| 单词 | western |
| 例句 | The western cliffs burned amber in the last of the sunshine. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z Tomorrow he will come, old Bob Lee himself, down that western road, on a gray horse. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z But that thought was useless because I knew the only thing to find around western Pennsylvania was a lump of coal. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z From there, smallpox apparently exploded into most of western North America. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z They took prototypes of the Aeron to local companies in western Michigan and had people sit in them for at least half a day. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z In the Trask house next to Reynaud’s Bakery, Lee and Adam put up a map of the western front with lines of colored pins snaking down, and this gave them a feeling of participation. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z It was getting dark, I realized, the clouds finally returning, piling up on the western horizon, creating an early sunset. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z The only image I had for jails was from westerns at the movies, and this one was nothing like that. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z The only things on TV were cricket where nobody scored and a western where nobody shot anyone. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z Most of them lit out for the western hills or for Florida; Slant stole a small boat and set out to join Dunmore. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z So Nestor held his throne and scepter now, lord of the western approaches to Akhaia. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z They now lived in Baltimore County, which sits on the northern, eastern, and western borders of Baltimore City, a horseshoe that fits around its more well-known neighbor. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z Thumbing a quarter into the slot, he selected three country and western songs. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Sam waved his arm vaguely: neither he nor any of them knew how far it was to the Sea, past the old towers beyond the western borders of the Shire. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z ‘But at the western edge of Mirkwood the trail turned away. It wandered off southwards and passed out of the Wood-elves’ ken, and was lost. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z Some of his neighbors, traditional live- stockers, didn’t like him much, but he was the prototype of the new breed of western man. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z When I was young, my father was transferred and our family moved from western New York State to Raleigh, North Carolina. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z The other half of the Abbey overlooked undulating sweeps of meadowland, its ancient gate facing the long dusty road on the western perimeter. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z The sun had set, but the western sky was the color of peach skin, while the sky over the ocean was a clear lapis blue. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z On March 9, a day of swirling winds, Bill drove with a friend to the bootlegger Henry Grammer’s ranch, which was on the western edge of the reservation. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z We won 33 percent of the vote in the western Cape, which was won by the National Party, which did extremely well among Coloured voters. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The two old ladies saw a man, authoritative in his dark western suit, start to fill the front of the car. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Jefferson, it must be remembered, had proposed the abolition of slavery in all the western territories. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z I'm in the shadow of the western wall. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Then I saw it: a tiny red-and-white fleck high in the western sky, droning my way. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z The western sky was a deep purple, speckled with stars. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z The catalyst for the change was the Whiskey Rebellion, a popular insurgency in four counties of western Pennsylvania protesting an excise tax on whiskey. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z Outside, the sky glowed around the edges, moving from a rosy pink above Isihlangu to an angry red smear on the western horizon. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z A tiny scuff in the plaster on a western wall of the White House, which he was seeing up close for the first time. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z Doha immediately noticed the shiny western shoes on its feet. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z Some outlying areas went on to domesticate a few local crops of their own, such as poppies in western Europe and watermelons possibly in Egypt. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z In Chapter 19 we shall trace it across the Indian Ocean to Madagascar, while in Chapter 15 we saw that ecological difficulties kept Austronesians from establishing themselves in northern and western Australia. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z You could see it in the early evening, glowing on the western horizon, and if you got up early, you could still see it in the morning, after all the stars had disappeared. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z Unlike the eastern shore, where Camp Green Lake was situated, the western shore did not slope down gradually. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z Thus, it seems clear that food production did not evolve independently in western Europe. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z He might also have felt somewhat uncomfortable knowing that this easternmost option contradicted the impression that Madison had created in the earlier debates—namely, that a more western location near the Pennsylvania border was preferred. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z With alarming speed, the Germans had taken over all of western Poland and were pushing east. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z Then Lee Chong sent his boxed and brittle grandfather over the western sea to lie at last in ground made holy by his ancestors. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z We drank ginger ales and ordered jalapeno poppers and we all danced to a country and western band while Susan’s face beamed on the late news from the TV above the bar. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z Their Booming Tower was named for its immense bronze bell, rung of old to call the townsfolk and farmhands into the castle when longships were sighted on the western horizon. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z A stream of fans crossed the pontoon bridge at the western end of the course and began to fill the massive wooden bleachers on the far side of the water. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z At Yolanda's mention of guavas, he springs forward, pointing across the road towards the summit of the western hills. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z Good Weasel returned as the sun was dipping toward the western horizon. In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z Smith decided that if he couldn’t have Woolf, he wanted a rough-and-tumble, freckle-faced western rider named Noel “Spec” Richardson, a close friend of Pollard and Woolf. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Quite a few of those families occupy large contiguous areas—in the case of Indo-European, the area encompassing most of Europe east through much of western Asia to India. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z She ate it slowly, savoring every mouthful, while Ser Jorah told her of the tree it had been plucked from, in a garden near the western wall. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z Furthermore, they are overwhelmingly concentrated in the Fertile Crescent or other parts of western Eurasia’s Mediterranean zone, which offered a huge selection to incipient farmers: about 32 of the world’s 56 prize wild grasses! Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Still, Liyana noticed Poppy didn’t take them over to western Jewish Jerusalem for any kind of tour. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z The only societies that survived more or less intact were those in areas of northern and western Australia useless to Europeans. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z He left the western wing and raced down a different hall. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z The loggers had had their pick of the virgin timber still growing along that section of the Dungeness— towering Douglas firs and massive western red cedars. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z On the car radio he played with relish the twang-twang blues type of music and his TV preferences were westerns. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z In February 1945, when they were in western Prussia, once more the winter weather made the roads utterly impossible to travel on. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z The Greek Army, encouraged by the Allied Nations, had invaded western Turkey in 1919, reclaiming the ancient Greek territory in Asia Minor. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z They had ridden for some five hours and were far out upon the western plain, yet more than half their journey lay still before them. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z They came from the western slopes of the hill, silently, creeping through the trees as if they were hunting. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z In the midst of the valley stood the black foundations of the western watch-tower. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z Gifted in prophecy, he had as forebear that Melampous, wizard who lived of old in Pylos, mother city of western flocks. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z Modern pigs are derived from independent sequences of domestication in China, western Eurasia, and possibly other areas as well. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Thirty years after the original Mercury broadcast, it happened again in western New York State. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z The Osage had seen what had happened to the Cherokee Outlet, a vast prairie that was part of the Cherokees’ territory and was near the western border of the Osage reservation. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z He took up a paddle, and steered towards the western bank, following Aragorn’s boat ahead, which had already moved out of the middle stream. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z Executive Order 9066 had been signed by President Roosevelt, giving the War Department authority to define military areas in the western states and to exclude from them anyone who might threaten the war effort. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z As the German army rolled across Poland and into Eastern Europe toward Russia, the SS Einsatzgruppen slaughtered hundreds of thousands of Jews in Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria, and western Russia. