The Egyptians also learned how to measure the volumes of objects—like pyramids. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z The loud voices began to lose their volume and clarity. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z I was forbidden to read any of the Latin volumes of history and song to which I had turned; forbidden to read narratives in English; forbidden often even the practice of my violin. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z The office is large but looks smaller than it is due to the volume of its contents. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z When she got home, Stanton started work on the second volume of History of Woman Suffrage, which covered the period of the division of the women’s suffrage movement in 1869. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z Butler checked the porta-radar, muting the volume in case the equipment betrayed their position. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z He stood up and walked over, tracing his fingers down the spines of several volumes. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z I didn’t want to hear the sound track, but I had to turn the volume up, anything to stop the silence ringing in my ears. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z She would finger the volumes a little suspiciously. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z A single exhibit hall had enough interior volume to have housed the U.S. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z This changed the volume ratio of solid to liquid dramatically, which in turn made the aggregate act as a liquid. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z “It wasn’t any one page or volume or individual revelation that was so dramatic,” he later explained. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z You would have to hear it yourself to believe the perfect pitch, the harmony parts, how the volume rolled up and down. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z The theme is not developed but simply grows in volume like Ravel’s Bolero; it is succeeded by a slow melodic passage that suggests a chant for the war's dead. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z It was as if I’d dialed up the volume on all my senses. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z This “volume” approach to drug enforcement sweeps up extraordinary numbers of innocent people. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z I brush my teeth, take a shower, and start back to the room as Ty is kicking up the volume on the dock. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z The reactions may be between two or more chemicals, or between chemicals and the radioactive wastes that are being discharged into our rivers in ever-increasing volume. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z I put on the headphones, hit Play, and turned up the volume until it hurt my ears. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z She crossed the tiled floor soundlessly and set the volumes on the table beside the Librarian. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z The bodyguard’s voice was tinny and faint until Felicia increased the volume. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Well then, before tomorrow I have to finish reading the first volume of a biography of Galileo Galilei, since it has to be returned to the library. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z After dinner they drank vodka and smoked, the volume of their voices rising steadily. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z He barely glanced up from his volume as he asked: 'Your father feeling better now, Stevens?' The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z Putting the two assumptions together, we conclude that the average toy block in this collection has the interesting property of having three inches to a side and a volume of sixty-three cubic inches! Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z She charges her phone, raises the volume, and changes into an old T-shirt of Rufus’s and her shorts. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z This means that in a sufficiently small volume, even in a vacuum, we have some uncertainty about the amount of energy inside. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z Like an ancestor volume of Machiavelli’s The Prince, De Ora- tore is a treatise on statecraft that casts light on the idea of the state. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z Dad says punk rock only comes in one volume: loud. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z She poured the syrupy liquid into a measuring glass and tested the volume and density. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z I gathered up the heavy volumes and looked round the morning-room for somewhere to put them. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z “I’m starving,” Jake grumbled, twisting the volume knob next to the video monitor to mute the sound. The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z Worse, between her own confusion and the unprecedented volume of cars, she had gone the wrong way. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z Just as for Cyg X-l, their rapid fluctuations show their enormous brightness to be confined to a very small volume, in this case less then the size of the solar system. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z When it was on vacation from its professional chores, it fell, as a rule, alternately in love with shea: volume and a theatrical brand of quietness-steadiness. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z Standing on a table in the center of the ruckus, the man held a wide leather volume open, while raising one hand high and calling for calm. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z Winky, however, remained where she was, though there was a definite increase in the volume of her crying. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z The three of them sat in front of the roaring fire, slowly turning the pages of dusty volumes about famous cases of marauding beasts, speaking occasionally when they ran across something relevant. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z The volume was disappointing and the enrichment far below what was needed for a bomb core, but it was also far more than any other method had produced. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Rasheed sighed again, more irritably this time, turned down the volume once more. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z When I had finished cooking breakfast, I found Mr. Loomis on his bed, up on his elbow, reading one of the volumes, and he showed it to me. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z “Adiah was able to take that volume of splendor into her body nearly a hundred years ago, during the Bonding, when it rose to the earths surface in a greater magnitude than usual,” she said. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z I feel the commotion, feel the energy out there, like it has a shape, volume, weight. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z The Japanese athletes were especially taken with the deer and began feeding them treats in such volume that the Germans discreetly moved the deer out. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z Habib chewed thoughtfully on an almond and pulled a volume of Rumi’s poetry from a row of books next to the microwave. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z As we have seen, the production of these synthetic chemicals in large volume began in the 1940’s. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Mrs. Billups put it on—at full volume—every single morning. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z While she was gone, Park turned up the volume on the TV. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z Jeanne examines a Latin volume with beautiful illuminations in blue, red, and gold leaf. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z It was not that he was actually invisible, the monster said, following Conor, the room volume dropping as they passed. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z There’s a rumbling sound that is low at first but begins to build in volume. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z He reached over and turned the volume down. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z The volume is heavy enough that he needs both hands to hold it up. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z “Only if you’re sure you can get the volume right this time.” Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z It grew in volume, the sound of splitting wood came from the rear. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z When it was finished, History of Woman Suffrage consisted of six enormous volumes. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z But I am sure in Mother’s office there are volumes and volumes on architecture. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z And what’s more, she found that she could not even read the words on the spines of certain volumes. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z The American Bottom clay, known as smectite clay, is especially prone to swelling: its volume can increase by a factor of eight. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z The sound from the living room was diminished now as if somebody had lowered the collective volume of the voices. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z Gardner realized immediately that the battered, burned volume was an old codebook. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z He scanned through ten volumes of Foxfire books for information about the habits and habitat of the feral hog. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z She takes the hardbound green volume, with gold lettering and a line drawing of a girl with abundant red hair in a chignon on the front, and opens it. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z Dr. Berte later told the Birmingham News, “We weren’t sure we could get the money. I think it’s a tremendous testimony to Birmingham—it speaks volumes about how far our city has come.” While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z She sang with volume and pitch and a heartbreaking wail that echoed through her relatives’ bones, rattling them in the ground under the school itself. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z As soon as he saw Taran, he shut the volume quickly and put it aside. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z We now know that the volume of atmospheric carbon-14 varies depending on how well or not Earth’s magnetism is deflecting cosmic rays, and that that can vary significantly over time. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z I go over to my laptop and turn down the volume. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z “Perspective drawing . . . algebraic equations . . . music theory . . .” Now giggling at the impossibility of keeping up, the children fetched books at random and stacked the volumes at their governess’s feet. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z I grab the control and turn the volume down. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z Me, in the back seat, usually in the center so I could lean forward with my seat belt on to control the radio and turn up the volume anytime a good song came on. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z “You! Boy!” he said, and although his voice was small in volume, it was as deep as a grown man’s. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z Sausun listens without once looking at me, just lowering the volume on the vlogs and handing me a big red jawbreaker when I break down again. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z One cannot help but be surprised by the sheer volume of what pours forth from Tiny's distended mouth. Will Grayson, Will Grayson 2010-04-06T00:00:00Z As the pulsing percussion increased in volume and tempo, it was accompanied by chanting in a wailing language. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z I find the volume knob in my mind and turn her down. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z Tuxedos went to the cleaners; flowers came from the florists; Bunny put away his copy of The Bride of Fu Manchu and started carrying around a volume of Homer instead. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z But this seems unreasonable: modern libraries, after all, keep records of duplicate volumes, and their ancient counterpart was no less carefully cataloged. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z I leaned over and turned up the volume of the radio. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z “My client is an officer of the law, Mr. McAllister. By refusing to lower the volume of your music, you were in direct opposition to a police order.” Dear Martin 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z The whole process took even longer because I kept stopping to check my phone in between steps, to make sure my ringtone notification was still on and the volume was still up. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z Twig’s voice blared into my ear, and I turned the volume down on my phone. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z I turn the volume up as my beloved Freddie breaks out his mind-bending falsetto. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z I almost stopped when I hit a volume of our encyclopedia, but right beneath it, there it was: The Black Panther. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z He fastens the lock on the knob for good measure, then wedges the book on a high shelf between two volumes of the Hardy Boys. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z Tom never learned to read but liked to show off his volume of Lander’s Appeal, which the great orator had signed to him. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z Joseph handed me the second volume of Octavian Nothing and he stood with his hands at his sides, watching back. Orbiting Jupiter 2015-10-06T00:00:00Z “This seems like an awfully expensive volume for our schools to be purchasing,” he said. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z Charles the Fifth had no less than nine hundred and ten volumes, so that his personal collection was about as big as the Everyman Library is today. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z Dad turns up the volume on the TV. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z And of course, I did not fail to visit the fine cathedral, much praised by Mrs Symons in her volume. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z I turn up the volume on my soundtrack. Shine! 2019-11-05T00:00:00Z The man’s words spilled out of him without a hitch or a change in volume. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z “I'm tired of listening to this junk,” said Mildred, turning from him to the announcer again Montag touched the volume control in the wall and the announcer was speechless. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z “Only in this book of his collected work,” the clerk said, lifting down a handsome glossy volume. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z I turn the volume up loud on my machine, then type out, “Why did you leave me?” Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z She pulled out a squat leather-bound volume and blew the dust off the top. The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z The bookshelf in their living room at home now held only an assortment of religious bound volumes and his father’s periodicals on agriculture. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z At that the miller’s wife’s cries increased in frequency and volume. The Midwife's Apprentice 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z Because of the large volume of mail I receive, I am unable to write personal responses. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z Even those whose volumes had remained closed now picked them up and looked for the place. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Because when the nurses finally let me in to see her, she was screaming at the doctor at top volume. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z I knew she had forgiven me when she asked me to read to her a volume of love sonnets, which were said to be the latest fashion in England. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z Just as Kepler measured the volumes of barrels with his thin slices, Cavalieri added up an infinite number of these indivisible zeros to figure out the area or the volume of a geometric object. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z “Can I say something now?” he asked, frustration raising the volume of his voice. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z He remembered when the dog, as a puppy, had indulged in the same mischief, and again and again they had found corners of the lower volumes chewed. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z I just had to hide the cases from Ruth, keep the volume semilow. The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z After the song ends, he turns down the volume a little. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z It was a matter of hours—during which the equivalent of something like seventeen fat volumes of mathematical physics were fed into The Brain. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z I said, hoping the volume would blow her away like a gust of wind. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z Besides the official chronicle of Redwall he also kept his own personal volume, full of valuable information. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z The sheer volume of people is nerve-racking, but the joy in being able to leave his flat whenever he chooses outweighs his fear of accidentally bumping into passersby as he attempts to traverse the streets. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z Father Amadi sang for a while; then he lowered the volume to a whisper again. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z Ten years previously, Bobby’s slender volume Bobby Fischer’s Games of Chess was seen as a revealing glimpse into the teenager’s mind, but it was criticized for its sparse annotations. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z The television was on but the volume was off so that the dancing people looked as if they were swaying drunkenly. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z Coin’s voice, perhaps a shade grimmer, fills the bunker, the volume level flickering with the lights. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z Hesitantly, the doctor moved nearer and glanced at the volume. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z His own Agriculture Building, he wrote, “must suffer by comparison with its huge neighbor opposite, whose volume—215 feet high—off the main axis, is bound to swamp us and everything else around it.” The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Encouraged by the response to her caterpillar book, Maria immediately began to gather observations for a second volume. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z “Sure, let’s try,” Ms. Parker says, as if she’s happy to change the volume too. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z By 1850 the road was doing a tremendous volume of business. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z “You have heard all that has come lately. Don’t you hear often? I fancied Jo would send you volumes.” Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z It got as far as the Supplement volume of the new OED, which is something, but not enough to assure survival. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z One of these predictions was that the number of galaxies or similar objects in any given volume of space should be the same wherever and whenever we look in the universe. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z I choose a Mozart piece that Grandpa used to like, turn the volume way down, and press the Play button before I can chicken out. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z The people were of all positions and persuasions, from court ladies with coiffures that rivaled their skirts in volume to rank-smelling tanners' prentices. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z Every year Earth’s rivers carried massive volumes of eroded material–500 million tons of calcium, for instance–to the seas. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z The howls and screams and laughter diminished in volume and frequency. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z Hermione rummaged for a moment and then extracted from the pile a large volume, bound in faded black leather. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z After all, they can’t be outside the box; we know that they are restricted to a certain volume, because if they were outside the box, we would not be looking at them. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z “There’s a lot of us here, and you’ll need to pay attention. Today we are going to talk about dynamics, when we vary the volume of sound. ‘Piano’ means ‘quiet.’ Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z Crossing to the bookshelf, Kendra ran a hand along the spines of the volumes. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z Meggie didn’t know much about The Thousand and One Nights except that it was really a book in many volumes. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z This was more like a river, the movement of great volumes of water. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z Cruising the edge of King territory, pumping the volume with the bass on full, looking for Stingers who might be stepping out of line. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z |
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