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z They had reached the fork in the road: the western fork led to Ingria, and the other road to the frozen expanses of the eastern kingdoms. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z They kept as close as they could to the western side, and they could see the dim shapes of the low cliffs rising ever higher, shadowy walls with their feet in the hurrying river. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z What if the Nazis ban the Karl May westerns, what if they call them un-German because they are set in the American Wild West? The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z She was the only daughter; her four brothers went with her father, husband, and uncles “out on the road” and for some years became western men. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z But the eastern perceptions of the rivalry often took on an element of snobbery, and this rankled western athletes and fans. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z Equally puzzling is the failure of people to domesticate flax in its wild range in western Europe and North Africa, or einkorn wheat in its wild range in the southern Balkans. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z One such place is the Fertile Crescent, where the mountains of western Iran and the Dead Sea, the lowest place on earth, bracket the Tigris and Euphrates river systems. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z The Germans had now been pushed back over the entire western border of the USSR. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z But about ten families, German Methodists from western Pennsylvania around Pittsburgh, hoping to realize the utopian community so grandly talked about, did arrive. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z That Monday, the sixteenth November, 1959, was still another fine specimen of pheasant weather on the high wheat plains of western Kansas—a day gloriously bright-skied, as glittery as mica. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z New ore deposits were discovered in western New Mexico, and procurement officials expressed high hopes for a scheme to extract uranium from phosphate processed by fertilizer manufacturers in Florida. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z In the early 1800s in the southwestern and western states, there was a prohibition against playing musical instruments and dancing by certain religious organizations. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z Crazy Horse saw warriors scrambling up the western slope. In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z The Bureau’s Garden City representative, and the agent responsible for a sizable portion of western Kansas, is a lean and handsome fourth- generation Kansan of forty-seven named Alvin Adams Dewey. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z The most intensively studied eagles in North America have been those nesting along a stretch of coast from Tampa to Fort Myers on the western coast of Florida. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z And thus they went until they reached the western field where stood the temple to the earth. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z She’s imitating the cry of a challenging horse, like western cowboys do to discipline their steeds. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z It’s the theater boys—Simon, Martin, Cal, and a few others—and they’re doing what appears to be a country western line dance. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z As the western sky turned the color of a blood bruise, she heard the sound of approaching horses. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z If you will take a map of the United States and fold it in the middle, eastern edge against western, and crease it sharply, right in the crease will be Fargo. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z Chesapeake Bay forms the western boundary of the section of Maryland which is sometimes called Tidewater Maryland, sometimes called the Eastern Shore. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z A silver curve of the moon hovered already in the western sky. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z “He’s new to the city, and no doubt in need of a guide. I’m going to offer to give him a tour of the temple, maybe the western gardens.” Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z The doorway to the stairs was on the second floor at the end of a long hallway in the vacant western wing, the door itself narrower than the rest and the knob rusted from disuse. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z A swollen red sun hung low against the western hills when the gates of the castle opened. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z When they arrived in New York, on June 6, the Washington crews moved their shells into a dilapidated old boathouse on the western, Highland, side of the Hudson River, across from Poughkeepsie. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z After this he had gone to Europe to study under the most skilled surgeons and doctors in the western world. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z One morning, after almost two years of crossing, they became the first mortals to see the western slopes of the mountain range. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z Lourdes’s walkie-talkie crackles as she works her way along the length of river that forms the western boundary of her territory. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z “He’s irrigating his old man’s beanfield on the western side of the highway.” The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z The sun hung low above the reed-beds along the western bank, as the wind began to gust and rip. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z The sun inched closer to the western horizon. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z Long used to the flat western prairie, I was startled by my first view of New York. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z The meteorologist is on now, standing in front of a map of western Washington State. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z The songs and sounds they’ve absorbed are part of western musical style, and are now part of the musical lingua franca or the music that is “normal” for them. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z His watch was nearly over, when, far off where he guessed that the western archway stood, he fancied that he could see two pale points of light, almost like luminous eyes. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z A moment before, I had been on Route 80 in western Iowa. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z While we were taking Bougainville, General Mac- Arthur’s forces would be landing on the western end of New Britain Island at Cape Gloucester to establish a new airfield there, too. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z "And do the Calormenes know of this western way?" asked the Queen. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z It was a beautiful building with its three-bell tower and western construction. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z Then half turning they thrust them with all their strength towards the western shore. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z “Clance said that the western gate is the one that used to give them the most trouble,” I said, twisting to look up at him. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z Riddle did not believe that Seabiscuit was in War Admiral’s league and may have felt that by agreeing to run against a western horse in a match race, he would be demeaning his colt. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Gray Horse, in the western part of the territory, consisted of little more than a cluster of newly built lodges, and it was here where Lizzie and Ne-kah-e-se-y, who married in 1874, settled. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z While No. 46 was working on Brown, another operative, No. 28, learned a seemingly vital secret from a young Kaw Indian woman who lived near the western border of Osage County. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z But western coaches were paid a fraction of what eastern coaches made, and western crews still rowed mostly against one another. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z “She will have learned to wear western clothes.” The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z When a grey light crept back over the western heights, long after day had opened in the lands beyond, they went into hiding again and slept a little, turn by turn. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z Mr. Crow had entered into a sort of border war with Bob Timmons, his neighbor to the north, claiming that Bob’s grove of western hemlocks actually grew on his property. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z Los Angeles Times and San Francisco Chronicle columnist Oscar Otis was one of the few truly knowledgeable turf scribes and dean of the western racing writers. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Though his rural, homespun western boys did not win, they came in third, an outcome that shocked the eastern fans and press. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z After all four of us are on the western side of the gorge, thirty minutes of rough bushwhacking returns us to the Stampede Trail. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Soon the sun is above the horizon and the orange of flames gives way to the black of smoke, rising along the western walls and blowing like a caul across the citadel. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z For an instant, the deep red clouds that crowned the western hills reminded him of Rhaegar’s children, all wrapped up in crimson cloaks. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z “General Howe delayed the invasion, hoping the revolutionary fervor would die down. On the contrary, independent sentiment now burns as far away as Georgia, as well as the western frontier.” Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z We saw Kostor, which is four miles high, from foot to crest; the huge slant of its western slope hid the peaks north of it, some of which go up to thirty thousand feet. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z The sun is low on the western horizon. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z In the western doorway, Roman and Greek demigods in full armor fought one another on a hillside under a large pine tree. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z Above the screen the western sky was still dark and the stars looked like holes from missed shots. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z In modern times, European farmers thereby replaced western North American Indian hunters, Aboriginal Australians, and the San people of South Africa. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The tenth labor was to bring back the cattle of Geryon, who was a monster with three bodies living on Erythia, a western island. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z If you think the four of us huddled together under blankets like the pioneers and told stories and sang old western songs in front of a roaring fire, you’re wrong. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z Even though Rome’s apples were at least native to western Eurasia, they were grown by means of grafting techniques that had developed in China and spread westward from there. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z In particular, Frisian, the other Germanic language most closely related to English, is confined to a tiny coastal area of Holland and western Germany. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Mark Antony tried and failed to hold off the western advance, losing forty vessels out of what little was left of his fleet. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z “I’m nervous, Mommy,” I said somewhere between western Pennsylvania and Ohio. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z The porter brought Sefia and Archer to a secluded pier in the western arc of the harbor, inside the long, tall arm of the cliff. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z Haiti occupies the western third of the island of Hispaniola, in the Caribbean, while the more prosperous Dominican Republic, once ruled by Spain, governs the eastern two-thirds. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z Before them rose Bree-hill barring the way, a dark mass against misty stars; and under its western flank nestled a large village. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z Nor could food production spring up spontaneously in deserts remote from sources of water for irrigation, such as central Australia and parts of the western United States. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z We closed the door behind us when the western sky was shot through with the last pewter and gold rays of the day. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Far into the dark quiet hours they floated on, guiding their boats under the overhanging shadows of the western woods. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z The campaign spread throughout the Witwatersrand, to Durban, to Port Elizabeth, East London, and Cape Town, and smaller towns in the eastern and western Cape. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z In reality, there are only a few New Guinean—like populations in the Philippine/western Indonesia area, notably the Negritos living in mountainous areas of the Philippines. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z One section of the old city, tucked against the western walls, becomes a firestorm in which the spires of flames, at their highest, reach three hundred feet. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z Few of them had ever been outside of western Washington; most had never been on a train. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z After half a million years ago, the human populations of Africa and western Eurasia proceeded to diverge from each other and from East Asian populations in skeletal details. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The following winter months brought the first intimation that other life was affected: the western grebes on the lake began to die, and soon more than a hundred of them were reported dead. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z After they had mastered the ancient cures that worked, they would be taught the most up-to-date western discoveries. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Baby tarpon are abundant in all that labyrinth of mangrove-lined streams and canals bordering the lower third of the western coast of Florida. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z The county runs its business out of the east-facing half of the building; the city uses the western half, which houses the mayor and city council members as well as the city clerk. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z She knew Geels would have his crew of heavily armed Black Tips gathered at the western entrance. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z Mark Antony then gave the two of them power over Egypt, the western and southern portion of Syria, and Cyprus. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z The goddess made a wide loop...to the top of Italy, then east to the sea, then down along the western coast of Greece. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z Second, among Mediterranean zones, western Eurasia’s experiences the greatest climatic variation from season to season and year to year. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z I searched the entire western half of the Col for more than an hour, peering behind boulders and poking under shredded, long- abandoned tents, but found no trace of Harris. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z In Kabul, particularly in western Kabul, fires raged, and black palls of smoke mushroomed over snow-clad buildings. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z There was some legal jargon, but I grasped this: She committed J.T. and Digger to the custody of juvenile services—to nine months in a forestry camp for juvenile offenders out in western Maryland. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z The jacket of the dark charcoal suit fit him perfectly, as did his trousers, which must have been retailored from their lanky western proportion to flatter his short Korean legs. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z It was now dark and the falls were pale and grey, reflecting only the lingering moonlight of the western sky. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z Dressed in embroidered western shirts, Howard surveyed his ranch from a stock saddle on a cow pony. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z It began in the Middle East about eleven thousand years ago, in the western half of the Fertile Crescent, which arcs between southern Iraq and Israel, reaching into southern Turkey along the way. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Nok looked behind them, at the Gold lights of the western shore winking off with the rising sun. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z At the bottom of the Hill on its western side they came to the gate opening on to a narrow lane. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z In the summer he usually raced at the cluster of tracks around Vancouver or at another western Canadian track called Glacier Park; in the fall and spring it was California’s Tanforan; in the winter, Tijuana. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Desiring cheap, expendable labor, colonists imported nearly eight thousand Africans from the western and southern parts of the continent in the mid-1600s. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z Somewhere just before dawn, when the first light of false dawn was making the western side of the lake come into view, Brian finally accepted it. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z The western boundary of the Black Belt met the eastern boundary of Packingtown at Wentworth Avenue, presenting the opportunity for all sorts of cooperative interaction between the races: in stores, schools, parks, each other’s homes. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z As they skirted the western edge of the camp, Reyna took in the scene. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z Even for western Kansas, renowned for the longevity of its Indian summers, the current sample seemed far-fetched—dry air, bold sun, azure sky. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z A blurp of an old country and western song thrilled everyone for a moment. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z The resulting western European farming societies domesticated the poppy, which subsequently spread eastward as a crop. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z His smuggler left him behind at Tepic, in the western coastal state of Nayarit. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z “And Yanna,” the king called as they turned to leave, “make sure you warn them about the western side of the walkway.” When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z Just about everyone else was trudging toward the western exit of the field. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z “Send Palaemon and his legion of sharks to the western front. We have to neutralize those leviathans.” The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z I found it hard to be bad tempered on the top of a hill with ocean all around, the western sky like a painting still wet, the wind soft and warm. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z The woman spoke with a heavy western North Carolina accent, which I used to discredit her authority. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z “You must never, ever cross the walkway to the western side.” When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z They also wanted equivalently open access to western lands, meaning no federal restrictions on slavery in the territories. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z All of Southwest Asia’s founder crops preempted domestication of any of their close relatives throughout the whole expanse of western Eurasia. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Finally the air currents stopped dragging her down, and she flew high enough to locate her mountain, but the entire western horizon was swathed in clouds. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z Because lounging against the western building, midway down the street, were the other two men from the group, both watching with excited smiles as I froze dead on the sidewalk. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z A green dot for the Argo II blinked on the western side of the range, a few hundred miles north of Rome. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z The boat dipped up and down on the wake of barges as they crossed to the western shore. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z Away beyond the shadows at the western end of the hall there came cries and horn-calls. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z He gives the records away to us—all except the country and western. The House on Mango Street 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z And true to his word, he arranged to have the Fifteenth Cavalry from Fort Myer, Virginia, moved to the western perimeter of Washington, DC, to be ready to assist if trouble developed. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z So, instead, I went to Times Square, from movie house to movie house, immersing myself in westerns and horror movies—the way I used to. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z Generose, who spoke Swahili, some French, and Kirundi—the language of Bujumbura and western Burundi—knew only a few words of English. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z He lived in New England Ville, a hilly area in the western part of Freetown. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z We go back to Massachusetts sometimes in the summers, to a lodge in the western part of the state that for one week is taken over by Gran’s extended family. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z “My lord,” said the officer who came in, “an angel has just arrived at the western gate—wounded—he insists on speaking to you.” The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z In some areas of the United States the mosquito vector of western equine encephalitis has developed resistance. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Each morning, from her western ramparts, the queen would count the sails on Slaver’s Bay. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z The hobbits sprang to their feet in alarm, and ran to the western rim. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z Anyway, I informed him how I’d worked a year on a considerable wheat spread in western Kansas. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z The train ran out in western Maryland, which is pretty far away, so we drove out late one afternoon and spent the night at a Holiday Inn. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z “The emperor declared he’d kill anyone and their family if they were found on the western side while he’s here. So don’t cross the walkway. Do you understand?” When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z A few melancholy birds were piping and wailing, until the round red sun sank slowly into the western shadows; then an empty silence fell. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z Second, doesn’t addressing Yali’s question automatically involve a Eurocentric approach to history, a glorification of western Europeans, and an obsession with the prominence of western Europe and Europeanized America in the modern world? Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The moon hung low on the western horizon when Nathan and Pond made their way back. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z The population of Europe and western Asia between 130,000 and 40,000 years ago is represented by especially many skeletons, known as Neanderthals and sometimes classified as a separate species, Homo neanderthalensis. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Along the western edge of this courtyard, extending from the back of the kitchen, ran a white, translucent tunnel, something like the tubes that conduct football teams onto the field. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z He moved in with Harim and her parents in Sammamish, a Seattle suburb in the western foothills of the Cascade Mountains. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z In April and May of 1940, Hitler’s armies snapped up western European nations including Denmark, Norway, Belgium, the Netherlands, and finally, in June 1940, France. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z I read some newspaper editorials and listened to television commentary that wondered if perhaps western civilization itself might soon be at an end with the technologically superior Russians taking over. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z The 1860 election of Republican Abraham Lincoln as president was the last straw for the South because he opposed allowing slavery in these western areas. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z The longshoremen’s victory launched the modern labor movement in the western United States, in which workers have the right by law to form unions and bargain with employers. Fannie Never Flinched 2016-11-21T00:00:00Z A line of river willows and sycamores banded it in the mid- dle, and the western hills were yellow-brown with feed. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z Along the western horizon the lower clouds formed a single purple mass, against which distant trees stood out minute and sharp. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z During the first two decades after the war for independence from Britain, large numbers of first- and second-generation Ulster Scots moved westward into the Ohio Valley, western Virginia, Kentucky, and Tennessee. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z She was in school in western Pennsylvania for two more months, and then she would return to New England. Orbiting Jupiter 2015-10-06T00:00:00Z He noticed that the big Columbia Fountain at the western end of the central basin still was not finished, even though it was to be a key feature of the opening ceremony. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z The boys who had made it this far were rugged and optimistic in a way that seemed emblematic of their western roots. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z “Like sitting on the edge of a bathtub with a shovel,” one western coach scoffed. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z The new science knew no boundaries of language or nationality, at least not within western Europe, within the world of the printing press, gunpowder weaponry, the telescope and the pendulum clock. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Indeed, all that happened as Roman power retreated from western and northern Europe was that its civilisation relocated to Constantinople, which continued to be a place of cultural magnificence for hundreds of years. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z He chose from a salad bar of grasses: western wheatgrass, little bluestem, buffalo grass, green needlegrass. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z On the western flank of Weathertop they found a sheltered hollow, at the bottom of which there was a bowl-shaped dell with grassy sides. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z A summary of the last 13,000 years of New World and western Eurasian history makes clear how Europe’s conquest of the Americas was merely the culmination of two long and mostly separate historical trajectories. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Once they left the lawn area and stepped onto the hard gray stone of the courtyard floor, Newt broke into a run, heading for the western wall. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z These specimens were delivered by a fellow named Druggett, who traveled the western forests, trading and purchasing furs from the savages of the Iroquois Nations. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z Outside his window he saw the sun dying over the roof-tops in the western sky and watched the first shade of dusk fall. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z Those regions of the Americas without food production included all of northern North America and southern South America, the Canadian Great Plains, and all of western North America except for small areas of the U.S. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Argus drove us out of the countryside and into western Long Island. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z Horses, mules, and donkeys were stabled in the western walls, elephants in the eastern. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z The western sky went green, then grey, then black. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z It was the end of our day there, the summer sun finally dropping behind the western mountains, the sound of firecrackers beginning to pop in the distance. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z All of these parallels between Mesoamerican and ancient western Eurasian writing testify to the underlying universality of human creativity. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Some of the scales that sound "exotic" to the Western ear are taken from the musical traditions of eastern Europe, the Middle East, and western Asia. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z The sun had fallen below the western wall, and the stones of the Red Keep glowed dark as blood. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z But in the end, Colbert and Chamberlin admitted, “the people were obliged to supply themselves from the artesian wells at the western extremity of the city, or from the lake.” The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z The village of Holcomb stands on the high wheat plains of western Kansas, a lonesome area that other Kansans call “out there.” In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z In contrast, the wild ancestors of most Southwest Asian crops and animals were absent from western Europe. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z But by the end of the first mile of the four-mile varsity course, the two western schools had pulled out well in front of all the easterners. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z It’s pretty boring if you’re just sitting there, so I slept on and off until, in the early evening, we turned off Interstate 10 somewhere in western Florida. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Other roads led from the northern Rio Grande to the southern plains of what is now western Oklahoma by way of the Canadian and Cimarron Rivers. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z Portrayed in countless U.S. history books and Hollywood westerns, the Indians of the Great Plains are the most familiar to nonscholars. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z While the Soviet government was scrambling to launch the enormous rescue effort for their heroic women pilots, an event of global significance was going on without them in western Europe. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z And that’s when he decided to take his ship to the western edge of the world. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z Ahead, on the western horizon, clouds lay heaped and brilliant, riven with chasms of darkness, their tops drawn out in the high-altitude winds. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z They tried everything: telling jokes, country and western songs, a ventriloquist act with a lovable fuzzy sidekick, photo ops with terminally ill children. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z He decorated in frontier art, pored over western magazines, listened to Gene Autry on the phonograph, and motored around town in a blindingly ostentatious hot rod Studebaker roadster with a bug boy riding shotgun. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Those languages eventually replaced all earlier western European languages except Basque. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z A line of Lannister house guards stood beneath the western windows, a line of gold- cloaked City Watchmen beneath the east. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z But when the western sun touched the clouds with orange and gold the vaqueros got in their trucks and headed home, and my father was left to drink alone in the long night. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z The sun, already hidden by the clouds, finally set behind the western mountains. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z There was only this massive slab of it—and the other three identical ones at the southern, eastern, and western edges of the city. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z April advanced to May: a bright serene May it was; days of blue sky, placid sunshine, and soft western or southern gales filled up its duration. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z At the lake’s western end, where the Little Tennessee River flows into it, stands a big hydroelectric dam, 480 feet high, built by the Tennessee Valley Authority in the 1930s. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z Just as the sun dropped below the western ridges, O’Dell dropped off our tin at the Cape beside the lumber and the nails. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z He’d been hidden in the shadows of the western colonnade when the bells of Black Protocol had begun to ring, the chimes of the Elderclock booming over the island, shaking the air. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z Dad found a website that had like a hundred country western bands for hire listed on it. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z And the Chinese can’t hear Americans at all; the language is too soft and western music unhearable. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Over its massive western shoulder flowed the ghost torrent of Alyssa's Tears. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z That meant she and Yishan were on the other side, the western side! When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z The view from here is its western side. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z The worst thing, though, was that he had turned the radio on and was listening to country and western music! The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z Like a railroad, the museum permitted them to see the rest of the country beyond their small experience, from Florida to Maine to the western frontier. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z The main dirt road—surprisingly called Main Street—that runs through Stagecoach Pass winds a corner after the shooting gallery, and there stands a theater that shows old black-and-white westerns all day long. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z Johnny’s father and namesake, the son of an Irish emigree who had become a Union Cavalryman, had spent his young adulthood rambling across the western Canadian wilderness in search of gold. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Now her eyes include the relatives in China, as they once included my father smiling and smiling in his many western outfits, a different one for each photograph that he sent from America. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z The German east divisions, rested and re-equipped, were thrown at the western front. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z He tried to say it easily as one might say, “I have planted the seeds in the western field today,” but he could not. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z Along with reducing Cold War tensions and improving relations with the United States and other western nations, Gorbachev granted the Soviet people freedoms that they had never experienced. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z Aragorn looked at the pale stars, and at the moon, now sloping behind the western hills that enclosed the valley. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z She came upon another cave on the western cliff, facing the oncoming storm. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z Southwest, in the western Mediterranean, on the Atlantic coast of Europe, and in parts of Japan. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Later, as we all watch the sun slide down the western edge of the great escarpment, we sit in thoughtful silence. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Toward midnight, coyotes on the western mesa sang their falsetto tunes and were answered. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z It shifted farther west with Rome’s conquest of Greece in the second century B.C., and after the fall of the Roman Empire it eventually moved again, to western and northern Europe. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Wild poppies are confined to coastal areas of the western Mediterranean. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z As soon as the craft had landed, Lord Asriel leapt out and ran to join King Ogunwe on the western watchtower, ignoring Mrs. Coulter entirely. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z There we would have to cross the reef to land on two western beaches that lay below sheer bluffs. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z Then there was Sung Guo, also called Seneca Gracchus, who fought twelve Roman dragons and sixteen Chinese dragons in the western deserts of China. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z Charles added a strip of land about three hundred yards long on the western boundary of the property. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Malcolm was one of the smartest men in the western hemisphere. Confessions of a Murder Suspect 2012-09-24T00:00:00Z The western side of each ridge was steep and difficult, but the eastward slopes were gentler, furrowed with many gullies and narrow ravines. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z The design was fairly simple, and the wood required was easily obtainable from the managed forest on the western side of the Protectorate. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z If Swope failed to get that much, Howard said, he could take Seabiscuit to a certain western track, which had already offered such a sum. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z They were in what is now western Nebraska. In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z The western sun danced on the windshield dazzling his eyes. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z The Black Hills were in the western part of the state. In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z “While the emperor is here, you are never to go on the western side of the Long Walkway,” Yanna said, raising her voice for emphasis. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z And the Ramp is up against the western edge of the crater. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z History had taught him harsh lessons about the countries that lay on Russia's western borders, and he would not make the same mistake twice. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z Santa Rosa County borders the Gulf of Mexico at the western end of the Florida Panhandle and had long been known for agriculture. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z No one crosses over to the western side, Yanna had said. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z It is almost directly south of Incheon and on the western shore. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z All of those areas could have been reached overland from a western beachhead. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Inevitably, eastern customs and cultures clashed with western authorities. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z The famous Java Homo erectus fossils prove that humans have occupied at least western Indonesia for a million years. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z When I was fourteen years old, I was sent to spend ten days with my maternal grandmother in western New York State. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z By 1934 the western schools were finally beginning to be taken seriously. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z “Just remember, no one crosses to the western side of the walkway,” Yanna instructed. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z Spring thaw was well behind us and the troupe was riding through the forests and fields of the western Commonwealth. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z At Clear Lake the western grebe is a breeding bird and also a winter visitant, attracted by the abundant fish of the lake. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z The first films we saw were silent, black-and-white Hollywood action movies and westerns that were even before my time. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z On the western edge of Evreux, the road empties and the countryside levels out. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z Henry’s letter, from Connecticut, was as stilted as a cryptogram from the western front. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z Something that was finally becoming a litde more commonplace after the year of death and terror that had chased them to this place high up in the Appalachian Mountains of western North Carolina. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z In contrast, the Mediterranean zones of southwestern Australia and, to a lesser degree, of South Africa and western Europe offer a narrower range of altitudes, habitats, and topographies. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z These machines were discovered by the police the next day abandoned in a dry arroyo on the western edge of town. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z This grave stood among many others, worn down and no longer known or cared for, on a hillside just at the border of Wang Lung’s western field. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z In 1095 Pope Urban II rallied the Christians of western Europe to set out on a great mission to take back those sacred lands. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z I found myself on a campus with golden children of western America’s upper middle class. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z This is what happened in some of the western national forests a few years ago, when in 1956 the United States Forest Service sprayed some 885,000 acres of forested lands with DDT. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Kyril Montana wore a neatly pressed pink shirt, a bolo tie, beige, tapered western pants, and cowboy boots, and he carried a pack of filtertip cigarettes in his shirt pocket over the heart. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Pale stone arches marched off into the fog, reaching from the Palace of Sorrow to the river’s western bank. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z It was fairly modest in size until 1873, when a temperance revival swept across Ohio and western New York. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z I start calling around to motels again, now ranging even farther out from the city, into the northern towns, the western towns, St. Paul. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z At the western edge of the parking lot was a two-story stone building. In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z That is, cattle were domesticated independently in India and western Eurasia, within the last 10,000 years, starting with wild Indian and western Eurasian cattle subspecies that had diverged hundreds of thousands of years earlier. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The western edge of the city has become a holocaust of crimson and carmine from which rise multiple towers of smoke. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z On the western wall hung a large Marine flag. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z These particular refuges occupy critical positions in the conservation of western waterfowl. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z The use of chlordane for grasshopper control on the high western plains has been followed by the death of many stream fish. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z One ran along the Pacific Coast from an urban area in western Mexico all the way to northern Alaska. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z By the outer wall, facing the western expanse of the sea, he and Ahmad chased a lone chicken through the ruins around the outermost homes. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z “No, there,” he said, pointing to the western ridge. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z Into it moved half a dozen groups from the northern and western desert, the Mexica among them. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z The sun was already behind the western hills, and the light was failing. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z In the western ocean it harried the sea flat, lifting water bodily out of water and carrying it as spume. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z Suddenly they swept up with a noise like thunder, and the foremost horseman swerved, passing by the foot of the hill, and leading the host back southward along the western skirts of the downs. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z Behind them, their fathers discussed the plans for the farmhouse they would build for the newlyweds in the western meadow. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z A catastrophic earthquake razed Cahokia in the beginning of the thirteenth century, knocking down the entire western side of Monks Mound. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z The alethiometrist had just finished speaking, and Lord Asriel stood up, crossed to the window, and looked out at the distant glow of the Clouded Mountain hanging in the western sky. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z “Yes,” said Taran, his head still muddled with the bard’s talk of high ground and western banks, “that sounds very reasonable.” The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z That night they camped on a small eyot close to the western bank. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z Here upon its western side under the shadow of Tol Brandir a green lawn ran down to the water from the feet of Amon Hen. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z “We call Spanish a romance language, Kojo, because it, like Portuguese, French, Italian, and Romanian, originated from Latin, the language spoken in the western Roman Empire.” The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z Their western pants were splitting out at the seams; there were stains around the crotch. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z In other words, the great forests of the western Amazon may have looked considerably different in the not too distant past. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z They've become like horses in a western—they may not be the main focus, but everybody seems to have one. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z Curses they heeded not, nor understood the tongues of western men, crying with harsh voices like beasts and carrion-birds. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z There he lived, and watched the western sky often, and kept his wizard’s ear tuned for the sound of scaly wings. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z Fifty years ago, according to native memory, it would have taken a lumberjack ten minutes to axe all the trees in western Kansas. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z Similar scenes were played out along the coasts of western Europe and northern Africa, with Galway City’s walls partially swept away and a tidal wave reaching as far west as Barbados. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z Trout in both eastern and western parts of the United States were affected; in some areas practically 100 per cent of the trout over three years of age developed cancer. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z The Shawnee community of Prophet’s Town, founded in 1807 in what is now western Indiana, became their organizing center. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z Acre is in the western Amazon, on Bolivia’s northern border, the hinterlands of the hinterlands. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Voorhies sent samples to colleagues all over the western United States asking if there was anything about it that they recognized. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z The evening star was so bright that it seemed to flare and crumple as it sank toward the western mountains. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z The evening star had risen and was shining with white fire above the western woods. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z When he preached at the simple church at the western end of Mqhekezweni, the hall was always brimming with people. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Beyond the borders of the USSR, western Europe had now been at war for three years. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z On Catoctin Mountain, a ridge of the Appalachians that runs north to south through the western part of the state, the trees were brightening into soft yellows and golds. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z This would be the western border of the Great Fire and, aside from the thick smoke, relatively safe. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z The forest of Burnham Beeches stretched like a great pool of darkness towards the bright shore of the western sky. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z The Beagle rounded the sharp jaw-bend of Tierra del Fuego and climbed the western coast of South America. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z Its first moves, the first feelers of its strength, had been checked upon its western line, southward and northward. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z Poppy seeds are absent from excavated sites of the earliest farming communities in eastern Europe and Southwest Asia; they first appear in early farming sites in western Europe. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Howard, who had long felt victimized by eastern disdain for western racing, now tried to exploit it. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Our eyes begin to adjust to the dim afterglow of twilight lingering in the western windows. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z Little ridges of white cloud formed in the western sky and the sun became pallid. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z It didn’t hit me until that moment, until the first glimpse of the gauzy blue mist surrounding the mountains, that we really were in western Virginia. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z As the Allied forces moved through western Europe following the D-Day invasion of Normandy, the Soviets moved on the Germans in Belorussia, bringing another wave of desperate combat for the 125th. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z It is a bird of spectacular appearance and beguiling habits, building its floating nests in shallow lakes of western United States and Canada. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z The western wall was completely covered with shelf after shelf of CDs. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z The sun was already low in the western sky as they approached the town of Wall. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z The bridge spans the Appomattox River, separating central and western Virginia. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z First, western Eurasia has by far the world’s largest zone of Mediterranean climate. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The 1934 regatta was once again shaping up to be a clash of eastern privilege and prestige on the one hand and western sincerity and brawn on the other. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z Surprising numbers of them seemed to want to see something historic here—that elusive sweep of the Hudson—even if it was a western crew that accomplished the feat. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z They had raced across the uneven western slopes above the river. In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z “Even his guards don’t go to the western side?” When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z He would also receive Parthia from the western frontier to India just as soon as Mark Antony gained control of it. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z It probably happened as he traversed a series of melting beaver ponds just beyond the Teklanika’s western bank, but there is nothing to indicate that he suffered any harm in the mishap. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z There was a towpath on the western side of the water—Malcolm’s right—but it needed clearing. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z The western mountains were like a distant wall. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z Far from glorifying peoples of western European origin, we shall see that most basic elements of their civilization were developed by other peoples living elsewhere and were then imported to western Europe. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z No western school even dared to compete until Stanford appeared in 1912, only to finish a distant sixth. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z Upon their western sides the grass was white as with a drifted snow: small flowers sprang there like countless stars amid the turf. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z Those dates suggest domestication of emmer wheat in the Fertile Crescent, a conclusion supported by the fact that ancestral wild emmer wheat is confined to the area extending from Israel to western Iran and Turkey. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z “It’s twilight,” Edward murmured, looking at the western horizon, obscured as it was with clouds. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z They approached the western edge of the desert city and stood for a moment at a highway marker that read Indio. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z Sometimes the same attitudes prevailed even in the western press. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z He was looking through the watchtower telescope at something in the western sky. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z The sun was settling toward the western mountains and the shadows on the ground were long. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z His parents came from western Massachusetts and married young. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z He nods and then we watch the western sky glow an orange-pink. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z As for the constitutional question, he regarded federal jurisdiction over the western territories as a clear precedent that had been established, irony of ironies, by Jefferson’s executive action in the Louisiana Purchase. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z Here on the western bank was the Thebes he knew, a vast jumble of workshops and laboratories known as the City of the Dead. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z They moved clockwise toward the western wall and sat down on the blanket that had been placed there. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z Still farther east, temperate areas of China were isolated from western Eurasian areas with similar climates by the combination of the Central Asian desert, Tibetan plateau, and Himalayas. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z As I contemplated all this grandeur, an enormous motorcar rumbled through the western gate and the men sitting in the shade immediately arose. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Now when I saw him there I wept for pity and called out to him: ‘How is this, Elpenor, how could you journey to the western gloom swifter afoot than I in the black lugger?’ The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z She was wearing tight blue western pants and a frilly pink western blouse. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z The entire western half of the isle at the center of Paris was trapped inside those walls. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z Hitler entered the western end of the stadium. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z It’s like the western trees are lined with pink neon now. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z They had descended into a long fold of the land that fell away southward; now they began to climb up, and up, on to the high western ridge. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z Growing more desperate, he ventured into the western wing of the temple, where Brothers of the Order slept. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z He was stunned when she said, “I know about that. I come from western Kenya. I was the woman with Charles Monet.” The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Webster is near Rochester, in the western part of the state. The Misfits 2001-10-01T00:00:00Z The sun was reddening the western sky and painting scarlet shadows on the golden skulls atop their spears when they took their leave of the captain-general’s tent. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Terraces and canals and stony highways lined the western face of the Andes. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Why did the same plant package launch food production throughout western Eurasia? Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The fall did not halt the human story in western South America. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z He lingered on high to watch the sun go down, turning the western sky the color of blood. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z Stars glitter in the western darkness, but the sky pales to gray in the east. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z She did not approve of her father’s avid watching of westerns and children’s programs, and he insisted that he be allowed, by God, to view his “favorites.” Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z Over and over in his mind appeared the image of the familiar mummy-shaped outline of the western hills, and the sheer red cliffs that hid the Valley of the Tombs of the Kings. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z A notable element of all these East-West rivalries was that the western rep-resentatives nearly always seemed to embody certain attributes that stood in stark contrast to those of their eastern counterparts. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z For over two decades, Rondon, now forty-eight and the commander of Brazil’s Telegraphic Commission, explored and mapped the “wild, western wilderness of Brazil.” Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z Pippin looked out of the western window, down into a pool of mist. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z A few paces from the rivers bank, on the village side, stood one of the stone crosses that marked Stromford’s western limit. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z A final advantage of early food production in the Fertile Crescent is that it may have faced less competition from the hunter-gatherer lifestyle than that in some other areas, including the western Mediterranean. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z But there was nothing, nothing but the tumbling dark mass of the woods just discernible against the grayish-blue of the western sky. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z Air Force weather plane flying over the western Pacific detected high levels of radiation in the air. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Mr. McElroy in world history, who announced that we were going to start by studying the barbarian hordes of western Russia, and then looked at me. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z “The western side, the eastern side? Why is it important?” When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z Despite its independent origins and distinctive sign forms, Maya writing is organized on principles basically similar to those of Sumerian writing and other western Eurasian writing systems that Sumerian inspired. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z In North America, lightning fire is most common in the western mountains. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Usually, though, western Kansas winters are imprisoning, and usually frost on the fields and razory winds have altered the climate before Christmas. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z I had been listening to music on the radio—Mom had finally figured out I liked the country- western station—and I was in a good mood. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z Many of the isolated, heavily defended camps were on hilltops in remote locations near Vietnam’s western border with Cambodia and Laos where Special Forces could keep track of enemy movement. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z Engineers from the northern and western states were probably of mixed minds on the issue of race mixing. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z Across the deep-running green waters, the western twin stood like a reflection of its eastern brother. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z So the best place to attack was on the western shore, a place called Empress Augusta Bay, forty miles from the nearest large Japanese base on Bougainville’s other side. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z They marched out of the forest, crossed the Great Meadow, and climbed uphill until they were at the top of the island’s western ridge. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z But in western Eurasia only one of several potentially useful wild species was domesticated—probably because that one spread so quickly that people soon stopped gathering the other wild relatives and ate only the crop. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z What advantage did that particular Mediterranean zone of western Eurasia enjoy? Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z As for the western territories, Wilson was certain that Congress “would never allow slaves in any of the new states.” Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z He’d grown up in the southern part of Seattle, on the western edge of Lake Washington, south of Seward Park. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z The salt air lay still and heavy that morning, but the western sky was a fiery red, streaked with lowering clouds that glowed as bright as Lannister crimson. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z In those gullies on the eastern and western sides, the warriors were hiding. In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z The combination of these two factors—a high diversity of species and a high percentage of annuals—means that western Eurasia’s Mediterranean zone is the one with by far the highest diversity of annuals. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z But how would Diana know about those old western movies, I asked. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z He haunted the theater for western movies, losing track of the plots while he stared at the scenery. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z I pointed to a dot on the western end of Virginia. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z California had drawn the most favorable lane— lane number one, nearest the western bank of the river, where the current was least likely to affect a boat. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z “It is better certainly than putting money into a mud wall. But why not a piece of your uncle’s land? He is clamoring to sell that strip near to the western field we now have.” The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z Homo sapiens was the first and only human species to reach the western hemisphere landmass, arriving about 16,000 years ago, that is in or around 14,000 BC. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z In the western outposts of the Elmuthaleth—Alkonost and others—they watched for the heat-distorted silhouettes of camel trains to emerge from the emptiness as they always had, but they did not. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z When they had foraged, they rested comfortably in the straw until the western light was quite gone. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z It felt to him as if he had just undergone some powerful rites of passage and now belonged to the western mountains instead of to the East Coast, fair-haired college culture. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z They were near the western end of the Long Bridge, which linked the two halves of the city. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Tate, as Perry soon learned, was an old and awesome name in western Kansas. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z Natrona sat on the western bluff of the Allegheny River northeast of Pittsburgh. Fannie Never Flinched 2016-11-21T00:00:00Z Very slowly the sun drew nearer to the western horizon. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z His boat lay not far from the bay’s western shore. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z How could those Austronesian-speaking farmers from South China via Taiwan replace the original hunter-gatherer population of the Philippines and western Indonesia so completely that little genetic and no linguistic evidence of that original population survived? Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z They walked side by side down the road, the sun a blazing pumpkin as it fell rapidly behind the western mountains. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z Anatomically modern humans may have settled Australia before they settled western Europe. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z At the western end of each little house, they carefully framed a small windowlike opening, and built beneath it a shelf for spirit offerings. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z The north-facing escarpment of Watership Down, in shadow since early morning, now caught the western sun for an hour before twilight. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Here the Snowbourn flowed near to the western walls of the dale, and soon the path led them to a ford where the shallow waters murmured loudly on the stones. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z He told them that he wanted the Sudetenland, the western portion of Czechoslovakia where another large ethnic German population lived. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z They stood at the western end of the valley, where the high road crested the last pass and began its winding descent to the bottomlands two miles below. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z They wait for the feature, a western, to begin. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z They had another choice: they could go down the western shore, to Baltimore or Annapolis—it would have to be Annapolis because that was near the only bridge over the bay. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z The western sky was a blaze of red, but to the east the first stars were peeking out. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z When I was young, he would drive the family from Florida back to our hometown in western Pennsylvania to visit relatives. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z Not part of mainland Mexico, Ensenada was located on the long, narrow peninsula that hung down the western coast and was known as Baja, or Lower, California. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z “Those who plot against me. Just look!” he cried, pointing to the shuttered western shore. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z “When the emperor comes, he and the king go out to the western side of the garden—and all his guards have to camp on the eastern side of the Long Walkway.” When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z The sun was sinking behind the long western arm of the mountains when Gandalf and his companions, and the king with his Riders, set out again from Isengard. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z They skirted the perimeter of the camp and took the northernmost bridge over the Little Tiber, charging onto the Field of Mars at the western edge of the battle. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z “Westerners trust other western people but not Asians. That’s what my father said.” Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z Ten days after a joint communique by the government and the opposition announced the end of the war, there was news of the first armed uprising of Colonel Aureliano Buendía on the western border. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z We grounded our craft upon the western bank of the island. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z Aragorn was searching, bent towards the ground, among the folds and gullies leading up into the western ridge. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z Most of the western Soviet Union was in German hands, but its largest cities still hadn’t fallen, and the Red Army was still fighting. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z At the far western end of the shrimp farm, the boys could look through the fence at the channel that had once been as wide as the sea. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z The western riders commanded all the attention now but it was Randall and his brethren who were the true pioneers, carving out a life in this humid Georgia hell all those years ago. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z “You can see the sunrise over the east shore and the sunset along the western horizon.” Lawn Boy Returns 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z True concluded triumphantly, “God or man, he embodies all the radiant energy of the adolescence of western art.” Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z Framed in the thick western window, Alderbaran and Betelgeuse were racing Sirius over the horizon, the hunting dog-star looking back to his master Orion, who had not yet heaved himself above the fim. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z Three Elf-towers of immemorial age were still to be seen on the Tower Hills beyond the western marches. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z The park, I would learn later, was the western edge of Harlem. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z “No one crosses over to the western side when the emperor is here,” she said. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z This is not figural: Aristotle’s works spent a couple hundred years in a cellar in what’s now western Turkey before someone dug them out in the first century bc. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z Before the Depression, the Morris family had maintained a small, rustic cabin on the western side of Bainbridge Island in the Puget Sound. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z His angle of vision for the new American nation was decidedly western. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z The wind swirled around him, gravel crunched beneath his boots, while ahead the white ribbon followed the lines of the hills, rising higher and higher, until it was lost beyond the western horizon. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z Much of northern and western Europe is still able to support productive intensive agriculture today, 7,000 years after the arrival of food production. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Olmsted next considered four specific candidates: a site on the lakeshore above the Loop; two inland sites, one of which was Garfield Park on the western perimeter of the city; and of course Jackson Park. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z The rise of the western crews may have shocked eastern fans, but it delighted newspaper editors across the country in the 1930s. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z “Remember what I said about the western side of the walkway?” When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z For instance, Native American societies became renowned for their mastery of horses, and in some cases of cattle and sheepherding, in parts of the Great Plains, the western United States, and the Argentine pampas. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z In the Helena National Forest and on the western slopes of the Big Belt Mountains, then in other areas of Montana and down into Idaho the forests looked as though they had been scorched. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z “They normally do gigs for, like, Waffle Houses and stuff, but I guess the country western breakfast entertainment business isn’t booming, so we got them to do the festival. Cheap, too.” Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z We have now followed the initial stages of the Austronesian expansion for 2,500 miles from the South China coast, through Taiwan and the Philippines, to western and central Indonesia. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Soon the god’s shining boat would touch the tops of the western cliffs, and the working day would be done. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z Passing through Montana, Acey thought he saw promise in Pollard, signed him on as his rider, and brought him on a road trip to western Canada. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Claudio sat down heavily, hunched over, head hanging, staring at the ground, listening to the horses nosing apart the hay, listening also to the quiet country and western strains from Marvin LaBlue’s radio. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z These women from the western part of the Soviet Union left their homes for the unknown in 1962. Women in Space 2014-02-01T00:00:00Z My mother wore a silk robe and western shoes with big heels, and she rode home carried in a sedan chair. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Now America waited to see if the rough-and- tumble western boys from Washington State would write another chapter in the story. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z Behind them the sinking Sun filled the cool western sky with glimmering gold. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z These legacies may include the Uto-Aztecan languages of Mesoamerica and the western United States, the Oto-Manguean languages of Mesoamerica, the Natchez-Muskogean languages of the U.S. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z It turned out that under the western United States there was a huge cauldron of magma, a colossal volcanic hot spot which erupted cataclysmically every 600,000 years or so. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z “By tomorrow morning, we’ll reach the western coast of Greece. Then another hour inland, and bang—House of Hades! I’ma get me the T-shirt!” The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z In 1784 Jefferson also proposed a bill in the federal Congress prohibiting slavery in all the western territories; it failed to pass by a single vote. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z However, even those barriers between China and western Eurasia were at least partly overcome during the second millennium B.C., when West Asian wheat, barley, and horses reached China. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z “Oh, I don’t know about that. I seem to remember a night when the navigator took a wrong turn and we ended up in eastern Tennessee instead of western North Carolina.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z “He lives on the western side of the planet.” The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z Cole stared blankly at the thin sliver of blue sky on the western horizon. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z In western Java in the course of the anti- malarial program carried out by the World Health Organization, many cats are reported to have died. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z At once the western Hobbits fell in love with their new land, and they remained there, and soon passed once more out of the history of Men and of Elves. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z The societies of the Caddo, on the Texas-Arkansas border, and the Coosa, in western Georgia, both disintegrated soon after. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Neanderthals, bulkier and more muscular than us Sapiens, were well adapted to the cold climate of Ice Age western Eurasia. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z The Texas Rangers became a national phenomenon when Zane Grey, the Ohio dentist who wrote western pulp novels, published “The Lone Star Ranger” in 1914. The True Story of the Texas Rangers 2020-06-09T04:00:00Z Everywhere she went, she sang: folk, bluegrass, hillbilly, country and western. The Real Janis Joplin 2019-11-26T05:00:00Z The Santa Ynez Valley, especially the Santa Rita Hills on the western end, is best known for pinot noir and chardonnay. 20 Wines for Under $20: Weeknight Pleasures for Relaxed Evenings 2017-09-21T04:00:00Z He also appeared in several spaghetti westerns and the Australian adventure series “Riptide.” Ty Hardin, Star of ‘Bronco’ Western, Dies at 87 2017-08-06T04:00:00Z Mrs. Caliban,’ slim and often bright in tone, has a body count to rival a western.” A lost-and-found surrealist treasure: 'Mrs. Caliban' by Rachel Ingalls 2017-12-01T05:00:00Z The group disbanded in 1973, after which Mr. Glaser released a series of solo albums that incorporated a mix of western swing, rockabilly and New Orleans rhythm and blues that he called “discobilly.” Tompall Glaser, Country Artist in Outlaw Movement, Dies at 79 2013-08-15T02:59:44Z |
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